Rauru was the name of the Sage of Light in Ocarina of Time, who also guided Link as an owl. This is the first time that I believe that I have seen any depiction of the Zonai, and they look interesting and hope we see more of them.
Watching his playthrough of BotW was what made me decide to get a Switch. I got Tears of the Kingdom this afternoon and with a couple breaks for food and Jeopardy I played until 2 AM this morning.
I'm excited to watch these live until our paths start diverging too much, and then I'm excited to circle back to the archive afterward! I'm only a few hours into the game but it's a wild ride for sure
I would assume the reason that cooked/roasted food items are kept in a separate place from "materials", where the other food items are located, is because you cannot use roasted food as ingredients for cooking.
As an historian, I object to Zelda's hasty interpretation of ancient iconography, without any consideration for stylistic choices and potential symbolic/ideological staging.
Everybody knows that ancient civilizations just wrote the same words we do, but using different letters. Language has no relation to history, culture, or context whatsoever.
@@ColonelRPG Apologies if you received notification of a reply which has now been deleted. I’m so used to stumbling across ridiculous claims these days that I totally missed the sarcasm until I reflected on your comment further. Plus I was up very late playing this game… 🤨
@@icy1007 That's fine, but it is implied through dialogue that she doesn't know what a Zonai looks like, for instance. Upon gazing at a large eared statue she deduces that they must have looked different from Hylians. In this case she turns out to be right, but the reasoning is the same as if you looked at ancient Summerian art and concluded that they must have looked different because they drew themselves with oversized eyes in artistic depictions. Another case is when she inferes that the Zonai must have descended from the heavens because they either drew themselves that way or the hylians did. It could be true because this is a fantasy setting, but it could also have been political/religious messaging. Either a symbolic representation of their dominion over hylians, or an ideologically driven narrative.
Also its super amusing that both a Zelda game and a Myst-like game are coming out soon. It means I'm totally going to be having your channel open constantly. lol
Yeah actually the idea of an open-world game using a bit of metroidvania progression has been my most-desired gameplay premise for a long time. I felt BotW lacked a sense of growing complexity that satisfied me as an extrinsically motivated player, and getting important traversal abilities over time to open up the map would be a great way to make exploration feel more rewarding and interactive. Seems like an unlikely thing to expect of TotK, but I would love that.
goddamit! i went back to this video a few days after starting it and totally forgot he named the golem #notmygolem and was very confused for a while XD well played sir. well played!
~5:20 - I do like that you start with max hearts and the Master Sword as this is a direct sequel rather than Link being back down to three with no explanation which is what normally happens in Zelda sequels.
I completely agree with you about durability. People who don’t like it, just lack critical thinking skills. Can’t wait for part 2 man, and the whole series!!!
didnt know about firmament. thanks for the tip. wishlisted :) figured everyone saw the game play demo and knew what the new mechanics were. You managed to stay really spoiler free for this. looking forward to watching and playing along.
Sequels aren’t that uncommon in Zelda; you have: Zelda 1 -> Zelda 2 A Link to the Past -> Link’s Awakening -> the Oracle Duology Ocarina of Time -> Majora’s Mask Wind Waker -> Phantom Hourglass There’s also a couple of indirect sequels; the train one is explicitly a follow up to WW/PH as it’s set in a new Hyrule founded by the Link and Zelda from those, and Link Between World’s similarly is set a long time after aLttP and I believe part of the premise is that it is a sequel. Also, timeline debates aside, both WW and TP reference OoT as part of their back stories so if you don’t go down the split timeline route, then at the very least they’re separate continuities spawning off OoT as a basis and taking the premise of what could happen next in different directions. There’s also the Four Swords stuff and they follow Minish Cap somehow I think, although I’m least familiar with that part of the franchise so not sure exactly how they connect to one another off the top of my head. So short and the long, sequels are common for Zelda, it’s just how/if those groups of games relate to one another you can debate.
I haven't gotten far into the game so don't worry I'm not spoiling anything, i know as much as you, but i don't think link's hair got longer, i think it just looks that way cuz it's down
I super approve of your profile pic choices. I'm neither gay nor furry, but Kass is husbando, Stephanie as a hot redhead gerudo and Marty, the Great King of Evil, makes so much sense. Princess Zelda would technically be queen if her parents are dead, right? Also, Outer Wilds had the Nomai and the space druids, both of which seem to have been inspirations for the Zonai. The Purah Pad 😂 definitely the Switch. The Sheikah Slate was the Wii U GamePad but they altered it enough to not be as obvious.
Technically Zelda would be queen, just uncoronated. Although an argument could be made as the kingdom fell at about the same time or before her father died, she wouldn’t become queen as there wasn’t a kingdom to become queen of, similarly to how Princess Leia doesn’t get called/considered Queen Leia even though her adoptive royal parents died when her home world was destroyed.
34:30 - 35:10 Here's the first highlight suggestion (who thought the wildlife would be better guardians than constructs made to do that job?) 😂 44:03 I can't believe you didn't make a "Rauwu" joke here (maybe it was a low hanging fruit, I guess) 😛
Years from now, when I fondly look back on the TOTK release, I'll always remember that it started with the words "That was the longest, slowest, highest budget upskirt you've ever seen."
Well, yeah. He's the same link from BOTW. Different Links having different handedness is way less weird than the idea of him suddenly changing dominant hands between games lol
Not just Botw. Link in the 3D games has been right handed since Twilight Princess Wii version. Mostly because of motion controls but I guess they decided to keep it.
@@BLeePrit he's not _canonically_ right-handed in twilight princess though in fairness since in the wii version you just see the whole game mirrored meaning that the text is backwards and the compass directions are flipped and stuff which is definitely not how it's meant to be lol
Can we just mention how terrible Zelda's voice actor portrays this character? Her voice is absolutely grating. She is the titular character that speaks the most and she just sounds terrified all the time. And because the voice actor is already majorly changing her voice, she cannot provide any expression in her tone. The scene where she is excited about mural comes across very flat. I feel like I am listening to high school theatre production and the only thing the actor can do is raise or lower the volume of their voice. I really wish they had chosen a better voice or more capable voice actor.
Yeah, I've seen people confused about whether she was afraid or excited in that scene until the "This is a huge discovery!" line. Kind of a distracting problem to have. Makes me wonder if some later lines from her were intended in the same way I interpreted them, tone-wise. I'm not sure if the problem lies in voice acting or direction, but the voice actor doesn't seem to fit what the voice director seems to have wanted.
@@melephs_cap in fairness i really think that one was the intention, given the concerned expression and swelling tense music then cutting to the subversion of it turning out to be excitement
10 minutes of say-nothing squealing VA is not how to start a game Nintendo. Also, 50% of Link's muscle mass is now calves, and he sports a tat sleeve masquerading as a prosthetic. The latter I'd've preferred to be less kewl and more honest.
![And so it begins - Tears of the Kingdom [1]](/img/n.gif)
Completely avoiding any kind of preview videos, presentations or trailers was the right idea, this game is simply insane.
I agree completely and I almost did the exact same thing. I saw a little bit of it. But I knew so very little. Amazing game! True 10 out of 10.
"new Zelda furry species just dropped" cracked me up, for sure.
🐐 x 🐇 = 😍
@@yate0128 blud was a little too honest
@@yate0128 pretty sure they’re dragons lol
34:59 That's one of the funniest ragdolls I've ever seen lmao, knocked straight onto his face.
Rauru was the name of the Sage of Light in Ocarina of Time, who also guided Link as an owl. This is the first time that I believe that I have seen any depiction of the Zonai, and they look interesting and hope we see more of them.
42:31 is when “the new zelda furry species just dropped”
Yours was the first playthrough I ever saw of BOTW, I’m glad that is repeating itself today.
Watching his playthrough of BotW was what made me decide to get a Switch. I got Tears of the Kingdom this afternoon and with a couple breaks for food and Jeopardy I played until 2 AM this morning.
I'm excited to watch these live until our paths start diverging too much, and then I'm excited to circle back to the archive afterward! I'm only a few hours into the game but it's a wild ride for sure
“The Purah Pad is a sanitary device...” got me. Somehow that never occurred to me while playing. 😁
I'm about 175 hours into totk so now I can start watching you play, I bet you will find something I haven't done by episode 3-4
the steward constructs are amazing and adorable and i love them
Oh this is cool. I'm looking forward to seeing more of this game. Thanks for playing and recording and uploading this!
I would assume the reason that cooked/roasted food items are kept in a separate place from "materials", where the other food items are located, is because you cannot use roasted food as ingredients for cooking.
Hooray, a new series for me to scream "no don't go that way!" at Keith for hours on end!
As an historian, I object to Zelda's hasty interpretation of ancient iconography, without any consideration for stylistic choices and potential symbolic/ideological staging.
Everybody knows that ancient civilizations just wrote the same words we do, but using different letters.
Language has no relation to history, culture, or context whatsoever.
@@ColonelRPG Apologies if you received notification of a reply which has now been deleted. I’m so used to stumbling across ridiculous claims these days that I totally missed the sarcasm until I reflected on your comment further. Plus I was up very late playing this game… 🤨
@@mandelbot5318 The internet makes it very difficult to tell satire from honesty :P
No need to apologize, carry on!
@@icy1007 That's fine, but it is implied through dialogue that she doesn't know what a Zonai looks like, for instance. Upon gazing at a large eared statue she deduces that they must have looked different from Hylians. In this case she turns out to be right, but the reasoning is the same as if you looked at ancient Summerian art and concluded that they must have looked different because they drew themselves with oversized eyes in artistic depictions.
Another case is when she inferes that the Zonai must have descended from the heavens because they either drew themselves that way or the hylians did. It could be true because this is a fantasy setting, but it could also have been political/religious messaging. Either a symbolic representation of their dominion over hylians, or an ideologically driven narrative.
Also its super amusing that both a Zelda game and a Myst-like game are coming out soon. It means I'm totally going to be having your channel open constantly. lol
I’m curious, what Myst-like is coming out soon?
Edit: whoops, just heard him say it
I'm so happy Keith's channel is going to be loaded with top tier content for months. I wonder if he will also play Starfield in the fall?
So excited to watch you veer off course again
Walked past the wooden crate three times and never occurred to break it open with the axe
So excited to watch you play this!
I got a few hours played this morning, super glad I can watch immediately
Found you after looking for a letsplayer whose voice I liked for this playthrough lol! Loved this video and will keep watching this series 😊
Yeah actually the idea of an open-world game using a bit of metroidvania progression has been my most-desired gameplay premise for a long time. I felt BotW lacked a sense of growing complexity that satisfied me as an extrinsically motivated player, and getting important traversal abilities over time to open up the map would be a great way to make exploration feel more rewarding and interactive. Seems like an unlikely thing to expect of TotK, but I would love that.
Links hair is the same as normally is...
The only thing that's different is that is hair is not tied...😅
Ok so hear me out: Zonai=Nomai.
Ancient civilization of goat people who built undecipherable technology that we have to explore and understand?
I did the same thing with the trailers and I've been blown away experiencing this game blind
"botw was lacking solutions to the environment" oh man you're gonna love this game
goddamit! i went back to this video a few days after starting it and totally forgot he named the golem #notmygolem and was very confused for a while XD well played sir. well played!
~5:20 - I do like that you start with max hearts and the Master Sword as this is a direct sequel rather than Link being back down to three with no explanation which is what normally happens in Zelda sequels.
I completely agree with you about durability. People who don’t like it, just lack critical thinking skills.
Can’t wait for part 2 man, and the whole series!!!
Lol, just started and you manage to go off course in the linear tutorial islands. Somehow. This is gonna be a fun playthrough.
The art style reminds me of AER Memories of Old.
Im going absolutely feral over links new design, ok carry on
The Zonai are like a cool mix of Goat and Rabbit.
Very handsome design 👌
didnt know about firmament. thanks for the tip. wishlisted :) figured everyone saw the game play demo and knew what the new mechanics were. You managed to stay really spoiler free for this. looking forward to watching and playing along.
Finally beat the game so I can watch this! So excited!
So excited for this!
Where's my motorbike? I want my motorbike back!
Sequels aren’t that uncommon in Zelda; you have:
Zelda 1 -> Zelda 2
A Link to the Past -> Link’s Awakening -> the Oracle Duology
Ocarina of Time -> Majora’s Mask
Wind Waker -> Phantom Hourglass
There’s also a couple of indirect sequels; the train one is explicitly a follow up to WW/PH as it’s set in a new Hyrule founded by the Link and Zelda from those, and Link Between World’s similarly is set a long time after aLttP and I believe part of the premise is that it is a sequel. Also, timeline debates aside, both WW and TP reference OoT as part of their back stories so if you don’t go down the split timeline route, then at the very least they’re separate continuities spawning off OoT as a basis and taking the premise of what could happen next in different directions. There’s also the Four Swords stuff and they follow Minish Cap somehow I think, although I’m least familiar with that part of the franchise so not sure exactly how they connect to one another off the top of my head.
So short and the long, sequels are common for Zelda, it’s just how/if those groups of games relate to one another you can debate.
I've been waiting for this for a long while.
I still get replies to comments for Keith's LP of _Breath of the Wild_ I made six years ago, lol.
We're ancient. Dust. Ruins on the Hylian landscape.
this will be fun. I'll try watching along to avoid spoilers!
500 part series let's gooooo
Haven't been to the channel since Hollow Knight and Twilight Princess, good to see the Furry metamorphosis went well. Still starting mine.
I have just finished the finale of BOTW. Let's goooo! :D
No spoilers from me but tulin is the cutest boi and I just want to give him a hug.
Since I’m finishing up my play through I figure I’ll start on Keith’s amazing journey
Cool Video.
I haven't gotten far into the game so don't worry I'm not spoiling anything, i know as much as you, but i don't think link's hair got longer, i think it just looks that way cuz it's down
I super approve of your profile pic choices. I'm neither gay nor furry, but Kass is husbando, Stephanie as a hot redhead gerudo and Marty, the Great King of Evil, makes so much sense.
Princess Zelda would technically be queen if her parents are dead, right?
Also, Outer Wilds had the Nomai and the space druids, both of which seem to have been inspirations for the Zonai.
The Purah Pad 😂 definitely the Switch. The Sheikah Slate was the Wii U GamePad but they altered it enough to not be as obvious.
Technically Zelda would be queen, just uncoronated. Although an argument could be made as the kingdom fell at about the same time or before her father died, she wouldn’t become queen as there wasn’t a kingdom to become queen of, similarly to how Princess Leia doesn’t get called/considered Queen Leia even though her adoptive royal parents died when her home world was destroyed.
good series
He said Rauru? So this is the Gannondorf that was defeated by the hero of time...!?
Do you want the spoilery answer or the non-spoilery answer?
@fdsfgs7125 probably beat to keep comments spoiler free, for Keith's sake!
@@LadyGameshine Then here's the non-spoiler answer: Play the game yourself and find out :)
Yessss it’s here!!!
Im 100 hours in and planned to watch your videos once i beat the game but couldnt help myself
Inverted Y axis is best Y axis
advanced stick
34:30 - 35:10 Here's the first highlight suggestion (who thought the wildlife would be better guardians than constructs made to do that job?) 😂
44:03 I can't believe you didn't make a "Rauwu" joke here (maybe it was a low hanging fruit, I guess) 😛
Years from now, when I fondly look back on the TOTK release, I'll always remember that it started with the words "That was the longest, slowest, highest budget upskirt you've ever seen."
Yesss Let's go!!!
I know it's really basic of me to quibble about this, but Link is famously left handed. They had to keep that change from BOTW?
Well, yeah. He's the same link from BOTW. Different Links having different handedness is way less weird than the idea of him suddenly changing dominant hands between games lol
@@KeithBallardA i know, i know... Direct sequel etc etc.
Not just Botw. Link in the 3D games has been right handed since Twilight Princess Wii version. Mostly because of motion controls but I guess they decided to keep it.
@@BLeePrit he's not _canonically_ right-handed in twilight princess though in fairness since in the wii version you just see the whole game mirrored meaning that the text is backwards and the compass directions are flipped and stuff which is definitely not how it's meant to be lol
I can confirm. There is Rauru porn already. Some bad, some hot.
Why are there a bunch of CVS Pharmacy logos on the top left of the screen???
Drop the next videoooooo
Sunday at 11am pacific
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Can't wait to see bara tiddy Ganondorf!
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Can we just mention how terrible Zelda's voice actor portrays this character? Her voice is absolutely grating. She is the titular character that speaks the most and she just sounds terrified all the time. And because the voice actor is already majorly changing her voice, she cannot provide any expression in her tone. The scene where she is excited about mural comes across very flat. I feel like I am listening to high school theatre production and the only thing the actor can do is raise or lower the volume of their voice. I really wish they had chosen a better voice or more capable voice actor.
Yeah, I've seen people confused about whether she was afraid or excited in that scene until the "This is a huge discovery!" line. Kind of a distracting problem to have. Makes me wonder if some later lines from her were intended in the same way I interpreted them, tone-wise. I'm not sure if the problem lies in voice acting or direction, but the voice actor doesn't seem to fit what the voice director seems to have wanted.
@@melephs_cap in fairness i really think that one was the intention, given the concerned expression and swelling tense music then cutting to the subversion of it turning out to be excitement
Surprised not a furry mod yet X3c
Nice Pink Haired Link btw 😚
I think Nintendo has been issuing takedowns of the mods. There's a very cute hyena mod for BOTW.
10 minutes of say-nothing squealing VA is not how to start a game Nintendo.
Also, 50% of Link's muscle mass is now calves, and he sports a tat sleeve masquerading as a prosthetic. The latter I'd've preferred to be less kewl and more honest.