Breath of the Wild's Difficulty, Combat and Progression
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- Part 4 of my Breath of the Wild review series, where we talk about its combat, its overall difficulty, and how the player progresses through the game.
(NOTE: This review is in-depth and as such it is SPOILER-HEAVY.)
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I was terrified of Lynels for a good part of the game.
Up until one of them killed my horse. I didn't let him get away.
MowseChao k no one cares
Flock Of Geese yo stfu you clearly cared enough to comment,
I cared
Lynel Slayer
“I give up, end me”
* kills horse*
“I’m about to turn that Lynel into superglue!”
My first death was dying to the old man's campfire trying to cook apples lol.
feel's bad man
I loled!
Zuko: That's rough buddy.
King : Welp, I've just killed our hero.
LOL! I don't remember my first death but once I got surrounded by three guardians and then I got kinda dead.
i didn't mind the durability system. i just wish it showed me the durability of the weapons. With like a small meter or something
It kinda does with the numbers in the bottom corner
That's the weapon's attack power not the durability.
When it’s glinting it’s pristine, when it’s red is pure fooked and you should throw it at the next bogoblin’s head, the rest is guesswork. But I quite like the uncertainty 😀
I think the metal weapons should have been 2x as durable
It’s a very weird balance for me, on one hand I wish I could keep my 91 damage savage lynel sword forever because it’s rare and I will likely never get a better sword. So I keep it. BUT on the other hand being able to use a 91 power one handed sword is wayyyy too broken
Skyward Sword Link: I'm unkillable and I have a guide who would never ever let me miss anything that I need to successfully finish my journey!
Breath of the Wild Link: I JUST KILLED A LYNEL WITH 30 STICKS AND MY SHEER FORCE OF WILL, I'LL TEAR GANON APART WITH MY BARE HANDS
Demise is harder than any Lionel ( dude Lionel’s are piss easy as everything in botw is.
@@firenze6424 Demise is super easy if you know what you're doing and take it slow
+Austin Fredericks still harder than a Lionel who telegraphs his attacks so early that you’d have to be blind not to dodge him only difference is Lionel’s a damage sponge who takes forever to kill in the most boring way as you break all your weapons on him
@@firenze6424 Forgot the part where you can't kill one early game, even if you have the patterns figured out because the game's durability system artificially limits what you can do no matter your skill. Easily circumvented via unarmed combat, but that's actually not a game mechanic, so lol
+Fuk99999 that’s neither a positive or difficulty though
"Sometimes after a blood moon, I'll go lynel hunting. JUST TO DO IT." Such a mood after I learned how to take them down lol
I've had the game for about a year now. Every time there's a blood moon I too go Lynel hunting
I'd go boar hunting.
Haha, relatable.
CMON BOYS WE’RE GOIN’ LYNEL HUNTEN’ FOR SHETS AND GIGGLES
“Just to show them who owns hyrule”
They're so fun to fight!
Old Zelda Games: "Here's a sword. There are bad guys."
BotW: Arlo: *Hucks a greataxe at a squirrel*
I laughed both at your comment and his inept attempt to hunt small game. Thank you. :D
😂😂😂
Yeah, those swords in the old zelda games weren't pieces of junk that broke.
@@jacktemplayz Throwing weapons is for wimps, I find close combat much more fun. Unbreakable weapons are obviously cooler than throwing a bunch of trash
@@geostar1610 Completely disagree. Throwing weapons is super fun.
I'll always remember my opening hours in this game.
Somehow i didnt find the warm dublet and hadnt learned about making cold resistence food,yet i was climbing the icy area where one of the guardian dragons was.
The journey was hard,the cold was killing me piece by piece and i was chewing through my food items.
I made the first of many fires,used it as a base camp,never venturing too far.I raided a bokogoblin camp and found a torch.
I was nearly dead after battle but i lit my torch,by accident, and it was then i realized it provided just enough heat if i wasn't too high up or in the wind,eventually allowing me to confront the corrupted dragon,who i could only fight as long as i was near a hurriedly made camp fire.It was there i learned about the heat=wind mechanic and so i'd glide up and smash the dragon with my sword (no arrows left) eventually felling the great beast.
BotWs mechanics make for incredible individual stories.
Ahhh i used the torch tooo to go uo the mountain it felt incredible
22:34 that is actually an insanely terrifying clip
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“Hypothetical Sequel”
*1 year later*
LEGEND OF ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD 2
i'm ready
HOOBA HOO!!!
My body is ready
Well this aged like wine
EDIT: I've been informed that it's not completing shrines that scales up monsters; they scale up based on which/how many you kill. The end result is about the same--the more you go out and play the game the stronger they get--but I thought I should clear that up.
And a small note: Monsters scale up over time, and nearly all areas are designed to be accessible at any time, though I should have clarified that some areas are meant to be easier or more difficult than others. Like, they do scale, but they don't scale as severely. Early areas will always have lower level baddies than those on the other ends of the map, even as you get stronger.
In response to another point you made, weapons in shrines do also scale if you don’t collect em. I found this out after going back to a shrine on the great plateau. Originally had a traverlers claymore, had no space so I left it. Came back later and it turned into a royal one.
it's funny because it gave me a lot of replay value interest, I was so curious what level enemies were right at the beginning, all over the map. I actually went around in my second playthrough and wrote down which lynels were where, so I wouldn't miss out on seeing blue ones (and their weapons) the way I did in my first playthrough from being too chicken to confront them until it was too late.
Wait, Keeta, I thought once you OPEN the chest, even if you don't collect the item due to being full, the item is set in stone. That's how I recall it working.
Interesting, maybe some of them scale or some scale at faster rates than others? Most of my time in the game was spent ignoring useless shrine loot and I assumed it was all low-level stuff all the time.
As someone who went to Faron and later the Getudo Desert first, I found the difficulty to be kind of weird at some points. In those places, I was getting a bunch of durians that I could cook to give me a billion extra hearts and getting elemental weapons pretty often. When I went to regions like Kakariko Village after seeing that I couldn't complete the Akkala Tech Lab quest, it felt really weird seeing all of the lesser baddies and weapons. This also persisted when I went into Necluda to an extent. Although it was slightly annoying, it was also a testament of as to how well the weapon system works. Over time, I had slightly worse hands dealt to me, and my old weapons broke, essentially adjusting me to take on the area.
I dont mind breakable weapons, but i wish they had a repair system like what they had for shields in Skyward Sword.
or at least some other way to manipulate the system. maybe weapons only weaken when the enemy blocks or when you attack in the wrong way. maybe weaker weapons could have been used to enhance other weapons. or maybe there shouldn'T have been so many different damage variants, so that a weapon breaking doesn't equal to power loss but a switch-up in combat-style instead.
@@UnicornStorm I never thought about that. Let's say your super n00b Boko Club can be upgraded with horns and tails and then you can get your Spiked Boko Club++ or something. Minerals could make your swords sharper, imagine melting some Ruby into a Claymore and getting a crimson-sharpened-thingy.
I agree with you. The only thing that lacks is the ability to repair weapon, crafting and upgrading weapon or shield. The thing is I love guardian weapon (sword, shield etc) maybe due to their blue glows around them and I like them to always in my inventory and I hate when they breaks. Btw BoTW is ultimate RPG game I ever played, no games I ever spent like 100+ hours in it ever before.
And the master sword is basically trash now
Just get a new one, if you liked that weapon so much.
18:20 When the game told me the locations of the dungeons, I thought:"Well I'll go for the closest"(Zora's domain). I swear half the ennemies here one-shoot me, so I had to sneak around to reach that damn zora village. That was extremely satisfaying.
The beginning should say “there is a link to the past episodes “
Oof
Brilliant
You earned yourself a extra helping of butternut squash.
Budum Chh
@@HeilRay Please, sir. May I have some more?
Old Zelda games: here’s literally the best weapon in the entire universe. Go kill guys.
BotW: Here’s a stick. *shoves our the door* have fun!
your on mobile
Yup, *seems like an accurate representation.*
This is one of those times where the new generation can actually say they’ve had it tougher lol “you guys got paid?”
Um, most Zelda games don't give you the Master Sword until at least halfway through the game. I mean, Skyward Sword didn't technically give you the Master Sword until after the 6 dungeon.
Just the feeling of being like, “No, they wouldn’t program that in,” is just typical in nearly all games. But the joy when you try it anyway and it works feels like a great accomplishment. Just great game.
Sometimes things aren't even hard coded in. Sometimes things just mesh together depending on how the system is laid out.
@@Allplussomeminus a well written physics engine, for example, will let you do all sorts of things that the programmers dind't think of just because they could be done in real life.
When I met my first Talus, I ran up on a mountain where he couldn't reach me and just listened to his AWESOME TRACK
I really liked the random boss fights in BotW. Even though they were completely optional, defeating them was so rewarding!
I like the tracks too. My fav is the Hinox battle tracks.
A big thing that I think you missed with difficulty is the autosave when you get close to enemies. it is so nice that when you encounter an enemy you die to that you can just get back into it and try it again saving you that "oh shit when did I save last" moment but also doesn't force you to be in your menus saving all the time. It is honestly one of the biggest issues I have with games like Skyrim I would walk around schooling bandits and then run into an enemy that is harder than expected and then realizing I hadn't saved in a while. botw makes fighting enemies and the difficulty fun because you can just get back into the action and fix what you did wrong instead of needing to get back to where you were and THEN trying again.
Skyrim autosaves every time you go in a building, fast travel, wait, or open your inventory. And there's a reason the quicksave button exists
Mr. Anonymous yeah that is true and I got to admit a lot of the "problem" I have with Skyrim is entirely my fault. quicksaving is so easy yet I just don't do it very often but the auto saving that Skyrim does I feel isn't often enough as well because you can travel one end of Skyrim to the other without doing any of the things that will trigger an autosave and even the save when you enter building is fine sometimes but with big long dungeons dying and needing to start over is problematic. Don't get me wrong I love Skyrim it's a great game and again I just forget to quicksave a lot of the time I was just saying that the auto save before combat in botw is one of those quality of life things that It improved upon from games like Skyrim.
I personally use the autosave feature as a way to detect enemies. Whenever I'm adventuring and I see the little "saving" icon in the corner, I panic a litlle and wonder "Oh no it's autosaving, what's waiting to muder me?" It really helps brace you for a battle or to be more sneaky and careful
@@aardbei54 Is there a way to disable that auto save feature?
@@ezzardeyethief You can disable some of them in Settings > gameplay.
the first time i killed a lynel, i used its weapons to kill a nearby hinox and it broke
Evan Chang there still good tho
Adriana Garzon *they’re
Joe ok, and?
My first stone talus was in the deja ruins village. I had no idea how to kill it, none at all. It hit me over and over and eventually, like arlo, i ran. And then as i was running, my first blood moon happened. I had no clue what was going on, and i thought the talus was making it happen. I freaked out!
My first talus was the Igneo Talus on the way to Goron City. It caught me completely off guard and I remember dying to it over and over and over again before I finally beat it... and then burned to death cause I used up all my flameproof elixirs.
The whole experience was seriously one of the most magical moments of the game.
My first was the one in Great Plateau. I was really unprepared, obviously... but I tried anyway and I died many times. However, I figured out how to beat it, so I ran away to find some arrows. I came back and I tried again. I was still weak, but by protecting me behind a tree and shooting at the right time, I finally killed him. I was so happy at that time!
@@Epic4evr that's hilarious! Im surprised it took you that long to find one.
I didn't even meet a regular talus at first I didn't know what they were then I got the quest in Goron city to fight the talus but it's hot
The blood moon also made me freak out. I was just walking towards Zora's village, and then everything went purple and red.
I don't mind the weapons breaking, but I'm a collector. I wish they had enough space in your home for one of each weapon!
I agree.. wouldn't it be cool if the bins under the staircase in your BotW home were space for weapons? (Bows and shields too).
True.
Home? What home? Tell me please.
Gamey I think they mean in hateno village you can buy a house, look it up if you want
Gamey definitely do the quest it’s fun af. It’s in hateno village past the square shaped houses in the front of town. I’m not gonna spoil it but you end up doing more than just buying a house
You can hear the passion in Arlo's voice while talking about this game.
There's something I've noticed about the level design in BOTW that I don't think.. well.. ANYONE has mentioned.
The level design, is in everything. And I mean absolutely everything. How tall is the cliff, how wide is the river, how many times do I need to stop? My theory is that they had premeasure distances planned out before building the world.
I tended to notice this because I have a tendency to always do things the exact same way. I always seem to just barely make it to the ledges. Always. That's beyond coincidence.
There's one place in particular that I always frequented. It was a Talos on the very top of a tall Rock Spire. The one that's nearby the shrine with the animal graveyard. Gliding from the closest point will take you to a lower ledge. You can then get up through various means. I think you can do it with the bare minimum stamina but you have to be very careful about getting from ledge to ledge. Also, when you have full stamina you can get from this ledge to the top in one go. Again, just barely making it. (I think the distances are also controlled all the way up through filling your stamina wheel but that's harder to prove.) But the biggest piece of evidence I have is when you have full stamina and Revali's Gale. When you use Revali's Gale you'll land in the middle of the pillar but then you'll start to climb and with a full stamina wheel you AGAIN just barely make it.
The the distance of the mountains, the height of the cliff, the strength of Revali's Gale, the distances of the ledges, the timing of the stamina wheel, even.. the slope.. on the rocks.. HAD TO HAVE BEEN CALCULATED!!
Everybody praises the level design around towers and particular castles but I don't think people realize it's in literally every rock, every tree, and every mountain.
Or they just gave you food and threw out arbitrary numbers so that they didn't have to think about that. I'm also pretty sure the world is as spaced out as it is because Nintendo didn't want the rest of the game to perform as poorly as it does in Korok Forest.
@@Cooperal I think the game is spaced out becuase it's more realstic
It's not that the game is spaced out. It's that it's spaced out to precise distances. I guarantee that if we measured the map we would see a system of platforms instead of just a big random world.
Ha, yeah. You know why?
Monolith Soft was involved in BotW, and they focused their manpower on "topographic arrangements".
Of course the world is well built. The landscapes are shaped so that you can always find a vantage point, and Hyrule Castle is seen from almost every location. No matter where you are in the world, you'll always see amazing landscapes no matter which direction you look.
Monolith Soft develops amazing landscapes and maps. Xenoblade Chronocles on the Wii is serious one of my favourite games to date simply because the world is so incredible and the music is absolutely amazing. Ugh! I need it to be ported to Switch
@Héctor Tafoya That wasn't the point. Yes you can use items to get everywhere. What I was saying was that everywhere was measured.
I loved how terrifying guardians were, I always avoided them on much of my first play through. It’s fun when seemingly invincible enemies you already encountered become beatable. Feels like you’re getting somewhere.
Me listening to this guy listen about his hardcomings in the start: ha! This was easy to figure out.
Me: *remembers that I spoiled myself on the game because I thought I'd never play it* oh right
For me, the part that annoys me about the weapon breakage system isn't actually the system itself, but the way the game around it treats weapons as if they're valubable. I _hate_ opening a chest in a shrine just to find yet another weapon. I might hate it less if they'd programmed the ability to swap it with another weapon without having to go through the rigamarole of: close the chest, open the menu, scroll over to my weapons, pick the one I want to drop, drop it, open the chest again, and finally close the dialogue box that tells me about the weapon I already know is in the chest. But even then, being given a weapon will never feel as rewarding to me as a piece of ore or some valuable arrows or even Rupees given how valuable they are in this game.
In a hypothetical sequel to Breath of the Wild (or even a spiritual successor), I'd like to see the game never use weapons as a reward for anything but exploration and engaging in combat. I'd love to see a wider variety of monster parts being find-able in chests, given how useful they are for upgrading clothing. Y'know what else would be cool? Being able to find a food dish in a chest, and being able to examine the dish to learn what ingredients were used to make it so I can then make more of it myself. _THAT_ would be so much more rewarding to me than getting a weapon for whatever I did to obtain that chest.
I also didn't enjoy the weapons in chests. I'd rather pick them up from enemies.
I need treasure in my chests, damnit! Have them full of treasure that I need for upgrade or something. And have the chests reset every blood moon so that I actually have a reason to fight old bokoblin camps again.
The chests could have a certain spawn rate of different items specific to their region, so if you're looking for an item, you don't know exactly where it is (unlike the swords that are just lying around in BotW). Oh! And treasure maps would be awesome (but those should probably not respawn).
This would make opening chests exciting throughout the entire game!
Yeah, completionists would probably cry, but I like replayability. I want to be able to go into shrines again and get rewards for trying out the puzzle again in a new way.
As the game is, it gets emptier the longer I play, and I'm not a big fan of that. Respawning chests with actual loot and some random chance would keep the game more exciting, imo.
(I like the idea of finding food, lol. But it would be a little weird to find food in an old chest: "Duh nuh nuh nuh! You got...a rotten egg!"
What if inside was some sort of recipe? But it was framed as a puzzle of some sort? IKD, but I would definitely like a recipe book.)
The only things that I would really like to see done differently are for one, if every weapon breaks, why do some weapons have limited spawns? There are like 2 or 3 weapons in the game that have a limited number of spawns, but can still break. That makes me mad. But more importantly, allow the blacksmiths to repair weapons that are badly damaged at a cost and with certain materials. Not only would that avoid screwing with the balance of the gameplay loop(since you would have to make it out of the early game to access a blacksmith), it would enhance. Now instead of dreading using your super buff lynel sword cuz you don't want to lose it, now you use it but pay an even closer eye on the durability, making sure it stops JUUUST before it breaks, cuz once it snaps you can't fix it. That would add a layer of strategy to the moment-to-moment gameplay
Now unlike most complains about the system, yours and Z nerd's are actually fair, and can be fixed in a sequel, basically it's just balacing and refining the drops.
Also, I agree ultra rare end-game weapons should be repairable in some form or anotther, but only true late-game weapons, and the ultra rare weapons CAN'T be the strongest in the game simply ebcause they can be repaired.
@@tumamaencosplay I agree. I actually love the weapons system and agree with every word Arlo says about it being a fantastic mechanic. I just see that there some tweaks and refinements that would strengthen it further. I never really minded finding a weapon in a shrine, but I was often disappointed when my inventory was full and I found something much weaker than anything I had. But especially in the early game when I had weak and brittle stuff, I actually looked forward to seeing what weapon this shrine would give me. But once you leave the first like quarter of the game, I can admit that finding a weapon in a shrine means a lot less, and in late game it means nothing at all
Thank you! Yes, I also like the durability system in itself. It's a lot of fun. Sometimes combat feels like I'm playing SuperHot but without the slow-motion mechanic when I get a good rhythm going. Take out this guy, smash my low durability weapon into this other guy, pick up the first guy's weapon, dodge an attack and flurry rush, take out my bow and freeze a dude to take the pressure off, finish off the previous guy-- the kind of thinking on my feet I get to do because of the durability system is so satisfying!
Heck, just last night I was playing it some more, and I noticed it started to thunderstorm just as I entered an enemy camp, so I ran around outside the camp, scattered the metal weapon, bow, and shield I'd been using on the ground, and then lured all the enemies outside and ran around their attacks to the best of my ability. Soon enough, lightning struck one of the weapons I'd dropped and damaged ALL the enemies I was facing, and made them drop all their wooden weapons, letting me pick up the fight from there while continuing to dodge and draw them into lightning strikes aimed at the metal weapons they were now carrying. It was a blast.
Let's not focus too much on shrine chests, though. Chests in enemy camps sometimes give weapons and that's underwhelming, too, especially when I already have an inventory full of them from clearing out the camp just a moment ago. I agee with FluteGeek's idea to have enemy camp chests respawn during blood moons, too. It was so disappointing to find out that they don't! It just seems like such a no-brainer, giving players a quick, repeatable activity they can do when they're short on time or energy - this would be such a huge benefit for the Switch version especially! I can't think of a single reason why they didn't do this other than just not thinking of it.
I disagree that shrine chests should respawn, though. I really don't want there to be any reason for me to go back into a shrine I've already completed. Being able to do them multiple times would make repeat playthroughs of the game less exciting, because I'd become super familiar with shrines I revisit often. Plus, not having shrine chests respawn keeps the completionists happy, so everyone can have their thing.
during my play through, i was so focused on finding shrines that when i [accidentally] found the master sword, i was like, "oh my god! the master sword! i found it! now wheres that shrine in this area?"
I'm 24. I started playing zelda games when I was 5. I started with link to the past. I was addicted instantly, as soon as I found my uncle dead in the sewer. I played the originals then and all the other ones. It is my favorite video game series.
This was the zelda game that we wanted. This was what we were waiting for after twilight princess. The item system in botw is a little weird, but it works. At the same time, the story, difficulty, controls and world are great. Consumables, like potions, they were nearly useless in old games, and bombs and arrows were never a concern once you got them unlocked and fully stocked once. In this resources mattered. It added a survival layer that was needed.
It doesn't work because there's nothing unique in the over world to find like the ice rod, the cape, or the medallions in LTTP.
@@michaelvilaire-c9y No, it doesn't.
With regards to the lack of character leveling, I think you’re missing the point. Your character does not get inherently better as you progress through the game: you, as a player, naturally become more knowledgeable and experienced in combat as you go, figuring out better and more efficient ways to defeat enemies so that by the end of the game most enemies aren’t much of a problem. This is the theme of several bosses and even the Lionels and the final boss; you always had the means to beat them, but you lacked the knowledge about how to apply those means most effectively. You gain knowledge and do better through literal experience in exploring and combat, not through a numbers-based experience system built into the game.
Eg, after fighting Lionels a few times you probably realized you can stagger them with headshots. Later, you probably figured out you could mount them for heavy damage while they were staggered. This is a basic example and there’s much more even to fighting Lionels, but by the end of the game your strategy for fighting them has drastically changed from “analyze attacks, slow-mo Dodge, repeat.” YOU have gotten better, so the fight goes much more smoothly.
Also, I would argue that enemies scale up in difficulty far more than weapons scale up in power. White Bokoblins take more hits to kill with the best weapons than Red Bokoblins do with starting weapons.
No, your sense of power progression is directly linked to the power of your weapons. Regardless of how smart you are, in Master Mode, you won't be beating the now-basic Blue Bokoblins outside where you wake up with the three or four sticks you can get right out of the start. And as for applying knowledge you get through the game: I argue that you're applying general game knowledge you gain from playing many other games. Headshots typically equal more damage, so you would naturally (assuming you've ever played or know much about FPSes) try to aim for the head of Lynels. And for bosses... well... their weakpoints glow brightly, standing out against their body, in a neon blue, much like with every previous Zelda game. Giving the game the benefit of the doubt, and we assume someone who hasn't had decades of experience with 3D Zelda games who employ that very tactic, the very fact that they stand out so heavily automatically draws you to target the area if you know how to use a bow, as the game teaches you explicitly with on-screen text.
Yes, there's a learning curve to fighting some bigger enemies, but this curve is very shallow, with Lynels being the second sharpest (still not too complex) and Thunderblight Ganon being the hardest, purely because he's annoying. As for enemies outscaling weapon damage... yeah. They do. It's annoying. The enemies don't get harder, they stay the same: doofy, slow, telegraphed move sets that are pretty easy to deal with. This only exaggerates weapon durability, as some BASIC enemies require nearly a whole Savage Lynel Sword on Master Mode near the end. The enemies end up being bullet sponges, but without any other factors to add to challenge. This is artificial difficulty, and was a sloppy patch to a nearly laughably easy experience.
@@jacobdudley307 So this thing you said:
" Regardless of how smart you are, in Master Mode, you won't be beating the now-basic Blue Bokoblins outside where you wake up with the three or four sticks you can get right out of the start."
It's actually very easy. All you need is a torch and some "dry grass"
Get the blue bokoblin's attention and light the grass on fire as it runs towards you. Then watch as it burns to death.
Again all you need is a torch or a tree branch.
@@ezzardeyethief Alright, granted you can cheese them to death, but when I said "beat", I more meant in combat rather than abusing dumb AI.
“Cheese them to death”
Dude, one of the things the devs meant to do was make it so that you can beat an enemy any way you want; YOU control combat. Its not “cheesing” them to death, as the devs literally ENCOURAGE you to get creative by using strats like that.
@@MegaGyarados Just because it's encouraged by the devs doesn't make it not cheese. Abuse of dumb AI is straight up what it means to cheese in combat, and kiting enemies around for ten minutes while you slowly whittle away their HP because they think chasing you is a better idea than resorting to their ranged options is absolutely cheesing. Though trust me, if I had the option to fight those encounters normally, I absolutely would. My weapons just kinda don't let me.
What does the Wild’s Breath smell like though?
like Zelda
Like fish women
Lick a Switch cartridge to find out.
What does it taste like?
stinky
Oh man, that lynel hunting thing is relatable. I freakin’ love to kill them. Such an adrenaline rush!
I wish I could play this game for the first time again
I wish I could play this game
Grand City do what i did. Work at a supermarket for 2 weeks full time. Made 580 bucks in 2 weeks and quit. I bought a switch and botw... dude cmon 😂
@@JohnnyBoy8089 if everything was as simple as you made it , everyone in the world would have what they wanted
You know that people like me cannot get the game no matter what?Even I got enough money my mom wont let me buy a switch
Arrows Froze you’re probably 8yrs old if your mom is controlling your life tf.
Rainbow lynel needs to be canon
lol we had the same comment
Botw 2 could have that the lynel will have 5 heads gold with 100 million hp and even with full hearts or defense it can efforestly one shot you.
It that good?
Yes
Somebody mod this in
The Illustrious Flamebringer That sounds like a final boss guarding the gates of Hades
Had an amazing experience with BotW. Definitely had something to do with arbitrarily choosing to get Revali's Gale last.
Easily the best ability in the game
I would argue that miphas grace is also pretty op... butttt it does get a big nerf taking 30 mins to be able to use again
@@Chick_NCC you can also just visit fairy fountains, sneak grab all the fairies (like at least 4 at each) and then hold onto them, and each will respawn once youve used each respective fairy.
@@Chick_NCC You can go to Hyrule Castle for it to recharge way faster.
Sometimes I forget I have revali's gale but he deserves it for his ego
the fix is let link punch
yeah, give him a weak as punch but let awesome players the chance to finish the game as long as they're skillful enough
Speedrunners looking at Lynels if link could just throw hands: th-cam.com/video/vQ_R9aRpXQI/w-d-xo.html
Σ(O_O；)
And make it do 5 damage
What was amazing about that lynel was that I realized that I couldn't take it down, I had flashbacks to the very first Zelda game, in which the lynels terrorized me as well. BoTW finally gave me an epic, 3D reimagining of one of the hardest fights in the very first game, and I think that's really cool.
That Guy I think most people haven’t played the first zelda. It feels like botw with its open world is the first spiritual successor to it.
I was the opposite.
The first lynel I found, can't remember exactly where it was now, I remember it always being able to kill me in one hit.
Now, the thing is, I began associating BOTW with a game like Dark Souls at this point, so I figured the main challenge was that most enemies can kill me in one hit, so I just needed to practice till I just don't get hit.
This was the same case ×10 when I fought a white maned lynel for the first time... And my best armor was the cold tunic and some pants.
I did beat it, took almost an hour or so, but I did it.
Then, I found a farming method for rupees that let me stockpile almost 20,000 of them.
Then I bought every armor set I had seen till then and upgraded them at the fairy trees.
I've only killed one divine beast so far, Vah Naboris, but at this point in the game for me, everything is pretty much on easy mode now.
I've even mastered the shield reflect timing for Guardians, so I never have to waste ammo on them now except for an ancient arrow here and there.
I plan on exploring everything and getting the master sword before I fight the rest of the divine beasts and beat Gannon.
Not because I have to, God no, I could kill Gannon right now without any problems, but because I want to.
The way you talk about learning and fighting and eventually killing the Lynel, it sounds like you approached it with a Dark Souls mindset. I would assume that means you've figured out how to actually have fun in that game since your review of it. Good, very good.
I simply want and expected more enemies.
Redeads
Deku Babas
Real Bombchus
Actual Wolfos
Gibdos
Iron Knuckle/Darknuts
Bubbles
And ect. Alot of enemies are just reskins.
Definitely.
The issue with BotW is that a lot of delepment had to go into the engine. And they also wanted to make the enemies really interesting with a lot of different animations (my favourite being the lizalfos and how they act when you're disguised as one of them).
Hopefully the next Zelda will reuse these assets in order to add more enemies. (I refer to the animations rather than the models themselves)
And they're definitely going to reuse the game engine because that was definitely the most expensive and time consuming aspect of the game from what I can gather.
@@higurashikai09 True.
That and the critique of lack of proper uniquely themed dungeons+items is the kind of thing tht most probably be for Btow's sequel, just like how ocarina created the building blocks and then Majora¡s improved almost everything, btow's majora is going to be the better game objetctively even if a good bunch of people will deny it for nostalgia's sake.
Or they completely fuck up Btow's formula fopr innovation's sake, wouldn't be the first time nintendo does that.
@@tumamaencosplay They probably had to cut a lot of things to co-develop it for the switch. It's extra time they could have spent on the gameplay.
Please do a Majora's mask style game with Breath of the Wild so we see these additions
"When you jump off a cliff, you go splat."
Words to live by
Your Lynel monologue is exactly what went through my head when playing, great video.
I think breakable Wepons are the reason this game is one of my favorite games. It prompted me to use other methods and to explore.
Jackson
This so much
I remember running around spamming bombs just because I didn't want my awesome weapons to break! Until I got Master Sword.
Colfenor I can see how that would happen! (I did that a bit too myself). But my method was to use the worse weapons on the easy enemies and the better weapons on the harder enemies.
I used to do a similar thing in other games as well; when I was younger I used to never use Toad Houses in Super MARIO Bros because I did not like the idea of them disappearing. I did this until I realized that they came back.
I think my situation then is very similar to how it is now. Even though it may seem bad to use your good weapons, for fear of not being able to use them. Eventually you will find another good weapon to use, that may be even better than your original!
@@jacksonkustell Maybe it's the same thing that happens to me with most JRPGs. I find an awesome single use item and end up never using it because "you never know when you will need it". Thus I finish the hardest battles without it and then it's truly useless.
Colfenor True, I have done that as well
Mop and a korok leaf?
Lose the mop, just the leaf and bomb runes.
This is how actually how I survived my first hour in Master Mode
I beat the Hinox on Eventide Island only bomb runes.
Nah drop all that useless stuff, all you need is a rock
R U Sirius Drop that, all you need is air
Proud -ish instead, let's use the concept of nothingness
Each champion had an ability.
Link's ability is agility. Shooting arrows in the air, counter, and parry.
Link is just a versatile fighter.
the whole theory of links agility power or stopping time can be debunked kind of in the champions ballad DLC when urbosa beats two yiga clan members in the desert she parries one the attacks and gets the same slow mo effect that link does in ss and botw so that partially isnt true but i think that flurry rushing is links power where he can send several attacks at speeds that are not even comprehensible to humans
makes me wonder if revali would be less arrogant if he knew link could do that just shoots an arrow and gets it reflected and then gets rushed and hit several times
I think the idea was is that Link’s ability was the Sheikah Slate
Arlo, just wanted to say as a truly life long fan of Zelda (and video games as a whole), I cannot express how much this series means to me. This format and detailing embodies every single way I have expressed my love for the series. I could sit with friends for hours and hours on end into the night playing Zelda and talking about what it provides and what could happen in the future. Having this video series brings me right back to those sleepovers as little kid, staying up all night engaging with our favourite games. Your passion is contagious and pure, and it brings my mood up exponentially. So while you may have received some odd critiques for previous entries, the EMPIRICAL truth is that this project is special front to back. Cheers, Arlo.
My issue with the weapon system wasn't the fact that they broke. It was that in the late game they shove worthless weapons in every chest you find and it makes it feel like most of the reward you get are pointless. Yay I got my 15th great flame sword, I'll just throw it on the stack of all the other amazing late game weapons. The only collectables that felt valuable were the different armor sets with permanent buffs because they weren't just going to break after 20mins of use.
I feel like the game is missing a crafting system. Like, make it so those weapons can be broken down for components and used to repair, craft or improve other weapons and it might actually be worthwhile. I can imagine if the very best end-game weapons were only possible to get by gathering and breaking down multiple other high-end weapons (maybe a super flame greatsword could be crafted by combining a fully repaired flame greatsword with components from a few more of the same weapon) then those unwanted items would still have some purpose.
At least, at some point if you got an item that lets you break down weapons into components without some kind of crafting station, it could prompt you whether to break down a new item if your inventory is full. Minimum wasted time and you still get something that would help you repair your good items.
That is correct. But how many hours in were you? 80? 100? Many modern open world games have trained gamers into thinking that games should be able to be played forever. Botw isnt designed that way. Its designed to be played for however long you enjoy it and are challenged by it, then you choose to end it.
This is my main issue with the weapon system: I would evade combat, ignoring the enemies, because the weapons I had were great and I knew the chests were worth nothing. This is also my main issue with BotW overall: Loot meant nothing in the late game.
I think the game is missing a weapon poison/weapon oil system, a system for making consumable high damage items, a system for making traps and a weapon enchanting system(one where the enchantment actually heavily changes how the weapon behaves). It also lacks a significant number of ways to deal damage without using up your weapon, with the bomb ability being useless late game. I also think that the huge lack of weapon variety is a problem, where the only difference between weapons is usually just a damage number.
I couldn't stress this issue more
When he was talking about how difficult the combat could be, then I thought about master mode....
I don’t mind the breakable weapons system, but I wish there was a way to repair or upgrade your favorite weapons.
Most weapons get a Attack, Durability or Defense Up Bonus, that’s upgrading it. What makes it different is it’s by chance what type of Bonus or how strong the bonus is.
Yakarot Sennin - yes, I wish there was a way to intentionally repair or upgrade your weapons with a crafting system. like cooking, but with weapons at a blacksmith station in towns or something. they could make the stations few and far between, and the upgrades require lots of gems and other materials, so you wouldn’t just max out your weapons and make yourself overpowered.
@@Sam_T2000 Ah, yeah that wouldn't be so bad.
Just complete Trial of the Sword and worrying about breakable weapons becomes a thing of the past.
I agree, well aside from the lightscale trident, crusher bow and the Gerudo sheild you don't get to replace anything. That being said it's pretty good design choice to keep those weapons as the "key" weapons, pretty thematic
BOTW stopped being hard the moment you reach a cooking pot, especially since you can eat at literally any time (even when you're flying after being hit???). Had they made Link have to take a while to eat (IE you can't eat twelve full steak dinners plus a whole cake in the middle of a fight), it would have been much more balanced, IMO.
I think it'd become a burden trying to find a safe spot to eat
so... Dark Souls!
@@Shep-1701 That's the point, other wise the game becomes extreamly easy. (Which it does)
Valid criticism.
There are two systems that would fix this issue. The first is my personal favorite, a hunger/fullness bar when you use items. Things like stamina potions or buffs fill fullness slightly, while eating a big healing meal fills it massively. It slowly goes down over real time and you CANNOT EAT AGAIN until it hits 0. This system was used in Muramasa: The Demon Blade.
The second system is animation times for healing as in Monster Hunter or Dark Souls. This system would also be fine, but I would prefer the first.
Totally agree with you. The fact that you can just walk up to any enemy to engage them in combat and the that almost everything is optional really appealed to me. It made everything feel much more personal and made me feel the value of my choices. Like you said, the great plateau was an amazing tutorial and it never even felt like one. Exploring the world never felt like a slog like in some other games since I was doing it for myself and because I wanted to know what lay beyond.And they never give you a piece of equipment and throw an enemy at you designed just for that. Botw is definitely my favorite game of all time and it's definitely one that truly incorporated the open world concept. Kudos to Nintendo and let's hope the sequel will be just as natural and unrestricted.
Lastly, the small shrines provide and excellent break from the exploration and adventure in the world. Spending ten minutes in a well-crafted visual and mechanical puzzle really refreshes the game and makes it different from others.
Lunary this was my first ever Zelda game I’ve played. I think the fact that it was open world is what drew me in since open word games offer so much more for you to experience. I didn’t know that I would be in for such a great and rewarding game. It’s weird because now that I’m playing it during the quarantine, I have all of the power ups and can take on Gannon anytime, but unlocking shrines, taking on Lynels, improving combat, even finding a stable is just way too satisfying too for me to end it here.
I guess I'm lucky because I actually visited Rito Village waaaaaaaaaaaaay late into my playthrough and went through the first 100 something hours without Revali's Gale, making it that much more rewarding when I got it
It's so weird, I assumed I needed it for gut check rock.. for a while I thought I'd even need it to get up to the beast itself, or I thought the beast was a floating city that would require a special ability to get to. I was inferring so hard from the hints given, without getting the actual hints strongly given about how this game wasn't locking anything behind abilities.
Revali's gale breaks all of the cool platforming sections though.
I'm playing right now in the Master mode, and as I progresed, I went to the Vah Naboris and Vah Ruto beasts, since I only wanted to combat better, since enemies, when left alone, they recharge their lifes bar hahahahahha I think I'm picking Revali's hability last, but I'm not sure so far, since I can't go to the Death mountain yet, probably I'll go to Rito's village.
I feel I lost some fighting abilities since I started the master mode, so far I've been running from harder enemies hahahahahaha that Lynel in the Plateau was for certain an unpleasant surprise hahahahha but Revali's power is just loosing fun of finding new places by climbing, or finding carrots to cook stamina foods hahahaha
Medoh was the 2nd to last divine beast I did so I didn’t have ravioli’s gale for most of the game.
I visited Rito Village after everything else so I completely feel this
What if each champion ability get stronger with each new ability, like for example Revali's Gale could start weak as your first ability but when you get Urbosa's Fury, not only will Fury will get a bit stronger because of Gale but Gale will get stronger from Fury ect.
That'd be cool, why not throw memories on there too (but less power-upness) it'd be like reawakening your power, and give you more incentive to grab memories (I honestly didn't care about them much)
This is a great idea, but personally I'd prefer if the abilities you got later were weaker until you did some other task to power them up.
That would just RUIN my strategy for runs lol. But not a bad idea. Usually I trudge through the Gerudo Desert and get Urbosa’s Fury so I’m able to get to either the Zora or the Rito before heading to Eldin.
@@TheRealPunkachu that would suck
For my first experience I remember starting with the Zora, then immediately went to the Gerudo and boy do you learn quick when Thunderblight Ganon can nearly one shot you.
Same here! The steep difficulty curve really destroyed me and it was so satisfying to take down thunderblight ganon
Arlo is blue.
Fun fact!
Thank you for the life-changing fact. I’ve gotten a job, became president, and got married because of this
Lucas M No problem dude!
I thought he was green
Oh yeah yeah
Pff...
Yah right!
My only grind with the breaking weapons thing is that, "hey, you just got the best weapon. Ohhhh it's gone forever. All that work you did to get it was pointless" If i could repair weapons I wouldn't have anything to complain about.
But then you just use that weapon over all your other weapons.
TheUnluckyFactor If you get a really good weapon, go back to where you got it originally. Lynel farming is not only one of my favorite parts of the game because of how exciting it can be, but also because it’s necessary. I do the farming because I want a good, steady stream of extremely powerful weapons to my disposal. But it’s not just given to me. I have to earn them through challenge, and if I break them, I have to go back and earn them again. It’s that simple.
CharlesUnleashed no, he will only use it until he get a better weapon.
In that understanding, nintendo have two ways to make players switch weapons: stick and carrot.
Carrot, would be offering a better weapon so they would switch
Stick, would be breaking their weapon so they're forced to switch
Most people eventually settles with the kinda-permanent master sword anyway. Not only for its powers, but moreover for its durability. So gamers know that carrot actually works, sadly nintendo went with stick.
Many people have advised "dull weapon" systems, or "break but repairable at towns" systems. Each suggestions will still achieve the same thing, but less punishing.
Heck, similar system is already in the game: you could always rebuild champion weapons! So we know that it's actually possible, they just opted to not give us the option.
What really bugs me is some really rare weapons with insane rng bonus attacks that only appears like in every hundreds of hours. What am i supposed to do with this awesome once in a lifetime 95 atk mighty lynel crusher?? Use it to kill a bokoblin?? Fight ganon for the 100th time just to honor this one weapon?? Fucking throw it to the bottom of lake hylia??
What's the point of rare rng bonuses if all weapons are expendables anyway?? Might as well don't have rng attack bonus drops in the first place.
@@soyUsernameWasTaken I think the whole breakable weapons is good for what it is. My only problem with it is that you can't sell the weapons you don't want anymore.
I just find it wasteful to drop it in order to pickup other stuff.
CharlesUnleashed we're two totally different person, i guess.
Selling stuff would be the utmost trivial thing possible for me. As long as they're gone, I wouldn't care how. My only concern is the end result: to have them, or to not.
But i can see where you came from. You probably care more for the journey. You don't mind losing them at the end, as long as they're gone for a good reason. In this case: using them till they exhausted their use time, or selling them for money.
I remember my first lynel, i was like "oh, a boss in my way to get to the quest, cool!" them i realized that i had take the wrong path, and i was facing an optional creature, but it was so amazing, you know? Just walking through the map and face such a challenge! I took that challenge to myself and after a few rounds i managed to beat him, and the sensation after that... holy shit! I'm a Dark Souls fan, and the felling a got it was even better than defeat Nameless King or Midir. I'm just loving to finally play this game! Yup i'm a new player, and this is my first zelda, and now i'm really looking foward to play the rest of the franchise!
Btw, Great Video!
I have been immensely enjoying this comprehensive review. You really are good at making me realize what it is about a game that made me love it.
Link climbs a map area too early and sneaks out with a powerful weapon*
Ganon: He did what?!?!?
Honestly your description of the Talus and Lynel experiences are the absolute highlight of your whole channel for me and probably anyone who played BotW
you can shoot fish??? after 250 hours i never thought to do that lol
You can also do dynamite fishing
I only just reailzed you could hit them with a treasure chest like 400+ hours in.
You can shoot the water with a shock arrow which will make a large sphere and kill all fish within the sphere.
I didnt know you could bomb the mini guardians on the way to Rudania
I would just go bomb fishing
This review series is worth the wait!
I just love the feeling off accomplishment this gives. Climbing one of the biggest mountain, waiting till the rain was over and then actually reaching the top after hours of trying: SO AMAZING!
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OMG REALLY?! You, dear sir, I hoped to be, one day.
Honestly, I love how you precieve the game; it's refreshing! And your little talk here about the Lynals just make me wish I had more time to enjoy it.
"Lynal hunting?!" You are a god among men, man! So cool! It helps that you talk about it the way you do; you're very charismatic!
Keep creating and playing!
You just taught me how to cook. Thank you so much.
I remember there was that shrine with a puzzle in which you had to conduct electricity, but there weren't enough metal objects to fill in all the spaces, and it just felt so rewarding to figure out on your own that you could use an electric weapon to fill in. in any other game it would have probably been a long shot to try and do that but I love how this game makes you think outside the box and rewards you for it.
I never used the weapons you get from Divine Beasts. I just hung them in my house. I know you can get them again, but it requires a Diamond... I would have liked an approach similar than the Master Sword, that just recharges over time.
Just trade 10 luminous stone with one of the Zora. He gives you one diamond for every 10 luminous stones
@@juk1779 But I need the money. I haven't maxed every armor nor unlocked the last Great Fairy. I don't have that much money even though I sell cooked food and stuff I know I no longer need (but you pretty much need everything for updates)
I’m honestly surprised how people said that the game was super difficult.
It really wasn’t super hard. Sure you definitely died, but it wasn’t like dark souls or cuphead difficulty
Vsauce Puppet But unlike Cuphead and Dark Souls, BotW is fun
It's in comparison to every other Zelda game where you never died. In BOTW you died all the time especially at the beginning.
It wasn't difficult because you actually played the game.
The game is horribly designed in the progression category. Instead of making the enemies scale with your weapons and armor, they have a flat damage and health value.
That means a player that explores for weapons can slice through every boss and enemy
and a player that just goes straight for the dungeons is gonna get destroyed.
Playing the way the designers wanted you to is incredibly difficult because most players are either on team explore or team speed.
Marco D. Toon did you even play them? Because they really are awesome
And I think Arlo is overreacting too. For example the lynel in zora village is totally beatabel by the time you get there
the first thing i did in breath of the wild was walk off the cliff expecting it to hold on like in majoras mask or something, and i plummeted to my death.
Two things I wish this game didn't let you do is: 1) allow you to carry unlimited healing items at once, and 2) allow you to heal any time by pausing. There's nothing more OP than being at 1 heart left during a boss battle and then selecting one of tens of hearty meals to max out your health. I'd be okay with Mipha's grace if insta-healing wasn't in the game!
There is a limit, though it is very high. Just saying.
If you think The Great Plateau was difficult, wait until you see the SILVER LYNEL at the very beginning of Master Mode!!!
(DLC needed)
You captured all of the emotions I have playing this game perfectly. Listening to you describe it takes me through it all over again lol. Awesome video.
I was on the side of hating the weapons durability but after watching this, you've changed my mind on how I look at the game, Good job, dude
Only thing I don't like about the Weapon Break System is running out of weapons for a challenging fight and needing to flee the fight, not because I was not skilled enough to defeat the enemy but because most of my weapons had low durability. Honestly the best fix for this problem would be to allow the player to fight enemies with their fists that only deal 1 damage. This would create a nice incentive for "pro players" to go through the whole game using just their fists, but it would also allow players to take on more challenging enemies if they were skilled enough.
HypnoVike weapon durability also has to do with progression and how far you are. If all your weapons are breaking and you have to flee the same battle, you’re not ready yet. I’ve never encountered a challenge where durability was an issue unless I either want ready yet or it was the Trial of the Sword.
HypnoVike yeah, if enemies can fight you, unarmed then the player should be able to as well.
HypnoVike Good point to be honest.. This is also my suggestion with the weapon break system.. Just enable you to use your first.. Also it will be cool.. Punching a lynel to death..
Yes
Well, you always have bombs...
The biggest accomplishent I had on this game was when, relatively early, I got into a little island with a shrine, a shrine with a title that marked my next hours of play: *A major test of strenght*
I spent HOURS trying strategies, using bombs and stasys, calculating the durability of my weapons to get the most of each crit before they break, learning to dodge, parry and use Bullet Time on the circle laser section, and after hours of trying... I gave up, that little bastard was too heavy for me.
Then, after beating Ganon himself, I came back and blasted the sh*t out of it with an Ancient Arrow.
Worth every second of grinding.
I love how knowledge is power, your strength is totally dependent on your grasp and understanding of the game.
My biggest gripe with the combat system is how not-technical it is. There are hardly any special inputs, fun "glitches" you can do (like the bow-spin), and weapons are quite often the same thing. The Royal Claymore is just a more-powerful Rusty Claymore. There are no special properties. I would have loved to see, for example, a flail in BotW. Bring in a warhammer for enemies with good armor! Make enemies that fly so high above you that you can't use a regular, one-handed sword. Make it so that you have to use a pike, or something.
This is the point I think he missed when people say the weapon break system forces weapons upon you.
Good game design would make you want switch weapons yourself. Like you said you could see an armored enemy and be like shit time for my warhammer because the sword doesn't work well against armoured enemies etc etc.
Dark souls has loads of weapons and half the fun is playing around with them and building different builds.
The freedom to just sort of play around with your weapons doesn't really exist here because doing so will lead to them breaking.
That's my opinion anyway
@@PlayWithThatBlackGuy I agree with you agreeing with me. You're very smart.
I half agree with you. As a speedrunner, I love glitches in video games that offer a higher level of technique and skill, because the best ones (the useful ones) allow so much in the realm of possibility. Even whistle running in BotW (that glitch where holding the whistle button, down on the dpad, and spamming sprint let's you sprint without consuming stamina because you're still technically whistling) was really useful at points. But at the same time, I don't think you can really take away points from a game that doesn't have glitches like that. It's just not a valid critique. Like, what, "This game is too polished. Every single bug or unintended behavior is gone, and the game works flawlessly 100% of the time. This is bad."?
@@HyenaFox I'm not asking for "glitches," at least not in name. I just want more techniques, is all. Unfortunately, I find we're in the position that these glitches *are* basically the only cool techniques. By the way, I just found out about sky surfing! Really cool thing, if you haven't seen it and/or wanna check it out:
th-cam.com/video/w1xr85s6vWc/w-d-xo.html
Not particularly useful, from what I can tell, but very fun.
EDIT: So, I'm not complaining that the game is too polished, but that's it's, in terms of tech, too lacking. That said, it's *perfectly* understandable why this is. I do expect the next game to have more enemies, more tech, as the engine is hopefully going to be reused.
@@CatholicismRules Yeah, I do see what you mean.
This is the best review I've ever seen. I ain't even finished with it yet. Gotdamn, this was my same experience
Looking back, I definitely had loads of fun with Breath of the Wild. But there are issues with the game that shouldn't be ignored if there's to be a similar game in the future. Upgrading armor for the most part is the difference between being one shot by everything or practically taking no damage. Folks should check out Joseph Anderson's vid on BotW for a great elaboration on this.
Also, enemy variety is usually brought up all the time. But aside from that think about how much of joke Guardians become when you get over their laser- their one and only way of attacking. These things should of had at least some sort of swiping attack with their legs to further incentivize cutting them off. Literally anything else to go along with the laser. You're telling me Link failed 100 years ago because he couldn't get guud with parrying?
Why is that an issue? Ever played Dark Souls? Naked bosses one shot you most of the time, with Havels set they dont even stagger you. Or Ornstein and Smaugh - cant beat them? Bring their elemental weakness with an upgraded weapon - done!
@@bingobongo1615Yeah but with Havels set, you're much slower, you still take damage but can't dodge nearly as well, it's a trade off armor in this game is ridiculous, I would never bother upgrading most of the sets past 2, otherwise the game is much too easy.
@@theTYTAN3 Havels Set can easily be worn if you have havels ring... ;) Trust me in every DS game there is always an easy route through good equipment.
@@bingobongo1615 If you spec heavily in endurance use Havels Ring, and the gold guys ring, and avoid heavy weapons, then yes I imagine you could do fast rolls in havels armor, but that's a lot of grinding to get a build like that working, and it's still a tradeoff I'd much rather build a speedy glass cannon.
It's relatively easy to level up armor in botw, and its a highlighted feature, their are cheap ways to play Dark Souls but they aren't highlighted like botw armor, and frankly they arent fun in either game.
I went through the snow area on the great plateau by saving before I died and reaspawning with full health and repeating this a couple hundred times
It's interesting the take he had on the game. I've played every Zelda game (Minus remasters), and personally I found breath of the wild to be one of the easiest games among them. I think the excess of food is comparable to hearts scattered in other games, and the fact that you can face 'combat' in many, many different ways makes fighting much less tedious (And thus less difficult to impatient people like me), in comparison to zelda games of the past that force specific responses. Plus, if you're a strategist like myself, you know the more options you have, the more powerful you are. This zelda's link is one of the most OP in that respect - and enemies rarely have any 'immunities' and can just simply be beaten down... thus making the game easier.
Easiest in the sense of freedom, hardest in the sense of finding that out
When that blood moon comes out, we're going lionel hunting! Hahaha!
Hey Paper Mario, THIS is how you do consumable attacks correctly!
For the cold area in Great Plateau, my big brain play was to light the Boko Club on fire and fire every woodfire on the way so when the Boko Club broke, I could just turn back and light another one.
My body is ready
I LLOOVVEE when games don't hold my hand. Just drops me in and says "go nuts."
I think the Devine beast powers were meant to be “overpowered”, they so hyped up to be so powerful and when you free them you get a truly powerful ability. I get where you’re coming from and I’d agree with you if they didn’t have a cool down. I think they should if “met in the middle” and only gave us one charge of Gail
Yay but for some reason I just decided not to use his air
ConLee
You can turn the abilities off if you think they are too OP
i never want to hear the term "ganon gunk" ever again in my life
Good video, though I can't get myself to agree with the XP bit there. I'm really, really sick of a lot of games putting RPG elements into everything and I think it'd just stray a little too far from it feeling like a Zelda game. That said I get where you're coming from and I agree with just about every other point you made
but i think it would be better if you think about it.
i mean the game throwing you more powerfull weapons as you progress its basically the same as leveling up, but worse since it just feels random, by adding a level up system it makes you the one being in control
@@Rex67Diego9 for me, not really. Making do with whatever you can find is kinda the whole point
@@malinbolambtaco1687 but balance isn''t still there since once you are in a point where enemys are to strong the game will give you weapons that are also too strong, leveling up is still there anyway
Arlo:Hypothetical sequel
Laughs in BoTW 2
When I fought that Lynel I died like 3 times and then said to myself, “if I can beat the bosses in Sekiro, I can beat anyone.” And I beat the holy hell out of him the next time hahaha.
BotW is the first Zelda game where I wasn't just surprised to find a Bow so early on, I was fucking happy.
I tell you man. This Game World needs to be used in a future Sequel, let me rebuild Hyrule Goddamnit. Make Ganondorf Return and give us a bloody Bossfight so good that even the Sheikah Boss fight pales in comparison. And more Armor. I kinda joke about it but I really want to see some Skyrim assets in a BotW sequel. For the first time in a Zelda game I really felt home, and it is only dimished by the huge fact that I can only enjoy the journey once.
Really, I find getting anything but armor super boring, it feels like getting a 10 rupee chest in any other Zelda game. “ Oh a thing I guess”
I think the start of the game felt great like you said. You start off very weak, having to run away from powerful monsters like the Giant Rock Monster, then slowly get stronger. Then you realize you can cook a meal that gives you 20 hearts beyond your maximum health, and that you can carry 60 of them, giving you over 1 thousand hearts. It defeats the purpose of getting new heart containers. Old Zelda games had bottles you could fill with potions to restore hearts, and you could only carry 5 bottles or so. I beat Ganon without any of the divine beasts and without the master sword easily. (no, I'm not bragging, I am not good, I just spammed food that gave me hundreds of hearts over my max. Weapon durability was my main limiation, so I did have to run about finding some strong weapons at least)
Honest truth, I NEVER use Daruk’s Protection. To me that’s the most broken Champion power, mostly because I really enjoy the combat in this game and that breaks it. I also only ever use Urbosa’s Fury if I’m REALLY in a pinch.
I dont use champions powers. To me, it just feels like cheating. I like to find fun and creative ways to do things. Instead of using revali's gale, use a spicy pepper and light it on fire. This makes the game more fun for me.
For me, Daruk's protection is just sort of annoying because it's activated with my shield. And only now after 260 hours did I learn by pure accident that you can *disable* the powers lol
Yup. Have fun having your shields clog up your inventory because DP is almost always at your disposal
What? Champion weapons not that good? smh
With the exception of Mipha's Spear, all of their weapons are good.
Daruk's Greatsword is the highest damaging blunt weapon in the game. Stone Talus take effective damage from blunt weapons, meaning you have a Talus Killer.
Urbosa's Sword and Shield is pretty good too. The sword is on par with end game swords like Royal Swords. And the shield is top tier in stopping power and durability.
Ravali's Bow is arguably the best bow in the game. 32 damage x3 shots, plus longer shot range and built in Quick Shot. The only bows that even come close to it, are the Ancient Bow and Savage Lynel Bow.
Just thought a well-versed gamer such as yourself should know this info for future reference. :)
Do champion weapons break???
Mr. Dike yes all champion weapons can break but you can craft them with the help of someone at each village
Urbosa's sword does 32 damage. I have in my inventory right now a Savage Lynel Sword, a single handed sword like Urbosa's, doing 98 damage, and five more single handed swords doing between 60 and 57 damage, in my two-handers I have two Savage Lynel Crushers for 78 damage each, and three Royal Claymores doing between 67 and 52 damage. I throw away two or three 36 damage Royal Swords every play session because I have no room for them in my inventory. In this part of the endgame I see no reason to pay in diamonds to get a 32 damage sword.
I will agree on the point about Daruk's Boulder Breaker: it's fantastic when fighting against a Talus! Also good when using stasis.
I'm pretty sure Revali's bow, AKA the Great Eagle Bow, deals 28 damage x3.
@@LMFinish it is a bit weaker than the lynel bow, but the Great Eagle Bow is quicker and better for snipping, it is the only champion weapon that I use now
The Stone Talus combat description is exactly what I experienced too. You learn your way through combat in order to come back to it, try again, fail again, until the time you can do it, and you are overwhelmed with pride. And what you say just afterwards, the Lynel. And then completely out of nowhere, the Molduga!
This game is so god damn incredible. It truly is "The Legend of Zelda" from the NES on a massive amount of steroids. The feeling of exploration and learning everything for yourself is so similar to the original game. It is just massively bigger and has better graphics and gameplay.
the reason I went back to fight the lynel was because I needed his horns and hoofs to upgrade my barbarian armor
tip for guardians: you can parry their shots, when they beep thats your queue to press a and you can parry them with your shield! stationary guardians typically go out in one shot and moving ones go out in a couple. not a lot of people know this for some reason and it's really helpful when it comes down to fighting guardians.
Arlo: "The Lynel at Shatterback Point was too tough for me at that point."
Me: Aparently there's an even stronger Lynel on the Great Plateau in master mode. The LITERAL *FIRST AREA* OF THE GAME. Damn Nintendo, why u gotta do us like this?
i appreciate that they put the lynel tho. Its only in master mode, and from what ive seen and experienced people who play master mode already played the normal mode, which means they know parrying, perect dodges and overall combat. In master mode, you get way better weapons in the great plateau (like a knights claymore with attack or durability bonus) and its totally possible to beat the lynel. If you're not ready for him, you can just ignore him. Lynels are smart creatures that dont attack you until you show signs of being a threat (they only attack you if you hve your weapon drawn, otherwise if you stay near them without moving they stare at you for ten seconds and daw their weapon and give you another ten seconds, if you didnt leave they take it as a sign that you want to fight) . They do not attack you if you are passing nearby, which means that the player has complete control over what happens.
You never spoke how you can eat without penalty and how you can have infinite stamina or heart if you cook those broken ass foods.
Also I agree on the 4 powers being OP but you can disable those after getting them if you really wanna be hardcore, but no one does that, and if they do they tend to make OP foods
Lies!!
I refuse to even do the Divine Beast before Ganon because the Champion’s Powers feels like I’m cheating.
Mipha’s grace is the only one I don’t really have a problem with.
I also don’t really cook lol. I only have 3 hearts so if I don’t parry well enough, I get one shotted. If I need to replish health, just eat some Apples or Wild Berrys or Radishes.
I often turn off Daruk's Protection when trying to practice parrys or sending the Guardians' beams back at them. And I turn off Urbosa's Fury if I'm only going against weaker enemies.
Yakarot Sennin miphas grace is the strongest one though.
@@yakarotsennin3115 you can turn em off headass
I also turn off Urbosa's Fury if I'm going against weaker enemies. OR if I want to use and two handed charge spin on a Stasised object.
That lynel part really got me, I felt the exact same way when I got to the shock arrow collecting. Only got the game a little while ago though so I have yet to go back at it for another try
I can agree to many of the points Arlo made here but the one disagreement I wanna bring mention to is the brittle weapons mechanic. Arlo made a point of addressing the issues people have with this mechanic but the 2 big problems I have are a lack of a weapon durability gauge and a maintenance system.
I'm not against the idea of weapons breaking upon depletion of their durability but having no idea where your weapon's durability is at unless it's full or critical is annoying. Say I have a high tier weapon that I used and then switched out for something else, then I find a new weapon that isn't as strong but obviously brand new, do I throw out my stronger weapon for this weaker one because it's got more weapon HP? My strong weapon could be one hit from critical or one hit under brand new or anywhere in between and I have no idea. If something is finite I shouldn't have to make notes to keep track of how much I had left. Imagine just being told how many arrows you could hold and having to keep track of the number you actually have yourself. To me, that's pretty damn annoying.
As for the idea of weapon maintenance that's something that would add a whole new level of depth to your item management and overall play style. Say there's a blacksmith in one of the villages and you can pay him to work on your weapons, either giving him materials to enhance your weapons or just having him fix them when their durability gets low. You're out on a raid and one of your favorite weapons is about to break, do you stash it away until you can get back to have it fixed or do you throw it away to collect a new weapon you found? What if certain blacksmiths only specialize in certain kinds of weapons and you have to find them and complete a side quest for them before they'll work for you? This would allow for a more wholesome and open-ended progression system. Do you want to sneak into Hyrule Castle and loot around for strong gear or do you want to do quests for these characters who in turn will make you stronger? "The choices are yours and yours alone!" (Olmec 1993)
The best example I can give on a weapon HP system done well and where the above ideas come from is one of my favorite games of all time, Dark Cloud. You build up your weapons by equipping them with different materials that affect their individual stats and attributes, and when certain stats reach certain thresholds you can transform your weapon into something stronger. But all weapons have durability which you have to maintain. The game has items which can restore your weapon's hp either manually (you have to enter your menu to use) or automatically (you can equip the item to your character and your weapon hp will be restored when it hits 0, however you can only equip a few items at a time and the auto restoratives are a lot more expensive then the manual stuff) and if you're careless enough to let a weapon you spent time building up break then that's entirely on you.
Dark Cloud is an early PS2 game so its combat has definitely aged, but while BotW's combat may be much more fluid and satisfying, I'd still rather play Dark Cloud for its (IMO) superior implementation of similar mechanics. When I play Dark Cloud I feel like I'm getting stronger, like I'm actually progressing. In BotW when I come across a tough challenger I don't think "I need to get stronger", I think "I need to find better stuff".
Agreed not knowing and not even having the option to repair are a bit of a misstep. Also the Dark Cloud games are awesome and I would totally be down for more of that weapon leveling system.
Man, imagine a new Dark Cloud for current gen. With all the advancements made since the PS2 days, that would be amazing.
@@Zitsanrael1117 Dark Mine Cloud Craft: the ultimate building RPG and fish simulator
I've never played MineCraft dude. Not my cup of tea. But I do think that just "Dark Craft" would be a better name.
@@Zitsanrael1117 yeah that's just a crappy joke I coined back when dragon quest builders came out, which I recommend over minecraft if you enjoyed the building part of Dark Cloud.
I'm not really sure what I expect from a modern take on the RPG side of things. Maybe ad a dodge role and better control of the combo system
Dark craft does sound like a better name.