12 Other Subtle Differences between Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and BOTW 

Yeah, considering all the mineral deposits and large enemies in the depths, it was barely enough

In botw it was 100, for just the overworld. In totk there's 100 for the overworld, 100 for the sky, and 100 for the depths... thank goodness its not just limited to each section though!

I think at max I had a little over 200 pins used in Totk

I didn’t even realize the limit went up 😭😭 I’ve been sparsely putting them down so I don’t run out. Good to know I can go ham

@@buttercup141312 careful, you don't want to go mad with power, it's intoxicating

I tested it and they do have that animation 👍

Even the Hinox has a drowning animation, which is extremely rare to actually see without forcing it

they have, easiest way to test it is in master mode when they are on the flying platforms and shooting the Octoroks

I had a Bokoblin chase me into the river. It was hilarious.

They certainly do. There's a doofus Bokoblin riding a horse in the Akkala shores who usually drowns itself seconds after spawining, and he uses that animation.

And thank goodness, I got so annoyed having to re-sort my inventory every time.

The item is also no longer shown as an item needed to upgrade itself

@@OtakuUnitedStudio You sound like a friend of mine who restarted his game twice because he liked having his armor a certain way.

probably the one of the best small changes in totk

​@@cromebookfoolwell you can sell most armor now so it wouldn't require a reset

yes

I didn’t know that but thank you for telling me!

I kinda wish we got even more

Three layers of map, three times as many stamps. Especially since there are so many Shrines and Lightroots. ESPECIALLY especially since there are 120 Lightroots, but even more Shrines since some of them are in the sky that don't correspond to Lightroots.

That must be a weird experience for the Talus...

Tho a thing to note that when you complete the Yiga questline in the Depths that the rate at which Yiga spawn & attack you DOES increase, I finished it at the beginning of this week and I've been getting attacked more (like in botw), I haven't tried to check if it's the same frequency, but it does increase!

Meanwhile there’s me with 4 back to back yiga ambushes in 2 minutes

the disguised yiga soldiers are actually so fun now with the addition of the yiga outfit, they're pretty easy to spot since they don't move or do anything so you can just swap outfits and go talk

So are _supplies._ Where the heck are my beloved Hearty Durian?! :(

@@ZeoViolet oh those they just completely wrote out of the game

He carries around hundreds of them, I don't think sense is their main priority.

@@gorgolyt he’s the hero of hyrule and he can carry around boulders i’m sure he’s got the muscle for it

It's a little sad to go to places like Thundra Plateau and Zora's Domain to see where the Sheikah Shrine is supposed to be but now it's gone. I wish they'd left a few in but crumbling, or at least locked and impossible to interact with.

@@OtakuUnitedStudio or a repurposed mini structure.

The Shrine of Resurrection was repurposed as a Bubbulfrog cave, but you can’t tell that there was any Sheikah technology in it, as if it was all purposefully dismantled or that people wanted to erase its existence. Perhaps because they saw how easily the technology was corrupted in the Calamity, and so they destroyed the vast majority of it so that a catastrophe of that scale could never happen again?

@@Sentinel07 if I had to live in constant fear of guardians for 100 years, I'd be pretty quick to destroy all traces of it too tbh

@@CurlyChop you do have a point there

I just walked out of work so I can go home and try this

Close to 5, if Hudson and Rhondson are any indication. My guess is it was 2 to 3 years since BOTW, and then Link was knocked out for about as long after the incident under the castle.

Yeah Link starts the game with more hearts and stamina than are possible in BotW

​@@OtakuUnitedStudio link was knocked out for a very short time, i figured like a week

@@OtakuUnitedStudio If it had been years they would have been given up for dead. Pretty sure he was KO'ed for at least a day or two.

@@pumpkin_pants3828exactly

Yeah when using ultrahand on an object it wont have any physics until you drop it. I must say its kind of a downgrade compared to magnesis in terms of how it feels to control

COME ON AND... gently place the block down

@@almightyingotyeah

​@@almightyingotyeah but magnesis can only grab metal while ultrahand can grab every object

they work very different and not the same stasis modes, magnesis works in tangent to gravity and metal, ultra hand does not it breaks the laws of gravity and its not really science its a gift/ability of magic/power.

Yeah, that’s basically seems like the case But still glad they improved on the particle effects

"Oh that isn't smoke, it's STEAM! Steam from the Steamed Clams we're having! Hmmm, steamed clams!"

@@danimontoya-londono9594 This was exactly the reply I was hoping someone would make when I read the original comment.

​@@danimontoya-londono9594I think you meant steamed HAMS

I believe the dust cloud when a star fragement hit the ground was also a think in BotW.

That's possible, but regardless of the actual reason, it's pretty realistic. Lightning will burn things that aren't normally flammable.

​@@OtakuUnitedStudioThe wonders of plasma, baby!

yeah lightning is treated as an explosion, which dries things, and steam indicates drying

So this isn’t smoke, it’s steam

​@@theblode1337 There's actually one more step: the lightning is an explosion, explosion makes things catch fire but since it's raining, these things are wet. Wet things are dried instead of catching fire, which is why the weapons and stones start steaming

Yeah only issue is that the photos are often very blurry when looking at them on the pad in game in TOTK.

@@minton3647 Yeah, I wish the photos were full resolution or at least as detailed as the Switch internal screenshots, and I wish the photos were saved in the Switch library by default. Or at least give us an option for it!

What with autobuild letting you summon objects, you can store something like a crate or a vertical panel, walk link up to it, position the camera right between link and the object so he fades into transparency, and then turn off the UI to get proper screenshots with the screenshot button

Bro that's such a game changer, I've been battling flux and talus wrong this whole time

@@CurlyChop glad I could help

The stylised look will age well too. 🙂

@@1Thunderfire much slower then games that are simply going for a realistic look

BotW looks beta, the graphics really don't hold up

It also makes sense because BotW came out 6 years ago...

@@drnanard9605 designed to run on already underpowered hardware and a failing console, in my opinion they did a good job making the game look and run as it does

Need video of this

@@eloylopez8929just check on youtube

YEAH! It's such a badass kind of pose too. like something out of a flashy action flick. Keeps his form good and just aims while keeping his back and legs straight, almost like a secret agent rappelling face first while shooting guns or something.

Not trying to be rude but I always ride my horse into tarrey town?? I’ve never faced that problem before.

@@sofiamartinez9258 via path finding they can't, you have to actually push forward

They swim

Not sure about hinox but stalnox can swim

Why don't you test it then

@@skilarbabcock8720 Because I'm not the one who makes videos on this kind of stuff

@@mistermike4023 you don't need a video to answer your own question

So basically weather based Skyward Strike.

only when he is fully immune wearing his rubber armor, Link aint Thor

​@@punk-mfair but it already has something about it that stops him from dying while wielding it.. the element of "it's just fun" soooo why not just let that cover it too

I nearly used all of the stamps up because I use them for all kinds of things - Leaf for Korok, Star for Shrines, skull for bosses, and the weird oblong pentagon for towers. I used most of them by the end of the game almost entirely for bosses and uncollected Koroks. In TOTK, I've marked about half of the Lightroots and Shrines since a Shrine is always directly above a Lightroot, so I will probably have about 50 of both finished be the end of this week. And yet, I've only used less than 100 stamps so far. I'm gonna start marking bosses, since I thought there were too many underground to keep proper track of but then I realized there are 300 to work with.

I bought BOTW years after it came out after knowing a ton about the game already, so I never really ended up using any of the markers. Now with TOTK, I've been using them far more often and have started to use different ones for different things.

@@OtakuUnitedStudio Not true, in a select few instances there’s lightroots that don’t have a shrine above them, one of them being the first I ever activated.

@@Jaxagain. all 120 roots are connected to 120 surface shrines, only the 32 shrines in the sky don’t have root counterparts, source: I have all roots and shrines unlocked

@@kingofcheshire Oh wait I get it I did look for a shrine above that lightroot and I didn’t find it PROBABLY BECAUSE IT WAS IN A FREAKING CAVE. Sometimes finding shrines is so much harder in this game even after I got the shrine sensor

Also noticed these right away! I got to korok forest and was like “wow it’s no longer frame-drop forest”

The Thunder Temple kills me frame rate tho. Not sure why.

Im trying to find shrines by using roots location but sometimes it doesn't work

@@cellulairerare if you’re having trouble it’s probably because it’s a hidden shrine Not all shrines are obvious

@@V.U.4six it was flat, no caves, no space to hide a shrine

​@@cellulairerare shrines can be hidden in many ways, the don't have to physically exist before you uncover them, sometimes it's just the green light door, sometimes is a piece of the puzzle (like the one that instructs you to get a stone inside a cave tha a hinox has) and sometimes you have to activate it elsewhere like the snowboarding one that you turn on in a sky island, then it brings you to the mountain and once you complete the "course" sliding it pops from under the ground below the finish line

​@@cellulairerare And the most obvious possibility... Did you check the sky as well?

Yeah, plain arrows are a lot more easily accessible in this game; necessary since there aren't any specialized arrows anymore...you have to improvise with what you got.

IIRC, the actual definition for the safe fall distance in BOTW is "10 Links high." I think they increased it to 12 in Tears.

Oh no I just got out of that rabbit hole lol

yeah!!

ditto 😂

🥩

same with the explosions

"Ouch"

what the hell are you talking about

​@@GoodwillZine it's correct and written pretty well so consider rereading and/or rethinking

@@koniginator who the hell are you

@@GoodwillZineuse ur brain

​​@@GoodwillZine It's perfectly clear, maybe you are just not very good at reading (or thinking)

Also, lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun.

​@@nthgth seven times hotter than the surface of the sun!

The name of each Lightroot is the name of their corresponding shrine but spelled backwards.

There's a fruit dedicated to it as well, a Gerudo straight up tells you to use them

I know, I finally found a Lynel after way too long (need barbarian armor parts!) and I froze for a second when I went to mark it lol

​@@ILikeWafflz in Totk, you mean? Hint if you want an easy way to find "a" Lynel, go in the depths under the colosseum. Have fun 😊

@@FuryJack07 That was the second "Lynel" I found lol

People confused them with Zonai magic in Age of Calamity. When an electric Moblin showed up I saw someone convinced it as a "Breath of the Wild 2" tease, and couldn't convince him it was just an electric variant of a Moblin. And that's after we knew they were elemental variants for Moblins in Age of Calamity.

@@diegomedina9637 It WAS kind of an odd choice, since electric variations already existed in Breath of the Wild and were almost universally yellow.

​@@OtakuUnitedStudio its more like yellow green if you look at it. The particle effects are green. In totk theyre totally yellow