The TUTORIAL of Breath of the Wild (Zelda Documentary)
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- One of the most frustrating parts of a game tends to be the beginning. Factors like pacing, characters and story may be the reason for this, but there is one part that stands out the most.
Tutorials
While some games can get by with decent tutorials, many end up suffering because of one reason or another. Whether it be forcing the player to learn controls they already know, breaking the fourth wall or just being bad at their job.
How does Breath of the Wild handle its beginning though? Since it is an open world, does that make the integration of a tutorial more difficult or does it mix well with the freedom aspect? In today's episode of the Documentary of Breath of the Wild we analyze the Great Plateau to see if it truly stands out from other game's tutorials!
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This game really makes you feel like Link
This comment really makes you feel like Justin Y is trying hard to be original.
Oh Yeah Yeah 2.0 says a person that is not original by being a Maximilianmus minion
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This comment really makes you realise that Justin Y can comment anything and get likes.
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There is indeed a link of fate between us.
Because Link has Amnesia the game also doesn't need to explain the situation of the protagonist to the player.
They both start form zero which leads to a better experience.
Agreed! Though I didn't bother mentioning it because I already discussed it in the previous episode :)
Yeah you are right but like blackcrisis knows this is a very common technique
@@ivanlpz3530 It's also the reason amnesia is a cliche :]
Except the rest of the Amnesia subplot is so pointless to give to a blank slate character...
It also allows you to grow with him. It’s not you learning something that link should already know, it’s both of you learning it.
Breath of the Wild is my very first Zelda game. I've never played any Zelda title ever and was never interested in them. But BOTW in an exception, a HUGE exception. Now I love the Zelda series. :D
Yeah its just thatu were being negative to justin y. And well make u regret it
My first one was Ocarina Of Time, when I was a little kid. When I saw the teaser for Breath Of The Wild in 2014 I guess, damn, I told my parents like "Please, this is going to be THE game!"
Same here
That us exactly what happened to me!
Same
Link. You are the light. OUR light. That must shine upon NintendoBlackCrisis once again.
Link: *I sleep.*
Jumps to his death
8:48
Wow...using my gameplay for a video and you didn't even give it a thumbs up? What a scrub 😂
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I think it's the real Croton
@@ericcanales1233 He's the real one, listen to his videos and you'll hear his real voice. He even featured this NintendoBlackCrisis on one of his videos. The verification mark is only for TH-camrs that have a lot of views/subscribers
@@rvamber1 You have to have 100,000 subs to request for verification, which then gives you a check mark by his name.
Croton doesn't have that (yet), so he won't get a check mark.
@@hizon525 I know, that's part of why I knew it was the real Croton, I've seen his vids and how he's been on collab with NBC before :)
I couldn’t agree more. The tutorial system in this is so thoughtful and well done. Even if I didn’t like the rest of the game (which of course I do) I would want this tutorial style to transverse the rest of the gaming world. It doesn’t treat you like this is your first video game ever or like you’re stupid BUT it still does a great job of teaching. I never felt like I didn’t understand something but also wasn’t insanely annoyed because the game was constantly harassing me with tutorial information. I also really like that you learn as you encounter something specific. It’s not just the game vomiting all the information at you all at once.
I wholeheartedly agree that Breath of the Wild has the best tutorial in video game history. Also, I loved that video from Arlo, big fan of his stuff too. Now I kind of want to go back and play again just for the Great Plateau. That and I still haven't played Master Mode yet.
Arlo has great content!
Another great part to this documentary. The Great Plateau is really something and just got rid of that slow paced feeling whilst managing to make you feel like the game has already started for real. It makes you feel like you are in Links shoes, it's one of the best if not the BEST tutorial I have played. Great video as always NBC!
Wait... You can stasis the waterblight ice cubes?!
I didn't know that until I tried it on stream - Im surprised that it actially worked 😂
Nearly two years of owning this game and I'm still discovering new things about it. That doesn't just happen in every game.
I know right?! I literally had no idea!
As if stasis couldn't be any more OP.
Yeah, best way to defeat him is to stasis the block right in front of you and hit it a bunch of times. Itll deflect back to waterblight, injure him and you can hit him some more when hes on the ground.
i didnt even know i WAS playing a tutorial my first time. it just never felt like one
In Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, everything breaks, even your swords, even you bows, even your SPINE.
It's been awhile since anyone has brought attention to tutorials. Its been the most overlooked game "element" with games nowadays, and the transition games now having all these tutorials nowadays. In a way, tutorials have always been there, but its hard to actually find a great balance to make a tutorial seem more natural like BOTW. Its definitely the challenge of game design nowadays.
8:48 I didn't actually know that either after 250h of playing. So I guess you can learn a lot even after so much play.
For a first playthrough, BOTW was truly stunning. It was one of the most awesome experiences I've ever took part in. It instantly drops you into this large open area, then you learn that the area isn't even half of the map. BOTW may not be my favorite Zelda, but it was probably the best first experience ever for me.
The tutorial felt incredible in Botw
The beginning of this game was pure exploration and discovery
But after 30h into the game
The world itself felt repetitive with low enemy variety and dongeon only being shrine and divine beast wich are cool at first but quickly repetitive
I hope the next zelda keeps exploration more interesting with unique dongeon hidden in the world and more enemies
Botw is still my second favorite zelda game but i know for sure the next game will greatly improve upon It and perhaps make Botw look like a beta compared
Woah, NBC learned from a crouton. How amazing. This shows how smart the croutons are.
I've got the same image as you!
Skyward sword is the best!
NBC is too dumb to figure these things out on his own ;p
I like BOTW because the text box only appears in the corner after you’ve already dont the thing. It tells you how to crouch after you’ve crouched for the first time.
I love this game, and the first cutscene just made me take a deep breath... I simply adore it!
YES! I've been looking forward to this!!!
5:39 "master lunk"
Another game that does the tutorial pretty well is Skyrim. The opening sequence teaches you the basics and only stops the flow of the game with a popup when first opening your inventory/map/magic/options screens, but aside from that all the teaching is done in real time. After you complete the tutorial you can go out on your own, but the game lets you travel alongside an NPC who tells you a bit about the world, introduces you to the Standing Stones that buff your character, helps you in a fight and provides even more lore once you hit the first town. After that you'll have a ton of loot that you'll want to get rid of, so you go to the nearby store to sell some of it. Here you find the shopkeeper and his sister arguing, which leads to a quest to a nearby dungeon and retrieve an item. Said dungeon is close to your current location than the next objective, so you'll be inclined to go there. In this dungeon you'll learn the basics about going through dungeons: the different enemies you can find there, that there's traps to be found, it lets you mess around with sneaking and shows you what Word Walls are and introduces the concept of bosses at the end of a dungeon. Not only that, but you'll pick up an item that you can't sell because it's a quest item. Once you go back to town and sell your loot you will likely then go on your way to the next objective, which is one of the game's major cities. Continue with the main quest and you'll be asked to go to the exact same dungeon you just visited, but since you already have the quest item you don't have to go there a second time. If you haven't gone there but you did accept the side quest to go to the dungeon you'll end up with the object the side quest asked you to go fetch. In either case, you'll end up with going through the tutorial dungeon that never stops you while you're going through it. To quote the game's director, Todd Howard: It just works.
Its about time someone finally decided to talk about this masterpiece of a location.
Seriously, i sometimes start a new game just to re experience this plateau with no paraglider and everything and i usually stop once i obtain the glider, i never get tired of this place, it is that amazing.
Will you please do a video break down of every region in BOTW? I would watch every episode.
Throughout this video i was just filled with “you can do that!”
It should have been called "documentary of the wild" 😀
I don’t know where else to post this, but I both dislike and love the fact that the world is pretty foggy. While I want nothing more than to stand atop a mountain and see the full glory of the landscape around me, the way that the things in the distance are slightly obscured gives it a mysterious feel.
That damn loftwing race.
also i get chills every time i see the intro to this game
I’m glad I’m not the only person who thinks this tutorial was BRILLIANT
I just restarted today and actually the Old Man does mention the “pause menu” once for something. But it surprised me because the game has never at any other point done that in my experience. I love the opening bit of the game for these reasons too, great video expressing it!
three people disliked, cause they don't own the game!!
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THE perfect tutorial in any game. No hand holding. You're on your own. If you die then you learn from it. Perfect
First like never done that before 😂
Edit: My comment got ❤️!!!! I don’t know why I’m this excited about that but I am!!!!!Thanks!!
BOTW tutorial is probably one of the best tutorials I’ve done (well when I actually figured out what I was doing)
I hope the next Zelda game has as brilliant an opening as BotW!
I hope nintendo tells us something about the next game soon
Your wish was granted.
U can't climb ANYTHING... But most things. (Sheikah walls in shrines, I'm looking at you)
It's by far the best Zelda game because of the simplicity. Thanks for the video and keep up the good work
To be fair, Twilight's Princess tutorial also serves to show us how Link is living, his relationships and to familiarize ourselves with the people of Ordon, thus creating the contrast with the situation he finds himself on later on.
Its true it drags on on the second gameplay thou xD but I like it in the sense of contrasting how this character change and grow.
The thing which I also like about this game is that there is not much penalty when the player has died. Also the game automatically saves right before encountering enemies, so this allows the players to try many different tactics without being frustrated.
I loved the Ta lo naegs teaching shrine because it took me like 10 minutes to do. At the beginning i was just wailing on the guardian to the point where the sword i was given broke, but then i actually listened to the shrine and did what it told me to do and i thought that the perfect dodges and parries were cool
I loved the tutorial portion of BotW. It was absolutely well done. I've completed all of the shrines on my main save, and I still every once in a while see a tutorial part that I somehow missed.
(14:47) Except the walls of shrines.
One interesting thing the also do is take about time. It's constantly day until after the first shrine is completed. After that, you get the standard day/night cycle (minus the blood moon).
I play the Great Plateau over and over. It is like a drug, so addictive. I love it!
I remember completing the great plateau for the second time and then thinking to myself "Wait a second.. the great plateau is a tutorial! HOLY CRAP NINTENDO! I did not even notice while playing it... Love it"
As for your discovery, I had a similar situation. Using magnesis on a buried object I previously pulled and eventually it popped out, mission complete. One day I walk up to a chest and upon using the rune I sneezed, it was just after tagging the chest so I knew it shouldn't have been long enough to pluck it out yet it was laying a good ways off. Upon further experimentation I learned that while a steady pull does work a quick snap upwards on the controller pulls it out immediately.
Breath of the wild- A documentary series
Best beginning I ever experienced in Zelda was probably in Skyward Sword. What a beautiful start to a Zelda game. And it just felt like such a *next Zelda game* in the series. Skyward Sword was a true sequel in the identity of the Legend of Zelda series. Breath of the Wild took with it alot of the things that formed the identity of the traditional series, but it has dramatically changed the foundations. It is not what I consider Zelda anymore. It's a new Zelda now. It is still within the identity of the Zelda I know, but in a different, similar direction. Of course, I've adapted since long ago. This is an interesting change. I really like this new direction. Especially the new "crafting" system.
I remember the first time I played BOTW and i played probably 10 hours without knowing how to get more hearts. I even beat the first divine beast without knowing what the heck the spirit orbs were for because the game doesn't tell you. I was like "so what i only get heart containers through bosses? HOW MANY BOSSES ARE THERE!?" It was only when i decided to walk up to a goddess statue and pray at it that i learned "you use spirit orbs to get stronger." It was so satisfying and it made finding shrines a lot more worth it. I felt that same way when I learned you could fast travel using the shrines.
person: HELP, HELP! MY GRANDPA IS HAVING A HEART ATTACK AND I DON'T HAVE A PHONE, WHERE'S THE NEAREST HOSPITAL?!
stranger: tsk, Just go into the quest log and select it as the objective. it will be marked on your mini map.
person:...WHAT?
This is how a tutorial should be done. Not with endless menus or little rooms that have you use a single skill to escape it. No, you get your base buttons and then presented with an entire area to use them. If you don’t learn, you don’t progress because you don’t deserve to.
I think the Great Plateau is one of the reasons the game became one of my favorites of all time. It’s a simple test, if you can’t pass it then you can’t play. Simple as that
as fr as surviving the cold goes, I noticed when I held a torch, links temperature goes up a bit, so I decided to try walking through the mountains in the great plateau with my torch out, and it worked! crazy good tutorial imo
A few things. A, I'll admit, I had wanted to compare this tutorial, to how Elder Scrolls games do theirs. And there's a few differences. Theirs are far more linear, and in general, once you get to the open world part, you're 100% free to do what you want, as you'll already know what to do. Sure, there's a few extras, IE, Oblivion teaching you how Gates are closed, or Skyrim teaching Shout mechanics. Also, those games usually give things to the player that BOTW has the player earn. IE, in any ES game, the player already has clothes, and is handed at least one, maybe multiple, decent weapons, restorative items, and other such things as the tutorial progresses. Here, the player is only handed clothes, but pretty much everything else is earned/collected/etc. Also, yes, there's the fact that ES games have linear tutorials, and this one, well, the linear part boils down to "take Slate, pick up clothes, use Slate on pedestal, climb up the rock face" and you're out. Also look at what all else this tutorial has you do on your own/learn. Physics, and how that can work to your advantage. Overworld bosses are a thing here. The Korok seeds. Etc. So much the player can learn on their own, without it being thrust upon them. Also, I'll admit, in the Shrine, before I even picked up the Slate, I went ahead and hit every button/etc to see what they'd do. It's quite telling, when if you press Y, Link makes a motion like he's drawing a weapon, only to find none. That animation is a great mini tutorial in itself. B, that shrine near Kakariko is FAR from the only tutorial for the game that exists off the GP. In fact, the entire road to Kakariko, and the area near it, all is part of an extended tutorial. The Bosh Kala shrine is a further paraglider tutorial. Dueling Peaks tower will also give the Sheikah Sensor. The stable helps teach how horses work, and there's even some nearby so the player can grab one, and register it. Said stable also has Beedle, the first true merchant, whom you can barter with. Also, notice none of the shrines on the road to Kakariko are anything major. No Major Tests of Strength. Only puzzles. Also, in Kakariko, is the first real armor merchant, who you'll likely buy the Hylian tunic, and the Hylian Hood from, due to low cost. There's also the archery shop, a few side quests that are nothing hard, and nearby, there's even the first great fairy, to teach that these ladies are out there, need money to open up, and they can enhance clothes. Also, who else is on the path to Kakariko? Hestu. His quest is a tutorial that any Korok seeds you've gathered have a purpose, and can be used to expand inventory.
If you truly are an Epic gamer, you would've already known about the info in this tutorial
Ikr
why are you everywhere
That was a great explanation video man! =) I agree the tutorials in games are bad cause games like Twilight Princess and Mario and Luigi interrupt the game to tell you what button to press or something and I WISH it was optional when they ask you. Some games do that but some don't. Shame games like Zelda Nes games don't give you hints or maps on where to go. ~_~
I will never replay Twilight Princess partly because of how much I hated the tutorial. It's my least favorite Zelda game and the two hours of rounding up goats, showing annoying kids that you do in fact know how to use the slingshot and that infinite fetch quest that didn't make any sense do nothing for the game's graces.
I mean, the Loftwing race was awful but it at least taught you how to fly, which was a mechanic that is specific only to that game, and it helped establish your relationship with your peers.
Carla Hallabrin yeah....
Loft wings? :o
@@Hurricane360 In Skyward Sword, sorry. I changed topics there without saying so explicitly; I meant to say that the tutorial section in Skyward Sword at least adds something meaningful/useful to the game, whereas the the tutorial section in Twilight Princess is just plain awful.
I do that a lot, sorry about the confusion.
Carla Hallabrin ohhh lolol no worries! Your fine! 😀 yeah TP is painful. =_=
13:34 A streamer called negaoryx defeated three divine Beasts before she found the shrine a near to Kakariko Village. And because of that she didn‘t know that you could dodge or parry enemy attacks. The Video is called: you can side jump in this game?!
It’s quite fun and impressive that she made it that far through the game without even knowing these basic mechanics.
10:38 that moment always has me speechless.
i didn’t even know you could use cryonis on the ice blocks! i just used arrows lol
I’ve beaten the game and completed all 120 shrines and I still find new secrets about the great plateau
The great part about this game is that I'm still learning new mechanics. The other day I was watching a mini documentary about the making of the game and in the game play footage there was a bokoblin throwing stones at Link and Link was hitting them with a club back at the bokoblin and he took damage. I never knew about that mechanic. Truly an amazing game.
At least this time you spelled Documentary correctly this time, lol. I really enjoyed the vid, to bad youtube’s algorithm didn’t notify me the day of its release.
The biggest downside is that if you don't happen to stumble upon certain mechanics, like cooking or flurry rush, you could go a great length of time without knowing them. The old man gives you the warm doublet after teaching you how to cook, but only if you find him in a very specific location at a specific time, so chances are the average player would miss that.
Love, love, LOVE your content, NBC!! Especially your BOTW STUFF. The game will soon be two years old but there's still so much to talk about and I still play it! My latest run is no towers, shrines only so i have no map exposed other than the GP. :-) Can't wait for more in this BOTW docu series!
I also like how it the great Plateau is the smallest region in the game yet it's still feels huge
4:08 i definetely know what I'm picking
The Baby Cratle!
Good choice
@@NintendoBlackCrisis why thank you
I recently played Skyward Sword and while I don't mind the tutorial, I can agree Breath of the Wild did this much better. My problem with tutorials isn't the lack of action since every story needs an initial situation, but that people can often take a while to explain something via breaking of the fourth wall and that gets annoying on your second playthrough. And Skyward Sword did this A LOT. What Breath of the Wild does so well is that the world is designed to let you figure everything out yourself. You can see what the item you just picked up is useful for simply by reading the description, and unlike Skyward Sword it doesn't bother to explain it to you again afterwards (thank god). And if you forget it's use, no problem, just go look in your inventory and you can see the item description there. It also does a great job getting you used to the open world by having you go to the four shrines while later in the game, you have to get to the four Divine Beasts in a much bigger world, and both can be completed in whichever order you want. They really make you feel like it's your own adventure and you're progressively learning about the world as you journey through it, and that's much more satisfying than having everything explained to you.
Oh hey, you just picked up an amber relic! You might have forgotten what it is despite having already collected 9999 of them, so here's an interruption of your gameplay to give you this crucial information, you're welcome!
Your videos are fabulous. You are one neat human being!
Im gonna ‘need’ more of these asap, thanks!
this is what every tutorial in a game needs to be
"I was watching someone else do it" I bet it was Point Crow
The lack of tutorials in early NES games was also acceptable because we expected to play the game for an extended period of time back then. I remember it took my brother and I weeks of off-and-on playing just to find and beat level 9 in LoZ1. Don't even get me started on Zelda 2.
11:25 “Master, the batteries in your Wii remote are nearly depleted.”
I am glad you made this.
Didnt even recognize that it was the tutorial til recently felt like i was just put into the game, i loved it
Yea the Great Plateau works because it's a really good demo. It's a vertical slice of the game. Pretty much everything you will do in the game you can or will do on the Plateau.
You have your "Why its no masterpiece" video, and now your why it is a masterpiece video.
No? This only broke down the tutorial part of the game lol
@@NintendoBlackCrisis shhhh. Its just meme
This feels like it goes over a lot of the topics in Extra Credits' tutorial video.
Aside from the BOTW comparisons it is almost the same video, without covering the conditions that game devs go through that make tutorials like this difficult to make.
@@dragonsswarm1987 Never heard of them, though I just looked them up. I might have to check that video out a bit later!
i just completed my 4th 100% run on botw and no matter how many times iv'e seen the cut scene or heard the music exiting the shrine of resurrection still gives me goose bumps
The first time I ever played TP it took me a solid 30 minutes to realize I needed to go to the farther ledge of the bird calls to get to the monkey holding the basket, since it had no information about the monkeys yet and that you could get the birds past the one fence in the water
Let me tell you something. I’ve had friends that didn’t understand anything from Skyward sword and twilight princess that had big tutorials and easy gameplay. It was so hard for them. But when BotW came they had no questions.
Oh man I have to wait for lunch before I can watch. 😩
Soooo excited! 😘
You made my favourite game everyone's favourite...I can't think of the way you do that! Best Zelda channel ever👌👌👍👍
KH2's tutorial was crazy long. I remember being on it for forever. I liked the vibe it gave the story though.
Botw is so good, i am so excited how the sequel will improve. I hope it will have:
- themed dungeons
- a crafting and repair system
- hookshot
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@NintendoBlackCrisis
I have a theory for you to look into, Did the ancient Sheikah forsaw Link falling to Calamity Ganon the first time around? Look at where you wake up and what the first four shrines gives you. Also the pillars around the castle, did they help Zelda contain Ganon for the 100 needed?
Dang I love this game so much I love that this game actually doesn't hold your hand like most other Nintendo game's I love the freedom but I do agree with what you said in your other video about the dungeons in this game I hope the dungeons in breath of the wild 2 will be the best and will be extremely memorable like other big 3d Zelda games.
If a game makes you want to play it again after you finish it, it was made well.
What happens when you don't take anything from the old man? What if you just walk past him?
could you make more wild breath, mr william?
8:56 I have sunk in over 6,000+ hours, and I never knew you could Stasis the ice blocks, I knew you could use Cryonis to break them, but not Stasis to launch them. I guess that means your point was proven.
Back in those ancient days game had a proper 30ish page book that included story and basic controls, etc. as they were generally unable to put any of that on the game cartridge. Keep in mind the storage space on the game cartridges would be exceeded by an especially verbose word document today. Oh how things have changed and damn do I feel old.....
9:11 I had someone need to tell me what to do because I didn't think the game would let you just do it. Not that I couldn't figure it out, I just assumed it would give you something and using the cooking mechanic there was just a way to cheese it.
Hey NBC, I noticed while playing through the game that the Rito and Zora have the same call. I’m both villages a mother of each race calls out for their lost child, and it sounds very similar. This makes me think Botw could be quite close to the split between the races.
BotW's tutorial reminded me of Super Metroid's tutorial. You aren't outright told what to do. You're subtly gestured towards what to do, and dared to experiment too figure things out. This wouldn't work so well with RPGs, except maybe Pokemon and other more simple(at least at face/casual value) RPGs.
Idk if it's the best ever beginning of a game. There are several other games that use this brilliant design technique, such as Shovel Knight, which is one of my other fav games of late
I love your theories so mucchh!!! Could you actually make a theory about BOTW?
I never thought of using stasis on a rock and using it like a rocket to "fast travel". Imma do that now
Oh yes! I've been excited about this video coming out!! Hi NBC!
10th he says ha! How about 100th? I'm getting some memories of annoying fairies yelling "hey, listen, watch out!" all over again. XD
My birthday is the 23rd of February and I randomly decided to play all the way through the original LoZ again on the 21st this year, I finished the morning of my birthday. But what’s funny is I didn’t know that it was released on February 21st
The most fun thing I have done at the start of a save is to go and unlock all towers right after leaving The Great Plateau, I am not very skilled, so it was kinda difficult at times, that is until I got to Faron woods and harvested Hearty durians. 🤓
I used a fire torch to get through to the cold area. Pretty sure noone else did this. I didn’t know you could use peppers till wayyyy later on.