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My grandfather was a Legend Of Zelda fan since the original on the NES back in 1986, he used to love watching you and Zeltik discuss the theories of the newer games and the subtle references/ tie ins to the games he played while raising a family. We played Ocarina of time, Majora’s, TP, SS as they released. And a little bit of Breath of the Wild last year before he realized it was all getting a little bit too complex for him to do much besides watch. When TOTK’s unnamed launch trailer came out we were so pumped for another open world adventure filled with what looked like traditional Zelda dungeons. Unfortunately he passed away suddenly last October before the development was completed. But I’ve been playing religiously in my own sort of celebration of his life and the absolute GIFT he gave to me by introducing me to the Legend of Zelda at such a young age. I wanted to explain so I could THANK you for all of this work you put into bringing this series into the spotlight for at least a handful of us dedicated fellows. I know you made his evenings when he’d load up his UA-cam and see you uploaded that day. From one Hylian to another. Thank you.
The thing I'm loving the most about this game is how lively it feels, more than ever I feel like the whole Kingdom of hyrule with all the people feels way more active and generally more strong willed, it's like every character has something to do, something they want to and aren't stuck in one place
@@petratyraandersonIf you don't like the combat there's a lot of ways to cheese battles with fusing stuff, or you can build OP machines to destroy enemies. You don't have to get good at combat to beat the game.
@@PomuLeafEveryday I'd argue it's not cheese, it's a part of the game. If the enemies were easy then the game would be boring and you wouldn't need your new skills. You can't play it like BOTW and that's the best part.
I absolutely love the NPC’s and quests in this game. This game is the epitome of making a plan but then getting side tracked for 3-4 hours with 5 other quests 😂
Zelda knows how to give dark/scary moments without it feeling forced, that's why twilight princess, majora's mask and now tears of a kingdom feel so unique and fun to me.
The first Gloom Hands I saw surprise attacked me in a cave right in front of a shrine, and it freaked me out so much! Thank Hylia those things can't climb.
my first encounter was on my way to zora's domain. i was playing a horror game a little while before and was hoping i could finally calm my nerves but BOY WAS I WRONG
@@juliajohnson2285 Bro this game's sound design and music design is scientifically engineered to the highest quality and small detailed thought, and is made to maximize satisfaction. also love the water droplet sounds after you drop from a great height. This game shouldn't be real.😂😂
Finished the Wind Temple yesterday, the post dungeon scene made me cry too. This game is literally a dream come true. Tulin is probably going to be my favorite for a while.
I didn’t think Tulin’s scene was overly emotional, but it was definitely sweet. Honestly Tulin has a special place in my heart, since during the associated boss battle when I was getting slapped around he kept saying “Link, are you okay??” 😅😂 I’m not an overly skilled gamer, so I heard this dozens of times 😂😂😂
I do wish they'd have figured out a way to have companions, but keep them from getting in the way. You go to pick something up, and you end up activating them on accident! Give me my personal space, Sidon!
Man, when the game just casually gave me ultrahand and just reading the tiny tutorial on what it could do I remember thinking "Holy hell. This skill...people are going to do insane stuff with this." I was floored at the amount of freedom and creativity the devs gave us just from that first skill alone.
Same with Recall. I remember one time I was landing on the Light Dragon when a Star Fragment fell down right next to me. I really wanted it but didn't wanna miss out on getting the Dragon shards, and that's when I realized "wait a minute, I can just rewind the fragment back up".
At first I was like cool, we did the labryinth. "Go to the sky" Huh, ok, guess we're going up next. Nice, little followup for this, kind of a two parter but more reward. I'm up for that. "Dive from the sky all the way under the earth" .....ok this is freaking amazing.
@@sethjansson5652 Bro this game's sound design and music design is scientifically engineered to the highest quality and small detailed thought, and is made to maximize satisfaction. also love the water droplet sounds after you drop from a great height. This game shouldn't be real.😮😮
Love how they still have if you go in any direction forgot how many minutes and you find something or something will happen. Great carry over from botw. Plus the little hints and nods to older games, you find through out the game.
I love how Teba brought up Tulin. Teba knew Revali's mistakes, such as thinking he can take the world on alone, and Tulin was exactly like that. Maybe he picked up a few habits from Revali after going back in time in AoC. Tulin's ability is also evident of Teba's efforts to not make his son like Revali. Tulin's ability carries Link horizontally, whereas Revali's gale shoots Link vertically.
@A Rather Bri'ish Dinosaur if its not canon then that sucks. I loved the characters from botw go to that alternate timeline to help. Love the name and pfp by the way!
@Iron Pro yeah in the DLC there is a mission to rescue tulin and a couple cutscenes of Teba, Tulin and Revali and Tulin says that he looks up to Revali and someday wants to wield the Great Eagle Bow
I randomly found it because I figured I’d try to see if I could climb something after I finished a quest and…there it was! So cool!! One of my favorite video game moments ever.
I feel like we're experiencing a golden age for Zelda games. Like this will not only be game changing for the series, but affect the gaming industry at large, going forward. And I have never been so excited post-release for an anticipated game. Great video. I look forward to more from you. :)
Agreed this game is unreal! Just today i finished all the dragon tears memories and i was balling like a baby! I haven't gone to any dungeons, just been exploring, finding shrines and opening the map! AMAZING!
The moment the realization dawned on me, my direction on how I want to approach the main story changed a lot. It truly became a quest after that point.
I spent over 300hrs playing BotW and haven’t fully finished everything and until TotK I was still finding small side quests I haven’t seen before. TotK is so insanely packed I know I’m going to be playing this years and years to come and I’m just fine known I may never see it all. TotK is nuts in a way I’ve never seen in any art medium anywhere ever.
Divine beast criticisms confuse me so much. They did have very clear themes. Electricity, water, fire, and air. You had to use those elements extensively in the dungeons. It was maybe overshadowed by the move-the-beast gimmick but it was totally there.
They all looked the same. Interior wise. And all the shrines looked the same. So that made it worse. The themes didn't really do much with what the had. Just look at totk (or any other zelda game) in comparison
I've shared this elsewhere but wanted to do my thoughts here as well regarding the "reused map". In fact, I think the better way to think of this is "reused geography" - and the distinction is so important... Imagine your buddy says to you "I grew up in San Francisco and I love that city so much. I haven't been back in 20 years because I'm not sure I'll find anything fun to do." Or: "I spent week in London 5 years ago and it is probably my favorite city. But I don't need to go back - I probably did everything fun already and I'm not sure it's changed enough since last time I was there." Replace "London" and "San Francisco" with your favorite city or national park: New York, Paris, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon... Those statements above would be patently ridiculous because our love of a place only *grows* when we have great past memories there. In fact, the person returning to one of these locations knows better how to enjoy that place than someone who's never been, and the small changes will trigger nostalgic dopamine and a sense of wonder for those things that have changed and evolved. Like seeing a movie that's set in a city you've loved, or taking a best friend to the haunts of your childhood, we should*expect* these experiences to be magical. Totk may have accidentally uncovered a new way to make amazing video games. Not by reusing the "map" but by bringing us back to a geography we loved - and by really investing in the evolution of that place as if it were a real and dynamic locale within the in-game universe.
This game has overwhelmed me a bit, admittedly. I haven't had as much time to play as I would have liked, so the feeling of missing something is very real to me. I set off towards Rito Village, like the game suggests, and got sidetracked in every direction imaginable. When I finally arrived yesterday, I had solved twenty temples, reclaimed my horses, jumped into several chasms and caves and realized that I hadn't been back on any Skylands and have nothing to keep me warm but roasted chilis. It's a lot, frankly
this game feels like a fever dream… the vibes when we all first started the game, i know we all had the same vibes from it… the same way botw made us feel that certain way when we first played it… and i mean… the depths???? a whole new map to discover? shiiiit
This game is massive, some confusing aspects in regards to important events/characters not knowing Link somehow, malice hasn't been mentioned once (at least in my current goofing around) and there are still some small flaws. Overall, this game is a true gem or the series, feels almost right up there with Ocarina and TP, imo. Speaking of TP, it's not a spoiler, but there's a special bow you can find in Hyrule Castle, in one of the destroyed cones of a tower. It raises some questions for sure when you see its description. Adding onto this, Kolton 'could' possibly be our Tingle reference, as he wants to become a Satori.
He pretty much already seem like a Tingle. His shape, size, and obsession. The fact his shop looked like a balloon in BotW (it isn't... it is a cart, but gives balloon vibes if you don't look close).
What i love is you can ride the dragons now and they even have unique stuff on them, gibdos arent that scary, in my opinion they are more annoying than anything else
i went to do gerudo desert second, rode into that sand cloud, saw some of those and thought they were redeads, and noped tf outta there. im only doing the gerudo temple now as my last of the regional quest, and i feel silly now that i know how useless those guys are lmao
In my opinion, Tears of the Kingdom only has 1 tiny problem: It makes Breath of the Wild feel like it was just a "Proof Of Concept", rather than a complete game. Don't misunderstand, I do like Breath of the Wild, but Tears of the Kingdom just took everything that was already there, and vastly improved upon it. There are more ways to get around, more things to do, more fun side-quests, the build-up to each Temple is arguably the best I've seen in a Zelda game yet, the Temples are a lot more varied, while still having the same core objective (activating a couple of terminals, then winning a boss-fight and claiming a heart container), the Shrines are a lot better in every way and there's a lot more enemy-variety and stuff to use monster parts for. At first, I was a little apprehensive, because it felt like a lot of the same all over again, but that feeling quickly vanished, after I started exploring this new version of Hyrule.
As someone who chose the Lighting Temple as my first dungeon, lets just say the gibdos are a little different in this iteration and they're not as threatening as they used to be.
Everyone talks about the graphics, mechanics, and story, but I really think we need to talk about the game design more. When I started TotK, I was NOT interested in exploring the upside down or doing millions of crazy side quests when the story required my attention. It was with delight that the story pushed me beyond my comfort zone. A certain temple forces me into the depths, and curiosity made me go on side quests. The game design subtly introduced me into all these positions and with a snap a whole week passed me by just playing TotK. It was very overwhelming at first but the designers introduced everything (and things yet unknown to come) in such a way that I feel very comfortable! A masterpiece of design as well.
Spent 8 hours playing Friday and like 11 yesterday , I think it’s safe to say I’m hooked lol. Just finished the fire temple , the finally was really cool for us old Zelda fans.
This is skyward sword done right. with the the BOTW base plus some OOT elements (time travel shenanigans ) the novelty of Majora's Mask, imo an absolute award winning piece of art.
fun fact: there is a loading screen, but developers have learned to hide it. in another game it might be a spot where you squeeze through a tight spot, but here it's the sheer time spent falling. that amount of time allows them to load the Depths without feeling like a traditional loading screen. it was a great innovation that these developers built upon.
I dont get how people call the caves small but refer to the sky islands as a whole other map.. Hyrule got 3 ADDITIONAL maps plus the old one making it 4 total
Well... I see your point... Nevertheless the caves arent a map of itselfe its "just" the expansion of the known layout of the surface... A pretty good one nontheless
Some caves are small and have basically nothing. But the majority I've found are nice. Probably the same size as sky islands. That and the depths, it's 2.5x as big
What makes it unreal to me, is all the little character interactions Link can have. There's a woman in Kakariko Village, that will literally talk to Link all day if he gets into her small garden plot. At midnight, Link will be swaying with his eyes closed.
I finally got the game Saturday night and when I got down to the surface (whilst on my way to the marker on my map), I was attacked by and actual tree, it just uprooted itself and began chasing me. To say I was shocked would be an understatement. This game is a amazing.
i literally just took a photo of a small forest on accident attempting to photograph hyrule herb, and was SUPER confused when the photos was added with a new monster entry. ran towards the forest, suddenly circled by three walking trees… so that was my first encounter.
Its unreal how stable the game is. Its truly an invisible effect, but the extra year the developers spent on it to make sure nothing would randomly break or cause issues is so appreciated. It goes to show that making things and putting it into the world is important, but making sure nothing happens that you DONT want to happen is just as important.
The main thing I have found that changes my view is that the first area outside is Hyrule. Actual Hyrule. Until then, I have never explored the fields in fear of guardians making me just getting to Hyrule castle on the side. The fact I'm going outwards from the previously most dangerous area to other areas made me really confused on where I actually was.
@@jarlwhiterun7478 when I got to Hyrule Kingdom, it was in hyrule fields. The main quest line has you go into the new town nearby, and going out from there I had no idea where I was. This is BotW hyrule field i was exploring, the area which I didn’t explore at all because guardians were everywhere. The bizarre ability to just walk around it like you probably walked around Necluda in BotW
I absolutely adore this game so far - especially the richly fleshed-out overworld - but, for me, dungeons still manage to fall a little short of what I would have liked to see: I've completed three and, of these, only one has really fully lived up to my expectations in terms of scale, atmosphere, sense of exploration, and challenge. Of the other two, one was entirely too short and small (almost feeling like just a larger shrine puzzle with a boss at the end), though the lead-up and overall traversal were great, while the other sat somewhere in between. Don't get me wrong, they're still a MASSIVE improvement over the divine beasts and I'm having an absolute blast with the game as a whole but they still don't quite scratch the same itch for me that a good classic Zelda puzzle box dungeon would have.
i agree with you on this. i love the dungeons in this game i do but they’re still not true dungeons imo. i get why they didn’t return to classic true dungeons and it’s leagues better than botw but i’m with you that it doesn’t scratch the same itch. it’s a good medium though
@@derbar4340 goron wasn't fun imo. It was the 1st one I went to. It was alright but the cart system wasn't fun imo. It was definitely a good dungeon but not for me lol.
It's cool that they finally gave Link a voice, but it was a bold move to have him casually use the n-word so often. Also, I thought it was pretty weird when Ganondorf said "It's true, Link. This is the Child Timeline" right in the middle of their team-up battle against Malladus and Zant. Otherwise, great game!
The caves and wells are my favorite. The depths are so dark and fun. I like putting a talus heart or a glowshroom on my shield. And I'm glad so far the sky islands are relaxing and easy-going. I'm glad they don't seem too tedious, at least so far.
Yes! This vid has come out! You said on stream you’d get in out! Thanks! Great video! I just completed the colluseum hyrule gamer! And it was SO hard! But the reward… Is noice.
Bro you took the words out of my mouth, had a little tear running down the face too, especially at the rito boss fight and the goron aesthetics. The gerudo I was just in awe, but it all took me back to both wind waker and ocarina in this case, like being overfilled with that perfect feeling of nostalgia but yet in a new coat. Always thought the game was gonna be awesome but man I didn’t expect this
Opposite here... I didnt expect much because everybody was so overhyped about this Game... I truly belived it Just cant deliver based on that... And I was so wrong... Every layer has his purpose and the story is strong so far and amazingly locical... There is so much to do that you cant decide were to go... Hilorious...
I've never played a game where I set out to do a quest and got sidetracked by something. And then sidetracked from that. And then again. And again. *7 hours later* Wait. What was I doing?
I am loving that Like Likes are back. They’re so fun and satisfying to fight in this game. The sound that’s made when you smack their weak point is SOOO good
5:28 i honestly disagree, because they STILL HAVE THE DAMN MEMORIES. I really wish we could've had a more in-depth story, no matter how indepth and cool it already is. not to say it was BAD (we all cried at the end), its just kinda annoying that we cant experience the birth of the demon king firsthand
Isn't it great?!?!?! I'd give it a 99.9% -0.1% because: Still can't pet the dog No fish in Link's pond No underwater Take away those D@MN red hands!!!! WHYYYYYY?!?!?!??!!? IT's creepy enough!!! That said, I'm slowly just rambling through it. Just doing what I want to do. I hope I don't finish it for months! I love it so much! (still can't pet the dog!!!!#%@^*&(!)?## Love your video!
"why does it feel so unreal?" idk, sky islands, monsters, literal gods, the devil personified, time travel, hoverbikes made out of two fans, the sandbox style it has, etc didnt even watch the video, but i found the title funny lol
I've spoiled myself for both BotW and TotK and I still haven't played BotW and that's because open world game are difficult for me personally because of my adhd. I will eventually play both since I have both but right now Legends Arceus has my attention and Hollow Knight too.
Not only is the amount of side content massive, but the way they're implemented makes the world feel SO much more alive. Like every character has their own story they're living out that unfolds concurrently with yours. This is the first time a Zelda game - my favorite series since 1987 - has made me feel that way. It always took me out of it, how NPCs were so static, just signposts that always say the same thing. But they've *finally* put together that piece of the puzzle. TotK is the epitome of the kind of world I just want to *exist* in. Wake up early in Hateno, walk through a trail in the woods for some hunting and fishing, setting up a picnic for lunch, check in with your neighbors to see the latest scoop on the election, catch some of a lecture at the schoolhouse, go spelunking in a cave you just found that leads to riding a gigantic dragon through the depths, and ending the night by hitting up a concert at a stable and earning some Pony Points. I've played for 80 hours and I've barely scratched the surface. For a lifelong gamer, it truly is an unreal feeling.
I have very few complaints about the game so far. The "Secret Stones" bugs me, Ganons facial expressions are just horrible, and I wish they had different scenes after each dungeon. Other than that it's a 10/10 game.
The Floormasters are absolutely horrifying. The first one I found was when revisiting the Great Plateau, it almost had me boxed into a canyon and I managed to kill them for an even more horrifying surprise. I have no idea how I survived that encounter and won. If you're wondering why I'm calling them Floormasters and havn't killed one for yourself don't look into the read more . . . . The way they look and act feel like a call back more to the Floormasters of Wind Waker than Dead Hand, from the way they look with the dark redish purple base color with red edge glow to the way it can snatch and throw nearby objects and even deflect things thrown at them, and in WW their possible ties to the Phantom Ganons, from the way they look to when and where they start appearing, after you release Ganondorf's power, fighting your first Phantom in the Forsaken Fortress with 2 Floormasters showing up in nearby rooms aswell as them starting to show up in dungeons afterward.
I love how new it felt, in spite of being in the same world. New things on the surface, plus extended above and below! I'm still playing 😁 as for Gibdos, they're cool, but I think I expected more in the world and for them be as scary, but they're not to me - no paralysing scream and so easy to beat with a quick elemental attack and a few sword swipes. But I still love to see them back and the new twists on them.
I agree with every point you make, Friend. For me I will say the story takes some huge bounds beyond BoTW. Specifically one where a certain character makes a huge decision and thus giving reason for the title of this game. I actually felt a jump in my black heart after watching this.
that is a really pretty thumbnail! And dude, I cannot wait for all the crazy totk content next month from everyone. I gotta say - and this might sound strange - but probably one of my favourite areas was the starting island. That feeling when I booted up the game for the first time was incredible, and I spent almost the whole day just exploring the beautiful area. Also, dungeons!!
I did not think i whould love this game more the Botw expasholy for how much it has done for me but i have found nothing bad about this game. Yes some needs more work but it is somhow perfect. And that me being strict tords it. AAAAAA i just cant believe its here and more magical and some... what are thay going to do next? Maby underwater😮
As someone who spends almost every spare moment I have playing this game, I have a fun little term for all those distractions. "Squirreling" is something that happens when you have a present destination in mind, but you end up enamored by everything along the way. So far, I've stumbled into a dungeon, went along with a main quest I had no interest in doing yet (great choice on my part) and spent many more hours enjoying a game more naturally than any DLC could do for me!
Ah yes !! Another great day for this video!! Edit: I'm glad this video is summing up how well i feel about it. I couldn't explain how i was feeling hehe.
I am LOVING this game. Unfortunately, my fiancé is not. The crafting is too much to him and the enemies are more difficult and he says it just too complicated. Not a game that you can cut your brain off and play, he saids, like the last ones and lacks the magic he felt in the first. After a long day of work he doesn't want a difficult or complicated game. He wants to relax. Anyways, I love it! I watched him play BOTW but barley played it myself. This game I started to play and couldn't stop! Something I was wondering, in BOTW you get that wild armor that was thought to be Zonai. But now that we've seen what they look like, who owned the wild armor? Was it them before they got so technologically advanced??
They really didn’t need to add caves to this game. They already had a completely new underground map. But they added it anyway. This game is more than dlc
Won't spoil it for anyone but the first time I killed the gloom hands today I about shit my self with what happened after was not expecting that at all
I’m having a blast and I really haven’t done much except gotten to a number of Shrines (not done them) and unlocked about 6 Towers. 12 hours of goofing around just trying to unlock fast travel here and there. The Depths is so cool but only done about 1.5 hours there. It’s just super fun exploring around (caves and wells, like you said)! I’m going slow and taking my time!
HEAVY SPOILER WARNING FOR STORYLINE/GAMEPLAY I really enjoyed my first temple, I went to the gerudo area first after seeing the pyramid in the trailers and I loved how their were unique regional enemies, an involved temple and all that, and I really loved the way the story was told. I was fascinated by the ancient sage telling the story of the Imprisoning war. Then I did my second area, the Rito one. Here there weren't any unique enemies and the temple was a huge step down. The other two were somewhere in between in enjoyment. Don't get me wrong, I had a great time, but that goes to show how much I loved the Gerudo questline! My biggest issue though, was when I finished the Rito questline and got to the Sage cutscene. They just... told the exact same story again??? I thought they were going to unravel different details about the Imprisoning war to each Sage so we could piece it all together, but no? That was such a wasted opportunity imo. That said, I really loved this games story and the way it told it. I think the memories kinda spoil some surprises, honestly I think they should have become available after doing the 4 regional phenomena, but overall the story in each region and the way the game wraps everything up is SO GOOD. The ending was much improved over BotW too! Unbelievable game, I still can't believe I was so invested in exploring Hyrule again. I've not been able to pick up BotW for more than 5 minutes without getting bored since I beat it. Master Mode just made the durability/tanky enemies problem worse so that didn't draw me in either. They changed so much and made it so enjoyable to see how things had changed around the kingdom and there are so many little unexpected surprises around every corner! Not to mention the building is insane, even if I end up feeling the same way about this game as BotW in terms of exploration, the experimentation and creation of machines will keep me drawn in! Sorry for the ramble, but thanks for reading if you got this far
Ive got a question for those who finished the game Is it true that the game doesn't have a "real" ending, in the sense that we cant see what comes after beating the boss ?
I’m pretty sure the Depths was designed to be deep enough so it can be loaded within the time it takes to dive down. Just an optimization only first party games can achieve
I love the game so much. Everything is so fun and I think part of that is the skills I already have from breath of the wild. There are just situations that I think would have been really difficult if I didn’t already have habits and know how from breath of the wild. It’s also just fun to see people remember link! To talk with him and interact with him as a person
We thought the same after BotW and look what we got, and remember they never told us about the full underground, now think about what they could pull off on a better system with the same time 😂
@@albedo4008 true but now that we have it, it’s a sequel. A great sequel, but they’ll have to do something new now. Unless they make a botw trilogy but I don’t think they will
@@domidoodleYT i mean they have shown that they can just flex, its not crazy to think about that they can top it, or stay at the same level as botw and totk, i can see them come up with a new story just as epic and good as they did twice now
I have one idea: expand the map further into the ocean in the East. Add islands like in windwaker and base the game largely around finding new islands and maybe even a whole new continent accross the sea.
_Technically..._ There IS a loading screen (kinda?) but its cleverly hidden by having a massive drop from the surface to the depths. Most of the time, the drop is long enough to allow the game to unload the area above and load the area below... BUT if you dive _too_ fast, the game will actually freeze midair for a moment to allow the depths to finish loading. Though... I guess you're right, that's not a loading _screen_ its more of a loading section? Area? Zone? I dunno.
SLIGHT SPOILER WARNING AHEAD: Nintendo’s seriously pushing the limits of what you can put in a kid’s game, especially recently. You’re telling me that the gloom hands, Ganon’s realistic bones and joints cracking in the introductory cutscene, just the sheer amount of creepy, scary, but wildly intriguing enemies, characters, parts of the story, everything! This is a kid’s game? Which businessman at the ESRB looked at this game, and said “yeah this seems ok for a 10 year old, E10+”???
Please stop being afraid to post spoilers.. the game is out. Lore warnings are totally understandable.. but I'd love to hear you talk about the lore itself too! Alright, now I'll shutup and enjoy the video :). Love this channel. Thank you Hyrule Gamer.
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I didn't like the whole weapon fuse thing at first, but I'm coming around to it.
Gibdos are actually kinda scary
Everything! Same as wrathblade, but one thing is the mini battles you can find with constructs V books!
FYI, the gibdo’s are creepy AF!
My grandfather was a Legend Of Zelda fan since the original on the NES back in 1986, he used to love watching you and Zeltik discuss the theories of the newer games and the subtle references/ tie ins to the games he played while raising a family.
We played Ocarina of time, Majora’s, TP, SS as they released. And a little bit of Breath of the Wild last year before he realized it was all getting a little bit too complex for him to do much besides watch.
When TOTK’s unnamed launch trailer came out we were so pumped for another open world adventure filled with what looked like traditional Zelda dungeons. Unfortunately he passed away suddenly last October before the development was completed. But I’ve been playing religiously in my own sort of celebration of his life and the absolute GIFT he gave to me by introducing me to the Legend of Zelda at such a young age. I wanted to explain so I could THANK you for all of this work you put into bringing this series into the spotlight for at least a handful of us dedicated fellows. I know you made his evenings when he’d load up his UA-cam and see you uploaded that day.
From one Hylian to another. Thank you.
That’s so wholesome. I’m sure he’s looking down on TotK with a smile.
God Bless you and your Grandfather may he rest in peace. What a beautiful way to remember him, happy gaming friend! =)
This is so beautiful. Thank you for sharing your grandfather with us and I love that you have this incredible game to honor him with
@@aratherbritishdinosaur most definitely, I actually inherited and now live in his home with my fiancé and I often “speak” to him while playing lol
@@thepilgrimstar7988 thank you friend :) unbelievably kind of you to say. I hope you’re enjoying the game as well
The thing I'm loving the most about this game is how lively it feels, more than ever I feel like the whole Kingdom of hyrule with all the people feels way more active and generally more strong willed, it's like every character has something to do, something they want to and aren't stuck in one place
Seriously it feels like there's a lot more activity from npcs still wish they hadn't made it "Zelda souls"
I know this makes me play for at least 7 hours a day😅
@@petratyraandersonIf you don't like the combat there's a lot of ways to cheese battles with fusing stuff, or you can build OP machines to destroy enemies. You don't have to get good at combat to beat the game.
@@petratyraanderson souls? How?
@@PomuLeafEveryday I'd argue it's not cheese, it's a part of the game. If the enemies were easy then the game would be boring and you wouldn't need your new skills. You can't play it like BOTW and that's the best part.
I absolutely love the NPC’s and quests in this game.
This game is the epitome of making a plan but then getting side tracked for 3-4 hours with 5 other quests 😂
Me too, this game is so fun!
You ain't kidding. Sometimes I get so lost I forget what I had been originally trying to do 😂
That is so true...
I already loved botw way to alter Links abilities due to clothing... And there are so many new usefull armors in the Game...
Same !!!
I can't stop playing this game 😅😂
Zelda knows how to give dark/scary moments without it feeling forced, that's why twilight princess, majora's mask and now tears of a kingdom feel so unique and fun to me.
The first Gloom Hands I saw surprise attacked me in a cave right in front of a shrine, and it freaked me out so much! Thank Hylia those things can't climb.
They can climb 😢 at least a little- they followed me up a shallow cliff
my first encounter was on my way to zora's domain.
i was playing a horror game a little while before and was hoping i could finally calm my nerves but BOY WAS I WRONG
@@juliajohnson2285 That is unfortunate. R.I.P.
@@remixtheidiot5771 Oof
@@juliajohnson2285 Bro this game's sound design and music design is scientifically engineered to the highest quality and small detailed thought, and is made to maximize satisfaction.
also love the water droplet sounds after you drop from a great height. This game shouldn't be real.😂😂
Finished the Wind Temple yesterday, the post dungeon scene made me cry too. This game is literally a dream come true. Tulin is probably going to be my favorite for a while.
Riju is mine, I love how she doesn't second guess taking the tear, & says "I get to fight along side you? Count me in". ❤
Tulin is the sage I always use in gameplay, especially during gliding in the air and the rest are only called upon during monster fights
I didn’t think Tulin’s scene was overly emotional, but it was definitely sweet.
Honestly Tulin has a special place in my heart, since during the associated boss battle when I was getting slapped around he kept saying “Link, are you okay??” 😅😂
I’m not an overly skilled gamer, so I heard this dozens of times 😂😂😂
He’s the best cause he’s voiced by the va for killua
I do wish they'd have figured out a way to have companions, but keep them from getting in the way. You go to pick something up, and you end up activating them on accident! Give me my personal space, Sidon!
Ultrahand is very useful, but ascend is underrated
I use it all over the place lol. :)
All the abilities are so, so good! But I like ascend as well!!
Man, when the game just casually gave me ultrahand and just reading the tiny tutorial on what it could do I remember thinking "Holy hell. This skill...people are going to do insane stuff with this." I was floored at the amount of freedom and creativity the devs gave us just from that first skill alone.
Under-utilized, I don't think anyone under-rates insta-climb lol
Same with Recall. I remember one time I was landing on the Light Dragon when a Star Fragment fell down right next to me. I really wanted it but didn't wanna miss out on getting the Dragon shards, and that's when I realized "wait a minute, I can just rewind the fragment back up".
All I do is play the game till 4 am😂😂😂
The way all the layers are woven together is astonishing
The Lomei Labyrinths are a prime example of this
Not only that, the map of the depths is just the inverse of the suface. Mountains are valleys, etcetera and vice-versa
Those labyrinths blew my mind! They were so cool.
At first I was like cool, we did the labryinth. "Go to the sky" Huh, ok, guess we're going up next. Nice, little followup for this, kind of a two parter but more reward. I'm up for that. "Dive from the sky all the way under the earth" .....ok this is freaking amazing.
@@sethjansson5652 Bro this game's sound design and music design is scientifically engineered to the highest quality and small detailed thought, and is made to maximize satisfaction.
also love the water droplet sounds after you drop from a great height. This game shouldn't be real.😮😮
@Mingyu Huang Don't even get me started with the sound design the game has, especially compared to BotW. It is truly a visual and audible experience.
Love how they still have if you go in any direction forgot how many minutes and you find something or something will happen. Great carry over from botw. Plus the little hints and nods to older games, you find through out the game.
use punctuation bro
Yup yesterday I went to see what happened to the shrine in hayeno village and ended up finding and exploring a well
what are you saying
I love how Teba brought up Tulin. Teba knew Revali's mistakes, such as thinking he can take the world on alone, and Tulin was exactly like that. Maybe he picked up a few habits from Revali after going back in time in AoC. Tulin's ability is also evident of Teba's efforts to not make his son like Revali. Tulin's ability carries Link horizontally, whereas Revali's gale shoots Link vertically.
AoC isn’t canon I don’t think but you still have a point
@A Rather Bri'ish Dinosaur if its not canon then that sucks. I loved the characters from botw go to that alternate timeline to help. Love the name and pfp by the way!
Tulin didn t traveled through time in AoC, did he?
@Iron Pro yeah in the DLC there is a mission to rescue tulin and a couple cutscenes of Teba, Tulin and Revali and Tulin says that he looks up to Revali and someday wants to wield the Great Eagle Bow
@@turtleperson8727 Thank you.
Getting the master sword was the closest the game had me to tears. I had suspected it, but didn't think it was actually true
I found this today!! So unexpected!! I wasn’t able to draw the master sword from its pedestal though!!
have you done the memory/glyph quest yet?? my heart 😢😢
@@sh4rkss That last Tear was so sad yet beautiful same with when you get the Master Sword
I randomly found it because I figured I’d try to see if I could climb something after I finished a quest and…there it was! So cool!! One of my favorite video game moments ever.
I feel like we're experiencing a golden age for Zelda games. Like this will not only be game changing for the series, but affect the gaming industry at large, going forward. And I have never been so excited post-release for an anticipated game. Great video. I look forward to more from you. :)
Without going into specifics, there's things in this game that give me Wind Waker vibes. And I love it.
Agreed this game is unreal! Just today i finished all the dragon tears memories and i was balling like a baby! I haven't gone to any dungeons, just been exploring, finding shrines and opening the map! AMAZING!
THE TEARS ARE REAL RIGHT!?
I did the same thing
Bawling*
I set out with the same plan. I'm currently planning what to do with the 'tears' information. I'm thinking I might be doing some targeted skydiving.
The moment the realization dawned on me, my direction on how I want to approach the main story changed a lot. It truly became a quest after that point.
I spent over 300hrs playing BotW and haven’t fully finished everything and until TotK I was still finding small side quests I haven’t seen before.
TotK is so insanely packed I know I’m going to be playing this years and years to come and I’m just fine known I may never see it all.
TotK is nuts in a way I’ve never seen in any art medium anywhere ever.
There's so much content it feels overwhelming and I love that
Exactly!
tears of the kingdom is just surreal!! i am loving the game!! 🤩
Indeed!
Divine beast criticisms confuse me so much. They did have very clear themes. Electricity, water, fire, and air. You had to use those elements extensively in the dungeons. It was maybe overshadowed by the move-the-beast gimmick but it was totally there.
The criticism is that the weren't "visually" different. I agree that they had clear elemental themes in their puzzles.
They all looked the same. Interior wise. And all the shrines looked the same. So that made it worse. The themes didn't really do much with what the had. Just look at totk (or any other zelda game) in comparison
I've shared this elsewhere but wanted to do my thoughts here as well regarding the "reused map". In fact, I think the better way to think of this is "reused geography" - and the distinction is so important...
Imagine your buddy says to you "I grew up in San Francisco and I love that city so much. I haven't been back in 20 years because I'm not sure I'll find anything fun to do." Or: "I spent week in London 5 years ago and it is probably my favorite city. But I don't need to go back - I probably did everything fun already and I'm not sure it's changed enough since last time I was there." Replace "London" and "San Francisco" with your favorite city or national park: New York, Paris, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon...
Those statements above would be patently ridiculous because our love of a place only *grows* when we have great past memories there. In fact, the person returning to one of these locations knows better how to enjoy that place than someone who's never been, and the small changes will trigger nostalgic dopamine and a sense of wonder for those things that have changed and evolved. Like seeing a movie that's set in a city you've loved, or taking a best friend to the haunts of your childhood, we should*expect* these experiences to be magical.
Totk may have accidentally uncovered a new way to make amazing video games. Not by reusing the "map" but by bringing us back to a geography we loved - and by really investing in the evolution of that place as if it were a real and dynamic locale within the in-game universe.
EXTREMELY very well put. Underrated comment.
14:02 I’ve died more this past week in TotK than in 300hrs of BotW.
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This game has overwhelmed me a bit, admittedly. I haven't had as much time to play as I would have liked, so the feeling of missing something is very real to me. I set off towards Rito Village, like the game suggests, and got sidetracked in every direction imaginable. When I finally arrived yesterday, I had solved twenty temples, reclaimed my horses, jumped into several chasms and caves and realized that I hadn't been back on any Skylands and have nothing to keep me warm but roasted chilis. It's a lot, frankly
this game feels like a fever dream… the vibes when we all first started the game, i know we all had the same vibes from it… the same way botw made us feel that certain way when we first played it… and i mean… the depths???? a whole new map to discover? shiiiit
This game is massive, some confusing aspects in regards to important events/characters not knowing Link somehow, malice hasn't been mentioned once (at least in my current goofing around) and there are still some small flaws. Overall, this game is a true gem or the series, feels almost right up there with Ocarina and TP, imo.
Speaking of TP, it's not a spoiler, but there's a special bow you can find in Hyrule Castle, in one of the destroyed cones of a tower. It raises some questions for sure when you see its description.
Adding onto this, Kolton 'could' possibly be our Tingle reference, as he wants to become a Satori.
He pretty much already seem like a Tingle. His shape, size, and obsession. The fact his shop looked like a balloon in BotW (it isn't... it is a cart, but gives balloon vibes if you don't look close).
What i love is you can ride the dragons now and they even have unique stuff on them, gibdos arent that scary, in my opinion they are more annoying than anything else
It's super cool!
i went to do gerudo desert second, rode into that sand cloud, saw some of those and thought they were redeads, and noped tf outta there. im only doing the gerudo temple now as my last of the regional quest, and i feel silly now that i know how useless those guys are lmao
@@endless_del i did it as my very first one, and was kinda dissapointed on how usless they are
Gibdos drop pretty strong fuse material though
@@KaitouKaiju yeah, but still they pose no threath what so ever imo
In my opinion, Tears of the Kingdom only has 1 tiny problem: It makes Breath of the Wild feel like it was just a "Proof Of Concept", rather than a complete game. Don't misunderstand, I do like Breath of the Wild, but Tears of the Kingdom just took everything that was already there, and vastly improved upon it. There are more ways to get around, more things to do, more fun side-quests, the build-up to each Temple is arguably the best I've seen in a Zelda game yet, the Temples are a lot more varied, while still having the same core objective (activating a couple of terminals, then winning a boss-fight and claiming a heart container), the Shrines are a lot better in every way and there's a lot more enemy-variety and stuff to use monster parts for.
At first, I was a little apprehensive, because it felt like a lot of the same all over again, but that feeling quickly vanished, after I started exploring this new version of Hyrule.
Evolution
Yeah, it'll be hard to go back to botw honestly.
So far my only gripe is I don’t have enough time to play it. Responsibilities be damned!
I'm still waiting for my 'hours played' to update, It's gotta be 60+ in the first week
Same man, I wanna see how little I've went outside 🤣
Has anyone found themselves opening up BOTW to check things and compare them to TOTK
I have lol
As someone who chose the Lighting Temple as my first dungeon, lets just say the gibdos are a little different in this iteration and they're not as threatening as they used to be.
I was more a fan of the OoT gibdos as much as they were nightmare fuel as a kid
Am i the only one who has not beaten it even though i’ve played the game straight (other than sleeping) since it came out?
Everyone talks about the graphics, mechanics, and story, but I really think we need to talk about the game design more. When I started TotK, I was NOT interested in exploring the upside down or doing millions of crazy side quests when the story required my attention. It was with delight that the story pushed me beyond my comfort zone. A certain temple forces me into the depths, and curiosity made me go on side quests. The game design subtly introduced me into all these positions and with a snap a whole week passed me by just playing TotK. It was very overwhelming at first but the designers introduced everything (and things yet unknown to come) in such a way that I feel very comfortable!
A masterpiece of design as well.
this is exactly how i feel
Spent 8 hours playing Friday and like 11 yesterday , I think it’s safe to say I’m hooked lol. Just finished the fire temple , the finally was really cool for us old Zelda fans.
As a teacher I'm so glad it came out in summer. I'm able to push aside my lesson planning for a month or two and just enjoy tears of the kingdom
This is skyward sword done right. with the the BOTW base plus some OOT elements (time travel shenanigans ) the novelty of Majora's Mask, imo an absolute award winning piece of art.
What elements from Majora's mask if you don't mind me asking? It was one of my favorite Zelda games. And you can have bases in this game?
@@DWAC darker?(some what)
@@DWAC I think the comment is referring to the 4 areas that are having some kind of geographical disaster/problem and the atmosphere.
Lol casual pop-up of ZELTIK hopping into Tears on the friends list during the recording of this gameplay
fun fact: there is a loading screen, but developers have learned to hide it. in another game it might be a spot where you squeeze through a tight spot, but here it's the sheer time spent falling. that amount of time allows them to load the Depths without feeling like a traditional loading screen. it was a great innovation that these developers built upon.
I dont get how people call the caves small but refer to the sky islands as a whole other map.. Hyrule got 3 ADDITIONAL maps plus the old one making it 4 total
Well...
I see your point...
Nevertheless the caves arent a map of itselfe its "just" the expansion of the known layout of the surface...
A pretty good one nontheless
Some caves are small and have basically nothing. But the majority I've found are nice. Probably the same size as sky islands. That and the depths, it's 2.5x as big
What makes it unreal to me, is all the little character interactions Link can have. There's a woman in Kakariko Village, that will literally talk to Link all day if he gets into her small garden plot. At midnight, Link will be swaying with his eyes closed.
I finally got the game Saturday night and when I got down to the surface (whilst on my way to the marker on my map), I was attacked by and actual tree, it just uprooted itself and began chasing me. To say I was shocked would be an understatement. This game is a amazing.
i literally just took a photo of a small forest on accident attempting to photograph hyrule herb, and was SUPER confused when the photos was added with a new monster entry. ran towards the forest, suddenly circled by three walking trees… so that was my first encounter.
Its unreal how stable the game is. Its truly an invisible effect, but the extra year the developers spent on it to make sure nothing would randomly break or cause issues is so appreciated. It goes to show that making things and putting it into the world is important, but making sure nothing happens that you DONT want to happen is just as important.
Thanks for the warning first, Boss! I appreciate it
Appreciate ya checking the video out!
The main thing I have found that changes my view is that the first area outside is Hyrule. Actual Hyrule. Until then, I have never explored the fields in fear of guardians making me just getting to Hyrule castle on the side. The fact I'm going outwards from the previously most dangerous area to other areas made me really confused on where I actually was.
Most games are set in Hyrule, including BotW. What are you on about?
@@jarlwhiterun7478 when I got to Hyrule Kingdom, it was in hyrule fields. The main quest line has you go into the new town nearby, and going out from there I had no idea where I was. This is BotW hyrule field i was exploring, the area which I didn’t explore at all because guardians were everywhere. The bizarre ability to just walk around it like you probably walked around Necluda in BotW
I've spent 20 hours just in the underground and only have half of it mapped.
Half in 20hrs?! I too like to rush but even I like to take my time 😂
I absolutely adore this game so far - especially the richly fleshed-out overworld - but, for me, dungeons still manage to fall a little short of what I would have liked to see: I've completed three and, of these, only one has really fully lived up to my expectations in terms of scale, atmosphere, sense of exploration, and challenge. Of the other two, one was entirely too short and small (almost feeling like just a larger shrine puzzle with a boss at the end), though the lead-up and overall traversal were great, while the other sat somewhere in between. Don't get me wrong, they're still a MASSIVE improvement over the divine beasts and I'm having an absolute blast with the game as a whole but they still don't quite scratch the same itch for me that a good classic Zelda puzzle box dungeon would have.
I guess the one you haven't played yet is the gerudo dungeon. From what I've heard it's one of the bigger dungeon, similar to goron :)
i agree with you on this. i love the dungeons in this game i do but they’re still not true dungeons imo. i get why they didn’t return to classic true dungeons and it’s leagues better than botw but i’m with you that it doesn’t scratch the same itch. it’s a good medium though
@@derbar4340 Ja, genau :p
@@derbar4340 goron wasn't fun imo. It was the 1st one I went to. It was alright but the cart system wasn't fun imo. It was definitely a good dungeon but not for me lol.
@@sylmaerie what exactly is the difference? There's doors you have to unlock ? That's about it. Dungeon items wouldn't work in an open world game.
It's cool that they finally gave Link a voice, but it was a bold move to have him casually use the n-word so often. Also, I thought it was pretty weird when Ganondorf said "It's true, Link. This is the Child Timeline" right in the middle of their team-up battle against Malladus and Zant. Otherwise, great game!
This sounds like an EA game 🤣🤣
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The caves and wells are my favorite.
The depths are so dark and fun. I like putting a talus heart or a glowshroom on my shield.
And I'm glad so far the sky islands are relaxing and easy-going. I'm glad they don't seem too tedious, at least so far.
I fished this game(final boss) and said to myself I have not had more fun playing a video game ever
Yes! This vid has come out! You said on stream you’d get in out! Thanks! Great video! I just completed the colluseum hyrule gamer! And it was SO hard! But the reward… Is noice.
Yeah haha
This is probably the best Zelda game I’ve ever played.
TOTK is amazing. It makes me think im dreaming. Hold on, i have to pinch myself. Nope, im not dreaming🤣
Bro you took the words out of my mouth, had a little tear running down the face too, especially at the rito boss fight and the goron aesthetics. The gerudo I was just in awe, but it all took me back to both wind waker and ocarina in this case, like being overfilled with that perfect feeling of nostalgia but yet in a new coat. Always thought the game was gonna be awesome but man I didn’t expect this
Opposite here...
I didnt expect much because everybody was so overhyped about this Game...
I truly belived it Just cant deliver based on that...
And I was so wrong...
Every layer has his purpose and the story is strong so far and amazingly locical...
There is so much to do that you cant decide were to go...
Hilorious...
I've never played a game where I set out to do a quest and got sidetracked by something. And then sidetracked from that. And then again. And again. *7 hours later* Wait. What was I doing?
For dungeon rankings do we count the before dungeon parts almost like in botws attack of the divine beast before the actual dungeon?
I am loving that Like Likes are back. They’re so fun and satisfying to fight in this game. The sound that’s made when you smack their weak point is SOOO good
Same, they're awesome!
5:28 i honestly disagree, because they STILL HAVE THE DAMN MEMORIES. I really wish we could've had a more in-depth story, no matter how indepth and cool it already is. not to say it was BAD (we all cried at the end), its just kinda annoying that we cant experience the birth of the demon king firsthand
Isn't it great?!?!?! I'd give it a 99.9%
-0.1% because:
Still can't pet the dog
No fish in Link's pond
No underwater
Take away those D@MN red hands!!!! WHYYYYYY?!?!?!??!!? IT's creepy enough!!!
That said, I'm slowly just rambling through it. Just doing what I want to do. I hope I don't finish it for months! I love it so much!
(still can't pet the dog!!!!#%@^*&(!)?##
Love your video!
TotK is divisive: If you like "writing" your own narrative, it's your bag. If you like a more curated experience, then not so much.
"why does it feel so unreal?"
idk, sky islands, monsters, literal gods, the devil personified, time travel, hoverbikes made out of two fans, the sandbox style it has, etc
didnt even watch the video, but i found the title funny lol
I've spoiled myself for both BotW and TotK and I still haven't played BotW and that's because open world game are difficult for me personally because of my adhd. I will eventually play both since I have both but right now Legends Arceus has my attention and Hollow Knight too.
Not only is the amount of side content massive, but the way they're implemented makes the world feel SO much more alive. Like every character has their own story they're living out that unfolds concurrently with yours.
This is the first time a Zelda game - my favorite series since 1987 - has made me feel that way. It always took me out of it, how NPCs were so static, just signposts that always say the same thing. But they've *finally* put together that piece of the puzzle.
TotK is the epitome of the kind of world I just want to *exist* in. Wake up early in Hateno, walk through a trail in the woods for some hunting and fishing, setting up a picnic for lunch, check in with your neighbors to see the latest scoop on the election, catch some of a lecture at the schoolhouse, go spelunking in a cave you just found that leads to riding a gigantic dragon through the depths, and ending the night by hitting up a concert at a stable and earning some Pony Points.
I've played for 80 hours and I've barely scratched the surface. For a lifelong gamer, it truly is an unreal feeling.
I have very few complaints about the game so far.
The "Secret Stones" bugs me, Ganons facial expressions are just horrible, and I wish they had different scenes after each dungeon. Other than that it's a 10/10 game.
I upgraded the wing suit and it's my fave
I havent played it yet but it looks amazing!
Probably wont get my chance to buy it until next year, since I am le poor. But my time will come
The Floormasters are absolutely horrifying. The first one I found was when revisiting the Great Plateau, it almost had me boxed into a canyon and I managed to kill them for an even more horrifying surprise. I have no idea how I survived that encounter and won.
If you're wondering why I'm calling them Floormasters and havn't killed one for yourself don't look into the read more
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The way they look and act feel like a call back more to the Floormasters of Wind Waker than Dead Hand, from the way they look with the dark redish purple base color with red edge glow to the way it can snatch and throw nearby objects and even deflect things thrown at them, and in WW their possible ties to the Phantom Ganons, from the way they look to when and where they start appearing, after you release Ganondorf's power, fighting your first Phantom in the Forsaken Fortress with 2 Floormasters showing up in nearby rooms aswell as them starting to show up in dungeons afterward.
I love how new it felt, in spite of being in the same world. New things on the surface, plus extended above and below! I'm still playing 😁 as for Gibdos, they're cool, but I think I expected more in the world and for them be as scary, but they're not to me - no paralysing scream and so easy to beat with a quick elemental attack and a few sword swipes. But I still love to see them back and the new twists on them.
I agree with every point you make, Friend. For me I will say the story takes some huge bounds beyond BoTW. Specifically one where a certain character makes a huge decision and thus giving reason for the title of this game. I actually felt a jump in my black heart after watching this.
that is a really pretty thumbnail! And dude, I cannot wait for all the crazy totk content next month from everyone. I gotta say - and this might sound strange - but probably one of my favourite areas was the starting island. That feeling when I booted up the game for the first time was incredible, and I spent almost the whole day just exploring the beautiful area.
Also, dungeons!!
Thanks a lot Sledgen! Likewise, the content is gonna be FLOWING out like the River Hylia 🤣
I did not think i whould love this game more the Botw expasholy for how much it has done for me but i have found nothing bad about this game. Yes some needs more work but it is somhow perfect. And that me being strict tords it. AAAAAA i just cant believe its here and more magical and some... what are thay going to do next? Maby underwater😮
I’ve practically been playing the game as much as I can it’s my new favourite, I wanna find the lynels though(it made me cry)
As someone who spends almost every spare moment I have playing this game, I have a fun little term for all those distractions. "Squirreling" is something that happens when you have a present destination in mind, but you end up enamored by everything along the way. So far, I've stumbled into a dungeon, went along with a main quest I had no interest in doing yet (great choice on my part) and spent many more hours enjoying a game more naturally than any DLC could do for me!
Ah yes !! Another great day for this video!!
Edit: I'm glad this video is summing up how well i feel about it. I couldn't explain how i was feeling hehe.
Thanks for watching!
70 hours in and I have still barely touched the underground. Going to feel like a whole separate game when I finally get to it.
Hello Hyrule Theorist viewers.
Hello!
I am LOVING this game. Unfortunately, my fiancé is not. The crafting is too much to him and the enemies are more difficult and he says it just too complicated. Not a game that you can cut your brain off and play, he saids, like the last ones and lacks the magic he felt in the first. After a long day of work he doesn't want a difficult or complicated game. He wants to relax.
Anyways, I love it! I watched him play BOTW but barley played it myself. This game I started to play and couldn't stop!
Something I was wondering, in BOTW you get that wild armor that was thought to be Zonai. But now that we've seen what they look like, who owned the wild armor? Was it them before they got so technologically advanced??
I'm 200 hours in and have done many main and side stories, I have not seen even a hint of a "Zonai Armour" set. I'm stating to think it's a myth.....
Im just finish the game, 110h, love every second❤❤❤
They really didn’t need to add caves to this game. They already had a completely new underground map. But they added it anyway. This game is more than dlc
Won't spoil it for anyone but the first time I killed the gloom hands today I about shit my self with what happened after was not expecting that at all
I need all the lore videos asap. I have so many questions 😂😂
They flipped everything i knew abiut zelda on its head
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I’m having a blast and I really haven’t done much except gotten to a number of Shrines (not done them) and unlocked about 6 Towers. 12 hours of goofing around just trying to unlock fast travel here and there. The Depths is so cool but only done about 1.5 hours there. It’s just super fun exploring around (caves and wells, like you said)! I’m going slow and taking my time!
Do the rito village quest, it will help you
its phenomenal
Agreed!
HEAVY SPOILER WARNING FOR STORYLINE/GAMEPLAY
I really enjoyed my first temple, I went to the gerudo area first after seeing the pyramid in the trailers and I loved how their were unique regional enemies, an involved temple and all that, and I really loved the way the story was told. I was fascinated by the ancient sage telling the story of the Imprisoning war. Then I did my second area, the Rito one. Here there weren't any unique enemies and the temple was a huge step down. The other two were somewhere in between in enjoyment. Don't get me wrong, I had a great time, but that goes to show how much I loved the Gerudo questline!
My biggest issue though, was when I finished the Rito questline and got to the Sage cutscene. They just... told the exact same story again??? I thought they were going to unravel different details about the Imprisoning war to each Sage so we could piece it all together, but no? That was such a wasted opportunity imo.
That said, I really loved this games story and the way it told it. I think the memories kinda spoil some surprises, honestly I think they should have become available after doing the 4 regional phenomena, but overall the story in each region and the way the game wraps everything up is SO GOOD. The ending was much improved over BotW too!
Unbelievable game, I still can't believe I was so invested in exploring Hyrule again. I've not been able to pick up BotW for more than 5 minutes without getting bored since I beat it. Master Mode just made the durability/tanky enemies problem worse so that didn't draw me in either. They changed so much and made it so enjoyable to see how things had changed around the kingdom and there are so many little unexpected surprises around every corner! Not to mention the building is insane, even if I end up feeling the same way about this game as BotW in terms of exploration, the experimentation and creation of machines will keep me drawn in!
Sorry for the ramble, but thanks for reading if you got this far
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Ive got a question for those who finished the game
Is it true that the game doesn't have a "real" ending, in the sense that we cant see what comes after beating the boss ?
Just beat it? Idk but that sounds like every other zelda game lol
I’m pretty sure the Depths was designed to be deep enough so it can be loaded within the time it takes to dive down. Just an optimization only first party games can achieve
Tears of the Kingdom is absolutely the best open world game I've ever played.
It's definitely the most free gaming experience besides minecraft
Gibdos are easy if you know the trick to kill them. Hint: They are heavily resting to physical attacks.
I love the game so much. Everything is so fun and I think part of that is the skills I already have from breath of the wild. There are just situations that I think would have been really difficult if I didn’t already have habits and know how from breath of the wild. It’s also just fun to see people remember link! To talk with him and interact with him as a person
I like how they changed hyrule field so much sometimes idk where i am
Hate to be that guy but…. Man, what comes next for Zelda? (Besides DLC) I have no idea how they follow up such a great game
We thought the same after BotW and look what we got, and remember they never told us about the full underground, now think about what they could pull off on a better system with the same time 😂
@@albedo4008 true but now that we have it, it’s a sequel. A great sequel, but they’ll have to do something new now. Unless they make a botw trilogy but I don’t think they will
@@domidoodleYT i mean they have shown that they can just flex, its not crazy to think about that they can top it, or stay at the same level as botw and totk, i can see them come up with a new story just as epic and good as they did twice now
I have one idea: expand the map further into the ocean in the East. Add islands like in windwaker and base the game largely around finding new islands and maybe even a whole new continent accross the sea.
_Technically..._ There IS a loading screen (kinda?) but its cleverly hidden by having a massive drop from the surface to the depths. Most of the time, the drop is long enough to allow the game to unload the area above and load the area below... BUT if you dive _too_ fast, the game will actually freeze midair for a moment to allow the depths to finish loading.
Though... I guess you're right, that's not a loading _screen_ its more of a loading section? Area? Zone? I dunno.
Most open air games technically do this. But yeah what I meant is no loading screen.
@@HyruleGamer Yeah I partially just wanted to mention it, for those who don't know how it works... (not that anyone actually cares lol)
@@lasercraft32 I'm sure many care, I find it really interesting!
I'm hoping for a reward for completing all the Addison signs tbh
Same. I know he gives you rewards every time you help him but an overall reward would be cool.
I love the depths and cavernous systems in this game, I like caves and the underworld like area is absolutely amazing
This game is pure unadulterated magic
SLIGHT SPOILER WARNING AHEAD:
Nintendo’s seriously pushing the limits of what you can put in a kid’s game, especially recently. You’re telling me that the gloom hands, Ganon’s realistic bones and joints cracking in the introductory cutscene, just the sheer amount of creepy, scary, but wildly intriguing enemies, characters, parts of the story, everything! This is a kid’s game? Which businessman at the ESRB looked at this game, and said “yeah this seems ok for a 10 year old, E10+”???
Please stop being afraid to post spoilers.. the game is out. Lore warnings are totally understandable.. but I'd love to hear you talk about the lore itself too!
Alright, now I'll shutup and enjoy the video :). Love this channel. Thank you Hyrule Gamer.
Just built my tank and ready to go wild