What's Going on with the Great Plateau? HYRULE COMPARISONS

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  • In Breath of the Wild, we start off from the Great Plateau, but in Tears of the Kingdom, you don't ever have to even visit the plat if you don't want to (or if you never discover it while completing main quests).
    In this video, I go over all the most significant changes and similarities on this elevated area between BotW and TotK to see What's going on with the Great Plateau since BotW?
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    Intro: 0:00
    Shrine of Resurrection: 0:20
    Towers: 2:19
    BotW Shrines: 3:40
    TotK Shrines: 6:02
    Temple of Time: 7:57
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  • @TheTonyExpress
    @TheTonyExpress  8 місяців тому +170

    Did I leave out anything cool?

    • @nashsok
      @nashsok 8 місяців тому +64

      RE: The rusty broadsword in the stone in the pond next to the Temple of Time from BOTW - The sword is actually still nearby, having fallen into the water (perhaps when the Korok hid under the rock!). If you activate ultrahand you'll see it sitting there under the surface.

    • @neroknight7154
      @neroknight7154 8 місяців тому +58

      The weird korok puzzle means you need to ascend trough the wood platform

    • @Smnsnsnsn
      @Smnsnsnsn 8 місяців тому +7

      Not the great plateau but where did the great sky islands come from like what parts of the map from btw was flown up there

    • @thatoneguy52884
      @thatoneguy52884 8 місяців тому +13

      In botw, when in the temple of time, you can hear the temple of time motif from ocarina of time. But in totk, it's been replaced with the ruins ambience like with any other ruined area in botw or totk

    • @derpydoggo7048
      @derpydoggo7048 8 місяців тому +25

      [[SPOILERS]]
      If you go to the little cave where the Old Man was in BotW, you will see a Yiga disguised as Zelda.

  • @GIRGHGH
    @GIRGHGH 8 місяців тому +1400

    If the king can give you a paraglider, chop trees, and bake apples, I'm 99% sure he can hold a pen.

    • @ReiMari12
      @ReiMari12 8 місяців тому +54

      He didn't write that dairy with a bloody finger.

    • @Irisverse
      @Irisverse 8 місяців тому +63

      I'm pretty sure we also see him hunting in the forest.

    • @justinsteward1243
      @justinsteward1243 7 місяців тому +9

      He can hold stuff

    • @PhoenixDening-cz5wd
      @PhoenixDening-cz5wd 5 місяців тому +22

      Bro wasn't dead yet he must've actually died while link was inside the fourth shrine he must've lied about dying during the calamity to not make link think he could've been saved if he was faster

    • @simonwillover4175
      @simonwillover4175 5 місяців тому +2

      @@PhoenixDening-cz5wd I agree.

  • @Demonskunk
    @Demonskunk 8 місяців тому +1737

    The royal claymore at King Rhoam’s grave is likely a reference to Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. His default weapon in that game is the Royal Claymore.

    • @TsarBomba69420
      @TsarBomba69420 8 місяців тому +55

      Or it is a "royal" claymore...

    • @honey-po9ij
      @honey-po9ij 8 місяців тому +133

      @@TsarBomba69420 that's probably why the royal claymore was his weapon of choice to begin with lol

    • @ale3273
      @ale3273 8 місяців тому +29

      mind you. botw came out three years before hyrule warriors

    • @hq3727
      @hq3727 8 місяців тому +145

      @@ale3273 the royal claymore at the king's grave can only be found in Tears of the Kingdom and not BOTW. :)

    • @user-nt6gw5gd8c
      @user-nt6gw5gd8c 8 місяців тому +27

      @@ale32731. no it didn't hyrule warriors came out 3 years before breath of the wild. wait a second. 2014 2017 2020 2023. hold the fuck up. is there going to be a new hyrule warriors game for tears of the kingdom in 3 years

  • @wace9174
    @wace9174 8 місяців тому +853

    If you complete a side adventure called potential princess sightings. A yiga disguised as zelda is where you first meet Rhoam after exiting the shrine of resurrection. The yiga would mock link acting like Zelda has lost her memory similar to how link lost his.

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  8 місяців тому +161

      That's a cool feature. Dang, thought i wouldnt miss anything by filming this series on a relatively untouched file lol

    • @Channeldyhb
      @Channeldyhb 8 місяців тому +4

      Bruh

    • @mrsxdoodles
      @mrsxdoodles 8 місяців тому +63

      the first time i saw that i was like oh the yiga are going to mega hell for that

    • @I_AM_HYDRAA
      @I_AM_HYDRAA 8 місяців тому +2

      wait once you complete or while doing it?

    • @mrsnowmelt
      @mrsnowmelt 8 місяців тому +4

      @@I_AM_HYDRAA Its after you complete it

  • @lukas.exe4042
    @lukas.exe4042 8 місяців тому +716

    The Korok puzzle at 10:48 is one where you have to ascend up through it

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  8 місяців тому +220

      Ahhh THAT makes sense! Thanks :)

    • @JosephBlowshish
      @JosephBlowshish 8 місяців тому +46

      this one had me stumped for a bit longer than I'd like ti admit, though I did figure it out myself.

    • @joltganda
      @joltganda 8 місяців тому +72

      @@JosephBlowshish
      Ha.
      Stump.

    • @TheOriginalJAH.
      @TheOriginalJAH. 8 місяців тому +8

      @@joltganda thanks I laughed

    • @middleagebrotips3454
      @middleagebrotips3454 8 місяців тому +27

      I thought he just left out the spoiler lol

  • @VonSnuggles1412
    @VonSnuggles1412 6 місяців тому +211

    For whatever reason I was so obsessed with the front gate filled with water in BOTW, and thought about how cool it would be to drain it and walk through the gate at the bottom of the plateau. I was so happy to go back in TOTK and see that I could blow open the entrance way. It did not disappoint.

    • @Mari_Izu
      @Mari_Izu 4 місяці тому +5

      In Age of Calamity you can see the stairs before it was flooded and full of dirt.

    • @javiervasquez625
      @javiervasquez625 4 місяці тому +5

      @@Mari_Izu Funfact: Fujibayashi and co. had created an entire _pre-Calamity_ version of Hyrule during development of Breath of the Wild which they THEN turned into the post-Calamity version we see in the game. Age of Calamity did NOT revealed any new locations which Aonuma had *already* created for Breath of the Wild.

    • @Mari_Izu
      @Mari_Izu 4 місяці тому

      @@javiervasquez625 Funnier fact: If they never showed, it wasn't "revealed" until Age of Calamity. Go fucking away with your weird hate-boner with the game.
      And I also doubt they created the *entire* pre-calamity Hyrule because tons of the generic debrits don't match what AoC shows.

    • @kresil.
      @kresil. 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@javiervasquez625 that would've been so fun to see in botw

  • @josephrich402
    @josephrich402 7 місяців тому +85

    Seeing that the Yiga took over the place where Link starts BotW in TotK was like seeing that the Ballas took over Grove Street in GTA5

    • @jkatttt1699
      @jkatttt1699 4 місяці тому +1

      LMAO LITERALLY

    • @Firestar4041
      @Firestar4041 2 місяці тому +1

      It makes me wonder how far off were they from finding a still comatose Link
      ... theres a spin off for ya

  • @hq3727
    @hq3727 8 місяців тому +220

    Also, at 12:30 boulder blocking the water, you can see the TOTK maps changing after you drained the water.
    Originally, the map had water, making it into a pond/lake, but once you drained it, the map was updated to show walkable land. :)

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  8 місяців тому +37

      Thats good stuff for the totk useless videos ;)

    • @hq3727
      @hq3727 8 місяців тому +8

      @@TheTonyExpress Thanks for the reply!! I loved the series in BOTW and glad you brought it back for TOTK. :D
      Can't wait for more! :D

    • @Channeldyhb
      @Channeldyhb 8 місяців тому

      Hey that's bulshit, it should only update if you use the tower again angry emoji

  • @Seshpai
    @Seshpai 8 місяців тому +83

    One thing I personally immediately noticed when entering the Temple of Time in TotK is that its unique music track from BotW was no longer there and had been replaced by the generic BotW ruins theme. I thought that was very odd.

    • @UncleNuggets
      @UncleNuggets 3 місяці тому +10

      Woah, I never noticed that. That is really weird that they took it out.

    • @ShadowWizard224
      @ShadowWizard224 Місяць тому +1

      I noticed that as well and I thought it was strange

    • @RTU130
      @RTU130 Місяць тому +1

      Yea

  • @rangedweevil6150
    @rangedweevil6150 8 місяців тому +71

    I think the lack of monster presence is due to the Yiga clan. There's a diary in one of the depths bases that mentions that the monsters should be avoided due to their hostile nature, so I'm assuming that in their takeover of the Great Plateau (perhaps to look for clues in regard to the mine in the deoths right below it, or perhaps to prevent Link/ anyone fighting for Hyrule from being able to use the shrine of resurrection again) they basically just did a sweep of the entire plateau and eradicated all the monsters they could find. Kinda ironic how both the yiga clan and monster forces serve the same master and strive for similar goals of defeating the hero/ reviving the demon king but are still at odds with each other

    • @MinatheRaichu
      @MinatheRaichu 2 місяці тому +7

      They serve the same master, but it feels like Ganon was not made aware of this. And if he is, it'd be more like Team Rocket to Giovanni type of beat lmao

    • @Firestar4041
      @Firestar4041 2 місяці тому +3

      it seems like Gannon abandoned the Gerudo warriors that followed him, for his new demon army
      So i feel like he'd bout do the same for the Yiga clan;
      Gannon: "Who are these fools? . . . my fanclub??? Oh whatever, kill Link, and them after."

  • @rustyshackleford234
    @rustyshackleford234 8 місяців тому +441

    I always got a weird feeling revisiting the great plateau in TotK, mostly of nostalgia, but something else feels off about it…

    • @Zombiegg101
      @Zombiegg101 8 місяців тому +255

      Definitely all the missing stuff, I'm not really a fan of the decision to remove all the Shiekah technology without even an explanation, it feels less like revisiting a nostalgic area from the first game and more like visiting an alternate reality version of it where nothing you did actually happened

    • @LinkFan199
      @LinkFan199 8 місяців тому +159

      @@Zombiegg101 in lookout landing (if I’m not mistaken) if you go in the little building and look at Purah’s diary it states that they chose to dismantle all Shiekah technology in fear of something like the calamity happening again and taking over the technology once more
      It’s either there or somewhere in Kakariko village but yeah, that’s the reason

    • @jinx1987
      @jinx1987 8 місяців тому +66

      @@LinkFan199but there’s absolutely no way they had the manpower to dismantle all the shrines, guardians, and divine beasts.

    • @LinkFan199
      @LinkFan199 8 місяців тому +13

      @@jinx1987 if they built them in the first place, why can’t they take them apart?

    • @jinx1987
      @jinx1987 8 місяців тому +67

      @@LinkFan199 they didn’t, it was their ancestors thousands of years ago, back when there were a lot of them

  • @reploidboy2005
    @reploidboy2005 8 місяців тому +93

    The rusty sword on the Great Plateau is still there, is in the water, for me, it is a great detail

  • @dude9410
    @dude9410 8 місяців тому +151

    another notable difference is that there's now a Gloom Spawn boss on the Plateau in Tears. Its just a little off from the Battle Talus and the Zonai Shrine putting it somewhere in the middle, which was definitely a jumpscare for me when I triggered it the first time.

    • @Mooncrux
      @Mooncrux 8 місяців тому +9

      It's just by the hopper pond

    • @imirhwklw
      @imirhwklw 8 місяців тому +19

      it was the first time i ever saw gloom hands and it scared the shit out of me

    • @Cojosho97
      @Cojosho97 7 місяців тому +2

      My first spawn was climbing Mount Lanayru and I was quite upset when I got thrown off the cliff by the nearby ice lizalfos lol

    • @HerrscherofMeep
      @HerrscherofMeep 7 місяців тому +7

      Deadass almost cried, I was alone at home and suddenly heard that music

    • @majora5651
      @majora5651 7 місяців тому +7

      Same man, my first encounter was the Taki-Ihaban shrine (the one in a cave) and I honest to god avoided all caves like the plague for at least 20 playing hours after that lmao@@HerrscherofMeep

  • @_Just_Another_Guy
    @_Just_Another_Guy 8 місяців тому +140

    You know how those Ancient Shiekah Monks just disintegrate after Link completes their shrine in BotW?
    I have a theory that after Link completed all the Sheikah Shrines AND defeated Calamity/Dark Beast Ganon, then almost all the Sheikah tech, Divine Beasts, and shrines also disintegrated because their sole purpose was to help kill Calamity Ganon.
    I don't think the Ancient Sheikah (monks), who were the same ones that made the tapestry in BotW, actually knew of the real Ganondorf that's been sealed far beneath Hyrule Castle. They must've thought that only Calamity Ganon was the only big threat.
    So they made their entire plans and strategy around getting rid of Calamity Ganon and NOT Ganondorf. And in their plans, they probably included plans to disintegrate all their Sheikah technology once Calamity Ganon was gone as future proofing (or maybe as a failsafe).
    This theory would also explain why the Sheikah Slate from BotW is also gone (because it's an Ancient Sheikah tech) and why Purah Pad (a modern invention) replaces it in TotK.

    • @Gamer1288
      @Gamer1288 8 місяців тому +41

      The flaw with that Theory is that the Towers and Shrines were built with the Knowledge that the Calamity WILL eventually return so they wouldn't make the stuff destroy themselves after a Single Calamity. The Deku Tree was also said to have witnessed multiple returns of Calamity Ganon so if the Sheikah asked him then they would have also realized that fact.

    • @subprogram32
      @subprogram32 8 місяців тому +30

      I personally headcanon that the self-destruct was not caused as part of sheikah design, but rather was the last spiteful command of Calamity Ganon before he was sealed. He originally wanted to keep them around to take over once he was free of Zelda's seal, but once he realised he was doomed, he used his last burst of control to melt all the tech he could in a final act of civilizational destruction.

    • @Tom.Tomlet.T.Tomington
      @Tom.Tomlet.T.Tomington 8 місяців тому +18

      Not to be the nerd but there’s a diary in the game somewhere stating that they scrapped all Sheikah tech in fear of something (like the calamity returning and taking control of the tech once again) and probably is why theirs new sheikah tech.

    • @jameslegault9398
      @jameslegault9398 7 місяців тому +7

      There’s a flaw here in that in purahs old lab there are still parts from broken guardians

    • @Korilian13
      @Korilian13 5 місяців тому +3

      ​@@Tom.Tomlet.T.Tomingtonthat makes sense, though I have to wonder how they managed, since the science seems pretty far beyond them. I suppose Purah and Robbie must have found a way to deactivate/destroy them all at once.

  • @AbeM.
    @AbeM. 8 місяців тому +103

    Interestingly, the shrines of light in the distant past (as seen in one of the tears) seem to be in the exact same spots as the Sheikah shrines from BotW

    • @Gamer1288
      @Gamer1288 8 місяців тому +9

      That was what made me think that we were getting DLC Shrines to max out everything but apparently not.

  • @1darksoul786
    @1darksoul786 8 місяців тому +28

    It's incredible how the Sheikah built the shrine of resurrection right below where Ganondorf murdered Sonia and transformed into the Demon King, it gives a lot of symbolism to the fight they had against the Great Calamity.

  • @sarojandongol1482
    @sarojandongol1482 8 місяців тому +39

    "You can't hold a pencil or a writing stick of any kind for the last 100 years."
    But like, man was cooking apples, hunting boars, giving away a warm doublet and the paraglider.

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  8 місяців тому +14

      My logic is more seriously flawed than I thought...

  • @Parsosti
    @Parsosti 5 місяців тому +12

    That korok that you weren't "smart enough to figure out" requires you to use ascend through it.

  • @officialvalentino
    @officialvalentino 8 місяців тому +60

    this is actually really cool to see botw and totk side by side, brings back memories

  • @xthriteenx
    @xthriteenx 8 місяців тому +54

    Yes! That thing on the ceiling is a korok puzzle! You ascend through it :)

  • @benberkowitzmusic
    @benberkowitzmusic 8 місяців тому +10

    The jumpscare trying to go into the Forest of Spirits from the Riogok shrine... the gloom hands waiting

  • @ckenshin3841
    @ckenshin3841 8 місяців тому +11

    In general, BoTW and ToTK seem to focus on different set pieces of the world. Locations that had more importance in BoTW are different from the locations that ToTK emphasize.

    • @jkatttt1699
      @jkatttt1699 4 місяці тому +1

      Yep, considering they made 2 new levels of play, makes sense they gave emphasis elsewhere.

  • @Cyclingismywholelife
    @Cyclingismywholelife 8 місяців тому +13

    11:35 “finders keepers” this is how I feel about any item in the game.

  • @brianpstern
    @brianpstern 8 місяців тому +28

    According to the Object Map there's a Gloom Spawn between Riogok Shrine and Hopper Pond

    • @diegomedina9637
      @diegomedina9637 8 місяців тому +14

      According to the object map... You know how I Know there's a gloom spawn over there? Because I've encountered them myself.

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  8 місяців тому +5

      Im sad i missed that. Need to use the object map more often, i use the interactive map which i think also shows gloom spawns, but still somehow overlooked that one

  • @jacksonfunke8230
    @jacksonfunke8230 8 місяців тому +27

    Totk great platue for me was so fun because I got the paraglider for the first sky view tower and was like "huh, what's over there?" and I went to explore and got the bargainer statue quest and my first experiences with black bokoblins. Somehow I never saw any yiga though.

  • @ltrigga219
    @ltrigga219 8 місяців тому +14

    Ah, the Riogok Shrine. Exiting that shrine was the first time I encounter the scariest thing(s) in the game and almost pooped myself. Good times.

  • @TheIvoryDingo
    @TheIvoryDingo 8 місяців тому +33

    Note that if you decide to walk away from the non-cave Shrine and further into the big field of grass, that there is a set of Gloom Stalkers/Hands roaming the area.
    And the ledges above said Shrine have both a Thunder Wizzrobe and a Lightning Likelike.

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  8 місяців тому +6

      I knew about the likelike and wizrobe but not about the gloom hands. I would have def mentioned the glooms hands if i knew that!

    • @AJWEXIST47
      @AJWEXIST47 8 місяців тому +4

      Those gloom hands were my first instance with that enemy. I was going to check out where I started the first game and instead I got gripped by the final evolution of the Floormaster

    • @BowlOSoup6661
      @BowlOSoup6661 8 місяців тому +2

      Does nobody call them by their actual name? It's Gloom Spawn, not Gloom Hands, not Gloom Stalkers, Gloom Spawn.

    • @TheIvoryDingo
      @TheIvoryDingo 8 місяців тому +1

      @@BowlOSoup6661 I tried to use the correct term (because I knew it wasn't hands but forgot what it actually was), but it is surprisingly annoying to look up what said accurate name is.

    • @AJWEXIST47
      @AJWEXIST47 8 місяців тому +2

      @@BowlOSoup6661 gloom spawn? More like gloom ON everyone playing this damn game that was excited for DLC

  • @YourPlaywright
    @YourPlaywright 8 місяців тому +14

    I don’t quite remember if you already covered this in a BotW useless fun facts video, but the pattern on the nostalgia fabric is likely a reference to Revali as that pattern appears on Revali’s landing pretty much exclusively, there’s a great tumblr post on it haha. I thought it was cute and maybe worth mentioning!

    • @Raving_Piranha_Plant
      @Raving_Piranha_Plant 8 місяців тому +10

      I believe the symbol is the emblem for the rito in general, as revali's landing was built before he died, and was named so as a memorial

  • @craigmcfly
    @craigmcfly 7 місяців тому +5

    12:40 for me this was one of the most satisfying moments of the game. After not being able to clear a path in BotW, it was a great feeling to be able to open it now.

  • @annaczgli2983
    @annaczgli2983 8 місяців тому +14

    Nice video! I'm a newbie whose 1st intro to Zelda is TotK. I would be confused when people spoke of various locations from BotW, that I had no idea. This was helpful & interesting.

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  8 місяців тому +1

      Happy it helps, thanks!

    • @BowlOSoup6661
      @BowlOSoup6661 8 місяців тому +3

      If you haven't played any other Zelda game, then I definitely recommend Twilight Princess and Wind Waker, (If you have a Wii U or are up to emulating it) but, if you don't think you can do that, then get Skyward Sword, it's much more linear than BotW or TotK, but it's some of the most fun I've ever had with a game in my life, to the point where I can 100% the game without a guide in one day

  • @OutcastAngelV
    @OutcastAngelV 8 місяців тому +12

    You have to ascend up through those Korok puzzles for them to reward you.

    • @diegomedina9637
      @diegomedina9637 8 місяців тому +1

      Yeah... that's so obvious I'm shocked people didn't get that.

  • @Stegallproductions
    @Stegallproductions 8 місяців тому +21

    I was a weirdo and didn’t want to talk to Purah when I started TotK so I ended up travelling pretty far without any glider. I thought since I didn’t have one I had to find it. I went to the great plateau and got the nostalgic fabric before I even got a paraglider. Thought I lucked out early on and found the stuff to make it. Of course I came back to Purah and she gave me the glider immediately so I was like, “oh I guess I just get the glider from her lol”😂 Just a funny story of my play time. Let me know if y’all skipped getting the glider by accident too.

    • @elnkianni3466
      @elnkianni3466 8 місяців тому +5

      yeah did the same haha.I wanted to visit Gerudo as soon as possible because it was my favorite place in botw. Didn't know where to find the paraglider and didn't care. I actually made it to gerudo town eventually through the underground cave system.
      I was disappointed by how dead the place was and finally returned and talked to Purah 😂

    • @imirhwklw
      @imirhwklw 8 місяців тому +2

      yeah i got distracted for ages and got kinda lost but then I finally went to talk to purah and realised that's where you get the glider

    • @dicksonZero
      @dicksonZero 7 місяців тому +2

      i knew purah was the main quest line and thought i should get the paraglider before the main quest starts, so i went to the great plateau first to see if the old place gave me any hints. i almost thought i had to gather 3 nostalgic fabric to make the paraglider, and then i saw purah (and i was like "bruh,")

  • @beanedtea
    @beanedtea 5 місяців тому +2

    One of my favorite experiences in TotK was just going back to all the landmarks from BotW and seeing how much has changed. The Old Man's hut was by far my favorite discovery since it sent me on a goose chase all across Hyrule, which ended in me going all around the depths to fight Master Khoga again.

  • @andrewpeutherer
    @andrewpeutherer 5 місяців тому +4

    It's so strange visiting a former tutorial area and seeing its changes, I got nostalgia just wondering around.

  • @Ury3L
    @Ury3L 8 місяців тому +9

    14:12 if check the water the rusty sword is still there...
    You can pick it with and fuse it the stone which feels a little weird, its ironic at least 😅

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  8 місяців тому +5

      Since i missed that, ima have to find a way to script this bit into a totk useless info vid

  • @sarojandongol1482
    @sarojandongol1482 8 місяців тому +9

    Now this gets me really pumped for ALL the major area comparisons.
    Then a follow up longer vid with every notable change in a totally unimportant place from botw.

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  8 місяців тому +7

      That's the plan. It's a pretty big project, but it'll be super fun to work on

  • @charlottestormie2739
    @charlottestormie2739 8 місяців тому +5

    Imagine how wrinkly fingers Link must have had in the beginning of BotW, waking up in a hot spring after 100 years.

  • @fabriciodelesderrier2646
    @fabriciodelesderrier2646 8 місяців тому +5

    Something I've never saw anyone comment about is the fact that the sky rocks (the ones you can't move with recall) are "merged" to where they felt, also some of them don't look like they have fallen off from sky at all.

    • @thecountalucard666
      @thecountalucard666 8 місяців тому +3

      It’s kinda like the Zonai Stakes in that regard.

  • @Leet-iz2fz
    @Leet-iz2fz 4 місяці тому +4

    TOTK should have a speedrun category where you get to the Shrine of Resurrection cave as quickly as possible and proceed to progress like you're speedrunning BOTW, with the Bargainer Statue eyes quest in place of the mandatory shrines

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  4 місяці тому +2

      oh that'd be funny. could be a good category extension run lol

  • @PilaCiu
    @PilaCiu 8 місяців тому +9

    11:31 Royal Claymore was his weapon of choice in Age of Calamity.

    • @javiervasquez625
      @javiervasquez625 8 місяців тому

      The claymore placed on Rhoam's grave is actually a reference to the book _Creating a Champion_ where it states it is "the favoured weapon of use by the Royal Family of Hyrule". Also Tears of the Kingdom has _confirmed_ that Age of Calamity is *non canon* to the timeline confirming that the claymore placed on Rhoam's grave is NOT a reference to that game.

    • @GemmaBee14
      @GemmaBee14 8 місяців тому +1

      @@javiervasquez625that doesn’t mean it can’t be referenced?

    • @AizzurasReaper
      @AizzurasReaper 2 дні тому

      @@javiervasquez625 brother in christ, neither of them exist in BOTW or TOTK so why would only one be able to be referenced? References are easter eggs from the devs that are about something else in the REAL WORLD, so even non canon games are able to be referenced.

    • @javiervasquez625
      @javiervasquez625 2 дні тому

      @@GemmaBee14 And your *evidence* that fanfiction can be referenced in canonical games is...?

    • @javiervasquez625
      @javiervasquez625 2 дні тому

      @@AizzurasReaper Creating a Champion is a book which CONTAINS canon information pertaining to the canon timeline of The Legend of Zelda which is why Nintendo has referenced it in Tears of the Kingdom. Find me a source which says the Royal Claymore is NOT a reference to the canon-giving Creating a Champion book or simply stop writing salty contrarian parroting.

  • @Sin-Nombre04
    @Sin-Nombre04 2 місяці тому +1

    I really started tearing up a bit when I got to the great plateu in totk for the first time, a lot of memorys came back to me

  • @thephalange8630
    @thephalange8630 8 місяців тому +20

    It's interesting really how you feel so strongly about in certain places not being any change, whereas I personally find it hard to believe there has been this much drastic change in just 5 or 6 years in game. It absolutely made me feel like Aonuma and the team just wanted everyone to forget BotW ever happened. Most people are very fond of TotK, me personally, I enjoyed BotW more. It's hard to explain, I enjoyed it more because it was new and exciting to explore, no rewards really needed, for the exploration was the reward. In TotK everything is the same, except Sheikah stuff is gone completely, how would they have been able to do so? Not a single ancient screw somewhere in Hyrule left? Impossible. It made it truely feel like BotW never happened.

    • @javiervasquez625
      @javiervasquez625 8 місяців тому +4

      Actually there's a _10 year gap_ seperating the events of Breath of the Wild with Tears of the Kingdom as confirmed by Mattison's age so with that said it is far too plausible for Zelda and co to organize a "house cleaning" of Hyrule so that all objects and constructs related to the Great Calamity would be disposed off to literally forget about the tragic incident which caused so much pain and misery to the denizens of the kingdom. It isn't a plothole or dismissive decision by Nintendo but simply a clever design choice by embracing the _passage of time_ and it's effect on the world as it keeps on changing.

    • @thephalange8630
      @thephalange8630 8 місяців тому +3

      @@javiervasquez625 10 years? Wow, Link and Zelda do NOT age at all xD And didn't want to write a whole lot up there, would have loved to add that cleaning up Hyrule, especially Sheikah tech out of fear of something like the Calamity 100 years prior happening again, but with the amount of guardians all over Hyrule even in 50 years, a few things here and there would have been more realistic. Also someone mentioning that Sheikah tech is gone for that reason would have been good. And there's still so much rubber left all over Hyrule from 110 years ago by that point, why not clean that up? Why build entirely new towers in the same regions when you already had a building that could have been possibly modified is another thing. Not to mention that all our unique sets of armor have suddenly been scattered all over Hyrule and the depths, many of which were in hideouts by Misko, a long gone thief in BotW let alone TotK. And there's many more points, which I don't want to bore anyone with, that just make me feel like BotW never happened. They really should have let us travel back in time, we could have still built stuff with the new abilities and they'd have their grand hurra about fantastic gameplay physics. But instead it felt like a reboot to BotW, without that BotW excitement of exploring a whole new Hyrule. I think that's the best way I can put it.

    • @jkatttt1699
      @jkatttt1699 4 місяці тому

      I got the impression that they wanted totk to be friendly to people who HADNT played botw. From an out of game dev perspective, it makes sense. A lot of games do this palette cleanse, though i agree it made totk feel barren for us die hards. Especially cuz I did a huge replay through of botw right before totk.... it was like oh. Maybe I shouldn't have done that. I don't think we'll ever recapture that magic of opening the world and launching off sheika towers the way we got in BOTW. That magic is unique to that game. Totk felt like an amazing expansion on where botw felt empty, but I don't think it was ever going to give us that same WOW factor because we'd already been there. Even with the depths and the sky islands. They felt like add on in a place we'd already been..

  • @BowlOSoup6661
    @BowlOSoup6661 8 місяців тому +14

    I know you're probably not gonna see this, but just by watching the first few seconds, I already knew that this was a video worth watching on TV with a bowl of Goldfish

  • @whodistoodis
    @whodistoodis 8 місяців тому +35

    The fact that all Sheikah tech just up and vaporized between BotW and TotK bothers me far more then it should, to the point that it would regularly take me out of the game experience. I wish it was explained even the slightest bit.

    • @Celestia282
      @Celestia282 8 місяців тому +15

      Yeah, that really bothered me, too. I can understand some of it getting removed and either scrapped or recycled, but all of it? Was it really a top priority to send a team into multiple uninhabited wastelands and climb dangerous, snow-covered mountains just to haul away some rusty junk that's simply going to be destroyed? It completely strains disbelief.

    • @Rock-vk9ei
      @Rock-vk9ei 8 місяців тому +4

      ⁠@@Celestia282Uh yeah. That’s what the Hudson Construction Company was for. You know they had to build the towers there right?

    • @matiasluukkanen7718
      @matiasluukkanen7718 8 місяців тому +11

      Retcons feel really cheap when the entire world is re-used.
      Same with Divine Beasts. With how important they were for 10 000 years, one would think they would be addressed.

    • @heliothrax7716
      @heliothrax7716 8 місяців тому +11

      ​@@Rock-vk9ei The new towers aren't built in the same place as the old ones. Also, there's no way the Hudson Construction Company made it to the underground section of the Akkala Labyrinth that was crawling with Guardians. There's just SO MUCH sheikah stuff around the world.

    • @yaboihere494
      @yaboihere494 8 місяців тому +5

      I feel like all the tech must have been whisked away by some sort of timeline overwrite when Zelda travelled to the past

  • @Chris-gx1ei
    @Chris-gx1ei 6 місяців тому +2

    The one shrine on the Surface is also kinda guarded by Gloom Hands which will hunt you down to take your soul away, and if you kill them they'll spawn Phantom Ganon to finish off what remains of you.

  • @Gamer1288
    @Gamer1288 8 місяців тому +2

    10:48 I was confused on these Puzzles too. There is nothing telling you to Ascend up that spot.

  • @potatojuiceultra
    @potatojuiceultra 8 місяців тому +8

    5:13 I wonder if this is a reference to how the rock in botw is used to go up in speedruns

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  8 місяців тому +1

      Lol i was thinking about including that in my script, but ended up leaving that part out 😄

  • @clanpsi
    @clanpsi 8 місяців тому +4

    The games are only separated by a couple of in-game years. How much weathering on stone do you expect? O_o

  • @naine1300
    @naine1300 5 місяців тому +1

    10:47 you can actually get this korok by ascending right through it. hope that helps :)

  • @raviolithebest8644
    @raviolithebest8644 3 місяці тому +1

    2:16 Kass was here too... God the Champions' Ballad was so cool

  • @AlexCFaulkner
    @AlexCFaulkner 8 місяців тому +4

    Subscribed! I've been waiting for someone to make these exact videos! Please make more for more regions.

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  8 місяців тому

      Thanks! Yep, that's the plan - to cover the entire surface map. And then possibly things like malice vs gloom or other comparisons

  • @Matthew-Martinsson
    @Matthew-Martinsson 8 місяців тому

    This is actually a really cool idea of a series! Great content my man.

  • @fastboi2390
    @fastboi2390 8 місяців тому +5

    5:30 I think the fact that Link begins to feel cold earlier on the rock wall ledge here is because the time seems to be later in the day. This was a feature in BOTW as well, where the time of day could and usually did affect temperature. It's probably not that the temperature boundaries were shifted, but it was later in the evening and so cooler, making it so the colder areas and places close to them cause Link to get colder sooner.
    An easy way to check would be to just go back around Noon or whatever time you had checked for it in BOTW and see if there's still a difference.
    Aside from that, everything covered here is spot on. Sorry for sounding like an "uhm ackshooally" type of guy lol. Good video

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  8 місяців тому +2

      I will definitely look more into that, thanks. Never heard of this

  • @RedHotStats33
    @RedHotStats33 3 місяці тому +1

    In TotK, there is a gloom spawn at the edge of the forest of spirits towards the shrine.

  • @jaffinator2166
    @jaffinator2166 8 місяців тому +16

    Sweet vid! The Stone turned Battle Talus was my favorite detail in the game because of how honestly cute it is!
    Also Hyrule Castle next?

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  8 місяців тому +4

      Def doing the castle in a future episode

  • @Starbeam1979
    @Starbeam1979 3 місяці тому +2

    I don't know if anyone's said it yet, but that korrok platform on the ceiling requires ascend. Basically ascend through it and you'll get your korrok seed.

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  3 місяці тому +2

      Lol thanks. Yeah I've gotten it since uploading this video.

  • @Filionex08
    @Filionex08 3 місяці тому +2

    10:48 You need to acend through that thing, the the korok will appear.

  • @annaisntcool
    @annaisntcool 8 місяців тому +1

    i live for these videos honestly. so entertaining yet calming at the same time

  • @DoomFinger511
    @DoomFinger511 5 місяців тому +1

    At 10:49 any korok puzzles that look like that require you to use acend under the tree stump. When you arrive at the top the korok will pop out.

  • @duecedude8467
    @duecedude8467 8 місяців тому +2

    Sup Tony great vid. I unfortunately haven't been able to catch the streams but love the vids that came out

  • @RealBasil143
    @RealBasil143 3 місяці тому +1

    That tree target stump thing IS a korok puzzle, you need to ascend up it, it should make some targets to shoot, once you do you get a korok seed

  • @iLLiCiT_XL
    @iLLiCiT_XL 2 місяці тому

    The boundary changes with cold weather can be attributed to the change of seasons in Hyrule. The devs demonstrated it with changes in vegetation, weather patterns, and even the sun being in a different position.

  • @AizzurasReaper
    @AizzurasReaper 2 дні тому

    To explain King Rhoam's Grave. In one of the first cutscnes in Age of Calamity(Basically A BOTW prequel from before calamity ganon revived) he is seen giving orders to soldiers, including link, while holding a royal CLAYMORE with ONE HAND. That man was buff.

  • @ssk8r0
    @ssk8r0 4 місяці тому

    Hi Can you please link me to the over world theme on piano that you're using at the end of the video? I really like that version.

  • @chrisrey0018
    @chrisrey0018 8 місяців тому +1

    10:48 I BURST OUT LAUGHING I THOUGHT YOU WERE JOKING.. WOW

  • @BusyMEOW
    @BusyMEOW 8 місяців тому +3

    Hey those Korok stumps on the ceilings like shown at 10:44 are meant for you to use Ascend on..

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  8 місяців тому +2

      Always forget about ascend... thanks

  • @dustinzacharias8227
    @dustinzacharias8227 8 місяців тому +1

    14:06 first play through of botw I ABSOLUTELY thought that this was the master sword and got really exited.

  • @gabrielebattista8219
    @gabrielebattista8219 8 місяців тому +5

    10:51 you have to use ascend

  • @Sanstheskelbro11
    @Sanstheskelbro11 8 місяців тому +2

    The korok puzzle you couldn’t solve was a puzzle where you use ascend on

  • @grantlynn1659
    @grantlynn1659 8 місяців тому +1

    That fallen skyrock next to the stasis shrine has to be a little wink to botw speedrunners, because in a botw speedrun you use stasis and an arrow to launch the rock vertically, to get to the cold area quicker

  • @12times12_
    @12times12_ 8 місяців тому +2

    Filmed in front of a live online audience 😂. Love it (still sad I missed it though).

  • @MrStatement
    @MrStatement 8 місяців тому +3

    The Great Plateau is probably one of my favorite places in both BOTW and TOTK.

  • @duecedude8467
    @duecedude8467 8 місяців тому +4

    15:13 but he did hold an axe in botw so he must have found some kind of way

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  8 місяців тому +1

      Someone else mentioned how he was moving around the warm dublet, which I admit pokes a hole in my little theory about ghosts writing in diaries

  • @trapjohnson
    @trapjohnson 8 місяців тому

    Eager to see future episodes!

  • @jenniferdavie6331
    @jenniferdavie6331 4 місяці тому +1

    For the korok looking puzzle you have to ascend through it

  • @Spinellios
    @Spinellios 13 днів тому

    All of those Silent Princess monument locations are definitely worth visiting in the depths

  • @BonkyBoko9
    @BonkyBoko9 5 місяців тому +2

    FUN FACT: the sword in the stone at the start of the game near the temple is actually still there in tears, it’s in the water!!!!!

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  5 місяців тому +1

      I learned that after making this vid. Wish I'd known bc thats such a cool detail

  • @derekcullen3965
    @derekcullen3965 8 місяців тому +3

    Immaculate vibes, love your narration

  • @purplurpl
    @purplurpl 2 місяці тому +1

    All you have to do for that korok puzzle is to ascend through it

  • @buizelmeme6288
    @buizelmeme6288 5 місяців тому +1

    6:50 how did i not know that this cave exists on the great plateau in botw!?

  • @yagatza
    @yagatza 8 місяців тому +1

    Honestly, it was bittersweet going back to the plateau. Lots of changes.

  • @alexthecat136
    @alexthecat136 5 місяців тому

    “Giant stone skull enemy fortress hideout base camp” that’s a lot of words

  • @36OLink
    @36OLink Місяць тому

    at 10:42, you are meant to ascend through it to solve the korok. nice vid btw

  • @marywren3998
    @marywren3998 4 місяці тому +1

    The first time I went back to the Shrine of Resurrection in TOTK, I got weirdly emotional and really sad, it was bizarre

  • @joestack1921
    @joestack1921 8 місяців тому

    In TOTK s as soon as I hit the surface without the paraglider, I guessed that it must be in the temple of time. So I immediately walked all the way there and only found the cloth. I was still happy though because it seemed like the devs knew I might think that

  • @jakewildfong1722
    @jakewildfong1722 8 місяців тому

    Great video dude

  • @purehyper124
    @purehyper124 7 місяців тому

    This was the first min boss I fought as well, and I was surprised when rocks suddenly move and attack me.

  • @GuyWhoLovesToSayHyah
    @GuyWhoLovesToSayHyah 2 місяці тому +1

    Its weird seeing a big hole in where Oman Au is AKA Magnesis shrine. (Oman Au was my first shrine)

  • @1lham_edits
    @1lham_edits 5 місяців тому

    For the Sheikah architecture - perhaps, since it's been 7 years in-game since BOTW for Link, someone has taken the Shiekah architecture for research or to use the material.

  • @angzarrpsyco
    @angzarrpsyco 4 місяці тому

    I would love to see someone take the world mesh and directly compare them and make like a heat map of where the most changes have occurred

  • @sergeantneko
    @sergeantneko 4 місяці тому +1

    Try ascending through that korok puzzle in the beehive cave.

  • @kiram667
    @kiram667 2 місяці тому

    The korok under the khnook is you basically have to achend and theres the korok hope this helped!

  • @lightguard1
    @lightguard1 8 місяців тому +1

    You can also find a yiga impostor cosplaying zelda at the place where you first meet the old man from BOTW. Very funny nintendo.

  • @bitefesili
    @bitefesili 7 місяців тому

    "and it looks like a korok puzzle im not clever enough to solve" such a perfect way to describe my mindset w any korok puzzle thst requires thinking

  • @Abionx
    @Abionx 7 місяців тому +1

    10:22 what was the attachment used on that arrow? i dont remember any attachments deleting npcs out of the game lol!?

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  7 місяців тому

      Lol thats the ancient shard thing i found in the treasure chest next to the giant skyrock found in the exact spot the great plateau tower used to be

    • @Abionx
      @Abionx 7 місяців тому

      @@TheTonyExpress whats the name of the item? if its a unique i wonder if its duplicatable lol. imagine just erasing ganon out of existence at the start of the fight, how would that work with his dragon form?

  • @healinghands884
    @healinghands884 8 місяців тому +1

    2:52 Link is floating with a glowing bowling ball... lol

  • @Angie_Creations
    @Angie_Creations 7 місяців тому +1

    When I revisit the great plateau in totk I was like "i'm gonna search this place to see the differences between both games...
    oh man... finishing the only visible shrine I went to the forest and welp xD GLOOM HANDS made its appearance. I'll never forget my first encounter with those things, never xD I was so naive at that time, new fear unlocked HAHAHAHA

  • @ihaveacutecat
    @ihaveacutecat 8 місяців тому +3

    10:46 ascend through it

  • @historictruecrime5119
    @historictruecrime5119 8 місяців тому +5

    I didn’t know you can fuse ice pieces to tools!!

    • @hq3727
      @hq3727 8 місяців тому +1

      You can also fuse an ice platform onto a weapon to make an ice fan and when used in front of a body of water, helps you make more ice platforms! :D

  • @Videogameboy1989
    @Videogameboy1989 8 місяців тому +1

    at 10:45 you're supposed to use Ascend on that Korok puzzle thing.