10 Minutes of Useless Information about BotW 

Wait, wait wait... so, when Link goes around killing Guardians, is he still just breaking pots?

10 outta 10 will forget everything

BOTW is so incredibly detailed that most NPC’s have daily schedules the follow. Most notably is Koko from Kakariko Village who goes to her mother’s grave at 5am daily and cries. She’s startled out of it if Link gets too close. You can follow just about any NPC and learn a lot about their character.

I think Zelda also stayed young because for those 100 years she was incorporeal, like a spirit trapped within Ganon. It’s kinda like how the Champions were stuck in their Beasts, except in Zelda’s case she was still alive. I mean, she does literally pop out of Ganon’s head.

-There are only 3 situations for stamina auto-refilling while paragliding: when around a dragon, when attacking vah medoh, and when practicing in the flight range (not during the champion’s ballad quest). -Mipha’s and Sidon’s names are spelled in the notes of their theme songs. Mipha: repeated notes are mi and fa. Sidon: repeated notes are si (basically ti; si is what they use in other languages) and do.

I had no idea about the ancient pottery guardian inspiration. That is sooo freaking cool.

I didn't realise the cucco guy was trying to genetically engineer a chocobo into existence

My dad googled good switch games and bought me this game as a birthday present. I've never played zelda before this one. I wonder how many others got this game the same way i did

Everyone always says BotW is a timeline merge but I've always thought of it more as an inevitably on all timelines. Instead of all 3 merging into one its the same ending for all 3 timelines, separately

One interesting little tidbit I found is that, if you hold ingredients and fall from a height (not enough to hurt Link, like a house's 2nd floor), Link will drop all on the floor, and if there's a bottle of milk, it will break! I got so sad when this happened xD

Link’s champion tunic has a bracer on only his sword arm because he is meant to use a shield on the other, and this detail can actually be noticed on a couple other of link’s outfits (like the barbarian set)

My favorite useless fact: near central tower there’s a VERY LARGE barrel and if link picks it up over his head he ends up basically wearing it, as there’s no bottom. You can’t use it to actually hide though, guardians can see through it. This is the only barrel on the map like it, the devs never used the asset anywhere else. Source: 500 hours of basically nothing but map exploration and korok hunting

I always thought that Zelda didn’t age because while she was holding Calamity Ganon in Hyrule Castle she was in spirit form and not Hylian. That’s why she can also telepathically communicate with Link from anywhere in the world.

As soon as I got the guardian armor, I put it all on and went straight to Loone, expecting some kind of different text exchange. She seemed unimpressed.

One of the most popular games by Nintendo, but SO rare that I physically meet someone else that plays it let alone knows about it.

I think Zelda has remained young because in order to keep down Ganon became spirit and only when you beat the final boss takes back her human form

If link is carrying a skull for one of the skeleton guys, take it to the edge of a cliff and he’ll drop kick it!

4:52 *Top ten pictures taken moments before disaster.*

This is my first time hearing about the weapon poses in selfie mode, I feel bad for the animators now

I really liked this video! It's different from the usual tutorials, my favorites were the facts about different animations in the game.

The fast moving ancient guardian from the trailer is a direct reference to the beginning sequence of Princess Mononoke!

its been over 5 years and we are still finding out new little fun facts about the game. ahhh, i am SO excited for tears of the kingdom! open world games are so great

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This kind of content has so much potential stg please make more

If you swing your weapon to an armed NPC like the guards in gerudo city, they will attack you back. You can actually parry this attack.

"Did I leave anything out?" about Breath of the Wild? Nope, nothing, you covered the entire game right there.

This makes me love and appreciate this game even more

Jōmon is sometimes rendered with a bar over the "o" to help English speakers understand that its a long vowel. Definitely NOT pronounced "juh-MOAN". Japanese doesn't have reduced vowels like English, where we pronounce unemphasized syllables as schwa. It's pronounced "Joh-mon"

Ok that ancient pottery is awesome. I can safely say thats as excited as ive ever been about pottery.

Another thing on opening chests, when you open a chest whilst crouching link will punch the chest open then flail his hand in pain lol

How can you only have 3.9k subscribers??! 🤔 You deserve way more 👍.

The various statues of Hylia have different accessories depending on what settlement they're found in. Speaking of statues with accessories, Purah and Robbie accessorize the frog statues above their doors differently. The monks, too, are variously accessorized and posed.

You left out about ten hours of information, please do more 😊

He was definitely trying to breed a golden chocobo lol.

I am not going to forget this information this will just add to my Zelda PHD.

I got the references to Ruto and Nabooru, but I never caught onto the Medli and Darunia references. That's brilliant.

"That upper class British accent is not the VA's natural accent." Yeah, you can tell. You can really tell.

There’s such beauty in the fine details of this game.

Parcy did also, if you talk to her for the first time, she says she used to sneak into hyrule castle, when it was safe, and she does not look 100

Zelda stayed ageless because she had turned into a spirit form and possessed Calamity Ganon in order to keep it sealed within Hyrule Castle. Defeating Dark Beast Ganon with the Bow of Light allowed her to finally return to her human body and seal him away in the Dark Realm. More useless facts: Vah Medoh was actually named after Mido from Ocarina of Time, because the original intent was for the Kokiri and Picori races (from Ocarina of Time and Minish Cap respectively) to be included in the game. When they were replaced with the Koroks and Rito, Nintendo decided to keep the name because it still worked because of Medli.

did you hear about the sos themes in the divine beasts and the musical references from Sidon’s- and Mipha’s Theme?

6:56 so i think its pretty implicit in the game that zelda gave up her physical form to hold ganon spirit and returned to her non-aged body after he was gone

There's one more chest opening animation you forgot. If you open a chest from the side while Link is crouched, he'll punch the chest to open it and then shake his hand cause it hurt

The Tony Express: here are some useless botw facts that you'll forget about Me: c-core memory

Video name: *Literally says “useless information”* Me: *Adds to “Watch Later”*

Before I finished the game, I was convinced that the big twist was gonna be that Zelda actually did die after having to keep Ganon sealed for 100 years, and the ending was gonna leave Link, alone in this big world, all the people he had a connection to in the past having now died

Oh, the trailer was obviously hinting at Relics of the Past. Nintendo thought it was too hard, so ShadowMarth121 made it a reality

The Hyruleans have latent psychic abilities. That's why the sword makes more damage when it's black.

I noticed the Devine beasts one after Urbosa pointed it out. Nice detail!

For you to know: i as astranger, love your videos and the fact that you took time to make this :)) keep going bro!❤️

That fact regarding Lynels is interesting, it's almost as it sees you as an equal opponent and will only engage with you if you engage with it. Guess some of these monsters have a bit of respect!

Jokes on you: I’m seriously considering implementing conditional game over screens in my project now.

8:35 Nobody gonna talk about his horse's name lol.

Breath of the wild is actually on the japanese version of the zelda website's timeline, but it's seperated from the others at the end by a line. That doesn't really mean anything of course since it's just another way to show its ambiguous currently, but I figured it's worth mentioning.

6:56 maybe she became light itself and didn't age but when she was losing the power/light she began to get her form back thats my thought process and theory on why she didn't age

I thought Vah Medoh was named after Mido, the kokiri, since there were early plans to have a kokiri pilot for one of the divine beasts... but now that I think about it, the divine beast being named after Medli makes a LOT more sense, lol.

hearing "bridle" peonounced "bird-le" made my day lmao

Hearing other people say things form botw cracks me up because it’s like wait- you guys don’t call them bobgoblins?? Or shriek-aslats?? What about Mobbobblolins?

Zelda fans be experiencing shit every other game series has done years ago and be like “wow detail so amazing”

5:25 Oh so THATS where my Boomerang went

"When playing in English Zelda has this upper class British accent but that's not her natural accent." No way! I never could have told on my own! It's such a good and accurate representation of an English accent! /s

You mean to tell us that we've been calling the sequel Tears of the Kingdom, BoTW 2 for 3 years? I'm embarrassed 🤐

dude, I LOVE useless information. could have listened for 20 minutes, tbh.

one guy on a bridge will whos saying something like "we are all doomed" will yell at you not to jump if you go on the edge of the bridge near him

The one thing I wish they would do with every game is put the starting cave from the very first Zelda in every game and then have like a little item in there like rupees, an NPC or two torches and a wooden sword.

3:39 a pot with laser eyes and legs is somehow harder that the literally embodiment of hatred itself

9:20 definitely gonna remember this

I want there to be a speedrun category thas "Link goes to the store to get a glass of milk"

Well, that explains why I always found BotW Zelda's voice to be so renaissance fair-esque

Can't believe I got lost in watching this for 10 straight minutes

There are actually more poses if you have certain things unequipped

With the timeline thing, this was my interpretation: Breath of the Wild is the true Hyrule, and all the other games take place as the legends told in Hyrule. That’s why there are so many references to other games and not linked to a specific timeline. It’s not in any of them. All the other games are playable versions of the legends told in Botw’s Hyrule.

My belief why Breath of the Wild is not on the official timeline for Zelda; It's a complete reboot of the franchise. It's basically a remake of Zelda 1 and Zelda 2 combined. There are bits and bobs from everywhere, though I know people love to postulate the child timeline despite very little makes it fit outside a mention of Twilight, a thing that has been in reference since a Link to the Past, but the only games that could potentially even reference before Breath of the Wild would be Skyward Sword (which is getting referenced in Tears of the Kingdom) and Ocarina of Time. Nothing else really fits in, especially the adult timeline. The reason I believe this is a reboot and not a continuation... well everything about the game from the look of the world and placement of things on the map fits Zelda 1 and 2's layout a lot more. On top of that the devs continual referencing of Zelda 1. Finally, any attempt to squeeze it into a timeline just doesn't work. The closest timeline it fits with is the downfall timeline, there's very little it has in common with the other two, especially the adult and a timeline convergence wouldn't work because that's not how time works. That would be all sorts of extra world ending events.

Oh, I knew the game over text had colours based on how you died, I noticed it during my playthrough which is already super fucking cool, but I didn't know it had special effects based on it too, I just assumed that the normal one and fire ones were the same, as were the drowning and ice ones

Could the ‘jamone’ period really be between 14000 and 30 bc? That’s quite the range of human history.

Fun fact: if you're crouched and open the chest from the back, Link punches it. Complete with injured hand animation while shirtless.

Now that the video is over, I can't remember what I forgot

The fact that people are finding out new cool things about this game nearly six years later is amazing

You missed the ceouching chest bit where if you crouch and open a chest he'll punch it and wave his hand around with a hiss of pain lol

1.6.0 was not included on wiiu because it basicly only added support for the labo vr

Sales figures are NOT a useless fact. It tells us it's likely that the next Zelda will likely be similar to this one (though that has already been confirmed by trailers, it wasn't useless before at least), and how much voima Nintendo is willing to put in it's development.

Well, I have a dog sleeping on me and can't move so I literally can't waste my time

I wonder, who is holding the camera when you do a selfie?

My theory is that when zelda unlocks her power to save link from the guardian in a memory, thats what kept her young. Her power allowed her to heal herself endlessly, but not to the point of being op. Sorta like rapunzel's hair in tangled

My interpretation of Zelda not aging was that she was able to use her ability to enter more of a spiritual realm that allowed her to prevent Ganon from being unleashed for 100 years. So she ceased to exist in her physical form during that time, which is why you don't really see her when you step in the castle. ...Now.... I don't really understand where she is the whole time you're fighting Ganon. Her help would have been appreciated there. But I suppose if Link is allowed a 100 year break after failing to even confront Ganon because he was that incompetent, then I suppose Zelda is allowed a 10 minute rest after taking Ganon on directly for 100 years straight with no breaks. I suppose reconverting back to physical form after all that will leave you a little winded. Anyway, I highly doubt Tears will bring up her lack of aging.

The opening scrawl gets me

Wow I never noticed that the game over screen was different based on how you died...pretty cool especially noticing the drowning one... mind you, I played probably close to 700-800 hours over the years... including the playthrough that I'm currently on and I still never noticed it... maybe it's because I don't really die that often but who knows

My guess for Zelda she did golden cocoon thing that skyward sword Zelda did and slept until Link awoke

I’ll see y’all in 7 years when RU-vid decides to recommend again. Peace out

About the Blood Moon, I know for a fact that's not true. When I initially played Breath of the Wild, I was on the Great Plateau for a long time and I eventually triggered a blood moon. I had no idea what was happening and genuinely thought that it was time running out like in Majora's Mask. Then the cutscene cleared that up for me.

This is a great example of needing a new zelda game lmao. Good video but 90% of these are things you learn super early on

Nice video!!! Also what are the musics used?

Another detail about the chest opening animations that if you crouch you punch the chest.

I giggled at “birdle” 😂

9:50 Vah Medoh, Vah Ruta , Vah Rudania and Vah Naboris ("Remember, try , TO REMEMBER")

I remember when i started, I just threw things into the pot for food, including things like ancient parts 😢

20 secs in the video I already forgot that it was about useless infos, and kept waiting for the "intro" of the video to end so that we can get to the meat of the subject XD I was like "when is he gonna start talking about.... eh... what again?"

Okay, so Hyrule is about the same size as San Marino... That's kinda weird if you think about it awhile.

I already knew literally every single one of those I have played this game way too much

Why do I feel so incredibly underwhelmed that the entirety of Hyrule in BotW is the same size as Manhattan 😭