I Did EVERYTHING* in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
- After over 250 hours, I finally did everything in The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. Now... Let's talk about all of it!
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Chapters:
00:00:00 - I Did EVERYTHING*
00:00:53 - Intro
00:01:03 - Discrepancies
00:02:20 - The Great Sky Island
00:02:52 - THE WORLD
00:03:01 - Poor Performance
00:04:29 - The Sky Islands
00:06:00 - The Depths
00:08:30 - Hover Bike
00:09:12 - Horses
00:09:33 - Pony Points
00:10:15 - Where's Kass?
00:10:30 - NPCs/Characters
00:12:14 - Side Adventures
00:14:05 - Building Your House
00:14:30 - Side Quests
00:14:59 - Shrines
00:15:17 - Physics/Limitations
00:16:25 - Shrines Continued
00:18:39 - Shrine Completion Reward
00:19:24 - Fabrics
00:20:11 - Addison's Signs
00:21:00 - Compendium
00:21:36 - Caves
00:22:02 - Bubbul Gems/Koltin
00:23:22 - Bosses
00:27:25 - Recipes
00:27:47 - Wells
00:28:28 - Koroks
00:29:52 - Weapon Durability
00:30:21 - Weapon Attributes
00:30:43 - New Items
00:31:29 - DUNGEONS
00:32:17 - What the Dungeons Have in Common
00:33:54 - Dungeon Puzzle Structure
00:35:15 - The Wind Temple/Colgera
00:37:45 - The Fire Temple/Marbled Gohma
00:41:00 - The Water Temple/Mucktorok
00:43:17 - The Lightning Temple/Queen Gibdo
00:45:56 - Assualt on Hyrule Castle
00:46:46 - The Hunt for the 5th Sage
00:47:37 - You Can Get There Early?!
00:48:14 - The Spirit Temple/Seized Construct
00:49:24 - The Companions
00:50:51 - THE STORY
00:51:02 - Repeat Cutscene at Dungeon's End
00:51:39 - Story Recap
00:57:30 - The Final Battle/Link vs Ganondorf
01:00:28 - The Game's Final Moments
01:01:12 - You Can Spoil The Game Yourself
01:02:48 - Tears of the Kingdom's Biggest Issue
01:05:35 - Closing Thoughts/Ranking
Have a Chill Day!
#Zelda #TearsoftheKingdom #Nintendo - Hry
How of Tears of the Kingdom did you do? Did you do everything, or just the main quests?
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beat all mainquests and like a 3rd of the sidequests after 90 hours of gameplay. game is nowhere near good enough for me to even consider going back to do the rest of the side quests let alone shrines and koroks, caves and everything inbetween .
@@WhyUHaf2BeMadq a q😂❤
My first playtrough, did the temples got like 13 hearts, then destroyed Ganon. Its what a hero must do. Second, I am just enjoying going around completing quests, building death machines and exploring. Well worth the 65 euros man. I still have the golden cartridge from the original NES zelda. That costed a lot of money back in the day, but dad was cool enough to say: "you did well at school, here is a chest with the gold cartridge". Quest completed. Just now I was going for a chasm, and I saw Naydra, grabbed a claw, then I forgot what I was doing. Yeah so much fun, and at 42 years old (until november) I felt the magic from 36 years ago. I hope Nintendo keeps their tradition of well made games. I know Mario is the mascot, but link is the appointed knight. This resonates so much with me, dunno why. Also 1000 korok seeds? Not gonna do it. I know what you get from it...
Iv'e done every shrine, all but one armor piece, every lightroot, and every tower so 70 something pecent.
I got to Ganon and quit the game. I hated BotW and I was hopeful this would be better, but it wasn't. Game was boring.
It would have been cool if there was a room for your house with shelves for the collection items like the snow globe, hestu gift, lightroot thing, monster medals, so on. the gallery rooms are pretty cool though.
I know right?! That would have been a great idea!
There could also been one with picture frames that you can display all of you fabrics in as posters!
I also kept just imagine Link showing Zelda his new house and her being like "Uhm.. Link.. why do you have a golden peice of crap on your shelf?"
Huddson construction better learn from you.
Agree
the most depressing part about the game was getting nothing but meat for using the wolf link amiibo .. RIP furrylink :/
Omg is this a furry joke? 🤭
Literally every amibo providing rng results once a day was so disappointing to see.
At least no furry
@@YesImRealGreenuwu (*burns you in a fire*)
THEY FUCKING CHOPPED HIM UP D:
Actually, I love that I found the spirit temple randomly. It truly felt like a “what in the world is this?” moment of discovery. I found it on my own, no hand-holding. It made me feel clever and ahead of the game, and that was really rewarding to me.
So amazing. I had the exact feeling when I discovered the fire and spirit temple. I was like, there’s a spirit temple? No way.
@@DanielMazahreh Yea, I mean the overall design could have been a _bit_ more ornate and standout in the gloominess of the Depths - but overall I _Loved_ discovering it. The fact that 2 _totally_ disconnected pieces of Land link up and slowly form into what in the end is a pretty simple ''puzzle piece'' Dungeon but so fun and intuitive. Really blew my mind when you look at it in hindsight!
Where is the Spirit temple? I'm having trouble finding it!
@@datgurl8711 I believe it’s southeast of the great factory in the depths where you first fight Kohga
@@datgurl8711 Play the game naturally. Why are you using the internet to spoil yourself.
Upgrading all armor to max: “Na, that’s too tedious.”
Getting the extra 570 or so koroks after you’ve maxed your equipment slots for the golden poop: “Oh ya baby, you know I’m getting that!”
The difference is, the koroks are tracked. Upgraded armor is not.
@@tjeilmasit's tracked in the sense that it's visible. Just by changing your armor it's apparent that this save file is not in fact 100% completed and there still a big objective left and unlike picking up every weapon in the game it's something you can't not notice. So if I'm being honest this video is clickbait to me.
He just likes hearing their little squeaks.
You can get rice from cutting grass in certain locations too. To avoid wearing out your weapon, use a horse with a towing harness, attach the swords to the harness and ride around to cut grass and harvest lots of rice and wheat.
Cutting grass by swinging a blade doesn't wear out the blade.
@@mgratk yeah was going to say the same, but that horse trick does sound kinda cool! I wonder if you can build a zonai rice harvester
There’s really no point creating such a device if you played the game efficiently, such as purchasing wheat while exploring and meeting sellers, as well as using a fused sword with Claymore spin attack to cut more grass.
22:33 The satori isn’t wanting us to murder his species, I’m pretty sure bubbul frogs are cursed ones of his kind, and therefore he wants us to free them. This is why a bluepee comes out of the bubbul frog once you kill it, basically freeing that bluepee from a curse and leaving behind a bubbul gem.
When you replay the game, you realize that receiving the rewind ability is Zelda giving you her sage ability to use through rauru’s hand, since she doesn’t have a physical avatar after swallowing the stone.
Wow I didn't realize that. 360 hours later lol.
12:25
YES! I wanted real pirate enemies, like the ones from Skyward Sword!
RIGHT?!? That would have been sick!
Not necessary. Tears of the Kingdom is perfectly fine just the way it is compared to the severely flawed skyward sword.
@@DanielMazahrehevery single comment I've seen from you is just being a contrarian for the sake of being a contrarian. You seem completely insufferable
The track that plays as you dive down a chasm is the best sound ever, when I first played the game, with no prior knowledge of the story, (thank god) hearing that made me so excited and terrified of what this dark place held. Amazing use of music to convey feelings on nintendos part
BWAAAAARRRHHHH
jump down death mountain, it's the longest drop, and you'll get to hear the most of the falling jingle!
The ice pick puzzle is nearly identical to a puzzle that researchers gave to some birds to test their intelligence. Fitting that it was in the Rito temple.
Good observation 👍
See I’m not smarter than a bird because I got that chest in a very different and way more labour intensive way
I was one of those people who came across the 5th dungeon on "accident". At first, I was exploring the underground and randomly came across the Construct Factory. It looked epic, but after climbing around for a bit I couldn't find anything to do, so I just left knowing that there was something important, likely story related, that would happen there later. Little later, I wanted to explore those thunderclouds in the sky because I figured obviously there had to be something cool hidden there. I entered the storm and the first island I landed on happened to be Dragonhead Island. Stumbled around for a bit, found a shrine and Mineru's mask and did the quest from there.
At least I managed to do the memories in order and didn't entirely get the Zelda reveal spoiled. I found the abandoned shrine with the map and took pictures of all the wall paintings so I could look up the order while I was out exploring. Early on I did think "wouldn't it be funny if Zelda turned out to be the Light Dragon, lol jk XD" so I saw the reveal coming, but it was still awesome when it was confirmed.
Yeah... That seems to be the case for a lot of people. Although for some it didn't bother them too much. I personally am glad I got to experience the build up on my first playthrough
I suppose its my own fault for reading this (even though I didn't watch the video).
I found the spirit quest by accident too but in the clouds. Had enough hearts by then so it wasn't an issue....
Gross.
How about the spoiler that ganon dwarf is-
I had the same experience, and very strangely in Phirone on the top opf a mountain there was a falling stone. When time reversed, it leads directly to the island in the thundercloud and i thought it was intended to explore. I did everything just as you and now learned that there was an epic build up that i missed ... XD
I was exploring in the depths and came across it
I assumed that I was missing something since the gate thingies kept turning red when I tried to interact with them, but I had no idea it could be plot related (this was before I did the fire temple so I didn't know sage content could be in the depths)
I googled it and immediately got spoiled that there was a fifth sage and that it was mineru
I wish the game was a tiny bit more linear because it just made me kinda bored when I returned to it
I came across the construct depots and the dragonhead isles first too, and at the time I liked it because I got to discover stuff on my own without the game telling me to, but when I eventually found out the whole point of the ring ruins was part of a quest to lead you to the spirit temple, I felt like I had robbed myself of part of the game.
On the memories though I didn't mind watching them out of order. Reminded me of the Netflix show kaleidoscope, and I embraced the messiness of finding out what happens out of order
This is always going to be one of those games that I'll wish I could play again for the first time
Yeah, the _impact_ was better than Botw but the lastability not so much so as you became too Overpowered and post game rewards were abysmal. But then in it's defence - it didn't get DLC and I _loved_ the main game content and felt the loose ends so deserved it. If only to give Us more Sky content!
1:04:35 I think Elden Ring did this the right way. While letting you freely explore around 5 open world areas the second you step into the world, it locks you away from the endgame by blocking you from going to the capital unless you defeated atleast 2 of the 4 possible main bosses you can kill at this point in time.
It also constantly shows you the directions to go down the main paths, without forcing you to do any of them if you dont want to.
I think I'd definitely like to compare the 2 more closely in the future. Elden Ring is probably the better game, but they are both just so amazing in every way!
Tears did do this, pointing you towards Rito Village this time. But they should have used suggestive Direction more, and definitely had more exciting Unique enemies to encounter and loot.
I loved the Ancient Hero's Aspect though. I mean, this guy's video was very fair in it's ptasie/critique but isn't that exactly how the Zonai's were envisioned? Tribal, Animalic Warriors - but with a bit of fancy tech?
This man spent so much time and did so many things for this ONE HOUR VIDEO and only got 300 likes? I at least gotta give him a sub
I appreciate that! Had a lot of fun making this and I hope everyone who sees it is enjoying it as well 😁
I used the sapphire attached to an arrow to freeze the gloomhands then a ruby attached to an arrow to set them ablaze. Works better with a multi shot bow. Worked pretty well.
Depths was so fun to explore. I discovered every light root without a guide because it was so fun
I’m guessing the NPCs that forgot you were people you didn’t HAVE to talk to
Yeeeeeah I'm pretty sure that's the case
Yeah, it turns "how do you know me?" Into "how do you not know me?"
Yeaah but at least in tarry town, wasnt it because of link it was made in the first place?
They already pull BotW save data to pull your horses over, you'd think they could have checked who you've talked to/what quests you've completed to see who'd remember you. Though that would make more dialogue to write/localize probably.
@@hyperbola0 this is true. But they made the game bigger, so memory probably couldn’t support the extra dialogue. 🤷🏻♀️
An hour long review and no mention of my favorite addition, the Rock Octorok Weapon Repair Shop? They completely negate weapon damage and give you a brand new weapon!!
But seriously, this was an awesome review!
I'm glad someone is bringing up the Sky Islands' absolute letdown. They couldn't talk about them enough and I've already beaten the game twice and visited them maybe a handful of times. I ended up LOVING the depths, but the sky islands are just disappointing. They're spaced so far apart and sometimes there's really just nothing there worth the effort and so I don't even bother. Great video bro!
The depths are honestly the same, mostly just a nothing burger. A couple of neat things to discover here and there, but it's a lot of repetitious filler content that gets boring after the first couple of times you see it.
@@nick15684it’s like they generated it with ai
@@nick15684 I disagree if only because of the enemies in the depths - I love re-fighting bosses down there and finding poes and defeating enemy camps to take all the zonite they have
I was really hoping that there would be something like a sky continent outside of the Great sky Island. Like really think about that. A giant area where you can just run around and almost forget that you're in the sky but have all the zoni devices around you!
@@nessmess500 zonai devices are boring as hell especially that ugly orange grass
The quality of this video, in both writing and editing, made me fully expect this to be from a long-running channel. It's astonishing how great this video is for how new the channel is. Glad to see all the effort got the attention it deserved. Also really love this kind of review format, a completionist's perspective and thorough review of a game, it's great. Definitely keeping an eye out for more videos in the future.
I literally could not have said this better. Its like you took my exact feelings about TOTK and put them into words. It just needs a better balance between linear and non-linear. Especially with the story, which I am very thankful I realized the memory order and did it like that to get the full story. It definitely makes the story infinitely better when you get to experience all of the emotional impacts
IMAGINE THIS BEING YOUR FIRST ..... i'll repeat that, FIRST time you ever played a zelda GAME! tHAT WAS me
Oh lord AND ON TOP OF THAT it was the first time i played a FULL OPEN WORLD GAME, the most i have is RATCHET CLANK 2020 and Pokemon ARCEUS which BTW I AM SOOOOOOOOO MAD AT POKEMON now with scarlet and violet, and went from addicted to it, to realize how possible it is to make a CRAZY CRAZY AWESOME OPEN WORLD...
LIKe IMAGINE A POKEMON OPEN WORLD with the INTELLEGENCE OF ZELDA TOTK OR BOTW anyways I am stuck at the second main monster to get a sage, Not because i don't understand, but because I GET BOREDD!!! THER IS TOO MUCH AND THE STORY LINE IS ALL OVER THE PLACE! Now if this game had all the same things but had a linear story line for main quest like most games eh erm ..."pokemon" IT WOULD BE THE BEST GAME TOO ME EVER!!! I am in my 20's so Im so glad to play a true game that requires intellegence for the first time and doesnt treat me like a child!
Imagine someone finding the memory of Sonia dying as one of the first memories because you went to the Rito region first like the game heavily implied to you.
Zelda also treats you like a child, you were just in a super tight bubble called pokemon (the lowest quality franchise after sport games). If you want an actual open world game that respects your intelligence and has unique content instead of repetitious copy-pasted cr4p, play Elden Ring.@@jessebaldo1204
@ShallBePurified Yeah the placement of Sonia's memory is really bad - they should have put it somewhere you're more likely to visit later in the game :(
The problem with the dungeons is every time you complete one you have to listen to them saying, “So that was the imprisoning war.😮”
Fr bro. By like the third time I just got up and made food while the cutscene was playing
Yeah I easily got the memo on the memories' order, but beefed it with Mineru. I found the factory on my own because I live in the Depths. The sheer cliffs in darkness, the looming froxes, the weird flora, the gloom and lightroots, it's perfect. Then, I discovered Thunderhead Island because I wanted to see the big cloud mystery and had the exact number of hearts needed to get the door to open. Mineru was my second sage in the game after Tulin 😂. I still only have three sages, but I've discovered every single lightroot and have all three sages upgraded lolll. Idk I love the exploration in the game so much that I keep getting sidetracked, and the game kinda punishes you for not doing things in the intended linear order. I don't think linearity is necessarily the solution, though; rather, I think that the stuff should be hidden better and have better consequences when doing it out of order. Strict linearity in open world games is pretty bad when it's done. I think a few soft linearity checks could work, though. Make Thunderhead Island unreachable unless the player gets the lightning attack up armor like usual, explores enough to find the lightning resist armor and levels it up to level 2, or has the Lightning Helm replica from the Yiga hideout. Make it so the Light Dragon only offers the Master Sword to you after she sheds her last tear or you've talked to the Great Deku Tree or you've restored the giant Hylia statue and it tells you to seek the Light Dragon. Having multiple things that can trigger one event happening is a brilliant way to make players feel like they're playing how they want to play while still making things difficult to discover early unless you're actively seeking them out.
I wouldn’t wish upgrading every armor piece in the game on my worst enemy.
only ones I haven't finished are the old sets like wind and hero, I did max sky and time, and I haven't finished the 3 dragon sets. otherwise I've maxed them all. I do wish there was master mode. maybe they will next year and I'll do it all again.
It was so much more tenable in BotW.
Armor upgrades are kinda obnoxious in TotK honestly. I did the Barbarian sets and some others up to four, but God, it would take a century to do every piece.
@@chambeet i saw that you would need over a hundred star fragments. That alone would take SOOOOOOOOOO long
@@banuner_ Yeah, once I saw that some armor needed star fragments to upgrade them every single step of the way, I just gave up trying to upgrade everything.
And this is coming from someone who upgraded every single piece of armor in BotW other than the armor you got for getting 120 shrines in that game, which I upgraded a few times over, but I'd gotten tired of the game by the point I found all 120.
Man, you need WAY more subs. This is amazing.
I super appreciate that! Regardless of my sub count I always strive to make fun and entertaining videos. Thank you so much!
The game is so open, you can even skip getting the paraglider.
So I kinda managed to make my way to dragon head island and the spirit temple before finishing the region phenomenon quests (a couple of hours of squinting through the fog on the map and drinking sticky potions in case you were wondering). While it was kinda cool to discover before it was mentioned, I would not advise it for a first playthrough 😅 it made the narrative feel a bit wonky when they lead up to revealing that there must be another sage only to be like "Oh.. You found it. Cool, moving on". And the following quest to clear up the island felt kinda pointless. It made the hot research dude happy though.
So that and finding all the dragon tears while everyone continues to scratch their heads about the Zelda sightings lead to a few narratively jarring moments. Love the game though and I am looking forward to replaying it with full control over the pacing
Fellow twilight princess fan! I'm so happy to see more people appreciating tp because it's my absolute favorite zelda game! I stumbled upon you channel and watched most of you're videos because their so well done and funny. Keep up the good work you earned a new sub!❤
Twilight Princess is King! 👑
I'm glad you're enjoying my videos and I hope you continue to with my future ones. I plan on covering other stuff other than Zelda. But I've also got some pretty big plans for Zelda so I hope you enjoy and thank you so much for subscribing 😁
I google whether twilight princess is coming to switch at least twice a week, I love it so much and need it so badly :(
Fun fact if you also have the master sword, when u get the last sage early, purah also says AND YOU HAVE TO MASTER SWORD TOO!"
For a "Zonai-less run," I think that you should still be allowed to use the Zonai devices that are strewn about, and only use zonai capsules when ABSOLUTELY necessary (which is only like twice as far as I know - getting to Eventide Sky Island and Akkala Sky Labyrinth). There are a lot of things the devs probably intended for you to use certain devices, and they will often provide those in the area.
That is what I did on my first play through. It made the game quite enjoyable, I would have probably found boring to auto build the same solution every time…
I had no intention of getting all koroks or recipes, but I did everything else I could.
BOTW & TOTK both sitting over 250hrs (lol). I ended up using maps to find the last 10 or so shrines, and looked up shrine walkthrough for just one bc I couldn’t get the damn thing to curve properly (guide said to bomb the switch). I only upgraded armour that I used, didn’t get monster trophies bc lazy.
Fumbling with the devices in an attempt to make something that drives/flies straight was.,, interesting. I saw loads of amazing builds people made, and I’m here like “lol it go straight yay!”
I enjoy open games, it lets me do everything I want while ignoring the main story. I did find the 5th sage early, the lightning sky isle just seemed too appealing!
Bosses were all fine. I died in Ganons lair when I found it early (like 5 hearts early, with 1 sage!)… all other deaths were misadventures or while running from a lynel.
It always feels bad finishing a game like this, which is why I try to leave it until the last possible moment.
I actually liked stumbling upon the fifth sage before clearing the storm! I didn’t know it was a sage and so putting it together gave me anxiety thinking I was putting together a boss fight! So the relief that I felt was so cool in addition to getting another companion
Same here. I haven't done dragon Island without the thunder yet. Is was tricky but I knew there had to be something cool there.
I love that you can spoil the story and watch it in any order because that way you can be confused but that moment when you see it in order and it all comes together is unmatched for me
There are no story spoilers. The game’s memories are perfectly structured.
I really do this the best solution is to have dungeons have the linear aspects. While the world itself can be nonlinear. Really A Link between worlds is a perfect example. As soon as you’re in lorule you can to do most of its dungeon’s by renting an item.
Once they are all done, do the final dungeon. Boom non linear game with linear segments. They’ve kinda done it before
1:01:56 that was my biggest complaint with the game and my biggest wish too. It would have been so easy to program the game to play the memories in the right order regardless of which tears you pick up first
in response to the memory order, I happened to watch the one where all three enjoying a picnic and I found it a perfect wrap up to those tragic scenes. Getting to see them happy together one last time was the perfect bookend to the PAST story. but I understand its a 1 in 12 chance....sorta. other than that good points.
I listened to the whole video and I think you’ve done a really good job. Your critiques are fair and justified and you explain everything well. What I cannot believe is that your subscriptions aren’t in the 10s of thousands. This seems like a great channel with high quality content.
Weirdly enough, having only 3 hearts makes the Gannon fight easier. Because if he permanently takes you down to 1 heart, everytime he hits you, you get brought down to a quarter of a heart no matter what attack he uses. So then you can just use eat 2 apples and repeat, you're practically invincible
Honestly the depths concept was so cool mirroring the above area, but it was annoying to explore in the dark and even with everything lit up it's just the same random little camp to fight some mobs and felt boring - except the area at the top with the lava had a change in scenery
I'm glad someone else agees with my view on the dungeons just not being good at all, a shell of what Zelda dungeons usually are.
Great video! Love how you go over what the game gets right and what it misses the mark on without going on about the lore and timeline.
One of the more honest reviews of the game. Sometimes people just don't want to point out flaws. Everything is "fire". It's like weed strain reviews. They make every strain sound like H. Good video.
This is an amazing video Klubb, definitely your best one no doubt about it! I share the exact same thoughts about this game as you my friend.
The shrines in this game are a big step up from Breath of the Wild. While I did love Breath of the Wild's; this game goes even further! I did enjoy the dungeons, but I'll be honest, I didn't like that they were all activate terminals. I thought the water temple was too easy. The wind temple definitely seemed to be the one to do first with it being smaller in scope, I enjoyed the lightning temple and the fire temple because I really had to think about what I was doing. Yes, I did the Fire Temple without cheating and for that I found it to be the best dungeon in the game.
About the Spirit Temple, I had that exact thing happen, I stumbled across it completely by accident, while there was a BIG wow factor to that for me, I missed that entire build up, which would've been so much more meaningful and better paced. On the topic of build up, I fully agree that the memories should be shown in order, it would make the story have the proper impact it really does. I wouldn't be bothered if the glyphs stayed the same, they could be an easter egg as to where you're supposed to go. Thankfully, my memory findings weren't too messed up and did leave a big impact on me, and I didn't find the Master Sword until I'd seen the memories. I would like if we could've actually played through some bits as Zelda and maybe interacted with the characters in that time, even if they were linear sections, I'd be fine with that.
On the topic of linear, while BotW and TotK use non-linearity to it's advantage that allow for complete exploration without disruption, like you say, the story's impact suffers for it greatly.
I do like that there's a lot more side things to do in the game. Once I'd done the shrines and side quests in BotW, I was finished with the game. But with TotK, I've still got way more to do. With the addition of all these quests, it makes the world feel more alive, something that was very much needed for me to love it a second time round.
DLC-wise, I'm glad this game isn't getting any, there's more than enough here for this game to last, plus I like that the game is a complete package, that's how games should be (most of the time). I thought it was cool for BotW to get DLC, I still miss my precious Master-Cycle Zero, but I don't want DLC to be a reoccurring thing in Zelda games.
Well said Jam! Everything you said I agree with, for sure! I'm curious to see where Zelda will go after this. I feel like there's honestly no where to go but up!
Hey we need to make your discussion video now 😅
Love the depth of your videos! So suprised u dont have more followers! Cant wait to see what u do next!
You've just earned a new subscriber, Klubb. What an amazing video. I put it on as background to unload the dishwasher but ended up watching the whole thing with a cup and towel in my hand. Brilliantly done.
Thank you so very much, I appreciate that 😁
I thought that going to find Zelda at the castle after completing the regional castles would trigger the final boss and the end of the game, so I ignored it and went about completing almost everything else, including finding the 5th sage, before going back to Purah for her to say, 'Oh you already did all that?'. I like the freedom of these games but I'm always wondering if I'm doing things in the 'right' order, and I felt like I'd missed out when I realised I'd skipped that whole mission.
When it comes to weapons, I love that the rock octorocks can repair all weapons now. Even the legendary weapons can be repaired, they just need to be fused to a shield first.
49:15 I found this boss to be really fun. It was a breath of fresh air from the “kill creature with a sword to save 25% of the map” formula that I very much thought the game would stick to. However, I do agree that being able to just stumble across the construct factory was not the best idea on Nintendo’s part.
Wow man you literally made me watch the whole video. And it was amazing an one! Thank you for your time and effort.
For me you're A Zelda gunies and expert. Big shout well super done!!!!
"And a partridge in a pear tree" was brilliant comedy at the end of the list there lol
I liked that you could cheese the dungeons if you do it creatively, since I didn't have a hoverbike or enough battery for it. It actually made the fire dungeon my favorite.
The only thing _I_ didn't like about the dungeons was that it marked the locations on the map. That's my only problem.
With traditional zelda dungeons, yes I like them, but they're essentially fetch quests with a boss fight at the end. Whereas with these dungeons, it's more like ''you have a goal, find your own way there'' - and I love that you can cheese them if you really want to! There's many ways to solve a given dungeon, and you can do the parts of a dungeon in nearly any order.
I love it!
Watching Gannon's health go to the end of the screen my first playthrough made me go hysterical.
Zelda turning back from a dragon however, was a little weird and came out of left field.
37:16 Having $19.86 as a bank account amount greatly satisfied me for referencing Zelda 1's release year
I have had a lot of fun with this game, it is massive btw
On my play through, I actually just stumbled upon the 5th sage and I got to say it didn't take away much of the excitement and wonder. I saw the storm and thought "There's gotta be something in there right?" Absolutely blew me away. For me personally, it felt amazing to just stumble across something so important. I understand your feelings about it though, seeing as you had a different interaction finding it. Glad different experiences in different play throughs can elicit different thoughts from people.
Dude, the editing on this video was tight! I'm seriously impressed.
I also thought Yona was a villain because of her toxic-purple, acid-green color scheme. Since Link hadn't met her before the Upheaval, I suspected that she was the evil mastermind behind all the pollution. The fact that Mipha's statue seemed to have been replaced also rubbed me the wrong way (that is, until I stumbled upon Mipha's Court). After realizing that Yona was a genuine sweetheart all along, I just felt super stoked for my fish boi Sidon. And speaking of the Mucktorok, I also loved that goofy goober of a boss fight in the Water Temple. Even if it was rather cheesy, the whole quest line was very, very charming.
Thank you so much for this video, it is simply amazing!!
On my blind playthrough of TotK (I only watched the announcement trailer, bc companies tend to reveal too much before launch nowadays) I landed in Hyrule and then fell in one of the only wells leading to the depths. I didnt know they were a thing and it was one of the most memorable things in recent years for me playing games.
I remember my partner (we started simultaneously, but so that we wouldn’t see each other’s screen) turning around, at my audible gasp. We both were just staring.
I stumbled across the 5th sage first. Found that weird door on that weird island and was determined to get through, so I searched for shrines to get hearts while doing side stuff. Loved that you could do that, actually. Sure, the quest line is cool, but finding this mysterious stuff right after the depths was, again, a very great moment.
Dude you did everything for sure I’m very impressed
just the intro made me subscribe you deserve that for all of that effort my brother
I consider myself as a diehard Zelda Fan. ( even got the triforce on my wrist tatooed) and damn, I've stumbled across your channel just a few minutes before and you had me sold within the first Minute. I just recently started the game well I'm 25 hour's in but made yesterday and today my first two Dungeons bc I was just wandering and exploring everything.. Like, hey... another point of interest. Oh and what is this and this? 😅 besides the clunky mechanics with building ( even tho I managed to get the auto build. And the some BS like the flying korok ect. It's damn Shure that it's a heck of a Game. Your intro is very cool. Instant Sub. Have a nice Day everyone.
Wow, this video actually kept me watching that I never realized It was an hour long until it finished!!Your content is awesome!!
The underground part of the water dungeon reminded me so much of the water temple from twilight princess. Anyone else?
I’m new to the channel but I absolutely love this video and the comical script along with it. I found myself laughing aloud a few times. I’ve rewatched it several times while attempting my own true 100% of Tears. You’ve gained a sub out of me for this video alone. Keep up the good work!
I'm not great at puzzles but I LOVE the zelda storyline so I think having easy stuff is for people like us who love the game and story but not great at puzzles. Keeps us from quitting right away ❤😂😂
So I’m playing TOTK, my first game on switch, got it like two months ago and have been hooked on this, it’s my first Zelda game. :D
I am currently at the phantom ganon stage to defeat him at the hyrule castle, so have quite a lot to finish but don’t mind spoilers at all and wanted to watch a video that I can consume all the Zelda content there is bahahah
I must say though, your content is next level! I am very very surprised on the engagement on your videos I was very taken back with the ks you wholeheartedly deserve 10m subscribers and like 3-5m views per video for the amount of effort this took!
Lots of things I agree but also quite a few things I disagree with, again it’s my first Zelda game so I do not relate to your very understandable criticisms on a few points, great review regardless though! Keep it up!
ur channel is so insanely underrated, your editing is great!
The thing about the demon dragon battle not being challenging is that it's not supposed to be. The other 3 phases were difficult, demon dragon is about the novelty of switching between fighting dragons. It's cool! That's the point of it.
20:07 This made me fall over my chair and die of laughter.
I just misread your sub count as 100k and didnt second guess it for a moment. Fantastic video dude keep it up!
Thank you so very much I appreciate it! I will! I have way too much fun making these 😊
i didnt even notice that he only had 1.27k until reading this comment.
great video! i agree with a ton of your points, especially about the memories, but i definitely have to say that i cant relate to your disappointment that you can find the spirit temple early. maybe that's because i've never been a huge fan of zelda games (aside from the two most recent ones, which i've heard from several people "don't count"), as i find often their linear nature to be too restricting or frustrating. I was so floored and excited to find a completely unknown dungeon all on my own (even if it's kind of obvious in retrospect). i didn't even clear the clouds beforehand; i saw the weird shape of the clouds and thought "there's DEFINITELY something cool in there." i went through the thunderhead isles stumbling around in the fog, honestly just looking for the shrine, because i had no idea you COULD clear the clouds. finding the mask, taking it down, having my growing suspicions about a fifth dungeon confirmed; it was thrilling. notably, i also did this after collecting all of the memories (which i skipped upon receiving and watched cohesively later, which i am very happy i did lol), so my story experience wasn't affected.
i loved the thunder temple, it was awesome! honestly the whole gerudo region was stunningly cool. loved the cold shock that i got when i first walked into the once-bustling town, made even more effective by playing botw beforehand. plus the early boss reveal! super cool. the atmosphere inside the dungeon is amazing, and the puzzles were engaging, and i loved the way they linked into each other. a good amount of wiggle room for me, personally. not to mention how absolutely amazing the final boss was!! such a stellar improvement over botw, and it also makes for some very interesting speedruns.
ultimately, i think the open world gameplay is an extremely delicate tightrope for a zelda game to walk. where is the line between too much freedom and too little? it obviously depends on who you ask, because everyone wants something different out of a game. i think it hits the mark near-perfectly for me (i have some grievances with the way the great sky island tutorial is structured but that's me being salty). i will forever remember the rush of joy i felt when i realized there was a fifth dungeon; in a way, i feel that it was more effective and special than if i had the fanfare and buildup of the quests beforehand. i'm intrigued to see where the next game lands on the linear to non-linear scale. anyway, wonderful video! i'll make sure to look into your other stuff, because you clearly make these videos with care (i absolutely cannot imagine going through all the koroks, good lord. i admire your persistence). thanks for your work :)
Dude this is what you call a thorough video of TOTK. Nice work 👌
this is the first entertaining video i have found in a while, thank you for supplying me with 1 hour of bliss
I hit subscribe earlier in the video but getting to you saying "Matt Mercer... I mean Gannondorf" absolutely took me out, thanks for that lmfaoooo
Nice review, I like your perspective and agree about the story telling.
That's funny hearing you complaining about the compendium, it's probably not my favorite part because this game has so many great things but honestly I love it ! For me it adds a reward to getting new equipment or seeing new wildlife/monsters. The search function is really useful but would be too broken if it was just always available. I did also blow a good amount of money on it (always forgot to take a picture of the bosses) but I was 3/4 done on both Totk and botw before buying (which is in itself a feat because I did not realize until totk that you could actually ZOOM with the damn thing so getting pics of lizards etc. was.. difficult)
I LOVED stumbling into the fifth dungeon by accident. I even heard from a friend beforehand (spoilerfree) that "at a later point in the story the storm will be gone" but I was soooo curious that a went to the sky islands anyway. It was so fun and I was a little proud of myself for finding a sage without the yellow blinking dots.
To me it feels like the true problem is that nintendo made it very obvious that this is the "wrong way to progress". Like you said, Purrah just tells you "whaaaat? You where there already???" OO and its really anoying like you did a bad thing or something. In a truely free open world experience there should have been a way to progress that feels just as natural.
I do agree on the memories and dungeans standing to be more linear tho. Sometimes railroading can absolutley be a good thing
I really liked ur video and how u talked about all the topics. I agree with u on a lot of the topics. the only thing that is different for me is that u told ur perspective fully without trying to see the other perspective. There are a lot of people who likes to have the choice after running it down correctly the first time to do some stuff easier like a dungun speedrun or whatever. Personally I like to have the freedom or i like that I have the freedom to just either fully the story or run blind in. I do wish they make it more clear on the tears order cuz I saw that Sona died as 3rd video and like at 5th I saw when mineru mentions swallowing the Secret Stone and my brain connected the dots immediately. Still loved ur opinion and that u mentioned everything it just felt a little bit one sided for me personally. I am looking forward for more videos like this. Sorry for my bad English xD
DUDDEEE I thought you had a million subs or more but when i saw less then 2k I was so surprised KEEP IT UPPPP!!!
Great recap! Even with all my gripes about TOTK, it's still one of my favorite games of all time. I see myself revisiting it again in a year or two and starting over.
This video is so high effort lol I love it. Especially the little animation at 58:52.
Awesome video! We need more of this!
Thanks so much man! It's fun making these, hope to get the consistency coming 😁
Great Video! retro told me about you so I checked this video out.
Thanks so much! Glad to see he's helping me out! I appreciate it 😁
i feel like a better comparison to the depths would be Lorule from a link between worlds, dispite being essentially the same, there are differences, such as the fact that a link between worlds tries much harder to imply that lorule is a mirrored version of hyrule, while a link to the past's dark world is just, a dark world that had to stay within the confines of a similar map because of hardware.
🤣🤣🤣 I could not stop laughing at the memory order part. That’s so true though because I did the same exact thing!!
I spent the first half of summer doing this too! This will be good to have on in the background while I take care of everything I put off doing during that time 😅
the thing about BotW's Champion Abilities, vs TotK's Sage Powers, is that the Champions were like an "extension" of Link's abilities-- hold the Jump button for a second, and Revali's Gale will send you wayyy up; hold the Shield button, and Daruk's Protection will nullify any and all damage; hold the Attack button (charge a spin) and Urbosa's Fury will expand your effective radius; and of course, Mipha's Grace can undo fatal damage and then some...
...whereas TotK's powers were more like the Sages directly helping Link, since you have to walk up and Ask them to activate it each time...in my opinion, Nintendo couldve made the squad much easier to use by simply changing the input needed-- for example, Holding a D-Pad Direction usually brings up a menu (for swapping weapons/bows, shields, or hand-runes)...and the direction Relates to the function-- Link holds his shield in his Left hand, so holding D-Pad Left pulls up the Shield Menu...
so why not use "Hold D-Pad Down" to bring up a Sages Menu? just Tapping it could stay as the Whistle button (which RARELY works as advertised, at "summoning" your companions), but Holding it should let you select a specific sage and automatically Activate their ability (like making the water-bubble, or expanding the lightning-circle)...
...there are a lot of 'small misses' that start to overshadow the 'great hits' that this game achieved...hell, even limiting the House Building to FIFTEEN PARTS, and decorations like Flower Beds counting toward that limit, is just another example of how they were just So Close to what couldve been called a 'perfect' game...
I think Future Zelda Games can be made like:
One Botw/Totk ish
And
One Classic Zelda game
To avoid getting bored of both formulas at the same time
I didnt have an issue with prize shrines because I found that sometimes after going thru the tedius process of getting to it (usually by my own brain over complicating the puzzle) I dont *want* to deal with a new puzzle. Sometimes I just wanna run in, get my orb and dip. I do love puzzles but when you've been stuck on one for a bit the frustration just makes you want it over so I appriciated them quite a bit.
30:06 What I liked the most about BotW weapons was how many beautiful designs there were. I used to keep an entire inventory of different, even weak weapons just for style points and cosplay purposes. In TotK it eventually all devolved into a clown shivs with a pompon (silver boko horns).
The fire temple was one of my favorites purely because I struggled to figure out one specific part, and I enjoyed the process of coming up with a solution. (I beat the game before the hover bike was discovered)
You’re forgetting the fact that the original Zelda from the NES was also nonlinear and open
Thanks for a great review
I figured out that the baseball shrine that you mentioned, along with others that utilize similarly big switches to smash, can be cheesed with arrow and bomb flower fusions.
I did the fire temple the intended way when it first came out and it was fun and all, but for future playthroughs it’s bike time baby
Hey Klubb I’m 5 months late but on the gloom hands you can use elemental stones like topaz and ruby’s to 3 shot each hand, and with a multi shot bow you can one shot each hand with them. Hope this helped you out!
18:24 - 18:39 I feel so called out for that 🤣
YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT WAS TO GET THE BALL TO LAND WHERE IT NEEDED TO
Physics just didn't like me and many others that day
I like the blessing shrine, as sometimes, I just don't want to do puzzles, and just get the thing right away
37:32 I wish Wolf Link worked as companions in TotK. So once unlocked you could toggle it from inventory so you wouldn't have to constantly rescan it every time you took a longer glider flight or entered a city.