People really need to stop with BOTW vs. TOTK debates. Even tho TOTK is the better game IMO you can't deny that Zelda team set out on a mission to explore AS much as they could within open-world Hyrule. These games are ONE story in the chapter of Open-World Hyrule and I wish people can appreciate that perspective more. The amount of creative freedom via Ultrahand and all the Zonai builds was not something I thought I'd fall in love with but it turned out to be a game changer!
And since totk barely connects to botw and ignores most of that game's story, I do not think that they are one continuous story. That's what I hoped for and not what we got
@@prettyoriginalnameprettyor7506also nigga why do i find u under EVERY vid regarding tears of the kingdom, positive or bad. like i get u dont like the game but damn bro u dont have to argue with EVERYBODY who actually likes tears of the kingdom. expression of opinion is fine, but when it gets to the point where you are actively seeking out/looking for these vids to bash on ppl who actually likes the game, i feel like thats past tge "expression of opinion" point. but oh well🤷🏽♂️ u do u man
@@prettyoriginalnameprettyor7506they are connected stories. In the TOTK concept book, a festival took place after the events of BOTW with link in his original outfit. The calamity is mentioned so many times.
I am so glad people are finally coming out and saying “actually, totk is an amazing game in its own right, even if it has its problems” because of the amount of hate it’s been getting over the last year. I’m a totk lover, and it frustrated me so much when people were only releasing videos of how much they hated totk or “why totk is not a good game”. Like yeah, as a sequel it fails in a lot of aspects. But what if, for a moment, you remove it from the context of being a sequel… it’s an amazing game, albeit with flaws.
I think it's an interesting sequel in the context of zelda games because I don't think we've seen a game in zelda that is direct sequel that takes place in the same world. We have sequels like Majora's Mask and Spirit Tracks which clearly take place around the same time but none of the previous game's elements are present. I think it was cool seeing how things have changed from the previous game. We don't usually get that in zelda titles.
People have been releasing both extremes and everything in-between since release. For those with pros and cons to express, saying how good something is can be pretty succinct, while explaining a flaw or "what could have been" takes a bit more effort. I think that being a sequel really amplifies that because sure we could just forget context and hype and just enjoy the moment, but many of these reviews are naturally looking at the bigger picture. Many of them do remind that there are high highs, but again, nothing exists in a vacuum. I can understand that it is frustrating to see views drastically opposed from ours trend and find some success, but that has been true on both sides. The latest being that skittybitty diatribe, and now it seems we got the opposite to restore balance if it trends a bit ^^ (I haven't watched this one yet).
Thank you for making this video, I love seeing people talk about their thoughts of ToTK in depth. It truly does mean a lot more than you would think, at least for me. I can't believe it's already been more than a year since this game came out. I still can't find how to put into words what it makes me feel.
Totk is a great game. But personally I am still very disappointed in many aspects of it. I'm glad it seems like many people enjoyed it much more than I did. There is a lot to like. But for me it just didn't hit the points I wanted it to. I won't list all my gripes, but the sheer sudden disappointment I felt when I realized that every single cutscene after the dungeons are all the same, was kinda the beginning of the end for me. Not a deal breaker or anything, nothing in this game really is bad enough to make me not have at least enjoyed my playthrough. It's not one thing, but a combination of different gripes that add up to me just being disappointed in the final product. Overall it's a great game, but personally I prefer many of the older games, and yes that includes Botw.
The murals demonstrate that what happened was always going to happen, unlike what Raru told Zelda, that her coming back was going to change it, when in fact her coming back was what needed to happen.
Both of these games are stellar. Tears of the Kingdom is probably my favorite Zelda game of all time, so it bothers me so much when people trash them out of a lack of understanding of them.
I feel like Riju's ability, instead of you using an arrow just because, is due to the fact that the tip of the arrow is metal, a conductor, which would attract the lightning to that point.
So happy to see some positivity about this game going around, it is definitely currently a victim of the Zelda love/hate dynamic that seems to happen to most games. Many of the people asserting that BOTW is the better game were hating on it a year after its release as well. Same thing will happen with EOW in a few days. In five years these will all be considered the best of the series if past trends are to play out again
I remember ToTK being praised to high heaven on Twitter during it's first month and then we started to see this contrarian influx of "it's good but...is it??" and I was losing my mind lmao
The "Zelda cycle" seems like an intuitive concept and there is some truth to it, but I also think it's a very convenient excuse brought up to discredit more easily parts of the fandom people don't relate to. I'm curious what makes you think that many of the people preferring BOTW were hating it before. There are all sorts of profiles who played Zelda before BOTW or not, liked BOTW or not, liked TOTK or not, and many different tier lists anyone could make for any number of preferences... Personally, playing them back-to-back as well as other Zelda games in the past year, I know that we've had enough time for some people to form clear, fleshed out opinions that have no particular reason to change in years to come. Old Zelda is amazing, archaic in some areas but has things that could still be used in the open world. BOTW has become a classic that was never going to please everyone, but incredibly important for the series and successful thanks to its bold and clear focus. TOTK will always be impressive mechanically for what they achieved, full of exciting concepts, but their focus took away from the execution for most of its world building and story telling.
The Gibson towers can be destroyed without Riju just use bomb arrows when glowing pink that’s when you’re supposed to use riju’s ability as well. Great video though! Love the positivity instead of all the hate this game gets. Played BOTW after TOTK and so I can see how much better TOTK is.
TOTK is a masterpiece 100% however it falls hard because of the weight of expectation. I think people wanted new botw with bigger map and more things and we got that but not in ways people wanted. But that doesn't change the fact this is one of the most fun experiences of my long gaming journey. The creativity, freedom, wide range of choices. This is a game where if you need to climb a mountain you can spend an hour fguring different devices or techniques or just mess around with ultrahand to climb it and have fun. This is unheard of in any other AAA. This is THE open world experiences and the best exploration of any game ever. If only there were more sky islands and had more depth to them it would have been 10/10 game. However for me it's 9.5/10 because it didn't deliver what I expected it to after amazing BOTW and also has some annoying design choices, mainly the way you use your sage powers is poorly thoughtout.
@@Raykushi This may sound a bit strange but I personally think the Sky Islands were intentionally distributed the way they were to balance the game world's light. If the skies were filled with too many islands, the Surface may receive less sunlight. However, the islands don't seem scarce to me when I look at them in a vertical sense.
@@thejokahfiedone4125 Officially they said designers scolded the devs for cluttering the sky, which is weird because it _already_ looks jarring, they're the oddities of this game by design. More of it wouldn't be more out of place. I don't think lighting is a technical reason and if it was, the sky has an unfathomable volume of free space they barely utilized. So even if they tripled the amount of islands, I don't think it would affect lighting or performance by itself. And if they wanted huge distance between islands, that wouldn't prevent them from making ones as big as the Great Sky Island instead of the many small repetitive chunks we got.
Botw and Totk are my very first Zelda games, and honestly I think I enjoyed Totk way more than botw. I played it a lot more, it had a lot more for me to do in side content that I still enjoyed, and the characters were incredible. I have my own complaints with it, but it is undoubtedly one of my favorite games now
I listened to the whole thing. 😊 My first play through, I didn't know you had to talk to Pura again to get the paraglider. So I just kind of went off on my own. I realized I must have missed something when I started the dragon tears quest. Impa took me super high up and I couldn't get down. 🤣
Thank God. The recent totk hate has been so annoying and almost feels algorithm chasing more than like an actual opinion a lot of times. Like omg a sequel is too sequelish! Wtf does that even mean. Of course it is like the original, it's the same characters and in the same world why are you SURPRISED and even disappointed that it's the same map? They even added to it significantly and made time appropriate adjustments! Even the "why doesn't everyone recognize me" thing is annoying. Like honestly 🙄 I see notable figures at my job all the time and don't recognize any of them until I take their id.
2:30:38 I think it's less about the Gerudo and more about Ganondorf. He was born Gerudo, and he demonstrates the hypocrisy of Wind Waker!Ganon's motivations by attacking his own people as well. I think the Gerudo Region is supposed to have themes of Horror. Historically, the Gibdo were just a basic undead enemy, usually as a mummy, but in Twilight Princess and Tears of the Kingdom, they're given an increasingly insectoid design, which seems odd for weaponized dead people. I think the Gerudo Graveyard in the Depths rams the idea home. It's infested with Gibdo, whereas no other deadland has this situation. I think the Gibdo aren't just any old undead, but the cursed corpses of Gerudo SPECIFICALLY that chose to defy their king. It's a conflict of Progress Vs. Old Tyranny.
Tears of the kingdom is by far my favorite game i have ever played and its ok if people don't like it like me but its so annoying seeing so many people recently saying its plain out bad
I could go on a whole explanation why linearity has its positives since so many people (I’m not saying you are included in this, this has just been something I’ve heard for years as a Pokemon fan) say that linearity sucks, but I’ll just simplify it to: linearity is great for people who suck at video games despite loving them and playing them for more than half of their life. I do think linearity in excess is bad, like I don’t like how it’s handled in Pokemon sword and shield but I think it’s okay in sun and moon (yes, seriously. But it gets old on replays). But linearity like what’s exactly in totk’s sky islands can be extremely helpful for people like me who just suck at games. The whole “children play these games” argument annoys me so much because everyone I know playing games when they were kids were so much better than I was, and still are.
Linearity is good when the experience that is intended is strong. I think every other game in my top 5 is a linear game lol Totk Xenoblade2 Nier Automata TTYD Pokemon Emerald Yep just about. lol
@@Raykushi most of my favourite games are turn-based RPGs (child of light, Undertale, Pokemon ultra sun) so they are very linear 😂 Also gravity rush. Not a turn-based RPG but is an RPG and is linear in story and gameplay, but there is an open-worldish element to it
I just want to say I respect the heck out of you for making this. Personally, I genuinely can't stand Tears of the Kingdom, especially because the writing is so poor. But I'm a Zelda fan boy at the end of the day, and I wish more fans of this game could give convincing thorough reasons for why it's good instead of smugly declaring my expectations were wrong, or complaining that people don't like it to begin with. This is exactly what I've been wanting. Civil, passionate discussion of this game and not hostility over a difference in opinion or endless whining that more people are starting to be negative over it. Thanks man, this was a wonderful video. I hope you keep this up.
That's so nice of you! Yeah, while I can be quite good as describing why something is bad, I think it's much better to talk about why something is good - both have their merits of course! Your sentiment seems to be shared among many of the other comments - I'm really glad the positivity in this review was refreshing to so many people, because it was damn refreshing to me, lol
Appreciate that! Yeah I love this game, but almost every mention of it is accompanied with a big ol "BUT", and I just wanted to do something a little more positive. Hope you enjoyed lol
The game is quite possibly in my top 3 as well. But I think that the only thing that holds it back is its music. Now, the game DOES have some bangers, but honestly a lot of other games in Nintendos catalogue (including BotW) seem to use their instruments both more passionately and intimately. A great example of this can be seen in comparing the “Dark Beast Ganon” track from BotW and the “Demon Dragon” track from TotK. Both great themes, but I can’t help but notice that Dark Beast Ganon has way more going on. Once again, amazing game, but some of its music makes if feel like some of the passion behind BotW was lost in the transition between games.
If i had the power to change anything in the game, there are two things i would do. First i would have all the memories appear in order, as well as add three new memories to the duplicate once you get from the main dungeon. And the second think would have two endings, one where you get all the memories, and one where you dont. The first works as normal, because its such an amazing ending. But the second, once you beat Ganon and finish him off, you appear on the ground, looking up at the light dragon as she flies into the sunset. Other then that i dont see any real faults in the game. Sure you have the repeat of the world, all the shrines look the same, all my weapons keep braking. But those are nitpicks at best. Also pro tip, if you fuse an item to a weapon, you add some more durability, something like unlocking its durability potential. You wont get any more if you remove what you had fused then add a new one, but its still nice. You can also repair the unique weapons/shields/bows by fusing them to any other weapon, then give that one for octorocks to eat, then going to Terrytown to unstick them.
This review was incredible-it echoed so much of my own experience with this game, and also highlighted some aspects that I had never appreciated before. Thank you!! It was an enjoyable 4 hours.
When i first came down from the GSI, i noticed that the game pushed me towards lookout landing, do i went the other way and explored the other things first. I went trough most of the game without the paraglider, i knew it was in the game, but honestly, i found it a lot more fun to explore without it, using unconventional ways to get down, thinking of a path down, it would be a lot harder if i didnt know some speedrunning tricks like fall damage cancel.
You had me dying when you began to talk about goron city lmaoooooooooooo I did everything before purah asked too! haha XD I did watch the entire thing, and I loved it just as much. Bro, I love totk. It was the first open world zelda game I played, and even when I did play botw, I loved totk even more. I love botw, I love totk, I call it Rememberance to Redemption
I believe that any game can be good when just judging by experience, but when taking a deeper look into it like Skitty did, you will notice the flaws of it and how it seems great but isn't so good under the surface. For me, this game is my 5th favourite switch game, behind xenoblades 1 3 and 2, and botw, as it feels goodto play but after you do the main story and get every shrine and lightroot, it starts to feel hollow, and even making zonaite builds can become boring. This game isn't bad by video game standards, in fact, it is quite good in that way, but in terms of zelda game standards, aside from the argument about dungeons, it falls short quite a bit.
I find it interesting to say BoTW is better. I see it as an upgrade in every way. Not saying you're wrong to think so, I'm just curious why :P Many of the things you pointed out about ToTK is true of many other games and even BoTW itself. Thanks for watching though!
@Raykushi totk has improved a lot of things from botw I'm not denying that, like how they added a new armour to allow conpletionists to have an easier time traversing the map, they made getting the paraglider optional so you could play the game without it to challenge yourself, they fixed bullet time stamina usage so it only depletes when firing instead of just going on a timer, they patched lots of botw's glitches like btbs and shield clipping, they made the final boss actually a reasonable challenge instead of it just being a waiting simulator, and much more. But imo, the ways that botw was better to me wasn't in the mechanics, it was in the feel of the game and the overall story, in botw you are completely alone, you have amnesia so you have nobody to rely on, grasping on string that could lead to your destination, brought further to it by the calls of a familiar yet unfamiliar voice. The world of botw also feels desolate, but in a good way, going to the akkala region or even hyrule field feels lonely, as you are able to feel the environment on a much closer degree than totk, totk has a similar world to botw, with a few changes, but it feels different. In totk, you already know everyone, and the only new characters are the zonai and ganondorf, so the whole loneliness feel is gone, because you aren't alone, you have the people at lookout landing, the people of every settlement, but in botw, it is mid-calamity, so the world is empty as many have died. Mechanics are great, but the feel of a game is what makes it great imo, so that's why botw is better than totk for me.
@@danknados Ooooh, hadn't thought about it that way. To be honest I relate to you. I prefer the original Subnautica for instance even though it's sequel has improved mechanics for the same reason.
@Raykushi I feel the exact same way! In the og subnautica the scare factor of the leviathans is much more prevalent than in bz, like the one in the crystal caverns comes close, but it'll never have the same feel and energy as the reaper or ghost leviathans
Breath of the wild's world was more intentional (shiekah tech interfaces make sense for example) and atmospheric (more room to breath and feel alone) the champion abilities are better and sadly, the divine beasts have better puzzles (even though divine beast puzzles aren't very good lol)
I really wish I could agree, I want to love this game so badly but I just can't Hella good video though :) EDIT: I disagree with your take on the memories on a spiritual level
Breath of the Wild was my favourite game ever made. It did everything I wanted perfectly and basically broke other titles for me (it was too good). Then, in 2023 TotK realesed and made it look like beta. If BotW is 10/10 for me, it's sequel is like 12/10.
Yeah, when BoTW came out I was like "holy this is like the best game ever it's top 5 for sure" so when ToTK came out I'm like "this has to be in it's own league wtf"
of course it is an amazing game- but with the same map and gameplay loop- it isn't as an exciting experience in the long run (it isn't going to have the same impact botw did). My first totk playthrough was if not the best gaming experience i ever had, was in the top 5.. HOWEVER after i beat it,, i havent touched it since.. (i played through botw 3 and a half times)
Im sorry but on a techincal level yes, i accept the title of Masterpiece. But, in every other aspect (quests,story,drama,characters,depth,meaning, emotion), after playing games like Witcher 3, Zelda is so so so so, poor. SPOILER: On another topic, i find it so disturbing how from the very begining of the game you can see Zelda close to you without knowing it is Zelda....(dragon).
*To further BotW's sheer superiority, I will say this:* TotK's story is bad, Fs with pre-established key lore aspects, absolutely shatters all the Master Sword's reputation, unga bunga buff Dorf with little to no ambition other than "me strongest there is" uninteresting, nearly everyone forgot who you were despite this game taking place a mere 4-6 years after Wild, Rauru existing is an insult, no Fi, no breaking of the Demise curse despite it being falsely hinted being the case what with all the Skyward Sword PR this game got (I distinctly remember Skyward Sword being advertised as heavily linked to TotK somehow which, again, is misleading as on Nintendo's part), no dog petting, no hookshot spiderman swinging with the physics being suuuuch a driving factor in these newer Zelda games, no underwater exploration instead a damp dark smelly overgrown cave can't see jack, COLLOSAL missed opportunity to hitch the princess with her handsome knight in shining armor, no stakes since Zelda's sacrifice was reversed giving the story little to no agency or consequence, Link as a protagonist felt nonexistent feels like everyone else was the star of the show not the guy who's saving all their 🫏s, no Link backstory before any of this went down aka no Arryl 2 or Granny 2 aka NOT WIND WAKER, didn't make me cry like Twilight Princess, dungeons are STILL NOT dungeons (pulling a couple levers to open a door and then be treated with literally the same copy-paste cutscene at the very end with each champion? Yeah naw), sky islands hardly anything worth noting although they are pretty asf to look at, I was expecting a totally NEW revamped endgame super Saiyan master sword golden tier 4 legendary new hilt new everything but naw same design with a booboo scar and hilariously less powerful... hoverbike autobuild pales in comparison to THE Master Cycle As a game, sure, it's leagues above BotW but BotW will never be topped as a one-in-a-lifetime *experience* TotK was an overblown $70 DLC and I'm tired of pretending it's not. Mid.
@@JMB_Knight I mean technically yeah but once I hop on the hoverbike I go 😴😴😴😴 On the other hand with the master cycle *BBBRMMMMMMM* 🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍💯🔥💯🗿💯🔥💯🔥💯🔥💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
19:54 Even still, I'd prefer at least some weapon that lasts forever. Sure, it might deal pitiful damage compared to less durable weapons, but at least you'll never be completely defenseless.
I knew going to down a Zelda rabbit hole at 3am would get me a good video.
:D Thank you LOL
People really need to stop with BOTW vs. TOTK debates. Even tho TOTK is the better game IMO you can't deny that Zelda team set out on a mission to explore AS much as they could within open-world Hyrule. These games are ONE story in the chapter of Open-World Hyrule and I wish people can appreciate that perspective more. The amount of creative freedom via Ultrahand and all the Zonai builds was not something I thought I'd fall in love with but it turned out to be a game changer!
No, people can debate and express their opinions whenever they want. They do not really need to stop
And since totk barely connects to botw and ignores most of that game's story, I do not think that they are one continuous story. That's what I hoped for and not what we got
i look at them as more of a duology personally@@prettyoriginalnameprettyor7506
@@prettyoriginalnameprettyor7506also nigga why do i find u under EVERY vid regarding tears of the kingdom, positive or bad. like i get u dont like the game but damn bro u dont have to argue with EVERYBODY who actually likes tears of the kingdom. expression of opinion is fine, but when it gets to the point where you are actively seeking out/looking for these vids to bash on ppl who actually likes the game, i feel like thats past tge "expression of opinion" point. but oh well🤷🏽♂️ u do u man
@@prettyoriginalnameprettyor7506they are connected stories. In the TOTK concept book, a festival took place after the events of BOTW with link in his original outfit. The calamity is mentioned so many times.
I am so glad people are finally coming out and saying “actually, totk is an amazing game in its own right, even if it has its problems” because of the amount of hate it’s been getting over the last year. I’m a totk lover, and it frustrated me so much when people were only releasing videos of how much they hated totk or “why totk is not a good game”. Like yeah, as a sequel it fails in a lot of aspects. But what if, for a moment, you remove it from the context of being a sequel… it’s an amazing game, albeit with flaws.
I think it's an interesting sequel in the context of zelda games because I don't think we've seen a game in zelda that is direct sequel that takes place in the same world. We have sequels like Majora's Mask and Spirit Tracks which clearly take place around the same time but none of the previous game's elements are present. I think it was cool seeing how things have changed from the previous game. We don't usually get that in zelda titles.
People have been releasing both extremes and everything in-between since release. For those with pros and cons to express, saying how good something is can be pretty succinct, while explaining a flaw or "what could have been" takes a bit more effort. I think that being a sequel really amplifies that because sure we could just forget context and hype and just enjoy the moment, but many of these reviews are naturally looking at the bigger picture. Many of them do remind that there are high highs, but again, nothing exists in a vacuum.
I can understand that it is frustrating to see views drastically opposed from ours trend and find some success, but that has been true on both sides. The latest being that skittybitty diatribe, and now it seems we got the opposite to restore balance if it trends a bit ^^ (I haven't watched this one yet).
Thank you for making this video, I love seeing people talk about their thoughts of ToTK in depth. It truly does mean a lot more than you would think, at least for me.
I can't believe it's already been more than a year since this game came out. I still can't find how to put into words what it makes me feel.
Commenting to boost! You put a lot of work into this and are clearly passionate.
Thank you so much! I appreciate that
been seeing a lot of TotK sucks stuff as of late, nice to see something different.
Bro came back from the dead fr 💀
Totk is a great game. But personally I am still very disappointed in many aspects of it. I'm glad it seems like many people enjoyed it much more than I did. There is a lot to like. But for me it just didn't hit the points I wanted it to. I won't list all my gripes, but the sheer sudden disappointment I felt when I realized that every single cutscene after the dungeons are all the same, was kinda the beginning of the end for me. Not a deal breaker or anything, nothing in this game really is bad enough to make me not have at least enjoyed my playthrough. It's not one thing, but a combination of different gripes that add up to me just being disappointed in the final product. Overall it's a great game, but personally I prefer many of the older games, and yes that includes Botw.
The murals demonstrate that what happened was always going to happen, unlike what Raru told Zelda, that her coming back was going to change it, when in fact her coming back was what needed to happen.
Both of these games are stellar. Tears of the Kingdom is probably my favorite Zelda game of all time, so it bothers me so much when people trash them out of a lack of understanding of them.
Great job bro you created “one of the ones”!! 💪😎 this one goes into the list! blessings 💯👊
I dedicated my Saturday to this.
I got this video down in one sitting.
10/10.
@Fixti0n That's so awesome! That's such an honor I appreciate that so much!
Thanks for this video. This 4 hour video is much more needed than the 3 hour video saying TOTK sucks.
This was a great review! Its not very often I find myself willing to watch a video this long, but this was very well made and I appreciate that!
@@OChunks Tysm!!
I loved this game and was SO excited to see a video that wasn't TOTK hate!!!!
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I feel like Riju's ability, instead of you using an arrow just because, is due to the fact that the tip of the arrow is metal, a conductor, which would attract the lightning to that point.
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So happy to see some positivity about this game going around, it is definitely currently a victim of the Zelda love/hate dynamic that seems to happen to most games. Many of the people asserting that BOTW is the better game were hating on it a year after its release as well. Same thing will happen with EOW in a few days.
In five years these will all be considered the best of the series if past trends are to play out again
I remember ToTK being praised to high heaven on Twitter during it's first month and then we started to see this contrarian influx of "it's good but...is it??" and I was losing my mind lmao
The "Zelda cycle" seems like an intuitive concept and there is some truth to it, but I also think it's a very convenient excuse brought up to discredit more easily parts of the fandom people don't relate to. I'm curious what makes you think that many of the people preferring BOTW were hating it before. There are all sorts of profiles who played Zelda before BOTW or not, liked BOTW or not, liked TOTK or not, and many different tier lists anyone could make for any number of preferences...
Personally, playing them back-to-back as well as other Zelda games in the past year, I know that we've had enough time for some people to form clear, fleshed out opinions that have no particular reason to change in years to come. Old Zelda is amazing, archaic in some areas but has things that could still be used in the open world. BOTW has become a classic that was never going to please everyone, but incredibly important for the series and successful thanks to its bold and clear focus. TOTK will always be impressive mechanically for what they achieved, full of exciting concepts, but their focus took away from the execution for most of its world building and story telling.
Oh I been WAITING for this one!!!🔥🔥🔥
The Gibson towers can be destroyed without Riju just use bomb arrows when glowing pink that’s when you’re supposed to use riju’s ability as well. Great video though! Love the positivity instead of all the hate this game gets. Played BOTW after TOTK and so I can see how much better TOTK is.
Ooo i didn't know bomb arrows would work too that's cool
TOTK is a masterpiece 100% however it falls hard because of the weight of expectation. I think people wanted new botw with bigger map and more things and we got that but not in ways people wanted. But that doesn't change the fact this is one of the most fun experiences of my long gaming journey. The creativity, freedom, wide range of choices. This is a game where if you need to climb a mountain you can spend an hour fguring different devices or techniques or just mess around with ultrahand to climb it and have fun. This is unheard of in any other AAA. This is THE open world experiences and the best exploration of any game ever. If only there were more sky islands and had more depth to them it would have been 10/10 game. However for me it's 9.5/10 because it didn't deliver what I expected it to after amazing BOTW and also has some annoying design choices, mainly the way you use your sage powers is poorly thoughtout.
Yeah, more Sky Islands was definitely a necessity.
@@Raykushi This may sound a bit strange but I personally think the Sky Islands were intentionally distributed the way they were to balance the game world's light. If the skies were filled with too many islands, the Surface may receive less sunlight. However, the islands don't seem scarce to me when I look at them in a vertical sense.
@@thejokahfiedone4125 Officially they said designers scolded the devs for cluttering the sky, which is weird because it _already_ looks jarring, they're the oddities of this game by design. More of it wouldn't be more out of place. I don't think lighting is a technical reason and if it was, the sky has an unfathomable volume of free space they barely utilized. So even if they tripled the amount of islands, I don't think it would affect lighting or performance by itself. And if they wanted huge distance between islands, that wouldn't prevent them from making ones as big as the Great Sky Island instead of the many small repetitive chunks we got.
@@thejokahfiedone4125repetive af tho
Botw and Totk are my very first Zelda games, and honestly I think I enjoyed Totk way more than botw. I played it a lot more, it had a lot more for me to do in side content that I still enjoyed, and the characters were incredible. I have my own complaints with it, but it is undoubtedly one of my favorite games now
I listened to the whole thing. 😊
My first play through, I didn't know you had to talk to Pura again to get the paraglider. So I just kind of went off on my own. I realized I must have missed something when I started the dragon tears quest. Impa took me super high up and I couldn't get down. 🤣
@@datanimegirl_Jen thanks so much!
Ah you were a dragalia lost channel ❤ good times ❤
That Fire Emblem reference was perfect. 😂
advice i have is to definitely upgrade all armor as much as you can. the bonuses get better the higher the level. the frog suit IS slip-proof!!
Thank God. The recent totk hate has been so annoying and almost feels algorithm chasing more than like an actual opinion a lot of times. Like omg a sequel is too sequelish! Wtf does that even mean. Of course it is like the original, it's the same characters and in the same world why are you SURPRISED and even disappointed that it's the same map? They even added to it significantly and made time appropriate adjustments!
Even the "why doesn't everyone recognize me" thing is annoying. Like honestly 🙄 I see notable figures at my job all the time and don't recognize any of them until I take their id.
@@dragontears 100% agree
a 4 hour video? is it christmas already? Great video btw!! 😍
@@caneshuga thanks so much!
2:30:38 I think it's less about the Gerudo and more about Ganondorf. He was born Gerudo, and he demonstrates the hypocrisy of Wind Waker!Ganon's motivations by attacking his own people as well. I think the Gerudo Region is supposed to have themes of Horror. Historically, the Gibdo were just a basic undead enemy, usually as a mummy, but in Twilight Princess and Tears of the Kingdom, they're given an increasingly insectoid design, which seems odd for weaponized dead people. I think the Gerudo Graveyard in the Depths rams the idea home. It's infested with Gibdo, whereas no other deadland has this situation.
I think the Gibdo aren't just any old undead, but the cursed corpses of Gerudo SPECIFICALLY that chose to defy their king. It's a conflict of Progress Vs. Old Tyranny.
hey when you ascending through the bridge if hylia, you went RIGHT through a korok 😂
Tears of the kingdom is by far my favorite game i have ever played and its ok if people don't like it like me but its so annoying seeing so many people recently saying its plain out bad
I could go on a whole explanation why linearity has its positives since so many people (I’m not saying you are included in this, this has just been something I’ve heard for years as a Pokemon fan) say that linearity sucks, but I’ll just simplify it to: linearity is great for people who suck at video games despite loving them and playing them for more than half of their life.
I do think linearity in excess is bad, like I don’t like how it’s handled in Pokemon sword and shield but I think it’s okay in sun and moon (yes, seriously. But it gets old on replays). But linearity like what’s exactly in totk’s sky islands can be extremely helpful for people like me who just suck at games. The whole “children play these games” argument annoys me so much because everyone I know playing games when they were kids were so much better than I was, and still are.
Linearity is good when the experience that is intended is strong. I think every other game in my top 5 is a linear game lol
Totk
Xenoblade2
Nier Automata
TTYD
Pokemon Emerald
Yep just about. lol
@@Raykushi most of my favourite games are turn-based RPGs (child of light, Undertale, Pokemon ultra sun) so they are very linear 😂 Also gravity rush. Not a turn-based RPG but is an RPG and is linear in story and gameplay, but there is an open-worldish element to it
I just want to say I respect the heck out of you for making this. Personally, I genuinely can't stand Tears of the Kingdom, especially because the writing is so poor. But I'm a Zelda fan boy at the end of the day, and I wish more fans of this game could give convincing thorough reasons for why it's good instead of smugly declaring my expectations were wrong, or complaining that people don't like it to begin with. This is exactly what I've been wanting. Civil, passionate discussion of this game and not hostility over a difference in opinion or endless whining that more people are starting to be negative over it. Thanks man, this was a wonderful video. I hope you keep this up.
That's so nice of you! Yeah, while I can be quite good as describing why something is bad, I think it's much better to talk about why something is good - both have their merits of course!
Your sentiment seems to be shared among many of the other comments - I'm really glad the positivity in this review was refreshing to so many people, because it was damn refreshing to me, lol
Love this game. It's nice to see a more positive review
Appreciate that! Yeah I love this game, but almost every mention of it is accompanied with a big ol "BUT", and I just wanted to do something a little more positive. Hope you enjoyed lol
The game is quite possibly in my top 3 as well. But I think that the only thing that holds it back is its music. Now, the game DOES have some bangers, but honestly a lot of other games in Nintendos catalogue (including BotW) seem to use their instruments both more passionately and intimately. A great example of this can be seen in comparing the “Dark Beast Ganon” track from BotW and the “Demon Dragon” track from TotK. Both great themes, but I can’t help but notice that Dark Beast Ganon has way more going on. Once again, amazing game, but some of its music makes if feel like some of the passion behind BotW was lost in the transition between games.
If i had the power to change anything in the game, there are two things i would do.
First i would have all the memories appear in order, as well as add three new memories to the duplicate once you get from the main dungeon.
And the second think would have two endings, one where you get all the memories, and one where you dont. The first works as normal, because its such an amazing ending. But the second, once you beat Ganon and finish him off, you appear on the ground, looking up at the light dragon as she flies into the sunset.
Other then that i dont see any real faults in the game.
Sure you have the repeat of the world, all the shrines look the same, all my weapons keep braking. But those are nitpicks at best.
Also pro tip, if you fuse an item to a weapon, you add some more durability, something like unlocking its durability potential. You wont get any more if you remove what you had fused then add a new one, but its still nice.
You can also repair the unique weapons/shields/bows by fusing them to any other weapon, then give that one for octorocks to eat, then going to Terrytown to unstick them.
I really like your "failed to save zelda" ending idea
Finally a new "Totk is a Masterpiece" video. These seem scarce
This review was incredible-it echoed so much of my own experience with this game, and also highlighted some aspects that I had never appreciated before. Thank you!! It was an enjoyable 4 hours.
When i first came down from the GSI, i noticed that the game pushed me towards lookout landing, do i went the other way and explored the other things first.
I went trough most of the game without the paraglider, i knew it was in the game, but honestly, i found it a lot more fun to explore without it, using unconventional ways to get down, thinking of a path down, it would be a lot harder if i didnt know some speedrunning tricks like fall damage cancel.
Finally totk love
You had me dying when you began to talk about goron city lmaoooooooooooo
I did everything before purah asked too! haha XD
I did watch the entire thing, and I loved it just as much. Bro, I love totk. It was the first open world zelda game I played, and even when I did play botw, I loved totk even more. I love botw, I love totk, I call it Rememberance to Redemption
@KulaMedli the crack epidemic bit, I was proud of. I was snickering the whole time I was editing it LOL
Ngl, totk is the best game of 2023. 2023 was a slow year, its only real competition was baldur's gate 3 which I thought was honestly just kinda mid
"Did you guess? The goat!" earned you my like, because I did, in fact, guess the goat daddy xD
Rauru can lend me his arm any time
Adding onto it, about 1:49:19 I did run out of arrows and had to ask a guide to learn you could just fly through Colgera 🤣
they both wernt my cup of 😢, but i do love 4hr video essays
I believe that any game can be good when just judging by experience, but when taking a deeper look into it like Skitty did, you will notice the flaws of it and how it seems great but isn't so good under the surface. For me, this game is my 5th favourite switch game, behind xenoblades 1 3 and 2, and botw, as it feels goodto play but after you do the main story and get every shrine and lightroot, it starts to feel hollow, and even making zonaite builds can become boring. This game isn't bad by video game standards, in fact, it is quite good in that way, but in terms of zelda game standards, aside from the argument about dungeons, it falls short quite a bit.
I find it interesting to say BoTW is better. I see it as an upgrade in every way.
Not saying you're wrong to think so, I'm just curious why :P Many of the things you pointed out about ToTK is true of many other games and even BoTW itself.
Thanks for watching though!
@Raykushi totk has improved a lot of things from botw I'm not denying that, like how they added a new armour to allow conpletionists to have an easier time traversing the map, they made getting the paraglider optional so you could play the game without it to challenge yourself, they fixed bullet time stamina usage so it only depletes when firing instead of just going on a timer, they patched lots of botw's glitches like btbs and shield clipping, they made the final boss actually a reasonable challenge instead of it just being a waiting simulator, and much more. But imo, the ways that botw was better to me wasn't in the mechanics, it was in the feel of the game and the overall story, in botw you are completely alone, you have amnesia so you have nobody to rely on, grasping on string that could lead to your destination, brought further to it by the calls of a familiar yet unfamiliar voice. The world of botw also feels desolate, but in a good way, going to the akkala region or even hyrule field feels lonely, as you are able to feel the environment on a much closer degree than totk, totk has a similar world to botw, with a few changes, but it feels different. In totk, you already know everyone, and the only new characters are the zonai and ganondorf, so the whole loneliness feel is gone, because you aren't alone, you have the people at lookout landing, the people of every settlement, but in botw, it is mid-calamity, so the world is empty as many have died. Mechanics are great, but the feel of a game is what makes it great imo, so that's why botw is better than totk for me.
@@danknados Ooooh, hadn't thought about it that way. To be honest I relate to you. I prefer the original Subnautica for instance even though it's sequel has improved mechanics for the same reason.
@Raykushi I feel the exact same way! In the og subnautica the scare factor of the leviathans is much more prevalent than in bz, like the one in the crystal caverns comes close, but it'll never have the same feel and energy as the reaper or ghost leviathans
Breath of the wild's world was more intentional (shiekah tech interfaces make sense for example) and atmospheric (more room to breath and feel alone) the champion abilities are better and sadly, the divine beasts have better puzzles (even though divine beast puzzles aren't very good lol)
Tears of the Kingdom must be redeemed. We shouldn't hate the game just because a "Zeldatuber" said he didn't like it !!
Finally, sick of the totk hate. Bunch of fake zelda fans
Nah, people aren't fake fans for not liking a game :P
Does make them WRONG though!!!
I really wish I could agree, I want to love this game so badly but I just can't
Hella good video though :) EDIT: I disagree with your take on the memories on a spiritual level
Appreciate it nonetheless, hehe
Breath of the Wild was my favourite game ever made. It did everything I wanted perfectly and basically broke other titles for me (it was too good). Then, in 2023 TotK realesed and made it look like beta. If BotW is 10/10 for me, it's sequel is like 12/10.
Yeah, when BoTW came out I was like "holy this is like the best game ever it's top 5 for sure" so when ToTK came out I'm like "this has to be in it's own league wtf"
of course it is an amazing game- but with the same map and gameplay loop- it isn't as an exciting experience in the long run (it isn't going to have the same impact botw did). My first totk playthrough was if not the best gaming experience i ever had, was in the top 5.. HOWEVER after i beat it,, i havent touched it since.. (i played through botw 3 and a half times)
delete the depths, add more sky and the game is better by default
Totk is trash videos be like.
Subjective
When somebody has an opinion you dont like:
It is not a masterpiece, it's a scam.
it's* a scam
@@Raykushi Bueno.
Im sorry but on a techincal level yes, i accept the title of Masterpiece.
But, in every other aspect (quests,story,drama,characters,depth,meaning, emotion), after playing games like Witcher 3, Zelda is so so so so, poor.
SPOILER:
On another topic, i find it so disturbing how from the very begining of the game you can see Zelda close to you without knowing it is Zelda....(dragon).
I think that's cool actually lol
oh i am EARLY early 😭
*To further BotW's sheer superiority, I will say this:*
TotK's story is bad, Fs with pre-established key lore aspects, absolutely shatters all the Master Sword's reputation, unga bunga buff Dorf with little to no ambition other than "me strongest there is" uninteresting, nearly everyone forgot who you were despite this game taking place a mere 4-6 years after Wild, Rauru existing is an insult, no Fi, no breaking of the Demise curse despite it being falsely hinted being the case what with all the Skyward Sword PR this game got (I distinctly remember Skyward Sword being advertised as heavily linked to TotK somehow which, again, is misleading as on Nintendo's part), no dog petting, no hookshot spiderman swinging with the physics being suuuuch a driving factor in these newer Zelda games, no underwater exploration instead a damp dark smelly overgrown cave can't see jack, COLLOSAL missed opportunity to hitch the princess with her handsome knight in shining armor, no stakes since Zelda's sacrifice was reversed giving the story little to no agency or consequence, Link as a protagonist felt nonexistent feels like everyone else was the star of the show not the guy who's saving all their 🫏s, no Link backstory before any of this went down aka no Arryl 2 or Granny 2 aka NOT WIND WAKER, didn't make me cry like Twilight Princess, dungeons are STILL NOT dungeons (pulling a couple levers to open a door and then be treated with literally the same copy-paste cutscene at the very end with each champion? Yeah naw), sky islands hardly anything worth noting although they are pretty asf to look at, I was expecting a totally NEW revamped endgame super Saiyan master sword golden tier 4 legendary new hilt new everything but naw same design with a booboo scar and hilariously less powerful... hoverbike autobuild pales in comparison to THE Master Cycle
As a game, sure, it's leagues above BotW but BotW will never be topped as a one-in-a-lifetime *experience*
TotK was an overblown $70 DLC and I'm tired of pretending it's not. Mid.
The biggest crime here is no dog petting
I’m sorry, the Hoverbike pales in comparison to the Master Cycle? Absolutely not, the Hoverbike is by far the better traversal option
@@JMB_Knight I mean technically yeah but once I hop on the hoverbike I go 😴😴😴😴
On the other hand with the master cycle *BBBRMMMMMMM* 🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍💯🔥💯🗿💯🔥💯🔥💯🔥💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Nah games ass
too long didnt watch, great vid tho
19:54 Even still, I'd prefer at least some weapon that lasts forever. Sure, it might deal pitiful damage compared to less durable weapons, but at least you'll never be completely defenseless.