Arlo can you talk about the restrict act bill, this bill has the ability to ban any foreign companies. That the us government doesn't like, this includes Japanese games etc. and they would fined you if you use VPN.
I like how they basically made 2 glitches into features with the ability to properly create a flying machine and ascending through ceilings just like the speed runners.
The Botw community is going to break the shit out of this game if its built like the first one. Though a reason why they took so long in development might be from patching the many major bugs from the first game.
I feel like the reason they were so secretive about the mechanics is that the paraglider was a main mechanic in botw and now almost every game has it. With all the eyes on this game to see what the next big mechanic would be, I think Nintendo was worried that with how long development was taking that somebody could have made a game with that mechanic before this one was even released. With how fast follow in the gaming industry is and with how influential botw was, I wouldn't be surprised if that was a major reason
That's a good point. They probably wanted to make sure that the release date was 100% set in stone before they played their hand. No one can make a good open-world fantasy Garry's Mod in just one month, so it's safe for them to show it now.
@@BackflipBrickfilms Immortals Fenyx Rising, genshin impact, Horizon Forbidden West, Dying Light 2, Pokemon Legends: Arceus, not to mention most indie 3d exploration game. Just watch the new "appeal to everyone" videogame trailers and yup there's the botw paraglider and climb everything mechanic.
I don't think anyone CAN steal this. The sheer amount of programming it would take to implement every mechanically unique combination would be immense. There's a reason it took Nintendo so many years to make what would otherwise be a glorified DLC is because the logistical math gets crazy fast. Just 30 combinable items means 435 combinations to program. How many cynical, lazy, uninspired copycats want to decide what a meat arrow does?
Honestly, with the fuse mechanic and the ultrahand, I'm starting to see WHY they kept it from us for so long. I think it's probably because programming something like that was probably an absolute nightmare, and it probably didn't even look very good visually for a majority of development. I think that the most plausible explanation
Yeah this, now that the game is officially gold all the polishing up is done and they were able to show pure gameplay. Might be an unpopular opinion but I personally hope this is the last we see until release, I don't want to see any story, I don't want to see dungeons, I want to see it all for myself.
I can also easily see how they originally intended it to be a DLC mechanic until they realized "Oh... oh we're gonna have to replace literally everything in the entire game world. New game I guess?"
It still looks a bit scuffed, but giving each fusion a specific animation would delay the game past Metroid Prime 4, and I'd rather not wait that long.
The fact that the Ascend animation shows Link traveling through the rock before he pops out the top tells me that it MIGHT be possible we could encounter cave areas with multiple "floors" that we could discover and access by using Ascend. Imagine using the ability and expecting to pop out into the overworld, but you stumble upon another cave area just below the surface!
@@guccigamer5907 Why would there need to be a loading screen for going up a short, already loaded cliff? There wasn't any loading screen for going up to the top of a cliff with revali's power in botw.
@@bandiriatraveler8343 why is the fact there’s an extra animation be proof of multi leveled caves? Plus if there IS multi leveled caves, that’s even more evidence to back up my theory: imagine being in one loaded area with puzzles and enemies, then flying up to a different level and having to load completely different puzzles and enemies. It’s basically the same thing as fast travel, you don’t get seamless transitions from one shrine to another, completely seperate, shrine on the other side of the map. It’d be like going from one dungeon to another.
@@VashTown not everything needs the loading animation, sometimes it’s just nice to have extra animations and that might be just a specific spot just for them to showcase the extra animation without revealing one of the caves we might explore
@@TheWorstPartyMember probably just makes it bit stronger and extends the durability depending on an item, then its gone OR YOU CAN ADD ANOTHER ITEM ON TOP
@@CharmedReally7 At the end of the fuse segment, it looks like fused weapons can have more added on top of them, though I don't know if that would mean perpetual durability increases.
Another cool thing, about enemies having fused weapons, is that it’s a sly way to hint to players new concepts of how to fuse their own weapons together. Makes me hope they give enemies a lot of funky tools
Ooh yes good point! "Wait, what are they using? Wait, that can work??" It'll REALLY help with the enemy variety too. Just by them using different combos it will make fights feel so much different.
The first thing Eiji Aonuma says when the direct starts is that development is complete. I think they had to wait until the game was complete to properly show this off. They kept it secret bc they wanted to make sure the game wasn’t broken when they announced it and that all of these features would work properly instead of showing this off 2 years ago and having to cut a feature
I scrolled down and I understand what you are talking about and scroll back to give you a like. Yeah! New enemy horns! Always wondered that’s a weird design!
There are going to be videos of people fucking around and making crazy stuff for a decade. There are still people, 6 years later making videos doing new and crazy shit in botw
I have a suspicion that part of the game will involve restoring the master sword using the fuse mechanic. At some point you'll find the gnarly busted master sword and be able to temporarily boost its power with fuse ingredients, but it will "break" back to the busted version. Eventually you find whatever upgrade ingredients actually permanently restore the master sword. I also think that the Ultrahand crafting is going to be used extensively in side quests asking you to help rebuild hyrule.
huh, I never thought about the aspect of rebuilding hyrule... Maybe a worker npc needs to fix something at the top of a tall structure that his current tool can't reach, so you need to craft a really long lance to help him? that would be interesting!
I like the idea that sticking fire chuchu jelly on a sword would be pretty cheap but only last for one hit, but putting a much more valuable ruby on a sword would basically turn it into a flame sword like in botw
I had the same idea! Sticking a glob of jelly would give it a one time charge just like how the jelly is a one time element bomb in the first game. Then using more substantial stuff like gemstones could make it permanent
Per the artbook leaks...you can create entire weapons out of those gems like amber, diamond, sapphire, etc....if they are elemental I do not know, but I would imagine so.
I'm glad they saw all the stuff people were doing with flying minecarts and instead of trying to stop it like most developers would they embraced the chaos and gave us more tools to break the physics engine in this game. I was skeptical of this game with how mysterious they have been but this has potential and made me excited.
I think the Ascend mechanic is for getting out of caves without backtracking. The trailers showed big caves/dungeons and it would be cumbersome to get out after going in deep. A quality of life feature.
I hadn't thought about that, but yeah! So many of the previous Zelda games have needed a portal of some kind to take you back to the overworld. Now... why bother? Just ascend!
I think it's also a way to make it feel like a progression on the climbing system tbh. A small way to make it feel like an advancement on that feature from the first game
I feel like what we've missed big time with the 'Ascend' power is that we'll have an underground.....imagine ascending in a cave in the middle of the map and coming out on the surface in the middle of an enemy camp.....or ascending from the Royal Dungeons all the way up to Hyrule Castle.....those possibilities are now ALSO endless...
Actually you have a point. I was already convinced that subterranean caves would be playing a big role in the game and its story, but it seems that Ascend is made as a parallel to Pokémon’s Escape Rope. They were just teasing us with a cave found on the surface rather than underground.
@@ValiantPixel Yep that goes back to the original teaser showing Zelda & Link underground and with the previous trailer showing Zelda falling could be a big part of the game later on is finding Zelda in the underground caves. This gameplay trailer would be a great misdirect by showing sky islands, when they really have stuff underground 😮
LMAO yessss that would be so good. Accidentally ascending into the middle of a bunch of enemies would be an easy opportunity for random combat encounters, which I loved most about BOTW. It really heightens the creative improvisation!
I think it’s gonna be deeper literally. I think it’s gonna be that the whole ground is torn up with loads of underground and caves and modified original map, and also you can play as Zelda.
@@uwuppa coordinates on the mini-map, cave symbols showing where the entrances are, topography on the surface map being more muted, plus little glimpses of other things that we arent sure about yet.
@@jaredf6205 idk if I could see being able to play as Zelda… MAYBE during the final boss fight, but I doubt it. If anything you’ll probably need to slap together some different mechanisms with the ultrahand mechanism to fight the boss somehow lol
@@jaredf6205 Why do people want to play as Zelda? If there's a Zelda game where you play as Zelda it should be a new Zelda, not the most unlikable version of Zelda there has been where she is voiced by a woman who is almost 40.
I saw someone wonder if you can fuse your shield with an ice element and make a shield that surfs on water, which sounds amazing conceptually but probably wouldn’t work well because the water is likely level to the ground. Either way, super excited for this game and can’t wait to see what people create with it!
I also saw someone wonder if you can fuse your shield with butter and it wont lose durability when you surf with it! Theres gonna be like infinite combines, its gonna be crazy!
Water is clearly unrealistic in this game, otherwise Link would have died hitting the water head first in that dive at the end of the trailer, so I don't see why we have to worry about ice shield surfing not working
There seems to be holes that lead underground on the overworld, and I'm wondering if the reason they gave us ascend is specifically because of the underground. There could be places you can only get by ascending under the place underground. It could just be a quick way to always get out of the underground. Aonuma also said during the trailer that you could use it to get out of a cage you are stuck in, which seems pretty telling that there are gonna be puzzles based around this ability.
I hope some cool puzzles come out of this too! Like maybe a dungeons boss room doesn't have a door and you have to find a way to get under it to ascend like that would be pretty cool
The Ascend Ability is basically the paraglider for underground places! You need to work your way down along the selected path, but you can jump back to the surface at any time
Also, underwater exploration was low key confirmed. When Link was falling, the Ascend was disabled. But when he hit the water and was briefly underwater, the ability became available. And when he re-emerged to the surface, it was disabled again.
A very fun thing for those of us who are really familiar with the old map is gonna be to go check everything out and compare/contrast! "Oh hey I wonder if that thingy is still there, man i really loved that thingy" "IT IS!, BUT WHAT'S THIS NEXT TO IT?!"
Before I do a single main quest the first thing I’m doing is checking up on Tarrey town and Hateno village, so I can see how much it’s gotten better for my favorite characters
i think the ascend mechanic makes the prospect of significant underground gameplay a lot more likely- it’s the underground equivalent of jumping off of a sky island to return to the overworld
9:00 They did show a mushroom attached to a shield so I'm sure you can attach gathered materials to any arrow, weapon or shield. I love it that the materials and monster parts are finally useful for something else besides potions!
Honestly I figure the reason they waited so long to give us this reveal is because of the exact feelings of "anticipation fatigue" that you (and me too) were feeling from waiting so long for it. We're pretty patient, so it took over a year before we were tired of waiting. Not everyone can last that long though, and I can't blame them! This is for people who can only maintain hype for a month or two before they just get tired of waiting.
My favourite non-gameplay thing from the reveal was the buildings being built outside the Dueling Peaks stable. I can't wait to see what's being done to rebuild Hyrule!!!
@@Shinesprk No way is it too much. They've had six years. Sure, a lot of that was spent on the Fuse mechanic and stuff, and the pandemic, but they MUST have heard the requests to rebuild the world. It wouldn't be like they needed all-new assets and mechanics; they could reuse a lot of the code for the Hylian Homeowner quest, just with different materials and stuff.
Me too. The fuse stuff is fun and all ig, but the hylian homeowner and tarry town quests are something I savor in the first game bc they’re the only way to make a permanent mark in a world that constantly reminds you via blood moons that you DON’T otherwise. They make it feel lived in for me, and I want more of that. One of my favorite dumb things to do in the game is find unmarked small house ruins that I find in cute places on the map and wonder what they’d look like rebuilt. Same for all the marked village ruins. I really hope we get to help rebuild some things bc I know SO many ppl that thought botw dlc would give us that back in 2018
The crafting element totally alleviates the durability. If youre killing a million constructs and you like having a decent sword, you can make the 'construct horn sword' like 10 times if you have to, to keep using it, same as how people will farm keese for homing arrows.
Playing BotW, I always kept a sledgehammer in my inventory in case I ran into a mining opportunity and I was constantly thinking to myself, "Ya know, it would be so much easier to just craft one when I need it."
It may not alleviate the durability. I am guessing that the mechanic can be used once on virgin materials. In which case the weapon will still break after the extended durability expires.
Even if it doesn't COMPLETELY alleviate it, it puts control of the durability into the players hands, which is what BOTW lacked. When I got a weapon in BOTW I knew that no matter what, I'd be able to use it a certain amount of times before it broke, and nothing I could do would really change that. Now, a weapon can last as long you want it to, as long as you're creative with how you use it and how you fuse it.
About the Ascend ability: You're in a cave. There's a weird spot on the ceilling. Use Ascend. You find a secret section of the cave/mountain with no entrance. Find a Korok. Exit using Ascend again and meeting an unsuspecting NPC just above you, maybe the one that could give you the quest to search for said secret area (like a tutorial of sorts).
the thing that this demo has shown me is where all the work has gone. I mean just getting that whole combination system working and in shape, and just the fun little interactions they've shown off already lead me to believe that there is going to have been a lot of thought and care to it in the final product which makes me excited.
And it is an explanation for why they did not show it earlier. My guess is they were still optimizing the physics and did not want to show us an imperfect version of all the fusing and combining.
I find it interesting (and really promising!) that there now seems to be a quick-select menu for materials. That'll make existing mechanics like cooking even more intuitive because you won't have to go into the pause menu to select ingredients, and also paves the way for new mechanics too. Maybe the Zonai Charges can be used as bombs, and by selecting them through the dpad up menu, you can hold one and then choose to throw and detonate it or use it in conjuction with another item or mechanic. The possibilities from such a simple change are really intriguing
@@SomeTH-camTraveler It could be possible to fuse together a grappling hook with a rope and a hook. But I’m not sure if ropes could even be handled with the game’s physics engine.
Aonuma mentioned using ascend to get out of a cage as an example. My guess/theory is that ascend will be the first ability you get, and perhaps the constructs trap you in a cage which you use ascend to escape from. Or perhaps when you try to catch the falling Zelda we saw in the trailer, you end up at the bottom of a chasm and use the ascend to get back to the surface. Seems like a very intuitive tutorial gameplay thing to do (trapped in a cage, can't do anything except try your new ability and see how it works...)
For anyone who's curious about what the hook of the game is, it's creative freedom. The HOOK is creative freedom. Breath of the Wild's selling point for me was the huge open world and the non-linear structure. And Tears of the Kingdom's selling point is allowing the player to explore that huge open world with wild, crazy stuff made BY THE PLAYER. At least, I think that is the selling point. And I'm really glad the Zelda team is giving it their all. I cannot wait to dive into the world of Hyrule again. Awesome video. Also, great editing Kane.
Shouldn't the hook be something that's related to the story or a whole new adventure? I don't want creative freedom. I think I'll experiment a little and then it'll just lose any charm it has. I'm hoping the dungeons are better and that there's some cool and interesting fights and a better narrative and hopefully significant map changes to not make it feel the same.
@@shyguyrocks1 Honestly I think it makes it alienating for some players. What I mean by that is, not everyone is the creative tinkering type of person. Sure, if your someone who loves to experiment and create things then you’ll probably have a field day with the game. But if your not, then yeah like u said, you’ll probably just mess around w/ it a little bit and get bored quickly after. It’s clear they’re catering this game to the ppl who loved to make crazy contraptions in the original game. I just feel it’s an odd choice considering that’s just a subset of the audience who played the game and there’s many who don’t care abt that stuff and were more interested in the exploration, side quests, puzzle solving, etc. I’m sure all that stuff will still be in the game but it might not be the focus. And the game taking place in the same world won’t help either. I was shocked arlo thought the surface world looked “very different” because I just don’t see what he’s talking about at all. Even the side-by-side comparisons between this games world and the previous are just minor changes like missing shines & other small differences. Anyways, im still holding out hope that there truly are a lot more surprises & changes like they say they’re are, and I hope the game will be able to please both the creative & not so creative players.
@@holdenontomydignity : That's true. Even being creative, being an artist who would love to build stuff with these features, I still want something to direct that creativity AT. After learning how to use these powers, I want something worth using that creativity on. A BIG challenge (much like a proper dungeon). A worthwhile opponent or group of opponents. No amount of cool ways to explore an area are worth much if the only things to find are bread crumbs. It's not that the game can't possibly have all that, they just haven't shown anything like it and don't seem to want to. As for the feel of the world, I just hope in places it legit feels like a world under invasion by a dark army and being cursed by an evil sorcerer. I do expect some peaceful areas in the world, but it'd be nice if large sections were covered by a pall of darkness. Even Ocarina of Time's adult Hyrule at least made the skies cloudy near areas affected by a temple's curse. I hope this game does that too, but more noticeably.
So the point of the game is for the player to be creative so that nintendo doesn't have to be. Players have to try hard to make their own fun instead of creative professional games designers... doing their job. I fucking hate sandbox games
I heard a theory that they were secretive because they were afraid the competition might try to use or replicate the gameplay mechanic in their own games
@@KingRidley because no one wants to be spoiled on the story lol. But if you're talking about a "goal" like how Botw's was defeating Calamity Ganon, then yeah it would make sense showing that to us at least
The great thing about fusing is that in botw, every single monster part, from bokoblin horns to lynel guts, has the same effect on elixirs. Now they can all be different and useful
Here's a little theory! Maybe the master sword being broken is going to tie into the fusion mechanic. You might be able to fuse other stuff onto the end of the Master Sword
i adore the details of this game already. did anyone else notice the little question mark of confusion at 5:51 that pops up above the construct’s head when the puffshroom explodes?
If I recall correctly, in Link's Awakening you had to put bombs and arrows together in your inventory to create bomb arrows. This is like the ultimate version of that.
I feel like the new mechanics also add a lot of thematic depth. The previous game was all about surviving with nature and watching it grow, and the runes, while not exactly natural, were just natural phenomenons turned _big_ , so to speak. But this game so far seems to be about corrupting nature, with abilities that involve reversing time, ignoring gravity, crudely sticking stuff together; which together with the floating islands and the weird arm and stuff will create a whole different mood for the sequel
I just remembered that they actually kind of did show us the fuse ability before, in the second reveal. The part with Link using the flame shield thing, it's like a flamethrower glued to the shield.
I'm coming back to all these TOK video's After beating the game. It was So satisfying to be able to avoid all the pre-release reveals and go in blind. I had No idea that sticking item's together was going to be a thing, and it was Amazing as a concept. Also it was funny to hear Arlo's comment about sticking a ruby onto a sword was hilarious, because finding out that's exactly how that works in game was just my "Oh, What!?" moment.
I like how the fuse arrow stuff has a lot of pretty easy to intuit things, ice chu jelly makes ice arrow, therefore fire and electric chu jelly will make their respective elemental arrows, but doesn’t TELL you what anything does in the menu so it’s up to you to discover the more out there combos. What DOES meat arrow do? Does the Korok Frond make an arrow that flies longer distances maybe? What would this or that do- it’s nice to be left thinking of the possibilities you’ll be left to experiment with on your own!
Hey Arlo. I understand that you're worried that the new ascend ability will replace the need to climb everywhere, but it probably won't be that way. It seems to me that ascend only works if you are directly beneath a smooth surface. You won't be able to come up to a mountain and directly skip most of the climbing, you need to find an appropriate surface to do so, meaning you'll most likely be underground and directly under wherever you want to go, which'll certainly be it's own challenge.
I can see why they were working on it for so long... That crafting mechanic is wild! I'm so stoked. I'm still hoping for some traditional dungeons as well, but that's not a total dealbreaker for me.
No wonder this took so long! Even with reused assets, every single item or physics object they add they have to program new interactions for it with every item before it, or somehow from the ground up make a system that can take care of that for them.
Considering they announced development in 2019, and the "you know what" happened that hit Japan hard for three years a few months later, what they've accomplished in such a relatively short time is actually amazing!
7:28 "I'm sure I'm gonna spend hours, making these crafts that topple over right before I get to the top of the mountain." This is it. It's finally clicked for me. Tears of the Kingdom is the second strand type game.
Crazy how on the surface it just seems like the simplest crafting and building system, but like how the first game at first appeared so basic it looks like this crafting and building is going to have sooooo much depth, I can't imagine all the crazy stuff people will be getting up to when this comes out
The lack of dungeons was my main issue with Breath Of The Wild. I know it had the divine beasts, but they didn't compare to the larger more themed dungeons of previous games with unique boss battles. It's especially a shame because imagine seeing a large temple off in the distance at the top of a mountain or something and knowing you're going to reach it and explore it. Elden Ring did a really good job with that imo. The other thing I love the Zelda series for is all the weird and quirky characters like Tingle, Agatha, Happy Mask Salesman etc. I was hoping that dungeons and fun NPCs were gonna be elements that got brought to the forefront a bit more this time but I guess not. Ah well, I'm sure the game will be fantastic and I've booked a week off work for when it releases. I just hope that the elements that made Zelda special for me personally don't get left behind in favor of this minecraft building stuff.
@dpackerman that's definitely too harsh but I'm hoping for a return of traditional dungeons. I'll play it either way though and probably enjoy it either way.
Imagine, you're walking in a cave. Suddenly, you notice a cross on the ceiling. Odd. But then, you ascend through it, and end up in a secret room, that is only accessible with Ascend
I just wish saw more Gerudo stuff. The whole desert was my favourite area to explore originally, from the canyons to the mountains to the oasis and city hiding in the centre of it. I really hope it's as interesting as i found the 1st one to be
I'm really hoping that this works with Shield surfing too. Like imagine putting ice jelly on your shield will let you surf on water temporarily. Or fire jelly leaving a trail of flames. Or I dunno, put butter on a shield to surf longer. Put bomb on a shield to do a BTB type thing
I love the seemingly massive amount of experimentation this whole fusion mechanic will enable. Not only does it give reason to all the random monster bits we'll inevitably be hoarding, but it'll also add variety to the otherwise kinda samey combat against weapon-wielding enemies that the first game couldn't quite shake. Also it's just plain funny to me that they're apparently just gonna let you stick anything you want onto your weapons. I just hope it extends to materials as well, I'd love to tack steak onto a stick or something equally silly.
I think the thing with rewind is the "limitations" Aonuma alluded to. There are some terrain angle limitations in the patents that leaked a while back, so you can't always use it. And it's unlikely that every mountain will have a cave/inside. Climbing will most likely still play a big part in Tears of the Kingdom.
I just realized they teased the fuse ability from the start. Remember the second trailer with link in the cave with the fire breathing dragon shield? He probably got that part from a zonai enemy and stuck it on there
im guarantee there will be town building aspect as well. you can see unbuilded house and construction site all around. you will probably have to rebuild the whole kingdom...fall out 4 settlement style
One thing that I was thinking and didn't know if it was real or not, but there is still a ton of potential for there being a whole underground system to explore. I almost expect the ground level to be a simpler place (with some changes from BOTW but not too many as the new abilities will make the world different) where you gather materials and play around. And because the sky and (hopefully) underground have fewer entrance points, they are the challenging areas. With the ascend ability, you can exit the underground at any point. And with the sky you can jump off almost anywhere. So you make excursions (dungeon runs) for as far as you have the resources to use. Maybe I'm being too optimistic, but it has all of the tools there for gameplay like that
I JUST REALIZED A THING up on the d pad looks like it has a food icon- which idk what that could do, but my mind jumps to the idea of having a quick eat function to heal hearts without going through like 3 menus
I think actually the sky islands were the big "hook" for this game. It's what they've been highlighting the whole time, and it's even the theme of the cover art. But, yeah this is a huge reveal, nonetheless.
I think there's a few different hooks at play here. One is the sky islands, one is the Fuse ability, and I think there are likely more we haven't seen (underground areas?). Nintendo games rarely revolve around just ONE gimmick, and when they do it's usually pretty obvious what that gimmick is early on. The fact that we're this far in and we're only starting to get an idea of that suggests there's a lot of different mechanical hooks.
Maybe I’m being hopelessly optimistic, but I’m pretty sure we just scratched the surface of the new mechanics we are going to see. Not to mention new locations, enemies, and story details. What we got here wasn’t even an appetizer. It was the amuse bouche.
Durability is something I think I can learn to live with, as long as it's just generally higher. Breath of the Wild was the first game where I was consistently running out of bows and not arrows. Fusing seems to add durability to the weapon so... here's to hope!
Weird, I had the opposite issue Botw has a strange quirk where if you buy arrows from a vendor, they will never restock them until you go under 30 arrows. Every time I’d make a new file, my arrow stash would continuously grow & peak around 300 or 400, but would start to fall & I’d just have to wait until I hit 30. Always had a *lot* of elemental arrows tho.
My theory with ascend is that there is a lot of new underground space, a similar amount to the sky islands, and they wanted to make it as easy to return to the surface from underground as it is from the sky.
I always found the complaints about durability silly anyway. The game showers you with weapons, them breaking never once hurt my gameplay experience. I totally agree that as you get older you often get less out of in-depth creative systems. I have more games than when I was a kid, and a lot less free time!
Some good news; none of the powers were bombs, but it's a zelda game, so bombs are in it. That means bombs are a limited resource again, so there should be more key items now!
About the Ascend ability-even in botw climbing became less important with Revali’s gale (especially the upgraded version that reloads in like a minute), and this seems like a reworking of that idea
One thing I’ve noticed is that there don’t seem to be any shrines, at least from what I’ve seen. Are those green swirling things shrines? Have they reconfigured the system? Big outstanding question.
I'm not sure about Ascend either, seems like it might take the teeth out of climbing challenges. On the other hand though, they could possibly make secret caves with no entrance that can only be ascended too which would be cool.
As someone else mentioned, it's the underground equivalent of the paraglider. To ascend high up, you will have to explore within caves and perhaps dungeons.
17:15 Now that you mention it, this reminds me of the spider ball of Metroid 2. In the previous game, getting up somewhere was a real obstacle. Now you get an item to climb up almost anywhere without a huge problem.
When he showed off the arrow and I saw that the raw meat was chooseable, I kept going "PUT THE STEAK ON THE ARROW!!! I DUNNO WHAT IT WOULD DO, BUT TRY IT!!!"
There's got to be more. At two times during the presentation, (once before rewinding to go up to the sky island opposite the stable and second on the surface after being knocked off by the construct) we see these wooden platforms with wooden backboards. I thought they were there to construct the vehicles, but apparently you can do that anywhere. So what do they do and why are they in so many places?
They said they want you to use your imagination in this game....mine is envisioning the ability to create kinds of different traps to add a whole new layer to the combat. Building trap doors, cages to snare enemies, building barges/flying machines loaded with explosives and sending it into enemy camps, etc. The new abilities enable all of that stuff.
This fella right here knows how to have a good time. Now I kinda hope there's a sidequest where you need to build something like that to protect a village from a monster raid.
I honestly think that it's for someone he's to design video games what's the most impressive about this is not the fact that you can fuse almost every single thing together but how it is fully integrated into the flow of the normal gameplay. Like you look at years ago of a similar concept with Banjo Kazooie nuts and bolts and every time you had to customize something you had to go into a menu and it took you out of the main part of the game and what's so impressive about this is that it is fully integrated into a gameplay where you're not moving around square tiles are going through and it's just take objects and stick them together and just use them.
Is it just me who is personally hoping they only showed a small fraction of what the game offers? They developed this for so so long, they had the physics engine in place already, nothing to me was mindblowing. Fusing stuff looks fun, the islands are a cool concept. But I still felt it's more like an expansion and not a new game. I just hope they held back a lot in the footage they released so far.
i think one of the biggest aspects of these new mechanics and additions is that it dramatically increases the replayability of the game, as well as introducing concepts for INSANE dungeon/puzzle design. the only information that i am taking in before the game comes out is the things that nintendo has shown us and i couldnt be more excited to go into this mostly blind
"Imagine BOTW... But bad piggies" is what I want from some of the level design in this game involving craftable vehicles. For the fuse thing it looks exactly like Little Big Planet on the PS3 to a tee and I love it for it since that is my favorite game(s) of all time 1 & 2. They were very popular games and the magic stuff the movement and freedom feels like a mini version of that
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I like how they basically made 2 glitches into features with the ability to properly create a flying machine and ascending through ceilings just like the speed runners.
The combined weapons look like an inventory glitch
@@tychoderkommentator2989 yeah now that I think about it, that explains why it had a sense of familiarity
The Botw community is going to break the shit out of this game if its built like the first one. Though a reason why they took so long in development might be from patching the many major bugs from the first game.
"Oh you like going through walls and breaking the game? I'll let you f*cking go through wall and break the game!!"
The speedruns for this game are going to be brain-melting.
I feel like the reason they were so secretive about the mechanics is that the paraglider was a main mechanic in botw and now almost every game has it. With all the eyes on this game to see what the next big mechanic would be, I think Nintendo was worried that with how long development was taking that somebody could have made a game with that mechanic before this one was even released.
With how fast follow in the gaming industry is and with how influential botw was, I wouldn't be surprised if that was a major reason
That's a good point. They probably wanted to make sure that the release date was 100% set in stone before they played their hand. No one can make a good open-world fantasy Garry's Mod in just one month, so it's safe for them to show it now.
Interesting... but wdym every game? The only one I could think of was The Pathless.
@@BackflipBrickfilms Immortals Fenyx Rising, genshin impact, Horizon Forbidden West, Dying Light 2, Pokemon Legends: Arceus, not to mention most indie 3d exploration game. Just watch the new "appeal to everyone" videogame trailers and yup there's the botw paraglider and climb everything mechanic.
@@gangganggang2219 Oh yeah. I love PLA (Needed more time in the oven though) and somehow completely forgot about Braviary in that game.
I don't think anyone CAN steal this. The sheer amount of programming it would take to implement every mechanically unique combination would be immense. There's a reason it took Nintendo so many years to make what would otherwise be a glorified DLC is because the logistical math gets crazy fast. Just 30 combinable items means 435 combinations to program. How many cynical, lazy, uninspired copycats want to decide what a meat arrow does?
Honestly, with the fuse mechanic and the ultrahand, I'm starting to see WHY they kept it from us for so long. I think it's probably because programming something like that was probably an absolute nightmare, and it probably didn't even look very good visually for a majority of development. I think that the most plausible explanation
Yeah this, now that the game is officially gold all the polishing up is done and they were able to show pure gameplay. Might be an unpopular opinion but I personally hope this is the last we see until release, I don't want to see any story, I don't want to see dungeons, I want to see it all for myself.
Yeah they were probably keeping it from us until they were 100% sure that they could make it work. I imagine it’s a nightmare to program.
Something like that would only be finished once the entire game was finished
I can also easily see how they originally intended it to be a DLC mechanic until they realized "Oh... oh we're gonna have to replace literally everything in the entire game world. New game I guess?"
It still looks a bit scuffed, but giving each fusion a specific animation would delay the game past Metroid Prime 4, and I'd rather not wait that long.
The fact that the Ascend animation shows Link traveling through the rock before he pops out the top tells me that it MIGHT be possible we could encounter cave areas with multiple "floors" that we could discover and access by using Ascend. Imagine using the ability and expecting to pop out into the overworld, but you stumble upon another cave area just below the surface!
I hope that’s true! But honestly seems more realistic to me that it’s just a loading animation.
@@guccigamer5907 What did the game need to load in the demonstration?
@@guccigamer5907 Why would there need to be a loading screen for going up a short, already loaded cliff? There wasn't any loading screen for going up to the top of a cliff with revali's power in botw.
@@bandiriatraveler8343 why is the fact there’s an extra animation be proof of multi leveled caves? Plus if there IS multi leveled caves, that’s even more evidence to back up my theory: imagine being in one loaded area with puzzles and enemies, then flying up to a different level and having to load completely different puzzles and enemies. It’s basically the same thing as fast travel, you don’t get seamless transitions from one shrine to another, completely seperate, shrine on the other side of the map. It’d be like going from one dungeon to another.
@@VashTown not everything needs the loading animation, sometimes it’s just nice to have extra animations and that might be just a specific spot just for them to showcase the extra animation without revealing one of the caves we might explore
This is the funniest way for them to compromise on the durability thing. “Don’t want your sword to break? Just stick a rock on it or something idk”
In all seriousness I wonder if doing that can extend durability indefinitely? Or is it just a one-time thing? Either way it's neat.
Link just carries around industrial tape around at all times
@@TheWorstPartyMember probably just makes it bit stronger and extends the durability depending on an item, then its gone OR YOU CAN ADD ANOTHER ITEM ON TOP
Very funny comment 🙂
@@CharmedReally7 At the end of the fuse segment, it looks like fused weapons can have more added on top of them, though I don't know if that would mean perpetual durability increases.
Another cool thing, about enemies having fused weapons, is that it’s a sly way to hint to players new concepts of how to fuse their own weapons together. Makes me hope they give enemies a lot of funky tools
maybe they could fuse my mother and father back together
Ooh yes good point! "Wait, what are they using? Wait, that can work??"
It'll REALLY help with the enemy variety too. Just by them using different combos it will make fights feel so much different.
@@xavmarz755 unfortunately not even the Hero can do that
The first thing Eiji Aonuma says when the direct starts is that development is complete. I think they had to wait until the game was complete to properly show this off. They kept it secret bc they wanted to make sure the game wasn’t broken when they announced it and that all of these features would work properly instead of showing this off 2 years ago and having to cut a feature
That's a good point, yeah ^^ True, maybe!
To think of it the first 2 trailers they only really showed the core themes
All the sudden, the enemies having blades and bludgeons as horns makes total sense.
Oh wait yea!!
I scrolled down and I understand what you are talking about and scroll back to give you a like. Yeah! New enemy horns! Always wondered that’s a weird design!
SELF MADE BOKOBLIN BONE BLADES OH MY GOSH
Everyone who read the art book rn like 😏
"All of a sudden"
I imagine speedrunners are gonna have a field day with this
There are going to be videos of people fucking around and making crazy stuff for a decade. There are still people, 6 years later making videos doing new and crazy shit in botw
At least Linkus, Limcube and Smallant were all very excited about the glitch potentials
ikr it will be hilarious
You just KNOW that the stupidest looking things are going to be broken as all hell in speed running. 😂
I can't wait for players to find a way to fuse a log to a stick and fly halfway across the map with it
I have a suspicion that part of the game will involve restoring the master sword using the fuse mechanic. At some point you'll find the gnarly busted master sword and be able to temporarily boost its power with fuse ingredients, but it will "break" back to the busted version. Eventually you find whatever upgrade ingredients actually permanently restore the master sword.
I also think that the Ultrahand crafting is going to be used extensively in side quests asking you to help rebuild hyrule.
Probably fuse it with the "tears" they've been talking about.
huh, I never thought about the aspect of rebuilding hyrule...
Maybe a worker npc needs to fix something at the top of a tall structure that his current tool can't reach, so you need to craft a really long lance to help him? that would be interesting!
Great theory and it should be a part of the game
Hopefully there will be 8 proper dungeons this time
I like the idea that sticking fire chuchu jelly on a sword would be pretty cheap but only last for one hit, but putting a much more valuable ruby on a sword would basically turn it into a flame sword like in botw
I had the same idea! Sticking a glob of jelly would give it a one time charge just like how the jelly is a one time element bomb in the first game. Then using more substantial stuff like gemstones could make it permanent
I think you're on to something. Sticking more valuable items on weapons will have better and longer lasting effects.
Of course the ruby would only light the enemy you hit the weapon with on fire while the chuchu jelly would explode
Per the artbook leaks...you can create entire weapons out of those gems like amber, diamond, sapphire, etc....if they are elemental I do not know, but I would imagine so.
What about a Keese Eyeball? Can we make homing swords? 🤔
I'm glad they saw all the stuff people were doing with flying minecarts and instead of trying to stop it like most developers would they embraced the chaos and gave us more tools to break the physics engine in this game. I was skeptical of this game with how mysterious they have been but this has potential and made me excited.
It's like, the least Nintendo thing ever, which is sorta why I love it
…err, I can’t think of a single developer who would try to stop that.
@@ChrisStoneinator Nintendo
I think the Ascend mechanic is for getting out of caves without backtracking. The trailers showed big caves/dungeons and it would be cumbersome to get out after going in deep. A quality of life feature.
I hadn't thought about that, but yeah! So many of the previous Zelda games have needed a portal of some kind to take you back to the overworld. Now... why bother? Just ascend!
I think it's also a way to make it feel like a progression on the climbing system tbh. A small way to make it feel like an advancement on that feature from the first game
It felt like an easy cheat at first, but this is a good point.
Plot twist it’s amazing
I feel like what we've missed big time with the 'Ascend' power is that we'll have an underground.....imagine ascending in a cave in the middle of the map and coming out on the surface in the middle of an enemy camp.....or ascending from the Royal Dungeons all the way up to Hyrule Castle.....those possibilities are now ALSO endless...
Actually you have a point. I was already convinced that subterranean caves would be playing a big role in the game and its story, but it seems that Ascend is made as a parallel to Pokémon’s Escape Rope. They were just teasing us with a cave found on the surface rather than underground.
@@ValiantPixel Yep that goes back to the original teaser showing Zelda & Link underground and with the previous trailer showing Zelda falling could be a big part of the game later on is finding Zelda in the underground caves. This gameplay trailer would be a great misdirect by showing sky islands, when they really have stuff underground 😮
Huge
LMAO yessss that would be so good. Accidentally ascending into the middle of a bunch of enemies would be an easy opportunity for random combat encounters, which I loved most about BOTW. It really heightens the creative improvisation!
The more I watch the gameplay reveal, the more details I'm noticing and it's got me SUPER excited for how much deeper TotK is going to be.
I noticed changes like a faster paraglider and a more fluid process for climbing up short ledges. do you see any others?
I think it’s gonna be deeper literally. I think it’s gonna be that the whole ground is torn up with loads of underground and caves and modified original map, and also you can play as Zelda.
@@uwuppa coordinates on the mini-map, cave symbols showing where the entrances are, topography on the surface map being more muted, plus little glimpses of other things that we arent sure about yet.
@@jaredf6205 idk if I could see being able to play as Zelda… MAYBE during the final boss fight, but I doubt it. If anything you’ll probably need to slap together some different mechanisms with the ultrahand mechanism to fight the boss somehow lol
@@jaredf6205 Why do people want to play as Zelda? If there's a Zelda game where you play as Zelda it should be a new Zelda, not the most unlikable version of Zelda there has been where she is voiced by a woman who is almost 40.
Finally the tree branch can become the best weapon now
It already was the best weapon
@@roninthechaoslayer3289 but now it’s the ultimate best weapon
The throne it deserves
@@emeraldelm3140 agreed we must pray to the holy tree branch in all its glory
@@roninthechaoslayer3289 no, the best weapon was the soup ladle
We’re all eternally grateful that you caved and watched the new gameplay demo.
as a non-zelda fan, i agree
@@bighairedyolol you enjoy pikmin but you don’t enjoy Zelda :(
@@jimmulator3902 what do you enjoy then.
@@Voidio2454 take a guess, I think it’s pretty obvious
@@tomohawk2177 lol I read their comment wrong.
Hope that I can send a Bokoblin to space with a Balloon Arrow or something. That would be sick as hell
BALLOON ARROWS YES OH MY GOD! XD That's such a clever idea! I really hope that's a thing! ^^
@@jellycore1316 That could also be an easy troll where you shoot that balloon arrow and then it just floats up not really doing anything.
I saw someone wonder if you can fuse your shield with an ice element and make a shield that surfs on water, which sounds amazing conceptually but probably wouldn’t work well because the water is likely level to the ground. Either way, super excited for this game and can’t wait to see what people create with it!
Even if you didn't have a way to gain speed I'd think it would still be functional. Ice would have much less friction than normal ground
Put a fan on your sword! Problem solved!
I also saw someone wonder if you can fuse your shield with butter and it wont lose durability when you surf with it! Theres gonna be like infinite combines, its gonna be crazy!
Water is clearly unrealistic in this game, otherwise Link would have died hitting the water head first in that dive at the end of the trailer, so I don't see why we have to worry about ice shield surfing not working
@@williamwolfe962 butter shield will be the pro strat if it means you don't lose momentum while shield surfing.
There seems to be holes that lead underground on the overworld, and I'm wondering if the reason they gave us ascend is specifically because of the underground. There could be places you can only get by ascending under the place underground. It could just be a quick way to always get out of the underground. Aonuma also said during the trailer that you could use it to get out of a cage you are stuck in, which seems pretty telling that there are gonna be puzzles based around this ability.
I hope some cool puzzles come out of this too! Like maybe a dungeons boss room doesn't have a door and you have to find a way to get under it to ascend like that would be pretty cool
Yeah. Quick way out of underground and off the sky islands makes the whole world super duper accessible.
Yeah ascend may be the most "boring" of these abilities shown in terms of exploration, but it's puzzle solving abilities are huge
What about DECEND!?😊
The Ascend Ability is basically the paraglider for underground places! You need to work your way down along the selected path, but you can jump back to the surface at any time
Yes! The mere existence of Ascend demands underground areas where it will be useful.
Made me think of the Escape Rope from Pokemon, lol. A quick GTFO if the underground area is really tough.
Also, underwater exploration was low key confirmed. When Link was falling, the Ascend was disabled. But when he hit the water and was briefly underwater, the ability became available. And when he re-emerged to the surface, it was disabled again.
Oh yeah, kudos to Looygi Bros. for noticing the Ascend activation underwater. I think he noticed it first.
@@Moshugaani maybe that was a glitch, you can’t use sheikah abilities while swimming either
A very fun thing for those of us who are really familiar with the old map is gonna be to go check everything out and compare/contrast! "Oh hey I wonder if that thingy is still there, man i really loved that thingy" "IT IS!, BUT WHAT'S THIS NEXT TO IT?!"
thats the dream, making the old map work for old and new players
Before I do a single main quest the first thing I’m doing is checking up on Tarrey town and Hateno village, so I can see how much it’s gotten better for my favorite characters
i think the ascend mechanic makes the prospect of significant underground gameplay a lot more likely- it’s the underground equivalent of jumping off of a sky island to return to the overworld
i was thinking that too!
Good point!
Favourite idea I’ve heard someone say was fusing a shield with one of the fans so you can blow enemies away, or even better: make a HOVERBOARD
MEAT SHIELD MEAT SHIELD MEAT SHIELD
SHIELD SURFING WITH A FAN, OH SHIT
Wait…
9:00 They did show a mushroom attached to a shield so I'm sure you can attach gathered materials to any arrow, weapon or shield. I love it that the materials and monster parts are finally useful for something else besides potions!
Honestly I figure the reason they waited so long to give us this reveal is because of the exact feelings of "anticipation fatigue" that you (and me too) were feeling from waiting so long for it. We're pretty patient, so it took over a year before we were tired of waiting. Not everyone can last that long though, and I can't blame them! This is for people who can only maintain hype for a month or two before they just get tired of waiting.
Silksong fans waiting for 4 years🤡🤡
If this is a sequel he should automatically have more energy
@@25andromede at this point I don't even think about it anymore.
I can’t wait for people to take this feature to its absolute limit and create their own divine beasts
Behold, Vah Beefus, Divine Beast of Prime Meat
My favourite non-gameplay thing from the reveal was the buildings being built outside the Dueling Peaks stable. I can't wait to see what's being done to rebuild Hyrule!!!
It's probably too much to ask for but a rebuild castle town quest a la Xenoblade 1's rebuild colony 6 quest would make me so happy!
@@Shinesprk No way is it too much. They've had six years. Sure, a lot of that was spent on the Fuse mechanic and stuff, and the pandemic, but they MUST have heard the requests to rebuild the world. It wouldn't be like they needed all-new assets and mechanics; they could reuse a lot of the code for the Hylian Homeowner quest, just with different materials and stuff.
Me too. The fuse stuff is fun and all ig, but the hylian homeowner and tarry town quests are something I savor in the first game bc they’re the only way to make a permanent mark in a world that constantly reminds you via blood moons that you DON’T otherwise. They make it feel lived in for me, and I want more of that.
One of my favorite dumb things to do in the game is find unmarked small house ruins that I find in cute places on the map and wonder what they’d look like rebuilt. Same for all the marked village ruins. I really hope we get to help rebuild some things bc I know SO many ppl that thought botw dlc would give us that back in 2018
I hope we get side quests to rebuild stuff using the fuse and ultrahand
The crafting element totally alleviates the durability. If youre killing a million constructs and you like having a decent sword, you can make the 'construct horn sword' like 10 times if you have to, to keep using it, same as how people will farm keese for homing arrows.
Playing BotW, I always kept a sledgehammer in my inventory in case I ran into a mining opportunity and I was constantly thinking to myself, "Ya know, it would be so much easier to just craft one when I need it."
It may not alleviate the durability. I am guessing that the mechanic can be used once on virgin materials. In which case the weapon will still break after the extended durability expires.
The durability system doesn't need alleviation.
Running around with goofy ahh weapons will get really old, really fast.
Even if it doesn't COMPLETELY alleviate it, it puts control of the durability into the players hands, which is what BOTW lacked. When I got a weapon in BOTW I knew that no matter what, I'd be able to use it a certain amount of times before it broke, and nothing I could do would really change that. Now, a weapon can last as long you want it to, as long as you're creative with how you use it and how you fuse it.
About the Ascend ability:
You're in a cave. There's a weird spot on the ceilling. Use Ascend. You find a secret section of the cave/mountain with no entrance. Find a Korok. Exit using Ascend again and meeting an unsuspecting NPC just above you, maybe the one that could give you the quest to search for said secret area (like a tutorial of sorts).
the thing that this demo has shown me is where all the work has gone. I mean just getting that whole combination system working and in shape, and just the fun little interactions they've shown off already lead me to believe that there is going to have been a lot of thought and care to it in the final product which makes me excited.
Yeah, six years is understandable now
Man, I hope this game does well
And it is an explanation for why they did not show it earlier. My guess is they were still optimizing the physics and did not want to show us an imperfect version of all the fusing and combining.
@@GodhandPlusOne because I'm aware of how long video games, especially game of the Zelda series' quality standard takes to actually make.
I find it interesting (and really promising!) that there now seems to be a quick-select menu for materials. That'll make existing mechanics like cooking even more intuitive because you won't have to go into the pause menu to select ingredients, and also paves the way for new mechanics too. Maybe the Zonai Charges can be used as bombs, and by selecting them through the dpad up menu, you can hold one and then choose to throw and detonate it or use it in conjuction with another item or mechanic. The possibilities from such a simple change are really intriguing
Imagine if we could craft our own hookshots and grappling hooks and junk
@@SomeTH-camTraveler It could be possible to fuse together a grappling hook with a rope and a hook. But I’m not sure if ropes could even be handled with the game’s physics engine.
Aonuma mentioned using ascend to get out of a cage as an example. My guess/theory is that ascend will be the first ability you get, and perhaps the constructs trap you in a cage which you use ascend to escape from. Or perhaps when you try to catch the falling Zelda we saw in the trailer, you end up at the bottom of a chasm and use the ascend to get back to the surface. Seems like a very intuitive tutorial gameplay thing to do (trapped in a cage, can't do anything except try your new ability and see how it works...)
For anyone who's curious about what the hook of the game is, it's creative freedom. The HOOK is creative freedom. Breath of the Wild's selling point for me was the huge open world and the non-linear structure. And Tears of the Kingdom's selling point is allowing the player to explore that huge open world with wild, crazy stuff made BY THE PLAYER. At least, I think that is the selling point.
And I'm really glad the Zelda team is giving it their all. I cannot wait to dive into the world of Hyrule again. Awesome video. Also, great editing Kane.
Shouldn't the hook be something that's related to the story or a whole new adventure?
I don't want creative freedom. I think I'll experiment a little and then it'll just lose any charm it has.
I'm hoping the dungeons are better and that there's some cool and interesting fights and a better narrative and hopefully significant map changes to not make it feel the same.
@@shyguyrocks1 Honestly I think it makes it alienating for some players. What I mean by that is, not everyone is the creative tinkering type of person. Sure, if your someone who loves to experiment and create things then you’ll probably have a field day with the game. But if your not, then yeah like u said, you’ll probably just mess around w/ it a little bit and get bored quickly after.
It’s clear they’re catering this game to the ppl who loved to make crazy contraptions in the original game. I just feel it’s an odd choice considering that’s just a subset of the audience who played the game and there’s many who don’t care abt that stuff and were more interested in the exploration, side quests, puzzle solving, etc.
I’m sure all that stuff will still be in the game but it might not be the focus. And the game taking place in the same world won’t help either.
I was shocked arlo thought the surface world looked “very different” because I just don’t see what he’s talking about at all. Even the side-by-side comparisons between this games world and the previous are just minor changes like missing shines & other small differences.
Anyways, im still holding out hope that there truly are a lot more surprises & changes like they say they’re are, and I hope the game will be able to please both the creative & not so creative players.
@@holdenontomydignity : That's true. Even being creative, being an artist who would love to build stuff with these features, I still want something to direct that creativity AT. After learning how to use these powers, I want something worth using that creativity on. A BIG challenge (much like a proper dungeon). A worthwhile opponent or group of opponents. No amount of cool ways to explore an area are worth much if the only things to find are bread crumbs. It's not that the game can't possibly have all that, they just haven't shown anything like it and don't seem to want to.
As for the feel of the world, I just hope in places it legit feels like a world under invasion by a dark army and being cursed by an evil sorcerer. I do expect some peaceful areas in the world, but it'd be nice if large sections were covered by a pall of darkness. Even Ocarina of Time's adult Hyrule at least made the skies cloudy near areas affected by a temple's curse. I hope this game does that too, but more noticeably.
Boring! They should’ve refined Link’s clunky movement and combat, brought back dungeons, brought a new overworld, and added an actual story.
So the point of the game is for the player to be creative so that nintendo doesn't have to be. Players have to try hard to make their own fun instead of creative professional games designers... doing their job. I fucking hate sandbox games
I heard a theory that they were secretive because they were afraid the competition might try to use or replicate the gameplay mechanic in their own games
That's actually a very good point, yeah! ^^ Maybe, yeah!
That explains hiding the mechanics but why are they still so vague about the story?
@@KingRidley because no one wants to be spoiled on the story lol. But if you're talking about a "goal" like how Botw's was defeating Calamity Ganon, then yeah it would make sense showing that to us at least
The great thing about fusing is that in botw, every single monster part, from bokoblin horns to lynel guts, has the same effect on elixirs. Now they can all be different and useful
Here's a little theory! Maybe the master sword being broken is going to tie into the fusion mechanic. You might be able to fuse other stuff onto the end of the Master Sword
Good theory
Fuse the master sword with another master sword
Finally the master stick can be a reality
I'm hoping fishing is in the game, not so I can fish, but so I can fuse the master sword with some bait...
@@lenk172 🤨📸
i adore the details of this game already. did anyone else notice the little question mark of confusion at 5:51 that pops up above the construct’s head when the puffshroom explodes?
People are coming up with crazy ideas after this trailer and i love it all
If I recall correctly, in Link's Awakening you had to put bombs and arrows together in your inventory to create bomb arrows. This is like the ultimate version of that.
Imagine a normal Chuchu jelly arrow, makes enemies wet or whatever effect the arrow is exposed to
Nintendo was really like “you say your sword breaks too quickly… how about you just slap another sword on it.”
I feel like the new mechanics also add a lot of thematic depth. The previous game was all about surviving with nature and watching it grow, and the runes, while not exactly natural, were just natural phenomenons turned _big_ , so to speak. But this game so far seems to be about corrupting nature, with abilities that involve reversing time, ignoring gravity, crudely sticking stuff together; which together with the floating islands and the weird arm and stuff will create a whole different mood for the sequel
"An artifact creature construct . . Colorless"
Wait, does Arlo know how to play Magic?
I laughed so hard at this. He definitely dabbles.
I heard him say that and I was like, " wait huh?? ".
Yes. Hasn't played in years but used to quite a whole bunch. He's actually the one who taught me how to play.
Zonai is Colourless?
Definitely wasn't ready for an mtg reference in an arlo video ngl
TOTK trailer 3 just gave us all stronger faith. This will be wild.
I just remembered that they actually kind of did show us the fuse ability before, in the second reveal. The part with Link using the flame shield thing, it's like a flamethrower glued to the shield.
THAT'S what the the flamethrower thing on the shield was!!! No one seems to remember that but that was a teaser for the fuse ability!
I'm coming back to all these TOK video's After beating the game. It was So satisfying to be able to avoid all the pre-release reveals and go in blind. I had No idea that sticking item's together was going to be a thing, and it was Amazing as a concept.
Also it was funny to hear Arlo's comment about sticking a ruby onto a sword was hilarious, because finding out that's exactly how that works in game was just my "Oh, What!?" moment.
Wife and I watched the gameplay reveal yesterday and we are both so hyped. This just watched up my excitement for the game to 11
I hope you and your lovely wife enjoy the game. I myself am also very hyped!
I like how the fuse arrow stuff has a lot of pretty easy to intuit things, ice chu jelly makes ice arrow, therefore fire and electric chu jelly will make their respective elemental arrows, but doesn’t TELL you what anything does in the menu so it’s up to you to discover the more out there combos. What DOES meat arrow do? Does the Korok Frond make an arrow that flies longer distances maybe? What would this or that do- it’s nice to be left thinking of the possibilities you’ll be left to experiment with on your own!
Hey Arlo. I understand that you're worried that the new ascend ability will replace the need to climb everywhere, but it probably won't be that way. It seems to me that ascend only works if you are directly beneath a smooth surface. You won't be able to come up to a mountain and directly skip most of the climbing, you need to find an appropriate surface to do so, meaning you'll most likely be underground and directly under wherever you want to go, which'll certainly be it's own challenge.
I can see why they were working on it for so long... That crafting mechanic is wild! I'm so stoked. I'm still hoping for some traditional dungeons as well, but that's not a total dealbreaker for me.
No wonder this took so long! Even with reused assets, every single item or physics object they add they have to program new interactions for it with every item before it, or somehow from the ground up make a system that can take care of that for them.
also testing all interactions possible-- they chemistry engine in botw was pretty interesting, and they decided to push it to the forefront.
Considering they announced development in 2019, and the "you know what" happened that hit Japan hard for three years a few months later, what they've accomplished in such a relatively short time is actually amazing!
One thing i noticed that i have never heard anybody talking about is that fusing weapons means inventory management wont be as much as a problem
tears of the kingdom? tears were the ones I almost cried seeing all the new mechanics n such. I’m so excited
So, you’re the punk who’s been floodin this here kingdom with your tears, eh? I’ve heard enough, gettem, boys!
@@spimbles lmao I can see why that seems so. I just didn’t have the correct words to encapsulate everything I wanted to say:/
My dumb ass after playing the game for 50 hours: wtf is arlo talking about I didn't find no hook
7:28 "I'm sure I'm gonna spend hours, making these crafts that topple over right before I get to the top of the mountain."
This is it. It's finally clicked for me.
Tears of the Kingdom is the second strand type game.
no no knack 2 was the first strand type game and THEN death stranding was the second
XD Yess, exactly
Breath of the Wild 2 is the world's third Nobi Nobi type game.
Okay, but the part where that robotic enemy with the fan-like weapon yeeted Link into the shadow realm had me dying!🤣
Knowing enemies can push you like that honestly make exploring the sky islands so much more scary and intense. I think I love it.
Crazy how on the surface it just seems like the simplest crafting and building system, but like how the first game at first appeared so basic it looks like this crafting and building is going to have sooooo much depth, I can't imagine all the crazy stuff people will be getting up to when this comes out
I just hope these new mechanics are integrated into dungeon puzzles (and that dungeons exist in the first place)
The lack of dungeons was my main issue with Breath Of The Wild. I know it had the divine beasts, but they didn't compare to the larger more themed dungeons of previous games with unique boss battles. It's especially a shame because imagine seeing a large temple off in the distance at the top of a mountain or something and knowing you're going to reach it and explore it. Elden Ring did a really good job with that imo. The other thing I love the Zelda series for is all the weird and quirky characters like Tingle, Agatha, Happy Mask Salesman etc. I was hoping that dungeons and fun NPCs were gonna be elements that got brought to the forefront a bit more this time but I guess not. Ah well, I'm sure the game will be fantastic and I've booked a week off work for when it releases. I just hope that the elements that made Zelda special for me personally don't get left behind in favor of this minecraft building stuff.
I might be a bit harsh here, but if traditional Zelda dungeons don’t make a return in this game, it won’t be worth playing.
@dpackerman that's definitely too harsh but I'm hoping for a return of traditional dungeons. I'll play it either way though and probably enjoy it either way.
@@dpackerman4203 The only thing I can say to you is to keep your hopes "low" and expect the worst ....Just in case. >_
@@starless4146 💔💔💔
Imagine, you're walking in a cave. Suddenly, you notice a cross on the ceiling. Odd. But then, you ascend through it, and end up in a secret room, that is only accessible with Ascend
I just wish saw more Gerudo stuff. The whole desert was my favourite area to explore originally, from the canyons to the mountains to the oasis and city hiding in the centre of it.
I really hope it's as interesting as i found the 1st one to be
10:25 | maybe if you put flint on a sword and smacked a metal enemy/shield, it would burn the enemy?
I'm really hoping that this works with Shield surfing too. Like imagine putting ice jelly on your shield will let you surf on water temporarily. Or fire jelly leaving a trail of flames. Or I dunno, put butter on a shield to surf longer. Put bomb on a shield to do a BTB type thing
Put an octo balloon and surf into the sky
I love the seemingly massive amount of experimentation this whole fusion mechanic will enable. Not only does it give reason to all the random monster bits we'll inevitably be hoarding, but it'll also add variety to the otherwise kinda samey combat against weapon-wielding enemies that the first game couldn't quite shake. Also it's just plain funny to me that they're apparently just gonna let you stick anything you want onto your weapons. I just hope it extends to materials as well, I'd love to tack steak onto a stick or something equally silly.
I think the thing with rewind is the "limitations" Aonuma alluded to. There are some terrain angle limitations in the patents that leaked a while back, so you can't always use it. And it's unlikely that every mountain will have a cave/inside. Climbing will most likely still play a big part in Tears of the Kingdom.
With how complex the combining/building mechanic is, im starting to see why it took 6 years to develop.
I just realized they teased the fuse ability from the start. Remember the second trailer with link in the cave with the fire breathing dragon shield? He probably got that part from a zonai enemy and stuck it on there
im guarantee there will be town building aspect as well. you can see unbuilded house and construction site all around. you will probably have to rebuild the whole kingdom...fall out 4 settlement style
One thing that I was thinking and didn't know if it was real or not, but there is still a ton of potential for there being a whole underground system to explore. I almost expect the ground level to be a simpler place (with some changes from BOTW but not too many as the new abilities will make the world different) where you gather materials and play around. And because the sky and (hopefully) underground have fewer entrance points, they are the challenging areas. With the ascend ability, you can exit the underground at any point. And with the sky you can jump off almost anywhere. So you make excursions (dungeon runs) for as far as you have the resources to use.
Maybe I'm being too optimistic, but it has all of the tools there for gameplay like that
that sounds like a roguelike on top of a survival game and now I want it
I JUST REALIZED A THING up on the d pad looks like it has a food icon- which idk what that could do, but my mind jumps to the idea of having a quick eat function to heal hearts without going through like 3 menus
I think actually the sky islands were the big "hook" for this game. It's what they've been highlighting the whole time, and it's even the theme of the cover art. But, yeah this is a huge reveal, nonetheless.
I think there's a few different hooks at play here. One is the sky islands, one is the Fuse ability, and I think there are likely more we haven't seen (underground areas?). Nintendo games rarely revolve around just ONE gimmick, and when they do it's usually pretty obvious what that gimmick is early on. The fact that we're this far in and we're only starting to get an idea of that suggests there's a lot of different mechanical hooks.
Maybe I’m being hopelessly optimistic, but I’m pretty sure we just scratched the surface of the new mechanics we are going to see. Not to mention new locations, enemies, and story details. What we got here wasn’t even an appetizer. It was the amuse bouche.
Durability is something I think I can learn to live with, as long as it's just generally higher. Breath of the Wild was the first game where I was consistently running out of bows and not arrows.
Fusing seems to add durability to the weapon so... here's to hope!
Weird, I had the opposite issue
Botw has a strange quirk where if you buy arrows from a vendor, they will never restock them until you go under 30 arrows. Every time I’d make a new file, my arrow stash would continuously grow & peak around 300 or 400, but would start to fall & I’d just have to wait until I hit 30. Always had a *lot* of elemental arrows tho.
My theory with ascend is that there is a lot of new underground space, a similar amount to the sky islands, and they wanted to make it as easy to return to the surface from underground as it is from the sky.
Yeah. I don't know what else it would be used for. It seems really limited otherwise.
Thank you Arlo for all the entertainment you provide us, we love you
Thank you, Arlo!
Nintendo saw everyone Causing Shenanigans in BotW and went “I can make it worse”
I always found the complaints about durability silly anyway. The game showers you with weapons, them breaking never once hurt my gameplay experience.
I totally agree that as you get older you often get less out of in-depth creative systems. I have more games than when I was a kid, and a lot less free time!
Some good news; none of the powers were bombs, but it's a zelda game, so bombs are in it. That means bombs are a limited resource again, so there should be more key items now!
It all feels too milleniallish to me. I want the future version of 1998, a photorealistic windwaker-esque and ocarina of time-esque Zelda.
"Tears of the Kingdom finally has a hook!"
*MAGIC SPOON!*
About the Ascend ability-even in botw climbing became less important with Revali’s gale (especially the upgraded version that reloads in like a minute), and this seems like a reworking of that idea
A great thing about the Zelda dev team: they know how to have fun. And that really helps they make games that we have fun as well!
Aww, yeah, true! ^^ I agree!
One thing I’ve noticed is that there don’t seem to be any shrines, at least from what I’ve seen. Are those green swirling things shrines? Have they reconfigured the system? Big outstanding question.
I'm not sure about Ascend either, seems like it might take the teeth out of climbing challenges.
On the other hand though, they could possibly make secret caves with no entrance that can only be ascended too which would be cool.
It's restricted to places with ceilings, so there are ways to add climbing challenges if they want to.
As someone else mentioned, it's the underground equivalent of the paraglider. To ascend high up, you will have to explore within caves and perhaps dungeons.
if you want to climb, climb. it's always a choice.
17:15 Now that you mention it, this reminds me of the spider ball of Metroid 2.
In the previous game, getting up somewhere was a real obstacle.
Now you get an item to climb up almost anywhere without a huge problem.
When he showed off the arrow and I saw that the raw meat was chooseable, I kept going "PUT THE STEAK ON THE ARROW!!! I DUNNO WHAT IT WOULD DO, BUT TRY IT!!!"
There's got to be more. At two times during the presentation, (once before rewinding to go up to the sky island opposite the stable and second on the surface after being knocked off by the construct) we see these wooden platforms with wooden backboards. I thought they were there to construct the vehicles, but apparently you can do that anywhere. So what do they do and why are they in so many places?
They said they want you to use your imagination in this game....mine is envisioning the ability to create kinds of different traps to add a whole new layer to the combat. Building trap doors, cages to snare enemies, building barges/flying machines loaded with explosives and sending it into enemy camps, etc. The new abilities enable all of that stuff.
This fella right here knows how to have a good time.
Now I kinda hope there's a sidequest where you need to build something like that to protect a village from a monster raid.
I want to make a baybalade and throw it into kakakriko
@@bluevines1303 please don't take this the wrong way but beyblade* kakariko*
I honestly think that it's for someone he's to design video games what's the most impressive about this is not the fact that you can fuse almost every single thing together but how it is fully integrated into the flow of the normal gameplay. Like you look at years ago of a similar concept with Banjo Kazooie nuts and bolts and every time you had to customize something you had to go into a menu and it took you out of the main part of the game and what's so impressive about this is that it is fully integrated into a gameplay where you're not moving around square tiles are going through and it's just take objects and stick them together and just use them.
This is the type of game I wanted, even started to learn coding to make a game where you fuse objects together to make weapons and gear
Oh, that's hecking awesome! ^^
Is it just me who is personally hoping they only showed a small fraction of what the game offers? They developed this for so so long, they had the physics engine in place already, nothing to me was mindblowing. Fusing stuff looks fun, the islands are a cool concept. But I still felt it's more like an expansion and not a new game. I just hope they held back a lot in the footage they released so far.
i think one of the biggest aspects of these new mechanics and additions is that it dramatically increases the replayability of the game, as well as introducing concepts for INSANE dungeon/puzzle design. the only information that i am taking in before the game comes out is the things that nintendo has shown us and i couldnt be more excited to go into this mostly blind
I love how much depth the give creativity. You can create ways to fight and create was to travel/explore
Link's new power: SUPERGLUE
I just realized. If we can fuse items together, then could we fuse the falling sky debris to something?
Ascend is sort of like the cryonis of TotK- very handy when you need it, but often you just forget it even exists
"Imagine BOTW... But bad piggies" is what I want from some of the level design in this game involving craftable vehicles.
For the fuse thing it looks exactly like Little Big Planet on the PS3 to a tee and I love it for it since that is my favorite game(s) of all time 1 & 2. They were very popular games and the magic stuff the movement and freedom feels like a mini version of that
This looks like the wait will be WORTH. EVERY. SECOND!
Watching Arlo eat cereal is the most wholesome thing I've seen this year.