The Music Analysis Video That I Was Talking About, Watch It: ua-cam.com/video/kIOpF3-RKcY/v-deo.html (No I didn't forget about this for a month, shut up)
I still consider Ocarana my fav. I consider Link to the past 2nd and despite its many flaws Link is my 3rd. Breath of the wild is 4th because I disliked shrines and open world. Not because I thought it was bad more so because I like linear games, I get lost far less. and the length of the location dungeons way to short for me to feel like enough was there. The puzzles that did exist and the living off the land element was still fun enough for me to put it no lower than 4. Great Retrospective; I had not cleared the game and enjoyed hearing how there was to see yet. I am doggedly trying to reign in the black and white horse since I want to ride Shadowfax Gandalfs horse and its coloring reminds me of it. Eventually I will try to ride a Lyonel as I heard one could... sounds insanely hard so why not. So much to do so when I do play I still have most of the map to wander on. Can't wait for BotW2.
Hell yeah. When you said you were going to be contrarian I was under the impression you were going to say the music sucked, I cannot even fathom someone not liking the music
Scruffy (What I Love! series) has an amazing video on this topic, too... ua-cam.com/video/Vgev9Gzybk8/v-deo.html It really goes deep with respect to the incidental music!
Idk why but i always found the bomb arrow exploding in the the volcano region as a neat touch. Not gonna lie it took me like 4 trys to realize what was happening lol
i have no idea if this has been said but, in my opinion, the majority of the piano compositions feel almost lonely with a tint of subtle, silent hope mixed in. like the land could be silent but it isn’t, it sings with some semblance of hope in the hero
This was my first Zelda game, and no matter what it's flaws, it'll always be among my favorite games ever made. It also helped me get into the franchise, by exploring past games.
That's how I feel about Skyward Sword. It was my first LoZ game because all I had growing up was a Wii and DS with limited games for both. I watched some stuff about Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, which began my interest in the LoZ series and I asked for a LoZ game for Christmas, which is when I got Skyward Sword. It makes me sad that most LoZ fans seem to hate that game and refuse to play it, even with the switch version, which allows you to play with buttons instead of motion controls. It's actually really important to the story of LoZ since it's the first in the timeline, and shows the world before Hyrule and what started the curse that causes the cycle of Link, Zelda, and Ganon. That game means a lot to me, even with all of its flaws, and it will always be one of my favorite games of all time.
@@__idfk__although im a fan of SS, you would understand the fandoms stance on this a little better if you experienced the series organically. Does that make sense?
@@chrisd6287 I do understand why a lot of the fandom doesn't like it. I know the game is flawed and that it isn't everyone's cup of tea. That doesn't mean that I can't feel how I feel about the game and wish that more people would give it a chance instead of immediately writing it off just because others don't personally like it or because of the bad reputation of the motion controls. I never said that the fandom as a whole has to like it or anything, but I know there are a lot of people in the fandom who haven't played it and there are plenty of people who would like it if they did play it. I don't really understand what you mean by "experiencing the series organically." For me, the way I have experienced it is organic. To try to achieve a different experience that you deem "more organic" would mean that it literally wouldn't be organic for me because I'd be forcing myself to have a specific experience that didn't happen naturally for me. Does that make sense?
@@__idfk__ based on your response you do understand what I mean by organically. I get the sense that you think im gatekeeping and that really wasn't my intention. All I was saying is experiencing a game in it's time, in the progression of the series without any future context is different. Much different. For many reasons which you seem smart enough to know I won't list here. Also just curious, what console did you play it on first?
@@chrisd6287 As mentioned in my original comment, I played it on Wii because a Wii and a DS are all I had for video game consoles. When I first played it, I went in completely blind because I was new to the fandom and I honestly hadn't even heard of Skyward Sword before I got it. All I really knew was that the Legend of Zelda series seemed very interesting and I wanted to try playing one of the games, which happened to be Skyward Sword. I had a good experience with the game and it led to me looking into the series more, especially the lore, which made me appreciate SS and its story even more. I've played other LoZ games since then and while they are absolutely amazing and I do see why most people prefer them, Skyward Sword will always hold a very special place in my heart because it was the start of me playing my favorite video game series. I understand the flaws of Skyward Sword and why they can be off-putting to some, but I think it's unfortunate that there are players that would like the game if they played it that don't give it a chance because others act like it's so bad when over all, it's not a bad game. I feel that there are many aspects that it does very well. That's why the negativity surrounding the game in the LoZ fandom makes me sad.
I realized that the most important thing I want in a game is this: Atmosphere and Exploration. Skyrim, Witcher 3, and Breath of the Wild are perfect examples of this. These games make you want to explore every stream, mountain, cave and reward you for exploring.
I feel like the no underwater exploration was understandable since that would've required an entirely new level of world building the developers would've had to worry about. Also, if we'd have had one area we could explore, we'd have spent the rest of the game wondering why we couldn't go underwater anywhere else. Might've broken the immersion slightly. Here's hoping for Tears of the Kingdom though! It would be pretty awesome Edit: on the rain bit now. In my recent playthrough I was determined to enter Zora's domain any way but the intended way. I ended up climbing the massive cliff face off to the side of Akala tower. Took me forever. Had to stockpile stamina foods, but if you do a jump every third hand hold up the cliff then you can make veeeery steady progress. Was a b*tch to do though 😅
Not helpful to the point on Rain, but to the east of Zora's domain there are a series of updrafts and gentler cliffs on the side of Ruta's lagoon that can be easily ascended.
Haha I did the same thing! When this game first came out I was still suuuuuper hesitant to fight enemies. I was very sensitive irt that, it made me sooo nervous. I never wanted to die. So, I avoided intended routes like the plague 😂 meant I had no idea how cool the intended route to Zora’s domain was, and it took forever… But I didn’t get Link electrocuted at least!
The main theme of breath of the wild just makes me cry everytime. But honestly just talking about the game and it’s beauty has a huge impact on me. I just can’t explain how gorgeous this game is
Yeah, when it comes to the soundtrack, you are spending so much time in the overworld exploring every cave and river that something loud and bombastic would just get so grating over time. The only way you can prompt a continuous piece of music in the overworld is by entering any fights with monsters and guardians, or by hopping on a horse. Ride for a bit with a horse and you get a beautiful melody that incorporates the Hero's theme or Zelda's lullaby, depending on whether you're riding at night or during the day. It's brilliant. How they do it in this game is perfect. They don't even use the same ambient track for every part of Hyrule. What you showcased here was Hyrule Field's theme I think. Everywhere else has different tracks, like Hebra, Death Mountain, and Gerudo Desert, using different instruments too.
I think the reason that Lynel’s don’t have boss healthbars is because those big bars makes a player feel like they *need* to defeat the boss, and while that works to scare the player in the early game it wouldn’t work with something as tough as a Lynel, since in the early game you are not meant to fight them
So satisfying when you defeat your first Lynel in Great Plateau on Master Mode & you get the Savage Lynel weapons which makes the next attempt waaaaaaay easier.
The soundtrack of botw, and it’s sound design as a whole, was a huge breath of fresh air for me upon release. While I love the catchy and exciting tracks of the previous games, we’ve had it before many times. Very few games manage to feel so cohesive in tone throughout every facet of design. Botw always felt like it was beckoning me forward, asking me to take the stage when I felt the time was right, never pushing, never saying that I had to act or feel any other way than the way I wanted to. It’s also one of four games that I return to to just to take everything in, the other three all being fromsoft games.
you were pretty correct on the music, the wondering melodies are perfect for exploring. the sparseness of the notes really just makes the ones being played super powerful.
Great video, but I do think that the silly little side tasks that don't really offer a huge reward afterwards is also a testament to Links personality. Because it shows that he is willing to help people even if there's not a huge reward in it for him. I also like to think that thunderblight Gannon is so difficult because Urbosa was the most talented and skilled warrior of five of them at the time and it's testament of the stand she took against the thunderblight when the calamity first happened
Hestu reminds me of Excalibur from Soul Eater, that loveable background character with a depressing side mission to disgrace any wanting to follow him!
I can't believe I'm still finding people who are making multiple-hours-long videos on Breath of the Wild. I feel like I could fall asleep to one of these videos every day and never watch the same vid twice
Phew, just finished. What an incredible video, it's a crime it doesn't have more likes. Brilliant work! P. S. I will mention that I think Kas was always aware of who Link is. He reveals when you see him in Rito Village again after completing all his quest that his mission was actually to share his master's songs and aid the hero on his journey. That's why we can only see him in his village after we've completed them all. While I can't remember if he outright says that he knows, it's definately heavily implied. I love his character so much 😊 Anyway, again, a fantastic video. Off to binge the rest of them now
I don't believe he ever states he knows directly, but he does call Link 'appointed knight' when telling you about his master's story, then later you can find his journal where he states he passed his master's songs off to the Champion of Hyrule.
On the music part of the video, the “randomness” of the notes are supposed to invoke the feeling of unfamiliarity and curiosity, which is something I think all of us felt when playing the game for the first time. I like that in another clip of the soundtrack you played (11:20), you can hear what sounds like a second of rewind in the music, like a memory trying to reel you back in time. The soundtrack for this game is phenomenal and I don’t trust anyone who says otherwise.
You can cheese the third master trial in master mode a little bit because food buffs Do Carry Over, so if you pop a 4 mighty banana one dragon horn shard and save right before entering the trial you get thirty minutes of a level 3 attack buff, which will get you quite a ways into the trial and means you break weapons slower and thus have more to work with by the end
This is one of those games that I keep coming back just to chill and explore, and I keep finding areas that I haven't been before and I keep finding those pesky koroks.
Stumbled upon this video and I’m almost 2 hours in and absolutely loving it. Haven’t watched a retrospective on BOTW in awhile so seeing this pop up was really refreshing. The structure of the video is great with the time stamps and the amount of detail you go into is really interesting. I’m happy this video got a lot of love. Keep doing you bro!
I really wasn’t happy with the crown of bone one. I took that quest a little too literally and found and rode a stalhorse onto the platform. And it took forever to find a place where one spawned close enough to get it there
Breath of the Wild is a masterpiece of a game. I realized this long before I stumbled upon this video but upon watching this, it has become even more clear to me as to why and how. Thank you for this inspiring video talking about one heck of a masterpiece
I haven’t looked at all of the comments and I also haven’t finished the video yet, but I do wanna give the team credit. For the enemy variety, the A.I. on the enemies actually does change depending on the color of them. for example, when I was doin the master trials, I noticed that when I threw a bomb at a blue bokoblin they would run right into it, but black tiers and up will actually avoid the bombs as you throw them
With the ancient furnaces. I swear every single time I do either one it's ALWAYS raining either when I start or halfway through. I've never had clear weather the whole way.
You can use the camera rune to find the real monk maz koshia during the boss battle. Also, since the Shiekah and Yigas are both the same race, Monk Maz Koshia can also be distracted by bananas.
Medoh _is_ painfully simple--but it's So pretty. I like to just stand there and look around fjdjsks you're so much higher up than you can easily get on your own
Entertainingly, you don't actually need to use a torch in the lost woods because it's not so much the sparks themselves as the wind direction, and on my first playthrough I didn't even think to use a torch--I just moved the camera above Link's head to a top down perspective and followed the little sparkly particulates in the air fjdjfjdks
agreed. people don’t understand that the game is balanced around weapons breaking constantly. people are conditioned to collecting things to save things for a better time and don’t realize that literally anytime you are considering using that item is that time.
The only one that I find annoying after multiple playthroughs is the master sword. I get that it never really goes away, but it feels less special because it works exactly like the other breakable weapons.
Botw is my favorite game of all time along with Xenoblade X and Xenoblade 1. And I could only imagine a game with Xenoblade Chronicles X’s open world and enemies, but with Breath of the Wild’s exploration and world interactivity.
i have 4k hours racked up on this game and some of the solutions to the shrines you gave i had never even thought of which is why i think this game is so special
It’s really good! I can’t imagine how much work this took. Up there with the best of them. I’m about two and a half hours in, at the shrine section. I like how you go into more detail than some others and add personal stories from your experience. I’ll be rewatching this one for sure.
Balloon flight is about the _lore_ and _hints_ and not so much the actual execution. This is the only place in the game where someone Says something that hints at both skyloft and the dawn of the cycle and the floating islands of tears of the kingdom. You can find eroded paintings of loftwings on the walls and sconces of the forgotten temple but this kid and her star fragment are the closest we have to an undeniable connection to skyward sword
I like how you have the choice between climbing the mountain to collect shock arrows while avoiding a lynel who can OHKO you early-game, or spending a few minutes mining precious stones - which you can sell to any merchant in the game regardless of what they stock - and buy an outfit that shows off Link's feminine charms so you can infiltrate Guerudo Town and buy all the shock arrows you need.
Ravio’s hood increases sideways climbing speed as a reference to the wall merging mechanic in A Link Between Worlds, as you could merge into a wall and travel along it, but only sideways
I personally think Link's reason for not talking is a pretty good reason for this specific Link and isn't even THAT grand as his reason is meant to kinda relate to Zelda in the sense that his role is well known by everyone, he's the main hero who's tasked with guarding the Princess specifically and ultimately beating Ganon when he emerges. He was tasked this at a pretty young age and it's easy to think he had conflicting feelings about it but because he's loyal to his duties as a knight (probably trying to follow his father in that regard) he chooses not to complain or talk about them and just do it, people who have problems choose not to talk about them all the time and bottling your emotions like that would have you be less inclined to talk aloud. I think it's appropriate for this Link to just feel obligated to do what he's supposed to do without openly expressing how he feels about it.
24:08 link in BOTW has bullet time by lore. When he is moving and everything else seems frozen in time, flurry rush, arrow shooting, that’s not just a gameplay mechanic. People notice that he moves ultra fast in universe you can read it in a journal in game. So his eating animation that plays in the menu would just play out like his bullet time events.
This game is really just, amazing. I remember playing with my buddy, taking turns and now I have a little boy who only gives me a turn when he needs help fighting baddies. Nintendo knocked it out the park with this and I'm sure TotK will do the same.
I am a simple lass. I see zelda content on par of a review or retrospective or theory from a unique perspective? I click. And now that tears of hyrule is a thing Whoop de fucking doo. Best way to experience this game is with different eyes for repeat playthroughs. Why replay when you can see someone else be overwhelmed, when... you can legit suggest... anywhere. This game is mainly the best enbodiment of "its not the destination buy the journey"
I’ve been a gamer since mid 90’s. I played some NES (mostly Mario and Contra) but my first console was Ps1…only played Nintendo 64 really at friends. Games like Mario Party, Super Smash, Goldeneye. Never played Ocarina of Time or anything. Never owned a GameCube as I was mostly on PS2/Xbox and later on Ps3, PS4 and such. Anyway long story short Breath of the Wild was the first Zelda game I played from beginning to end and it’s probably my favorite game of all time. The open world, the sandbox, the variety of the map, the secrets it’s an unbelievable experience from start to finish.
Playin it for the first time 6 years after release, I haven't had so much feel for a game in almost a decade. It clearly has not stolen its reputation, what a miraculous alchemy Nintendo managed to create ! 🤩
Finally, someone who shares my exact opinion on weapon durability. Though in the sequel, I kinda hope they let players prioritize weapon types late into the game. If someone really likes spears, having some sort of skill tree or branching upgrade that increases the effectiveness of specific weapon types would be kinda cool.
That would be pretty cool, though if there were a skill tree I'd hope it would have a cool spin on it since for the most part I don't think that Zelda would work as well with how they traditionally are implemented.
@@SuperCameraGuBrothers Oh, absolutely. The idea I came up with would be a combination of the spirit orbs and koroks. You would collect Tears by finding them lying around in hard to reach places, doing mini puzzles, and completing shrines. All of which would give you varying amounts based on difficulty. Using them, you could either upgrade stats in a progressively more expensive manner (hearts, stamina, digestion [to fix the food system], base stealth, base attack, base defense, and base speed), or unlock abilities on a tree like weapon type mastery, rain climbing, auto heart regen, faster stamina regen, etc.
The one thing I feel like deserves more attention is the camera tune and compendium, which is literally a better Pokédex than any pokemon game! This side ability can be a whole game on its own
I hated the korok seeds. Seems to me Nintendo just leaned on them waaay too hard to fill out the world. After a while I stopped exploring because every time I found a hidden or interesting looking place, all I'd find was another korok seed. I don't need crazy new items or bonuses when I explore, just something INTERESTING is all I wanted. A small bit of implied lore or world history would be fine. But every. Single. Time. Just a korok seed. Felt incredibly lazy to me.
I wouldn't necessarily call it lazy considering that they were at least all hidden by a puzzle (albeit very simple puzzles) but I can see where you're coming from
@@SuperCameraGuBrothers Yeah unfortunately the puzzles were repeated so many times it felt like much the same thing over and over. To be fair though, lazy probably isn't the right word anyway. I'm guessing time and resource were the real issue, which is always going to be a problem in a game of this scale. It'll be interesting to see how they approach this issue in the new one. Great video by the way, I should have mentioned that in the first comment lol
That was fun! Well made, well edited, the pacing was good and I liked your humor while still being clear. Second takes are for cowards. 10/10 would watch again
Probably no one is going to read this after a year, but I just replayed botw and got a new perspective on the weapon breaking discussion: For me it's not so much the frustration of losing an item - you're right, there's always a new tool just around the corner - it's rather that i just don't care about any of the weapons i found. Weapons in botw are more of a resource much like a good cooking ingredient. In other Zelda games new tools opened up new parts of the world and new game mechanics, so finally finding them was a memorable moment. In botw there are exactly two of these classic Zelda moments: Getting the glider and gettng the master sword. It's still a great game, probably the best open world sandbox I've ever experienced, but it's not my favorite take on the Zelda concept. I hope I get to experience the next iteration of the series maybe in a decade or two … Having played the first Zelda as a little kid the thought of this franchise probably outliving me is a strange one.
did you not find that they were completely different to what he was saying during the interacting with hyrule part? the subtitles for me were talking about gear sets while the video was talking about amiibos
I cut that part out of the video because it was needless and boring. Guess I forgot to delete it out of the script when adding the subtitles. Cringe L on my part
Good video. I just started on my third play through and the first using the dlc. My first play was on the Wii U, because the Switch was hard to come by at the time. Then when I got the switch I bought BOTW with it and played through it again. Quite enjoyable every time.
I'm like. Early in the vid. The talking about boko. Best way to see the difference is how they deal with a remote bomb. Red will run past them, blues may try and kick them, blacks will use their weapon to kick it back, and white and gold, might just walk around it depending on if it's a smart idea to hit it back.
Fair point. I have never really used bombs in combat situations due to how weak they are, so it's not something that I would have picked up on. I guess I just would've liked it there was more to enemy scaling than higher damage and certain occasions where they are smarter
2:58:20 It's actually a really funny reference to the wall merging mechanic in A Link Between Worlds 2:58:30 It also has a hidden effect of boosting your speed when using a raft.
I've watched too many botw long form analysis videos. And despite the sometimes opposing views I end up agreeing with most of the UA-camrs opinions due to how well they're argued and supported. This includes yours too 😊
Oh. Well the memories aren't actually Links Memories of Himself. They're _Zelda's_ memories of _him._ that's why there's always someone else there. He didn't have the slate, she did, and so the only person who Could Have taken the pictures was her, and she saved him the pictures and memories she felt would be most useful. Not the most impactful, not the most emotionally deep, not the intrinsic parts of his personality or anything about his family or any of his childhood because what use is there for feelings when we're in an apocalyptic war? She saved him the memories that would tell him why he needed to be a hero, why he needed to be a weapon.
Just had to be 7 minutes longer than Arlo's video huh? But seriously, this video is insanely well done. Congratz on the effort and thanks for the entertainment!
You mentioned it in passing, but this game is clearly aimed at expanding the player base. Half of the changes you suggest to improve the game would have turned me off, since they’d have made it too difficult (as a person who did not particularly like games and generally found them a waste of time). The difficulty is still a bit high for me in parts (ToTS), but I am playing in Master Mode, now, and have spent hundreds of hours in the game. I am now a screaming fanatic and have literally bought 3 copies of the game AND DLC (2 Switch, one WiiU for modding) and an extra Switch OLED (so I don’t have to share with my kids) and the collector’s book. Nintendo angered a few long-time fans, irritated a lot of them, and gained millions of new ones. They hit this one out of the park. As for your video, it was quite balanced, for a long-time fan, and very enjoyable. The errors were weird-you cannot complete the recital at Warbler’s nest using arrows-and you sounded drunk half the time, which made it hard to understand some of what you said. I agreed so much in the beginning, were you talked about people complaining for nothing because they’re too good at games, but later you complained in the same way about lots of things. Some things you found trivial took me literal hours to complete (Vah Medoh) and others I didn’t even notice were supposed to be challenges, yet you list a bunch of steps one ‘has’ to go through. Like almost every flame challenge in a shrine is negated by the Flamebreaker Armour (thank goodness!) Game knowledge can make many challenges trivial, which rewards game knowledge for people scared of games, like me. My point is that there is even more complexity to this game than you describe, and you describe a LOT. Great job! I watched the entire vid, and a few parts multiple times. I don’t know whether I’ll still be playing this game in 4 years (I found it Jan 2022)-I hope not, since I don’t actually have the time-but Nintendo made their money on me, and I will be playing ToTK as soon as it comes out. Or maybe I’ll have to wait for summer. Either way, new fan.
I love the 'buying the house' quest too! I've used the weapon/shield mounts to house the strongest gear I've ever found there 😂 or the 'rarest' I've ever found. I wish we could paint the interior or exterior, like how you can with the sets 🤔
when I played, I set alight all of the thorns on Hateno towers with fire arrows and then climbed! I didn’t know it was possible to climb it without getting rid of them!
This game is a dream as a completionist. I'm an overpowered monster, and everything is done except for 200 koroks seeds scattered across the world, which I will complete before May 12th! I will 100% BOTW before Tears Of The Kingdom! This video is awesome by the way. Also, I have a weird question. What's your favorite race/species in this game? Hylian, Zora, Rito, Gerudo, Goron, Sheikah, or Korok? Is that all of them?
1) Good job with that video! 2) 3:17:10 It is called that way because after beating it, you get controll over the fifth devine beast (like the other Champions for there beasts)... that damne motorcycle you liked that much! xDDD
I didn't see anyone mention it on the comments so i will. It is believed that the Forgotten Temple is what the Sacred Grounds in Skyward Sword was and that Giant Goddess statue is the same one that fell from Skyloft to finish off Avocado Demise. Personally i feel the Goddess statue in SS was much bigger but until someone actually does pixel perfect measurements we can't really be 100% certain and then there is the Zelda team who tends to retcon small details like that.
1:10:32 personally i think they're places they've frequented, or just been before. If i remember correctly that specific one was on the way to kakariko village (might be wrong tho,) so she'd have been there before and probably took a picture then :P it did confuse me when the thought first occurred to me though lol
I think a good way to navigate the food being overpowered argument could be a system where only 5 ration slots are available during combat. Outside of combat you can eat however much you want but during battle you need to be selective of what you put into your ration slots. Sort of like Estus charges but not refillable unless you cook something obviously.
The Music Analysis Video That I Was Talking About, Watch It:
ua-cam.com/video/kIOpF3-RKcY/v-deo.html
(No I didn't forget about this for a month, shut up)
I still consider Ocarana my fav. I consider Link to the past 2nd and despite its many flaws Link is my 3rd.
Breath of the wild is 4th because I disliked shrines and open world. Not because I thought it was bad more so because I like linear games, I get lost far less. and the length of the location dungeons way to short for me to feel like enough was there.
The puzzles that did exist and the living off the land element was still fun enough for me to put it no lower than 4.
Great Retrospective; I had not cleared the game and enjoyed hearing how there was to see yet. I am doggedly trying to reign in the black and white horse since I want to ride Shadowfax Gandalfs horse and its coloring reminds me of it. Eventually I will try to ride a Lyonel as I heard one could... sounds insanely hard so why not.
So much to do so when I do play I still have most of the map to wander on.
Can't wait for BotW2.
Hell yeah. When you said you were going to be contrarian I was under the impression you were going to say the music sucked, I cannot even fathom someone not liking the music
Scruffy (What I Love! series) has an amazing video on this topic, too...
ua-cam.com/video/Vgev9Gzybk8/v-deo.html
It really goes deep with respect to the incidental music!
@@kodytiffany5686 😅😅
Hey can you turn down the music next time? The music to voiceover level is atrocious
Idk why but i always found the bomb arrow exploding in the the volcano region as a neat touch. Not gonna lie it took me like 4 trys to realize what was happening lol
Basically extreme heat
Me, too 🤣
Me too 😂
I kept blowing up and wondering what was happening
🧢
And bomb arrows not exploding in the rain
i have no idea if this has been said but, in my opinion, the majority of the piano compositions feel almost lonely with a tint of subtle, silent hope mixed in. like the land could be silent but it isn’t, it sings with some semblance of hope in the hero
I like this take
Spot on
This was my first Zelda game, and no matter what it's flaws, it'll always be among my favorite games ever made. It also helped me get into the franchise, by exploring past games.
That's how I feel about Skyward Sword. It was my first LoZ game because all I had growing up was a Wii and DS with limited games for both. I watched some stuff about Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, which began my interest in the LoZ series and I asked for a LoZ game for Christmas, which is when I got Skyward Sword. It makes me sad that most LoZ fans seem to hate that game and refuse to play it, even with the switch version, which allows you to play with buttons instead of motion controls. It's actually really important to the story of LoZ since it's the first in the timeline, and shows the world before Hyrule and what started the curse that causes the cycle of Link, Zelda, and Ganon. That game means a lot to me, even with all of its flaws, and it will always be one of my favorite games of all time.
@@__idfk__although im a fan of SS, you would understand the fandoms stance on this a little better if you experienced the series organically. Does that make sense?
@@chrisd6287 I do understand why a lot of the fandom doesn't like it. I know the game is flawed and that it isn't everyone's cup of tea. That doesn't mean that I can't feel how I feel about the game and wish that more people would give it a chance instead of immediately writing it off just because others don't personally like it or because of the bad reputation of the motion controls. I never said that the fandom as a whole has to like it or anything, but I know there are a lot of people in the fandom who haven't played it and there are plenty of people who would like it if they did play it.
I don't really understand what you mean by "experiencing the series organically." For me, the way I have experienced it is organic. To try to achieve a different experience that you deem "more organic" would mean that it literally wouldn't be organic for me because I'd be forcing myself to have a specific experience that didn't happen naturally for me. Does that make sense?
@@__idfk__ based on your response you do understand what I mean by organically. I get the sense that you think im gatekeeping and that really wasn't my intention. All I was saying is experiencing a game in it's time, in the progression of the series without any future context is different. Much different. For many reasons which you seem smart enough to know I won't list here. Also just curious, what console did you play it on first?
@@chrisd6287 As mentioned in my original comment, I played it on Wii because a Wii and a DS are all I had for video game consoles. When I first played it, I went in completely blind because I was new to the fandom and I honestly hadn't even heard of Skyward Sword before I got it. All I really knew was that the Legend of Zelda series seemed very interesting and I wanted to try playing one of the games, which happened to be Skyward Sword. I had a good experience with the game and it led to me looking into the series more, especially the lore, which made me appreciate SS and its story even more. I've played other LoZ games since then and while they are absolutely amazing and I do see why most people prefer them, Skyward Sword will always hold a very special place in my heart because it was the start of me playing my favorite video game series.
I understand the flaws of Skyward Sword and why they can be off-putting to some, but I think it's unfortunate that there are players that would like the game if they played it that don't give it a chance because others act like it's so bad when over all, it's not a bad game. I feel that there are many aspects that it does very well. That's why the negativity surrounding the game in the LoZ fandom makes me sad.
I realized that the most important thing I want in a game is this: Atmosphere and Exploration.
Skyrim, Witcher 3, and Breath of the Wild are perfect examples of this. These games make you want to explore every stream, mountain, cave and reward you for exploring.
I feel like the no underwater exploration was understandable since that would've required an entirely new level of world building the developers would've had to worry about. Also, if we'd have had one area we could explore, we'd have spent the rest of the game wondering why we couldn't go underwater anywhere else. Might've broken the immersion slightly. Here's hoping for Tears of the Kingdom though! It would be pretty awesome
Edit: on the rain bit now. In my recent playthrough I was determined to enter Zora's domain any way but the intended way. I ended up climbing the massive cliff face off to the side of Akala tower. Took me forever. Had to stockpile stamina foods, but if you do a jump every third hand hold up the cliff then you can make veeeery steady progress. Was a b*tch to do though 😅
Fair enough
Not helpful to the point on Rain, but to the east of Zora's domain there are a series of updrafts and gentler cliffs on the side of Ruta's lagoon that can be easily ascended.
I am always compelled to enter Zora's domain from the south before meeting the prince. I use cryonis to stairway myself up the waterfalls 🤙
Masochism at its finest ngl. I dead would walk away from the tv every time rain started while I was trying to climb something
Haha I did the same thing! When this game first came out I was still suuuuuper hesitant to fight enemies. I was very sensitive irt that, it made me sooo nervous. I never wanted to die. So, I avoided intended routes like the plague 😂 meant I had no idea how cool the intended route to Zora’s domain was, and it took forever… But I didn’t get Link electrocuted at least!
The main theme of breath of the wild just makes me cry everytime. But honestly just talking about the game and it’s beauty has a huge impact on me. I just can’t explain how gorgeous this game is
It’s the dragon themes that get to me 😢
I get goosebumps every single time I listen to it. it's the only song that does that for me
I could never imagine making a 3 HOUR LONG video. Even a 6 minute video takes a really long time. GG on making this!
Yep!
Yeah, when it comes to the soundtrack, you are spending so much time in the overworld exploring every cave and river that something loud and bombastic would just get so grating over time. The only way you can prompt a continuous piece of music in the overworld is by entering any fights with monsters and guardians, or by hopping on a horse. Ride for a bit with a horse and you get a beautiful melody that incorporates the Hero's theme or Zelda's lullaby, depending on whether you're riding at night or during the day. It's brilliant. How they do it in this game is perfect. They don't even use the same ambient track for every part of Hyrule. What you showcased here was Hyrule Field's theme I think. Everywhere else has different tracks, like Hebra, Death Mountain, and Gerudo Desert, using different instruments too.
I think the reason that Lynel’s don’t have boss healthbars is because those big bars makes a player feel like they *need* to defeat the boss, and while that works to scare the player in the early game it wouldn’t work with something as tough as a Lynel, since in the early game you are not meant to fight them
So satisfying when you defeat your first Lynel in Great Plateau on Master Mode & you get the Savage Lynel weapons which makes the next attempt waaaaaaay easier.
I never knew people complained about the soundtrack! I love it. Rito Village is my favorite music of the entire game.
This isn't your average video essay, this is a whole Dissertation.
The soundtrack of botw, and it’s sound design as a whole, was a huge breath of fresh air for me upon release. While I love the catchy and exciting tracks of the previous games, we’ve had it before many times. Very few games manage to feel so cohesive in tone throughout every facet of design. Botw always felt like it was beckoning me forward, asking me to take the stage when I felt the time was right, never pushing, never saying that I had to act or feel any other way than the way I wanted to. It’s also one of four games that I return to to just to take everything in, the other three all being fromsoft games.
you were pretty correct on the music, the wondering melodies are perfect for exploring. the sparseness of the notes really just makes the ones being played super powerful.
Vah nabooris is the only one that had a puzzle that actually stumped me for awhile on the first time through, her neck elevator had me totally lost
Great video, but I do think that the silly little side tasks that don't really offer a huge reward afterwards is also a testament to Links personality. Because it shows that he is willing to help people even if there's not a huge reward in it for him. I also like to think that thunderblight Gannon is so difficult because Urbosa was the most talented and skilled warrior of five of them at the time and it's testament of the stand she took against the thunderblight when the calamity first happened
Hestu reminds me of Excalibur from Soul Eater, that loveable background character with a depressing side mission to disgrace any wanting to follow him!
I can't believe I'm still finding people who are making multiple-hours-long videos on Breath of the Wild. I feel like I could fall asleep to one of these videos every day and never watch the same vid twice
Phew, just finished. What an incredible video, it's a crime it doesn't have more likes. Brilliant work!
P. S. I will mention that I think Kas was always aware of who Link is. He reveals when you see him in Rito Village again after completing all his quest that his mission was actually to share his master's songs and aid the hero on his journey. That's why we can only see him in his village after we've completed them all. While I can't remember if he outright says that he knows, it's definately heavily implied. I love his character so much 😊
Anyway, again, a fantastic video. Off to binge the rest of them now
I don't believe he ever states he knows directly, but he does call Link 'appointed knight' when telling you about his master's story, then later you can find his journal where he states he passed his master's songs off to the Champion of Hyrule.
@@quanticflowers whelp, I'm replaying the game right now so I guess I'll let us know when I get around to that part 😊
On the music part of the video, the “randomness” of the notes are supposed to invoke the feeling of unfamiliarity and curiosity, which is something I think all of us felt when playing the game for the first time.
I like that in another clip of the soundtrack you played (11:20), you can hear what sounds like a second of rewind in the music, like a memory trying to reel you back in time.
The soundtrack for this game is phenomenal and I don’t trust anyone who says otherwise.
Thank you for subtitling, it’s very appreciated! Great video :)
I love the random piano keys prove just how close it is to the main theme piano xD "now that we got that of the way" Oookay...
You can cheese the third master trial in master mode a little bit because food buffs Do Carry Over, so if you pop a 4 mighty banana one dragon horn shard and save right before entering the trial you get thirty minutes of a level 3 attack buff, which will get you quite a ways into the trial and means you break weapons slower and thus have more to work with by the end
Wow, this must have been a lot of work! Can’t wait to watch it later. Nice job 👍
lol
This is one of those games that I keep coming back just to chill and explore, and I keep finding areas that I haven't been before and I keep finding those pesky koroks.
A great analysis of BotW, but I’m afraid that the audio mixing is a little tricky; it seems that the vocal track is a little lost in the music :(
Stumbled upon this video and I’m almost 2 hours in and absolutely loving it. Haven’t watched a retrospective on BOTW in awhile so seeing this pop up was really refreshing. The structure of the video is great with the time stamps and the amount of detail you go into is really interesting. I’m happy this video got a lot of love. Keep doing you bro!
Glad you liked it
Fun fact about the island lobster shirt(2:58:40): It has a hidden stat taht buffs the korok leaf's ability to power rafts.
Would never have known that. Makes it even better
I really wasn’t happy with the crown of bone one. I took that quest a little too literally and found and rode a stalhorse onto the platform. And it took forever to find a place where one spawned close enough to get it there
I guess i now need to see the 20th retrospective/review/analysis/deepdive of BOTW, can't get enough of them
There is actually a place near death mountain that shows you that the octoroks can "unrust" weapons, it is a cool little place.
Five and a half years and I have never seen that
And next to Eventide Island
Breath of the Wild is a masterpiece of a game. I realized this long before I stumbled upon this video but upon watching this, it has become even more clear to me as to why and how. Thank you for this inspiring video talking about one heck of a masterpiece
Damn thank u for your hard work! Your channel deserves more attention
1k subscribers w like 20 lengthy and well executed retrospectives? I’m glad to be here early, can’t wait to see more
I haven’t looked at all of the comments and I also haven’t finished the video yet, but I do wanna give the team credit. For the enemy variety, the A.I. on the enemies actually does change depending on the color of them. for example, when I was doin the master trials, I noticed that when I threw a bomb at a blue bokoblin they would run right into it, but black tiers and up will actually avoid the bombs as you throw them
great video tho!!! i’m 20 minutes in and i’m already invested
It’s MY sleepover and I get to decide the movie
With the ancient furnaces. I swear every single time I do either one it's ALWAYS raining either when I start or halfway through. I've never had clear weather the whole way.
I wish whoever cursed you with such luck experiences twice as much hardship as they inflicted on you
@@SuperCameraGuBrothers I appreciate that so much. Maybe one day I'll have clear skies. XD
I'm pretty sure you can pass time at campfires, and you can make one with a bit or two of wood and a fire source. Doing so let's you skip rain.
@@dragnus12 yeah but that's boring. XD
You can use the camera rune to find the real monk maz koshia during the boss battle. Also, since the Shiekah and Yigas are both the same race, Monk Maz Koshia can also be distracted by bananas.
I wish I knew that before I spent hours trying to beat him
Medoh _is_ painfully simple--but it's So pretty. I like to just stand there and look around fjdjsks you're so much higher up than you can easily get on your own
Ironically, that piano melody you created with just random keys sounded really good.
Entertainingly, you don't actually need to use a torch in the lost woods because it's not so much the sparks themselves as the wind direction, and on my first playthrough I didn't even think to use a torch--I just moved the camera above Link's head to a top down perspective and followed the little sparkly particulates in the air fjdjfjdks
Great review. Especially the durability part. You nailed it. People who complain about the durability just haven’t played it enough.
agreed. people don’t understand that the game is balanced around weapons breaking constantly. people are conditioned to collecting things to save things for a better time and don’t realize that literally anytime you are considering using that item is that time.
The only one that I find annoying after multiple playthroughs is the master sword. I get that it never really goes away, but it feels less special because it works exactly like the other breakable weapons.
Botw is my favorite game of all time along with Xenoblade X and Xenoblade 1. And I could only imagine a game with Xenoblade Chronicles X’s open world and enemies, but with Breath of the Wild’s exploration and world interactivity.
Nice work, love your breakdown of one of my favorite games!
Dude. Good on the algorithm to lead me to this video. Really dope piece brother!
Thanks
Why do you only have 205 subscribers? That's insane. Thank you for such a great in depth review!!
Awesome video. I've spent the last few days watching it while at work. Now on to you other videos!
i have 4k hours racked up on this game and some of the solutions to the shrines you gave i had never even thought of which is why i think this game is so special
1:48:14
I'd like to throw in that "Military time" is just the normal time for about 95% of the planet lol
That bandit quest he was talking about I never found, I just ran across the cave and was happy to find some equipment and items
NGL when you demonstrated what random notes on a piano sounds like, it sounded like a track from the game. 😅
If that track was complete garbage maybe
Nah, he's right. There was barely a difference, tbh.
Alright a new botw retrospective!! I’ve watched all the others a million times. Here we go.
Hopefully it's even a quarter as decent
It’s really good! I can’t imagine how much work this took. Up there with the best of them. I’m about two and a half hours in, at the shrine section. I like how you go into more detail than some others and add personal stories from your experience. I’ll be rewatching this one for sure.
Balloon flight is about the _lore_ and _hints_ and not so much the actual execution. This is the only place in the game where someone Says something that hints at both skyloft and the dawn of the cycle and the floating islands of tears of the kingdom. You can find eroded paintings of loftwings on the walls and sconces of the forgotten temple but this kid and her star fragment are the closest we have to an undeniable connection to skyward sword
I like how you have the choice between climbing the mountain to collect shock arrows while avoiding a lynel who can OHKO you early-game, or spending a few minutes mining precious stones - which you can sell to any merchant in the game regardless of what they stock - and buy an outfit that shows off Link's feminine charms so you can infiltrate Guerudo Town and buy all the shock arrows you need.
I opened my laptop to the conclusion of this video and I don't remember watching it... So I saved it to Watch Later cause eventually I will!
Ravio’s hood increases sideways climbing speed as a reference to the wall merging mechanic in A Link Between Worlds, as you could merge into a wall and travel along it, but only sideways
I honestly don't know why you don't have more subs for all the work you put in and the quality of the video
I personally think Link's reason for not talking is a pretty good reason for this specific Link and isn't even THAT grand as his reason is meant to kinda relate to Zelda in the sense that his role is well known by everyone, he's the main hero who's tasked with guarding the Princess specifically and ultimately beating Ganon when he emerges. He was tasked this at a pretty young age and it's easy to think he had conflicting feelings about it but because he's loyal to his duties as a knight (probably trying to follow his father in that regard) he chooses not to complain or talk about them and just do it, people who have problems choose not to talk about them all the time and bottling your emotions like that would have you be less inclined to talk aloud. I think it's appropriate for this Link to just feel obligated to do what he's supposed to do without openly expressing how he feels about it.
Fair enough
You put so much effort in this video i hope you Will become a great UA-camr one day, you deserve more attention.
24:08 link in BOTW has bullet time by lore. When he is moving and everything else seems frozen in time, flurry rush, arrow shooting, that’s not just a gameplay mechanic. People notice that he moves ultra fast in universe you can read it in a journal in game. So his eating animation that plays in the menu would just play out like his bullet time events.
This game is really just, amazing. I remember playing with my buddy, taking turns and now I have a little boy who only gives me a turn when he needs help fighting baddies. Nintendo knocked it out the park with this and I'm sure TotK will do the same.
I am a simple lass.
I see zelda content on par of a review or retrospective or theory from a unique perspective?
I click.
And now that tears of hyrule is a thing Whoop de fucking doo.
Best way to experience this game is with different eyes for repeat playthroughs.
Why replay when you can see someone else be overwhelmed, when... you can legit suggest... anywhere. This game is mainly the best enbodiment of "its not the destination buy the journey"
This one I have completed, so I’ll watch this instead. Love a long retrospective 👌
I’ve been a gamer since mid 90’s. I played some NES (mostly Mario and Contra) but my first console was Ps1…only played Nintendo 64 really at friends. Games like Mario Party, Super Smash, Goldeneye. Never played Ocarina of Time or anything. Never owned a GameCube as I was mostly on PS2/Xbox and later on Ps3, PS4 and such. Anyway long story short Breath of the Wild was the first Zelda game I played from beginning to end and it’s probably my favorite game of all time. The open world, the sandbox, the variety of the map, the secrets it’s an unbelievable experience from start to finish.
Big sub jump coming up calling it now
You put a lot of work into this. Thanks are in order. Good job!
Dope analysis, wish I could've stopped dancing to the background ost & actually paid attention to what you were saying😅😂
This is the most creative way someone has told me the audio mixing wasn't great
Don't change a thing! 😅
Playin it for the first time 6 years after release, I haven't had so much feel for a game in almost a decade.
It clearly has not stolen its reputation, what a miraculous alchemy Nintendo managed to create ! 🤩
Great video and I can't wait for tears of the kingdom!
Finally, someone who shares my exact opinion on weapon durability.
Though in the sequel, I kinda hope they let players prioritize weapon types late into the game. If someone really likes spears, having some sort of skill tree or branching upgrade that increases the effectiveness of specific weapon types would be kinda cool.
That would be pretty cool, though if there were a skill tree I'd hope it would have a cool spin on it since for the most part I don't think that Zelda would work as well with how they traditionally are implemented.
@@SuperCameraGuBrothers Oh, absolutely. The idea I came up with would be a combination of the spirit orbs and koroks. You would collect Tears by finding them lying around in hard to reach places, doing mini puzzles, and completing shrines. All of which would give you varying amounts based on difficulty.
Using them, you could either upgrade stats in a progressively more expensive manner (hearts, stamina, digestion [to fix the food system], base stealth, base attack, base defense, and base speed), or unlock abilities on a tree like weapon type mastery, rain climbing, auto heart regen, faster stamina regen, etc.
Now I'm gonna be upset when this doesn't happen
@@SuperCameraGuBrothers Same here, bud. Same here. :(
The one thing I feel like deserves more attention is the camera tune and compendium, which is literally a better Pokédex than any pokemon game! This side ability can be a whole game on its own
I hated the korok seeds. Seems to me Nintendo just leaned on them waaay too hard to fill out the world. After a while I stopped exploring because every time I found a hidden or interesting looking place, all I'd find was another korok seed.
I don't need crazy new items or bonuses when I explore, just something INTERESTING is all I wanted. A small bit of implied lore or world history would be fine. But every. Single. Time. Just a korok seed. Felt incredibly lazy to me.
I wouldn't necessarily call it lazy considering that they were at least all hidden by a puzzle (albeit very simple puzzles) but I can see where you're coming from
@@SuperCameraGuBrothers Yeah unfortunately the puzzles were repeated so many times it felt like much the same thing over and over.
To be fair though, lazy probably isn't the right word anyway. I'm guessing time and resource were the real issue, which is always going to be a problem in a game of this scale. It'll be interesting to see how they approach this issue in the new one.
Great video by the way, I should have mentioned that in the first comment lol
He's back again, and about time too!
I don't know the words, but I'll join in too
That was fun! Well made, well edited, the pacing was good and I liked your humor while still being clear. Second takes are for cowards. 10/10 would watch again
Glad you enjoyed it!
I don’t even Zelda but good video man . Heart went into this !❤
I think the z targeting combat has aged gracefully. It was made with the N64 controller as its basis of course but it just feels so perfectly mapped.
Probably no one is going to read this after a year, but I just replayed botw and got a new perspective on the weapon breaking discussion: For me it's not so much the frustration of losing an item - you're right, there's always a new tool just around the corner - it's rather that i just don't care about any of the weapons i found. Weapons in botw are more of a resource much like a good cooking ingredient. In other Zelda games new tools opened up new parts of the world and new game mechanics, so finally finding them was a memorable moment. In botw there are exactly two of these classic Zelda moments: Getting the glider and gettng the master sword.
It's still a great game, probably the best open world sandbox I've ever experienced, but it's not my favorite take on the Zelda concept. I hope I get to experience the next iteration of the series maybe in a decade or two …
Having played the first Zelda as a little kid the thought of this franchise probably outliving me is a strange one.
I've been having trouble hearing right now and the subtitles really helped because they were put in so well!
did you not find that they were completely different to what he was saying during the interacting with hyrule part? the subtitles for me were talking about gear sets while the video was talking about amiibos
I cut that part out of the video because it was needless and boring. Guess I forgot to delete it out of the script when adding the subtitles. Cringe L on my part
This really is a masterpiece
Good video. I just started on my third play through and the first using the dlc. My first play was on the Wii U, because the Switch was hard to come by at the time. Then when I got the switch I bought BOTW with it and played through it again.
Quite enjoyable every time.
I'm like. Early in the vid. The talking about boko.
Best way to see the difference is how they deal with a remote bomb.
Red will run past them, blues may try and kick them, blacks will use their weapon to kick it back, and white and gold, might just walk around it depending on if it's a smart idea to hit it back.
Fair point. I have never really used bombs in combat situations due to how weak they are, so it's not something that I would have picked up on. I guess I just would've liked it there was more to enemy scaling than higher damage and certain occasions where they are smarter
2:58:20 It's actually a really funny reference to the wall merging mechanic in A Link Between Worlds
2:58:30 It also has a hidden effect of boosting your speed when using a raft.
I can't believe I'm that incompetent
Watched all 3 and a half hours, solid video.
I've watched too many botw long form analysis videos. And despite the sometimes opposing views I end up agreeing with most of the UA-camrs opinions due to how well they're argued and supported. This includes yours too 😊
One major criticism of this video: your bgm is too loud. You should IMO lower its volume esp when you're talking
Oh. Well the memories aren't actually Links Memories of Himself. They're _Zelda's_ memories of _him._ that's why there's always someone else there. He didn't have the slate, she did, and so the only person who Could Have taken the pictures was her, and she saved him the pictures and memories she felt would be most useful. Not the most impactful, not the most emotionally deep, not the intrinsic parts of his personality or anything about his family or any of his childhood because what use is there for feelings when we're in an apocalyptic war? She saved him the memories that would tell him why he needed to be a hero, why he needed to be a weapon.
The warm Doo-blay 😂
Nice vid, man.
Just had to be 7 minutes longer than Arlo's video huh?
But seriously, this video is insanely well done. Congratz on the effort and thanks for the entertainment!
Thanks
Damn this is a whole doc series!
You mentioned it in passing, but this game is clearly aimed at expanding the player base. Half of the changes you suggest to improve the game would have turned me off, since they’d have made it too difficult (as a person who did not particularly like games and generally found them a waste of time). The difficulty is still a bit high for me in parts (ToTS), but I am playing in Master Mode, now, and have spent hundreds of hours in the game. I am now a screaming fanatic and have literally bought 3 copies of the game AND DLC (2 Switch, one WiiU for modding) and an extra Switch OLED (so I don’t have to share with my kids) and the collector’s book. Nintendo angered a few long-time fans, irritated a lot of them, and gained millions of new ones. They hit this one out of the park.
As for your video, it was quite balanced, for a long-time fan, and very enjoyable. The errors were weird-you cannot complete the recital at Warbler’s nest using arrows-and you sounded drunk half the time, which made it hard to understand some of what you said. I agreed so much in the beginning, were you talked about people complaining for nothing because they’re too good at games, but later you complained in the same way about lots of things. Some things you found trivial took me literal hours to complete (Vah Medoh) and others I didn’t even notice were supposed to be challenges, yet you list a bunch of steps one ‘has’ to go through. Like almost every flame challenge in a shrine is negated by the Flamebreaker Armour (thank goodness!) Game knowledge can make many challenges trivial, which rewards game knowledge for people scared of games, like me.
My point is that there is even more complexity to this game than you describe, and you describe a LOT. Great job! I watched the entire vid, and a few parts multiple times.
I don’t know whether I’ll still be playing this game in 4 years (I found it Jan 2022)-I hope not, since I don’t actually have the time-but Nintendo made their money on me, and I will be playing ToTK as soon as it comes out. Or maybe I’ll have to wait for summer. Either way, new fan.
Thank you for your feedback
I hope lots more people find this vid! It came up in my feed so clearly it’s starting to get some traction 👍🏾. Best of luck!
I love the 'buying the house' quest too! I've used the weapon/shield mounts to house the strongest gear I've ever found there 😂 or the 'rarest' I've ever found. I wish we could paint the interior or exterior, like how you can with the sets 🤔
when I played, I set alight all of the thorns on Hateno towers with fire arrows and then climbed! I didn’t know it was possible to climb it without getting rid of them!
You did an amazing job and you deserve 1m+ subscribers... I'm looking forward to seeing you blow up
As am I
This game is a dream as a completionist. I'm an overpowered monster, and everything is done except for 200 koroks seeds scattered across the world, which I will complete before May 12th! I will 100% BOTW before Tears Of The Kingdom!
This video is awesome by the way. Also, I have a weird question. What's your favorite race/species in this game? Hylian, Zora, Rito, Gerudo, Goron, Sheikah, or Korok? Is that all of them?
Easily the Rito
Your going places with vids like this, keep it up bro
1) Good job with that video!
2) 3:17:10
It is called that way because after beating it, you get controll over the fifth devine beast (like the other Champions for there beasts)... that damne motorcycle you liked that much! xDDD
I didn't see anyone mention it on the comments so i will. It is believed that the Forgotten Temple is what the Sacred Grounds in Skyward Sword was and that Giant Goddess statue is the same one that fell from Skyloft to finish off Avocado Demise. Personally i feel the Goddess statue in SS was much bigger but until someone actually does pixel perfect measurements we can't really be 100% certain and then there is the Zelda team who tends to retcon small details like that.
bro any one who watched this start to finish is a legend
1:10:32 personally i think they're places they've frequented, or just been before.
If i remember correctly that specific one was on the way to kakariko village (might be wrong tho,) so she'd have been there before and probably took a picture then :P it did confuse me when the thought first occurred to me though lol
I think a good way to navigate the food being overpowered argument could be a system where only 5 ration slots are available during combat. Outside of combat you can eat however much you want but during battle you need to be selective of what you put into your ration slots. Sort of like Estus charges but not refillable unless you cook something obviously.
I appreciate the effort that went into this, even if I disagree with a large amount of it.