Tears of the Kingdom Is Great, But...
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Tears of the Kingdom has been getting rave reviews from just about every outlet under the sun. This isn't a surprise considering the game is really really good. Might even be the best zelda game, and is certainly in contention for the best Switch exclusive. BUT it isn't good enough, this video is about why.
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Do you know what’s wild? My wife and I have separate switches, and have been playing TOTk together (at different paces) and I saw all of the Tears out of order. My wife on the otherhand, saw the wall murals in the Forgotten Temple and noticed that the memories are actually laid out in order, and then proceeded to adventure around, watching the Tears in the proper order! I was amazed as I didn’t even know they were listed in such a way but she noticed it and committed to watching them chronologically! So it is possible!!!
I did exactly what your wife did! I was so invested in that storyline in the past that I did that before I'd even completed one of the regions.
Yep, I did that too. The games mainquests all give the player quite the hard nudge into a specific direction or location at the start and it all plays out wonderfully if you just Listen to the game for the first bit :)
On that note, talking to Impa in any town after going to that temple (or after you watch a tear), she will tell you the next chronologically ordered tear to look for
I think only the ones in order should appear on the map at a time that would actually help a lot because if you don't notice the order then you might easily find them out of order which is what happened to me...😅
It's like it shows two different kinds of people. Those who EASILY noticed th wall since it was literally TOLD TO YOU and those who just ignores it.
4:12 what's even worse with companions is that they seem to be programmed so that they stay at a certain distance from link, meaning when you want to get close to one of them to get their power, they run away from you, which is reeeaaallly frustrating
You’re just not good at the game, dude. Just play the game naturally & sometimes just take advantage of their powers when conveniently close to them. Not required to use their powers. It’s generally optional.
@@DanielMazahreh i love the "you're not good" argument when you've never seen me play.
The fact that i consider it not to work good has nothing to do with my level as a player, it's just a fallacious argument.
I'm perfectly able to distinguish a mechanic that is working fine from one i estimate not to be working the way it should.
I have, on several occasions, seen that when I wanted to make use of a power, the NPC was running away from me as i came to him. I have tried it in many situations in order to be certain that it was not my imagination, and my conclusion through observation is that the companions try to stay at a certain distance from link (probably because the developers didn't want them to be packed around link).
Now if you estimate the mechanic is working fine, you perfectly have the right to, but please don't use the "you're bad, get good" shit with me, that's just stupid.
If you want to debate on the mechanic, fine. But use proper arguments.
If you think i'm wrong, fine, i actually don't care.
But you're answer is just straight stupid, sorry.
PS : if that REALLY matters, i've finished the game without any trouble, and i've never really "needed" the powers. This is precisely why i think the system doesn't work well : on the few occasions i've wanted to use them, the NPC ran away from me and i ended up solving the situation without using them. I think the mechanic doesn't work on some occasions (especially fights) because if you can't use the powers on the occasions you want to, then the message the game sends you is more or less "nah, don't use the powers", and it is always a bad thing when, for some reason, the game doesn't let you use the mechanic it has implemented for you.
Now that this is said, i admit that outside of fights, it works quite fine.
@@aerialjohn8631 Dude, I never had any issues approaching the avatars. Just sprint towards them. It’s not that hard. The fact that I was able to do that while you cannot is INDEED relevant to bring up how significantly incompetent you are at this game. Now, my advice is for you to replay this game anew & improve yourself.
@@DanielMazahreh dude, are you even reading their arguments??? how are you going to run to a sage if they are actively trying to run away from you? and frankly, just because you never had a problem with said issue, does not mean that everyone that had the issue has to replay the ENTIRE game after already having the time, effort, and skill needed to complete said game.
@@tristaneidson7353 Their run is NOT faster than Link’s sprint. You can indeed catch them as long as you control Link masterfully & aware of your surroundings by improving your skills in controlling the free camera and ZL camera centering. Just because you completed the game, that does NOT make your learning experience put to an end. Replay the game thoroughly as this game was intentionally designed with replay value. If you only play the best games of all time only once, you are missing out. As of now, you have room for improvement. Blame your incompetent self instead of wrongfully blaming a brilliantly designed game that offers all the tools you need.
You know what will solve the menu problem?
BRING BACK ELEMENTAL ARROWS
9 times out of 10 we are making that type of arrow. Saving us so much time!
Atleast this. And if they're gonna keep the fusion-mechanics, Atleast let us fuse arrows in advance so we can have arrows already pre-fused & stocked up in our inventory.
A lot of people seem to not realize that the game gives you the order of the memories, however like you said they are more likely to find the other memories first.
To see them in order the first memory is in front of the stable and impa is there. The game gives you a linear direction by telling you to head to rito village so it’s likely you will encounter this first memory. After seeing this at some point impa tells you to head to the forgotten temple where you enter this room that shows you the glyphs and their order to watch it. They even lay out a map of hyrule for you at the bottom where the Glyphs are located and the glyph order on the wall. By studying the glyph shapes and seeing them on the map you can you can determine which one is supposed to be next.
But the problem is is that most people are not gonna follow the linear path nor would they think to do this quest.
Impa hints on the order by pointing out the first picture.
@@blowc1612 yup
The thing is, that room in the Forgotten Temple is like a puzzle. And like most puzzles, some people will pick up on it right away, while others might not even realize there is a puzzle to be solved and just leave after marking their map with the tear locations. People aren't necessarily stupid for not noticing that, and really shouldn't be punished because the game let them leave the temple thinking they did what they needed to.
And that's not to mention the fact that the game actively encourages players to forget about quest markers and just follow where the wind takes them. The big appeal of BotW and TotK is the openness of it all, the ability to do just about everything in any order. For all the game knows, the player might find any or all of the tears without ever going to the Forgotten Temple, never even getting the CHANCE to figure out the chronological order. They might see things in the wrong order just for playing the game they way they want, which players are actively encouraged to do in these games.
I think the simplest solution would be that after you find a tear, you get a textbox saying:
"Memory #6 has been added to the Purah Pad. What will you do?"
>Watch now
Watch later
That way you can just be like, 'Well, I haven't seen memories 1-5 yet, so I guess I'll just watch this later.' So you can pick them up in any order and just watch them in the Purah Pad after you've found all the preceding ones. Now people are far less likely to watch them out of order accidentally.
Of course none of this would fix the other issues with the story, like Link never saying anything to anyone else about the memories during the main story quests 'cause the game doesn't take into account which ones you've seen at any point. Honestly, being able to see memories out of order doesn't even bother me that much, I'm more concerned about the complete disconnect between the memories and the main storyline.
I feel like Tears of the Kingdom has one of the best stories in the whole series, but it just couldn't be told well with the completely open structure of these games. It would have worked so much better in a more linear game where the writers could more easily control what information was given when.
Sorry for the text dump, lol.
I was kinda surprised to see all the Champions' weapons being used by the Sages in the cutscenes. On top of that and the Divine Beasts being just gone with no explanation, and the Champions scarcely being mentioned, and their weapons in the modern day being remade by just anybody (looking at the Boulder Breaker), they feel...cheapened. Especially the Great Eagle Bow, which was literally made to LOOK LIKE Revali (dark blue with white accents, the tips splitting off into three "tufts" like his feathers did, the blue scarf, and the yellow bit being placed so it looks like a beak, so the bow itself looks like a stylized version of him). The only one that didn't feel cheapened was the Lightscale Trident, because Sidon, Mipha's brother, was the only one who used it. We got all this new Zonaite and Construct gear, but when it came to the ancient Sages, they had the exact same weapons that are being used in the modern day? Really?? Lazy design imo
Also the arrow fusing is SO annoying. Instead of the simplicity in BotW of having different arrow types, now I have to reload my arrows for every. Single. SHOT. Instead of just switching to one arrow type and spamming it. I spend more time in the fuse menu than I do in the actual combat situation ffs
I have three critiques about the world of ToTK:
1. The emptier parts of Hyrule in BoTW like Akkala, The Gerudo Highlands, and The Faron Grasslands are still mostly empty in ToTK. Similar to how Kakariko Village has the Ring Ruins as new landmarks, I believe these emptier areas needed new points of interest.
2. The Sky Islands feel more like an extension of the surface rather than it’s own world. I thought we were teased on The Great Sky Island that the sky was going to have its own biomes and ecosystems. I’d have more giant sky islands with more interesting shrine quests than simply bringing a crystal somewhere, and I’d expand the sky’s involvement in the story.
3. The Depths was the most disappointing part of the game. The darkness could’ve created the most incredible sense of discovery ever, but the potential was missed out on. It’s also just one biome besides Death Mountain. I’d add more biomes and more interesting locations that aren’t just mines. Here’s a couple ideas:
- Korok Forest could’ve been Skull Woods
- Zora’s Domain could’ve had Swamp Palace
-Kakariko Village could’ve had the Yiga Clan’s base in The Depths
I lack the ability to read all of this bro can you shorten it for me
Please*
😁🙏🏼
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the UI Designers sure is something.
Its weird to me. As the stamina wheel is an absolute masterclass in UX design. Yet the sages might be the opposite. That said, this game has so much controls and stuff, it is very hard to design everything perfectly. Still tho...
Your point about the non-linear storytelling is spot on. I think it’s a failure from the story writers’ perspective on recognizing the fundamental difference between Tears and BOTW: In the former, Link and Zelda are working together to achieve the same goal at two points in time. In the latter, we know from the very beginning where Zelda is and what she’s doing, and our task is to learn and understand who LINK is. In the second case, geographically triggered flashbacks made perfect sense, whereas the geoglyphs didn’t really serve any purpose except as a beacon of a dragon tear to be spotted from the sky.
Who’s Link
I thought we Were Gonna Get A Co-Op 2 player Open World Zelda where you play As Zelda and Link on Screen Simultaneously? THAT wouldve saved TOTK. Imo
I actually followed through Impa’s main quest. Took the photo at that temple which tells you the order of memories to be discovered and hunted down the tears in order based on that photo.
same here
The problem is how easy it is to miss Impa. You can go to Lookout Landing and get the paraglider and then immediately go start Regional Phenomena and find a few Tears along the way and then want to find the rest of them for the rest of the story, but they'll be all out of order because you didn't go to the right stable first
This is my favourite review of this game thus far! You're not shitting on and pointing out every single bad thing in the game and ignoring the good. You talk about both its good and its bad, and I can 100% agree with you.
It's great how you said that we need to know something's flaws to truly love it. Really well said.
$70 to pick up Korok shit in the sky and help a local domeskull who works for a construction company prop up 81 signs since he doesn't understand gravity.
Favorites tab was the first idea I had playing! I can’t believe they didn’t do it (especially with everything else they have thought out so carefully)
It’s not a great idea at all as that will increase accidental command inputs. Generally not required. Nintendo gave all the sorting categories you need. It’s up to the gamer to efficiently utilize this system to their benefit. Blame your own incompetence before prematurely judging a brilliantly designed system.
@@DanielMazahreh a favorites tab? It would be just like the other “sort by” options they have, but customizable by the player. I can’t see how that would lead to missed inputs.
Plus, it would be useful outside of combat. I like to use Wood + flint + Hylian Pinecone as a hold-and-drop, but the game doesn’t add hold and drop items to your frequently used sort by tab.
It’s just a QoL thing but it would be nice.
@@LighthoofDryden You obviously didn’t watch the video in which the anti-intellectual content creator was very clear in pointing out adding one item in favorites & activating it via double-tapping the D-pad. Terrible idea!
Also, 3 is enough & Nintendo provided what you need to sort through your materials well. It’s all on you, and based on your response suggesting really bad ideas, you are incompetent at playing TotK.
@@DanielMazahreh Ok, first off ”anti-intellectual content creator”? You’re not a stereopticon, stop projecting.
Secondly, 3? There are only 3 sort options in the items menu. Nintendo made 4 sort options in the item quick menu, which was the topic of discussion since scrolling through 200 plus items is not enjoyable. Plus, several items deal double damage when attached to an arrow, yet they are literally over 150 items into the list.
Finally, a potential solution. Since you use the joystick to move horizontally through the menu, you could add extra rows underneath to allow vertical movement and better groupings of items as separate rows, I.E. food, elemental, monster parts, utility, zonai devices, etc.
@@DanielMazahrehtotally fine to think any given idea is bad, but you should probably both rewatch from the 3 minute mark and reread my original comment before trying to condescend to anyone about comprehension ability.
One of the biggest problems with the story in BOTW was that the bulk of the story happened in the 100 years ago past. It’s crazy that Nintendo decided to do that again. Granted, TOTK does it a lot better and there is a lot of story that unfolds in the present. But the lack of interaction with Ganondorf and Link is really disappointing.
Would have liked the combat to have more depth
The game does tell you the order to watch the scenes in though.
Yeah somebody else commented that! I had no idea there was a set order that you could find lol
@@mhswoocer In fairness, I can see how it would easily be missed. I was interested in making sure i saw them in the right order, so I went looking for anything that might hint to that. That led to me following impa's directions and examining the temple very closely. I know plenty of people who just went to whichever ones they saw and got the scenes in a very strange order.
@@BardianAngel It doesn’t fix the problem because of how easy it is to miss it. I had no idea that wall order even existed until way after I found all the memories
I'll say it. I like Botw's storyline much better than TotK's. The narrative style has it's issues of 'course but I feel like it actually does work for the kind of game it is. Link being an amnesiac survivor trying to piece bits and pieces of who he used to be is compelling when you think about the kind of world we were meant to be experiencing for the first time. The story felt crafted to connect to the player in a new and intimate way, experiencing the same unfamiliar world alongside Link.
With Totk however, It feels like they couldn't figure out what they were doing. They had like, a few cool story beats and ideas but the inbetweens, like the memories and characters themselves felt so impersonable and somehow even more 2-demensional then Botw's. There's also just so, sooooo many holes in some of the narrative logic that made it much less compelling for me.
Something I also find really strange is that the game promotes player freedom but is also, and rather frustratingly, not designed to compensate the player should they find the memory that reveals Zelda's fate early on. The game won't allow Link to tell anyone this information, so the typical "Where is Zelda?" dialogue continues and it ends up creating an incredibly redundant experience if you want to finish visiting all the regions and completeing the other side adventures that also feature a 'Where is Zelda?' Segment. It feels like a huge oversight on Nintendo's part to have released it like this
Say it then bro
Like actually say the whole comment out loud
Yeah! I’m very close to finishing the game, and I really wish Link could tell them what happened to Zelda instead of everyone being like “Yooo! I saw her! But now she’s gone! What???” Like please make it stop
Once again I'm here to complain about the time you showed the wrong final fantasy game. Team Pineapple. Great video!
I understand, some crimes can never be forgiven...
This was a very good video and I really appreciated your perspective. I’ve seen a lot of videos that call this game trash just for the sake of it. But you call out its flaws out of love. Definitely the right way to look at things.
Thank you so much!
The comparison between Link's close and unique relationships with the sages in Ocarina of Time and the cookie cutter nothing-relationships he has with the sages in Tears bothers me a lot. Saria was his childhood friend who cared deeply for him, and someone he had to leave behind and grow up. Princess Ruto was his supposed betrothed, who wants to keep the oath when they are adults. Nabooru was that sort of hot older woman you have a crush on when you're a child but then you grow up and become equals (she symbolizes the romantic aspects of growing up), Darunia had a sort of brotherly love with Link like an older brother, then Zelda...she was Link's equal, co-captains in the fight against Ganondorf and each the only person the other could truly understand. Tell me what, if any connections Link has with the Sages in Tears. There's none. Except arguably Sidon but even then...I could see Mipha having that close connection because of their long friendship but she's gone. Idk man the heart just wasn't there for me.
Link is best friends with the sages in totk and he has a very close connection to Zelda in this game. It's not the game's fault you're blind to the obvious heavy zelink in this game because you prefer a dead fish who was a side character
Link doesn't get with Ruto in oot either by the way lmao. It was to retrieve an object, nothing more
Link is basically Tulin's uncle and his role model. He has a brotherly bond to the others. You're just blind to anything that's not harem headcanon fuel for you
@@kit76149 When did Link and Tulin interact outside of a throwaway side quest in BOTW? Just telling me he's like his uncle means nothing if it's not shown. I have no idea where you got that other nonsense about harem headcanon. Link's relationship with the Sages in OoT was built over time and they each fit into the theme of growing up and going through different stages of relationships, just like real life. It hit different because it felt personal.
This is just...throwing characters together and telling the audience they are close instead of doing the work to show it. Stop deflecting and defending bad writing, it's not a good look.
And btw, there's nothing wrong with a harem headcanon. If that's your thing, go for it. I've never personally thought of any of the characters in OoT in any other way than how they are portrayed in the game, but my imagination isn't that great. They are written better than anything I could think of.
@@Claegoagree w u 100% idk what this guy is on, totk sages were incredibly bland and i agree mipha did have potential… oot was a masterpiece of video game narratives and totk / botw seem so toned down
Wow the first guy that calls this a masterpiece and will say the errors. Legend.
Never saw a more contradicting sentence😂
@@orfeas2335 not at all, a game can have flaws and be a masterpiece at the same time.
@@gamerrossi3007 Masterpiece for me means something without flaws. But we r just playing with words here
@@orfeas2335 Yeah, i agree on that. I have a different definition.
@@gamerrossi3007 and yet one of these definitions is garbage.
I honestly am really disappointed with totk. I couldn’t even beat 1 of the 4 main missions because I couldn’t force myself to do it
SAME. TOTK is BOTW in DeBug Mode. Period. *WHEN WILL WE GET A MODERN Zelda Game Open World RPG with Modern PROCESSING RATE 4K 70 FPS OPEN WORLD ZELDA ON A MODERN HARDWARE SYSTEM??
SUPER SWITCh. ????
2030????? TF.
With Real in depth difficulty and RPG elements, stats etc with REAL Big Difficult Dungeons, with UnRealEngine5 Graphics???😮😅
Totk should be Called: baby Zelda for kids. 😂
I wish the “you died” game over screen had different music rather than reusing it from BOTW.
Voiced characters, anime-esque aesthetics, breakable weapons (as the standard), androgynous Link, a magical tablet eerily reminiscent of real-life computer tablets, inventory option-bloat (along with unnecessary HUD clutter), open world for the sake of open world...
Nintendo doesn't realize that too much is too much; people love to defecate on _The Adventure of Link_ because of its difficulty, but it managed to strike a nice balance between details of the world and gameplay despite its limitations. Here's to hoping that this franchise is reset back to its roots.
@@frogglen6350 Nah.
The issue with memories is that - like in BotW, they are clearly tied to certain locations. The entire system would have to be adjusted to make the memory hunt justified.
Which wouldn't be too hard. They could simply lock it behind the already-existing quest (the one which even shows you the correct order). And not spawn the pool of tears at a given location untill you unlock it.
Tbh my biggest issue is you have this massive world with 3 layers and they still somehow manage to under utilize all the amazing locations for dungeons.
Whistle is supposed to summon them anyway, hold it down, select a sage or horse, and whistle. Tap and it summons all of them to you.
The only "real" problem this game has is that the story moves differently than the world. You as a player could be steps ahead in story than anyone in the game world. It bugged me a bit that i found zelda but was not able to tell purah or any of the regions that phantom zelda is a fake. I get why they did it, they would have to make a lot of different versions of interactions. And locking a cutscene behind progression would fight against the openness of this game. But it still hurt the immersion a bit. Doesnt take away from it being an absolute masterpiece tho.
I just finished the game like 15 minutes ago, now I can watch the video in peace. :)
I was agreeing with pretty much everything you said, up until 9:00 when you said the memories in Tears were “so much better” than in BotW lol. Tears of the Kingdom is a phenomenal game that improves upon BotW in a ton of huge ways. The memories are not one of those improvements, in fact everything about them is a downgrade from BotW’s. The story is much more linear and that only hurts it when the player doesn’t view them in order, a problem that didn’t actually exist in BotW because they knew the memories would be seen out of order, so they wrote the story with that in mind. Even in the correct order, though, TotK gains nothing from this linearity.
Like BotW, the ultimate end result of the memories is known extremely early on, mostly before the first memory is even gathered, yet here several scenes serve only as build-up to this critical event that is already known. Memories that look cool, but don’t provide *any* meaningful new information are not good. For example, Ganondorf killing Sonia and taking her stone was shown in the opening mural. A cool scene shouldn’t be the only value in a memory. Similarly, a memory showing Ganondorf vowing fealty to the king of Hyrule and then the king and Zelda saying they think he has an evil plan doesn’t serve a purpose when we know what Ganondorf does afterwards.
The few memories that do provide important info completely clash with the active plot. The first found memory makes it extremely clear that Zelda is in the ancient past, but other characters are unable to acknowledge that until after the Regional Phenomena. The third found memory totally gives away the second important thing to happen to Zelda, and only two characters can ever acknowledge that (and only much, much later). Events seen in the memories don’t enhance or cooperate with the present day story, they actively spoil it.
In BotW, the memories are written in a way that works with the method of storytelling, gives each scene a purpose, and perfectly strengthens the plot, themes, and gameplay. BotW has a solid theme centered around the Calamity that destroyed Hyrule 100 years ago. The champion’s cutscenes make the loss of those champions feel real, and though the featured characters sometimes fall flat, conceptually the memories are perfect. Every other cutscene is focused on *link* and *zelda*. This is important because Link being present connects you to the memories, and every memory has value for Zelda’s character development and her relationship with Link. BotW’s memories give Zelda more depth and growth than any character in TotK could ever dream of. This also serves to reinforce your narrative motivation. While the whole world is filled with loss and grief, every ruin reminding you of your failure, the memories serve to remind you of what you *haven’t* lost. Everything is about Zelda, so of course that’s gonna make you want to go save Zelda from Ganon.
In TotK, once you figure out what happened to Zelda, which could easily be by Tear #3, it *weakens* the narrative motivation. With no hint that there’s anything you can do to reverse it, she is as good as lost. That goal driving you forward is gone. It doesn’t even serve some sort of desire for revenge, because Ganondorf didn’t directly cause what happened to her.
BotW still had cool scenes, important events, and new information in its memories, along with ***massively*** stronger character development than TotK, all in a story that smoothly works *with* the non-linear storytelling and time gap, rather than against it. Every part is intricately designed to feed into each other and tell a story with incredible, solid themes, growth, and a *purpose* . TotK tells a *cool* story and leaves all that out
This got out of hand lmao, as you can see I’m very passionate about the story of BotW. Anyway I loved the video and the opening point about how we need to critique our favorite games is very true, which is why I am criticizing TotK’s story so much lol. It reminds me of the video about “fixing my favorite game” by Razbuten, who’s one of my favorite channels. Great vid, keep it up
Thank you for this comment! I’ve never been able to properly articulate why BoTW’s narrative worked so much better than TOTK but this perfectly explains why. BOTW is personal, you and Link woke up in a world you do not recognize, and learning about the life Link used to have pushes you to try to save what’s left after seeing the friends you have lost. TOTK’s narrative is much less compelling because you are watching visions that do not involve Link/the player. Memories also tend to be recollected out of order anyway. When seeing Zelda’s fate, there’s literally no reason to take down Ganondorf. Link should’ve been the one who was transported back to the past. Idk, i was really disappointed w the story but this long comment is just me expressing that I agree.
Put the Sage abilities on the Rauru’s hand.
Imagine when you activate the hand you can click in on the right stick and it will bring you to a second wheel which houses all of your sage abilities. Simple.
This game is good but not one of the best games ever made. It's not even the best Zelda game for me.
W comment
me when i’m tasteless
Why don’t white people season their food?
The age old question we have all asked, seriously or comedically. As with many culinary norms: it comes back to the French. French cuisine, and many styles that were heavily inspired by French cuisine, places a large focus on having food that tastes very singular. That is to say that food should taste of itself as intensely as possible: foods like meat served with a meat sauce reduced as much as possible so that it tastes very intensely of, well, meat. But for many cuisines the focus is different: layering many different flavor profiles to have a more complex taste. Scientists have even studied this phenomenon and found a similar divide, European cuisines tend to have ingredients that share similar chemical compounds that account for taste, that is to say that recipes include many ingredients that taste similar. Meanwhile, other cuisines tend to have recipes in which there is little overlap in chemical compounds, which is to say that recipes are designed to pack in many different flavors at once.
But why does European food do this when so many other cuisines don't? After all much of Europe was historically focused on increasing trade to increase their access to things like spices, why go to all that trouble just to end up not using them? As it turns out much of European cuisine did use spices in this way for a long time, but increasing access to them ended up making heavily spiced food less of a status symbol. The social elites of France no longer could be eating better food than everyone else simply by layering spices on, so the focus shifted elsewhere: to the most intense and singular flavors possible. The new line of thinking was that if status cannot be in the ingredients, it should then be in the preparation. Having well trained chefs who tried to formalize a theory of cooking became more vogue, the new method was to have a core flavor and trim the unnecessary fat. This style of cooking would frequently become highly labor intensive as work was put in to make the most intensely flavored food possible, such as a demi-glace which may take an entire day to make. Such laborious practices would solidify this cuisine as strictly for the elites.
One might ask why a French trend became the norm for much of Europe, and later the United States as well. The answer lies in the structure of French cuisine and the development of the modern restaurant. The modern restaurant originated in France, from royal cooks who found themselves out of work due to a failing monarchy and instead used their skills to offer the food of the royalty to the more common man. As we now know, this idea caught on and became quite popular, and the highly structured nature of French kitchens meant that working in such a restaurant was a great place to learn. As such, many aspiring chefs would travel to France to go apprentice in a kitchen to learn the trade before returning to their home country. When these chefs went to learn they not only learned culinary techniques and skills, but also concepts that were popular in French cuisine such as the notion of having very singularly flavored food. Ultimately a changing status symbol resulting from highly successful trade ended up rippling throughout the continent and affecting other regional cuisines in a way that perseveres even now, centuries later.
Diversity, in food as in society, is the true source of strength and pride for the proletariat. Delicious meals are the right of the working class.
Wtf did I just read💀
If you're a zelda fan you most likely beat botw a couple times and also the age of calamity.. so I've beaten literally thousands of the same enemies for years now. So disappointed they added like 2 new enemies that can all be 1 shot with a strong arrow. The combat is incredibly repetitive
This is very fun! I always find myself having thoughts in this vein on my favorite games. I love them so much that I want them to be better (or spend so much time with them that their flaws really stand out 0_o).
With the out-of-order-memory thing, it seems like TotK (I have not played the game, so, grab the entire salt shaker), the game tries really hard to make everything be open and non-linear and build-your-own-wayish. Having the memories unlock in a set order like you mentioned, regardless of their actual location, would go against that idea . . . even though it would absolutely be a better choice narratively. It being the way it actually is seems like a pretty arbitrary stylistic choice. (that's how I felt about BotW's memories, even though they were seemingly less important in that game)
Yup, I think you're totally right. Botw and now TOTK are both free to a fault sometimes. It's definitely a clear design choice to have the tears like that (just a design choice I don't agree with lol)
Wish gloom could have been more of a threat to the kingdom just a few people were sick. Would have been better to have gloom all over the different locations, and as you complete the dungeons gloom starts weakening as you progress.
I have a question regarding the fps when recording gaem footage. I want to record footage of my gameplay on both botw and totk and theirs an option to record in 60fps instead of default 30fps which makes the recorded file heavier. Is it necessary for quality issues or can i just ignore it and save more room on my external hard drive?
I'm pretty bad when it comes to technical stuff but from what I understand, 30 and 60 should look exactly the same if the game you're recording is in 30. So if you want to save space you can probably just record everything at 30!
I gotta be honest, this is the first Zelda game I didn’t buy on launch. I was never excited for this game. My nephew really wanted it so I bought it a week after. I played it and admittedly got addicted to it, but it just got boring. I’ve still yet to beat the game and I don’t think I ever will. It’s just so boring and nothing feels rewarding. All my awesome weapons break eventually so what’s the point of even obtaining them.
Your videos are always cool. But it seems like your "favorite game of all time" changes with each video!
First off, thanks! Glad you like the videos! Second uhh I'm just really indecisive when it comes to my favorite games LMAO! I think there are 3-5 games that I could confidently call my number one, but outside of those the list of top 10 is just an ever changing mess
This is probably why some gaming companies (like Activision) don't make their games better; they expect harder work after actually working hard from "critique". So, why improve at all if its an uphill battle of facing ingratitude?
I think the problem goes both ways, too much positivity could lead a company to believe they don't *need* to improve anything and thus, they don't. However on the other end of the spectrum, endless criticism may lead them to believe that they *can't* improve anything and thus, they don't. I think A balance of "here's what you was great, and here's what could have been better" is ideal
@mhswoocer Mayhaps that could be a subject for another video, especially with Overwatch 2 with how it abandoned PvE as a whole for more expensive cosmetics.
Yeah for sure, maybe something along the lines of "how much criticism is too much" or something. Not a bad idea honestly!
One little gripe about the unorganized memories solution you provided is that the geoglyphs actually correspond to the memory so itd be kinda weird going to the master sword glyph for example then seeing a cutscene of sonia’s death. That aside, good vid
i think they dont have to remove the whistling to put the sage power usage there they could probably use a mix pressing of L and the whistle button just hold L which would get you to the arm abilities but by pressing the whistle button it will move it to the sage abilities or something i think this could fix it without removing the whistle button cause i dont think whistle is that useless unless you dont use your horse at all
Easy way to fix the fuse menu scrolling would be to enable verticality to it. I.e. having the fuse menu broken into multiple rows with each row being a different category of item. There's no reason to have food items mixed with monster parts mixed with minerals mixed with elemental items. And to your point, one row should be dedicated to favorite items.
Regarding the arrow fuse inventory - if u sort them by recently used it will be much easier to find items u need
Wouldn't it be much easier if you have the option to craft multiple arrow fusings? Itll reduce menu scroll time.
Impa literally tells you not to do the tears out of order, and the game gives you a map and order to view them.
When does impa say to do them in order??
another alternative for the items would be a wheel (like monster hunter for example) for quick access
Oh like the radial menu introduced in world! Yeah that would be great!
@@mhswoocer exactly! that was a true game changer in world in terms of convenience, we could even compare within that game both that sistem and another one more similar to Tears of the kingdom (before the patch at least)
Platypuses are a really great animal
Phuck Perry
I feel like the next one is going to be way better because they are probably going to develop it on the new Nintendo hardware which is supposed to be as powerful as a ps4. I think alot of problems with TotK can be blamed on not powerful enough hardware. They had to spend so much time with fuse and ultra hand because they are working on a tablet then ran out of time with everything else. I feel like if they had more than 5 or 6 years the final product would have been better.
Idk I think if they really wanted to they easily could have made better and simpler summon mechanics and fusing but they designed them this way most likely so it can feel as different from botw as possible, which it sorta does but imo is a downgrade from botw
it should be at least bare minimum ps5 level. has to have 16 GB ram at least, since even the SERIES S is struggling .
eagle
How can the issues be fixed? By having the developers not be ashamed of dungeons, rather be embracing and passionate for them again.
How can we achieve this?
We can't.
Their uncompromising pursuit of player freedom of choice over all else is having a negative effect in some of the most important areas of the game: the story, combat, and puzzles.
It really sucks tbat they have decided that they don't want anything to do with the old style of Zelda games anymore, even if some of those elements that made the original styles of those games succussful would improve this new Zelda game style.
Yeah I think they could have done memories better. To be honest though I don't want to see an 'improvement' of memories, I'd prefer a better method of storytelling. Elden Ring managed to create a start-to-finish story that happens along with the player in real time. Yeah, it's very subtle because it's a souls game, but there's nothing stopping other games from telling a story in a similar way but less subtle. There's also nothing wrong with having the player progress from area to area as the story goes on, Elden Ring also managed to do that in an open world game, and if the players REALLY wanted to skip areas they could find an intended way to do so. I just don't see why nintendo is having such issues with story. A lot of people, you included state something like "you're not really picking a Zelda game up for the story" but that's kinda something I want out of Zelda games, I'm not sure why people keep saying that.
Trying to drive any vehicles when you have both speed, and forward and reverse all on one stick (left analog) is infuriating. It's only all right when you're in a big field and there's nothing for the vehicle to get stuck on. If you get stuck in any small spaces, there ain't no way you can turn that thing around without jumping off and using ultrahand.
I wish devs would have given the "Press and hold whatever button while using reverse" instead of trying to put that function all on the one stick.
There's not a single video game (that I ever played) where this method of driving with all those functions in a single stick has ever worked very well at all.
Fox!
Pft "i dont think any game will ever be perfect"
Ok then explain gubble on the ps1
First off overall this is a great game for the first 30-40 hrs which is plenty of time, but after playing this game fully -- i.e. completed depths, gotten all shrines, and still working on some quests. The biggest issue with this game is the repetitive combat and using the same overworld. Exploring feels like a chore towards the end when its on the same map. Caves don't remediate this feeling as they become repetitive after you've done 20-30 of them. The depths are all show and not much substance -- reskinned content, reskinned bosses, and a bunch of chests with mostly useless outfits. They really weren't worth all of the time I sunk in.
Other points: They didn't do enough with sky islands, probably 50% of the shrines are repetitive empty with a chest or have the dumb crystal transport mechanic, puzzles are circumvented by the OP build mechanic which gets old, Ultrahand is a cool mechanic but not sufficient enough to build a 100 hour game, we're still missing the real zelda dungeon/puzzle feeling merged into an open world, the overworld needs to be 30-40% the size of the current one for the next zelda game -- I would even be fine if the overworld was 10-20% the size of the current one but with full creative content, instead of drips of content spread throughout the oversized world in TOTK.
Adding more doesn't fix the fact of the fundamentally broken or menial content. Who wants to collect over 1000 seeds when you don;'t need to ?
THE BIGGEST ISSUE = LINEAR DIFFICULTY WITH O SCALING. The game NEVER gets harder, because of the open ended way they wanted you to
do the game, everything is basically stuck deadfast at Tutorial level, and once you get any sort of gear or hearts its impossible to die.
Also bosses do 0 damage to you. Everything is just a big damage sponge that you spend half your inventory kiling.
Sun is down, freezin' cold
That's how we already know winter's here
My dawg would prolly do it for a Louis belt
That's just all he know, he don't know nothin' else
I tried to show 'em, yeah
I tried to show 'em, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Gone on you with the pick and roll
Young LaFlame, he in sicko mode
Woo, made this here with all the ice on in the booth
At the gate outside, when they pull up, they get me loose
Yeah, Jump Out boys, that's Nike boys, hoppin' out coupes
This shit way too big, when we pull up give me the loot
(Gimme the loot!)
Was off the Remy, had a Papoose
Had to hit my old town to duck the news
Two-four hour lockdown, we made no moves
Now it's 4AM and I'm back up poppin' with the crew
I just landed in, Chase B mixes pop like Jamba Juice
Different colored chains, think my jeweler really sellin' fruits
And they chokin', man, know the crackers wish it was a noose
Some-some-some, someone said
To win the retreat, we all in too deep
P-p-playin' for keeps, don't play us for weak (someone said)
To win the retreat, we all in too deep
P-p-playin' for keeps, don't play us for weak (yeah)
This shit way too formal, y'all know I don't follow suit
Stacey Dash, most of these girls ain't got a clue
All of these hoes I made off records I produced
I might take all my exes and put 'em all in a group
Hit my esés, I need the bootch
'Bout to turn this function to Bonnaroo
Told her, "Hop in, you comin' too"
In the 305, bitches treat me like I'm Uncle Luke
(Don't stop, pop that pussy!)
Had to slop the top off, it's just a roof (uh)
She said, "Where we goin'?" I said, "The moon"
We ain't even make it to the room
She thought it was the ocean, it's just the pool
Now I got her open, it's just the Goose
Who put this shit together? I'm the glue (someone said)
Shorty FaceTimed me out the blue
Someone said (playin' for keeps)
Someone said, motherfuck what someone said
(Don't play us for weak)
Yeah
Astro
Yeah, yeah
Tay Keith, fuck these niggas up (ay, ay)
She's in love with who I am
Back in high school, I used to bus it to the dance (yeah)
Now I hit the FBO with duffles in my hands
I did half a Xan, thirteen hours 'til I land
Had me out like a light, ayy, yeah
Like a light, ayy, yeah
Like a light, ayy
Slept through the flight, ayy
Knocked for the night, ayy, 767, man
This shit got double bedroom, man
I still got scores to settle, man
I crept down the block (down the block), made a right (yeah, right)
Cut the lights (yeah, what?), paid the price (yeah)
Niggas think it's sweet (nah, nah), it's on sight (yeah, what?)
Nothin' nice (yeah), baguettes in my ice (aww, man)
Jesus Christ (yeah), checks over stripes (yeah)
That's what I like (yeah), that's what we like (yeah)
Lost my respect, you not a threat
When I shoot my shot, that shit wetty like I'm Sheck (bitch!)
See the shots that I took (ayy), wet like I'm Book (ayy)
Wet like I'm Lizzie, I be spinnin' Valley
Circle blocks 'til I'm dizzy (yeah, what?)
Like where is he? (Yeah, what?)
No one seen him (yeah, yeah)
I'm tryna clean 'em (yeah)
She's in love with who I am
Back in high school, I used to bus it to the dance
Now I hit the FBO with duffles in my hand (woo!)
I did half a Xan, thirteen hours 'til I land
Had me out like a light, like a light
Like a light, like a light
Like a light (yeah), like a light
Like a light
Yeah, passed the dawgs a celly
Sendin' texts, ain't sendin' kites, yeah
He said, "Keep that on lock"
I said, "You know this shit, it's stife", yeah
It's absolute (yeah), I'm back reboot (it's lit!)
LaFerrari to Jamba Juice, yeah (skrrt, skrrt)
We back on the road, they jumpin' off, no parachute, yeah
Shawty in the back
She said she workin' on her glutes, yeah (oh my God)
Ain't by the book, yeah
This how it look, yeah
'Bout a check, yeah
Just check the foots, yeah
Pass this to my daughter, I'ma show her what it took (yeah)
Baby mama cover Forbes, got these other bitches shook, yeah
Ye-ah
I wan't real dungeons back. Also I never care about the NPCs they are too flat, why can't they have depth like the NPCs in Majora's Mask.
crow
Cuttlefish
Every point you gave is insanely valid
W comment
Early in the morning late at night
It doesn’t even matter what time it is
I’m a carnivore
Fox
Arrow Fuse
Sages
Sages Cutscenes
Storytelling
This game is deathly allergic to linearity like a shellfish allergy
I dont think its the best one. I think it clearly had the potential to be the best one but Nintendo did not stick the landing. What the zelda series needs is for miyamoto, koji kondo and tezuka to PUT A HAND or be given a little more power to say "this is stupid, fix it". Because there seems to be no shortage of instances where we hear aonuma and other nintendo EPD staff bitching and moaning about how tough and stressful it was to work under miyamoto and how unbending he was on his ideas, but the man's work was brilliant. Now they have the opportunity to do what they want and they give us this mess. So much potential to be so much more but the team seems to be struggling creatively to do it right. They desperately need that senior creative guidance.
Also, (this could be put on me) my play style is kind of minimalist, but what incentive do I have to create any dope machines when the only one you ever need is the hover bike? Never use anything else. Never use any champions but tulin bc they’re annoying af.
Also, In comparison to botw, the spirit of exploration is diminished because it’s..too easy to explore. (Again, hoverbike). Botw demanded on foot exploration, at least at first.
(Game is still 10/10 top 5 ever) but not perfect
To be honest? Intrinsic reward. I use the hoverbike less the later I get in the game, because now I can afford to use a tank. I used it the least at the start because battery was too expensive, but after the midpoint I started tapering off it once I had the resources to not need a cheap do-everything vehicle.
Dolphins babyyyyyy!!
what infuriated me with the game is the story oh my god it had so much wasted potential. also the sage powers they are more balanced but other the niche situations they are bad compared to botw at least there they have a use totk on the other hand are only used in specific situations riju lighting is too much effort to run up to her wait for her to reach the target and finally hit the opponent when you can use a electric arrow instead yunobo has no real use other then breaking rocks sidons ability is never worth to pull off unless you use zora weapons and tulin is the only really good one but it dosent help during combat
In my opinion my problem with the game is that there's a huge world with nothing to do. Exploring is not fun if there's nothing to do in it. Shrines are fun, cave exploration is fun, but given that the world is huge you need to run for 10 minutes to find things to do and that part isn't fun.
It burns you out walking long distances to do ONE task which is the shrine or cave then walk forever again to do another task that leads to nowhere. Open worlds with no depth to them just sucks. If it was semi open world, or at least more shrunk, the game would be exactly the same.
5 months later, we’re still not allowed to dislike/ critic this game…..
What a shame, nobody can have a opinion on this game, unless you say it’s perfect.
cats.
No the core game play kind of sucked. Fuse was a gimmick to get past the most in your face problem with aprons, while still leaving the problems. The need for ultra hand resulted in most puzzles being ne’er complete you just needed to do the chore of gluing the last peace on, and exportation is really bland as your not finding interesting things, just nondescript mob camp/ resource node number 3.76 billion. Or one of the weak puzzles mentioned.
I completely defend the sage powers, it would be overpowered if you could quickly and easily activate all the sage powers. Its meant for you to have to go up to the sage and not be easy to immediately use. I love how they did this, made it more satisfying to pull them off cleanly.
Actually that's a really good point, I never thought about it like that!
BotW champion powers were infinitely more powerful than sage abilities and had better controls. Not to mention there's already an infinite amount of ways to break this game's combat system so I don't see a problem with these abilities being strong. Clunky controls should not be a limiting factor for an abilities effectiveness, that's just outright bad design.
They’re so annoying to my exploration the only one I ever use is tulin. So difficult to use they feel gimmicky
@@feidamack2006 I think you are misconstruing what the OP meant. In terms of power/defensive ability, BOTW champion powers are definitely stronger initially, but you are missing the point here. In technicality, sage abilities would ironically be stronger because the gap between cooldowns and usage times are IMMENSE. Champion abilities were used roughly 3 times in one sitting, and the differing cooldowns were 3 to 10 mins. Sage abilities? Besides Mineru, it takes roughly 10 seconds for it to come back; if having all the sages on the field, the downtime between activating and waiting for the next sage ability will feel nonexistent if it was so easy. I don't have to explain why it would heavily outshine the champions, and being able to easily activate them would arguably trivialize combat and the environment.
I do agree with your perspective on how clunky the controls are, but there is also fair grounds on what I said in how easy activation can lead into being too overpowered.
@@GottaLoveDepecheMode I mean, I think it's implied that if something about a particular mechanic or function were to change, other changes would/should be made to accommodate. If sage powers were to receive better controls and accessibility, then other aspects about the system should receive changes to better balance the overall system while still keeping it impactful and fun. It's an iterative process.
It’s so bad. It’s sad.
Me and my dad both find is not fun to play
TOTK isn't perfect, and no game ever will be. I agree with that much. But it sure is "good enough" to be one of my all time favorites :) (Nier Automata is still #1 though)
And you agree? The game literally has Trash Weapons even tho The Pristine ones are in the depths And the Master Sword Pisses Me Off and no one Remembers the Champions they decided to just move on which is not a good idea why can't BOTW have where Link travels back in time to change everything
No need to defend it, the story is mid at best even if the sage cutscenes weren't half baked and the memories in chronological order, but the fact that albeit a simple story it still has these glaring issues just means that Nintendo didn't care at all about the quality and coherence of the narrative. The fix is to simply get a good story director to do the job.
I would argue that the story is crap at best. It suffers from terrible new characters, plot holes galore, duplicate cutscenes, and an ending that is truly awful
Add to all that tons of recycled story elements from BOTW, yup@@clonetrooper2003
@@tiagozilliosoares7988 Game is unironically 90 % exactly the same game, but they added cheat codes for Tiktok content and some pointless construction mechanic that is largely irrelevant. Physics and such are one thing, but the game is empty, the same exact 3 enemies over and over again for 100 hours, after doing 100 hours of Botw with the exact same enemies again , imagine, 200 Hours of game play, and all you fight are bobokins for the entire run time, all just doing flurry rush or puffshrooms etc it is so goddamn awful.
@@frogglen6350 i disagree. Besides, TOTK is the worst seauel I have ever seen from a story standpoint so of course they will defend the better stuff
wrong order tears were fine btw because I was always wondering what happened inbetween :D
Tiger
Not good enough??? IT IS TERRIBLE!! A SPIT IN THE FACE TO ZELDA GAMERS AND ALL PREVIOUS ZELDA GAMES!!!!
Cats
I gotta say it wasn’t magical like breath of the wild was
8:55 the exact reason an open world zelda game won't ever be as good as a linear one.
Everything is happening at once making it so there is no story to follow unless you look ik up where you should go first and last.
i mean there is story but its all totally fragmented around the map.
a better soluction would be make an open world zelda game that indeed gives you the freedom to go anywhere you want but the story pieces should be set in stone so you dont end up at the end of the story and then work your way to the front to then end up in the middle of the story
See your one the CZcamsrs, who are criticizing tears of the Kingdom that actually respectable like you aren’t being like very rude about it
cat
Spoiler warning...
Other than the problems you rightfully pointed out with this game my biggest complaints with the story is nothing really means anyting. Everything just goes back to normal at the end with no consequence or anyting that significantly changed, Link doesn't even have to face the reality of his arm no longer being his own at the end of the game. And it also feels as though Zelda gained nothing of value over all and was conveniently being removed from agency for a lengthy period of time. she didn't even get any cool abilities for being turned into a dragon, at least Links arm allowed him powers he didn't have access to originally that you actually get to control. I feel that Zelda being turned into a dragon added nothing useful to the experience... you can even pull the Master sword from her head without ever finding any other memories and that to me personally is very bad game design. I do love this game and I enjoyed my time with it but I feel like I'd be doing a disservice if I didn't mention some of the problems I experienced to this extent.
This game looks like BOTW on steroids
Which means more consumables, more crafting and the same philosophy of world and enemy design
This is exactly why i have no plans to play this game & starfield.
As i grow older and free time becomes a rarity, crafting and gathering consumables, inventory management and these stuff feel like a chore for me.I much rather play tight & focused adventures that don't waste my time. Thank god we still have indie games though
Bro steroids arent for kids thats not cool
Flying fish
Pause to healwas annoying
TOTK is the laziest most unambitious game of the decade, it is literally 90 % the exact same game as botw, and this was going 30+ hours in. Horrendous. Combat and puzzles are terrible what you smoking, there is only 3 actual weapons in the entire game no matter the combination, it is mostly just putting a spikey part onto a pointy part for basically every fusion. I can't believe we have to wait basically the best part of 20 years for a proper actual 3D zelda and not just 2 bloated empty Proof-of-Concept tech demos.
TotK had a pretty bad storyline, so much that it actually detracted from it's perceived position in my eyes the GOTY really goes to GoW: Ragnarök. What a spectacular game, so many characters full of so much personality and life that even Thor's daughter really left an impression. Zelda TotK? Only Zelda, no one else except maybe Rauru despite his stilted speeches. Nintendo may be a large gaming company but they have a long way to go when it comes to other adventure/rpg games like GoW and Mass Effect.
In BotW, I had to run like hell from those Ancient things, whatever they were called - Those laser beam dudes.
I met them right at the beginning of the game and got absolutely dumpstered by them.
My goal became to become strong enough to beat them.
Every quest, every side quest, every weapon I picked up, every secret I found, became a means to that end.
In TotK, I just kinda ran around doing quests and exploring without an end goal.
Beat the boss, sure.
Rescue Zelda, probably.
But it never felt personal. Those were just things the game wanted me to do.
Beating those ancient dudes WAS personal. They whooped the living daylights out of me, multiple times.
They felt like a real, tangible, known threat.
TotK simply didn't have that, for me. In a game that had worse mechanics (RIP bombs, boo to build/fuse) and very much a 'samey' feel. Same map, same basic idea of the main quests, same towns, same weapons (though now garbage without fusing) etc.
This game felt like a re-skin of BotW with worse mechanics.
The depths were okay but became really tedious, really fast. Sky towers were very minimal and sparse. The shrines were okay but still 'samey' as BotW. The 'paintings' on the ground (where you unlock memories by pressing A on the tear) were boring since they could be easily seen from the air and literally all you did was float down and press A.
It just wasn't as fun as BotW.
It was still a good game, don't get me wrong, and I was absolutely hooked for like the first 12-20 hours.
But it KEPT my obsession for nowhere near as long as BotW did. Not even really close.
I think a big part of the appeal of BotW was the exploration and seeing the unknown world, same as most open world games such as Elden Ring and Skyrim. It makes the replay value of the game much less because a large focus of the game experience is a one-time thing. If someone has already explored the world like someone who played BotW, then the thing the devs spent the largest amount of effort on, the world, is much less conpelling.
Most people played BotW until they got bored of the world. If you already got bored of the world in BotW, the in TotK the world won't hold your attention for nearly as long. That means all that is left is the game's mechanics like UI/menus/controls, combat, puzzles, and runes/abilities. And because the devs focused so much on the world, these mechanics were neglected.
You can say the abilities in TotK are good or good enough, but I can think of plenty of ways that these mechanics could have been improved, especially combat and puzzles, in the sixs years TotK has been in development since they were done with BotW.
I a 1000% agree with you, I definitely prefer botw and despite the variety of half-baked vehicles you can build in totk, I muuuch prefer the mastercycle from botw as well as the sage abilities in that game too. I feel betrayed by Nintendo and all the reviews giving it 10s when it's a 9 at most and doesn't have as much an impact as botw did :/
The legend of Zelda botw and rdr2 are both the only almost perfect games ever
9:45 Ok, sorry, but I have to disagree here. Strongly so. Because this thing literally ruined the entire game's story for me.
I got in third place the Master Sword glyph memory. You know, the one that pretty much recaps the entire Zelda plot. Before I finished ANY dungeon.
I spent the entire game waiting... HOPING for anything that would shake things up. But noyhing of substance happened. The game pretty much spoiled the story for me before it even began.
human
Age of calamity had the best items menu in the botw trilogy. Totk was a downgrade.
It's a fun game but the problem is it's too much like it's predecessor. Yes sequel naturally will be similar but this game still feels like a expanded copy of the same game. And still the fact that people are saying this game makes botw obsolete exactly proves my point. Sequels in most cases with rare exceptions other than maybe a fighting game or like mario maker. Is suppose to compliment it's predecessor not replace it. The fact that it's doing that proves how much its exactly the same in my opinion. Especially after a 6 year wait time.
Womp womp no no ur bad bad no no bad bad
I still feel like the open world style of game hurts the series more than helps it. And your video gave all the reasons.
I felt like in both BoTW and TotK, almost all dev time and energy was put into making this amazing open world with decent mechanics and the rest kinda fell to the sideline.
$70 dlc
Penguin