The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Zero Punctuation)
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Now I understand why Yahtzee wasn't just mad but livid that his video had a lead in😂
Yeah how about anytime you do a sponsor you face Yahtzee review it out of balance
No, thank you
Its actually pretty good honestly, I prefer the turn based combat much more than the previous open world action rpg they went for in genshin. The music is pretty good as well.
Having a gacha game sponsor on a zero punctuation video feels very cursed
I mean if it is like Genshin Impact then the gacha aspect isnt that bad. Many gacha games make you feel like you need to spend money to progress. Ive played Genshin for over a year off and on and havent spent a dime.
yeah kinda lame
Gotta pay rent
I can't help but think that the secret message at the end of the credits was referring to that.
@@pcguru3096 doesn't change that it's still a gacha game, the type of game Yahtzee isn't exactly fond of.
I'm proud of Yahtzee for evidently refusing to read the sponsorship himself
We wouldn’t allow the parent company to ask him to anyways.
I can already imagine his tone of voice, lmao.
@@theescapist
"and we want yahtzee to read the lines"
"no, you don't"
@@crysanthiumvega "But we-"
"No. You. Don't."
>boy it's nice that youtube has a skip function huh
ya you're bloody right
A note for those who are unaware: When he mentions "Jurassic Park: Trespasser's health bar tits", this isn't a joke, it's a real thing. They didn't want to have a HUD in the game so instead, you had to look down at a tattoo on your character's chest. The game itself is kinda "stumblecore" but is an early example of physics in a video game.
It is a game that had ambitions ten years beyond what technology was capable of and is fascinating to look at in that regard. Dinosaur AI that only allowed for 5 of them on a whole map before things broke, physics puzzles before Half-Life 2 figured out how not to have them break 75% of the time (only 20%), hudless UI that meant the character shouted out the number of bullets in her clip with every shot, and wobble-arm interaction with the world that only has a chance of working in VR.
Yep, and if you hack the game to get a 3rd person view your character is just a floating set of boobs with an arm attached to them.
Beating that game was a nightmare. I'm glad I did though, it was a botched monstrosity, but still interesting
@@adamsbja "Fine! I only have 12 bullets so you're gonna have to share. Let's count 'em down." -Deadpool
Had to look it up, that's amazing!
TIL Yahtzee's little spurting room is under the stairs. As a dedicated long time viewer, I will add this to the lore compendium.
Right next to "dolphins" and "Lee Drummond"
Don't forget, "The vast majority of ZP characters wear full body and face gimp suits."
Add it to the wiki
Can we get a PDF of the compendium?
Especially the spurting room…for…science or something.
And his love for ‘Kickstart my Heart’
That first 30 seconds of reserved praise was some of the most suspenseful sarcasm I’ve seen in a Zero Punctuation review
I love the term "suspenseful sarcasm"
@@Freek1989 It's like anticipating a jump scare, but instead of jumping out of your seat with a scream of varying audibility, you either face palm, groan, roll your eyes, or some combination of the three to varying extremes depending on the sharpness of the wit. Never before have eyes wanted to roll so badly that they're practically spring-loaded to rotate 180 degrees to look at the back of your skull as soon as the joke hits.
@@OtakuMan26 You know it's happening, trying to prepare for a reaction
I mean... Was anyone under the impression he was actually going to give an unreservedly positive review. I like Yahtzee and all,but he's exactly that English teacher that refused to give 100s because "nobody's perfect" which is fine and all, it pays the bills, but there was no part of that build up that improved my impression of this review.
@@MoogleMecha I think that was the point of his closing. "Spurt away but save some for the future"
I remember Yahtzee once saying that any game that dared advertise on The Escapist was basically issuing him a challenge. I wonder if Honkai: Star Rail made sure to get a "please don't paddle us" clause in the contract.
If Hoyoverse didn’t include such a thing in their sponsorship contract, I’m sure Yahtzee’s already jotted down plans to play Star Rail for a ZP video during the annual Summer Games Drought (which is a bit delayed this year due to June having Diablo 4, Street Fighter 6 & Final Fantasy XVI coming out)
I'm convinced that Yahtzee's little end-line is a reference to it. Boy, isn't it nice that CZcams has a skip function, so that you don't have to waste time with ads? Too bad you can't do that now!
SponsorBlock with CZcams Revanced auto skips the sponsors.
@@mangamaster03 Damn, I didn't know there existed this hyperspecific extensions
@@NN010 And here I was wondering if he was saving Pizza Tower for the inevitable summer games drought...oh wait, delayed. Gotcha
Hearing Yahtzee refer to link as an "Emotionally stunted twink" made my day.
TBH, when you think of Zelda’s bodyguard, you think of some big buff guy in heavy armor, no a twink who is shorter than Zelda. But he swings weapons 3 times his size like nothing and can use any weapon like a pro.
Link is physically the least impressive person in any room he is ever in, but a combination of psychotic devotion to winning and the ability to pause and build the exact counter to whatever he is facing ensures he will always win. In other words, he is a Gamer.
Yeah it's funny knowing that there are people who feel bad about laughing at that, since they're not use to hearing jokes even if they may be deemed offensive to somebody. because we really don't hear people say that stuff any more
@@capt.bellamy what are you on about
_Good to see you... _*_TWINK._*
“Christ I love staring at walls!” This is so hilariously accurate. 🤣 I found myself saying “Jesus Zelda, tone it down” during the opening.
yeah it's wild how the voice acting was the worst part of BotW and they were like "wow, for the sequel let's have 10 times as much of THAT"
I entertained myself during the intro by thinking of YuGiOh Abridged's "Oh my god, a giant rock!" scene.
Totk Zelda is basically a game theorist
It's almost the opposite problem that Sonic Frontiers has.
weirdly deep voice Sonic: "Hey Amy, how are you?"
Amy: *"DEPRESSED, FUCKING END ME."*
No you didn’t.
"Kill whatever giant monster is putting wasabi in their hemorrhoid cream this time" This is why I keep coming back to these reviews.
He's Terry Prachett with Depression
"You can't always be the boss in real life, but I love how playing as Jing Yuan can make you feel that way" is why I keep coming back to these reviews.
Oh man, I just got a visual for wasabi in hemorrhoid cream, the agony is on another level
I literally paused and laughed out loud in my empty apartment at that line.
@@unkiemiloplays901 So he's just Terry Prachett?
If anyone is surprised that Yahtzee actually ended up liking Tears of the Kingdom, just remember that he expressed something close to enthusiasm for a sequel to Breath of the Wild years ago when the game was announced as he tends to think direct sequels to Zelda games often have a lot to offer.
Indeed, though I have to agree with him this one doesn't really offer up anything much new in most areas to be worth getting quite so excited about. It is the same game done very very slightly differently, for the most part improved but also improved at making the annoying parts of predecessor even more annoying... Majora's Mask it ain't, that one took an already well crafted game that contained story and puzzle challenges and a good world to explore and really turned it on its head, and without reusing the world map in quite such a copy paste way...
Don't get me wrong though I do think it a decent game, and worth keeping the switch around gathering dust so long for, it is just still rather disappointing in many ways when you think of what it could have been. Though the shrines I have to agree are actually better on the whole there are still one heck of a heap of them but boy does enemy health scale stupendously making combat that was kinda clunky and pause filled changing weapons even worse...
@@foldionepapyrus3441 What annoying parts are worse out of curiosity? The weapon durability maybe?
Not played either game, but was thinking of grabbing this one. Durability was the big turn off for me from watching stuff about BotW.
@DWFTW Durability is both better and worse. Early game, it's a god damned nightmare. Weapons break even faster than in BOTW and are significantly less powerful unless they're fused. It does, however, get much better later on. Different weapon types have a lot of different attributes and fuse results differ greatly depending on what you fuse to what. You can very quickly craft weapons with absolutely ludicrous damage output and if you play your cards right, you can upgrade durability substantially as well. Time will tell whether or not it was an improvement overall. It does add many more options but that also means a lot more hassle at times, and different kinds of players will react differently to them.
@@foldionepapyrus3441 To be fair, Majora's Mask saw a lot of heavy reuse of assets as well, just in a new world. And the transformation masks while visually appealing all function just like Link's old tools with some variances. Tears of the Kingdom isn't so different with the heavy reuse of assets and tweaking of old tools but what makes both games shine is the content of the world. Majora's Mask had a brand new world but way smaller than the last game which made it dense with content and rich NPCs who ingratiate themselves to the player with their stories and lives that they carry out during the constant groundhogs day loop. Tears of the Kingdom takes place in the same world a few years later, so people familiar with all the characters will get to enjoy seeing who's grown in that time and what they're getting up to.
All this is to say, both games are stellar even if they reuse a lot of stuff from the game they're jumping off from. They just do it differently in their own way.
@@brycebitetti1402 weapons break fast when unfused because you should literally never be using a weapon that isn't fused
They should have made yahtzee read the script for the starting ad in the most sarcastic voice possible, would have been a masterpiece
and adjust the tempo of the video to the lack of punctuation in the script.
The ironic voice from jam
Poes law. It might’ve encouraged people to like it ironically. Which would then lead to them liking it unironically
The end credits literally refer to the CZcams skip function. I think it's safe to say how Yahtzee felt about this ad placement.
Its astounding to me that anyone actually watched the sponsorship. Just skip ahead 20 seconds. Why on earth would anyone waste their time?
I just want to say that I'm still amazed Nintendo was able to accomplish the impressive freedom of allowing you to skip cutscenes.
Certainly seems like an achievement if you compare to any mihoyo games...
man they make it easy to justify piracy
You can make a boat. GOTY for Yahtzee
how is this not the top comment?
You can make a giant robot whose monstrous penis shoots fire and laser beams.
Fuck your boat. >_
@@tonyk7000 Because it acknowledges that Yahtzee actually quite liked the game, and we can't have that.
It would have to dodge the "not just more of what I already liked" rule, but I'm not sure he always remembers that one anyway.
@@VicDealio Well he does criticize TOTK for being too similar to BOTW, nevertheless he enjoyed playing TOTK. In the end, that's what counts the most.
Officially the first person on the entirety of youtube willing to actually be real and not give massive sloppy toppy to nintendo with 0 criticisms. Don't get me wrong the game is amazing, but all the reviews saying "guys, they did it, they made the perfect game, everything is completely perfect!" really grind my gears. They still used the memories formula for story, albiet the memories were a bit better. The present story you actually play through was even worse, you get copy-pasted scenes at the end of each dungeon, you help the same races, and every cutscene has at least 3 instances of "IS THAT ZELDA?!" rather than actual compelling narrative. They hyped us up with Ganondorf making us think we'd actually get a complex villain this time around, and then when you actually go fight him it's just normal combat for about 2 minutes until Ganondorf cries like a baby and becomes Mindless Calamity 2.0 electric boogaloo long edition. The dungeons still sucked. It's like they saw the minority of people saying "we want themed dungeons" and proceeded to do the bare minimum and say "this temple is fire themed because... it takes place by death mountain again" without actually making them more engaging or interesting. They are so uninteresting, just convoluted structures that made it easier to climb or abuse zonai devices to each objective rather than actually solve some sort of dungeon. This game absolutely did not fix every issue BotW had and we should absolutely NOT be creaming and saying "this is perfect, change nothing." BotW and TotK are great but still weaker transitions to open world than Elden Ring was.
I agree. It's a solid 8/10 or so, but it has major issues.
Is Elden Ring really a good open-world game? I don't really know, I've been putting off getting it for over a year now.
@@mariokujo384 Yep, though if you would enjoy it depends on if you like souls games.
@@CodeRed0 i loved dark souls 3, but that was when i had all the free time in the world. i hope elden ring isn't too taxing in that regard lol
@@mariokujo384 Oh it can be quite the time sink
It's funny how, given this show's reputation, this is the most nuanced review I've seen of the game yet.
Now, to anyone who regularly follows this show these days, this isn't actually that surprising. But still, reputations being what they are, it amuses me. And yeah, that final point about plot and stuff is a great one. "If it DID have a mind-blowing story, you wouldn't be saying it doesn't matter."
I don't think it's a great point. Of course you wouldn't say it doesn't matter, you'd be saying "and on top of all that, it has a great story." It's a moot point.
@@youreallinsane Exactly. A great story would be the cherry on top of the cake. Hardly necessary though, these games are games in their purest form, it's all about gameplay, and this is some of the most innovative, creative, fun, and ground-breaking gameplay I've ever experienced. For what it's worth I did actually enjoy the story for what it was, which is a very simple and traditional fairy tale. It baffles me that people don't get that that's what Zelda stories are.
@@MarkHogan994 In fact, Miyamoto said he had the writers simplify the story of the first Zelda because he wanted to keep it simple like a fairytale.
@@MarkHogan994 they tend to boil down to visiting temples and killing the big lads who run them for enough something-or-others to fight ganon
These replies boil down to "It's not a good point because zelda doesn't have a good story", which I find hilarious. Zelda fans will repeat the same argument again and again, even after having been called out on it.
There is something to note: There are a number of items that, when fused to weapons, *do* have unique effects and allow some of that creativity you were looking for at 5:00. For example, the Zonai spring will launch away enemies, large flat items will hurl a gust of wind forward, gems will make the weapon fire magic projectiles, etc.
And in a more subtle way, it can change the weapon types too. A sword can cut down trees, but add a rock and now it can break up mineral deposits. If you only have a whacking stick, attach any kind of blade (or axe shaped stone) and now you can cut down trees.
It’s really understated how this improves the aspect of weapon breakage. You never have to rely on finding the right weapon type and hold onto it for dear life like BotW. You can build the weapons you need, as needed, with all kinds of stored parts and environmental items.
@@herogear_art Yeah, i'm not the biggest fan of spears, but I actually found it was handy to keep one or two on standby in TotK because the fusions would give me some fun context-specific opportunities.
@@herogear_art I do love the innovation of turning weapons into tools, and having the trade-off between damage and utility. Turning a shitty rotting sword into a pickaxe because a few gems are more desirable than an awful weapon with petty damage. One of those good examples of great games being about making interesting decisions.
Don't forget about the bee nests... makes your weapon fire bees 😄
@@fyre9123 My God
1:10 video begins
So many speakers and ears were saved. Many thanks, good sir!
I can confirm with Yahtzee, I’m glad about that skip function
I'd legit settle for like 6 hearts and getting all stamina through food if the shrine scenes were unskippable.
Genshin could use a skip button too... So painful the dialogue.
I'd prefer an "auto skip" option in the menu.
@@summerycast7936 Nah, hopefully that will contribute to people not playing the game and actually touching grass.
He’s fully aware I smacked my phone screen to skip forward 6 times to avoid the beginning ad lmao
Figuring out what weapon to use for each baddie in this game felt a lot like figuring out what I want for dinner. The components are whatever I have leftover from the last time, I barely have time to make it and the results leave something to be desired.
Funny thing about the ascend power is that it allegedly wasn't in the game through much of the development. The devs just kept getting annoyed at having to leave caves, so they developed a command to bring people up to the next level above. They then questioned "If we are getting annoyed and wanting to use this command, won't other people?" And thus, it became a power, and they started developing around it.
Wish they didn't have. Same for the Garry's Mod-like features. Oh great, now we can build immersion-breaking vehicles so we can skip all the obstacles the devs left for us, just gotta remember to extend our fun meter first by grinding for lots and lots of ore. I miss Stasis, Cryonis, the bomb rune, and proper puzzles that can't just be lazily skipped with a rocket shield.
@@NobbsAndVagene its a simple dont use it if you think its "cheating". Thats your opinion then impose that limitation on yourself, play how you want, while for other people that don't mind and like the option they can play how they want.
I just finished the game yesterday, and I agree with all of this. The story does have some dynamic cutscenes, so I was surprised all the Sage cutscenes were identical.
For example, I randomly stumbled upon 2 key objects for the main story while bumbling around looking for a thunder dragon claw (that I never found) for a side quest. When I finally got around to continuing the main story and the characters told me to start the journey for said objectives, Link quietly told them he did it already and all the characters were comically shocked and I was pretty much got told to go right to the final boss whenever I felt like it. It feels like they could've put different details about the past with each sage so you'd get a clearer picture of the story as you saved Hyrule. The first one I did (the Goron) had one line about it being the first time I'd heard the story, but the rest of the dialogue was identical in 4 different cultures - which seemed out of place for all the detail and personality they put in the townspeople at those locations.
In case you're still interested, the thunder dragon flies around Faron in the southeast. To get it's claw, you shoot the claw with an arrow and a chunk flies off.
My biggest annoyance with the game was, especially early on but also just in general, entering shrines. You'd explore an area with a cool vehicle you built, find a shrine, enter it, and bam! Your car despawned. I loved building vehicles out of random stuff I found and taking them halfway across the map. The stable at the bottom left of the main Hyrule area has a big stone slab with four big wheels and a steering stick, for a good while this was my only steering stick available to me because I hadn't found any areas that gave me any to deploy, and I didn't have autobuild yet. I went there several times just to go on a long car trip with those wheels and the stick. And I found loads of shrines on the way. And I could never enter any of them because then I'd lose my car! I recently spent three entire hours just doing shrine after shrine until I was caught up with all the shrines I discovered but skipped because I did not want to lose my car. Even once you get access to all the parts to build it yourself, it just feels wasteful to have to resummon and rebuild it out of brand new parts. It really should remember the vehicle you arrived in and not despawn that.
They can also despawn if you walk away far enough
@Michael Lochlann Wheels actually don't use much power at all and you can travel pretty far on four wheels with no battery upgrades. You sure you're not slapping flamethrowers and cannons on there? XD
This annoys me a bit too. I can't just hop off my ride, explore the area and come back, or park far enough away to sneak up on enemies, without worrying my vehicle will despawn.
itsnt there like a ultrahand function that just lets you insta-sumon your most recent car at the cost of some glowy rocks?
@@orangeboi3387 Yes, and tbh it's totally understandable that the game cannot keep whatever crap you built loaded in the game world when you go through loading screens. The discourse around this game suffers from the fact that the game is so exceptionally good that most people have to find the silliest things to nitpick to be able to say anything negative. I mean, don't get me wrong, there are legitimate criticisms of the game. But most of them are silly.
He had us at the start, I'm not gonna lie.
But seriously, I love this game, and even I have my complaints about it. My eyebrow was quirking higher and higher until he said "for expansion packs" and I just had to say "okay, fair enough." I absolutely lost it at "emotionally stunted twink", because only time Link displays any feeling is when he's embarrassed to the point of passing out when a giant woman kisses him, or drags him down to her sex dungeon for a routine hip breaking cause we don't want to die in three hits of a Lynel's backhand.
I mean let's face it, stroke for stroke we've got basically the same plot as BotW, even if they did find the most creative way yet of locking Zelda in a closet for the entire plot because the closet is now in the sky and consists of her own entire body. That kinda pissed me off, and led to the rest of the time I was wearing the Fierce Deity armor for the rest of the game being an exercise in me role playing how absolutely done Link is with nothing left to fight for except an entire kingdom of absolute morons he already saved once and yet never seem to recognize him. Is the main dietary supplement of Hyrule lead paint or something?
Gotta give some big props to the final boss fight, of course, even if the third phase of the fight does suffer a bit of Dark Beast Ganon syndrome. The actual Ganondorf fight itself is good, and a great cap to the game's mechanics.
Special shoutout to the Yiga who disguise themselves as Zelda to try to kill Link. I brutalized them the most ruthlessly, and ya know anger can be a very good focusing tool when aimed properly. I rarely get the flurry rush on those attacks where they teleport above you.
Here's hoping in the next game Zelda doesn't spend the entire game hiding in her room furiously ************ because daddy Nintendo grounded her again and she's got nothing better to do.
When i realized they put in the leap out of the ground button in the game with a thousand caves I thought "oh good, i don't have to back track through that elaborate wet cave system just to get back to what i was doing before I spotted that bubbul who now has a purpose of indicating there's a cave for me to spelunk."
Apparently that's literally the reason it's in the game. It started out as a developer tool and one of them went "hang on, if we dislike walking out of the caves so much we include a cheat code to get out quicker, why don't give we that power to the players?", and it was developed into the ascend ability
It's amazing how Yahtzee was able to make this review while simultaneously fighting off Nintendo Ninjas
Now I'm picturing an onslaught of shapeshifting Yiga stalking Yahtz every waking moment.
You have to remember that Ninty fanboys make Sony & M$ fanbboys look sane and well balanced.
don't you mean Ninjatendos?
He is the leader of a ninja clan, did you forget?
I can agree about the Sage Awakening cutscenes really needing more variation but I was honestly impressed with how much else was placed in the world itself after Breath of the Wild. In line with the world gradually picking itself up again there’s a lot more people about and significantly more in terms of sidequesting than before, the game even indicating how involved the quest is.
Even with monster camps somewhat arbitrarily strewn aboutc it feels like a ton of the space within the map is well-curated which is impressive for a game of this scale. That, plus the addition of caves which can stretch for varied amounts of underground real estate.
Yeah, it's weird because sometimes the minor sidequests have more engaging storytelling than the main quest. I was a lot more invested in the clothing shop's retail scam, resulting from the grandmother being terminally ill and the shopkeeper having to jack up prices to aid her, than Sage #3's deadpan reaction to what Sage #1 and Sage #2 already told us about *The Imprisoning War*.
That being said, I do think the ending of the game is genuinely brilliant. Not necessarily the boss fights leading up to the ending (way, waaaaay too easy) but the narrative cohesion of the ending is actually really good and cathartic, IMO.
@@XiremaXesirin I’ve poured over 100 hours and still haven’t finished the game. Just entered Hyrule Castle after finishing the four main dungeons.
Tho I hope the final boss is at least more exciting to fight than the second phase of Calamity Ganon in BotW; if it does make that more interesting I think it’ll be fine.
@@sunlitsonata6853 Conceptually, I think the final boss of TotK is very good. I think it's maybe a bit too easy for me, but I did walk into the fight with Mipha's Spear fused to a Silver Lynel horn, and threw splash fruits on myself occasionally, which boosts the damage to astronomical levels, so it's possible I just cheesed the fight a bit by having an OP weapon, lol.
It does have a "final" phase that's evocative of the final phase of the Calamity Ganon fight, but that's obviously a freebie the same way it was for Calamity Ganon, so if that doesn't count, the boss I would argue is definitely more engaging/fun than Calamity Ganon was.
@@XiremaXesirin The final fight, especially the final phase, felt really epic and extremely fitting for the whole game.
Stating that just because something is good (or even amazing) doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement, and that if the game *was* perfect people wouldn't be sweeping the story under the rug and claiming it doesn't matter because of everything else it does is exactly the kind of insight I enjoy and respect Yahtzee for having. Because it's true. Perfection is a rather hard target to hit, and just because a game *is* good doesn't mean it doesn't have flaws, or that those flaws should be ignored... nor does the existence *of* those flaws stop a game from being fun, engaging, and interesting.
Separating objectivity and subjectivity is something people could stand to do more often... but ever more often lately I'm not sure that people can be expected to engage things in a critical, thoughtful manner. Increasingly, that includes myself as well.
People want to be part of the in-crowd, and once twitter reaches a “consensus”, if you don’t go along with it you’re mindlessly biased or something. You couldn’t possibly have reasons for your thoughts, you’re going against the narrative and thus there must be so,etching “wrong” with you. I hate hype culture.
A game doesn’t have to be perfect to be a stone cold classic.
Yeah, that was a really good point. If a weak story and lack of interesting/unique things to find by exploring aren't detractors, then fair enough so far, but by the same token, good stories and consistently interesting, varied, rewarding world design can't be selling points either. But they definitely are considered to be good things for which appreciation is entirely valid where present, so finding a game to be worse off for their absence must therefore be an equally valid complaint.
It really grinds my gears when people apply different rules to positive and negative opinions like that, and it should be called out more.
@@mrshmuga9 no piece of media has to be perfect for it be a 10/10 masterpiece. Idk how people over the age of 10 struggle to understand this
@@2canwin635 I agree that no media has to be “perfect” (however stringently you define that) to be a masterpiece. But what people call “masterpieces” these days a lot of times have a noticeable amount of flaws or boring/blandly designed content. They have a bias towards it so much that they’ll excuse any criticism/flaw as irrelevant, regardless of how impactful it is on the game.
For example, Mario Odyssey is a fun game, but people call it a masterpiece when at least half of the moons are hidden in dumb places like the average box. But more importantly, it teaches you to recognize patterns for moons/secrets, and then isn’t consistent with the result.
Here’s how secrets work in most games: player explores, notices a hidden area, gets reward. They’ll recognize the pattern that lead to the secret, and use that knowledge going forward.
Here’s a general idea (but not exact) of how it worked in Odyssey. You might look behind a waterfall and find a moon or a secret level that leads to a moon. So you register that knowledge, and be mindful if you see another one. But instead, out of 10 waterfalls in the game, that one waterfall you found was literally the only one with a reward in it. Tons of these patterns exist in the game which makes it a frustrating experience. Because it teaches you to recognize a pattern (because there’s multiple “waterfalls” in the game to apply this knowledge to), but ultimately punishes you because the reward/result is inconsistent. It makes you feel like the game wasted your time and makes you weary to trust the game when it sets up other patterns.
This isn’t some minor gripe like “oh this one mini-game is annoying”. This is a core part of the game’s design philosophy that’s deeply flawed. Because it doesn’t feel like it’s designed with intent at all. That shouldn’t be ignored.
I do honestly enjoy the story, but I do agree that meeting all of the sages was pretty boring since they didn't know which one you'd go to first, so they each repeat the same exposition with maybe a couple of lines of exhibition unique to them. There's also three separate times that the revelation for how you get the master sword is played as shocking, because they didn't know which route you'd take to know about it
I *very much* appreciate that they had to get someone else to read the ad copy BEFORE Yahtzee even hits the review. Well played. Well played, indeed.
I very much don’t appreciate baked in ads interrupting the only content people are here for. If this is a new trend this series is gonna be a pain in the ass to binge later
@@malikoniousjoe ads are part of media. Best to accept them instead of getting your panties twisted ;)
@@HobbySauce I’m paying to remove the ads on this channel ;D So when I have to pay to remove the ads ;3 and they bake in ads ;V, perhaps you can understand my gripe sweetheart ;o Also eat shit you corporate bootlick, it’s a product and I’m unhappy as a customer. That’s how markets work hun
Was anybody else genuinely let down when a horse popped up on screen but it wasn't an appearance from absolute top tier ZP recurring character Reasonable Horse?
I totally agree on the every arrow thing. It'd be nice if you could choose a repeating attachment. Something that can be a more common inventory item, possibly purchased in bulk like the arrow themselves.
I swear cycling through all my shit just to get to one attachment got real old real fast.
I usually just use the "Most Used Item" option for that, it puts everything I actually *use* right at the start of hte list.
The first game's UI had room for three elemental arrows that we no longer have; the game could have allowed us to pre-fuse arrows of three different add-ons so that we could just choose one instead of fusing the same thing over and over again.
...I would love a retrospective on Nuts & Bolts after the Zelda fever slows down.
Sometimes you have one of those games you play where almost everything feels right. Zelda: totk is pretty close to that statement. With exception of the koroks that needs to reach their friends. I have special devious plans for them. You could say its closer to tears of the koroks instead of tears of the kingdom.
Koroks (which autocorrected to morons) are a fun mechanic when there’s a good puzzle around them or a neat surprise out of nowhere
But it’s also just fun to stick them to rockets and the developers don’t seem to mind so I think they figured we’d hate them
Korok Space Program exists for a reason.
I just summon my motorcycle and drop them off. Had enough fun recreating mad max fury road and now i just need more shield slots.
@Justin Buergi I mean, collecting them all in Botw gets Hestu to give you a big golden s#!%, so it's not hard to make a guess that there might be some lingering frustration.
The first "find my friend," was a good idea and kind of fun. There were just SO MANY that it got really repetitive and made it seem like 90% of the Korok population only had a single brain cell that they all shared.
It's fair to call this a glorified expansion pack, since this game was originally intended to be DLC. They just started adding so much stuff that they realized it could be it's own game.
This is probably the reason for it's biggest weaknesses, since it doesn't stray far enough away from BotW to have it's own fully-formed identity like a Majora's Mask. It's still a great game, and I'm enjoying my time with it, but I won't pretend it doesn't sometimes feel like I've done this all before.
Beating a monster to death with his buddy's toenails glued to a stick is pretty satisfying.
4:58 I can tell Yahtzee has never heard of the super fire sword or the flashbang spear
I'm quite happy he liked Tears of the Kingdom.. well earned enjoyment I would say after the slog he went through from Redfall.
And that he's about to do for Gollum.
@@Doodlesthegreat Rip
Yahtzee's delivery is particularly well structured in this one. Not that his delivery isn't always excellent, but this one feels like he went over the script meticulously so that he could say exactly what he wanted to say. It made the review hit a bit harder I think. Though I somewhat hope it doesn't become the norm, as overexposure makes it hit less hard. But I can see how this one deserved the treatment given the game's very prominent notoriety.
I dont think we should ever want for things to be less good for whatever reason
Yeah I thought the same thing, this was exceptional
he’s getting even better with that lately, usually people get less sharp the longer they do this kind of thing
I find the story is going for an air of mystery, except it's a Zelda game so the mystery is probably about as deep as a puddle on mostly flat road.
I definitely can't say the game is perfect though. In trying to appeal to all crowds they don't foist the paraglider on you, while still designing at least 1/5th of the shrines around you having it, in addition to having NPCs expect you to have it. And since you're not forced to go get it, anytime you run into a bit or a shrine where it's required, you just sorta have to leave disappointed and move onto the next place/area/thing.
Obviously it's an easy frustration to fix. The game clubs you over the head with, "Go to Lookout Landing." If you've not been there after beating a major temple, the NPCs related to it will have an additional line of dialogue telling you to, "Thanks for being a bad ass! Go to Lookout Landing."
"If only you could fly like a Rito."
"Just use your paraglider! Tulin will do the rest!"
"Here's 82 different paraglider cloths! Customize your paraglider today!"
i personally had to rewind when yahtzee said emotionally stunted twink just to make sure i was hearing things right
The thing with glueing weapons is if you can find unique zonai gear you can get some monstrous weapons. If you put a glide wing on an arrow you’ve basically got a horizontal ICBM to fire up some poor bokoblin’s ass from halfway across the map.
Rocket shields are your best friend. Also put a flame emitter on a boomerang and you’ve got a DIY recreation of Rammstein’s early performances of Du Hast.
I haven’t tried the boomerang, but I will be doing that now
@@flawlix elemental boomerangs are god-tier. Lizal Boomerangs are fantastic too. Stick a blue lizal horn on the end of one and you’ve got a katana you can fling at enemies that does decent damage.
There are some really neat weapon fusion interactions. Gems can turn weapons into wands and shields into elemental reaction explodeys, mushrooms make weapons push enemies further away, shields on weapons can block damage as you deal it, and minecarts on shields let you grind rails. It's not as versatile as glue but there's neat interactions to be had nonetheless
Honestly surprised Yahtz didn't tear into HOW you get these random vehicle parts. Then again, maybe he's the one that got that Honkai sponsorship for a meta-joke.
Honestly, the parts machines being giant gachapon dispensers almost feels like a little rib at other games basically taking the original game and adding gacha mechanics to it without being too blatant. Plus it's not like it's an actual problem like a real gacha mechanic, since the currency it uses it literally everywhere and it only ever spits out 3 to 4 types of items so you're sure to get at least 1 of everything.
@@OsnosisBones Pretty sure the game flat out suggests you use the Zonai device dispensers as a disposal point if you have too many parts in your inventory you don’t know what to do with. So it’s the fundamental change in attitude that helps too. The gacha “currency” isn’t a premium material as it is basically recycling scrap metal.
@@nintendoentersoft- The way you worded this implies that you can put zonai capsules back into the machine to get new ones out. Pretty sure that’s not a thing, seeing as you can’t hold the capsules in your hands like you can materials, but I wanna make sure I’m not missing something here, just in case. The game has surprised me before about what it allows.
@@Tustin2121 Oh no, I meant I literally ended up with more Zonai charges and construct parts than I knew what to do with so I just dumped 10s of em at a time to build up a stock of stuff I needed.
@@nintendoentersoft - Ah, okay, fair. I’m kind of scrounging for them at the moment, but I’m also pretty early in the play through.
Had me worried until about 1:46
It gets hard sometimes to figure out whether Yahtzee loves something or not. Even when he does, you can't help but laugh at where they went wrong. And that's the whole point of why we love the bastard. We've gone through what he did, he just has a funnier way of explaining it.
Ascend DOES fit with the other "put thing on top of thing" powers. It puts YOU on top of a thing.
"BOY IT'S NICE THAT CZcams HAS A SKIP FUNCTION HUH"
So deliciously punk rock.
The final note in the credits is funny… especially with it being sponsored
Honestly, everything he said is on point and I won’t ignore obvious flaws. Having said that, I still absolutely love the game. I’m having more fun with it than at least 95% of all the other games out there. It’s so much fun!
Yeah but go back and play older stuff. That's where it hit me. I thought it was tons of fun and then i started to player older games that were just fun. Going back to zelda felt like a chore due to all their tedious design choices.
@@backlogbuddies hmmmm interesting. I play old games all the time. I most recently went through Star Wars Jedi outcast 2 and fallout 3. I’ve also played not all but a lot of classic Zelda in the past. I still believe that tears of the kingdom is better than all those games. That’s just my opinion though. Like I said, I know that TOTK isn’t a perfect game but it’s really fun to me
@@MoistPancakes that's fair then. I thought I liked it until I went back and played Links Awakening and some older PC titles. Then it lost its luster for me, as did most newer games. They just kind of forget to be fun these days.
He didn't mention my biggest gripe, which is the champion abilities. They're annoying to use mid combat when you have a bunch of enemies on your arse.
@fullstackweebdev4855 the only good ones are Tulin and Yunobo, one because of paragliding, and the other for breaking rocks without using weapon durability
Its nice to hear a positive review that emphasizes "Just because its good doesn't mean its God's gift to gaming" every game thst comes out there'll be someone who acts like its flawless lol.
So many Nintendo fanboys think this game is God's gift to humanity lmao like it's good or even great, but gaming will go on
I like TotK, but I personally think it's a major step down from BotW in many ways. It does indeed have a bit of a "let's just duct tape Garry's Mod to Breath of the Wild" vibe. We now have to grind in order to fill up the fun meter (battery charge) just so we can break all sense of immersion and skip all the obstacles the devs left for us. How fun.
@@NobbsAndVagene "grind" and god forbid we use rockets to skip shrines, if they didn't want us to do it, then maybe more walls should exist
"Well look who came crawling back."
I CACKLED.
I honestly really liked the opening where Link and Zelda explore those hallways underneath Hyrule Castle, mainly because it gives the player a moment of Link at full power before Ganondorf's attack debuffs him. It's like how Majora's Mask gives the player about ten seconds worth of playing as human Link before Skull Kid curses Link into the form of a Deku Scrub.
I share Yahtzee's dislike of the "walk and talk," but I think it was fine in the context of _this_ game because it's not something Nintendo usually does and was a good way to catch the audience off balance for the opening of their game, pretty important for a sequel to one of the most popular and well-liked games of all time.
Interesting to see a Honkai ad to a ZP review
I honestly thought it was a bit at first.
It’s about time someone brings up the fact that Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts was doing the “build whatever” thing a long time ago. That game was great.
A decent-ish game, completely ruined by the expectations that being a Banjo Kazooie title brought. Should have been a clearer spin-off.
@@BTechUnited Close. it was a clear spin off. People were pissed that it was just that, and not BK3.
4:04 Yes, I too very much enjoyed The Legend of Zelda: I Forgot Ascend Exists, and so did literally everyone else I've spoken to about it
This reminds me I would love to see a "zero punctuation occasional guide to moments in gaming history" episode on Tresspasser.
I genuinely learned how to stop getting stuck down wells like little timmy
I had to use an autosave the first time. Something else taught me to use ascend more often and I realize "oh yeah! the wells!"
Think I was about 30 - 40 hours in when I finally realised this. Glad to know I wasn't the only one.
I agree with a lot of the points but there were 3 main things I'm surprised you didn't really comment on. The new enemy types, the depths or sky and the special effects on certain fusions.
Probably because those are spoilers.
@Samuel Stephens Could have still covered them and given a spoiler warning. Though it's not much of a spoiler. Not an issue but still a bit surprised.
The amount of asset reuse in TOTK is frankly inexcusable, especially considering it costs $10 more than the base game:
- they reused the same 3 weapon movests and did not add a single new one
- the majority of enemies are copied from BOTW 1:1 , they don't have any new attacks
- combat mechanics are identical, not even slightly tweaked (flurry rush is still bugged and triggers when you dodge before an attack has even started or after an attack has ended and missed you)
- Shrines are structured the same with 1-2 micro puzzles that you usualy finish in 90 seconds if you skip the optional chest (no thanks, 10 arrows aren't worth it)
- Temples are the same tier as Divine beasts, some are even worse like the Water Temple
- Depths are just an inverted heightmap and reskinned enemies+bosses and only exists for farming Zonaite and finding "unique" costumes
- Said "unique" costumes are the DLC ones from BOTW (and you still can't upgrade them LOL)
This felt oddly like Yahtzee not wanting to burst a million tiny hearts. Is this human growth? it feels icky but nice.
Honestly the funniest ZP I've seen i a while, which is interesting because I typically assume that its the absolute worst games that give the best opportunities for humour
The description of the beginning of the game made me laugh. 100% agree.
Oh man. I had to rewatch his BOTW review. I forgot he liked it.
Honestly agree with most his criticisms here! The game can feel sloggy at times but it's also beautiful and creative when it wants to be.
I love these versions of the characters and am glad they're giving the story more focus.
"Emotionally stunted twink" is the greatest sentence ever uttered 😂 I'm all for it
What about the time he called The Force Unleashed II "the most grossly offensive and mishandled application of intellectual property since the Schindler's List Easy-Bake Oven"?
*Jesus I thought I was getting a near 7-minute zp turns out it was a gatcha game ad*
considering Yahtzee complained about how the weapon crafting wasn't creative enough I guess he never figured out how to make a German stick grenade out of an explosive barrel and a twig.
Glad you also enjoyed Zelda Legends: Nuts and Bolts. I mostly don’t like how story isn’t locked behind progression like the old games. I miss opening new areas based off plot.
Yeah I'd love if Zelda would go in both directions at once - Linear and open world. Maybe 2 main game series, or large sections of an open world that are linear (somehow). Also, real old school dungeons (not the lame divine beast pluses we got) would be appreciated
The fusing has some fun toolbox utility with shields, like rockets, springs, or bombs for jumps, minecarts for rail grinding, wing for shorthop arrow slowdown, cannon just to shoot and block at the same time. For weapons I think it's more intended to solve the BotW problem where you would get powered down mid game because a tough enemy ate through your best weapons, now the enemies are their own upgrades so you don't lose that momentum.
Another great shield fusing: Ice dragon materials. Shield bash to freeze enemies is extremely strong.
Yup! I’d seek out Lizalfos cause I liked making weapons out of their horns.
You do lose momentum though, because Lynels aren't commonly in every fight. If you use something from them or another strong non-common monster you lose momentum.
The problem is the exact same but now you have to fuse things and fiddle with weapons more.
@@Buglin_Burger7878 Going from Lynel weapons to silver whatever weapons is such a smaller power gap than between old royal guard or lynel vs whatever random drops you would get
Was kind of hoping for some mention of the Depths. It's a bit of a drag to explore, but I was genuinely surprised that they literally decided to put an entire other Hyrule underneath the original one when they really didn't need to.
Ya. If this is an expansion then it's a hell of an expansion, to be honest.
@@nightcatarts I heard somewhere that it actually was supposed to be a dlc expansion, but it became way too big for it.
I personally wouldn't call it an expansion, though. I'd put it more into the "sequel making the original obsolete" camp. It is botw, but better
@@anna-flora999 I agree. You can definitely see the effects of feature creep in it, where someone (thankfully) seems to have just let people bring them ideas & they've then put those into the final game. Overall it's a great mish-mash of different possibilities.
All the new areas - sky, depths, and caves - all feel like the same environment copy-pasted over the whole map (because it is) and that really kills my enjoyment to explore it. I found a sky island called the zonai forge and thought hey, maybe this will be some interesting lore or content, and it was just a shrine and nothing. There's no wonder to the new areas after you've played a bit of it
@@amaryllis0 Try to change your viewpoint. A lot of BOTW/TOTK's enjoyment (imho) is moreso about finding creative solutions to problems. The game has all the tools there to cultivate creativity and alternative solutions to things. Like they design things with one "obvious solution," but it takes a laissez faire approach to puzzles and just lets players do whatever works. I literally just decided that I didn't like the Fire Temple so I sequence broke/cheesed almost the entire thing and the game just let me. There have also been a bunch of puzzles where I completely ignore the intended path and just do something weird to solve it.
The shrines giving upgrades and the islands themselves aren't really the rewards, it's the puzzles you have to complete to get it. You could always follow the "intended" path, or just build some contraption to skip all of it. Or make creative use of your powers, since Ultrahand/Rewind/Ascend enable a lot of cheesy, weird stuff.
Unironically "it's about the journey, not the destination."
The game feels almost apologetic about how good it is at times. Doing Impa's geoglyph quest before all the temples made the exposition feel quite redundant, but thats what happens when they have to weave a plot through an open world game without being able to know where the wild hair up the player's ass will take them.
At times like this, I do kinda wish Link was a snarky/quippy protagonist. If only for a moment of character growth and learning.
First dungeon: whats that voice?? I don’t know?? Oh it’s an ancient ancestor from long ago.
Second dungeon: what’s that mysterious voice? Another ancient ancestor? Called it.
Third dungeon: what’s that mysterio- it’s your ancient ancestor, just roll with it.
Fourth dungeon: there’s gonna be a voice. Can you ask them to be more specific about where we need to go? I’m on a schedule here.
Nah; Link is better off as a silent protagonist. That said, there usually was a character in 3D Zelda games who would make that kind of snarky/quippy dialogue: the adventuring companion (Navi, Tatl, Midna, Ezlo, Spirit-Zelda, Fi, etc.) It's kind-of funny how the companions in this game only talk during their quest and then are completely silent since it's their avatar that follows Link for the rest of the game.
It's annoying how Nintendo's tentpole games always get 10/10s across the board, and I can never tell how much of it is because they're good and how much of it is what I like to call the 'Nintendo goodwill bonus'. I played BotW and liked it very much, but it's not by any means perfect. So what am I supposed to take away from reviewers giving its sequel another row of 10/10s? That's why personalities like Yathz are invaluable.
Exactly my thoughts. When Elden Ring got uniform 10s, it was just more believable. For Zelda, I can't be sure there's not a gun to their head.
10/10 isn't perfect, the same way an A in an exam doesn't mean a perfect score
@@espresseaux How is Eldin Ring, a Soulsborne game, getting uniform 10s not a case of "[Fromsoftware/Soulsborne] goodwill bonus"? Dark Souls 2 got uniform 10s yet you will be hard-pressed to find many defenses of that game anymore.
This isn't a criticism of Eldin Ring; this is just me pointing out that there is just as much positive bias when it comes to Soulsborne games.
Hell, I played BOTW and found it to be boring as batshit, so basically any review score is useless to me now.
TOTK is like an 8/10
I just love the fact that I can solve a shrine puzzle only to find out i did not do it how I was meant to and just said fuck it, it worked
There are no bad ideas. Only ideas that can go very wrong
@@makotoplush9776 There was a shrine where you were supposed to solve it by attaching landing wheels to a plane and use a turbo fan to provide propulsion over but I couldn’t stick it together properly. Ended up gliding down from a high spot and Ascending my way up which still worked so I ain’t complaining.
I was trying to solve one where you had to hit a switch to pivot an arm and smack a ball up a ramp to hit the target on a wall, and i'd just left some random bits lying around. Completely whiffed the timing of the swing, so the ball ricochet'd of a random post, post hurtled into a wall and then bounced (spinning wildly) into the target on the opposite side of the room. Laughed for about 5min.
supposedly for this game they saw people solving the shrines in horrifically wrong ways and said "that's fuckin' rad" and embraced it a fair bit so that's nice
There are so many puzzles you can cheese with recall
I'm glad I'm not the only one making the nuts and bolts comparison
Like, I get that the devs couldn't factor in which of the temples you'd do first so they had to make sure you got the gist of why the sages are important regardless of which one you do first, but it does raise the question of if there was a better way than making 4 identical cutscenes.
There is an easy one, that ghost that shows up and leaves 3 seconds in the game?
If Link has their arm they should be tied to Link not cease to exist. Through them they could explain it the first time. Or have Link be able to speak about it on his own. Basically someone constantly with Link needs a voice.
So incredibly refreshing to finally see a non-hyped review of this game.
I had the exact same reaction to TofK. Even up to forgetting that Ascend existed
You've upgraded to 1080p. Nice. It's been several years since I last saw your videos. Back when you played videogames with Gabe. Glad to see you're doing great!
That ending is a really good point. I intially didn't notice Tears of the Kingdom's flaws because of how much it improved on a game I also loved.
the weapon fusion does have some cool uses because for example, you can attach a rocket to a shield to be able to fly or attach ore to a sword to create a wand. the small number of examples i can give and most items just increasing damage is a little bit disappointing yes
Yeah you CAN do all that, but at the end of the day, Im just gonna attach the strongest bokoblin horn i have
My fav is the silver lizard horn to create a scythe and play as fucking Death
@@abxy2257 You're always going to have a weapon that's just the strongest horn you have for some pure damage. But you do have room for a lot of utility fuses. I always had one that was an ice keese wing attached to a pole-arm to make crossing rivers easy
If Yahtzee had read the first 60 seconds everyone would think he's being overly facetious without breaking character
6:33 Boy you ain't kidding.
Now I can add "Emotionally stunted twink" to the list of things I never heard in the same sentence before.
I'm honestly surprised there's a publisher out there brave enough to want to include an ad before a ZP video, it's basically like asking Yahtzee to please be passive aggressive with them for the rest of history.
I just hope this doesn't become a normal thing.
I know botw didn’t really have much story. But idk, the world felt just more… alive in botw?
Idk, I think little inconsistencies between games kinda damaged my immersion a bit.
I think they tried to not talk to much about botw for the people who haven’t played it. But it just feels weird that nobody talks about or makes correlations between current events and with the last time Hyrule Castle spurted red/black goop.
So many people on Reddit being like "I wonder what the story is going to be like!!" with stars in their eyes when we all know exactly what the story is going to be because it's a fucking Zelda game, that said I fucking love this game
Here's the thing with TotK: I feel like that wonder of going out on a journey by yourself in an unkown land, which made BotW so special, just isn't there. When you start, you're bombarded with NPCs that just tell you about different mechanics of the game, before being told exactly what to do. Even the divine beasts, which were very open in the order you completed them in, had been given to you in such a way that it was obvious the game wanted you to go to a very specific one first
It's still a good game, but it's missing what made BotW a 10/10 experience
Very true. The NPC robots are really off putting
Pretty much entirely agreed except I also like the cutscenes, even the boring walk and talk sequence in the beginning. At least the main story is - sort of - taking place actively while we're playing the game, not 100 years ago. Sort of.
Also, pretty humorous that Yahtzee presumably refused to do that brown-nosed obviously pre-scripted-by-the-publisher ad read so they had to get someone else to do it.
I actively hated that opening walk and talk. Not because it was boring, but because it felt like a completely waste of potential.
They start you off with the master sword, 20 hearts, and full stamina. You're in full "I'm the hero who defeated the blights and saved Hyrule" mode. And what happens? You fight 3 keese and watch Zelda take pictures while she plot dumps on why you're hanging out in a cave. And then you're immediately shoved into a cutscene where Link gets absolutely annihilated and loses all his upgrades.
It's such a waste. Use the chance to start off with a little tutorial dungeon. Teach players some basic mechanics like flurry rushes and sprinting and climbing, something to utilize all those hearts and stamina that they gave you. Fight some some enemies so you feel like a hero. Heck, fight some normal bokoblins, then fight some gloomified bokoblins to do a little bit of foreshadowing to Ganondorf's seal weakening. Have Link borrow the Purah Pad and take some pictures, then hand it back to Zelda for later. Do SOMETHING besides just 3 keese and Zelda saying "There's this weird fog that's making people sick!" If you're going to make the playable opening that awful, then just make it all one long cutscene instead.
@@lunarazure9969 on one hand if they did that i feel like they'd have to change a lot about the great sky island, because that already exists to tutorialise a lot of stuff (including your new abilities, which you wouldnt have while exploring the castle's depths.) on the other hand i kind of feel like they planned to do something like that initially (in some of the teaser trailers you see link and zelda crossing a bridge, stopping at an underground pond while zelda's dondon has a drink, etc implying there was more to that initial sequence that got excised) and 2. god it would be fucking cool to do a dungeon with zelda beside you as an actual character for once
The story is perfectly fine. The Zelda crew just seem to have no ability to write decent dialogue, or craft a good scene with any cinematography. It's like they forgot a century of film and TV experience and just have the camera passively watch while characters infodump and deliver dialogue with long pauses between them. If you're taking control away from the character by forcing them to loaf around or watch a cutscene this is a perfect opportunity to use your control over camera, lighting, dialogue, pacing etc to deliver a great scene.
Literally the next game I played after I played TOTK was Hitman and that has a corny tacked on plot that is literally just an excuse to stick together random rich people in exciting locations all over the world, but even it blew Zelda out of the water because at least it deployed it's tropes with genre acceptable dialogue, kept to the point and had moody shots from interesting angles.
@@lunarazure9969 That seems like you've gotten overly attached to your idea of what it should have been. It's okay to say you had a decent idea, it's unreasonable to "actively hate" something just because it doesn't do the exact thing you think it should've done when, as glassphoenix pointed out above, that would've required a complete change of pace of the beginning of the game.
@@cazzah49 Mostly agreed, though I have a feeling their hands are pretty tied regarding what they can do with dialogue. It feels like the Zelda games are kinda locked in on the idea of the characters being archetypes more than actual people with depth. But the memory sequences in this game do employ a bit of actually dramatic cinematography.
No mention of the Depths? That's where the original sandbox map lies. Agreed on every other point
"Original" map in the sense that, at its core, it's the surface map inverted (all peaks are now troughs and vice versa) and then cleaned up around the edges and given some unique landmarks. If anything the sheer quantity of caves and wells added more truly unique geometry than the depths areas.
@@arof7605 interesting! Didn't know about the inverted terrain. Still, it's not so much the size/shape that makes it unique, it's the way you interact with it - the sense of pitch black agoraphobia and having to light it up bit by bit.
@@arof7605 Oh cool, I didn't realise the terrain was inverted!
That sense goes away as soon as you realise all the lightroots are in the exact same spots as overworld shrines. You easily spot and mark down all the shrines on the surface, and then the depths is just beelining it to the next lightroot. You don't even have to engage with the light or vehicle mechanics, it's so trivial to just walk and glide there for the vast majority of it. And there's nothing to explore since there's almost no unique content, it's all basically the same. It is a really big missed opportunity
The caves and wells and sky islands were cool, the depths I could take or leave. The pants much down there besides
(Spoilers)
A bunch of outfits from previous games where X marks the spot
I love this man's brain. Superb writing and delivery!
I must be 12 years old because I laughed at that "Wasabi in their hemorrhoid cream" for like 10 minutes.
With the intro section of TotK, you don't have to walk slowly with zelda, you can just run ahead and move her forward to wherever her next conversation is
yeah but tbf that sortof requires you to immediately break the tone and pace the game seems to suggest to you, which is a little lame and anti-immersive, right
plus all the shit zelda says is lame and boring and already obvious from just looking at the rooms you're walking through, which is the main issue
@@pantalaemon Spoilers for people who haven't yet beaten the game but the same thing happens in the end.
Zelda is falling and link is diving after her but there is nothing happening. She will never hit the ground and even if you keep diving, you will never pass her. It is unfailable and there was no reason to give the player control. Noticing that nothing was happening immediately broke my immersion and ruined the already weak ending of the game.
If you are going to make the intro sequence "walking and swinging your sword once" there is no reason to give the player control.
@@BreezyBeej You must be fun at parties
I never really understood why everyone was so hung up on the last zelda. It was not a bad game but it was not as amazing as everyone seemed to think. Then again the only Zelda game i really liked was link to the past so maybe they are not aimed at me.
Had a feeling the cutscenes you were talking about was the copy paste sage cutscenes. I also hated how they did the shrine ending scenes. A cutscene leading up to giving the item and then a cutscene after. Just give me the item.
I watched my 8 year old nephew play this this for like an hour and he had a log stuck to a shield and another tree stuck to a sword and NOTHING he was doing was making sense to me lol
me before watching the review: Hmmmm... I wonder how long it'll take before Yahtzee mentions people who just don't understand his style of critiques?
Me at 1:11: There we go!
I was fully expecting Yahtzee to burst in during the advert and start taking the piss out of Honkai. But when he didn't I was taken aback , he truly is the master of subversion.
Advertising a Mihoyo game before the Breath of the Wild sequel review is certainly a choice
I was disappointed that Mr Horse wasn't Reasonable Horse from whenever Yahtzee was keeping that bit was going