What's Going on with the Great Plateau? HYRULE COMPARISONS

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  • čas přidán 15. 05. 2024
  • In Breath of the Wild, we start off from the Great Plateau, but in Tears of the Kingdom, you don't ever have to even visit the plat if you don't want to (or if you never discover it while completing main quests).
    In this video, I go over all the most significant changes and similarities on this elevated area between BotW and TotK to see What's going on with the Great Plateau since BotW?
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    Intro: 0:00
    Shrine of Resurrection: 0:20
    Towers: 2:19
    BotW Shrines: 3:40
    TotK Shrines: 6:02
    Temple of Time: 7:57
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Komentáře • 626

  • @TheTonyExpress
    @TheTonyExpress  Před 8 měsíci +153

    Did I leave out anything cool?

    • @nashsok
      @nashsok Před 8 měsíci +62

      RE: The rusty broadsword in the stone in the pond next to the Temple of Time from BOTW - The sword is actually still nearby, having fallen into the water (perhaps when the Korok hid under the rock!). If you activate ultrahand you'll see it sitting there under the surface.

    • @neroknight7154
      @neroknight7154 Před 8 měsíci +56

      The weird korok puzzle means you need to ascend trough the wood platform

    • @Smnsnsnsn
      @Smnsnsnsn Před 8 měsíci +7

      Not the great plateau but where did the great sky islands come from like what parts of the map from btw was flown up there

    • @thatoneguy52884
      @thatoneguy52884 Před 8 měsíci +12

      In botw, when in the temple of time, you can hear the temple of time motif from ocarina of time. But in totk, it's been replaced with the ruins ambience like with any other ruined area in botw or totk

    • @derpydoggo7048
      @derpydoggo7048 Před 8 měsíci +24

      [[SPOILERS]]
      If you go to the little cave where the Old Man was in BotW, you will see a Yiga disguised as Zelda.

  • @GIRGHGH
    @GIRGHGH Před 8 měsíci +1292

    If the king can give you a paraglider, chop trees, and bake apples, I'm 99% sure he can hold a pen.

    • @IZRyna98
      @IZRyna98 Před 8 měsíci +53

      He didn't write that dairy with a bloody finger.

    • @Irisverse
      @Irisverse Před 7 měsíci +58

      I'm pretty sure we also see him hunting in the forest.

    • @justinsteward1243
      @justinsteward1243 Před 6 měsíci +8

      He can hold stuff

    • @PhoenixDening-cz5wd
      @PhoenixDening-cz5wd Před 5 měsíci +17

      Bro wasn't dead yet he must've actually died while link was inside the fourth shrine he must've lied about dying during the calamity to not make link think he could've been saved if he was faster

    • @simonwillover4175
      @simonwillover4175 Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@PhoenixDening-cz5wd I agree.

  • @Demonskunk
    @Demonskunk Před 8 měsíci +1629

    The royal claymore at King Rhoam’s grave is likely a reference to Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. His default weapon in that game is the Royal Claymore.

    • @TsarBomba69420
      @TsarBomba69420 Před 8 měsíci +49

      Or it is a "royal" claymore...

    • @honey-po9ij
      @honey-po9ij Před 8 měsíci +123

      @@TsarBomba69420 that's probably why the royal claymore was his weapon of choice to begin with lol

    • @ale3273
      @ale3273 Před 8 měsíci +26

      mind you. botw came out three years before hyrule warriors

    • @hq3727
      @hq3727 Před 8 měsíci +140

      @@ale3273 the royal claymore at the king's grave can only be found in Tears of the Kingdom and not BOTW. :)

    • @user-nt6gw5gd8c
      @user-nt6gw5gd8c Před 8 měsíci +26

      @@ale32731. no it didn't hyrule warriors came out 3 years before breath of the wild. wait a second. 2014 2017 2020 2023. hold the fuck up. is there going to be a new hyrule warriors game for tears of the kingdom in 3 years

  • @wace9174
    @wace9174 Před 8 měsíci +809

    If you complete a side adventure called potential princess sightings. A yiga disguised as zelda is where you first meet Rhoam after exiting the shrine of resurrection. The yiga would mock link acting like Zelda has lost her memory similar to how link lost his.

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  Před 8 měsíci +152

      That's a cool feature. Dang, thought i wouldnt miss anything by filming this series on a relatively untouched file lol

    • @Channeldyhb
      @Channeldyhb Před 8 měsíci +3

      Bruh

    • @mrsxdoodles
      @mrsxdoodles Před 8 měsíci +60

      the first time i saw that i was like oh the yiga are going to mega hell for that

    • @I_AM_HYDRAA
      @I_AM_HYDRAA Před 7 měsíci +2

      wait once you complete or while doing it?

    • @mrsnowmelt
      @mrsnowmelt Před 7 měsíci +4

      @@I_AM_HYDRAA Its after you complete it

  • @lukas.exe4042
    @lukas.exe4042 Před 8 měsíci +678

    The Korok puzzle at 10:48 is one where you have to ascend up through it

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  Před 8 měsíci +211

      Ahhh THAT makes sense! Thanks :)

    • @JosephBlowshish
      @JosephBlowshish Před 8 měsíci +45

      this one had me stumped for a bit longer than I'd like ti admit, though I did figure it out myself.

    • @joltganda
      @joltganda Před 8 měsíci +70

      @@JosephBlowshish
      Ha.
      Stump.

    • @TheOriginalJAH.
      @TheOriginalJAH. Před 8 měsíci +8

      @@joltganda thanks I laughed

    • @middleagebrotips3454
      @middleagebrotips3454 Před 8 měsíci +27

      I thought he just left out the spoiler lol

  • @VonSnuggles1412
    @VonSnuggles1412 Před 5 měsíci +185

    For whatever reason I was so obsessed with the front gate filled with water in BOTW, and thought about how cool it would be to drain it and walk through the gate at the bottom of the plateau. I was so happy to go back in TOTK and see that I could blow open the entrance way. It did not disappoint.

    • @Mari_Izu
      @Mari_Izu Před 3 měsíci +3

      In Age of Calamity you can see the stairs before it was flooded and full of dirt.

    • @javiervasquez625
      @javiervasquez625 Před 3 měsíci +3

      @@Mari_Izu Funfact: Fujibayashi and co. had created an entire _pre-Calamity_ version of Hyrule during development of Breath of the Wild which they THEN turned into the post-Calamity version we see in the game. Age of Calamity did NOT revealed any new locations which Aonuma had *already* created for Breath of the Wild.

    • @Mari_Izu
      @Mari_Izu Před 3 měsíci

      @@javiervasquez625 Funnier fact: If they never showed, it wasn't "revealed" until Age of Calamity. Go fucking away with your weird hate-boner with the game.
      And I also doubt they created the *entire* pre-calamity Hyrule because tons of the generic debrits don't match what AoC shows.

    • @kresil.
      @kresil. Před měsícem +1

      ​@@javiervasquez625 that would've been so fun to see in botw

  • @josephrich402
    @josephrich402 Před 6 měsíci +66

    Seeing that the Yiga took over the place where Link starts BotW in TotK was like seeing that the Ballas took over Grove Street in GTA5

    • @jkatttt1699
      @jkatttt1699 Před 4 měsíci

      LMAO LITERALLY

    • @Firestar4041
      @Firestar4041 Před měsícem +1

      It makes me wonder how far off were they from finding a still comatose Link
      ... theres a spin off for ya

  • @rustyshackleford234
    @rustyshackleford234 Před 8 měsíci +424

    I always got a weird feeling revisiting the great plateau in TotK, mostly of nostalgia, but something else feels off about it…

    • @Zombiegg101
      @Zombiegg101 Před 8 měsíci +241

      Definitely all the missing stuff, I'm not really a fan of the decision to remove all the Shiekah technology without even an explanation, it feels less like revisiting a nostalgic area from the first game and more like visiting an alternate reality version of it where nothing you did actually happened

    • @LinkFan199
      @LinkFan199 Před 8 měsíci +149

      @@Zombiegg101 in lookout landing (if I’m not mistaken) if you go in the little building and look at Purah’s diary it states that they chose to dismantle all Shiekah technology in fear of something like the calamity happening again and taking over the technology once more
      It’s either there or somewhere in Kakariko village but yeah, that’s the reason

    • @jinx1987
      @jinx1987 Před 8 měsíci +62

      @@LinkFan199but there’s absolutely no way they had the manpower to dismantle all the shrines, guardians, and divine beasts.

    • @LinkFan199
      @LinkFan199 Před 8 měsíci +13

      @@jinx1987 if they built them in the first place, why can’t they take them apart?

    • @jinx1987
      @jinx1987 Před 8 měsíci +65

      @@LinkFan199 they didn’t, it was their ancestors thousands of years ago, back when there were a lot of them

  • @Seshpai
    @Seshpai Před 7 měsíci +69

    One thing I personally immediately noticed when entering the Temple of Time in TotK is that its unique music track from BotW was no longer there and had been replaced by the generic BotW ruins theme. I thought that was very odd.

    • @UncleNuggets
      @UncleNuggets Před 3 měsíci +10

      Woah, I never noticed that. That is really weird that they took it out.

    • @ShadowWizard224
      @ShadowWizard224 Před 14 dny +1

      I noticed that as well and I thought it was strange

    • @RTU130
      @RTU130 Před 11 dny +1

      Yea

  • @hq3727
    @hq3727 Před 8 měsíci +210

    Also, at 12:30 boulder blocking the water, you can see the TOTK maps changing after you drained the water.
    Originally, the map had water, making it into a pond/lake, but once you drained it, the map was updated to show walkable land. :)

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  Před 8 měsíci +35

      Thats good stuff for the totk useless videos ;)

    • @hq3727
      @hq3727 Před 8 měsíci +8

      @@TheTonyExpress Thanks for the reply!! I loved the series in BOTW and glad you brought it back for TOTK. :D
      Can't wait for more! :D

    • @Channeldyhb
      @Channeldyhb Před 8 měsíci

      Hey that's bulshit, it should only update if you use the tower again angry emoji

  • @rangedweevil6150
    @rangedweevil6150 Před 7 měsíci +66

    I think the lack of monster presence is due to the Yiga clan. There's a diary in one of the depths bases that mentions that the monsters should be avoided due to their hostile nature, so I'm assuming that in their takeover of the Great Plateau (perhaps to look for clues in regard to the mine in the deoths right below it, or perhaps to prevent Link/ anyone fighting for Hyrule from being able to use the shrine of resurrection again) they basically just did a sweep of the entire plateau and eradicated all the monsters they could find. Kinda ironic how both the yiga clan and monster forces serve the same master and strive for similar goals of defeating the hero/ reviving the demon king but are still at odds with each other

    • @MinatheRaichu
      @MinatheRaichu Před 2 měsíci +5

      They serve the same master, but it feels like Ganon was not made aware of this. And if he is, it'd be more like Team Rocket to Giovanni type of beat lmao

    • @Firestar4041
      @Firestar4041 Před měsícem +2

      it seems like Gannon abandoned the Gerudo warriors that followed him, for his new demon army
      So i feel like he'd bout do the same for the Yiga clan;
      Gannon: "Who are these fools? . . . my fanclub??? Oh whatever, kill Link, and them after."

  • @reploidboy2005
    @reploidboy2005 Před 8 měsíci +88

    The rusty sword on the Great Plateau is still there, is in the water, for me, it is a great detail

  • @dude9410
    @dude9410 Před 8 měsíci +147

    another notable difference is that there's now a Gloom Spawn boss on the Plateau in Tears. Its just a little off from the Battle Talus and the Zonai Shrine putting it somewhere in the middle, which was definitely a jumpscare for me when I triggered it the first time.

    • @Mooncrux
      @Mooncrux Před 7 měsíci +9

      It's just by the hopper pond

    • @imirhwklw
      @imirhwklw Před 7 měsíci +17

      it was the first time i ever saw gloom hands and it scared the shit out of me

    • @Cojosho97
      @Cojosho97 Před 6 měsíci +2

      My first spawn was climbing Mount Lanayru and I was quite upset when I got thrown off the cliff by the nearby ice lizalfos lol

    • @HerrscherofMeep
      @HerrscherofMeep Před 6 měsíci +7

      Deadass almost cried, I was alone at home and suddenly heard that music

    • @majora5651
      @majora5651 Před 6 měsíci +6

      Same man, my first encounter was the Taki-Ihaban shrine (the one in a cave) and I honest to god avoided all caves like the plague for at least 20 playing hours after that lmao@@HerrscherofMeep

  • @AbeM.
    @AbeM. Před 8 měsíci +102

    Interestingly, the shrines of light in the distant past (as seen in one of the tears) seem to be in the exact same spots as the Sheikah shrines from BotW

    • @Gamer1288
      @Gamer1288 Před 7 měsíci +9

      That was what made me think that we were getting DLC Shrines to max out everything but apparently not.

  • @_Just_Another_Guy
    @_Just_Another_Guy Před 8 měsíci +133

    You know how those Ancient Shiekah Monks just disintegrate after Link completes their shrine in BotW?
    I have a theory that after Link completed all the Sheikah Shrines AND defeated Calamity/Dark Beast Ganon, then almost all the Sheikah tech, Divine Beasts, and shrines also disintegrated because their sole purpose was to help kill Calamity Ganon.
    I don't think the Ancient Sheikah (monks), who were the same ones that made the tapestry in BotW, actually knew of the real Ganondorf that's been sealed far beneath Hyrule Castle. They must've thought that only Calamity Ganon was the only big threat.
    So they made their entire plans and strategy around getting rid of Calamity Ganon and NOT Ganondorf. And in their plans, they probably included plans to disintegrate all their Sheikah technology once Calamity Ganon was gone as future proofing (or maybe as a failsafe).
    This theory would also explain why the Sheikah Slate from BotW is also gone (because it's an Ancient Sheikah tech) and why Purah Pad (a modern invention) replaces it in TotK.

    • @Gamer1288
      @Gamer1288 Před 7 měsíci +40

      The flaw with that Theory is that the Towers and Shrines were built with the Knowledge that the Calamity WILL eventually return so they wouldn't make the stuff destroy themselves after a Single Calamity. The Deku Tree was also said to have witnessed multiple returns of Calamity Ganon so if the Sheikah asked him then they would have also realized that fact.

    • @subprogram32
      @subprogram32 Před 7 měsíci +29

      I personally headcanon that the self-destruct was not caused as part of sheikah design, but rather was the last spiteful command of Calamity Ganon before he was sealed. He originally wanted to keep them around to take over once he was free of Zelda's seal, but once he realised he was doomed, he used his last burst of control to melt all the tech he could in a final act of civilizational destruction.

    • @Tom.Tomlet.T.Tomington
      @Tom.Tomlet.T.Tomington Před 7 měsíci +15

      Not to be the nerd but there’s a diary in the game somewhere stating that they scrapped all Sheikah tech in fear of something (like the calamity returning and taking control of the tech once again) and probably is why theirs new sheikah tech.

    • @jameslegault9398
      @jameslegault9398 Před 6 měsíci +7

      There’s a flaw here in that in purahs old lab there are still parts from broken guardians

    • @Korilian13
      @Korilian13 Před 5 měsíci +3

      ​@@Tom.Tomlet.T.Tomingtonthat makes sense, though I have to wonder how they managed, since the science seems pretty far beyond them. I suppose Purah and Robbie must have found a way to deactivate/destroy them all at once.

  • @1darksoul786
    @1darksoul786 Před 7 měsíci +27

    It's incredible how the Sheikah built the shrine of resurrection right below where Ganondorf murdered Sonia and transformed into the Demon King, it gives a lot of symbolism to the fight they had against the Great Calamity.

  • @sarojandongol1482
    @sarojandongol1482 Před 8 měsíci +33

    "You can't hold a pencil or a writing stick of any kind for the last 100 years."
    But like, man was cooking apples, hunting boars, giving away a warm doublet and the paraglider.

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  Před 8 měsíci +11

      My logic is more seriously flawed than I thought...

  • @xthriteenx
    @xthriteenx Před 8 měsíci +54

    Yes! That thing on the ceiling is a korok puzzle! You ascend through it :)

  • @retroprotogen
    @retroprotogen Před 8 měsíci +60

    this is actually really cool to see botw and totk side by side, brings back memories

  • @ckenshin3841
    @ckenshin3841 Před 7 měsíci +11

    In general, BoTW and ToTK seem to focus on different set pieces of the world. Locations that had more importance in BoTW are different from the locations that ToTK emphasize.

    • @jkatttt1699
      @jkatttt1699 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Yep, considering they made 2 new levels of play, makes sense they gave emphasis elsewhere.

  • @benberkowitzmusic
    @benberkowitzmusic Před 8 měsíci +8

    The jumpscare trying to go into the Forest of Spirits from the Riogok shrine... the gloom hands waiting

  • @Parsosti
    @Parsosti Před 4 měsíci +9

    That korok that you weren't "smart enough to figure out" requires you to use ascend through it.

  • @Stegallproductions
    @Stegallproductions Před 8 měsíci +20

    I was a weirdo and didn’t want to talk to Purah when I started TotK so I ended up travelling pretty far without any glider. I thought since I didn’t have one I had to find it. I went to the great plateau and got the nostalgic fabric before I even got a paraglider. Thought I lucked out early on and found the stuff to make it. Of course I came back to Purah and she gave me the glider immediately so I was like, “oh I guess I just get the glider from her lol”😂 Just a funny story of my play time. Let me know if y’all skipped getting the glider by accident too.

    • @elnkianni3466
      @elnkianni3466 Před 7 měsíci +5

      yeah did the same haha.I wanted to visit Gerudo as soon as possible because it was my favorite place in botw. Didn't know where to find the paraglider and didn't care. I actually made it to gerudo town eventually through the underground cave system.
      I was disappointed by how dead the place was and finally returned and talked to Purah 😂

    • @imirhwklw
      @imirhwklw Před 7 měsíci +2

      yeah i got distracted for ages and got kinda lost but then I finally went to talk to purah and realised that's where you get the glider

    • @dicksonZero
      @dicksonZero Před 7 měsíci +2

      i knew purah was the main quest line and thought i should get the paraglider before the main quest starts, so i went to the great plateau first to see if the old place gave me any hints. i almost thought i had to gather 3 nostalgic fabric to make the paraglider, and then i saw purah (and i was like "bruh,")

  • @ltrigga219
    @ltrigga219 Před 8 měsíci +14

    Ah, the Riogok Shrine. Exiting that shrine was the first time I encounter the scariest thing(s) in the game and almost pooped myself. Good times.

  • @brianpstern
    @brianpstern Před 8 měsíci +26

    According to the Object Map there's a Gloom Spawn between Riogok Shrine and Hopper Pond

    • @diegomedina9637
      @diegomedina9637 Před 8 měsíci +13

      According to the object map... You know how I Know there's a gloom spawn over there? Because I've encountered them myself.

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  Před 8 měsíci +5

      Im sad i missed that. Need to use the object map more often, i use the interactive map which i think also shows gloom spawns, but still somehow overlooked that one

  • @OutcastAngelV
    @OutcastAngelV Před 8 měsíci +12

    You have to ascend up through those Korok puzzles for them to reward you.

    • @diegomedina9637
      @diegomedina9637 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Yeah... that's so obvious I'm shocked people didn't get that.

  • @jacksonfunke8230
    @jacksonfunke8230 Před 8 měsíci +27

    Totk great platue for me was so fun because I got the paraglider for the first sky view tower and was like "huh, what's over there?" and I went to explore and got the bargainer statue quest and my first experiences with black bokoblins. Somehow I never saw any yiga though.

  • @Cyclingismywholelife
    @Cyclingismywholelife Před 8 měsíci +11

    11:35 “finders keepers” this is how I feel about any item in the game.

  • @TheIvoryDingo
    @TheIvoryDingo Před 8 měsíci +33

    Note that if you decide to walk away from the non-cave Shrine and further into the big field of grass, that there is a set of Gloom Stalkers/Hands roaming the area.
    And the ledges above said Shrine have both a Thunder Wizzrobe and a Lightning Likelike.

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  Před 8 měsíci +6

      I knew about the likelike and wizrobe but not about the gloom hands. I would have def mentioned the glooms hands if i knew that!

    • @AJWEXIST47
      @AJWEXIST47 Před 8 měsíci +4

      Those gloom hands were my first instance with that enemy. I was going to check out where I started the first game and instead I got gripped by the final evolution of the Floormaster

    • @BowlOSoup6661
      @BowlOSoup6661 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Does nobody call them by their actual name? It's Gloom Spawn, not Gloom Hands, not Gloom Stalkers, Gloom Spawn.

    • @TheIvoryDingo
      @TheIvoryDingo Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@BowlOSoup6661 I tried to use the correct term (because I knew it wasn't hands but forgot what it actually was), but it is surprisingly annoying to look up what said accurate name is.

    • @AJWEXIST47
      @AJWEXIST47 Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@BowlOSoup6661 gloom spawn? More like gloom ON everyone playing this damn game that was excited for DLC

  • @YourPlaywright
    @YourPlaywright Před 8 měsíci +14

    I don’t quite remember if you already covered this in a BotW useless fun facts video, but the pattern on the nostalgia fabric is likely a reference to Revali as that pattern appears on Revali’s landing pretty much exclusively, there’s a great tumblr post on it haha. I thought it was cute and maybe worth mentioning!

    • @Raving_Piranha_Plant
      @Raving_Piranha_Plant Před 8 měsíci +9

      I believe the symbol is the emblem for the rito in general, as revali's landing was built before he died, and was named so as a memorial

  • @andyfloss.
    @andyfloss. Před 4 měsíci +4

    It's so strange visiting a former tutorial area and seeing its changes, I got nostalgia just wondering around.

  • @craigmcfly
    @craigmcfly Před 7 měsíci +5

    12:40 for me this was one of the most satisfying moments of the game. After not being able to clear a path in BotW, it was a great feeling to be able to open it now.

  • @charlottestormie2739
    @charlottestormie2739 Před 7 měsíci +4

    Imagine how wrinkly fingers Link must have had in the beginning of BotW, waking up in a hot spring after 100 years.

  • @annaczgli2983
    @annaczgli2983 Před 8 měsíci +14

    Nice video! I'm a newbie whose 1st intro to Zelda is TotK. I would be confused when people spoke of various locations from BotW, that I had no idea. This was helpful & interesting.

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  Před 8 měsíci +1

      Happy it helps, thanks!

    • @BowlOSoup6661
      @BowlOSoup6661 Před 8 měsíci +3

      If you haven't played any other Zelda game, then I definitely recommend Twilight Princess and Wind Waker, (If you have a Wii U or are up to emulating it) but, if you don't think you can do that, then get Skyward Sword, it's much more linear than BotW or TotK, but it's some of the most fun I've ever had with a game in my life, to the point where I can 100% the game without a guide in one day

  • @clanpsi
    @clanpsi Před 8 měsíci +4

    The games are only separated by a couple of in-game years. How much weathering on stone do you expect? O_o

  • @BowlOSoup6661
    @BowlOSoup6661 Před 8 měsíci +14

    I know you're probably not gonna see this, but just by watching the first few seconds, I already knew that this was a video worth watching on TV with a bowl of Goldfish

  • @fabriciodelesderrier2646
    @fabriciodelesderrier2646 Před 8 měsíci +5

    Something I've never saw anyone comment about is the fact that the sky rocks (the ones you can't move with recall) are "merged" to where they felt, also some of them don't look like they have fallen off from sky at all.

  • @beanedtea
    @beanedtea Před 4 měsíci +2

    One of my favorite experiences in TotK was just going back to all the landmarks from BotW and seeing how much has changed. The Old Man's hut was by far my favorite discovery since it sent me on a goose chase all across Hyrule, which ended in me going all around the depths to fight Master Khoga again.

  • @PilaCiu
    @PilaCiu Před 8 měsíci +9

    11:31 Royal Claymore was his weapon of choice in Age of Calamity.

    • @javiervasquez625
      @javiervasquez625 Před 8 měsíci

      The claymore placed on Rhoam's grave is actually a reference to the book _Creating a Champion_ where it states it is "the favoured weapon of use by the Royal Family of Hyrule". Also Tears of the Kingdom has _confirmed_ that Age of Calamity is *non canon* to the timeline confirming that the claymore placed on Rhoam's grave is NOT a reference to that game.

    • @GemmaBee14
      @GemmaBee14 Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@javiervasquez625that doesn’t mean it can’t be referenced?

  • @Ury3L
    @Ury3L Před 8 měsíci +9

    14:12 if check the water the rusty sword is still there...
    You can pick it with and fuse it the stone which feels a little weird, its ironic at least 😅

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  Před 8 měsíci +5

      Since i missed that, ima have to find a way to script this bit into a totk useless info vid

  • @thephalange8630
    @thephalange8630 Před 8 měsíci +20

    It's interesting really how you feel so strongly about in certain places not being any change, whereas I personally find it hard to believe there has been this much drastic change in just 5 or 6 years in game. It absolutely made me feel like Aonuma and the team just wanted everyone to forget BotW ever happened. Most people are very fond of TotK, me personally, I enjoyed BotW more. It's hard to explain, I enjoyed it more because it was new and exciting to explore, no rewards really needed, for the exploration was the reward. In TotK everything is the same, except Sheikah stuff is gone completely, how would they have been able to do so? Not a single ancient screw somewhere in Hyrule left? Impossible. It made it truely feel like BotW never happened.

    • @javiervasquez625
      @javiervasquez625 Před 8 měsíci +4

      Actually there's a _10 year gap_ seperating the events of Breath of the Wild with Tears of the Kingdom as confirmed by Mattison's age so with that said it is far too plausible for Zelda and co to organize a "house cleaning" of Hyrule so that all objects and constructs related to the Great Calamity would be disposed off to literally forget about the tragic incident which caused so much pain and misery to the denizens of the kingdom. It isn't a plothole or dismissive decision by Nintendo but simply a clever design choice by embracing the _passage of time_ and it's effect on the world as it keeps on changing.

    • @thephalange8630
      @thephalange8630 Před 8 měsíci +3

      @@javiervasquez625 10 years? Wow, Link and Zelda do NOT age at all xD And didn't want to write a whole lot up there, would have loved to add that cleaning up Hyrule, especially Sheikah tech out of fear of something like the Calamity 100 years prior happening again, but with the amount of guardians all over Hyrule even in 50 years, a few things here and there would have been more realistic. Also someone mentioning that Sheikah tech is gone for that reason would have been good. And there's still so much rubber left all over Hyrule from 110 years ago by that point, why not clean that up? Why build entirely new towers in the same regions when you already had a building that could have been possibly modified is another thing. Not to mention that all our unique sets of armor have suddenly been scattered all over Hyrule and the depths, many of which were in hideouts by Misko, a long gone thief in BotW let alone TotK. And there's many more points, which I don't want to bore anyone with, that just make me feel like BotW never happened. They really should have let us travel back in time, we could have still built stuff with the new abilities and they'd have their grand hurra about fantastic gameplay physics. But instead it felt like a reboot to BotW, without that BotW excitement of exploring a whole new Hyrule. I think that's the best way I can put it.

    • @jkatttt1699
      @jkatttt1699 Před 4 měsíci

      I got the impression that they wanted totk to be friendly to people who HADNT played botw. From an out of game dev perspective, it makes sense. A lot of games do this palette cleanse, though i agree it made totk feel barren for us die hards. Especially cuz I did a huge replay through of botw right before totk.... it was like oh. Maybe I shouldn't have done that. I don't think we'll ever recapture that magic of opening the world and launching off sheika towers the way we got in BOTW. That magic is unique to that game. Totk felt like an amazing expansion on where botw felt empty, but I don't think it was ever going to give us that same WOW factor because we'd already been there. Even with the depths and the sky islands. They felt like add on in a place we'd already been..

  • @sarojandongol1482
    @sarojandongol1482 Před 8 měsíci +8

    Now this gets me really pumped for ALL the major area comparisons.
    Then a follow up longer vid with every notable change in a totally unimportant place from botw.

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  Před 8 měsíci +7

      That's the plan. It's a pretty big project, but it'll be super fun to work on

  • @Leet-iz2fz
    @Leet-iz2fz Před 3 měsíci +3

    TOTK should have a speedrun category where you get to the Shrine of Resurrection cave as quickly as possible and proceed to progress like you're speedrunning BOTW, with the Bargainer Statue eyes quest in place of the mandatory shrines

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  Před 3 měsíci +1

      oh that'd be funny. could be a good category extension run lol

  • @whodistoodis
    @whodistoodis Před 8 měsíci +35

    The fact that all Sheikah tech just up and vaporized between BotW and TotK bothers me far more then it should, to the point that it would regularly take me out of the game experience. I wish it was explained even the slightest bit.

    • @Celestia282
      @Celestia282 Před 8 měsíci +15

      Yeah, that really bothered me, too. I can understand some of it getting removed and either scrapped or recycled, but all of it? Was it really a top priority to send a team into multiple uninhabited wastelands and climb dangerous, snow-covered mountains just to haul away some rusty junk that's simply going to be destroyed? It completely strains disbelief.

    • @Rock-vk9ei
      @Rock-vk9ei Před 8 měsíci +4

      ⁠@@Celestia282Uh yeah. That’s what the Hudson Construction Company was for. You know they had to build the towers there right?

    • @matiasluukkanen7718
      @matiasluukkanen7718 Před 8 měsíci +11

      Retcons feel really cheap when the entire world is re-used.
      Same with Divine Beasts. With how important they were for 10 000 years, one would think they would be addressed.

    • @heliothrax7716
      @heliothrax7716 Před 8 měsíci +10

      ​@@Rock-vk9ei The new towers aren't built in the same place as the old ones. Also, there's no way the Hudson Construction Company made it to the underground section of the Akkala Labyrinth that was crawling with Guardians. There's just SO MUCH sheikah stuff around the world.

    • @yaboihere494
      @yaboihere494 Před 8 měsíci +5

      I feel like all the tech must have been whisked away by some sort of timeline overwrite when Zelda travelled to the past

  • @sin-nombre3434
    @sin-nombre3434 Před měsícem +1

    I really started tearing up a bit when I got to the great plateu in totk for the first time, a lot of memorys came back to me

  • @RedHotStats33
    @RedHotStats33 Před 3 měsíci +1

    In TotK, there is a gloom spawn at the edge of the forest of spirits towards the shrine.

  • @Chris-gx1ei
    @Chris-gx1ei Před 5 měsíci +2

    The one shrine on the Surface is also kinda guarded by Gloom Hands which will hunt you down to take your soul away, and if you kill them they'll spawn Phantom Ganon to finish off what remains of you.

  • @Matthew-Martinsson
    @Matthew-Martinsson Před 7 měsíci

    This is actually a really cool idea of a series! Great content my man.

  • @AlexCFaulkner
    @AlexCFaulkner Před 8 měsíci +4

    Subscribed! I've been waiting for someone to make these exact videos! Please make more for more regions.

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  Před 8 měsíci

      Thanks! Yep, that's the plan - to cover the entire surface map. And then possibly things like malice vs gloom or other comparisons

  • @annaisntcool
    @annaisntcool Před 7 měsíci +1

    i live for these videos honestly. so entertaining yet calming at the same time

  • @raviolithebest8644
    @raviolithebest8644 Před 3 měsíci +1

    2:16 Kass was here too... God the Champions' Ballad was so cool

  • @Starbeam1979
    @Starbeam1979 Před 3 měsíci +2

    I don't know if anyone's said it yet, but that korrok platform on the ceiling requires ascend. Basically ascend through it and you'll get your korrok seed.

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  Před 3 měsíci +2

      Lol thanks. Yeah I've gotten it since uploading this video.

  • @potatojuiceultra
    @potatojuiceultra Před 8 měsíci +7

    5:13 I wonder if this is a reference to how the rock in botw is used to go up in speedruns

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  Před 8 měsíci +1

      Lol i was thinking about including that in my script, but ended up leaving that part out 😄

  • @Gamer1288
    @Gamer1288 Před 7 měsíci +2

    10:48 I was confused on these Puzzles too. There is nothing telling you to Ascend up that spot.

  • @naine1300
    @naine1300 Před 4 měsíci +1

    10:47 you can actually get this korok by ascending right through it. hope that helps :)

  • @jaffinator2166
    @jaffinator2166 Před 8 měsíci +16

    Sweet vid! The Stone turned Battle Talus was my favorite detail in the game because of how honestly cute it is!
    Also Hyrule Castle next?

  • @pauloricardo-wn6ps
    @pauloricardo-wn6ps Před 7 měsíci +1

    removing nearly every totk reference to the sheikah technology was a creative mistake

  • @trapjohnson
    @trapjohnson Před 8 měsíci

    Eager to see future episodes!

  • @DoomFinger511
    @DoomFinger511 Před 4 měsíci +1

    At 10:49 any korok puzzles that look like that require you to use acend under the tree stump. When you arrive at the top the korok will pop out.

  • @MrStatement
    @MrStatement Před 8 měsíci +3

    The Great Plateau is probably one of my favorite places in both BOTW and TOTK.

  • @Sanstheskelbro11
    @Sanstheskelbro11 Před 8 měsíci +2

    The korok puzzle you couldn’t solve was a puzzle where you use ascend on

  • @duecedude8467
    @duecedude8467 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Sup Tony great vid. I unfortunately haven't been able to catch the streams but love the vids that came out

  • @BusyMEOW
    @BusyMEOW Před 8 měsíci +3

    Hey those Korok stumps on the ceilings like shown at 10:44 are meant for you to use Ascend on..

  • @yagatza
    @yagatza Před 7 měsíci +1

    Honestly, it was bittersweet going back to the plateau. Lots of changes.

  • @Usernamehear
    @Usernamehear Před 8 měsíci +6

    It’s crazy how BotW is only 6 years old but wondering around the plateau in this game gets you a little choked up like it’s a child hood classic

  • @grantlynn1659
    @grantlynn1659 Před 8 měsíci +1

    That fallen skyrock next to the stasis shrine has to be a little wink to botw speedrunners, because in a botw speedrun you use stasis and an arrow to launch the rock vertically, to get to the cold area quicker

  • @Filionex08
    @Filionex08 Před 2 měsíci +2

    10:48 You need to acend through that thing, the the korok will appear.

  • @RealBasil143
    @RealBasil143 Před 2 měsíci +1

    That tree target stump thing IS a korok puzzle, you need to ascend up it, it should make some targets to shoot, once you do you get a korok seed

  • @12times12_
    @12times12_ Před 8 měsíci +2

    Filmed in front of a live online audience 😂. Love it (still sad I missed it though).

  • @iLLiCiT_XL
    @iLLiCiT_XL Před měsícem

    The boundary changes with cold weather can be attributed to the change of seasons in Hyrule. The devs demonstrated it with changes in vegetation, weather patterns, and even the sun being in a different position.

  • @joestack1921
    @joestack1921 Před 7 měsíci

    In TOTK s as soon as I hit the surface without the paraglider, I guessed that it must be in the temple of time. So I immediately walked all the way there and only found the cloth. I was still happy though because it seemed like the devs knew I might think that

  • @dustinzacharias8227
    @dustinzacharias8227 Před 7 měsíci +1

    14:06 first play through of botw I ABSOLUTELY thought that this was the master sword and got really exited.

  • @chrisrey0018
    @chrisrey0018 Před 7 měsíci +1

    10:48 I BURST OUT LAUGHING I THOUGHT YOU WERE JOKING.. WOW

  • @gabrielebattista8219
    @gabrielebattista8219 Před 8 měsíci +5

    10:51 you have to use ascend

  • @terryechoes3192
    @terryechoes3192 Před 8 měsíci +1

    You have to Ascend through that Korok platform on the ceiling.

  • @fastboi2390
    @fastboi2390 Před 8 měsíci +5

    5:30 I think the fact that Link begins to feel cold earlier on the rock wall ledge here is because the time seems to be later in the day. This was a feature in BOTW as well, where the time of day could and usually did affect temperature. It's probably not that the temperature boundaries were shifted, but it was later in the evening and so cooler, making it so the colder areas and places close to them cause Link to get colder sooner.
    An easy way to check would be to just go back around Noon or whatever time you had checked for it in BOTW and see if there's still a difference.
    Aside from that, everything covered here is spot on. Sorry for sounding like an "uhm ackshooally" type of guy lol. Good video

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  Před 8 měsíci +2

      I will definitely look more into that, thanks. Never heard of this

  • @pspssp47
    @pspssp47 Před 7 měsíci

    i’ve been obsessively playing botw for five years and still NEVER knew about the king’s diary changing that is so cool

  • @36OLink
    @36OLink Před 10 dny

    at 10:42, you are meant to ascend through it to solve the korok. nice vid btw

  • @theakiwar9118
    @theakiwar9118 Před 8 měsíci +1

    The one strange Korok puzzle on the ceiling can be solved by ascending through it

  • @derekcullen3965
    @derekcullen3965 Před 8 měsíci +3

    Immaculate vibes, love your narration

  • @Videogameboy1989
    @Videogameboy1989 Před 8 měsíci +1

    at 10:45 you're supposed to use Ascend on that Korok puzzle thing.

  • @AJGsTV
    @AJGsTV Před 7 měsíci +1

    Even if you cure the Deku Tree, raid the castle, and loot the labyrinths.
    THE GLOOM HANDS WILL HOLD HOPPER POND NO MATTER THE COST!!!!

  • @purehyper124
    @purehyper124 Před 7 měsíci

    This was the first min boss I fought as well, and I was surprised when rocks suddenly move and attack me.

  • @demoduncanct9205
    @demoduncanct9205 Před 8 měsíci

    I was really hoping to find the well worn trousers and shirt when I went in totk

  • @MollieCahill
    @MollieCahill Před 7 měsíci

    You do the uppies trick into the korok thing to get the korok!

  • @duecedude8467
    @duecedude8467 Před 8 měsíci +4

    15:13 but he did hold an axe in botw so he must have found some kind of way

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  Před 8 měsíci +1

      Someone else mentioned how he was moving around the warm dublet, which I admit pokes a hole in my little theory about ghosts writing in diaries

  • @jenniferdavie6331
    @jenniferdavie6331 Před 3 měsíci +1

    For the korok looking puzzle you have to ascend through it

  • @BonkyBoko9
    @BonkyBoko9 Před 4 měsíci +2

    FUN FACT: the sword in the stone at the start of the game near the temple is actually still there in tears, it’s in the water!!!!!

    • @TheTonyExpress
      @TheTonyExpress  Před 4 měsíci +1

      I learned that after making this vid. Wish I'd known bc thats such a cool detail

  • @historictruecrime5119
    @historictruecrime5119 Před 8 měsíci +5

    I didn’t know you can fuse ice pieces to tools!!

    • @hq3727
      @hq3727 Před 8 měsíci +1

      You can also fuse an ice platform onto a weapon to make an ice fan and when used in front of a body of water, helps you make more ice platforms! :D

  • @bitefesili
    @bitefesili Před 6 měsíci

    "and it looks like a korok puzzle im not clever enough to solve" such a perfect way to describe my mindset w any korok puzzle thst requires thinking

  • @Thonder
    @Thonder Před 8 měsíci +1

    10:50, ascend through that, it is a korok

  • @1lham_edits
    @1lham_edits Před 4 měsíci

    For the Sheikah architecture - perhaps, since it's been 7 years in-game since BOTW for Link, someone has taken the Shiekah architecture for research or to use the material.

  • @steveocacio2531
    @steveocacio2531 Před 8 měsíci

    The "korok puzzle you are clever enough to solve", just ascend thru it and it's solved

  • @jakewildfong1722
    @jakewildfong1722 Před 8 měsíci

    Great video dude

  • @Channeldyhb
    @Channeldyhb Před 8 měsíci +1

    Hey, the first Rusty broadsword, it's under the water where that korok dive used to be, and the rock where the sword used to be has a korok now!!!!!

    • @Channeldyhb
      @Channeldyhb Před 8 měsíci

      I like to think that the korok was personally offended by being skipped over by so many players on their first time, that they tossed the sword and took its place in some sort of petty act of revenge

  • @WaltertheWhiteWizard
    @WaltertheWhiteWizard Před 3 měsíci

    "Couldn't hold a writing stick of any kind for a hundred years." Yet he flies in with and gives you a physical paraglider, my man can write.

  • @debbiegardiner1269
    @debbiegardiner1269 Před 8 měsíci

    The first thing that stood out to me about this game when I got to the ground level was how close a lot of things are to each other in comparison to 'Breath of the Wild.' It kinda reminds me of the difference between Old Gotham in 'Arkham City' and 'Arkham Origins.'

  • @healinghands884
    @healinghands884 Před 8 měsíci +1

    2:52 Link is floating with a glowing bowling ball... lol

  • @marywren3998
    @marywren3998 Před 3 měsíci +1

    The first time I went back to the Shrine of Resurrection in TOTK, I got weirdly emotional and really sad, it was bizarre

  • @Angie_Creations
    @Angie_Creations Před 7 měsíci +1

    When I revisit the great plateau in totk I was like "i'm gonna search this place to see the differences between both games...
    oh man... finishing the only visible shrine I went to the forest and welp xD GLOOM HANDS made its appearance. I'll never forget my first encounter with those things, never xD I was so naive at that time, new fear unlocked HAHAHAHA