Was Tears of the Kingdom Disappointing? - TotK Review
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This video contains gameplay from The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom for the Nintendo Switch in HD. Recently, I've noticed a large increase in negativity surrounding TotK. Seems like everywhere I look on the internet, there is someone saying Tears of the Kingdom is bad. TotK is a sequel to Breath of the Wild which was one of the most influential games in the past decade. A sequel to such a game of course would have really high expectations. Not to mention the game took so long to come out and looks and plays very similar to BotW. Is Tears of the Kingdom just overpriced DLC for Breath of the Wild or is it more than that? But, what do I think of the game? Today I discuss my own opinion on Tears of the Kingdom AKA give you my Tears of the Kingdom review. What about TotK is good? And what about TotK is bad? From the story, graphics, gameplay, freedom, dungeons and temples, ultrahand, fuse, world, and music. I discuss all these topics and more in this video! I hope you enjoy :D
Music:
• [UPDATED] Main Theme +...
• Xenoblade Chronicles X...
• Empire City (Night) - ...
• Gaur Plains (Night) - ...
• Fort O'Virbus (Night) ...
• Arid Sands (Night) - S...
• Sylvalum (night) - Xen...
• Sea Bottom Segue - Son...
• Keves Colony (Day) - X...
• Pokemon Omega Ruby & A...
• Chun-nan (Night) - Son...
• RUSH OF THE RAINFOREST...
Time Stamps
I Have an Opinion: 0:00
The Good - Story: 1:13
The Good - Graphics: 3:49
The Good - Freedom: 4:09
The Good - Abilities: 5:18
The Good - It's Fun: 5:52
The Bad - Story: 6:25
The Bad - Dungeons: 9:20
The Bad - Fuse: 11:40
The Bad - The World: 13:53
The Bad - Music: 16:54
Conclusion: 18:22
#zelda #tearsofthekingdom #totk - Ігри
Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed consider liking the video Now that I've finally beaten TotK, I figured I'd make a video discussing my thoughts on it. But feel free to let me know what you think of TotK in the comments :D
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Can’t deny that it feels like a dlc because it’s literally the same world with addons. I don’t have a lot of problems with it. I love the exploration, the size of the map, the new enemies, being able to build cars etc. I recently discovered that all Zonai devices (allegedly) have durability. They said that fans disappear after 30 minutes of use which is personally a huge and drastic problem. “Replayability” isn’t a problem for me because it’s fun that you can do anything in any order which changes the playthrough slightly. Building vehicles is fun, but durability takes a lot of fun out of it. I haven’t tested it myself to see if they actually only last 30 minutes, but hopefully that isn’t the case. Great game imo 👍
Oh yeah I actually recently learned about the fans despawning after 30 min thing too! I was riding my hoverbike for 30 mins in my video where I got all the lightroots and it broke on me, so it's def true. Thanks for watching!
It's cathartic to see people starting to turn on the idea of pure freedom in video games. Especially with how much Aonuma upset people with that "nostalgia" comment. Maybe now things will start to swing a little more in the other direction.
True True. I kinda hope while they work on the next zelda game, they let a new dev team make a classic style zelda game
Totk is good, but i think botw is just better.
that's fair
My biggest issue with this game is the nonreplayability of it all. The fact that the weapons are so unbelievably trash makes repeat playthroughs an unbearable slog, and unlike botw, trying to speedrun the game as a casual player really sucks because of the army sequence
oh yeah going straight to ganon is much harder in this game than BotW. Maybe speedrunners will find a glitch that makes it easier in the future
I disagree highly i replayed it a million times
"Speedrunning as a Casual player" wut?? Non-replayability because the weapons are trash?? I mean if you're not using Fuse then all the weapons are indeed trash..
Bro I want to take Zelda haters seriously, but it’s just impossible.
How can you call totk unreplayable 😭😭
Honestly Tears of the Kingdom is my least favorite game in the series. I'd say there's definitely worse games like Tri Force Heroes and the original Four Swords, but Tears of the Kingdom is the only Zelda game that I just couldn't finished. It just bored me to tears (heh heh). I was already very lukewarm on Breath of the Wild since it had pretty much nothing of what I like the Zelda series for, but at least it was decently enjoyable and everything about it was completely fresh. Tears of the Kingdom feels like I was replaying the same game again, and they doubled down on all the problems of the game, and with a building system that I could care less about.
I find it absolutely insane that so many Zelda fans are fully accepting of the building system. Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts did the same thing and made a game centered around building, and everyone complained that it wasn't a Banjo Kazooie game. If you went back in time like 10 years and told everyone that a future Zelda game would be centered on vehicle building, you would be laughed at. Then they go ahead and release the game and everyone, including Zelda fans are all like "10/10 best Zelda game ever MASTERPIECE!!!).
thats fair. if you didn't enjoy BotW then you probably wont enjoy TotK because its more of the same. I honestly can't blame the Zelda devs for choosing to continue making more games like BotW considering it's the best selling game in the series. But lots of people fell in love with the Zelda series because of the older games and want more games like that
More and more people are getting sheep-minded I’ve noticed. They just want to go along with the crowd and agree with what everyone else says. I believe much more people did not enjoy this game, but will say that they enjoyed purely because others said so.
Have you ever played a "sequel" which feels that similar like totk to botw? I never did and was shocked. It disappointed me more than entertained me... And it isnt fair to say that it is better than a game, which released 6 years earlier, despite it being a glorified DLC (which it is, even the developers said that they had too many DLC ideas). It would be like taking a succesful 6 year old movie, change a few things, add new scenes and release it again. It might be longer then, but is it the better movie of the two when it's clearly completely based on the old version?
These two games kinda rival each other instead of completing each other. A sequel should never lower the enjoyment playing the prequel. Playing botw now feels so weird and... downgrading, never a good sign. Both games would work way better as one, where the first half is the calamity and the second half the upheaval with Ganondorf, similar to the classic zelda concept.
Because of all this repetetive stuff, it is impossible for me to rate a kinda "lazy" game like that more than a 8/10. Copying so much stuff isnt worth a good B-rating to me, so I rated it 7,5/10. Abilities awesome! Bosses awesome! Mobility and possibilities awesome! Dungeon design at least... improved. Everything else feels too samey.
Yeah I can agree with a lot of this. I do know of a few times when a sequel comes out and makes it basically pointless to play the prequel. Like Mario Kart 8 is just a much better version of Mario Kart 7 where I never see a reason to play that game anymore
@@247MrNiceguy but Mario Kart 7 had at least different courses, didn't it?
Absolutely perfect comment. Perfectly said. I have alot of the exact same thoughts on this rehash game. I never thought Zelda (nor Nintendo) would stoop down to EA levels like this
And yes, playing BotW now just feels bittersweet, Tears of the Kingdom honestly ruined alot of BotW for me. This specific Zelda artstyle now just reminds me of disappointment and unmet potential because of Tears of the Kingdom.
@@APsGTG glad you agree ^^ thx! :) I decided to do a second playthrough right now, but it still feels disappointing. I also replayed BotW after I played Totk and it feels so much worse now, like It was meant to be the unfinished beta Prototype, it's so weird...
I like the game but i also like Botw. The game just reused way too much things from Botw that makes it lack an identity of it’s own! After playing a few hours for the first time all of my hype died out. Totk was not a bad game but isn’t the Sequel I was hoping for. I put 1000+ hours in Botw and I rarely play Totk and I currently have 330 hours on that game.
Yeah I can agree with that. TotK did a lot of cool things but just needed more things to be different from BotW
I thought rijus new theme and yunobos new themes were great
I agree with mr.nice guy on everything except on the story.I think that the botw story is better because it is more emotional because you are there in those sad moments in the memories,and the story impacts you. For example Mipha, (Links childhood friend and love interest, also I think they were engaged)was killed by the calamity. Ubosa the leader of an entire race was killed devastating the gerudo. Entire towns wiped out, hundreds of people died. In totk a big war happend 10,000 years ago and the castle floats.I know the regional phenomenon threatens the different races but you don't emotionally feel the impact, and the memories are about Zelda and completely not affecting you(except for you giving her the master sword).
so that's why I personally think the botw story is better.
I also have 595 hours in botw and 120 in totk
BOTW's story feels purpose built for the nonlinear open world format where you can find stuff out of order. TOTK feels like a traditional linear 6-10 hour story shoved into 60-100 hour open world formula game and it just doesn't work as well. I like BOTW's story a lot, but I think TOTK is better in a plot synopsis/summary perspective. BOTW's story is way better in the open world format though. I didn't really feel it too much with BOTW but by the end of TOTK I fully understood those people who wished we could have played BOTW's story because I was feeling it with TOTK. BOTW is very much an epilogue to a story that's already happened. TOTK feels more like a sequel to the story told through the glyphs.
Worse case scenario with you watching memories out of order in BOTW is that you might initially be confused why in some scenes Zelda and Link are buddy-buddy, and in other ones she's yelling at him to go away and seems annoyed at his existence.
Worse case scenario with you watching memories out of order in TOTK are far more disastrous. You can watch a scene that takes place seconds after an important character dies, then watch the scene where the character gets killed (seriously why are these separate memories) Or finding glyph 11 that has Zelda spell out that she's going to become a dragon to heal the mastersword with her light powers via bringing up a flashback to glyph 3. I have no idea who thought having a flashback to a separate memory inside another memory was a good idea. This is entirely unrelated to the separate issue of Link not telling people about Zelda's whereabouts when it puts people in danger during the regional phenomenon quests.
Even if you do watch them in order, glyph 3 goes into the details of dragonification way too much. It would have been a lot better if Mineru had been vague about it due to a lack of information (only referring to it as the forbidden act and the immortality aspects) and only later on in the story do both Mineru and Zelda discover the costs of the forbidden act.
Yeah I can see that. BotW story is definitely better in some ways. I honestly just barely remember anything about the story in BotW and that is not a good sign
Yep. BotW’s story, whilst not in your face, is a fantastic Zelda story. For me, the best in the series. Hyrule being completely destroyed, link and Zelda failing, close ones being taken out, just crazy we’ve never seen anything like it before. High stakes, coming to terms with the horrific past, rebuilding, and then reclaiming Hyrule as link again, genuinely incredible.
Tears of the Kingdom offers us “demon king? Secret stone? Is that Zelda .mp3 x4” it’s poor, very poor. The actual story writing for TotK was handed off to a third party who usually write stories for mobile phone games.
Yo dude I don’t personally hate this BUT I’ve played like links awakening and a lot more in the past I think the game could be goode but the story is really good tho. Anyway I have a challenge idea! Maybe you can get to dragon to dragon without touching the ground like all the dragons..
wow that's a pretty cool idea actually!
something that shows how too similar totk is to botw is that when i go into pro hud mode take a screen shot
and look at the shot i know that if i send the photo to a person they would have no way of knowing its totk by just looking at the enviorment (unless i'm in the depths or sky islands).
very true. I said something similar before the game came out in a video that if I showed my mom a screenshot from BotW and a screenshot from TotK, she would not know they were different games
Personally I wanted BoTW 2 and that's what I got... However it's not that different from the first game which makes it quite disappointing. Still an amazing title, just not enough new content.
Agreed! I like the things they added, but I wish there was less of the same stuff from BotW
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It’s not complicated at all. TotK was more or less a copy paste of BotW with more content. It wasn’t good enough after a 6 year dev cycle,
Yeah I think that 6 year wait really made people expect a lot from this game. If it came out like 4 years after BotW, a lot less people would be disappointed
I mostly agree this one will be long but after the period you don’t have to read ahead it’s just the story anyway can we agree oot has a better story for many reasons. link goes on a quest to open the door of time and get the master sword but he messed up and let Gannon get to the Triforce making it the first ever game to have the villain win so link after seven years in stasis goes out and gets weapons and ancient artifacts the medallions he fights Gannon in a 1v1 dead man volley the fight were you hit the ball back and forth then you kill him when he’s a pig Zelda lets you live your childhood but Navi leaves with. Complete mission leading to majoras mask or link dies or link stays an adult.
oh yeah it's really impressive that the first 3D Zelda game had such a good story!
6 years for plot holes, and a “master quest”
This game is not a good sequel, nor a good Zelda game.
Has nothing to do with the past 40y of connected Lore and games.
Don’t even have anything to do with BOTW story…
luckily for me I never cared about the zelda lore so that doesn't bother me but I can understand why people would be disappointed by it. I still think the overall game design is impressive and fun
@@247MrNiceguywithout lore, all we have is Mario jumping and Man with a sword…..storytelling matters.
That’s why I love Lore in Zelda, cause it actually mattered, and connected for the past 40 years…..
Zelda 1
Zelda 2
Zelda 3
Oot
Majora
Twilight/Wind Waker both direct sequels to OOT story.
Skyward the origins of everything, the foundation.
All connected, and mattered.
Spin off titles still doing its best to connect to the main titles,
Like Hourglass and Spirit Tracks.
Those are better sequels in concept, but not in execution.
TOTK wanted to be a sequel, it ended up being a “Master Quest”/ rehash of BOTW.
Rather just play BOTW. Cause that has a complete story. TOTK ruins it by rewriting it to fit “it’s” story.
Not BOTW’s.
I do kind of wish it took place in Terreria from MM, bc that would be really really cool.
oh that would have been super cool to see an updated version of termina
I would say Totk is like a above average game nothing wrong with it it’s just missing something that I can’t figure out what it is
Yeah I think the developers were counting on Ultrahand to be the big thing with this game but for many people thats not enough
Let's not forget that the first 3 months or so after it came out, everyone was simply having stupid fun with this game. No one knew the surprises waiting, so the game seemed massive to us. The joy was reflected on UA-cam and Reddit. Most of the negative reviews appeared months later in what seemed like a completionist's clarity or a burnout, similar to some BotW reviews deeming that game boring months after release.
yeah thats pretty normal with most games. when something is new it's exciting, but after a while people start to notice the flaws
@@247MrNiceguy Yes, I think ToTK relies too much on that 1st playthrough naivety. Other games age better in that sense.
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By the way, the game wasn’t disappointing
Glad you enjoyed totk!
Will you ever make a video on BOTW again? Great vid by the way
yes I plan to play BotW again for a video when TotK reaches 1 year old
YAY. THANK YOU.
14:14 I wanted to see Hyrule rebuilt after Botw
That would have been cool! If the game took place more years after BotW and castle town was fully rebuilt
Satisfying shield
Thanks!
I think Totk is perfect, because this is the first Zelda game i've played so everything is new the music, the world, the dungeons etc
haha yeah I can see going into TotK as your first Zelda game as a crazy experience. Glad you enjoyed it!
I liked the game alot
Glad you enjoyed it!
you’re my favourite zelda youtuber 😊
Glad you enjoy my content :D
Well now. 150 hours on botw. Not bad. I'm only at 2,895 hours on botw. 575 on totk. I enjoy replaying a bunch though
lol idk how people put that much time into a single player game. only games i've ever put over 1000 hours into have been multiplayer games
@@247MrNiceguy I don't find many games I like. When I do, I play the bejeebers out of them. Lol
Do you like ToTK more than botw or is botw still ur favorite?
Every time I find a totk haters video I read the comment section to find ONE sensible comment.
I still have to find one.
Its like a zombie apocalypse down here 😂
I'm a totk hater? that's news to me lol
@@247MrNiceguy noo I was talking in general. There’s a huge crowd of UA-camrs that are though.
An while you may or may not be among them, I think your views on the game are pretty moderate and understandable, so I should have worded it better!
Totk isn’t controversial
Yeah. Suuuuuure 😂
You must not see the Zelda community on Twitter lol people argue about it all the time there. But then again, twitter always does that
The game doesn't feel like zelda
I 100% agree with you
BotW was a huge change for the series, it's definitely a lot different now than it used to be
I recently bought a switch and decided to play totk directly instead of playing botw first because I don't have that kind of time anymore. I think most people are disappointed precisely because it's a sequel and they expected more. Me? I got to experience it as a standalone game and I'm absolutely loving it. I did, however watch a couple of UA-cam videos explaining the story of botw so I'm all caught up.
oh yeah if you hop into TotK blind without playing BotW first, you'll have an amazing time. For me I put so many hours into BotW until I got tired of it and wanted something really new with the next game
This is literally their problem, and most people go to UA-cam for info rather than just diving into the game and experiencing.
yes
rip sorry you didn't enjoy it!
Aiden's review (i didn't play the game but im qualified): BOOOOOORING GAME HONK SHOO HONK SHOO AHHHH MEMEMEME
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I like botw better 😅
thats fair. I've played BotW for years making videos on it so I've gotten bored of it. While I still have lots of content I have not done in TotK
Totk is disappointing.also play star wars battlefront classic collection pls
oh man I heard that the battlefront classic collection launch was not very good. Lots of bugs and poor online. Hopefully it gets fixed
That wasn’t on switch lol
The game was only disappointing to so called fans who are too caught up in fan fiction and the totally NON-EXISTENT TIMELINE !!! .... TotK did EVERYTHING better than BotW - except for those worthless sage abilities and the repetitive cut scenes that accompanied them. Otherwise this game was incredible !!!
yeah the zelda devs never planned on having the zelda games connected when they made them but then suddenly just threw together a timeline. thats one of the big reasons why I never cared for the Zelda lore because it seems like such an after thought by the developers
Humans wanted more BOTW so they played for 7 years, TOTK gave more BOTW but the humans don’t care because they played BOTW for 7 years now TOTK feels repetitive to them. That simple, go touch grass.
yeah I agree. If TotK came out 2 years earlier, way less people would be disappointed
That's a pretty dumb way to dismiss people engaging with what they like. The creators don't owe any specific direction to fans because they can't please everyone, but they banked on familiarity and even admitted that it was hard for them to balance. It's normal that there are complaints.
you are a HIGHLY annoying presenter
thats not very nice
Another disappointing totk review, none of the things you said made sense, but I guess that is to be expected when you try to criticize a game that’s objectively a masterpiece
I mean, it's fine to have a different opinion but this was not a hate video? I literally said the game was good and rated it a 9.25/10
@@247MrNiceguy I didn’t mean hate video, idk why I wrote that, just corrected it, my bad
Calling this game objectively a masterpiece is crazy. It’s a good game but it barely innovated more than botw did, and it barely improved anything from the game. Both totk and botw are amazing games but wouldn’t call them masterpieces, they have too many clear flaws imo. Nothing related to an opinion is objective.
@@Coran_06 both of your points are objectively wrong and am not gonna waste my time explaining why that is, you can find videos about that, also thanks for not explaining what those “clear flaws” are because I already know they’re gonna be a bunch of subjective bullshit
@@Pera6 Do you know what objective and subjective mean?? Objective means verifiably true meaning there is actual clear evidence to reinforce that it’s true while subjective means it is an opinion. You calling a game an "objective masterpiece" is subjective. Also I like how you’re going to call my points objectively wrong and say I like how you don’t list any flaws yet you won’t take the time to explain why you think the game is a masterpiece lol. And your “evidence” is a bunch of videos by a bunch of UA-camrs whose opinions are SUBJECTIVE and based on OPINION. If you want some of my flaws: poor boss design (it was an improvement from botw but compared to many other action rpgs I consider them not as well designed and boring due to lack of move variety, this could be an issue of me often playing dark souls type games), removal of key features that were in the previous game such as master mode, emptiness of areas (you’re lying to yourself if you don’t think the great sky islands were not rewarding enough and honestly I found the depths boring too), lack of enemy variety which I’d apply to the first game as well, heavily repeated cutscenes, some characters felt like they had their personality/involvement heavily watered down from the first game such as Paya and Impa. If you want some positives I found with the game to show you I don’t think the game is trash (because I do think it’s a good game) I would say the music while some of it was reused there was overall improvement, the implementation of fuse made combat more creative although I do wish additional features were added, and I did enjoy the quests more so than the first game.
Anyways, I know you’re probably not going to read this and I’m wasting my time arguing with someone that has a baby Tulin profile picture, but I hope that gives you some light on my criticisms of the game. I do hope you learn the difference between objective and subjective though.
No the game wasn't, the game was amazing
agreed but wish some things were better