Tears Of The Kingdom Retrospective - It Wasn't That Great
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- Опубліковано 24 лис 2024
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In this intriguing video, we delve deep into the one-year anniversary of "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom." Join us as we embark on a journey through Hyrule's captivating landscape, exploring how this acclaimed title has weathered the test of time. Has it improved over the past year, or has its initial shine dulled? We'll uncover the highs and lows, examining its place among the greatest Zelda games and pondering its lasting legacy in the gaming world. Don't miss out on this comprehensive review as we celebrate the enduring magic of "Tears of the Kingdom" on its one-year milestone! - Ігри
great work on this! i’ve got my own monster of a totk critique dropping soon (hopefully) and it was a real treat to hear someone else voice similar complaints
Hell yea tag me when you pop out with it!
@@Didmikedothis2023 as promised, it's up on my channel now!!!
@@skittybitty bet I'm bout to go check it out!
@@skittybitty omg it's up and you ratioed tf outta me lol
@@skittybitty Here's my followup that I mentioned in my comment the other day - a bunch of the stuff you mentioned is the same thoughts I had in this one as well haha - ua-cam.com/video/5ipk1EwE_Ug/v-deo.htmlsi=tR_D0LEOVhkTsVtT
I agree with the lack of new towns or buildings. Like they seriously couldn’t finish at least one new house in hyrule castle town in the 5-6 years since the end of the calamity? 😭
I'm saying lmao
I mean how many years do you think till Japan managed to recover after being nuked?? Or after the tsunami incident?? I think it took years but that's with multiple aids from different countries and all the materials are on standby already and logistics and transportation are much faster in our world...
Now when it comes to Hyrule well that's a bit complicated. Add the fact that the settlement (Hateno to be exact) in which majority of the Hylians reside were located too far to really start a mass reconstruction, Hudson is too occupied with Tarrey Town and was contacted by Zelda to prioritize building the towers first, as a recon spot... You have stables yes but they're busy with their own stuff. Each regions as well we're busy trying to recover fron the calamity..
That's assuming there's no more monsters in the fields to slow things down further since I can assure you there's still alot since the Demon King is still present..
@vivid8979 thats the goofiest argument I've ever heard for this lol. If calamity ganon was destroyed but the world remained just as dangerous and impossible to inhabit after the fact but then not less dangerous than after the upheaval then what does ganon change in either case? The world is just dangerous regardless with or without him.
How long did it take to build Terry town from scratch originally?
Link has still been around for these several years, and there's no guardians, did he not help?
There's no good argument or explanation bro, nintendo just didn't give af to actually change the overworld because they expect people to be on their knees regardless if they get a new project or the old one left almost entirely in tact and the reviews as well as negative response to negative critiques have proved that.
@@vivid8979 Fair point IF and only IF, there were still remains of the Shrines, Towers (okay if they went away like magic, sure), but disassembled the Divine Beasts, ALL of the guardians, minus one...If they had time for all of that, the could have had the time to rebuild some of Castle Town. Where is Zelda living? If not the Castle, then where? I can agree that a lot of rebuilding may not have been possible, but some could have been done especially considering how all ties to BOTW went away without a trace. That's the problem I have - Nintendo should have never made this a "sequel" or they should have put more time and effort into it explaining what happened in those 5-6 years between events and the Why's behind it all.
I figured the intention was to give the players more Terry Town-esque side quests. Nintendo kinda fucked this game over by being so hell-bent on not giving the game any DLC
How dare you?
You interrupted a king…mid-Suavemente.
😭😭😭😭
Really put how i felt about hitting the halfway point of this game into words. Never understood the undying adulation totk got when it all felt so "been there, done that"
Yea it definitely started far better than it ended
Here's a few more points as well if you want to check them out - ua-cam.com/video/5ipk1EwE_Ug/v-deo.htmlsi=tR_D0LEOVhkTsVtT
They should’ve scrapped the depths completely and focused on the overworks and sky islands it would’ve made for a much better experience and plus no one ever goes to the depths ever unless it’s to get good weapons and more zonaite
Lol I don't dislike the depths but with the money and resources nintendo has, they honestly could have done both. Botw was like 12G and Totk I think 16G
If they removed 3 or 4 gigs of botw content, then that would mean that they added 50% new content max
Since this game had 5+ years with 50% of the ground work done, I'm sure they could have got more hands on deck and threw in a couple more gigs of overworld content on top of what they actually gave us
@@Didmikedothis2023 I agree Nintendo has a bunch of resources and they could’ve done so much more in 5 YEARS especially with a reused map totk somehow feels worse then botw whilst objectively being the better game
@@ummidk757 on god though
I'm not mad that you're talking crap about my favorite game in 2023. I'm mad your right, and that I fully agree with you
@izenheimreborn6390 sad it has to be that way lol, zelda is my favorite series and I'd love to not have to shit all over a game I for the most part enjoyed, just to let out my frustration with its overwhelming problems
I've watched this video multiple times and it makes me LOL every single time-- great critique and perhaps even better delivery
@@gothica69508 lol daaaamn preciate that 👍🏼 that's the best outcome
If this one makes you laugh still, check out my new one and (hopefully) laugh some more!
ua-cam.com/video/5ipk1EwE_Ug/v-deo.htmlsi=tR_D0LEOVhkTsVtT
@@Didmikedothis2023 Def watching it ASAP!!
@@gothica69508 preciate that!
It's like a group of friends all had a good idea for a game and the friend in charge said, "These are great but we can't do every idea..." and then the others started crying so he just let them all do their ideas.
Thats cus thats exactly what happend more or less. Totk is all the planned dlc ideas for botw which were then taken and expanded upon into a whole new game.
@gavinferguson2938 if that's confirmed, that's crazy cause I never knew that lol
Eh, I'd say it's more like the dev team became so obsessed with several new gimmick mechanics that nobody really asked for or wanted (ultrahand, building, fusion,) and they kind of just... forgot about everything else in the process. Like drastically improving the dungeons, story, rewards and side content.
Great video that really also captures how i feel about TOTK.
I have seen more critiques of this game popping up since the "honeymoon phase" is over, but i am tired of every one of them being like "yeah TOTK was a disappointment and a flawed game but is still 10/10 best game of the year" becuase god forbid you say nintendo fucked up.
Therefore your video is so refreshing since it is honest and calls the game what it is flawed and not a 10/10 masterpiece.
@Gump1405 yea bro I really wanted it to be better and it's messed up how hyped I was when the final trailer dropped but all that hype turned to contempt within the first couple hours of playing
And almost every critique is exactly what you said, someone listing endless problems but then rating it high. Mfs spend 5 minutes at the beginning of a video raving about how the game is perfect and flawless but then wanna try and point out actual gripes lol like it doesn't work.
I told the truth, the game had me addicted and I did like playing it, but that doesn't make it a perfect game.
This is unironically the most accurate review of this game on this entire platform. Perfectly summed up every thought I had about the game, and it clearly comes from someone who wanted to like the game. Very funny presentation too, nice job
Preciate it OG!
I expanded on a few more points and added some more gripes in a followup if you wanna fw it! ua-cam.com/video/5ipk1EwE_Ug/v-deo.htmlsi=tR_D0LEOVhkTsVtT
Good points (I’m still going to play this game for hours every day)
@@Fish23325 I ain't mad lol do you, king
I didn’t hate TotK, but I definitely liked breath of the wild more. I feel one of the largest pulls for TOTK is the ultrahand system, which while cool is overhyped and feels slightly shoehorned in to me. It’s used to solve puzzles and allows for a ton of creativity by players, but the whole building mechanic feels like it would be better off in a Zelda themed spinoff, rather than the focus of a mainline game.
Regardless of gameplay, the story and how it is shown is my largest gripe with the game. TotK tries to have its cake and eat it too. They wanted a story with mystery and a plot twist, while also allowing the player to watch the story in any order. As such each tear/memory is far too self contained for a proper story, and too short to properly sell me on all of the developments that occur.
BotW’s story worked so well, for me, for two reasons: 1) the story was simple, and 2) we knew the whole story from the start. The simple story meant that the cutscenes provided would be enough to tell the whole story. They didn’t need to waste time making me like a character so they can kill them off later. Since the player is not actively playing through either game’s story, the story must be told entirely through cutscenes and dialog rather than gameplay events.
Additionally, knowing the story from the start changes the nature of the cutscenes shown. In BOTW we knew the story, so the memories could focus on the characters. For totk we didn’t know anything, so the tears needed to explain the story and develop the characters in a meaningful way. Despite needing to do more with the memories, totk does not have more a lot more cutscenes than BOTW. As a result it fails at both, it doesn’t tell an extremely compelling story, and the characters don’t feel especially fleshed out.
Of course I know that having too high of expectations will always lead to disappointment, but I expected something very different from Totk’s story. After playing the game, I think a better way to develop the story and world would be this:
Opening plays out the same, but both link and Zelda go back in time together. During this process, link loses the master sword. Zelda would stay at the castle training with Sonia and Rauru, while link comes and goes, trying to thwart the machinations of Ganondorf.
There would be no depths, but there would be very distinct changes to the overworld and town layout. I imagine that twin peaks would still be one mountain, and during a large fight a dragon splits the mountain as is suggested in some dialogue in Botw. Other thoughts would be that zora’s domain doesn’t exist yet, so the Zoe’s live underwater. This could be in the necluda sea, lake hylia, or just underwater at zora’s domain. The past would have sky islands which is where the rito would nest across all of hyrule.
As link completes the dingeons from the past, he can come back to hyrule castle and check in on Zelda, getting to see her progress and develop. Once link finishes those dungeons ganondorf will attack the castle and in the process kills Sonia while link is away. A huge battle ensues where you rush through the castle trying to find Zelda and stop ganon. This would finish with an unwinable fight, which ends with Zelda sacrificing herself to seal ganon during which she becomes a dragon so to maintain the seal for eternity. During the transformation she uses her last burst of power to send link back to the present.
I’m not sure how the present should be altered to make it more distinct from Botw, but I would love to hear some ideas. No depths though.
In the present, link would track down the master sword and find some McGuffin to save Zelda which would involve more dungeons. The final doing win would be a warped and distorted hyrule castle similar to OOT, and a final fight to kill ganon. Which ends with the dragon battle again, but this time we get to stead Zelda, and have to pin ganon before link can attack him.
Spot on G
I have a ton of ideas for what I would have rathered play. Interestingly enough, out of my multiple prediction/what I want to see videos, I'm going back over them and seeing that I was right about the bad stuff and got next to none of the stuff I was hoping for. I think a lot of that stuff I hoped for would solve many of this games problems.
Whatever the revised future would be, actually making use of Impa saying she'll research a way to save Zelda would be one of them.
Very enjoyable critique! I think you’re pretty funny, keep up the hard work to this quality and you’ll find recognition soon! Good luck!
Preciate it G! Feel free to check out some of my other stuff as well!
I have heard no lies told and am incredibly happy to hear someone cuss like they mean it. Subbed for more❤🔥
Lol preciate it OG!
Feel free to check out some of the previous ones I've posted as well
Here's one where I cuss even more lmaooo - but it's a followup - ua-cam.com/video/5ipk1EwE_Ug/v-deo.htmlsi=tR_D0LEOVhkTsVtT
@@Didmikedothis2023 aww hell yeah my guy
Legit hated TotK. I can’t even force myself to finish it.
Lmaooooo I finished it after stalling because I felt like the story wasn't good enough and I was beating it too quickly
I play some wandering, and a major story before I have to take several months away as a palette cleanser.
I shouldn't have laughed this many times during a retrospective.......but damn.......you hit the nail on the head lol
Lol preciate it G! Go watch my others, I try to be funny in them all
I'm also about to post another totk video in the next week or 2 listing out a few more complaints
@@Didmikedothis2023Nice! Would definitely love to see a followup vid from you!
@@ACW-dn9wb I'll let you know! I got backed up in the editing process but I'm hoping to have it up next thursday
@@ACW-dn9wb I'm a week late but here's my followup video!
ua-cam.com/video/5ipk1EwE_Ug/v-deo.htmlsi=tR_D0LEOVhkTsVtT
Same with you, if you want to (hopefully) laugh some more, here's my newest vid on TOTK, just hitting a few more points!
ua-cam.com/video/5ipk1EwE_Ug/v-deo.htmlsi=tR_D0LEOVhkTsVtT
idk ienjoyed this game so much and i dont understand why it got so much hate its really interesting how this game gets shit on for being “too repetitive and overwhelming” however nobody thinks this about elden ring for example which is even more repetitive than totk i just don’t understand this for me totk is so much better than botw
botw felt like jumping from one shrine to another and even tho there was that huge exploration lets be honest the map was just bland and it got boring really fast to me i think totk is not great as a sequel(because of the story has almost no connection to botw) but i think its just THE definitive game that nintendo wanted in 2017 when botw was released totk just takes that botw formula and upgrades it to the max and even tho side activities can be repetitive(just like in botw) totk still has so much variety that half a time i totally forget about side quests being there just because im exploring caves depths or sky islands and im enjoying every hour of it even on my second play though
ofcourse don’t take this as a hate juat my experience with the game
Are you really saying that Elden Ring was more repetitive than the game that every dungeon was basically "press 4 switches" and then show you basically the same cutscene after you clear said dungeons?
A very refreshing truthful review. My son wants me to play it, but after getting wind of various things that do not make sense "as a sequel", I decided against it. You cannot remove all things Sheikah from the game without explanation while not even rebuilding much of anything. You hit the key points on the head. It was a lazy money grab from what I have seen. BOTW has it flaws of course, but at least it felt more or less complete.
Yea botw actually felt like they wanted to do it
what I like about the Zelda fanbase is that we are rarely blinded by our fanboyness. We can call it like we see it
@daisukicliff9119 the more time passes and hype wears down, the truer that is. But a lot of people still get shat on by other fans for not being on their knees butt kissing the game lol.
Good one
As a sequel, it's not that amazing. As a game in general, it's fabulous.
That's a legit thought👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Top15s is a zelda fan and hates TOTK? LETS GOOO
A good game, but not great. You brought up a lot of good points that further reinforce my opinion on this game. Being a "sequel" to BoTW, I was very disappointed to see the lack of any mention of what happened to the shrines, Divine beasts, Calamity Ganon, and for some reason Kass is just nowhere to be fucking seen. What I think was done well, however, was the prologue. It had such a grim atmosphere that I wish the rest of the game kept. ToTK isn't terrible, but if it was a chair, I wouldn't sit in it. If it was a steak, I wouldn't eat it. You know?
Lmao well put I suppose.
Yea, it started out nice, I liked the link and zelda scene at the beginning, it gave a good sequel feel, and then the Ganondorf scene. But it literally started already losing steam at the point that I was talking to raurus ghost on the sky island. It picked back up when I got to the surface and set off to helping the regions but again lost steam after the 1st region and never really picked up again for me after that.
@@Didmikedothis2023 💯
If you have energy left in you for more TOTK complaints, I got a followup video for you! - ua-cam.com/video/5ipk1EwE_Ug/v-deo.htmlsi=tR_D0LEOVhkTsVtT
It's 100% the developers fault for a boring map that is almost unchanged at all. If other games did this they would have been raked through the mud.
Most definitely. That's made clear that the 10 mil sales were already decided long before release simply because of hype. And that hype carried over into the game being over rated. Even the youtube sht talkers, most of them have to rave about how great the game is for five minutes and call it perfect ten times before stating their complaints. Most other games wouldn't get close to that treatment.
It feels like a double standard.
@ProjectionProjects2.7182 it's 100% a double standard
But people judge on emotion, not logic. You have to damn near play the villian to give an honest critique of this game that isn't bowing down to nintendo every 5 seconds lol.
@@Didmikedothis2023 I wonder why Zelda gets a pass? Is it the nostalgia that people have? I have nostalgia for older Zelda games but even I agree that TOTK and BOTW are NOT masterpieces.
The Yakuza franchise has done this since 2006 and everybody loves that series. Stop talking shit.
29:35 you mention a lot of stuff that you don’t have to do. Yes! You’re right. You can go directly to the final boss after completing the great sky island, but then you’ll be missing a lot of stuff.
The complaint isn't about going straight to the boss. The complaint is that like 90% of the game and its elements aren't cohesive and almost none of it ties together in a real way that forms a full game experience.
It's just 100 hours of "doing stuff" until you decide to go beat ganon or some shit
@@Didmikedothis2023that’s 100% bullshit though. There is a cohesive loop of gameplay where time in the sky leads to locations of chests in the depths. Time on the surface helps map the depths and vice versa. Time in the depths yields the resources necessary to expand batteries and gather Zonai devices which are in the sky. There’s a myriad of connectivity between all these tasks not to mention TotK completely fixed the fact that in BotW avoiding enemy camps was optimal because now each encounter yields usable rewards and doesn’t *just* take from you.
@ryanwall5760 times like this is when I wish youtube had a laugh react lol. But since I can't laugh at your statement, I'll just agree to disagree. Here's a 30 minute video, I've said enough to back my points, and if I haven't, stay tuned for the one I'm about to drop lol
@@ryanwall5760Here's the thing. Having a 3 tier map and putting in a gameplay looped purpose on each tier isn't impressive. That's _standard expectations_ for game design. If it doesn't have a purpose, it's useless to make. It's not one far off hidden room or mini game players might not fine, it's the main gameplay. And all of it is very basic concepts spread across too huge of maps that only exist because the one dev pushed for the idea of being able to skydive from the top to the bottom of the map. And that's taking into account the game had an entire year for polishing, and they _removed_ sky islands (most likely because the Switch couldn't handle having them and Ultrahand and Recall all going) so who knows what better or even worse islands they removed to keep the bare basic copy pasted ones we got. Let alone how unplayable the game was whenever they made that call to delay. Too many signs of mismanagement happening, even for an industry known for making early decisions and having to adapt to completely different outcomes with the deeply entangled code along the way.
@@amandaslough125 yeah, and they met that expectation. The distance between the three tiers doesn’t matter to the gameplay loop since fast travel exists and nothing in the loop necessitates quickly switching between the three tiers in the first place. You can spend as much time in any of the three as you like and apart from the surface, you’ll experience a bit of pushback teaching you to prepare better using the other tiers. Even so, you can challenge yourself if you want. The original claim I was disputing was that items not connected. I demonstrated that it’s full-scale false and all I got from the creator of the video was scoffing rhetoric and no actual reply to my rebuttal. Now you’re talking about the development cycle as if that’s relevant to the product at hand. I do agree the sky islands are lackluster and not exactly what I want, but the hyperbole is killing the points you could make.
I could agree that some of the connection between the three tiers could be strengthened in the gameplay loop, but saying they’re disconnected altogether is just a lie and poisons the well for constructive criticism.
*To further BotW's sheer superiority, I will say this:*
TotK's story is bad, Fs with pre-established key lore aspects, absolutely shatters all the Master Sword's reputation, unga bunga buff Dorf with little to no ambition other than "me strongest there is" uninteresting, nearly everyone forgot who you were despite this game taking place a mere 4-6 years after Wild, Rauru existing is an insult, no Fi, no breaking of the Demise curse despite it being falsely hinted being the case what with all the Skyward Sword PR this game got (I distinctly remember Skyward Sword being advertised as heavily linked to TotK somehow which, again, is misleading as on Nintendo's part), no dog petting, no hookshot spiderman swinging with the physics being suuuuch a driving factor in these newer Zelda games, no underwater exploration instead a damp dark smelly overgrown cave can't see jack, COLLOSAL missed opportunity to hitch the princess with her handsome knight in shining armor, no stakes since Zelda's sacrifice was reversed giving the story little to no agency or consequence, Link as a protagonist felt nonexistent feels like everyone else was the star of the show not the guy who's saving all their 🫏s, no Link backstory before any of this went down aka no Arryl 2 or Granny 2 aka NOT WIND WAKER, didn't make me cry like Twilight Princess, dungeons are STILL NOT dungeons (pulling a couple levers to open a door and then be treated with literally the same copy-paste cutscene at the very end with each champion? Yeah naw), sky islands hardly anything worth noting although they are pretty asf to look at, I was expecting a totally NEW revamped endgame super Saiyan master sword golden tier 4 legendary new hilt new everything but naw same design with a booboo scar and hilariously less powerful... hoverbike autobuild pales in comparison to THE Master Cycle
As a game, sure, it's leagues above BotW but BotW will never be topped as a one-in-a-lifetime *experience*
TotK was an overblown $70 DLC and I'm tired of pretending it's not. Mid.
@Giggles_iJest spit on, G!
I'm about to drop another vid most likely next Thursday listing more complaints cause I didn't get it all out my system with this video lol, a few of the things you mentioned are things I mention in it
Here's my continued ranting about TOTK if you want to hear more!
ua-cam.com/video/5ipk1EwE_Ug/v-deo.htmlsi=tR_D0LEOVhkTsVtT
Totk really does lack cohesion imo. I enjoyed the review, not overwhelmingly negative, some praise, but sounded overall honest.
Preciate that OG!
If you want to see me complain more, with less praise, here's a followup - ua-cam.com/video/5ipk1EwE_Ug/v-deo.htmlsi=tR_D0LEOVhkTsVtT
But I also might make a video saying what I like about the game!
I really enjoyed the game. I understand the criticism but I think too many people judge it by their expectations rather than what it I, and since I had lower hopes I had an awesome time. I will admit that even though my first play through I was addicted to come back, my second was less so. That being said, Botw was my fav game and TOTK is just Botw but better in almost every way and therefore it is my fav game. Honestly just disappointed others didn’t enjoy as much as me
@benjthewhite glad you enjoyed it G !
From my perspective, if people are disappointed because their hopes were simply too high, then nintendo is still to blame. They didn't mind selling 10 mil copies in a weekend off nothing but high expectations, so when those high expectations end in disappointment, you can't turn around and say it's the players fault that the game falls short of their expectations.
@@Didmikedothis2023That’s fair, with the development time I think they could have used it better, such as smaller but better quality depths, more unique sky islands, and improved dungeons, but I think regardless of how Nintendo set it up, living up to botw is something which I think is hard to do, which I knew beforehand and didn’t let myself get too hyped and it worked for me, it is what it is though
@benjthewhite yea there's a lot they could have done better, but the roadmap to success was plain as day because all the problems with BOTW were openly talked about. All they had to do was fix those issues while driving the story forward and they did everything but.
@@Didmikedothis2023 Debatable, I thought they fixed many of my problems, except maybe quality of dungeons. But they improved durability, added more weapon versatility, better side quests, better story, and everything but the main puzzles in the dungeons were superior to botw
@benjthewhite definitely debatable lol cause they didn't fix durability at all, they just added a new spin to it, and granted it's a cool skin, but I hate busting ass to defeat a silver lionel just for the sword I make out of it to still last 1 fight!
So instead of finding a weapon with 70 hp, I gotta fuse the monster drops to a shit weapon to make a 70 hp weapon which still breaks just as fast. That's not fixing lol.
Side quests are better, I agree there, but the side quests were far from the big problem.
The story is still bad, and in some ways even worse while being far more confusing
Rain still sucks
And the dungeons, although they tried to improve on devine beasts, they're so bent on sticking to their guns on the dungeon design that they still made bad dungeons
Not a single one of these are even midrange on the overall zelda dungeon scale.
I agree with you like 95%. I didn't like this game. I don't know WHAT criticism they were listening to to make all these changes. I borrowed this game from my uncle to play it and I still feel like I got ripped off. Let me get my main problems out here.
Fuse is funny for a little bit but becomes a chore after like the first temple, and getting fucking one-shot at every damn stage of the game was absolutely terrible.
The sage abilities suck and trying to press A on the right sage for the ability you want is terrible
The story like you said was boring and repetitive and honestly my favorite parts to go through were all the Yiga Clan sidequests
And I know everyone says they like the temples in this game better but like, they're barely changed from botw. And the bosses are so much worse this time around. The Blights may have had similar designs but they were all still fun to fight for the most part except Thunderblight, plus fighting the beasts themselves before entering them. The Temple Bosses in totk were awful. Muctorok and Queen Gibdo are the most annoying pieces of shit I've ever had the displeasure of facing, Colgera was only for spectacle and still managed to be boring, maybe would've been better if the cool method of beating them was more obvious, and Marbled Gohma is just ok at best because at least he doesn't do anything particularly wrong.
Borrowed and still feel ripped off is crazy lmaooo 😭😭
Tears of the kingdom Isn't for every gamer. This isn't a new game. This game is botw complete version
Idk bout that one buddy
Botw is far more cohesive than this shit show lol
Having more fluff and more bullshit doesn't make it more complete
_TOTK_ fixed and improved upon many of _BOTW’s_ flaws and shortcomings, but also broke and fell short with many of the things _BOTW_ did right.
That's true but even with botw flaws, it barely improved on that. Some of the biggest issues with botw are still a thing in totk
@@Didmikedothis2023 - like what? I still wasn’t a big fan of the dungeons in _TOTK,_ but at least the gave them unique theming this time, and either way I view that less as a flaw, and more as just “something I don’t like.”
@@Sam_T2000what good are the dungeons being visually unique when they're the EXACT SAME 5-lock structure as the Divine Beasts? Only this time they lost the one thing that made the Divine Beasts stand out, the ability to move parts of the dungeon
@@randychristensen1028 - I guess I don’t see the new dungeons as dungeons at all, but their own thing 🤷🏻♂️
@@Sam_T2000 Mybad G, I didn't see this comment when you posted it a month ago.
But here's a shotgun list of big BOTW issues that weren't fixed in TOTK -
Weapon durability
Dungeons (only made them look better, but they still suck)
Can't climb when raining
Broken up story (it's actually worse in TOTK)
Empty world
I made a follow up video where I talk a bit more about some of these things if you want to check it out - ua-cam.com/video/5ipk1EwE_Ug/v-deo.htmlsi=tR_D0LEOVhkTsVtT
Since you didn’t stop playing the game for over 200 hours I think its safe to say you must have had fun and you are just hating because that has gotten popular recently. Right?
I have similar criticisms of the game but i would never say these make it worse than BotW.
@ducky_urban absolutely not.
If you caught it at the very end when I said "me complaining over half a year later won't change anything" and I put text up that said "*1 year later*"
- meaning, this audio was already recorded around last November, and was written around last summer
I think people are starting to shit talk it now cause the hype is worn off and they're seeing that it's simply not that good
Also, I don't think I put close to 200 hours in, probably not even 100
I was done playing it after like 2 months.
I put 180+ hours into BOTW twice
Now, if you look at any of my age of calamity videos (my favorite of the 3) when I'm comparing it to botw, you can see that I definitely have many complaints about botw.
But between just the 2 games, botw is a far more concrete solid game. Totk is messy sloppy backwash compared to it.
Go play botw and you will realize totk is really different. The abilities work in very different ways. Like a sequel it took the ideas of the prequel and expanded on them which I think is a good choice.
I've played botw (I referenced it all over the video lol) and you're right, it definitely expands the ideas, but it expands them in too many directions with no clear end goal. Aside from that, for every good expansion there's a bad one.
For example, ultrahand is clearly an expansion of magnesis for the better. Ascend is an awesome ability which is a good use of a slot. On the other hand, the champion abilities are all downgrades (Sidons is actually horrible)
So while some thing are a lot better, overall, the improvement to downgrade ratio is very off balance for a game we waited 5 years for and were charged 70 bucks for after the game uses damn near all the same stuff as the previous game but expands on some of it.
Also, expanding on existing gameplay concepts isn't synonymous with sequel. Twilight princes is very similar to ocarina of time But expands on a lot of the same ideas, but it's not a sequel.
Totk expands on botws gameplay ideas and is called a sequel but is completely disconnected in story and lore from the previous game.
Majoras mask is a direct sequel with a new story that follows the old one but doesn't expand on the game play too much, other than the time mechanics. Get what I'm saying?
One thing I will say though is that in the earlier hours of playing I actually enjoyed totk more than what I remember enjoying botw
It just started to go downhill though by the second dungeon
@@Didmikedothis2023I love how unknown UA-camrs make Zelda content just as click bait. But hey, have fun failing at UA-cam 🥰
Also, TP is dog water. You like having your handheld by an auto tuned imp and worse retreads of OoT
@chooongusbug724 lmaoo get off my nuts bro, I haven't posted in like 8 months, tf makes you think I wanna be a youtuber? I also curse way too much in these videos to ever monetize them
I'm just making them cause I like to
@@chooongusbug724I rather have a good atmosphere with some interesting characters and good gameplay concept idea like TP, instead of what ever tha fuck Totk is supposed to be. How about backing up Totk with bringing up actual points to argue with, instead of failing misserably at whatever cringe shit you tried to pull off?
@@blackdust7353 TP is nothing more than OoT with a wack wolf transformation. Cry though 😘
I appreciate that you said TotK Ganondorf is unrelated to Calamity Ganon, because despite the game making the most bare minimum amount of effort possible by having Impa say they're the same thing, from a lore perspective it's impossible and fundamentally underscores just how incompatible TotK is with BOTW and its extended lore.
@stuffz1757 it honestly would make no sense for it to be the same Ganondorf lol, but that's a video in itself
I thought that Calamity Ganon was what you got when enough of the malice/gloom that leaked out of Ganondorf built up.
@@benjaminwinnick1051 the purpose of the lightroots is to purify the surrounding area from the effects of evil influence including Gloom, Rauru's Light Magic does the same thing but stronger. At the end of the Imprisoning War Rauru binds Ganondorfs heart and permanently seals away his magic meaning there's literally no gloom or malice leaking from Ganondorf, and the two from this point enter a stalemate where it's a battle between who will decay first. Given the position of Rauru and Ganondorf's bodies in the past versus the present day, Rauru was winning. Moreover sometime after the Imprisoning War a giant artificial Lightroot, known as the "purification unit" is built directly overhead where Ganondorf was sealed, when this was built is unknown but given it exists it makes it even harder to believe that anything was leaking from Ganondorf's corpse. Plus the developers basically confirmed that Ganondorf didn't start leaking gloom until the Calamity that happened 100 years before BOTW in an interview.
Thus TDLR, it's impossible for Calamity Ganon to be coming from Ganondorf's corpse, plus BOTW makes it pretty clear that the order of events is supposed to be:
Ganondorf becomes Dark Beast Ganon and is defeated and sealed (OOT) -> Ganon repeatedly revives or breaks his seals (basically the other games) -> Ganon becomes pure malice in the form of what we see in BOTW.
This is backed up by both the English and Japanese versions of BOTW and both versions of Creating a Champion. The Hyrule Compendium entry for Calamity Ganon even uses the unique title Ganondorf had in OOT and refers to Dark Beast Ganon as being "Ganon's original form" referring back to his transformation from Ganondorf to Ganon in OOT.
@@stuffz1757 Interesting. I wonder if the presence of Calamity Ganon and Demon King Ganondorf could be explained by whatever convergence of timelines happened between the early games and BOTW/TOTK. maybe the Ganondorf that was killed got reincarnated as the TOTK Ganondorf and the Ganon that got sealed away became Calamity Ganon. Or maybe Ganon/Ganondorf's malice and his soul somehow got separated with the former becoming Calamity Ganon and the latter becoming Demon King Ganondorf.
@@benjaminwinnick1051 the relationship between the two dorfs basically comes down to how you view both Ganondorf and where you place TotKs memories. To keep the game consistent with BOTWs lore and setting I place the Imprisoning War memories before OOT as the one and only true founding of the Kingdom of Hyrule. With Ganondorf I don't really buy that he reincarnates, and AFAIK there's really no lore that says he does. Hyrule Historia says he reincarnates into the Ganondorf in Four Swords Adventures but that's not really reflected by the actual game and is only really included because the writers felt it necessary to explain where Four Swords Adventures went. I personally have a different idea. I think it's Kotake and Koume. We meet those characters in OOT where they're ancient and have clearly been a part of the Gerudo tribe for centuries, meaning they've been leading them from the shadows for just as long. These two act as OOT Ganondorf's mothers guiding him and giving him everything he needs to be a threat to Hyrule. Now given they're several centuries old in OOT and OOT is at least several centuries removed from the founding of Hyrule, it would track that when the Kingdom was founded that Kotake and Koume would be much younger, that's just basic math, and what do we see in TotKs memories? A founding of Hyrule with an adult Gerudo King named Ganondorf being followed/shadowed by young versions of Kotake and Koume. Thus my thought process is these two were either daughters of TotK Ganondorf or just really really devout followers, and when TotK Ganondorf went all demonic they slipped away into the shadows and started bidding their time. Flash forward several centuries later and they've finally managed to weasel their way into a position where they have some control over the Gerudo tribe and some control over a Gerudo male, they call this new Gerudo male Ganondorf and they raise him to be a replacement for the last one and then OOT happens, then he justs killed/sealed, so they start over and try again and create FSA Ganondorf, and they fail again. Unbeknownst to them however the second Ganondorf they created was just a super pissed off guy and his malice kept growing even in death till eventually it came back as Calamity Ganon.
Imo this works best. Ganondorf probably shouldn't be treated as being a constantly reincarnating figure as otherwise stuff like the ending of the Wind Waker holds no weight, so I think it's just easier to believe that the events of TotKs memories just butterflied into creating all of the different guys named Ganondorf all because no one bother to take out Kotake and Koume when they had the chance.
The depths suck! It's empty and boring!
Lmao you're not wrong
The dead hand joke slaps.
@@hunterboucher3070 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Check out my latest one to see if these jokes slap as well!
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"Welcome to the land washed by lilac waves!
There's two-and-a-half peasants with the same ugly face!
If small towns aren't your thing, try the big-@ss plains
fifty times the size of Skyrim's, twice as many pointless caves!
You're never getting bored, you'll have infinite quests!
There's every vagabond will put you to the test!
You'll be handsomely rewarded with infinite chests-
-full of rusted swords and used pregnancy tests!"
@@christopherbravo1813 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
@@Didmikedothis2023 Had to skip a verse because it didn't fit as well XD
I didn't find the Zonai lore / side quest any more memorable in BotW than in TotK. In fact, I didn't even remember the Zonai were a thing; I thought they were completely made up for TotK (That's most likely correct where lore is concerned, given how every other lore/story point from BotW is not fleshed out or continued properly in Totk, but that's beside the point).
I member all the lore videos hyping up the Zonai (spelling?) in BotW, talking about the ruins and speculating wat everything meant. Those were the days...
My member berries are nice and plump, yet that did not seem all that long ago, and here we're at the first year anniversary of TotK. Funny how one year makes one feel like such an old man. And the ol lore videos really seemed to dry up after its release as if those channels were ultimately disappointed in what Nintendo gave them and they all gave up any further speculation or even discoveries in the new game.
Would you believe I'm still playing Breath of the Wild and I haven't even yet gotten out of the tutorial island in TotK because of the fact?
Yeah, I'm slow. Nevermind my massive backlog of games and bad ADD. And half the time when I'm not busy with life I'm playing classic Solitaire on my Steam Deck :B
Lol you're right, all the big zelda youtubers were so pumped up ready to do lore videos and then after the game dropped it was like..... uhhhh. Where do we go from here.
Every now and then I'll see one, or maybe a theory video but those are few and far in between, I've personally never cared to click any of them cause I just don't care about totk lore, and I'm definitely not the minority in that case.
Speaking of the bad Zonai lore, I did a followup video that talks about it a bit more, feel free to go look! - ua-cam.com/video/5ipk1EwE_Ug/v-deo.htmlsi=tR_D0LEOVhkTsVtT
Demon king? Secret stone?
@@LTOver99k not again 😭😭😭😭
Imprisoning war??
I couldn't bring myself to finish this game. I only did the sky island part at the beginning of the game and after i finally made it to the ground i was like "yeah fuk this sh1t"
@@Mr_E_Nigma lmaoooooo I'm not mad at you, it's not very compelling
@@Didmikedothis2023 Im just so sick of gimmick abilities. How about they just make a normal Zelda game, y'know? 😂
It starts out promising and feels like you’re going to get another experience that’s as deep as Breath of the Wild, but with time everything is just so… copy & paste. Seriously, I’m not sure any game has been more copy/paste that I’ve played. When the map itself is unchanged they needed to do some major work to make the expanded areas more interesting, and they just aren’t. The cherry on top is Nintendo selling it for more than they’ve sold any game in the past sheerly out of greed and knowing people would pay it because of BotW.
A week into this game I probably would have given it a 9, but after a month I gave it a 6. Also didn’t help the 3 years of insane hype that it got all over the internet in expectation.
@dannnyc93 spot on.
Nintendo is just an asshole of a company in general so it's not a surprise at all
The never ending praise is just unbelievable. This game sucks.
@StillWeRide lmaooooo Fr though. Like I don't hate it but it's honestly not good or at least hardly good, and most of what is good in it is just the literally copy and pasted shit from botw, almost all of the bad is the totk added content
100% agree
Preciate that, triple OG!
Just popped out with a follow up if you wanna fw it ! - ua-cam.com/video/5ipk1EwE_Ug/v-deo.htmlsi=tR_D0LEOVhkTsVtT
Nice video. You speak kind of like Forest gump
Lmfaoooooo that's the first time I got that 💀💀💀💀
The worst 3d zelda game by a pretty wide margin imo.
I could not believe the reception. I felt like i had played a completely different product compared to anyone else.
Everything bad about breath of the wild amplified and the selling point- exploration is almost non-existent.
Thank you lol
And this coming from me as someone who actually still for the most part enjoyed the game
But as a whole package, it doesn't even beat skyward sword and that game has universally mid reception
But yea, you played the same game but unfortunately the zelda fanbase atp praises any mid tier product nintendo will give us simply because it says zelda and is from Nintendo
This is because of the 6 year time gap, where most people only played Botw maybe once or twice and moved on quickly, not remembering a lot. In that case, this game probably brings back the same feelings from playing Botw for the first time, while thinking most of the game HAS to be different and the sheer size of the depths, the bits of sky and all the zonai devices are exactly for that, to overwhelm players even more than before
@@blackdust7353idk I feel like nintendo just didn't put the heart in it. The whole zonai narrative feels so shoe horned in and then all the additions, don't get me wrong some of them are really good, uktrahand is a crazy good concept but I feel like if they really gave a shit, they could have dumped some extra resources into 1 making all these things more cohesive and 2 putting some logical devopment of hyrule as a whole (citing the in-game time difference)
@@Didmikedothis2023 For sure, but that just made it so much easier for them to sell Totk as well as they did, since Botw was so well received and the Zelda series as a whole anyways. It's not even that surprising, seeing how other developers release pretty much the same game every year an still make a huge profit from it, for example CoD.
They once said that Totk came to be from too many ideas for dlcs, but now it's essentially an expansion or dlc pack for Botw, but as a new game. These ideas could have been expanded on much more, but they probably went on to put it all in there first and then realized how much work that would be. I mean, judging by how much of this game is underdeveloped, this game would have needed minimum 2-3 more years for some good polishing besides the whole fuse/ultrahand coding, since the current game already took them 6 years
@blackdust7353 I don't think it needed more time, I just think it needed more hands on deck
Nintendo made record profits with the switch, surely they could hire more developers lol
But yea this game went crazy, mfs were pre ordering it to get a fork and spoon 😭😭😭😭 and that's literally all because it's called zelda and because they waited a while for it
He’s not wrong, TOTK feels like a “remake” or what they wanted BOTW to actually be. I adore Zelda, and I lost interest 😔. Not terrible, but didn’t hit the same
I wouldn't even say that much, botw felt like a story they wanted to tell and an attempt at impressing the audience with something new
Totk feels like they made so much money off this that they wanted to strike again (which they did) but didn't have any real ideas on how to do so.
Tears of the Kingdom has better overworld exploration, gameplay abilities, and fighting mechanics. Breath of the Wild had a better story. Both have amazing soundtracks.
I don't even think totk has better exploration because it's too easy to skip over stuff in it. Botw you either walked or climbed all the terrain and occasionally would paraglide but that was slow moving and usually low altitude so you still see things and aim for them to check them out
Totk, if you're not flying across the land skipping things, you're driving across skipping things.
@@Didmikedothis2023 I understand that autobuild can make traveling a lot easier but I was more focused about the new abilities such as recall and ascend which makes exploring the overworld a lot more smoother. For example, in Tears of the Kingdom you have caves that you can explore and when you reach the end you can ascend upwards and keep moving right along instead of having to walk all the way back out of the cave. The new verticality aspect gave room to some interesting and unique forms of overworld travel like recalling certain objects to make them go back in time. The sky islands and depths also make the world 3x bigger and it’s crazy how the sky, surface, and depths are all connected. Just some thoughts.
@ShadowWizard224 I was talking about the zonai devices in general. You can literally fly over everything in the world. Now I do think the towers are a lot better in this game. And ascend is a dope ability but it really only works well in the design of the caves. If there were no ascend, the caves could just have an opening at each end (which some do) and then nothing would be gained from ascend. Recall is mid.
And the world is definitely not 3x bigger. If you bunch the sky islands all together, it's barely bigger than the great plateau. And I'm pretty sure most people started flying over everything in the depths at a certain point because it was so repetitive. I never heard anybody say they skipped over areas in botw, partially because it was better to explore but also because you mostly couldn't do it at all.
What soundtrack?
@@SolidLoach This horse has been dead for 7 years.
I'm very glad more and more people critisize Totk for what it is, instead of praising it into heaven.
This game to me has one of the most unearned and unreasonable ratings i've ever seen and is one of the games i started to heavily dislike while playing to the end. First tho, i'm no Botw fan, nor am i a Zelda fan. I like the original Zelda games i've played so far and Botw to an extent, so there is no favoritism or anything involved.
Totk itself is a confusing mess of a game, even more so considering it as the sequel to Botw, with some impressive things like ultrahand and fuse, the zonai devices, the scale of the map(s) and making combat more engaging thanks to fuse, although not more fun or rewarding.
The rest is dumbsterfire.
Starting at the story, the thing most people have in mind when thinking about Zelda in combination with puzzles, and its horrible. I won't repeat the things you said in the video, but i want to add a few things. The whole plot with Ganondorf getting a secret stone could have been completly prevented, but for some reason, the smart princess of Hyrule and the current queen at the time seemed to know that the fake Zelda is a trap from Ganondorf, yet went there to...do something? Then Sonia gets killed and everything breaks apart. Ganondorf, for some reason, has a single secret stone and is more powerful than 7 other individuals with one as well, one of them the fucking king, and bests them in a 1v7 without even a scratch, flawlessly. But later, he regains his power and now Link is possible to beat him without one and some basic ass weapons you find in the world? You don't need the Master Swords after all. Nah, not happening. But thats not it, cause Draconification. It was a noble and heroic moment for Zelda to sacrifice herself to eventually save Hyrule, without even a guarantee it would work, but the whole thing gets blown out the window at the end, as you said. However, shouldn't a Draconification be irreversable? Should a dragon not be immortal? So why does the Demon Dragon have weakpoints to kill it? Cause evil? Cause plot? That doesn't make sense no matter how you put it.
Sheikah being gone was especially confusing. Like, hello? We had guardians everywhere in Hyrule, shrines, towers, 4 giant divine beasts. These were part of what Botw is. Why not keep them, at least to an extent, and do something with it? The divine beasts, even if it doesn't make sense, could have end up in the depths and you just see them laying down there in the dark, covered in gloom and infested with enemies. Why do the guardians have to be gone? Use them, make them different. One of the ideas i had for a new, rare miniboss enemy like Lynels would be Gloom Guardians. They are controlled by gloom hands, more aggressive, faster, have melee attacks thanks to the hands, can climb around on walls and ceilings, can shield it's eye with a hand to prevent stuns. I and other people think that is a banger idea. But no, nothing.
Speaking of enemies, it's good they increased the variety, even if they weren't incredibly good, but how in the world is it possible they did not make any new weapon type for the game? The whole combat system was now present and therefore in development for over 10 years and they can't bother to give Link anything new?
Dungeons, my god, dungeons. All the people that complained about the divine beasts have no right to now praise the new dungeons. Except for the exterior design, they are they exact same thing. Maybe the bosses are an improvement to some, but some are so much more boring to fight or just as boring as the Blights. Yes they were looking similar, but i at least had somewhat of a challenge with Thunderblight. Colgera i just shoot 12 arrows at, Gohma i let Yunobo roll into his legs, the mud octorok i just spray some water on and the Gibdo Queen was challenging, but more in a "clusterfuck of enemies" kinda way.
The depths and sky are impressive at first, but are the most barebones addition to the game. Sky is filled with shrine "puzzles", bringing a crystal from point A to point B with a few exceptions. Aside from that, there is nothing of interest, not even a damn village or something. The depths are even worse with Yiga Hideouts and their blueprints, which you look at once an then probably never again. You can find armor down there, from the previous game. You can find minibosses, from the previous game, and Frox, which are a combination of a Stone Talus and Hinox, which existed in the previous game. If you are not into the sandbox feature, the depths give no reason to explore them.
There are a few more things, but those and the map being recycled with barely no changes at all, are my biggest gripes with the game. This is Botw, but again, and by no means worth $70, maybe if you haven't played Botw before, but even then it's a bit questionable. It's no masterpiece either, cause the, what, maybe 20%-30% of new, meaningful content, are by far not enough. Otherwise, why do other studios not take their best received game and now add something new to it, but release it for the same price again or more? Atlus does that with Persona, but those are special game editions, not a sequel, even if i also not like this concept, it's much more reasonable to see the same content in it.
This game would have been much better if this was the original Botw, the only game in this Zelda style, or they had Link warp back in time to the founding of Hyrule where Zelda went to. It's fine if people had fun with it, i had for the first 20 hours, but saying it's "the best game ever" is wrong on so many levels
Lol you could do a whole video with this comment. But yea, link going back in time was literally exactly what I had though of. That would be a way to reuse the map but make it different, but the mfs couldn't even be bothered to add more than like 5 new buildings in the whole world.
Funny thing about the gloom guardian idea, is Age of Calamity basically has that but it's malice guardians, and they're a really good addition to that game. I'd recommend it if you haven't played it. I have another video very similar to this one giving my thoughts on that game as well (It's my favorite out of the three games on this map)
@@Didmikedothis2023 I did play AoC, but i genuinly forgot about the malice guardian existing lmao. Not to say it's so bad i don't remember the game, it's just been a while and as someone that likes quite a few of these warrior type games, i would say it's a pretty good game. It had some interesting ideas for a game of it's genre, like the material collecting to upgrade certain things, having different weapons with different effects, some of the original enemies getting changed up a bit like the blights, who were my favorite enemies to fight iirc. I actually had a the urge to play it again lately, but maybe with the dlc, if it's worth it.
The map reuse is actually the biggest problem i have with Totk, cause aside from some minor changes like having sinkholes in the desert and a river in the canyon leading to it, the most noticeable out of like 4 changes is the lava being gone in Eldin. Changing shrine, tower, enemy and korok locations isn't enough, same goes for the 100+ caves that are a snoozefest to explore after your 10th and neither counts Hateno with the buildings having hats and piles of rocks everywhere. Give us a new fucking town or show how a village expanded in the last year. I thought they were rebuilding Hyrule, not decorating it.
Trust me, if i could do a video about Totk, i would do it. Same goes for some other games like Dragons Dogma 2, actually Botw to an extent and Mario Odyssey. Basically games i don't see deserving all the hype, but at least thanks to them being overrated most of the time, i slowly but surely learned to not trust any ratings from websites and such. Just Starfield alone getting a few 10/10 ratings and being called "masterpiece" somewhere was the final nail in the coffin
@blackdust7353 I honestly think you could do a good video if you can put the stuff you're typing in speaking form lol
But yea, AOC was my favorite of them, granted all my plays were prior to totk so I was only comparing it to botw but between the 2 I think it made better use of basically all the game concepts (devine beasts, enemies, champions, yiga, the seer, etc)
@@Didmikedothis2023 The problem isn't putting it into a speaking form, but rather not having the equipment for it. Don't have a PC or anything of the sort, nor a microphone or the skills/knowledge of video editing of any kind. Would i have one of these, i could think about getting the other, but that isn't happening anytime soon.
I agree with you there on AoC, but i personally can't go too much into what it did good or bad, cause it's simply really has been too long. What i still remember however, is all the characters, even if the selection wasn't very big, feeling unique in their playstyles. I still remember of fearing that similar characters like Mipha and Sidon would feel almost the same, but turns out, they were so well made, Sidon in particular, that he, together with Link sword/greatsword and the king, became my favorite character to play with until the end. There still were some...questionable ones like the Great Fairy, but she still is nothing like the others
@blackdust7353 lol that's basically all the shit I said in my review of that game
I completely agree with your assessment. I just 'finished' playing TOTK and i think its a great game, but it definitely has aspects that arent necessary or makes no sense whatsoever. This as a sequel to BOTW makes no sense to me. Theres so much that they just ignore from BOTW lorewise. I was left a bit disappointed because of the hype surrounding it.
After getting into the story a little it seemed as if the developers had multiple ideas for the story and decided to release them in sequences. The sequel makes no sense when you put it up against its predecessor. This is the only sense that i can make of it anyway.
@kennethmarkwith4678 you're right bro
The story makes no sense in context and still not much since out of context lol
And most of the things that make the game good are the unchanged things from the previous game
It was a masterpiece
@@novustalks7525 ok.
No disrespect but your delivery reminds me of Forest Gump 😅
@@dhay03 gotten that quite a bit lol
@@Didmikedothis2023 Awesome video though. I agree with a lot of it. I’m hoping that Echoes of Wisdom don’t absorb too much of Tears of the Kingdom flaws.
@@dhay03 preciate it! And I doubt it because it's such a different style.
I'm more interested in what new mainline we'll get in 2030
Forest gump does youtube? 🏃♂️
Hell yea!
It's still a good game
My official rating is 6.5 outta 10
@Didmikedothis2023 my rating 8-9 out of ten
@the_marvelous_one what do you like and dislike about it?
Hey very great vid. I didn't wanna sound like a dick but you tend to elongate the last word in your sentence like the UA-camr chills. Idk if that's just the way you talk or just when reading a script. Its a personal thing that it bugs me but either way i hope you don't take it to heart.
@@jhonayo4887 😂😂😂😂😂 naw that's how I talk lol. I have a weird accent that doesn't match where I'm from at all
@Didmikedothis2023 oooooh okay. Guess I'll just get used to it.
@@jhonayo4887 preciate it lol! I'm working on my delivery though
@@Didmikedothis2023 nah man no problem. I just think it's a thing that happens when reading a script honestly. You probably sound very natural off the cuff. I'm insecure about my voice bro I guess that's why I fixate on others as well. I have a voice that sounds way too young for my age lol I'm nearly 30 and hearing 14 year olds with more bass in their voice makes me wanna cry 😆
Totk is my all time favorite game
How sad for you
Idk the stories of the gamecibe era are great. Midna being the main cgaracter was awesome. Im wind waker link having a sister and ganondorfbeing more fleshed out was cool. Majoras mask is all about the story and the stories of the npcs. Oot had a typical story but grwat conplex deep subtext. But ok i giess skyward swords wasnt that hreat, nor was vreath of the wilds. Ajd the top down games are so simple theybarely have a story well no actually awakening is all about the stroy too. Okay so yeah somr arent that great but several stories in zelda are great
Idk i dont like tesrs or breath very much. I think zelda is going down a bad path. Zelda is probably dying if you love vreath or grew up wuth it great you gonna get the same games over and over. They know eevided to ditch what zelda actually is. Sonthese games will just keeo trying to be vreath snd will be awful.
Yea it's not too often I hear people putting zelda stories on any top 10 list, but I generally like them.
Tears of the kingdom tried to do what majoras mask did with the side characters and their stories but theres just too much going on in the game to really focus on them or organize them.
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subbed just for the Age of Calamity praise, that game deserves so much more love
@@scrappy2082 preciate that G! Go check out the videos I did about it
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I don’t really agree. I liked Breath of the Wild….it was fine I put maybe 120 hours total into it. But I have like 600+ hours in ToTK!! I love this game honestly.
I loved Breath of the Wild but for me Tears of the Kingdom is really good!! I loved the story for Tears of the Kingdom!! And I love the building mechanics. I’m on my 3rd ToTK play through. I played Breath of the Wild once and I was good. I think the imprisoning war stuff probably appealed to me as an old Zelda player because I love A Link to the Past. The cut scenes are so good. Also the physics engine is perfect imo but then again one of my favorite subjects in school was physics and calculus so I love the building mechanics and the general collision physics engine.
The best complement I can give this game is I enjoy playing it as much as I enjoy playing Ocarina of Time which is my favorite game of all time. Between Ocarina of Time and Tears of the Kingdom I have a hard time choosing between the two games they’re really fun imo. I loved playing the Fire Temple because the puzzles were amazing the rail system was super easy I didn’t even use any flying devices.
Also I mostly hated Age of Calamity and Hyrule Warriors those are easily my bottom 2 Zekda games because they’re not Zelda games imo. I played them for story only and I don’t plan on ever playing them again. I like Zelda 2: The Adventures of Link more than Age of Calamity and Hyrule Warriors. The story elements for Age of Calamity were neat I guess lol.
Everybody likes different games it’s fine. I’ve played more than 20 Zelda games it’s my favorite series but if I can’t solve puzzles I’m not having that much fun lol. ToTK had so much creativity I loved it. I don’t get to really love a game as much as this one once in a blue moon maybe if Nintendo makes Mother 4 since I love the Mother series but I doubt they would without Shigesato Itoi.
Glad you enjoyed it buddy
It's still mid to me
This was hilarious to read and shows your lack of experience playing games. Play dark souls already
@@DonutSwordsman I hate dark souls games if you like them good but it’s not my thing. I tried Elden Ring definitely not fun for me but a lot of people like it so it’s whatever for me.
And don’t even get me started on shooters I hate those too basically all of them and when I say I hate them I really do hate them lol. If we’re talking about games I tried and hated that’s a whole separate discussion.
But there are a lot of games I truly love playing so I play those which is what most people do anyway.
With more exp, youll find game like zelda that do it better. Maybe not all at once but aspects@@Sightless-vz2wh
@@DonutSwordsmannigga huh
The nokia on a stick got me
😭😭😭😭 my favorite
You can have your opinion, and I can have mine. Respect can do wonders for disagreements.
Tf are you talking about, dikhead?
you are right, it was even BETTER
Say wut?
Both BOTW and TOTK are not great. I would never replay them ! 😢 and same I wasn’t hyped until that last trailer 🙄 they got my ass 😅 both are okay 6/10
Lmao on god, I feel duped. That trailer was incredible, but I agree 6/10 is the best I can do.
Thanks for the sub btw! I actually did a video the second a third trailers last year, feel free to check both of those out as well!
Got a followup video up if you wanna fw that ! - ua-cam.com/video/5ipk1EwE_Ug/v-deo.htmlsi=tR_D0LEOVhkTsVtT
The vast majority of people in this comment section need to go see a therapist.
Which ones lol?
@@Didmikedothis2023the one’s delusional enough to think open world Zelda are good games
@@SolidLoach they're not bad but they're over hyped
Off topic but my man you need to work on your thumbnail game, like what is all that clutter and nonsense?
Lmaooooo you're right bro
Check out my other thumbnails, they're def better
But this one I was basically out of time to complete it so I took a screenshot of a clip at the end of the video (that's what the photo is) and then slapped the text over top
I appreciate the feedback though!
@@Didmikedothis2023and yet, we still clicked lmao
@@gavinferguson2938 that's a bar 🔥
Go rate this thumbnail and while you're at it, watch the video! - ua-cam.com/video/5ipk1EwE_Ug/v-deo.htmlsi=tR_D0LEOVhkTsVtT
Nice vid 😊
Preciate it!
this is actual bullcrap
Lol what's wrong with it
Still waiting, bro
i agree, it had its flaws and a lot was the same, but they still added enough to make it a great game@@Didmikedothis2023
I appreciate the response buddy lol.
Dont get me wrong, I like a lot of the stuff thats added, I just dont think it comes together nearly enough for what we pay and wait for or expect from nintendo in general. I'm a big zelda fan but its no secret these days that nintendo over charges for low efforts (just look at all the re-releases that are 60 bucks but arent even as good as fan remakes)
But the toxic zelda fan base has a tendency to wanna crucify anybody who isn't afraid to point out the flaws in a game (while still overall liking it) vs just kiss nintendos asses and thank them for giving us anything for the billions we pay them
@CornMemes
i get it now thx@@Didmikedothis2023
i pirated this game a week early, all excited. the writing was on the wall, and i already hated it before it even came out. i am so glad i didn’t spend $70 on this junk.
I love seeing people realize that these Zelda games are so incredibly overrated.
Great sandbox open world but really that’s all it’s got.
On god
I'm a big zelda fan and I still like totk but Nintendo is clearly getting more and more comfortable over charging for less work and mfs will act like anybody point it out is a criminal
“Wasn’t that great?” Man the game was a load of dogsh!t. You don’t have to go lightly on it just because it says “legend of zelda” on it. Lttp is great, OOT is great, MM is great. Link’s Awakening, Twilight Princess and BOTW are all great. TOTK is dogsh!t. Great franchises don’t always hit on every title, and it’s okay to admit that this rings loud enough to make you go deaf here
Lmao I feel it dawg, but I don't fully hate the game. I give it like a 6/10
Even when I loaded it up last week to get a bit more footage for this video, I ended up just playing for a few hours
Aside from that, look how much hate comments I'm getting for even saying it's not great, imagine if I went even harder 😂😂😭😭
@@Didmikedothis2023 Lol fair enough. Gotta keep getting those views I feel you, and you know these emotional children can’t accept a random person hating what they like. Lol okay ima stop 😂 I’d say 5 at best but 6 is fair. I was able to see the temples (lightning is the only one worth anything), but the underground areas, sky areas, and building mechanics never had me man not for a second. Felt like the game was made for a 10 year old minecraft kid in all honesty. It’s just more BOTW man, and personally felt like a slap to the face of innovation. Excited to see them do something new in the next go-around. Appreciate your content boss
@miki49 bruh go watch any of the bad reviews of this game and they all give like a 5 minute disclaimer calling the game amazing and incredible before they get into the review cause they're afraid of hate comments lol
@@miki49 I kinda did go harder in my followup vid if you wanna fw it lol - ua-cam.com/video/5ipk1EwE_Ug/v-deo.htmlsi=tR_D0LEOVhkTsVtT
Dispite what is says on the title screen, breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom are NOT zelda games. Not enough proper dungeons and the weapon duration mechanic needs to die a thousand deaths
1000 deaths 😂😂😂😂
I have found people that say this game was a return to LoZ 1
And, as someone that has recently played LoZ 1, it isn't.
In LoZ, you get neat items, there are secrets under bushes and rocks, and gathering the Triforce pieces was meaningful for the plot. As, you needed to gather them before Ganon did.
@@tarnw3301 botw is closer to zelda 1 since the only thing it's missing are some items and then dungeons
@@Didmikedothis2023 sorry, but was there an old lady above the waterfall?
Did you get a powerful sword in the graveyard?
Did you find a store hiding under a bush?
Did you gather the pieces of the Triforce scattered across the lands?
LoZ is packed with little secrets, BoTW has Koroks, and Koroks, and more Koroks.
Both BOTW and TOTK are mid.
I'll take that as a legit reaction lol
Neither are in my top
honestly its just bait but I really don't like both games that much. Nuthin beats TP and WW
@@Sedero I agree
Both of those games are great for their own reasons
Dafuq
Lmaoooooo
I'm glad less than a thousand people have to watch possibly the dumbest take of all time
Lol it's funny because nobody who's talking shit is giving any counter arguments or making logical points about it.
Unless you're gonna do that, feel free to shut your cockholster and move along
'Take that I don't agree with.'
@@tombadil64 lol basically
I’m glad only 1000 people had to sleep with your mom
@@shanetheoutlaw7918💀💀💀💀💀💀
What a pretentious, pathetic, weak attempt at clout chasing. Have some shame.
Lmao clout? Why would you ever say some goofy ass shit like that on my page foh
@@Didmikedothis2023 see? The fact this triggers you proves my point lol. We do not need another gaming edge lord video essay channel. It's obnoxious.
Naw bro I'm just talking how I talk in real life, if I gave a shit about being popular on youtube, I wouldnt post such unlikable opinions on here and curse so much@ImTheMan0fSteel
@@ImTheMan0fSteel Content creators need to react to people like you, if such bullshit is spread through any comment section, cause if it isn't true, which it obviously isn't, it can hurt the creator.
But please prove this guy wrong in the things he says about the game first, otherwise, how can you be taken seriously anyways?
@@blackdust7353 This shit talkers are just that lol, they don't bother me because I expected them to show up. I'm only entertaining them right now because the comment count is low. I had a video go viral on tiktok once and after the comments started to exceed 100 I just stopped replying to people.
This game was fantastic. Yet another awful totk video hating on a 10/10 game for views
Lmao if you wanna spend your life on your knees suckin dik instead of thinking critically, that's your business but please don't do it in my comment section, you corny ass lame lol
Don’t worry about that comment up there, not everyone gotta like totk! I’m one of the few that like botw more than totk
@jjtheman523 I'm not bothered, I'm just an internet shit talker lol. If anybody listens to how I talk in these videos, I talk the same way in comments.
But aside from that, I definitely like totk for the most part, but I'm more frustrated with nintendo getting their asses kissed for churning out mid tier zelda games. I want them to put some soul back into it, like a 3rd party dev might be able to do a better mainline zelda than Nintendo at this point.
@@Didmikedothis2023Whats funny is that ive seen way better mods for the exact same games: Relics of the Past, Dangerous to Go Alone, Second Wind, Dark Army Ressurection for BOTW and TOTK. And then mods for even older Zelda titles OOT with Indigo, Master of Time, Sealed Palace, Missing Link. And of course all the Randomizers for both current and past Zelda games. All free too. Nintendo has bren seriously dropping the ball and becoming complacent being lazy and doing the bare minimum. Thats why TOTK is so copy paste and has very little changes, thry know they can do minimal effort, slap a $70 price tag, call it Zelda, and people will eat it up.
@ACW-dn9wb fans are straight up dusting nintendo on their own products. Nintendo puts more effort into trying to Crack down on harmless mods and alleged IP infringement than actually making a game loveable, but I blame that on people like the person who's comment we're under. All logical thinking makes it clear that nintendo at the vary least made many questionable decisions with this game and at the most honest level just threw shit at a wall to see if it sticks, yet you have butt kissing weirdos raving about how it's a 10 outta 10 when it's literally not even close and can barely ratio is far reduced in content predecessor in overall quality.