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I can't believe you didn't include inventory choice when opening chests. The most annoying thing in the whole damn game for me was opening a chest, seeing it had a weapon instead of a collectible, being told my inventory was full, closing the chest, dropping a weapon, then opening it again. I wish we were given the opportunity to ditch something as soon as it opens.
Yes! Like in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, that gives you the option to drop the new thing or swap it with something else as soon as you take it. It is such a small thing but it would make a huge difference.
Maybe pickup-able items in chests could just fall out when opened and be picked up that way. It would speed up chest looting and also solve the weapon switching problem.
@@sd19delta16 That would be better than now, but if you're unfamiliar with the weapon then you'd still maybe pick it up and have to drop it again if your current weapons are all superior. Having it be in a menu would be best.
I wish you could climb better when ypu level up the climbing clothes. And the same with swimming fast and leveling up the zora suite. The only thing that happens until now is that its defense gets better, which is okay for the knight suit but not for every suit.
BoTW is my favorite game of all time and yet I can still complain and nitpick it for hours. There's so much potential for future Zelda games building upon this base formula.
In botw 2, so need a fix weapons system! I got tired of breakable weapons and shields. I love the game, I just stop playing it after beating the game cuz tired of everything breaking
It would be neat. I spent a lot of time trying to find new foods. Npcs will mention hints at recipes which is cool. I was excited when i realized you could make apple pie and other foods like that. Even if prime meat food is still the best for healing
@@rockbandandghmaster Hearty durian is the best thing for healing. Near the end of the game I literally just cooked them up one at a time because bonus hearts didn't matter. Prime meat is the best thing for money.
Another thing for the first one is that I think it would be good if you could hang more weapons in the house, cause sometimes I just want my powerful weapons as little trophies
@@cheyennelandgraf5081 you can get a house in Hateno Village at the top of the town across the bridge. Speak to the construction crew. You need to pay a certain amount of rupees plus stacks of wood. Then you can add upgrades but it's very limited.
i wish i could dive underwater, with unlimited breath when wearing Zora armor ; i missed traveling & exploring zones beneath the water's surface, and did so in both Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess. The ocean in BotW doesn't feel like an ocean to explore, it feels like a marsh slowing you down
Would have been awesome being able to dive underwater and find caves to explore, maybe long lost Sheika ruins, maybe an ocean-going sub-species of Zora?
One thing I kind of missed was enemy variation. Would be nice to have more unique enemies tied to certain areas instead of just bokoblins and lizalfos everywhere.
This is the single biggest complaint I had with the game. The enemies were just way too repetitive. There was relatively little variation. And about 95% of the time, you were fighting bokoblins, moblins, or lizalfos, sometimes colored differently.
@@razbuten I also agree with you for that idea, its a great one, ( way better than anything I could come up with) the several hour video (made by joseph anderson I think) covers the dungeon problem much better. the combat needs a full overhaul as while it works great for the first 10 hours or so after that the progression just makes it less fun, the hyper bloated hp pool is the biggest offender, making environmental damage and creative tactics innificient, also you feel compelled to hoard the late game weapons, but there are other problems.
Agreed. I'd love it if the post game included rebuilding and repopulating the kingdom and villages that were destroyed in the war 100 years ago, kind of like you did with Tarrytown
@@ausnik Only thing is that the sequel to Breath of the Wild will probably be pretty direct, since it was originally going to be DLC. The threat isn't gone yet so it just wouldn't make sense to rebuild everything only for Ganondorf to come back two seconds later. Good idea, though. Maybe we'll get something like that in the sequel, 'cause Bolson construction is still around.
@@aidangreen7596 The threat of Ganon is everlasting though. It repeats itself, hence the legends and all the preparations 100 years ago. It's a kingdom that constantly rebuilds, goes through the war phase and returns. I'd love to see a rebuilding kingdom in the sequel where you still have bands of bokoblins and other beasts roaming about, just with more villages and towns. Then you can have a shadow plot of Ganaondorf's true body being resurrected, etc. Either way, any game where you can city build or kingdom build tends to be that much more fun because of it. Rebuilding and repopulating the likes of Hyurule Castle, Central Hyrule, Great Plateau, The Colosseum or the Akkala Fortress for example would be so much fun.
I really like the idea of ancient shards when weapons break. I’m definitely one of those that doesn’t want to use a rarer weapon, this mechanic would make me think twice
There should be armor sets for all 3 dragons that you need to craft using the dragon parts or something. Also they should've made the other 2 work like Naydra where you had to free them from the malice before getting their resources. On top of that, I remember it being really boring to farm enough dragon parts for all my armor upgrades, so that could've been better.
I think the biggest thing you missed is enemy variety. The enemy variety is really bad this game compared to OoT, TP, Wind Waker, etc. Constantly fighting Bokoblins, Lizalfos, and Moblins got super old really fast.
@@pizzamandhx While I understand why people find them cool, Darknuts honestly disappoint me. They were a mild threat when the game crammed three of them in one room to cheap shot Link, but one-on-ones with them were pushovers in both WW and TP. And while they look badass, they are just...big swordsman. We already got Blademasters to fit that bill. I'm really only interested in Darknuts if BotW2 is willing to make them truly ominous, beyond Lynel levels of threatening. Personally, I'm crossing my fingers for more overworld variety. Tektites hoppin around cliffs. Po haunting around at night. Dodongos runnin around the fields.
I always wanted 3 of the relatively unused regions to have a dungeon in there, each one housing a piece of a contraption. Once you get them all you can assemble them to make the hookshot. Fits right into the climbing
@@itsjayh They actually had the hookshoot in the game during testing phases. They decided to take it out because it made the climbing mechanic obsolete.
@@brotbrotsen1100 They could've just make it consume stamina. Right now in TOTK climbing is almost obsolete with the whole zonai devices thing, flying from the towers and fast traveling to a nearby sky island shrine and dropping.
Touching on the rain, I had an idea on it. Many armor sets gain a secondary ability when upgraded twice. They could have given the climbing gear that secondary ability whether it's after upgrading twice or all four times
@@mics1234 I see your point that it is a very valuable ability, but if you make the cost of the ability too high, then players won’t acquire it until after they actually need it.
As someone who didn't know Breath of the Wild would have dragons, hearing the music and seeing Farosh for the first time while playing was by far one of the coolest moments I have ever had in a video game. It was genuinely awe inspiring.
Broke: wanting the climbing feature changed for when it rains Generic Woke: wanting to pet the dogs Meta Woke: wanting the song from the first trailer for BOTW to show up somewhere in the game.
One thing that bothers me a lot about botw was the fact that half the lynels were harder to kill than calamity gannon, and they weren’t even considered a mini boss
In regards to the final fight, I like the way they framed it of having your former companions there to support you in the end. But rather than just simply draining half of Ganon's health, or your suggestion of upgrading your abilities so you get to feel like the hero, how about having each of the other characters cripple one of Ganon's abilities with a corrupting form of the abilities they give you. For example, say Ganon had the ability to levitate and be out of reach of your melee attacks. Revali could cripple that and keep him grounded. Daruk could eliminate a barrier that Ganon would use normally, Mipha could lower his defense or health, and Urbosa could cut his attack strength in half. You still have to go through the fight normally, but you feel stronger because Ganon is weaker. And you also feel like your friends are there supporting you.
the only problem with this idea is that it is wayyy too easy for nintendo to accidentally ruin the fight because they make the fight so easy it is boring, or the former companions do next to nothing and it feels like a waste of time
@@acefluffyzeuss7617 You're probably right. It'd probably end up a Fierce Diety situation. Except in that case, it felt deserved after all the work you went through.
@@Amins88 for myself I’d be alright with a fierce deity situation, but I know lots of others wouldn’t. Back when majoras mask was originally released the margin in which players had for the companies was way larger and people weren’t all about critiquing the game and more about having fun, which don’t get me wrong lots of people still are. But there’s a growing group of people who only want hardcore gameplay, in which a fierce deity time would feel underwhelming and boring. Right now they have to get it bang on to please everyone with the assistance so that it feels like you earned it but not to the point that it overthrows the fight similar to the current final fight
Tbh even if ur idea is flawed I feel like it makes somewhat more sense than the video's proposal because it lets the champions also take their revenge rather than just powering you up (which they already do once you free them); the purpose of freeing the divine beasts is to free the champions' spirits AND be able to use the actual machines to ur advantage. Story-wise it wouldn't make sense to not use the beasts themselves to weaken Ganon
@@acefluffyzeuss7617 I played MM's on 64 as a kid (who didnt speak english) and my first ending was beating Majora's with normal link. Only after a few playthroughs I picked all masks and used fierce deity and I can garantee anyone that it simply felt magic.
On my first playthrough, I turned off the special moves you get for completing the Divine Beasts because I thought they were consumables that couldn't ever recharge. Then when I finally got to Hyrule Castle, I parasailed to the hidden side-entrance not knowing that there was a main entrance. And my god, did it make for an awesome final challenge. Fighting all those super-tough enemies while solving puzzles involving cellars and secret walls, topped off with randomly stumbling upon the Hylian Shield is still one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had.
Man that sounds amazing. I swam up a waterfall, climbed a tower and nearly insta killed ganon with the special power. Then I had a boring ass Horse fight. I was so disappointed I lost my motivation to explore the world and have barely been playing since then..
I didn't turn them off but went all the way through the secret entrance and Hyrule castle, plus the Lynel fight, because I was too scared to run around with all the guardians being there. Aka you can make the game tough if you want to :D
A small idea I had, Mipha's Grace and Daruk's protection also come with a heart container each. Makes sense right? They are defensive champion abilities. However, Urbosa Fury and Revaili's Gale use stamina. It would have been a nice touch if these two came with stamina vessels instead of heart containers again.
@@astandmixer8218 Ooooor they could just make it consider both your stamina and your heart totals. So players that chose to improve stamina instead of hearts aren't needlessly punished and have to google "how to swap stamina for hearts" in frustration to get the sword. Yeah, I'm still salty.
I like how TOTK basically fixed the "Running away from rights cause your weapons will degrade" mentality, by making enemy encounters give you really good weapons. Like sure they might all just have sticks, but they can drop horns and monster parts which you can fuse to your current weapons to make them stronger and more durable. You're now incentivized to engage in fights to get better weapons
Imo they made it worse. Now all you can find out in the world are bland sticks, and the only way to get resources to make better weapons is to fight monsters, breaking more weapons in the process. Its hard to get excited about getting weapons when I know they're gonna break in only an encounter or two, except now I have to worry about farming monster parts too.
@@ChrisSor54 1. They've added a repair feature. Feed your weapon to an octo-rok, it gets a repair and an upgrade. This fixes a lot by itself. 2. I assume you're early in the game or don't do much fighting, because I get plenty of viable weapons from random enemy drops. That's where most of them have come from. If you fuse an actually good monster horn to the weapon, it'll increase durability and you can easily clear 2-3 camps with that weapon and a few arrows alone, so you don't have to "break more weapons" to get new ones. 3. You do not have to farm any more materials than you do in BotW, I have many many fusion materials because I get creative and think resourcefully about what weapons are worthy of what fuse materials. It's engaging, and far and away an improvement over BotW.
@@braveheart1320 I've beaten the game its entirety. If you're telling me that by visiting a octorok every 2 fights to repair extremely fragile weapons is an acceptable fix then that's just unreasonable. Also this was already a feature in BotW. Monsters will drop a lot of parts, but besides the horns most of them are garbage to fuse with, and they only drop like one horn, so yes you do have to kill damage sponge enemies and break weapons to get parts. I certainly found myself having to go out of my way to get any actual good parts. In botw, I never had to worry much because I always came across a healthy supply of decent swords no matter where I went. TotK just adds an unnecessary step to the process, and replaces anything interesting you'd find with boring sticks or rotted weapons that both break extremely quickly. I don't see how it's an improvement to go from fragile weapons that break quickly to fragile weapons that break quickly that I now have to craft myself. Just give me a cool sword and stop wasting my time.
I really wish Link could sit down wherever I want not just in chairs or benches Also an animation of Link laying down in the beds at the inns would make me happy
I think so you can sit down on chairs and benches in skyward sword. I’ve played the original version before it’s actually my favorite Zelda game twilight is second. I’m also working on the hd version right now along with wind waker hd and links awakening.
Something I remember being really disappointed by on my first playthrough were the three springs. While Nadra's fight and freeing her from corruption was satisfying the first time, I was so disappointed when the other two didn't pose any new and exciting challenge. For something so important lore-wise, only having to grab a scale and find the spring was a letdown. Honestly, I would place the extra dungeons there, behind the springs instead of just another shrine. It would be so cool to have a special themed dungeon for each spring, one that isn't made out of Shika tech but has different challenges, maybe elemental themed like the dragons. Imagine a vast icy cave network that travels through Mt. Lanayru, or puzzles that are influenced by the nearby Death Mountain by the spring of power.
i actually really love the idea of dungeons at the springs, in my opinion the spring of power and courage were quite boring to me, whereas seeing a dragon and freeing it from the malice was quite an adventure (also the first time i learned u can shoot arrows in the air!). I would love to see some sort of fire/lava themed dungeon, with its own separate boss, along with an electric dungeon where u have to use magnesis to activate electrical switches and a boss that deals us electric attacks. but than again there have been fiery/lava shrines that have milked this idea along with electrical shrines, but an icy dungeon would be new and innovative
Zelda games, especially 3d zelda games, have never really been challenging. They're just kinda tedious. Most of the puzzles that people remember being hard were just confusing and poorly made.
Agreed. Doing Naydra’s spring first really set up the expectation that there would be an engaging mini-quest for the other two dragons, so that was quite a let-down.
that’s what i thought would happen when i first played the game i thought there would be an after main storyline quest where you have to help repair hyrule
can you imagine if the blights were the corpses of the champions? that’s so dark, but so damn cool. it would add a lot more emotional weight to freeing the divine beasts as well.
11:50 My (speedrunner-friendly) idea for improving your terminal system in Hyrule Castle: There are 4 optional terminals inside Hyrule castle which act as "receive-points" for the divine beast. So that in order for a divine beast to help in the final battle you have to free the divine beast AND activate the associated terminal inside of Hyrule castle (or do the terminal first before the divine beast). That way most players would be really encouraged to explore the castle but it wouldn't add a necessary obstacle.
Could the four terminals be where you fight the blights talked about in the video? I think it'd fit pretty well. Another thing: To make sure it doesn't just become the champion's ballad thing all over again, where you have to go back and fight the blights a second time(and with your changed version, technically THREE times), how about instead of the blights appearing, it's dark versions of the champions themselves you have to fight, and then finally dark link as a secret final boss you fight in the sanctum in place of where the blights were just to shake things up a little, plus bring back an old foe!
However: more obstacles means more routing, and while it would make speedruns slower, it'll make them more interesting. The better speedrun friendly idea is letting the player approach the obstacles from many different directions, with the faster ones being harder, and botw is pretty good in that
I am surprised you didn't mention making the Lynel one of the area bosses like a Hinox, Talus, or Molduga. The Lynel fights were always more memorable than the other three and deserved its own fight music.
13:09 My head canon for this is that Link’s own Champion Ability is that he can stop time to swap out his weapons, armor, or heal. He’s the Hero of Time, after all.
I would argue this is a trait all heroes of this time share though. In cutscenes we can see Urbosa parrying Yiga clansmen and time slow there too. Hyrule Warriors also seems to follow this trend too, but I imagine Link's real champion ability is his ability to grow and adapt at exponential rates, due to *his courage to fight on.* It is this courage and inner strength that also made the Master Sword choose Link as its equal as he is a warrior without an equal himself and consistently proves that the impossible is only a matter of perception.
“Also, you should be able to pet the dog” And the horse, when you’re not on it. And the donkeys. And the sheep. And the cows. And you should be able to ride the donkeys, cows and goats, like you can deer and bears Edit - AND the Great Horned Rhinos and Tabantha Moose. This is the Breath of the WILD no?
exactly - it's "BREATH of the wild" - and not "Ride the wild that breathes"; just to mention a point.. edit: If anyone just thinks about something like r/whooshing me, please I beg of you..just spare you the disgrace..
Raz: "Breath of the Wild is one of my favorite games of all time" Squidward: "How original" Raz": "Like my other favorite game, Outer Wilds" Squidward: "Daring today, aren't we?"
Not sure if this has already been said but about the section where you said it would be more disturbing if the champions were ingrained in along the blights, they are in a way, on the second phase of each blight, they use an altered way of each the champions abilities, WindBlight uses a tornado, WaterBlight heals itself, FireBlight protects itself, and ThunderBlight sends the metal thingies
Waterblight heals itself? I've played and watched others play that fight, both the original and the champion's ballad, and never seen a hint of it. Guess we either kill it or die too quickly to notice?
I've watched a couple of videos with this premise; your ideas are the best and I need them now. Hopefully the Nintendo Ninjas do actually take notice of this; not only for potential fixes to BotW 2, but also because we need paper bag hat.
I love BotW. It’s the first game I’ve ever played where I imposed restrictions on how I’d play to give myself an extra challenge and make it more fun. After beating it on regular mode, I started hardcore mode and said, “no hud, and no fast traveling ever.” It’s made the game so much more fun for me. I’ve even made way more discoveries than in my first play through, which has felt very rewarding. I can’t wait for BotW2 to see how they build on top of their current gameplay.
While my experience with Hyrule Castle was amazing, since I chose to explore the whole castle, I do think there was room for improvement. Endings should be about showing how much the protagonist, you, have accomplished. For this reason, I think Link shouldn't be alone when he storms the castle. Instead of each race in Hyrule being like, "Oh thanks! Now go away," it would be more interesting if each kingdom lent an army to assist with the fight. The Rito would give air support, the Gorons would dig tunnels, the Gerudo would offer ground support, and the Zora would secure the moat. You would have to conquer the castle, not just defeat the final boss. On the other hand, Ganon's forces would gather, as they know this is their last stand. This could affect the dark beast fight, gathering the hylian shield, etc. The possibilities are endless. While this would subtract from the innocence of the kingdoms, I think the payoff would be enough.
Cool idea. Maybe not even an army, but just one character from each area, each showing Link a different path into the castle, and then assisting with the final boss fight, as an alternative to the giant laser assist the Divine Beasts give you. Have four boss fight stages, and each one helps with each stage.
The forms of Ganon actually use the same type of weapon as the champion of that divine beast. I'm surprised that so few people noticed. In that sense they actually are reflective of the Champions.
Yeah, that is a subtle touch, but I want like Revali fused into the Blight with malice dripping down his beak. That should would be horrifying and great.
@@razbuten but this is still a children’s game. You don’t want your enemy design to be too disturbing or cause nightmares for children. My cousin couldn’t play majoras mask for example because he found the moon to be too scary.
@@yoshiwiiremotewithwiimotio2947 yeah but having an oh mirror shield from the classic games would have been great even if amiibo exclusive or something
Also concerning dungeons, I think a lot of the problems around shrines comes down to how they’re presented. Having the exterior and the aesthetic, items, and enemies of the interior be the exact same every time hinders the players sense of discovery. A cave, temple, or even an abandoned house could incite a players curiosity much more than a shine (which they’ve seen dozens of times before) ever could.
They kinda tried in some but this is so true, most are the same but it would have been so awesome to do a haunted mansion/town mission or something alike
well it was a clear conscious decision by Nintendo to standardise and speed up the development of 200 odd shrines. I prefer the proper dungeons too but i imagine they'd take 10x the dev time for the same "play time". They went for quantity when it came to shrines. But yeah... nothing beats those proper Zelda dungeons imo. They're more like themed labyrinths really and are the most memorable parts of past Zelda games. I'm hoping they make a return in BOTW 2. More "hand crafted" linear areas would be nice too... the journey through the Lost Woods gave us a taste of what a more guided section of the game could be like.
Agree. Spirit orbs should be scattered around the map not only in shrines. There is no reason to complete a hard challenge to enter a shrine telling you "you already proven your worth". It robs the environment from impacting the player
I like on how most problems Raz had with BOTW was fixed in TOTK. Enemies drop strong monster parts you can fuse with your weapon, essentially making any and all weapons you find viable and strong as long as you go the extra mile of fighting those strong enemies yourself. Every single main boss dungeon is distinct and varied, all with different looks to them, more over world bosses you can encounter that give the player more of a challenge, all with different ways you can fight the boss. Sucks that you still cant pet the dog though...
Also when you are at a campfire or something, you should be able to click a button to bring up the cooking menu. Not just bring up the time changing option of afternoon, evening, etc. And when your inventory is full, it should give you the option to open your inventory or something so you don't have to do the animation of opening a chest again.
I'm surprised this one isn't more liked. I'd LOVE it if they did some simple tweaks like that. Next to a fire place? Click a button to either rest OR to get quick access to ingredients for cooking.
For the cooking thing, they just need to also pop up the plus button on screen. The game will already automatically bring you to the ingredients menu when you're near a cooking pot, but I'm always hitting "a" because the game prompts the a button. I just think having the plus button also pop up will help indicate that that is the case.
Here’s an idea for the Calamity Ganon boss fight that I came up with while watching this video: what if, instead of all shooting at once at the start of the fight, each divine beast took a shot at Ganon whenever you stagger him during normal combat? That way, you’d still have to engage normally with the fight, and the extra damage would only come in whenever you managed to expose a weak point or something like that. That way, I think it would feel more a direct consequence of your actions while still cutting down on the fight’s length and repetition.
instead of doing damaege they could destroy one of his weapons, on top of that they could just his weapons into something that relates to the divine beasts and the corresponding beast destyroys that weapon until he only has his laser
Iove this idea. Their could be a quick cutscene with the champion as they fire it off and make some kinda coment to link. Then zelda could step in to help as well, at the end of the very last phase, which is when he gives up on his normal form.
What if instead of the beasts damaging him, he became stronger, I mean, Ganon is "whole" again after beating his parts in the divine beasts, so you get a harder fight, if you go directly to the castle at the start of the game, you get a 5 minute easy fight without meaning whatsoever, but if you fix the world, helping everyone, you have an epic fight against Ganon.
Personally a fan of the OP's idea and Pablo C's. Instead of fighting the blights, you get a stronger Ganon who's recentered his power... but the champions can aim after you knock him down or secure him (which is kinda like zelda and her bow in some other games). Afterwards you get an improved version of his final form to fight with zelda
I feel like I'm the only one who misses sword skills. Like, upgrades to your combat move pool is such a good feeling - it's crazy to me how little it's brought up.
Yes, I agree. I loved that mechanic in Twilight Princess and it was even more cool that you were learning them from the hero of time. BOTW could have done something similar, and since it merges all three timelines BOTW Link could have learned a move from a Link in each timeline. Would have been so cool.
As much as I loved the hidden skills, they made an already piss easy combat system trivial. If they're going to reintroduce that mechanic, enemies need to not only be stronger, but smarter, to compensate. But I haven't played Breath of the Wild so I don't know what its combat system is like in comparison to Twilight Princess.
@@ink4852 Yes, you make a fair point. Combat systems in previous Zeldas are almost all lacking in difficulty. BOTW is by far the most difficult Zelda game, especially early on. However, during the late game really the only enemy that will give you trouble is the lynel. I would much rather see smarter enemy AI than just tankier/higher damage dealing enemies. BOTW made pretty good strides in enemy AI so I'm excited to see what the future of Zleda holds.
That's my issue with weapon breaking. I love to master my tools and that just isn't an option if they break. So yeah, sword skills that either carry through to weapons, or having some unbreakable weapons all the way!
Somehow, for me Tears of the Kingdom’s fuse mechanic sort of fixed the weapon breaking issues for me. I’m no longer mortified about breaking my best weapon because I can always just fuse a rock to a weaker one and make the same amount of damage. It feels really resourceful too, like, I feel really smart after doing it.
When you figure out how to efficiently kill Lynels, it breaks the weapon system completely. You are guaranteed a weapon, bow and shield drop, and you can kill them without losing any durability to your weapon, making all other normal enemies just not worth killing, ever. Especially on Master Mode. Guardians and Lynels become the only enemies in the game essentially.
@@breeze5926 Get on their back (headshot with a bow then running up is an easy way to do this). When you attack while on it your weapons take no damage
@@Whatismusic123 Likely mistaking losing durability from attacking the lynel normally and mounting. Attacking normally still takes durability as normal, except the Lynel is tanky as fuck so you'll lose a lot of weapons from it, but if you've mounted it then you don't lose anything. Just switch to a royal claymore every time you get on their back and you shred them.
The enemy variety is the biggest problem for me. They’re like 6 enemies you’ll fight throughout the entire game that aren’t bosses Edit: Apparently I have to be specific but I was exaggerating when I said 6 but that doesn’t make the enemy variety any better. It just feels like 6. It’s still pretty limited PS I consider Lynels mini bosses or at least a rare encounter
We all know 6 is an exaggeration. There's decent enemy variety here. Unless you're just rushing to Hyrule castle after the plateau and didn't really explore the game.
@@zirkq destiny 1 had the same mechanic where the raid armor or weapons needed ancient shards to upgrade and you would get them from the raid or chest in the raid. You can also get them from breaking down clothes and weapons.
@@kevinmorelikekevout3639 That doesn't give incentive to use the powerful "consumable" items instead of hoarding them though. Drops is a completely different thing, the game already has enough of those. And going into a menu and destroying weapons is hardly any fun, using your powerful weapons and then get a little reward at the end of using instead of hoarding them is a much better solution.
Speaking of hoarding instincts, one RPG that curbed my tendency to hoard potions was Witcher 3. Instead of gathering ingredients for a single one-time use potion, you used a consumable ingredient to restore -all- your potions to their ‘max’. Because of this, I wasn’t afraid to use potions - in fact, when I used a potion once, I was encouraged to finish the stack plus use others because they were all going to get replenished next time anyways.
Bro this comment is crazy because im playing the witcher 3 in another tab rn. And thats fax, the witcher 3 has the best alchemy system in any game. Im never afraid to use my potions due to scarcity, but rather because of toxicity. Its a perfect system to curb potion spam
I haven’t played that but sounds a lot like elden ring (or any souls game). Instead of hoarding my red health potions I used them and then sat at a bonfire. It reset the area enemies (so there’s a penalty) but the refill is “free”
Yep, Potions/Decoctions and Estus Flasks work basically the same way. It took me a while to figure out how they worked, and I kinda wish the games explained it a bit better. For those playing The Witcher 3, don't forget about your oils.
I was ready to get up in arms when you mentioned durability, but I really like your solution and how softens the blow of breaking your favorite weapons while leaning into the value of the system.
In my experience, the problems with weapon durability largely came down to "It's annoying as hell, until it magically stops mattering". It feels as though early on, you are always struggling to find good weapons, and like you said, places to use the really good weapons. But then suddenly after maybe 8-ish hours of play, you just start getting so many new weapons that the entire mechanic stops mattering because you have at least 5 other of that exact weapon in your inventory somewhere. Then it becomes actively tedious because any time a weapon breaks, you need to pause and take out another, interrupting the flow of combat. The master sword also just makes it worse because you always want to use it over anything else.
I didn’t mind it at the beginning. I am just now playing the game so I knew it was coming. I like that it forces you to be creative with engagements and sometimes prioritize stealth. That said, I just got to the Vah Ruta final boss and now the issue is specifically bows. And that I’m an idiot. I didn’t realize you could break ice with the rune because I’m dumb so I broke two bows at the shooting ice on Sidon’s back. Now I don’t have enough bow health to kill the final boss and I’m gonna have to go find enemies with bows. I feel like if there are enemies who can ONLY be killed from range, the game should have provided a permanent bow as well even if it only has five damage. Waterblight Ganon needed literally 4 more shots to die but I couldn’t kill him because I had no bow. Totally my fault but still irritating.
Personally, i think the game could've used more 'yiga clan hideout'-like quests. Though frustrating at times, learning how to deal with the enemies and the unique boss inside felt very refreshing imo.
Yea I loved fighting kohga and getting thru the hideout it felt very rewarding I think in botw 2 they should have more like stelh like missions although after playing age of clamity I don’t really want to fight the yiga clan anymore
Well as someone that played this as my first open world rpg the difficulty level was perfect especially cause I was scared of fighting the sacred beasts and found last boss battle before defeating them. The food brakes saved me from becoming a pancake in the first few seconds of the fight haha But I also understand how for more experienced players this might have fealt too easy.
I came here to say exactly this. Changing these things to make the game "harder" or "more realistic" would have meant that I probably would have just handed my copy of the game to my husband and gone back to my cozy games. Difficulty barriers to game play for new gamers doesn't make better gamers--it makes those gamers choose different games, or (worse, from an industry standpoint) different hobbies altogether. 300 hours in, I'm grateful for my mask/snack/attack abilities. (Edited for clarity/word choice/thumbs) 😊
I agree with you completely. Zeldas were never hard and sincerely they don’t need to be… the online community just have a very vocal, very challenge driven niche that always seem to bring these “ideas” to make it harder. You can always not use the “easy mechanics” if you wish.
I liked your idea about receiving “Ancient Shards” when a weapon breaks. I’m one of those people who hated when their nice or favorite weapons broke, this would help relieve my grief
Thank you! I think it is really interesting how just the framing of something can change your perception, even though nothing in the game would really have to change by adding them.
@@razbuten I forget what game design video I was watching about this very thing. Probably something from Extra Credits? Anyway, they talked about an MMO that instituted an XP penalty if you'd been playing more than X hours a day. The players were up in arms, furious about the change. They felt penalized and constricted. So the devs ... changed nothing, but announced that instead, you'd get an XP *bonus* when logging on after so many hours inactive. And the players were happy! Same exact situation, different framing. I have to humbly disagree that your idea is just framing, though. You'd be adding a tangible, meaningful reward to weapon churn. Like, I'd actually USE Ruby the weapon smithing station with your idea. As it is I never do, because I don't want to spend valuable materials and rupees on stuff I know will just break. But if I have a steady income of Ancient Shards, then I'd give it a try. (And weapons from Ruby might give extra Ancient Shards when THEY break, being made of them!)
@@razbuten I disagree that its just framing changing your perception, its a genuine mechanical change that would totally alter how the game plays, though I think you still understand that on some level, having come up with the new system yourself. But for the sake of digression: You don't just not want to break weapons because you think it will weaken you in the future, it actually will deplete your arsenal in a way you probably won't be able to improve upon or even replenish very quickly, and certainly not without much effort. If the reward for fighting is just *possibly* easier fighting later on, and combat is optional + repetitive, there is no mechanical or intrinsic incentive to engage with the game at all. Ancient shards changes all of that. It is an explicit mechanic that makes turn breaking weapons from a downgrade to an upgrade. Instead of a wavering power level, that dips and rises abruptly when you acquire or lose a weapon, you are, technically, always getting stronger. Many have said it, but I'll say it again: this is a genius idea. I really hope something like this makes it into BotW 2 if the durability system is maintained for that game, because I honestly can't think of a better solution to the core issue of the system without a complete overhaul.
That's just way too overkill I miss the time when the bosses needed many tries to beat with a few pot to break for health but now you just need to have a stock of food and you just cannot die
@@marickjolivot Except that the game over screen is effectively the same thing. You just "die" and start over with next to no punishment. Adding food mid-fight just makes it more convenient. Alternatively you could really make the game punishing and make a game over permanent and you start from the beginning of the game. This difficulty would exclude a huge chunk of the audience and is the main reason I have never nor will ever pick up a dark souls game. I just don't find the concept of dying and retrying fun in my games and I know that plenty of other gamers feel the same too. This is why I love Master Mode and trial of the sword. Gives the hard core players something more of a challenge but still doesn't exclude players
@@juancampos9468 How is it an issue? People who find it convenient use it, people who find it too easy don't use it It's absolutely the best of both worlds
How these issues feel in tears of the kingdom Weapon durability : With the fusing mechanic, losing weapons feels completely different and imo much better than in BotW. It may also just be me, but I feel like weapons break much slower in general. So imo, the problem is somewhat fixed Dungeons : I’m no that far in TOTK, but the one dungeon I’ve done (rito one) was pretty good and has a climactic boss fight. It’s much better than the divine beasts, but it’s still a mixture of BOTW divine beasts and classic Zelda dungeons. Overall, massive improvement from BotW from the one dungeon I’ve seen. Divine beasts being samey : I’m too early in TOTK to comment on that Eating cooldown : unchanged Climbing when raining : Fixed in a very interesting way, you can now make sticky elixirs and climb on walls Fast travel abuse : unchanged Flurry rush : unchanged (I think? Some people say they feel different but I personally haven’t seen a difference) Petting dogs : I haven’t tried yet Ending : I guess we’ll see pretty soon when people start finishing the game
oh also SPOILER you can get an armor by doing certain quests that lets you climb up walls as well, so you no longer have to use elixers at that point. also enemy variation was fixed a little, but also is much better imo because the fuse system and ultrahand (letting both you and enemies you different vehicles and interesting weapon types) has really improved variation in combat and encounters
I think, instead of getting "mipha's grace" (which is pretty much just a fairy that fills your health fully) we should get the ability to swim underwater. There could be so much more to explore, but you have to unlock it Edit: like in twilight princess
that would be really cool, but it would be a shit-ton of extra work for the devs, and it would also follow the tradition that BOTW tried to break, which is: "Oh this area looks pretty cool but you can only explore it if you have this one specific item" That would be like if Revali's Gale gave you the ability to climb.
@@pbnj0 thats different, because unlocking the glider unlocks the entire rest of the game, and its purpose is to make the player learn the basics and get the runes before they start the "real game".
One of my gripes is Daruk's Protection, I ended turning it off. Got annoying, since it was always active when you get your shield, even if it's to block some trivial low level enemy or a falling rock or something.
honestly. The Gorons were the last people I visited because I thought dealing with the heat would be way more challenging than it actually was, and so getting that last divine beast felt more tedious than fun. All of that work just to get Daruk's crummy protection was really dissapointing.
Daruk's protection makes you play the game worse from personal experience. You end up forgetting the timing of guardian beams, and overall get sloppier avoiding attacks.
Just practice, the easiest thing for me to flurry rush is a lynel because that's the only enemy I bothered trying for. I'm almost useless with with everything else lol.
@@shumeiyang1024 The window for Flurry Rush on its head-first charge attack is super generous, too, I feel. I've dodged when it's a meter in front of me, still got the Flurry Rush. I've dodged when it was basically hitting me, still got the FR. Compare that to Guardian laser parrying... I'll sometimes get the initial parry success "schwing", but take a bit of damage and not actually reflect it.
All of these sound like good ideas to me, though I'm surprised you didn't address the issue of consumable hoarding given you did a previous video on it. By the end of the game I had literally hundreds of food items I knew I would never use. The biggest problem is definitely that hearty foods are full heals, making all other healing items obsolete; I think an easy fix for that would be if the bonus hearts were only given if eaten at maximum health, otherwise they function as normal healing.
I’m not a gamer but is there any precedent for consumables that go off over in-game time? Like the longer you hold on to an apple, bread, chicken, etc, the less health it replaces..?
@@chriskaprys No there’s no sort of decay with recovery items… Even meat where you would think a game like botw would probably have it go off. They restore the same amount even after a 1000 hours
@@chriskaprys The game Don't Starve (and the multiplayer Don't Starve Together) does this. Given the title of the game, it's kind of one of the core mechanics. Building a fridge is one of the most important things.
For people who are pretty good at the combat, yeah. It's too forgiving. The only requirement is that you dodge just before an attack would hit. That leaves a LOT of room and you don't even have to be that close. I shouldn't be able to flurry rush every attack from a horde of enemies.
Yeah, I found it too risky to pull off so I avoided it a lot. Headshots were easier to pull off, bombs were easier to throw, perfect blocks had less risk because if you're too late you just block instead, elemental weapons had CC capabilities, and heavy weapons did plenty of damage without a flurry. Like, there were times when I'd throw 40 bombs into a bokoblin skull through they eye socket so they didn't see me to kill them, rather than actually fight them because it was risky. Boring as hell, but effective enough and completely risk free.
It sounds good, but it just turns into farming low level weapons for the shards. Or farming high level weapons for the shards. Running out of weapons is rarely the issue, it's that most of the weapons are basically Identical. Royal sword is just a slightly better master sword. Same moveset. I find the weapons breaking in combat actually pulls me out of the game. Same with food being free full heals.
I think the timing is a bit janky too. You have to dodge when the hit-box starts, meaning you can time it so you dodge the hit perfectly and not get a flurry rush. It’s something that’s really bothered me since I noticed it and it needs fixed for the sequel imo. Still love the game overall though
It depends on the attack but the spot to aim for is when the attack would hit, not just before, the moment you think its going to hit you. A lot of flurry rushes end with the attack passing through Link's torso and just doing nothing because "he got the rush!'
Something i would change is the blight’s design, they’re all practically the same, floating torso with weapons for arms, i’d like them to be more animalistic, like for example, thunderblight being a desert viper or fireblight being a dragon
Love this idea, I thought about this too when I first got into botw and had trouble telling their designs apart! An octopus waterblight could be pretty cool i think
I think what would be cooler is if they looked like the champions to give the impression that they were specifically designed to be their perfect rival. It would be even cooler if they used the dead champions weapon to kill you. It would certainly be better than just having the leader of the zora just having miphas spear under his bed or something.
I don’t agree, the blights represent human-like creatures so why would they be animals in design? They were with parts of sheika tech and that wouldn’t fit into an animal design. Also they were made by ganon who isn’t an animal per say so why would he reflect that?
i feel like being able to sell weapons to an R&D merchant/smith (whatever you want them) and then being able to buy copies of them would easily mitigate this.
I didn't mind the durability system except for the Championweapons. Those 4 legendary weapons. I didn't use them at all and just hung them at the wall in links house
I hate it, but it would have been far more tolerable if those didn’t atleast break. They are already mid tier and it just destroys the lore that these ancient weapons which have been passed down for generations shatter in a single fight with a lynel and then they are just like, no big deal we’ll forge another if you bring us a far more valuable diamond
They do have much more durability than common weapons, but they surely are weaker than free to replenish weapons of the same class, which makes repairing them not worth it. At least in TotK they are total MVPs so there’s much more incentive to always keep them and use them (and repair them with materials or rock octoroks)
The only one I use regularly is the Boulder Breaker, and that's almost exclusively against Taluses because of the 2x damage bonus. Urbosa's gear is vastly inferior to the awakened Master Sword and Hylian Shield, a great number of late game bows outclass Revali's bow in multiple ways, and Mipha's trident is far from the best spear in the game, and I hardly use spears anyway.
Sometimes is just "that" weapon you don't want to break, I'd just make a way to enchant a single weapon at a time to add a Durability+ stat to make it feel like you really squeezed the usefulness out of it.
I think that was my actual breaking point for the durability system. When I first encountered the Zora weapons, I thought they looked really cool, but they were already outclassed by the gear I had, so I couldn't really justify doing anything with them and they were promptly left behind. In other games, they might have had some special abilities to set them apart, or I could have at least carted a few around for fashion and fighting weak enemies, but BotW durability system means most weapons have to be functionally identical and you can't hold on to things for aesthetic reasons because they'll just break, like everything else. For a system choices that's supposed to encourage you to explore and try new things, it sure makes the things you're trying a lot more disapointing.
@Tales Ferreira I can't remember if it was Aonuma. But they didn't think that most people would care about petting dogs, only for the overwhelming amount of complaints to hit them. They then said that they'll make sure to put it into BotW2
yeah it took me 40 minutes to beat thunder blight because I couldn't for the life of me do flurry rushes. I would always dodge the attack but somehow it never did a flurry rush.
I was decent at flurry rushes before thunder blight ganon, afterwards I was a god at them, I died so many times that I eventually had to adapt and learn, or else keep hitting my head against a wall.
I like alot of these ideas. More intense fighting stuff scares me bc I've always been pretty awful at fighting in games and it's still true with this. Also this video is an amazing example of constructive critique.
Yeah I’m not very great at the combat so the idea of having to eat food in realtime sounds absolutely agonizing to me also I really suck at actually triggering the flurry rush things. “it’s way too easy” was a shot to the heart lmao
@@Rabbit_Hill I often forget that flurry rushing is a thing bc its kinda tricky. I do think for me it's partly bc it takes alot of buttons in a specific way and idk if its an adhd thing or jsut something I struggle with.
12:55 That’s exactly what already happened! Look at the kinds of ancient weapons they carry: e.g. Waterblight has a spear, like Mipha; Thunderblight has a round shield and a scimitar, like Urbosa. Also, their special powers are similar: e.g. Fireblight has a red sphere, like Daruk’s Protection; Windblight uses tornados, like Revali’s Gale. Finally, their hair is a neat detail too. Thunderblight has got long hair in the neck, like Urbosa; Waterblight has two side flaps and a bit of neck hair, like Mipha; Fireblight has got a beard, like Daruk. Their colour schemes are just similar, like the shrines and the interior of the dungeons; that’s probably why it’s easy to miss.
I feel like making the designs a bit more obvious about that could be a good idea. Windblight has wings, fireblight has a more goron like body shape and chains mimicking Daruk’s fashion style, thunderblight has Urbosa’s hairstyle, and waterblight has fins
However, the fact that this isn't obvious is kinda the problem. No point making them look similar when you only figure out after reading about it online. The visual features are way too hard to notice, the powers are generic elemental powers anyway and not strictly tied to the champion, and we literally never see the champions use their weapons (it's only implied after the fact when you explicitly unlock their weapons), not to mention only 2 of them actually follow that pattern while the other 2 have no similarity in weapon (Daruk's spirit uses a fucking arm cannon, like what?).
@@jacobnorris8256 there are literally statues that show the champions with their weapons in the towns where you are required to go. The game is not at fault for you not seeing the resemblances.
Instead of Ancient Shards, I think I'd prefer having enemy drops being more important. I think the Ancient Shards as you proposed would heavily incentivize playing the standard way, by hitting the thing until it dies and breaking your weapons. It would make creative play worse because you're losing chances to gain that currency. Instead, the similar idea of having the enemy's item drops being more important would incentivize players to not avoid encounters but still have people play creatively. I don't know how the enemy drops would be improved though. Maybe by making the elixirs more than just an afterthought.
This is the best solution, with Razbuten system I imagine players hitting walls for minutes with weapons they can't carry just for the shards. Elixirs would be more useful if foods weren't the best solution altogether, foods can do everything exilirs can without requiering to fight for them. So the best way to make elixirs more viable is nerfing foods.
personally, I think they should just add more storage for weapon. I talking like a chest that is as big à your inventory that you can drop weapon and others inside for later use. like the stand in links house but more numerous. that could also give an adotionnal use for the korok seed
@@StillCisTho42 Or making possible to combine the effect of a food you just eat and a elixir, so you can have 2 buff (1 from food, the other from elixir...)
Oh my god, yes! I HATE games that make you re-start just before the final boss again. I get that its so you can replay the fight anytime and that the evil is gone so what's the point, but it feels like defeating the boss was for nothing if you're just gonna put me back right before I canonically killed him. Origami King did this too.
I think it would be cool if you got a saved hyrule if you fully beat the game (but without all the korok seeds) and you had extra missions to do with Zelda and stuff, or at least some acknowledgment that you’re the hero
That wouldn't really work though cos that would break the Zelda format. Pretty much every game puts you right before the final boss after you beat them so it would be weird to break tradition
a lot of those mechanic changes would be cool! I think (as someone who has problems with fine motor control) making a game more challenging isn't always great for every player, I think adding a difficulty setting that the players can choose that affected a lot of the mechanics you described would be absolutely amazing
Seconded! While I did fine with botw, it took a few hundred hours before I could reliably fight, and even then,.no always. I generally play on the easiest level that isn't story-only, but I especially love games that let you change difficulty whenever. (I'm currently playing Fenyx Rising, and normal mode is great for me, but i'd have chosen story-only if I couldn't change whenever. And I would have missed out on so much enjoyment
@@cyrusjohnson2763 I literally didn't know the flurry rush was a thing for weeks and weeks and I finally started dodging and I was shocked. Now I can nail it 95% of the time. Same with shield parrying.
@@Spolt_main i knew it was a thing but i never used it and as i was at the last phase of gannons fight i hated my self not training this technique because i have to use it against him ugh, but anyway its a great game it was fun to play BoTW.
If Breath of the Wild 2 essentially fuses the best aspects of Breath of the Wild and Majora's Mask, it would probably become my favourite game, ironically dethroning Majora's Mask.
I want to have actual Ganondorf as the antagonist and have him explain that Calamity Ganon was just a shadow of his actual self. That way we could get much higher stakes and darker story in a logical manner.
I've always thought of Dark Beast as a playable cutscene rather than a boss fight so it never really bothered me how little goes on, but man, the idea of climbing it and attacking weak points Shadow of the Colossus style sounds AMAZING
The first few times I rode a horse, I kept getting attacked by guardians and I ended up associating that song with guardians. Later in the game when I rode horses, I'd always be so paranoid that there was a guardian nearby. I never got over that, despite knowing it doesn't mean guardians...
Especially the part about using Ancient Shards to speed up the cooldown timer on the Master Sword. That creates a very satisfying gameplay loop of using the Master Sword until it deactivates, switching to breakable weapons to recharge the Master Sword, and rinse and repeat.
@@1un4cy Gets more complicated, but it could be made so that shards only form from breakage during combat with an enemy. Heck, the difficulty of the enemy, in addition to the quality of the weapon that is broken, could even have some influence over the type/quality of shard that is formed so that super easy enemies aren't the only ones getting farmed.
@@1un4cy You can resolve that issue by preventing the player from hoarding shards. For example, shards can speed up the Master Sword's cooldown timer only while the timer is active; they cannot replenish the Master Sword's energy or be stocked up to bypass a cooldown later. Before the late game, when there are no cooldown timers to speed up, Ancient Shards can instead be used to charge up some kind of temporary powerup, like a Limit Break gauge.
I absolutely adore this video. It's clearly from a place of love for the game, where you wanted the weaker points of BotW to double down on the strengths of the rest of the package, rather than try to compromise them to appeal to the game's largest detractors. Well done.
The BIGGEST issue I feel is how link can simply heal himself instantly anywhere and at any time with an almost endless supply of healing items. I'm glad you at least mentioned that!
@@dpc4548 as soon as you get miphas grace you basically never die again. At least, that was my experience. Also as someone who HATES crafting give the botw crafting system a try. There's no set recipes so it's just about being creative and it works well. Made the world come a live a lot more on my second playthrough.
I think a good way of making the ancient shards make sense in the world is that you have to do some sort of side quest (like the horse god) where some supernatural being gives you a blessing where you get ancient shards when your weapon breaks. Ideally, the game would sort of steer you in the direction of this side quest considering how important of a game mechanic it would be i.e. how the game directs you to Kakariko and the fairy fountain. Maybe the location of this being could be in one of the memory locations that is easy to find? Also, you could only get ancient shards if the weapon was used on an enemy, not just on trees and rocks and things to prevent people from just going around hitting those things. They could also increase the damage of critical hits when a weapon breaks to have it feel better in the moment.
I really like this idea, the concept that it wouldn't automatically happen, but would need to be a triggered event. The gap between losing weapons to getting something back when they break would be so much fun, and would definitely add depth to the game! Maybe it could trigger a cutscene or something after you've met all the Goddess Statues in the villages (possibly including the one in the Deserted Temple).
I'd like some sort of post game quest like the one where you have to gather people to build a village. Something like restoring roads by setting up the outpost used by the bobblins, ore restoring little village where you can rest or find some merchant...
There was a Harvest Moon game where you start out with no town or villagers, and have to build the town from the ground up, I forget which title. I've often felt like there's room for a LoZ spin-off where you start off someplace like Lon Lon Ranch (or maybe have a "career" selection at the beginning) and slowly rebuild your ranch or whatever. Maybe have some kind of "commission board" type thing in town that you give resources to in order to bring other resources/types of villagers back and rebuild. You could even incorporate the Blood Moon with waves of enemies during them.
@@darthapple87 That's what want, nintendo could've placed link's house in Hateno illage, and from there starting quests for the building of the city and house, bringing food or defending it like the "blood Moon Waves" you mentioned.
Part of the issue with the durability system is how inconvenient it is to replenish some of the better weapons, forcing players to go into consumable conservation mode
Really? It wasn’t that hard for me- every time I’d break a good weapon, I’d always wait for a Blood Moon and then go to either the Colosseum or the Woodland Tower. Really easy to get strong weapons there.
@@liansmith4038 If you learn weapon respawn locations and behavior, it's not technically difficult, though still arguably inconvenient. But you have to be a bit metagamey to be sure to take full advantage of things like that, and YMMV when you're playing blind. I didn't have difficulty with it, either, but this isn't strictly about my experience. It's about game design and player experience. If there were something more obvious and intuitive for new players on the learning curve, like smithies for repair or forging, item durability might not have been a so hotly rambled on subject. People have little reason to complain about durability in TES4 Oblivion because items can be repaired anywhere and you immediately know which skill to focus on to make it more efficient.
@@baitposter You make a good point. However, I’m kinda curious as to how exactly one would balance the durability and repair systems. Sure, being able to repair weapons is convenient, but it could come at the cost of discouraging players from trying to experiment with all the options given to them- you’d always use this certain sword and shield, instead of trying out your Sheikah runes or any of the other weapons.
@@liansmith4038 Spontaneous moments of chucking weapons at enemies and stealing theirs would also be discouraged if players got too attached to them. Tricky. Maybe something like an auto transmog system instead, but also for power, not just cosmetics? You could let a player automatically boost weapons they pick up to a level appropriate to the player's progression, so even a boko club remains eternally attractive to pick up again.
@@liansmith4038 a solution that i think would nicely force players to explore would be a sort of limit or cap on repairing. A sort of example that is way out of the ballpark but an example non the less is minecrafts anvil, the experience drastic increase could be implemented in the form of more materials every time until it either A. caps out and you can't fix the weapon anymore, or B. it becomes so expensive that it is discouraging to repair your weapon when there are so many better out there. the only problem i see with my solution is why not just go get the same weapon again and just repair that one once you max out for repairing. Making the capping system work on any weapon of that kind (ex any spiked bokoblin bat) would force players to go out and explore, but there are tons of negatives to this idea that idk how to work around.
14:09 Not for everyone, me included. I was surprised when I got my first flurry rush after having already beaten Ganon. I'm not good at combat, and so for me, it feels like a strong bow and some arrows (ancient arrows to exaggerate this) make any other form of combat redundant. This includes Ganon, which was the most disappointing fight for me because of the high expectations I had. I was expecting a really difficult fight. So, I had a full set of ancient armor with 2 upgrades each, an ancient bow, attack increasing dishes, and a bunch of ancient arrows. As you might now expect, the fight was over in a matter of seconds. Or a few Rivalis's gales to get higher So I can shoot some 15 arrows into Ganon's head to finish the fight. The same principle happened with 3 out of the 4 blight fights + Lynels. The best and most memorable boss fight I had because of this was Thunderblight Ganon, which was a lot of fun. despite me having to restart tens of times. I'm kind of curious if most people found flurry rushes overpowered compared to other methods of combat, and that am I the only one who had the same experience with archery in the game.
oh yeah same, for me it's more practical to snipe something than to get up close and fight that way. once i got far enough to get the ancient and twilight bows i almost never used a melee weapon again except for stasis, puzzles and thunderblight
Honestly i would agree. thunderblight was the best cos it really made you get that timing when i found out about gannon i endedup killing him after 2 years expecting a extremely good fight but as you said. over in a matter of seconds so that sucked. also the second phase was trash no offence to anyone.
Honestly as someone who new about flurry rushes sense day 1 and still cant do them I dont think flurry rushes are that overpowered and if someone can do then easily enough for it to be over powered then I think they might have reached ur levels of op stuff already
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You posted before I was done my school work, but I watched it anyway. Life is good.
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CEMU emulator could fix some of these problems
Is this video safe to watch PRE ever playing the game?🤔
I can't believe you didn't include inventory choice when opening chests. The most annoying thing in the whole damn game for me was opening a chest, seeing it had a weapon instead of a collectible, being told my inventory was full, closing the chest, dropping a weapon, then opening it again. I wish we were given the opportunity to ditch something as soon as it opens.
Yes! Like in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, that gives you the option to drop the new thing or swap it with something else as soon as you take it. It is such a small thing but it would make a huge difference.
Agreed
Maybe pickup-able items in chests could just fall out when opened and be picked up that way. It would speed up chest looting and also solve the weapon switching problem.
@@sd19delta16 That would be better than now, but if you're unfamiliar with the weapon then you'd still maybe pick it up and have to drop it again if your current weapons are all superior. Having it be in a menu would be best.
I wish you could climb better when ypu level up the climbing clothes. And the same with swimming fast and leveling up the zora suite. The only thing that happens until now is that its defense gets better, which is okay for the knight suit but not for every suit.
BoTW is my favorite game of all time and yet I can still complain and nitpick it for hours. There's so much potential for future Zelda games building upon this base formula.
Complaining about a game usually means you care about it, and are eager to see it improve. Keep doing it
@@Kirzerk Exactly.
Same, man!
"I love this game! Here's why I hate it"
In botw 2, so need a fix weapons system! I got tired of breakable weapons and shields. I love the game, I just stop playing it after beating the game cuz tired of everything breaking
We need a cook book that fills out the more stuff you make and find.
YES!!! Why they never did this, I have no clue. The sequel needs this
It would be neat. I spent a lot of time trying to find new foods. Npcs will mention hints at recipes which is cool. I was excited when i realized you could make apple pie and other foods like that. Even if prime meat food is still the best for healing
I would kill for a cookbooooooooi
Yes! Also it'd be cool if they made more unique effects from recipes
@@rockbandandghmaster Hearty durian is the best thing for healing. Near the end of the game I literally just cooked them up one at a time because bonus hearts didn't matter. Prime meat is the best thing for money.
Another thing for the first one is that I think it would be good if you could hang more weapons in the house, cause sometimes I just want my powerful weapons as little trophies
also make the house more useful
@@ryandrummond3794 there’s a house?😂😂 I play on and off so I don’t really know too much
@@cheyennelandgraf5081 you can get a house in Hateno Village at the top of the town across the bridge. Speak to the construction crew.
You need to pay a certain amount of rupees plus stacks of wood. Then you can add upgrades but it's very limited.
Anakin's the father, isn't he? I am so sorry.
@@cheyennelandgraf5081 damn dude, you should probably do the quest lol
i wish i could dive underwater, with unlimited breath when wearing Zora armor ; i missed traveling & exploring zones beneath the water's surface, and did so in both Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess. The ocean in BotW doesn't feel like an ocean to explore, it feels like a marsh slowing you down
Would have been awesome being able to dive underwater and find caves to explore, maybe long lost Sheika ruins, maybe an ocean-going sub-species of Zora?
On one hand I'd love that but on the other hand.... Water movement is awful
Yes please! I got so frustrated whenever loot disappeared into the depths of the water :(
Breath of The Wild doesn't even have cave systems like Twilight Princess has...
@@saricubra2867 true, I missed those too
“Babe wake up, Razbuten is pitching improvements for an open world game again”
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@@tobyk5091 hello!
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To be fair, using the Master Sword for gardening is one of the mainstays of the Zelda franchise.
my point exactly
Yes, this.
So true :D
i use it for getting ores too!
@@sophfuric In every game where you can use your sword to destroy pots and rocks you do that.
One thing I kind of missed was enemy variation. Would be nice to have more unique enemies tied to certain areas instead of just bokoblins and lizalfos everywhere.
Don't forget moblins and keese lol
This is the single biggest complaint I had with the game. The enemies were just way too repetitive. There was relatively little variation. And about 95% of the time, you were fighting bokoblins, moblins, or lizalfos, sometimes colored differently.
The game AT LEAST needed Darknuts.
@@dhans9662 and tektites would have been such an obvious choice
See: pokemon. Too much variation = other stuff having to be optimised to look worse
*Beats game*
" you can now play as luigi"
ah yes, my favourite legend of zelda characters.
Lugi and Maro
Bower kidnapped Princess Pach again
Why do i want this
That weapons fix is so goddang smart
both you and pine called my idea smart today and now my ego is just unstoppable
@@razbuten Haha ^^ Use that rare occurrence wisely
When the king of TH-cam essays praise your idea, then you know you did good.
@@razbuten I also agree with you for that idea, its a great one, ( way better than anything I could come up with) the several hour video (made by joseph anderson I think) covers the dungeon problem much better.
the combat needs a full overhaul as while it works great for the first 10 hours or so after that the progression just makes it less fun, the hyper bloated hp pool is the biggest offender, making environmental damage and creative tactics innificient, also you feel compelled to hoard the late game weapons, but there are other problems.
Yes ! My face literally lit up when he explained his idea!
I wish that after you defeat Gannon, the castle actually changes back...
honestly
Agreed. I'd love it if the post game included rebuilding and repopulating the kingdom and villages that were destroyed in the war 100 years ago, kind of like you did with Tarrytown
Maybe that might happen in botw 2 you know
@@ausnik Only thing is that the sequel to Breath of the Wild will probably be pretty direct, since it was originally going to be DLC. The threat isn't gone yet so it just wouldn't make sense to rebuild everything only for Ganondorf to come back two seconds later. Good idea, though. Maybe we'll get something like that in the sequel, 'cause Bolson construction is still around.
@@aidangreen7596 The threat of Ganon is everlasting though. It repeats itself, hence the legends and all the preparations 100 years ago. It's a kingdom that constantly rebuilds, goes through the war phase and returns. I'd love to see a rebuilding kingdom in the sequel where you still have bands of bokoblins and other beasts roaming about, just with more villages and towns. Then you can have a shadow plot of Ganaondorf's true body being resurrected, etc. Either way, any game where you can city build or kingdom build tends to be that much more fun because of it. Rebuilding and repopulating the likes of Hyurule Castle, Central Hyrule, Great Plateau, The Colosseum or the Akkala Fortress for example would be so much fun.
I really like the idea of ancient shards when weapons break. I’m definitely one of those that doesn’t want to use a rarer weapon, this mechanic would make me think twice
I only use my better weapons because of the durability glitch
I wish they had made the dragons more integral than just being needed to upgrade armor
You know the dragon at the spring of power? I really liked the way that worked, I’d just rather it not end in a blessing shrine
There should be armor sets for all 3 dragons that you need to craft using the dragon parts or something. Also they should've made the other 2 work like Naydra where you had to free them from the malice before getting their resources. On top of that, I remember it being really boring to farm enough dragon parts for all my armor upgrades, so that could've been better.
I wish there was some sorta quests with the dragons. Like theres only 3 of them so a lot could’ve been done with them!
They can attack you ? Make the landscape beautiful ?
@@Nyxxy8 naydra's armour, cools you down in the desert, immunity to frost, increases damage from frost weapons
Allowing us to pet the dog is the most important change this game needs
yes
Definitely the biggest oversight by far.
I think the biggest thing you missed is enemy variety. The enemy variety is really bad this game compared to OoT, TP, Wind Waker, etc. Constantly fighting Bokoblins, Lizalfos, and Moblins got super old really fast.
Bring back Darknuts!!
@@codagaming9186 YES! Darknuts would be so much fun to fight with the mechanics in BotW.
There needs to be sets of enemies for each region imo....
@@Watertrotter-ge5yp Remember the Darknuts in Twilight Princess? They were a legit threat. They could do that for Breath 2.
@@pizzamandhx
While I understand why people find them cool, Darknuts honestly disappoint me. They were a mild threat when the game crammed three of them in one room to cheap shot Link, but one-on-ones with them were pushovers in both WW and TP. And while they look badass, they are just...big swordsman. We already got Blademasters to fit that bill. I'm really only interested in Darknuts if BotW2 is willing to make them truly ominous, beyond Lynel levels of threatening.
Personally, I'm crossing my fingers for more overworld variety. Tektites hoppin around cliffs. Po haunting around at night. Dodongos runnin around the fields.
I always wanted 3 of the relatively unused regions to have a dungeon in there, each one housing a piece of a contraption. Once you get them all you can assemble them to make the hookshot. Fits right into the climbing
I love that (even if its something different).
*something* needs to be there and they could be optional super hard things like the weapons from FF7
THEY NEED A HOOKSHOT i have no health and max stamina and a lot of stamina lotions
Also revalis gale isnt here its horizontal
@@itsjayh They actually had the hookshoot in the game during testing phases. They decided to take it out because it made the climbing mechanic obsolete.
@@brotbrotsen1100 They could've just make it consume stamina. Right now in TOTK climbing is almost obsolete with the whole zonai devices thing, flying from the towers and fast traveling to a nearby sky island shrine and dropping.
@@Xeyph Yeah i know, just wanted to tell people why they left it out
Touching on the rain, I had an idea on it. Many armor sets gain a secondary ability when upgraded twice. They could have given the climbing gear that secondary ability whether it's after upgrading twice or all four times
Probably all 4 times
@@mics1234 I see your point that it is a very valuable ability, but if you make the cost of the ability too high, then players won’t acquire it until after they actually need it.
@@cyan.cephalopod Im 100% sure everyone needs a gear that beats rain.
@@mics1234 “before you actually need it” is not the same as “grind until it’s yours after you’ve finished 90% of the games content”
@@impeybarbicane You dont need to finish the game to max out armour pieces.
As someone who didn't know Breath of the Wild would have dragons, hearing the music and seeing Farosh for the first time while playing was by far one of the coolest moments I have ever had in a video game. It was genuinely awe inspiring.
Dude same!!!
Also riding horse sometimes
I saw him in the distance so assumed he was just an environmental thing. Then I did Naydra's quest and holy shit you can glide right up to them!
I remembered seeing them for the first time and I thought they were bosses. So I was scared to go near them for a while.
@@BibBubDude well idk if you knew this but theres a dragon boss fight in botw
Broke: wanting the climbing feature changed for when it rains
Generic Woke: wanting to pet the dogs
Meta Woke: wanting the song from the first trailer for BOTW to show up somewhere in the game.
Why is this not up there with the 2k likes comments?
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FACTS that song is so good
@@martmine4618 Because the song appears when fighting dark beast Ganon.
One thing that bothers me a lot about botw was the fact that half the lynels were harder to kill than calamity gannon, and they weren’t even considered a mini boss
They were the Crucible Knights before Crucible Knights.
In regards to the final fight, I like the way they framed it of having your former companions there to support you in the end. But rather than just simply draining half of Ganon's health, or your suggestion of upgrading your abilities so you get to feel like the hero, how about having each of the other characters cripple one of Ganon's abilities with a corrupting form of the abilities they give you. For example, say Ganon had the ability to levitate and be out of reach of your melee attacks. Revali could cripple that and keep him grounded. Daruk could eliminate a barrier that Ganon would use normally, Mipha could lower his defense or health, and Urbosa could cut his attack strength in half. You still have to go through the fight normally, but you feel stronger because Ganon is weaker. And you also feel like your friends are there supporting you.
the only problem with this idea is that it is wayyy too easy for nintendo to accidentally ruin the fight because they make the fight so easy it is boring, or the former companions do next to nothing and it feels like a waste of time
@@acefluffyzeuss7617 You're probably right. It'd probably end up a Fierce Diety situation. Except in that case, it felt deserved after all the work you went through.
@@Amins88 for myself I’d be alright with a fierce deity situation, but I know lots of others wouldn’t. Back when majoras mask was originally released the margin in which players had for the companies was way larger and people weren’t all about critiquing the game and more about having fun, which don’t get me wrong lots of people still are. But there’s a growing group of people who only want hardcore gameplay, in which a fierce deity time would feel underwhelming and boring. Right now they have to get it bang on to please everyone with the assistance so that it feels like you earned it but not to the point that it overthrows the fight similar to the current final fight
Tbh even if ur idea is flawed I feel like it makes somewhat more sense than the video's proposal because it lets the champions also take their revenge rather than just powering you up (which they already do once you free them); the purpose of freeing the divine beasts is to free the champions' spirits AND be able to use the actual machines to ur advantage. Story-wise it wouldn't make sense to not use the beasts themselves to weaken Ganon
@@acefluffyzeuss7617 I played MM's on 64 as a kid (who didnt speak english) and my first ending was beating Majora's with normal link. Only after a few playthroughs I picked all masks and used fierce deity and I can garantee anyone that it simply felt magic.
On my first playthrough, I turned off the special moves you get for completing the Divine Beasts because I thought they were consumables that couldn't ever recharge. Then when I finally got to Hyrule Castle, I parasailed to the hidden side-entrance not knowing that there was a main entrance.
And my god, did it make for an awesome final challenge. Fighting all those super-tough enemies while solving puzzles involving cellars and secret walls, topped off with randomly stumbling upon the Hylian Shield is still one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had.
I didn't turn them off, I just often forgot to use them lol
Man that sounds amazing.
I swam up a waterfall, climbed a tower and nearly insta killed ganon with the special power. Then I had a boring ass Horse fight.
I was so disappointed I lost my motivation to explore the world and have barely been playing since then..
I didn't turn them off but went all the way through the secret entrance and Hyrule castle, plus the Lynel fight, because I was too scared to run around with all the guardians being there. Aka you can make the game tough if you want to :D
Same I didn't know they recharged for the longest time.
I didn't know that was the secret entrance! I was wondering for the longest time why I had so much trouble with the endgame...
A small idea I had, Mipha's Grace and Daruk's protection also come with a heart container each. Makes sense right? They are defensive champion abilities. However, Urbosa Fury and Revaili's Gale use stamina. It would have been a nice touch if these two came with stamina vessels instead of heart containers again.
It could make sense. Tho, I wonder if the heart container could be what's left of their soul ?
@@-randomuser-4897 well, soul is not always about health
I think in concept that’s a good idea, but it would make you complete 8 more shrines to get the Master Sword
@@astandmixer8218 I don't think 8 shrines is a big deal.
@@astandmixer8218 Ooooor they could just make it consider both your stamina and your heart totals. So players that chose to improve stamina instead of hearts aren't needlessly punished and have to google "how to swap stamina for hearts" in frustration to get the sword. Yeah, I'm still salty.
I like how TOTK basically fixed the "Running away from rights cause your weapons will degrade" mentality, by making enemy encounters give you really good weapons. Like sure they might all just have sticks, but they can drop horns and monster parts which you can fuse to your current weapons to make them stronger and more durable. You're now incentivized to engage in fights to get better weapons
Agreed, I go out of my way to fight the black enemies now
Imo they made it worse. Now all you can find out in the world are bland sticks, and the only way to get resources to make better weapons is to fight monsters, breaking more weapons in the process. Its hard to get excited about getting weapons when I know they're gonna break in only an encounter or two, except now I have to worry about farming monster parts too.
@@zacharywoloszynski4258 *wheeze*
@@ChrisSor54 1. They've added a repair feature. Feed your weapon to an octo-rok, it gets a repair and an upgrade. This fixes a lot by itself. 2. I assume you're early in the game or don't do much fighting, because I get plenty of viable weapons from random enemy drops. That's where most of them have come from. If you fuse an actually good monster horn to the weapon, it'll increase durability and you can easily clear 2-3 camps with that weapon and a few arrows alone, so you don't have to "break more weapons" to get new ones. 3. You do not have to farm any more materials than you do in BotW, I have many many fusion materials because I get creative and think resourcefully about what weapons are worthy of what fuse materials. It's engaging, and far and away an improvement over BotW.
@@braveheart1320 I've beaten the game its entirety. If you're telling me that by visiting a octorok every 2 fights to repair extremely fragile weapons is an acceptable fix then that's just unreasonable. Also this was already a feature in BotW. Monsters will drop a lot of parts, but besides the horns most of them are garbage to fuse with, and they only drop like one horn, so yes you do have to kill damage sponge enemies and break weapons to get parts. I certainly found myself having to go out of my way to get any actual good parts. In botw, I never had to worry much because I always came across a healthy supply of decent swords no matter where I went. TotK just adds an unnecessary step to the process, and replaces anything interesting you'd find with boring sticks or rotted weapons that both break extremely quickly. I don't see how it's an improvement to go from fragile weapons that break quickly to fragile weapons that break quickly that I now have to craft myself. Just give me a cool sword and stop wasting my time.
Absolutely class video. Some really cool ideas
Agreed
Its is amazing
Hi :)
Good to see you here
Yes
I really wish Link could sit down wherever I want not just in chairs or benches
Also an animation of Link laying down in the beds at the inns would make me happy
They also could of added when link lays down on the bed they show him getting the spa makeover and massage lol
Got that Death Stranding inspo
Like the one is skyward sword?
I think so you can sit down on chairs and benches in skyward sword. I’ve played the original version before it’s actually my favorite Zelda game twilight is second. I’m also working on the hd version right now along with wind waker hd and links awakening.
that would be so annoying and would be such a waste of time
Something I remember being really disappointed by on my first playthrough were the three springs. While Nadra's fight and freeing her from corruption was satisfying the first time, I was so disappointed when the other two didn't pose any new and exciting challenge. For something so important lore-wise, only having to grab a scale and find the spring was a letdown.
Honestly, I would place the extra dungeons there, behind the springs instead of just another shrine. It would be so cool to have a special themed dungeon for each spring, one that isn't made out of Shika tech but has different challenges, maybe elemental themed like the dragons. Imagine a vast icy cave network that travels through Mt. Lanayru, or puzzles that are influenced by the nearby Death Mountain by the spring of power.
i actually really love the idea of dungeons at the springs, in my opinion the spring of power and courage were quite boring to me, whereas seeing a dragon and freeing it from the malice was quite an adventure (also the first time i learned u can shoot arrows in the air!).
I would love to see some sort of fire/lava themed dungeon, with its own separate boss, along with an electric dungeon where u have to use magnesis to activate electrical switches and a boss that deals us electric attacks.
but than again there have been fiery/lava shrines that have milked this idea along with electrical shrines, but an icy dungeon would be new and innovative
Aren’t the spring of courage and power like connected to dungeons in skyward sword?
Zelda games, especially 3d zelda games, have never really been challenging. They're just kinda tedious. Most of the puzzles that people remember being hard were just confusing and poorly made.
Agreed. Doing Naydra’s spring first really set up the expectation that there would be an engaging mini-quest for the other two dragons, so that was quite a let-down.
my dream would be to have the spring dungeons be skyview and the earth temple but rundown and in a breath of the wild style
Imagine an ending, where you are able to explore Hyrule with Zelda on your side and Ganon defeated. That would be awesome
that’s what i thought would happen when i first played the game i thought there would be an after main storyline quest where you have to help repair hyrule
but what would you fight? No more guardians because no more malice, and eventually all the monsters will die and not come back bc no more blood moons.
What specifically would be awesome about this idea lol
@@WagnerKoop exactly. The only benefit would be you feel the accomplishment of this and see the worlds reaction. That’s it
Luckily we have modding lol
can you imagine if the blights were the corpses of the champions? that’s so dark, but so damn cool. it would add a lot more emotional weight to freeing the divine beasts as well.
The next one is supposed to be darker so maybe we get that on the next one even though it's a prequel?
@@ralexcraft990 But it's a sequel...
Imagine mipha taunting link, and Link just draws his sword and grits his teeth like a mad hound, thirsty for vengeance
@@psuedonym9999 Yes but set in the past.
@@sheridan5175 Then at the end once she's freed she decides it's been long enough and gives him a kiss.
11:50 My (speedrunner-friendly) idea for improving your terminal system in Hyrule Castle:
There are 4 optional terminals inside Hyrule castle which act as "receive-points" for the divine beast. So that in order for a divine beast to help in the final battle you have to free the divine beast AND activate the associated terminal inside of Hyrule castle (or do the terminal first before the divine beast). That way most players would be really encouraged to explore the castle but it wouldn't add a necessary obstacle.
Nice Idea!
That's a great idea
Could the four terminals be where you fight the blights talked about in the video? I think it'd fit pretty well.
Another thing: To make sure it doesn't just become the champion's ballad thing all over again, where you have to go back and fight the blights a second time(and with your changed version, technically THREE times), how about instead of the blights appearing, it's dark versions of the champions themselves you have to fight, and then finally dark link as a secret final boss you fight in the sanctum in place of where the blights were just to shake things up a little, plus bring back an old foe!
That’s a good idea for sure
However: more obstacles means more routing, and while it would make speedruns slower, it'll make them more interesting. The better speedrun friendly idea is letting the player approach the obstacles from many different directions, with the faster ones being harder, and botw is pretty good in that
I am surprised you didn't mention making the Lynel one of the area bosses like a Hinox, Talus, or Molduga. The Lynel fights were always more memorable than the other three and deserved its own fight music.
13:09
My head canon for this is that Link’s own Champion Ability is that he can stop time to swap out his weapons, armor, or heal. He’s the Hero of Time, after all.
Same
He's the hero of the wilds in this game. "hero of time" was just OoT
I would argue this is a trait all heroes of this time share though. In cutscenes we can see Urbosa parrying Yiga clansmen and time slow there too.
Hyrule Warriors also seems to follow this trend too, but I imagine Link's real champion ability is his ability to grow and adapt at exponential rates, due to *his courage to fight on.*
It is this courage and inner strength that also made the Master Sword choose Link as its equal as he is a warrior without an equal himself and consistently proves that the impossible is only a matter of perception.
Link is only the Hero of Time in Ocarina of Time.
Also he has bullet time so it makes sense
That he can slow down time
“Also, you should be able to pet the dog”
And the horse, when you’re not on it.
And the donkeys.
And the sheep.
And the cows.
And you should be able to ride the donkeys, cows and goats, like you can deer and bears
Edit - AND the Great Horned Rhinos and Tabantha Moose. This is the Breath of the WILD no?
And we needs cats, they aren't cats in the game
There should be pigs too. Wind waker link got a pig so breath of the wild needs em too
exactly - it's "BREATH of the wild" - and not "Ride the wild that breathes"; just to mention a point..
edit: If anyone just thinks about something like r/whooshing me, please I beg of you..just spare you the disgrace..
@@silvercrystal3 r/whoooooosh
@@AmazinglyAwkward *triggered
Raz: "Breath of the Wild is one of my favorite games of all time"
Squidward: "How original"
Raz": "Like my other favorite game, Outer Wilds"
Squidward: "Daring today, aren't we?"
Cool to see you here!
Raz: "I think BOTW should have stuck with some of the ideas of Shadow of the colossus"
Squidward: "OH NO THAT'S HOT!!"
"I'd take a page out of Hollow Knight."
I'm always especially glad when Hollow Knight gets referenced in a video.
Me too, it’s my favorite game haha
Yeah, it's the cherry on top of this masterpiece of a video. HK is the best game I've ever played along with BOTW.
Not sure if this has already been said but about the section where you said it would be more disturbing if the champions were ingrained in along the blights, they are in a way, on the second phase of each blight, they use an altered way of each the champions abilities, WindBlight uses a tornado, WaterBlight heals itself, FireBlight protects itself, and ThunderBlight sends the metal thingies
That’s why I feel that fighting the champions was the plan, but was cut for time
Ok but imagine if they looked like the champions, but corrupted. It just adds a layer of uncanny
Wait waterblight does what now
Waterblight heals itself? I've played and watched others play that fight, both the original and the champion's ballad, and never seen a hint of it. Guess we either kill it or die too quickly to notice?
"Maybe a shield that automatically deflects guardian lasers"
Ancient shield: am i a joke to you?
Maybe the mirror shield from OoT
Yes but its not the hylian shield, which would be cooler
ancient shield but stronk
@@Sheila_Chu that does make sense
Honestly a pot lid is more efficient and much more cheaper
I've watched a couple of videos with this premise; your ideas are the best and I need them now.
Hopefully the Nintendo Ninjas do actually take notice of this; not only for potential fixes to BotW 2, but also because we need paper bag hat.
Oh hi Kleric
At bare minimum they need to add the ability to pet dogs
Nintendo ninjas would first find a reason to DMCA this video and then steal these ideas to present them as their own
i didnt expect to see kleric
It's Nintendo they strictly do the bare minimum
I love BotW. It’s the first game I’ve ever played where I imposed restrictions on how I’d play to give myself an extra challenge and make it more fun. After beating it on regular mode, I started hardcore mode and said, “no hud, and no fast traveling ever.” It’s made the game so much more fun for me. I’ve even made way more discoveries than in my first play through, which has felt very rewarding. I can’t wait for BotW2 to see how they build on top of their current gameplay.
I did the same
Def better without fast traveling.
same
I'm glad more people are playing the game without fast travel! Completely transforms the experience.
I did the same but on normal mode. I find the enemies to be too tanky on hard mode, so the difficulty feels too artificial to me.
While my experience with Hyrule Castle was amazing, since I chose to explore the whole castle, I do think there was room for improvement. Endings should be about showing how much the protagonist, you, have accomplished. For this reason, I think Link shouldn't be alone when he storms the castle. Instead of each race in Hyrule being like, "Oh thanks! Now go away," it would be more interesting if each kingdom lent an army to assist with the fight. The Rito would give air support, the Gorons would dig tunnels, the Gerudo would offer ground support, and the Zora would secure the moat. You would have to conquer the castle, not just defeat the final boss. On the other hand, Ganon's forces would gather, as they know this is their last stand. This could affect the dark beast fight, gathering the hylian shield, etc. The possibilities are endless. While this would subtract from the innocence of the kingdoms, I think the payoff would be enough.
Cool idea. Maybe not even an army, but just one character from each area, each showing Link a different path into the castle, and then assisting with the final boss fight, as an alternative to the giant laser assist the Divine Beasts give you. Have four boss fight stages, and each one helps with each stage.
The forms of Ganon actually use the same type of weapon as the champion of that divine beast. I'm surprised that so few people noticed. In that sense they actually are reflective of the Champions.
Yeah, that is a subtle touch, but I want like Revali fused into the Blight with malice dripping down his beak. That should would be horrifying and great.
@@razbuten Anything that allows me to stab Revali. I'm in.
@@NathanielRich me too omg 😍
@@NathanielRich yeah but, are you ready to stab Mipha?
@@razbuten but this is still a children’s game. You don’t want your enemy design to be too disturbing or cause nightmares for children. My cousin couldn’t play majoras mask for example because he found the moon to be too scary.
"A shield that automatically reflects lasers back at enemies"
So the Mirror shield
I'm surprised not more people know about this, but the Ancient shield you can get at Akkala Ancient Tech Lab actually does auto-parry Guardian lasers.
@@yoshiwiiremotewithwiimotio2947 yeah but having an oh mirror shield from the classic games would have been great even if amiibo exclusive or something
And make sure it doesn't break after three uses with no way to repair it except for buying a new one
@@gamercore5216 It was kinda weird how in Wind Waker, Link's actual *official* shield was the mirror shield.
So the giant ancient shields
Also concerning dungeons, I think a lot of the problems around shrines comes down to how they’re presented. Having the exterior and the aesthetic, items, and enemies of the interior be the exact same every time hinders the players sense of discovery. A cave, temple, or even an abandoned house could incite a players curiosity much more than a shine (which they’ve seen dozens of times before) ever could.
Yes this, also since heart containers don't exist anymore if I see a small house I'd just think "just another korok spot nothing important here"
They kinda tried in some but this is so true, most are the same but it would have been so awesome to do a haunted mansion/town mission or something alike
They all look and play exactly the same. It's a disgrace compared to any of the previous Zelda games
well it was a clear conscious decision by Nintendo to standardise and speed up the development of 200 odd shrines. I prefer the proper dungeons too but i imagine they'd take 10x the dev time for the same "play time". They went for quantity when it came to shrines.
But yeah... nothing beats those proper Zelda dungeons imo. They're more like themed labyrinths really and are the most memorable parts of past Zelda games. I'm hoping they make a return in BOTW 2. More "hand crafted" linear areas would be nice too... the journey through the Lost Woods gave us a taste of what a more guided section of the game could be like.
Agree. Spirit orbs should be scattered around the map not only in shrines. There is no reason to complete a hard challenge to enter a shrine telling you "you already proven your worth". It robs the environment from impacting the player
I like on how most problems Raz had with BOTW was fixed in TOTK. Enemies drop strong monster parts you can fuse with your weapon, essentially making any and all weapons you find viable and strong as long as you go the extra mile of fighting those strong enemies yourself. Every single main boss dungeon is distinct and varied, all with different looks to them, more over world bosses you can encounter that give the player more of a challenge, all with different ways you can fight the boss. Sucks that you still cant pet the dog though...
Also when you are at a campfire or something, you should be able to click a button to bring up the cooking menu. Not just bring up the time changing option of afternoon, evening, etc.
And when your inventory is full, it should give you the option to open your inventory or something so you don't have to do the animation of opening a chest again.
I'm surprised this one isn't more liked. I'd LOVE it if they did some simple tweaks like that. Next to a fire place? Click a button to either rest OR to get quick access to ingredients for cooking.
Yeah also make it so you don't have to teleport back to the Hunter's dream to farm blood vi... oh wait
For the cooking thing, they just need to also pop up the plus button on screen. The game will already automatically bring you to the ingredients menu when you're near a cooking pot, but I'm always hitting "a" because the game prompts the a button. I just think having the plus button also pop up will help indicate that that is the case.
Here’s an idea for the Calamity Ganon boss fight that I came up with while watching this video: what if, instead of all shooting at once at the start of the fight, each divine beast took a shot at Ganon whenever you stagger him during normal combat? That way, you’d still have to engage normally with the fight, and the extra damage would only come in whenever you managed to expose a weak point or something like that. That way, I think it would feel more a direct consequence of your actions while still cutting down on the fight’s length and repetition.
instead of doing damaege they could destroy one of his weapons, on top of that they could just his weapons into something that relates to the divine beasts and the corresponding beast destyroys that weapon until he only has his laser
Iove this idea. Their could be a quick cutscene with the champion as they fire it off and make some kinda coment to link. Then zelda could step in to help as well, at the end of the very last phase, which is when he gives up on his normal form.
why didn't they add this it sounds amazing
What if instead of the beasts damaging him, he became stronger, I mean, Ganon is "whole" again after beating his parts in the divine beasts, so you get a harder fight, if you go directly to the castle at the start of the game, you get a 5 minute easy fight without meaning whatsoever, but if you fix the world, helping everyone, you have an epic fight against Ganon.
Personally a fan of the OP's idea and Pablo C's. Instead of fighting the blights, you get a stronger Ganon who's recentered his power... but the champions can aim after you knock him down or secure him (which is kinda like zelda and her bow in some other games). Afterwards you get an improved version of his final form to fight with zelda
I feel like I'm the only one who misses sword skills. Like, upgrades to your combat move pool is such a good feeling - it's crazy to me how little it's brought up.
Yes, I agree. I loved that mechanic in Twilight Princess and it was even more cool that you were learning them from the hero of time. BOTW could have done something similar, and since it merges all three timelines BOTW Link could have learned a move from a Link in each timeline. Would have been so cool.
One of my biggest desires for BOTW2 is special skills in the vein of the Hidden Skills in Twilight Princess.
As much as I loved the hidden skills, they made an already piss easy combat system trivial. If they're going to reintroduce that mechanic, enemies need to not only be stronger, but smarter, to compensate.
But I haven't played Breath of the Wild so I don't know what its combat system is like in comparison to Twilight Princess.
@@ink4852 Yes, you make a fair point. Combat systems in previous Zeldas are almost all lacking in difficulty. BOTW is by far the most difficult Zelda game, especially early on. However, during the late game really the only enemy that will give you trouble is the lynel. I would much rather see smarter enemy AI than just tankier/higher damage dealing enemies. BOTW made pretty good strides in enemy AI so I'm excited to see what the future of Zleda holds.
That's my issue with weapon breaking. I love to master my tools and that just isn't an option if they break. So yeah, sword skills that either carry through to weapons, or having some unbreakable weapons all the way!
Somehow, for me Tears of the Kingdom’s fuse mechanic sort of fixed the weapon breaking issues for me. I’m no longer mortified about breaking my best weapon because I can always just fuse a rock to a weaker one and make the same amount of damage. It feels really resourceful too, like, I feel really smart after doing it.
When you figure out how to efficiently kill Lynels, it breaks the weapon system completely. You are guaranteed a weapon, bow and shield drop, and you can kill them without losing any durability to your weapon, making all other normal enemies just not worth killing, ever. Especially on Master Mode. Guardians and Lynels become the only enemies in the game essentially.
Tell me how
@@breeze5926 Get on their back (headshot with a bow then running up is an easy way to do this). When you attack while on it your weapons take no damage
and lizalfoz
@@Kelpic ??? my weapons took damage unless I'm dumb or smthn
@@Whatismusic123 Likely mistaking losing durability from attacking the lynel normally and mounting. Attacking normally still takes durability as normal, except the Lynel is tanky as fuck so you'll lose a lot of weapons from it, but if you've mounted it then you don't lose anything. Just switch to a royal claymore every time you get on their back and you shred them.
The enemy variety is the biggest problem for me. They’re like 6 enemies you’ll fight throughout the entire game that aren’t bosses
Edit: Apparently I have to be specific but I was exaggerating when I said 6 but that doesn’t make the enemy variety any better. It just feels like 6. It’s still pretty limited
PS I consider Lynels mini bosses or at least a rare encounter
And Nintendo thought they could trick us with colours
We all know 6 is an exaggeration. There's decent enemy variety here. Unless you're just rushing to Hyrule castle after the plateau and didn't really explore the game.
@@enjaymontano5956 “That arent bosses”
@@enjaymontano5956 Ignoring the color, elemental and stalfos variations, there are just 15 enemy types:
-Bokoblins
-Moblins
-Lizalfos
-Keese
-Chuchus
-Wizzrobes
-Guardians
-Guardian Stalkers
-Guardian Scouts
-Guardian Skywatchers
-Lynels
-Octoroks
-Yiga Soldiers
-Yiga Blademasters
-Pebblits
The variations definitely help, but the overall enemy variety is pretty limited
@@StrangeGamer859 still more than 6. Thank you for proving my point.
that ancient shard idea is so clever wtf
Lol You ever played destiny?
no
@@zirkq destiny 1 had the same mechanic where the raid armor or weapons needed ancient shards to upgrade and you would get them from the raid or chest in the raid. You can also get them from breaking down clothes and weapons.
@@kevinmorelikekevout3639 That doesn't give incentive to use the powerful "consumable" items instead of hoarding them though. Drops is a completely different thing, the game already has enough of those. And going into a menu and destroying weapons is hardly any fun, using your powerful weapons and then get a little reward at the end of using instead of hoarding them is a much better solution.
@@Naryoril I was just describing the mechanic
Speaking of hoarding instincts, one RPG that curbed my tendency to hoard potions was Witcher 3. Instead of gathering ingredients for a single one-time use potion, you used a consumable ingredient to restore -all- your potions to their ‘max’. Because of this, I wasn’t afraid to use potions - in fact, when I used a potion once, I was encouraged to finish the stack plus use others because they were all going to get replenished next time anyways.
Bro this comment is crazy because im playing the witcher 3 in another tab rn. And thats fax, the witcher 3 has the best alchemy system in any game. Im never afraid to use my potions due to scarcity, but rather because of toxicity. Its a perfect system to curb potion spam
I haven’t played that but sounds a lot like elden ring (or any souls game). Instead of hoarding my red health potions I used them and then sat at a bonfire. It reset the area enemies (so there’s a penalty) but the refill is “free”
Yep, Potions/Decoctions and Estus Flasks work basically the same way. It took me a while to figure out how they worked, and I kinda wish the games explained it a bit better.
For those playing The Witcher 3, don't forget about your oils.
an added bonus of having the blight ganons incorporate the bodies of the actual champions is that you'll finally get the chance to beat up revali
This is what i think too!
I mean you can beat up revali in AoC but it would be cool in this style too.
“Flurry rush is way too easy”
Yeah I can’t pull it off 95%of the time so yeah. When ever I do I’m like “oh shirt! You see that?”
Same I'm really bad at melee combat
Oh shirt.
Oh shirt.
it was so difficult to time for me until recently, idk how I figured it out but it finally clicked and now I kill every single lynel I see
*hits with weapon
*sheathes weapon
*runs away
*repeats process till baddie's dead
Or just do stasis reset whatever. lol
“the divine beasts can be defeated in less than an hour”
me who tried the puzzle and thunderblight fight from 10pm to 3am
lmao me except it took me nearly 12 hours without breaks
It took me 2 days
Lol same
I hated his second phase
i despise the divine beast puzzles, most of them are realising puzzles instead of working stuff out puzzles
I was ready to get up in arms when you mentioned durability, but I really like your solution and how softens the blow of breaking your favorite weapons while leaning into the value of the system.
In my experience, the problems with weapon durability largely came down to "It's annoying as hell, until it magically stops mattering". It feels as though early on, you are always struggling to find good weapons, and like you said, places to use the really good weapons. But then suddenly after maybe 8-ish hours of play, you just start getting so many new weapons that the entire mechanic stops mattering because you have at least 5 other of that exact weapon in your inventory somewhere. Then it becomes actively tedious because any time a weapon breaks, you need to pause and take out another, interrupting the flow of combat. The master sword also just makes it worse because you always want to use it over anything else.
Well this is reassuring. I got an OLED as my first switch and am playing BotW for the first time and I hate that shit.
I didn’t mind it at the beginning. I am just now playing the game so I knew it was coming. I like that it forces you to be creative with engagements and sometimes prioritize stealth.
That said, I just got to the Vah Ruta final boss and now the issue is specifically bows. And that I’m an idiot.
I didn’t realize you could break ice with the rune because I’m dumb so I broke two bows at the shooting ice on Sidon’s back.
Now I don’t have enough bow health to kill the final boss and I’m gonna have to go find enemies with bows.
I feel like if there are enemies who can ONLY be killed from range, the game should have provided a permanent bow as well even if it only has five damage.
Waterblight Ganon needed literally 4 more shots to die but I couldn’t kill him because I had no bow. Totally my fault but still irritating.
i hate how i can never use my master sword because i have 7 better swords and if i did use it it would snap quicker than a granola bar
True, I even use the master sword for mining
I’m thinking maybe instead of reapiring the master sword the sword recharges based on combat, so you don’t just throw weapons till they break
Personally, i think the game could've used more 'yiga clan hideout'-like quests. Though frustrating at times, learning how to deal with the enemies and the unique boss inside felt very refreshing imo.
Yea I loved fighting kohga and getting thru the hideout it felt very rewarding I think in botw 2 they should have more like stelh like missions although after playing age of clamity I don’t really want to fight the yiga clan anymore
@@yoursleepparalysisdemon6153 Thanks for the reply, i agree! Haven't tried out age of calamity though, would you recommend it?
@@krosus2019 yes I would definitely recommend aoc however it is a different game style however I personally do think it is worth
@@yoursleepparalysisdemon6153
damn bro you’re so smart
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@@razbuten GAGAGAGAGAGA!!! I want to cut my toe nails... NEVER! I am the feet TH-camr. Thanks for being a fan, dear raz
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GIVE ME MORE SOULS LIKE RECOMMENDATIONS
I’m downloading Blue Fire now.
I have a Switch and i feel really dumb for "saving this game" until a later date
Well as someone that played this as my first open world rpg the difficulty level was perfect especially cause I was scared of fighting the sacred beasts and found last boss battle before defeating them. The food brakes saved me from becoming a pancake in the first few seconds of the fight haha But I also understand how for more experienced players this might have fealt too easy.
I came here to say exactly this. Changing these things to make the game "harder" or "more realistic" would have meant that I probably would have just handed my copy of the game to my husband and gone back to my cozy games.
Difficulty barriers to game play for new gamers doesn't make better gamers--it makes those gamers choose different games, or (worse, from an industry standpoint) different hobbies altogether.
300 hours in, I'm grateful for my mask/snack/attack abilities.
(Edited for clarity/word choice/thumbs) 😊
@@abby_the_skwrl 100% agree
I agree with you completely. Zeldas were never hard and sincerely they don’t need to be… the online community just have a very vocal, very challenge driven niche that always seem to bring these “ideas” to make it harder.
You can always not use the “easy mechanics” if you wish.
I liked your idea about receiving “Ancient Shards” when a weapon breaks. I’m one of those people who hated when their nice or favorite weapons broke, this would help relieve my grief
I especially felt this when breaking the champion weapons
Ancient Shards is a brilliant, stroke of fricking genius idea. I hope Nintendo watches your channel.
Thank you! I think it is really interesting how just the framing of something can change your perception, even though nothing in the game would really have to change by adding them.
@@razbuten I forget what game design video I was watching about this very thing. Probably something from Extra Credits? Anyway, they talked about an MMO that instituted an XP penalty if you'd been playing more than X hours a day. The players were up in arms, furious about the change. They felt penalized and constricted. So the devs ... changed nothing, but announced that instead, you'd get an XP *bonus* when logging on after so many hours inactive. And the players were happy! Same exact situation, different framing.
I have to humbly disagree that your idea is just framing, though. You'd be adding a tangible, meaningful reward to weapon churn. Like, I'd actually USE Ruby the weapon smithing station with your idea. As it is I never do, because I don't want to spend valuable materials and rupees on stuff I know will just break. But if I have a steady income of Ancient Shards, then I'd give it a try. (And weapons from Ruby might give extra Ancient Shards when THEY break, being made of them!)
@@amandaschuller4546 That would be no less than *the* MMO, World of Warcraft. Also the Ancient Oven's name is Cherry, not Ruby.
@@Izandaia Ah, Cherry -- that's what I get for not checking the wiki. :-)
@@razbuten I disagree that its just framing changing your perception, its a genuine mechanical change that would totally alter how the game plays, though I think you still understand that on some level, having come up with the new system yourself. But for the sake of digression:
You don't just not want to break weapons because you think it will weaken you in the future, it actually will deplete your arsenal in a way you probably won't be able to improve upon or even replenish very quickly, and certainly not without much effort. If the reward for fighting is just *possibly* easier fighting later on, and combat is optional + repetitive, there is no mechanical or intrinsic incentive to engage with the game at all.
Ancient shards changes all of that. It is an explicit mechanic that makes turn breaking weapons from a downgrade to an upgrade. Instead of a wavering power level, that dips and rises abruptly when you acquire or lose a weapon, you are, technically, always getting stronger. Many have said it, but I'll say it again: this is a genius idea. I really hope something like this makes it into BotW 2 if the durability system is maintained for that game, because I honestly can't think of a better solution to the core issue of the system without a complete overhaul.
13:12 no no no, I want to still be able to eat 60 apples in a boss fight
That's just way too overkill I miss the time when the bosses needed many tries to beat with a few pot to break for health but now you just need to have a stock of food and you just cannot die
@@marickjolivot Except that the game over screen is effectively the same thing. You just "die" and start over with next to no punishment. Adding food mid-fight just makes it more convenient. Alternatively you could really make the game punishing and make a game over permanent and you start from the beginning of the game. This difficulty would exclude a huge chunk of the audience and is the main reason I have never nor will ever pick up a dark souls game. I just don't find the concept of dying and retrying fun in my games and I know that plenty of other gamers feel the same too.
This is why I love Master Mode and trial of the sword. Gives the hard core players something more of a challenge but still doesn't exclude players
@@marickjolivot I mean, if you find it too easy you could always just not do it y'know, eating food while in battle is a choice
@@aurum3747 but that still doesn’t fix the fact that the issue exists
@@juancampos9468 How is it an issue? People who find it convenient use it, people who find it too easy don't use it
It's absolutely the best of both worlds
How these issues feel in tears of the kingdom
Weapon durability : With the fusing mechanic, losing weapons feels completely different and imo much better than in BotW. It may also just be me, but I feel like weapons break much slower in general. So imo, the problem is somewhat fixed
Dungeons : I’m no that far in TOTK, but the one dungeon I’ve done (rito one) was pretty good and has a climactic boss fight. It’s much better than the divine beasts, but it’s still a mixture of BOTW divine beasts and classic Zelda dungeons. Overall, massive improvement from BotW from the one dungeon I’ve seen.
Divine beasts being samey : I’m too early in TOTK to comment on that
Eating cooldown : unchanged
Climbing when raining : Fixed in a very interesting way, you can now make sticky elixirs and climb on walls
Fast travel abuse : unchanged
Flurry rush : unchanged (I think? Some people say they feel different but I personally haven’t seen a difference)
Petting dogs : I haven’t tried yet
Ending : I guess we’ll see pretty soon when people start finishing the game
oh also SPOILER you can get an armor by doing certain quests that lets you climb up walls as well, so you no longer have to use elixers at that point. also enemy variation was fixed a little, but also is much better imo because the fuse system and ultrahand (letting both you and enemies you different vehicles and interesting weapon types) has really improved variation in combat and encounters
also no you can't pet dogs :(
Octorock repair
Fusing objects to weapons can add up to 25 extra hits before it breaks. So that's why they take longer
I think, instead of getting "mipha's grace" (which is pretty much just a fairy that fills your health fully) we should get the ability to swim underwater. There could be so much more to explore, but you have to unlock it
Edit: like in twilight princess
oh that would be SICK. underwater shrines???
Yea honestly mipha’s grace is helpful and all but you can just cook a full recovery meal and get your health filled up.
that would be really cool, but it would be a shit-ton of extra work for the devs, and it would also follow the tradition that BOTW tried to break, which is:
"Oh this area looks pretty cool but you can only explore it if you have this one specific item"
That would be like if Revali's Gale gave you the ability to climb.
@@hazmatbp but then again isn’t that how the game was until you unlocked the wind glider?
@@pbnj0 thats different, because unlocking the glider unlocks the entire rest of the game, and its purpose is to make the player learn the basics and get the runes before they start the "real game".
One of my gripes is Daruk's Protection, I ended turning it off. Got annoying, since it was always active when you get your shield, even if it's to block some trivial low level enemy or a falling rock or something.
Same
Daruk's protection activated while a moblin is frozen. I was like, "Dude. WTF?!?"
honestly. The Gorons were the last people I visited because I thought dealing with the heat would be way more challenging than it actually was, and so getting that last divine beast felt more tedious than fun. All of that work just to get Daruk's crummy protection was really dissapointing.
Daruk's protection makes you play the game worse from personal experience. You end up forgetting the timing of guardian beams, and overall get sloppier avoiding attacks.
“Flurry rush is to easy”
me who’s only been able to pull it off a handful of times: I feel targeted
I think the timeframe depends on what you are fighting
Just practice, the easiest thing for me to flurry rush is a lynel because that's the only enemy I bothered trying for. I'm almost useless with with everything else lol.
YES
Just practice on lynels
@@shumeiyang1024 The window for Flurry Rush on its head-first charge attack is super generous, too, I feel. I've dodged when it's a meter in front of me, still got the Flurry Rush. I've dodged when it was basically hitting me, still got the FR. Compare that to Guardian laser parrying... I'll sometimes get the initial parry success "schwing", but take a bit of damage and not actually reflect it.
All of these sound like good ideas to me, though I'm surprised you didn't address the issue of consumable hoarding given you did a previous video on it. By the end of the game I had literally hundreds of food items I knew I would never use. The biggest problem is definitely that hearty foods are full heals, making all other healing items obsolete; I think an easy fix for that would be if the bonus hearts were only given if eaten at maximum health, otherwise they function as normal healing.
I’m not a gamer but is there any precedent for consumables that go off over in-game time? Like the longer you hold on to an apple, bread, chicken, etc, the less health it replaces..?
@@chriskaprys No there’s no sort of decay with recovery items… Even meat where you would think a game like botw would probably have it go off.
They restore the same amount even after a 1000 hours
@@chriskaprys The game Don't Starve (and the multiplayer Don't Starve Together) does this. Given the title of the game, it's kind of one of the core mechanics. Building a fridge is one of the most important things.
@@chaoslord8918neat!
Nintendo Game Designers, in the pitch meeting for BotW 2: "Okay everyone, remember the 3 'D's -Durability, Dungeons, and Dogs."
“Flurry rush is a little too easy to pull off”
Me who sucks at combat and once in a while pulls off a flurry rush: Well yes but actually no.
same though ;-;
Same :(
For people who are pretty good at the combat, yeah. It's too forgiving. The only requirement is that you dodge just before an attack would hit. That leaves a LOT of room and you don't even have to be that close. I shouldn't be able to flurry rush every attack from a horde of enemies.
Yeah, I found it too risky to pull off so I avoided it a lot. Headshots were easier to pull off, bombs were easier to throw, perfect blocks had less risk because if you're too late you just block instead, elemental weapons had CC capabilities, and heavy weapons did plenty of damage without a flurry.
Like, there were times when I'd throw 40 bombs into a bokoblin skull through they eye socket so they didn't see me to kill them, rather than actually fight them because it was risky. Boring as hell, but effective enough and completely risk free.
Hard mode for those of us who can do it well would be great.
"tendency to hoard nice weapons" don't look at me and my inventory full of royal claymores and elementals ;-;
Me too lol
me with all of my savage lynel gear that i try to never use
Me with 5 great flameblades
i’d never heard the suggestion of having weapons drop material when they break before, it sounds like a really fantastic solution
It sounds good, but it just turns into farming low level weapons for the shards. Or farming high level weapons for the shards. Running out of weapons is rarely the issue, it's that most of the weapons are basically Identical. Royal sword is just a slightly better master sword. Same moveset. I find the weapons breaking in combat actually pulls me out of the game. Same with food being free full heals.
"Way too easy to do 'Flurry Rush'..." and here I am with sucky reaction time, lol
Just spam them backflips
I think the timing is a bit janky too. You have to dodge when the hit-box starts, meaning you can time it so you dodge the hit perfectly and not get a flurry rush. It’s something that’s really bothered me since I noticed it and it needs fixed for the sequel imo. Still love the game overall though
yea you kind of need to back up until an attack misses then dodge as the swing passes in front of you to get rewarded for doing nothing
It depends on the attack but the spot to aim for is when the attack would hit, not just before, the moment you think its going to hit you. A lot of flurry rushes end with the attack passing through Link's torso and just doing nothing because "he got the rush!'
I dunno if it's just me, but I can also get Flurry Rushes when I'm no where close to being hit by the enemy
Something i would change is the blight’s design, they’re all practically the same, floating torso with weapons for arms, i’d like them to be more animalistic, like for example, thunderblight being a desert viper or fireblight being a dragon
Love this idea, I thought about this too when I first got into botw and had trouble telling their designs apart! An octopus waterblight could be pretty cool i think
Or just give them elements representing their divine beasts
I think what would be cooler is if they looked like the champions to give the impression that they were specifically designed to be their perfect rival.
It would be even cooler if they used the dead champions weapon to kill you. It would certainly be better than just having the leader of the zora just having miphas spear under his bed or something.
I don’t agree, the blights represent human-like creatures so why would they be animals in design? They were with parts of sheika tech and that wouldn’t fit into an animal design. Also they were made by ganon who isn’t an animal per say so why would he reflect that?
@@youcantstopme9420 i mean… Dark Beast Ganon is literally a boar so there’s the animal inspiration
„The irrational fear there could be a better, more important time to use an item“
Actually it’s called „Collector’s Anxiety“
i feel like being able to sell weapons to an R&D merchant/smith (whatever you want them) and then being able to buy copies of them would easily mitigate this.
Is that a pointcrow reference?
“Hey guys point crow here. Do you ever get collectors anxiety in open world rpgs where there’s so much to see and so much to grab?”
I didn't mind the durability system except for the Championweapons. Those 4 legendary weapons. I didn't use them at all and just hung them at the wall in links house
I hate it, but it would have been far more tolerable if those didn’t atleast break. They are already mid tier and it just destroys the lore that these ancient weapons which have been passed down for generations shatter in a single fight with a lynel and then they are just like, no big deal we’ll forge another if you bring us a far more valuable diamond
They do have much more durability than common weapons, but they surely are weaker than free to replenish weapons of the same class, which makes repairing them not worth it.
At least in TotK they are total MVPs so there’s much more incentive to always keep them and use them (and repair them with materials or rock octoroks)
The only one I use regularly is the Boulder Breaker, and that's almost exclusively against Taluses because of the 2x damage bonus. Urbosa's gear is vastly inferior to the awakened Master Sword and Hylian Shield, a great number of late game bows outclass Revali's bow in multiple ways, and Mipha's trident is far from the best spear in the game, and I hardly use spears anyway.
Sometimes is just "that" weapon you don't want to break, I'd just make a way to enchant a single weapon at a time to add a Durability+ stat to make it feel like you really squeezed the usefulness out of it.
enchanting feels like it would be good for a new teclab for terry town or any other town really
ahem Minecraft ahem...
@@RGC_animation mc is not the only game with enchantments??
@@LC-hd5dc Yeah but it's a very popular game with enchantments.
I think that was my actual breaking point for the durability system. When I first encountered the Zora weapons, I thought they looked really cool, but they were already outclassed by the gear I had, so I couldn't really justify doing anything with them and they were promptly left behind. In other games, they might have had some special abilities to set them apart, or I could have at least carted a few around for fashion and fighting weak enemies, but BotW durability system means most weapons have to be functionally identical and you can't hold on to things for aesthetic reasons because they'll just break, like everything else.
For a system choices that's supposed to encourage you to explore and try new things, it sure makes the things you're trying a lot more disapointing.
If I can't pet the dog in BOTW2, I demand a refund!
Didn’t Aonuma confirm it would be possible
@Tales Ferreira I can't remember if it was Aonuma. But they didn't think that most people would care about petting dogs, only for the overwhelming amount of complaints to hit them. They then said that they'll make sure to put it into BotW2
@Tales Ferreira I’m not sure if it was Aonuma but I remember someone said it would be possible.
@@LeviathanTamer31 Yeah I wasn’t quite sure if it was Aonuma, I actually just don’t remember and that was my best guess.
"Divine beasts can be defeated in under an hour"
Me who spent my entire life trying to beat thunder blight Ganon
yeah it took me 40 minutes to beat thunder blight because I couldn't for the life of me do flurry rushes. I would always dodge the attack but somehow it never did a flurry rush.
I was decent at flurry rushes before thunder blight ganon, afterwards I was a god at them, I died so many times that I eventually had to adapt and learn, or else keep hitting my head against a wall.
@Ilyes Benachi I beat it with the master sword and 15 hearts, and some food, it was an attrition fight, I just outlasted it lol.
@Ilyes Benachi You need to use a one handed weapon
on the plus side your language comprehension is quite impressive for a four year old
I like alot of these ideas. More intense fighting stuff scares me bc I've always been pretty awful at fighting in games and it's still true with this.
Also this video is an amazing example of constructive critique.
Yeah I’m not very great at the combat so the idea of having to eat food in realtime sounds absolutely agonizing to me
also I really suck at actually triggering the flurry rush things. “it’s way too easy” was a shot to the heart lmao
@@Rabbit_Hill I often forget that flurry rushing is a thing bc its kinda tricky. I do think for me it's partly bc it takes alot of buttons in a specific way and idk if its an adhd thing or jsut something I struggle with.
Same, I LOVE botw but I really suck at combat, please dont make it harder 😅
12:55 That’s exactly what already happened! Look at the kinds of ancient weapons they carry: e.g. Waterblight has a spear, like Mipha; Thunderblight has a round shield and a scimitar, like Urbosa. Also, their special powers are similar: e.g. Fireblight has a red sphere, like Daruk’s Protection; Windblight uses tornados, like Revali’s Gale. Finally, their hair is a neat detail too. Thunderblight has got long hair in the neck, like Urbosa; Waterblight has two side flaps and a bit of neck hair, like Mipha; Fireblight has got a beard, like Daruk.
Their colour schemes are just similar, like the shrines and the interior of the dungeons; that’s probably why it’s easy to miss.
I feel like making the designs a bit more obvious about that could be a good idea. Windblight has wings, fireblight has a more goron like body shape and chains mimicking Daruk’s fashion style, thunderblight has Urbosa’s hairstyle, and waterblight has fins
However, the fact that this isn't obvious is kinda the problem. No point making them look similar when you only figure out after reading about it online.
The visual features are way too hard to notice, the powers are generic elemental powers anyway and not strictly tied to the champion, and we literally never see the champions use their weapons (it's only implied after the fact when you explicitly unlock their weapons), not to mention only 2 of them actually follow that pattern while the other 2 have no similarity in weapon (Daruk's spirit uses a fucking arm cannon, like what?).
I agree with the other two replies, but I’m so glad you’ve pointed this out! Never would have realized
I didn't even notice that, tbh. That says A LOT about what could've been improved.
@@jacobnorris8256 there are literally statues that show the champions with their weapons in the towns where you are required to go. The game is not at fault for you not seeing the resemblances.
Instead of Ancient Shards, I think I'd prefer having enemy drops being more important. I think the Ancient Shards as you proposed would heavily incentivize playing the standard way, by hitting the thing until it dies and breaking your weapons. It would make creative play worse because you're losing chances to gain that currency. Instead, the similar idea of having the enemy's item drops being more important would incentivize players to not avoid encounters but still have people play creatively. I don't know how the enemy drops would be improved though. Maybe by making the elixirs more than just an afterthought.
i think that there has to be some way to mix both, like you need specific enemy dropped items and/or ancient shards to fix specific weapons
This is the best solution, with Razbuten system I imagine players hitting walls for minutes with weapons they can't carry just for the shards.
Elixirs would be more useful if foods weren't the best solution altogether, foods can do everything exilirs can without requiering to fight for them. So the best way to make elixirs more viable is nerfing foods.
Just make a looting elixir
personally, I think they should just add more storage for weapon. I talking like a chest that is as big à your inventory that you can drop weapon and others inside for later use. like the stand in links house but more numerous. that could also give an adotionnal use for the korok seed
@@StillCisTho42 Or making possible to combine the effect of a food you just eat and a elixir, so you can have 2 buff (1 from food, the other from elixir...)
I just want an actual ending not being able to get rid of Ganon at Hyrule Castle or the quest drives me nuts
Same here, give me some kind of resolution
I litteraly just don't beat the game cause what's the point LOL
Oh my god, yes! I HATE games that make you re-start just before the final boss again. I get that its so you can replay the fight anytime and that the evil is gone so what's the point, but it feels like defeating the boss was for nothing if you're just gonna put me back right before I canonically killed him. Origami King did this too.
I think it would be cool if you got a saved hyrule if you fully beat the game (but without all the korok seeds) and you had extra missions to do with Zelda and stuff, or at least some acknowledgment that you’re the hero
That wouldn't really work though cos that would break the Zelda format. Pretty much every game puts you right before the final boss after you beat them so it would be weird to break tradition
a lot of those mechanic changes would be cool! I think (as someone who has problems with fine motor control) making a game more challenging isn't always great for every player, I think adding a difficulty setting that the players can choose that affected a lot of the mechanics you described would be absolutely amazing
Seconded! While I did fine with botw, it took a few hundred hours before I could reliably fight, and even then,.no always. I generally play on the easiest level that isn't story-only, but I especially love games that let you change difficulty whenever.
(I'm currently playing Fenyx Rising, and normal mode is great for me, but i'd have chosen story-only if I couldn't change whenever. And I would have missed out on so much enjoyment
14:07 “flurry rush is too easy to pull off”
Me, who has pulled off a flurry rush exactly twice: and I took that shit personally
Its works when it wants to, really.
Geuss it's different for some people no offense, I got the flurry rush down right away
@@cyrusjohnson2763 I literally didn't know the flurry rush was a thing for weeks and weeks and I finally started dodging and I was shocked. Now I can nail it 95% of the time. Same with shield parrying.
YESSSSSS
@@Spolt_main i knew it was a thing but i never used it and as i was at the last phase of gannons fight i hated my self not training this technique because i have to use it against him ugh, but anyway its a great game it was fun to play BoTW.
If Breath of the Wild 2 essentially fuses the best aspects of Breath of the Wild and Majora's Mask, it would probably become my favourite game, ironically dethroning Majora's Mask.
Its all I want
Yes
I want to have actual Ganondorf as the antagonist and have him explain that Calamity Ganon was just a shadow of his actual self. That way we could get much higher stakes and darker story in a logical manner.
Zelda + Horror is just meant to be
As a wise man once said: “hey guys pointcrow here, do you ever get collectors anxiety?”
Yep. Especially when I missed ONE korok seed
Lmfaoo
but you’re just wondering if that one item you pick up is the only item of its kind?
i have found my people
@@leahcamelott hello my brother
I've always thought of Dark Beast as a playable cutscene rather than a boss fight so it never really bothered me how little goes on, but man, the idea of climbing it and attacking weak points Shadow of the Colossus style sounds AMAZING
You had me at “you should be able to pet the dogs.”
@@dpc4548 who hurt you..
@@dpc4548 what did dogs ever do to you?
The first few times I rode a horse, I kept getting attacked by guardians and I ended up associating that song with guardians. Later in the game when I rode horses, I'd always be so paranoid that there was a guardian nearby. I never got over that, despite knowing it doesn't mean guardians...
SAAAME I ALWAYS GET PARANOID WHEN I HEAR THAT SONG SICNE ITS THE MUSIC THAT PALYS WHEN GUARDIANS ATTACK
Holy shit the "reward for weapon breaking" idea is amazing
Especially the part about using Ancient Shards to speed up the cooldown timer on the Master Sword. That creates a very satisfying gameplay loop of using the Master Sword until it deactivates, switching to breakable weapons to recharge the Master Sword, and rinse and repeat.
And then you have people just breaking dozens of low level weapons against a wall to get shards.
@@1un4cy Gets more complicated, but it could be made so that shards only form from breakage during combat with an enemy. Heck, the difficulty of the enemy, in addition to the quality of the weapon that is broken, could even have some influence over the type/quality of shard that is formed so that super easy enemies aren't the only ones getting farmed.
@@1un4cy You can resolve that issue by preventing the player from hoarding shards. For example, shards can speed up the Master Sword's cooldown timer only while the timer is active; they cannot replenish the Master Sword's energy or be stocked up to bypass a cooldown later.
Before the late game, when there are no cooldown timers to speed up, Ancient Shards can instead be used to charge up some kind of temporary powerup, like a Limit Break gauge.
I'm Very Angry It's Not Butter And maybe they could also be used to quicken the recharge on the boons as well, to give some more variety.
I absolutely adore this video. It's clearly from a place of love for the game, where you wanted the weaker points of BotW to double down on the strengths of the rest of the package, rather than try to compromise them to appeal to the game's largest detractors. Well done.
The BIGGEST issue I feel is how link can simply heal himself instantly anywhere and at any time with an almost endless supply of healing items. I'm glad you at least mentioned that!
@@dpc4548 as soon as you get miphas grace you basically never die again. At least, that was my experience.
Also as someone who HATES crafting give the botw crafting system a try. There's no set recipes so it's just about being creative and it works well. Made the world come a live a lot more on my second playthrough.
if they took that out of the game I probably would have rage quit at some point -_-;;
I think a good way of making the ancient shards make sense in the world is that you have to do some sort of side quest (like the horse god) where some supernatural being gives you a blessing where you get ancient shards when your weapon breaks. Ideally, the game would sort of steer you in the direction of this side quest considering how important of a game mechanic it would be i.e. how the game directs you to Kakariko and the fairy fountain. Maybe the location of this being could be in one of the memory locations that is easy to find? Also, you could only get ancient shards if the weapon was used on an enemy, not just on trees and rocks and things to prevent people from just going around hitting those things. They could also increase the damage of critical hits when a weapon breaks to have it feel better in the moment.
I really like this idea, the concept that it wouldn't automatically happen, but would need to be a triggered event. The gap between losing weapons to getting something back when they break would be so much fun, and would definitely add depth to the game! Maybe it could trigger a cutscene or something after you've met all the Goddess Statues in the villages (possibly including the one in the Deserted Temple).
Razbuten: "I hate the sound of silence"
Me: "What did Simon & Garfunkel do to you?"
breath of the wild is freedom, tears of the kingdom is creativity
I'd like some sort of post game quest like the one where you have to gather people to build a village. Something like restoring roads by setting up the outpost used by the bobblins, ore restoring little village where you can rest or find some merchant...
It already exists,find it.
@@tux6413 he said *like the quest where you have to gather people to build a village* meaning he knew that already
@@aaronking2020 ohhhhh i see, I didn't notice it
There was a Harvest Moon game where you start out with no town or villagers, and have to build the town from the ground up, I forget which title.
I've often felt like there's room for a LoZ spin-off where you start off someplace like Lon Lon Ranch (or maybe have a "career" selection at the beginning) and slowly rebuild your ranch or whatever. Maybe have some kind of "commission board" type thing in town that you give resources to in order to bring other resources/types of villagers back and rebuild.
You could even incorporate the Blood Moon with waves of enemies during them.
@@darthapple87 That's what want, nintendo could've placed link's house in Hateno illage, and from there starting quests for the building of the city and house, bringing food or defending it like the "blood Moon Waves" you mentioned.
Part of the issue with the durability system is how inconvenient it is to replenish some of the better weapons, forcing players to go into consumable conservation mode
Really? It wasn’t that hard for me- every time I’d break a good weapon, I’d always wait for a Blood Moon and then go to either the Colosseum or the Woodland Tower. Really easy to get strong weapons there.
@@liansmith4038
If you learn weapon respawn locations and behavior, it's not technically difficult, though still arguably inconvenient.
But you have to be a bit metagamey to be sure to take full advantage of things like that, and YMMV when you're playing blind.
I didn't have difficulty with it, either, but this isn't strictly about my experience. It's about game design and player experience.
If there were something more obvious and intuitive for new players on the learning curve, like smithies for repair or forging, item durability might not have been a so hotly rambled on subject. People have little reason to complain about durability in TES4 Oblivion because items can be repaired anywhere and you immediately know which skill to focus on to make it more efficient.
@@baitposter You make a good point. However, I’m kinda curious as to how exactly one would balance the durability and repair systems. Sure, being able to repair weapons is convenient, but it could come at the cost of discouraging players from trying to experiment with all the options given to them- you’d always use this certain sword and shield, instead of trying out your Sheikah runes or any of the other weapons.
@@liansmith4038
Spontaneous moments of chucking weapons at enemies and stealing theirs would also be discouraged if players got too attached to them. Tricky.
Maybe something like an auto transmog system instead, but also for power, not just cosmetics? You could let a player automatically boost weapons they pick up to a level appropriate to the player's progression, so even a boko club remains eternally attractive to pick up again.
@@liansmith4038 a solution that i think would nicely force players to explore would be a sort of limit or cap on repairing. A sort of example that is way out of the ballpark but an example non the less is minecrafts anvil, the experience drastic increase could be implemented in the form of more materials every time until it either A. caps out and you can't fix the weapon anymore, or B. it becomes so expensive that it is discouraging to repair your weapon when there are so many better out there. the only problem i see with my solution is why not just go get the same weapon again and just repair that one once you max out for repairing. Making the capping system work on any weapon of that kind (ex any spiked bokoblin bat) would force players to go out and explore, but there are tons of negatives to this idea that idk how to work around.
14:09 Not for everyone, me included. I was surprised when I got my first flurry rush after having already beaten Ganon. I'm not good at combat, and so for me, it feels like a strong bow and some arrows (ancient arrows to exaggerate this) make any other form of combat redundant. This includes Ganon, which was the most disappointing fight for me because of the high expectations I had. I was expecting a really difficult fight. So, I had a full set of ancient armor with 2 upgrades each, an ancient bow, attack increasing dishes, and a bunch of ancient arrows. As you might now expect, the fight was over in a matter of seconds. Or a few Rivalis's gales to get higher So I can shoot some 15 arrows into Ganon's head to finish the fight. The same principle happened with 3 out of the 4 blight fights + Lynels. The best and most memorable boss fight I had because of this was Thunderblight Ganon, which was a lot of fun. despite me having to restart tens of times. I'm kind of curious if most people found flurry rushes overpowered compared to other methods of combat, and that am I the only one who had the same experience with archery in the game.
oh yeah same, for me it's more practical to snipe something than to get up close and fight that way. once i got far enough to get the ancient and twilight bows i almost never used a melee weapon again except for stasis, puzzles and thunderblight
Honestly i would agree. thunderblight was the best cos it really made you get that timing when i found out about gannon i endedup killing him after 2 years expecting a extremely good fight but as you said. over in a matter of seconds so that sucked. also the second phase was trash no offence to anyone.
Honestly as someone who new about flurry rushes sense day 1 and still cant do them I dont think flurry rushes are that overpowered and if someone can do then easily enough for it to be over powered then I think they might have reached ur levels of op stuff already