Comparing Hyrule Through the Ages: Breath of the Wild Vs. Age of Calamity Chapter 1
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- čas přidán 8. 06. 2024
- A comparison between the Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity and the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild incarnations of Hyrule. This video focuses on Age of Calamity's Chapter 1: Hyrule Field and the Bridge of Demise.
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Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch)
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what if link simply got smaller in the shrine of ressurection so now everything seems bigger lol
imagine sacrificing your life in an attempt to protect your homeland and your best friend only to be resurrected 100 years later as a manlet. i'd be furious
I can’t believe Link shrunk in the wash 😩
funny enough Link is tiny relative to other characters in AoC, while he's a little more normal sized in BotW
@@Chair-Son ohhhh so it's clear what happened. Everyone shrunk except for Link bc he was frozen
That's tinkles origin story. Was a link who shrunk.
“I have a strangely specific fascination with seeing the same location in separate games”
Sonic fans must hate you then
Green Hill's lookin' a lot more like Sand Hill right now!
@@skawt24 bEtTeR kIck iT uP a nOtcH. Tbh I actually don't mind green hill in every sonic game
Sonic says "oh yeah well I know the perfect spot to kick you"
Dark souls would love him
As a sonic fan, i dont hate you
It wasn’t until I played age of calamity then replayed botw that I realised how apocalyptic botw is...
same.. seeing all the ruins from botw described as "village" made my heart sink. i didnt think about all the people.. all the people that died because of the calamity, all the people that lost their lives for 100 years because of the failures of the past..
Right!!! And for example when your hear about hatelia’s battle u just thing there were moblins vs people but then u realize that was everything against people :(
Knowing how many people died lowkey gave me depression
So true. The beautiful scenery and how everything in the wild seems so alive kind of distracts you from that. But then you realize breath of the wild sort of has a different meaning than surviving the wild and the game being so free/open. It’s literally because of how much the world has been removed, you can literally almost hear the breath of the wild.
Okay maybe that’s me reaching and reading too much into things. 🤣🤣
Oof
#1 thing that they DIDN'T change between the two games:
_DEATH FRIGGIN' MOUNTAIN_
Im dying
I approve:)
They did change it so that you are not burning alive while there
@@Shantae1188 what about majoras mask death mountain?
"where do you find flame guard armour?"
the only possible explanation is that Hyrule, like the universe itself, expands over time
Or link just got really tiny
Side effect of the shrine of resurrection
@YesbutNo also amnesia
Also the fact that a hundred years has passed since then and a lot can change in the environment over that long period of time.
@@toledochristianmatthew9919 its not a long period of time for enviromental change
The map isn't scaled larger in Age of Calamity, Link is just out of shape after sleeping for 100 years.
I think this is my favorite explanation so far
It feels like two Links trying to coordinate from across time.
And steal the princess's pillow while at it
Mada kono sekai wa
Reminds me of that time in Rick and morty with schrödingers cat
Could make a game about that
this was the first days of no man sky
I'm fully opened to non-vg myths stuff
I agree, and I fully belive you should bring back dumb fun gaming
Agreed
Indeed
Yeah same here i rly want to see more of this.
I prefer vg myths stuff, but yeah
The reason I think that the distance is smaller between the two is because the devs just wanted a fun size breath of the wild, and that was one of the sacrifices they made to do it.
yeah, the wide open size of breath of the wild wouldn't work the best for age of calamity in all likelihood, at least going by their attempt at a wide open world and such in dynasty warriors 9, though other things in that had also made it a bit divisive already
No. The real reason is because one game is open-world/sandbox and one is action adventure. Stop with the smaller-distance theories.
I love this format and seeing how things have changed. Just one suggestion: you do some shots of the bridge at 7:37 and it's clear what you're comparing, but then you go on a horse ride in BotW for over a minute with no clear reason, only to slide back into another comparison. Maybe you could cut in places like that in the future or make it more clear why you're showing the travel?
I totally agree with everything said here. Love the idea and most of the video but sometimes (especially at the point you brought up) I was a bit lost.
It's fairly obvious that she was comparing the sizes and shapes of the landmasses. It was kind of weird that there was no voice over
@@samlewis6487 Hm, that makes sense. A comparison with AoC would help too.
agreed!
Or have it sped up
Loading a new map on Age of Calamity and saying “Oh, I remember this place!” was one of my favorite parts of the game
Reverse memories
Wow, you don't soothe your horse after using a speed boost?! Shameful...
agreed
I agree
@@MirouSallow ok
I still soothe it even when the bond is max.
I deliberately avoided soothing my horse specifically because I thought everybody would be mad at me for it
Make up your miiiiinds
13:37 those weird rock formations are actially *really* weird trees! In botw if you go to thundra plains and find one of the smaller ones, you can actually cut it down and itll drop wood. Dont blame you for not knowing tho, i only found out by accident on my second or third playthru
wow, I never knew you could cut those down! you really never stop learning things about this game
wow, i never knew u could cut one down! another fun fact, theyre based off of dragon blood trees, real trees that are named that bc they have red sap!
Those trees surprisingly exist in real life
I thought they were mushrooms
Farore’s symbol in botw is the only one that’s cracked after link was put into the shrine.
That’s a nice touch, because represents the triforce of courage.
Man, it’s so cool seeing the contrasts between the games’s visual styles. Age of Calamity is much more fluorescent and saturated, while BotW is really muted and weathered
I feel like the main criticism I have is that there is a lot of empty space when showing clips that could be trimmed. Other than that it was good
I think that was a editing mistake
Stonks man
yeah im prepared for a joke or something but nothing happens
I think it's used as a chance to show off the scenery with dialogue intentionally left out so we'd have nothing else to do but absorb anything he might've said visually.
@@nef36 Gamechamp prefers she/they pronouns
There’s a very special feeling of clicking a like button and watching the numbers change from 6.2k to 6.3k
Congrats! Feel the dopamine rush through your brain.
(This isn't passive aggressive or sarcastic, legit, I'd be happy too)
The cutscenes look better in age of clamity, but the world looks better in breathe of the wild
Here is a good animation: Revali uses Stasis while flying, absolutely adorable lol
Absolutely correct. 3 years later in the system's life so they had time to improve the cutscenes, but naturally the world takes some minor graphical downgrades due to the more action-intensive playstyle
a good day when game champ uploads
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U know it is the best possible when UR two favourite CZcamsrs download 3 hours apart
Agreed good sir.
I really like the calmer pacing in this video. It’s a nice change of pace.
When the clamity struck everything got reeeeeeally big
Next time, we'll be comparing Hyrule from Ocarina of Time and Ocarina of Time 3D
Hyrule field is, as you can see, annoying to traverse, and is twice as long
The water temple has become a cake walk
I’m down for more of these. VG myths are great, but these are also really good. Nice one Gamechamp!
Love this! Bit of constructive criticism, maybe you could quicken the pace? Like, instead of showing you getting to the landmark, maybe you could just show yourself near the landmark and show where you are on a zoomed-in map. IDK, just a thought.
You've really graduated into one of those content creators that I'll follow regardless of what you produce. It's all interesting.
A Turtle has swam across many oceans. A Turtle has traversed many dangerous paths. A Turtle has encountered many deadly sea creatures. A Turtle has put its own life in danger just for the sole reason of being able to certify this video with a Turtle Badge Of Approval.
A Turtle you could be more like Just a Guy Without a Mustache or Just a Dio Who is a Hero for Fun, both of them say at least something relevant to the video and not this copy-paste you've been using recently
but still please keep carrying the legacy of commenters
You're doing a better job than I ever could. Great job!
@@Josuh dont hate on the turtle, you disgusting being
Wow we follow the same people. Vaush, hasan, this one
Now this is what I like to see! A real in-depth look at the nitty-gritty details and the inconsistencies between these 2 different versions of the same Hyrule.
I like this idea, but in future episodes, could you show the corresponding location on the map in breath of the wild for each of the landmarks? Might help with getting a sense of how the scale has changed
I really enjoyed this! One thing I might recommend is focusing more on the landmarks that are more one-to-one in Breath Of The Wild, like buildings, and ruins, and distinctive landmarks, and less on the kinda sorta close land formations.
Obviously I was expecting a lot of changes and down scaling, but honestly I'm more surprised of how much the tried to keep the same in some form
Watching Link travel through Hyrule on his horse is kind of peaceful...
Yesss this is what I've been waiting for, I really dig the idea of you doing more than just VGMyths on this channel and this is a really cool idea!
Hey Gamechamp. This is a very minor editing thing, but when you're in moments of silence it might serve you well to use an audio clip of your mic's background noise to keep the audio consistent even when you're not speaking. You can audibly hear the audio clip end when you're giving comparisons more time to see. This is a minor thing, but it helps a lot with the flow of the video. Thanks!
My head canon about all the changes in this game is that it is literally a completely different universe, not just mr. egg coming along to mess everything up, link didn’t have the master sword yet in aoc(said in botw that he’s had the sword since he got it when he was little) geography changes, and also I refuse to believe master kohga live 100 years to botw when he looks 50 in aoc, unless ganon, the little rascle, gave him a spurt spurt of the LIVE FOREVER SPRAY! I WILL ARGUE ABOUT THIS TO MY GRAVE!
Edit: I do know it is an alternate timeline, what I’m saying is that it seems this alternate things happening unrelated to the coming of terrako, like as I said, link got the master sword right before the calamity in aoc, but in the botw timeline, i think in a memory Zelda said he got the sword when he was really young
in a book creating the champion I think about botw they said something about kohga being a name taken from his ancestor so I would guess kogha from aoc and botw are actually two different people. But yeah with weird story changes I'm pretty sure it is a different universe
@@boredhuman6512 One other thing is master Kogha (botw) says, “I was taught this technique by my father’s mother’s father, which lines up pretty well with Kogha (aoc)
SPOLERS AHEAD FOR AGE OF CALAMITY!!!
In the tutorial splash screens in the post game after reviving Terrako, one splash screen can appear where it says the following:
Title: Splintered Worlds
Text: When Terrako-pursued by Ganon's Malice-arrived from the future, a new world was born.
Spoilers
Considering the fact that Ganon is dead by the end of AOC, I think it’s very likely the egg caused a timeline split.
@@Gamefreak-kb2ni you don’t have to revive Terrako to get that splash screen, you just have to defeat Calamity Ganon and unlock the post-game quests.
This is so nerdy I'm in love. I've watched some other comparison videos but they're just so silent and lack any commentary. You're commentary was full of life and super interesting. Great job!
While playing the game, THIS was the one thing I knew I wanted to see, and here we are.
Ohhhhhhhh, new SERIESSSS
Hey um, thank you for being such a good content creator, I’m nb and it’s a awsome to see someone who is also nb
Thank you for this video! This was literally the first thing i thought while playing AoC; i was like "i wonder where this is in Botw's map".
Also, i recognized a lot of landmarks and that makes me happy, looks like a bite-size Hyrule and they managed to keep it very recognizable. As well as i got a liitle sad when i played again botw, i'd never realized how destroyed is post-calamity Hyrule.
Again, thank you so so much for this video. It's exactly what i wanted, as i just rushed through the missions (bcz time limits, and my allies being hurt xD) and didn't have time to appreciate it (even if i wanted to u.u).
I'm sure these types of videos take a lot of time and work to put together, but I do hope you're still planning on doing more of this series. I really loved this first episode and can't wait for more of them to come out.
The second episode is in-progress~
Gamechamp: Looks like Ganon's been doing some maintenance
That one kid who's trying to prove this game isn't canon: Proof! All the proof I'll ever need!
I mean it isn't canon... it's literally alternate history. The tiny guardian goes back in time and changes the known history from breath of the wild.
Maybe I'm wrong, I haven't finished the game yet, but it sure seems like this is a "what if" spinoff type of small story. I mean what's the point of the tiny guardian time traveling if it fails anyway?
"Oh no! Ganons winning, time to go to the past and warn everyone so we can prevent it!"
*cut to the past*
"Oh no! Ganon won, guess that was a waste of time. Better luck next century link."
@@Jack-rk7jc its canon but it will probably never influence the main timeline
@@Pablo_Martin_aa what would you think of there being games that come off of both timelines?
@@beybladerkid5489 ???
@@Pablo_Martin_aa like there’s a sequel to Botw and there will probably be games down it’s timeline. What do you think of a sequel and games that go down the Aoc timeline ?
There are some plausible changes. For example, partially buried structures can be because of sediments (100 years is more than enough for that), and the same happens with the "small puddle" that becomes Batrea Lake; 100 years is more than enough for a puddle to become a lake if weather conditions change over time.
The great plateau staircase had me stunned, to see it underwater was crazy when being able to see it in proper condition.
I'm sad that the longest chess game in history hasn't continued in this video :/
I'm sad that Lezlamb is no longer in the patreon list
@@chaoscasserole5990 wait what
Oh hell yeah! I love Gamechamp, I love exhaustive analysis of minute details in video games, and I love Breath of the Wild and Age of Calamity, so I'm really excited for this series!
Little suggestion: maybe give a clear sign on what footage is from where, especially when you're doing the splitscreen.
THIS VIDEO IS SOOO SO NITPICKY IT'S EXACLTY WHAT I NEED!
I was trying to make my own version of this literally just out of fascination with where attention to detail meets practical gameplay compromise.
But with how in detail and thorough you are with this it's perfectly covering all of what I was lookling for!
I'm sure some people have criticisms and such, I'm 100% loving this.
Listening to game champ geek out about crazy obscure stuff like this is lowkey hella satisfying
I have wanted this SO BADLY since first seeing Age of Calamity
i check on your channel thinking "i hope she uploads soon" and bam. upload.
@@shrimpychicken7887 I believe gamechamp is trans
Non-binary, asks for she/they pronouns
@@captbrowncat i was not aware of that; where’d you find this out?
@@zach_c in their channel description
Love it! I really like how you took the time to cover *all* of the interesting changes, instead of just one or two major landmarks that most other similar - but far less thorough - videos did. There were one or two points where the gameplay footage felt a bit too long (some combat and walking, for instance, could have been removed to more quickly show the actual comparison). But, as a whole, I am really enjoying it!
i love seeing the quiet atmosphere and more emptiness of breath of the wild contrasted with the louder music and brighter environments in age of calamity, very good video 👍
1:16
Actually if you don't pick up the silent princess, it can be found In Zelda's study in the rubble on top of the floor
Great video, this is literally the first thing I wanted to watch videos about when AoC was announced! Please keep making these comparisons for the rest of the stages!
I was actually interested in how accurate AoC replicated Hyrule. It makes sense that AoC (a game about fast paced close quarters hoard battles) would have smaller distances between areas that BotW (a game famously about exploration). I kind of hope to see more videos like this in the future, perhaps with BotW 2?
This is insanely impressive from the devs of Age of Calamity. Keeping so much consistent while making a fun game must've been challenging. And a lot of things that changed are fairly easy to justify given the 100 year gap between games.
This is awesome. Ive been taking mental notes as I've been going through AoC, but having everything is so much detail here is awesome.
gamechamp is so good her vids are an instant watch
Pretty sure he’s a guy
@@blitz342 nope!
@@uraveragehomophobicdude2643her pronouns are she/they, it's not hard to find
@@uraveragehomophobicdude2643 congrats brainlet you're wrong, bye
@@uraveragehomophobicdude2643 If you also thought the world was created by a giant spaghetti monster, that doesn't make it true. Gamechamp is not a man. Don't misgender them.
This game is so well done, they really went for that breath of the wild feeling
I enjoyed the video a lot. I like the side by side comparison and the smaller details like the door or the crack on the wall.
It must take a lot of time to find and record so many details, but they are highly appreciated
I really liked the video and can't wait to watch the whole series. I really appreciate the attention to detail and all of the clear explanations (for a goof like me that's spent 200 hours in botw, but doesn't remember a thing about its areas), and my only suggestion would be to shorten some of the showcases (the one with the lake is definitely the best and most extreme example), as I think telling the viewer about some of the changes without completely showing them for more than a minute wouldn't be a conceptually worse way of showcasing the differences. Still a great video, can't wait for chapter 2!
Also, a side note, I would love it if, after making all of the chapters, you would combine them all in one video, as listening to you talk about all this stuff would actually be pretty relaxing for a few hours while doing something else.
This is a great idea for a video, it might be extremely hard or frustrating but an idea for an age of calamity challenge run would be beating it killing as few enemies as possible (make AI kill big enemies and then avoid all the small enemies)
He has done crazier stuff
@@pokkiheart absolutely, ive got full faith in her
@@pokkiheart "And by dodging around for 96 hours straight, we see the healthbar drop by a whole percent.
This means it's theoretically possible."
Holy shit you have a good eye for this stuff, really impressed both with your eye for detail and some of the two games' intentional similarities
Every Patreon reading is a treat.
Also, the pauses in dialogue to cut to gameplay footage are quite awkward. I think explaining the changes or describing the areas on the fly, whenever possible, might fill out that white space. But, beyond that, I cannot think of much to help improve it.
This is amazing! I'm looking forward to your future video comparisons! Especially Akkala Fortress! 👍
As someone who hasn’t played AoC, this is really cool
Love your vids. Your awesome
I have one thing to say : AoC cured my PTSD of the guardian theme.
I've been waiting for someone to do an in-depth look at the differences in the world between these two games! Great video!
Yeah, I can definitely enjoy a video like this.
I was so surprised how great AoC actually was. I really didn't care that much of it but changed my mind after playing the game
Great video! It's really cool to see these comparisons.
The side by side views are awesome! Having a title bar at the top when you're comparing specific sub areas (like the split path at [14:22]) would be helpful to keep track of showing one game followed by the next.
Looking forward to the next one!
Thanks for putting all this together! It’s funny how opposite the gameplay is for the two games, in BoTW I was just soaking in the scenery while in AoC I was laser focused on the mission so I missed a lot of this. I also love that you did progressive spoilers so people can watch up to the point they’re at in the game.
Noice always good content
the egg guardian changed the future in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, so in the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild the box is not open beacuse there is a different future where Terrako didn't help and the calamity wasn't stopped
WRONGO, we see at the begging that terrako(the guardian) comes from the ORIGINAL breath of the wild timeline
@@Pablo_Martin_aa maybe there are 2 original timelines
@@turtleturtleturtleturtle not likely
3:23 yooooo, the detail with Farore's triforce being broken and din's being split off by a crack, separated from the royal family/ hylia's symbol is so cool!
I enjoy these kinds of comparison videos. Just walking around the world and looking at all the artistry put everywhere.
If Verisimilitude is “the appearance of being true or real.” What is the word for a fictional place looking convincingly enough like another fictional place?
Veri-sim-ilitude
Uh... Coincidence? 😂
Honestly, I have no idea, and my comment was completely unhelpful
I'll take a potato chip...and EAT it!
Good job, here's $5.
Dang this video is so well done, can't wait for the next one
I love this series! I’ve always wanted to do something like this myself, but I don’t really have the memory skills to do it, nor the technological resources to do so. Amazing work here! I love how much detail you put in, noticing little background objects and trinkets. Can’t wait to see more! But I do know that the next chapters in AoC will be messy to slow down and see details. I will say one thing I’ve noticed from my own playing of AoC. In the mission “Like Grains of Sand” in the Gerudo region, you can freely explore Gerudo town (at least after clearing out some moblins and bokoblins inside the town). There’s no time limit, no outposts to defend. There’s quite a few areas you can explore.
Riju’s room, the noble canteen, the spa (from a back entrance), the area where Patricia is in BotW (to the side of the throne room), there’s an open room in a patch of sand right inside the main town entrance (there’s sand seals in the patch in BotW).
I’m not sure if there are other missions that allow you to freely explore areas like that, but if I find something of note, I’ll edit this message or reply to it or something.
This comment has probably turned into mad rambling as I’ve written it, but I really love this video and I like to pretend that I can help somehow.
Idea: can you beat Mike Tyson’s punchout without getting hit
will this personal project take 3 years like that yugioh changes is doing also are you gonna complete that or does it not do well or have you just lost interest cuz I like it
I enjoyed this a lot! As for feedback, maybe I'm in the minority, but even more side-by-side stills, conspiracy arrows/circles, minor comparisons (like the number of screws in the gate) and minutiae are welcome! These kinds of deep dives are super interesting! Thanks for the video!
This is really a brilliant start. Thanks for you effort.
So is this gonna be a new series or just a one-off thing?
Have you even watched the video?
@@maks_____ I mean obviously he's gonna do the rest of the game but that's not what I meant.
@@Moss_Dude she*
What did you mean?
@@maks_____ Did gamechamp say that they're a girl? And they could probably find other games to do this with.
@@Moss_Dude yeah they're a trans woman :D
Ooh like that,, hmm yeah maybe you're right, that'd be cool!
my god link is an enby icon and i love them
Love this idea, I hope you do this with other series with reoccurring locations as well!
Awesome video! I have been looking for this exact thing and can't wait to see the other areas compared!
"I'll take a potato chip........and EAT IT"
"good job, here's $5"
She did so well voicing that line. we should pay her more
her pronouns are she/they
They really did.
Edit: thanks for changing the pronouns used in your comment. I left mine both because I wanted to encourage you to change them and because I'm actually the patron who was named "I'll take a potato chip... and EAT IT!" and this was my first video having joined Gamechamp's Patreon. :)
@@skakdiamc oh, thanks. I didn't know
@@nerdkingalpha4958 np!
Notification gang lets goo
This video was super cool and interesting! Thanks a lot for the comparison, i’m hyped for the next part :D
Was really fascinated by the comparisons while I was playing AOC. This video was awesome. Good job!
Respect to the person changing their name every time 😂
Also hell yeah trans rights baby!!!
age of calamity is not entirely canon since it's a divergence to the time-line where the calamity was prevented
Given the series' history with timeline splits, I'd consider it canon. It's just not part of the post-apocalypse timeline.
Divergent timeline is no reason to say it isn't canon.
I am SO HAPPY about this series. Wow. I can't wait for more :)
I have this exact same very specific fascination of seeing the same places at different points in time/development, or in different games.
Thanks for making this
Hello, fellow member of the two-handed weapon cult
and she’s back at it again, now with breath of the wild instead of yu-gi-oh
@@uraveragehomophobicdude2643 check the channel “about” section
@@captainpep3 They're non-binary and use she/they pronouns. It's not a matter of what a person "tells themselves." It's their gender and Gamechamp is 100% valid. If you're going to be transphobic, this channel isn't the place for you.
@@captainpep3 "I disagree with them." Am I misinterpreting this, because disagreeing with someone's identity and therefore overall existence is very much transphobia.
@@captainpep3 You can disagree about liking pineapple on pizza, not about the validity of someone's existence. What if a bunch of people said they they aren't racist, they just "disagree" with people being black? Do you see how dumb that sounds?
._.
VG Myths is fun, but I love it when you dive in to weirder topics. It’s always cool to have videos like this, like that review of the Japan only ape escape sequel you covered months ago
I was waiting for someone to make a very detailed video like this, thanks!