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

the shallowness of lava is mentioned in a loading screen tip, and is likely to give big wheels a more active use in traversal

Monster parts are probably fireproof now because they’re such an integral part of the player’s weapon arsenal, and when you battle a group of enemies it’s pretty easy to cause fires one way or another. It would suck if fighting groups made you lose most of your loot from the fight for no reason.

Another difference: in BOTW bows that shoot more than one arrow did not leave any to collect, but in TOTK all bows leave an arrow

One new thing I noticed is that dogs at stables in Totk now have a new barking animation when you feed them enough fruits! This wasn't in botw, and it's a good indicator of whether they're ready to show you hidden treasure!

I noticed in Breath of the Wild, when a goron is mining. He keep mining through you like if you were translucid as a ghost, but in Tears of the Kingdom, if you are in front of them, they stop automatiquely to not harm you.

the lava now works completely differently than it was in botw, in botw it just was orange water that burns, it makes sense since in botw there's a whole water map under hyrule, so when they need to make rivers or lakes they just stretch it upwards, so they did the same with lava, in totk probably they had to take a whole different route thanks to the depths so they reworked the lava, you can confirm this by just shooting a shock arrow to the lava, in botw it will do the same as if you shoot it in water creating the big range electric dome, but in totk this is fixed, also there are still some places with random placed lava like that one place near the coloseum in botw.

The sound of rain on the paraglider is amazing

one thing i’ve noticed is that horses leave footprints on sand and snow in totk! it always aggravated me that these big horses left the snow and sand untouched in botw so it’s a nice little detail

I noticed that in botw, when a dying mob darkens because it has no hp left, before it explodes in a purple cloud, they identify on the sheikah photograph thingy as the mob in question : selfies with your gold lynel dying would show a little text "gold lynel" behind link. In totk the mobs will not show up on the purah pad photo rune when dying. In totk, the mobs are counsidered as "defeated" when they have no hp left, as in botw it's when they explode in a purple coud. Hope that this helped, have a nice day ;)

Another thing that I have noticed is that when you make a surprise attack, in botw the enemy will turn around to where they received the attack even if you have passed by their side, in totk they turn to look directly at you, I suppose it is to use the smoking mushroom.

Another small difference in TotK when gliding through the tree fronds is that we can see the framerate absolutely tank.

5:54 I think it's really cool that the blue jelly turned orange/"red" In BOTW, the items sinking is cooler, but it's also sad because you'd lose enemy drops - in TOTK it's more a quality-of-life change

I believe the badly damaged message only shows one hit later for the tree branch. Every other weapon I've tested shows badly damaged on 3 hits left. I think they made the change branches on account of their durability of 4 meaning that it would always be in either pristine state, or badly damaged, so changing badly damaged from 3 hits to 2 means you'd see the intermediary stage between pristine and damaged without using fuse.

Given how dense IRL lava is, it makes more sense for the objects to float 🙂

the 2nd one is really nice for fighting enemies with fire and not having to worry about destroying their innards so you can collect them

Seeing as Breath of the Wild was made with rhe Wii U hardware in mind, and Tears of the Kingdom was made for only the Switch and its hardware, alot of these changes definitely make sense

I think you were able to gallop at full-speed in Tarrey Town in BotW is due to you having to build the entire town, so it probably isn't updated to be an actual town. Since it's already built in TotK, it is registered as a town and the horse will just slowly trot.

Equipping any of the divine beast helmets ALSO makes the corresponding sage avatar wear the helmet of the past sages 👍👍

4:57 different large weapons will make different pitches of swooshing sounds

The monster parts are fireprroof because of all the shit yunobo catches on fire when you mash A to pick them all up.

5:09 Amazing editing, I love when people play comparing clips quickly like that to hear the subtle differences instead of just playing a long clip and by the time the next one happens, you hardly noticed

Spoilers?.... The shallow lava is also useful as mineru can traverse through it easily without taking damage

2:42 link and god was walking down the path of his life and when link looked back he noticed only one set of foot prints and god smiled and said rendering additional foot prints would have taken more processing power.

In BOTW, NPCs will react to Link drawing a bow or throwing a weapon when he's in close proximity. In TOTK, they will not react if Link is not directly targeting them, but when they see Link aiming at them, they will react even if he's relatively far away.

The reason you can't gallop in town in TotK is because they want you to Tarrey. **sunglasses**

btw awesome detail about the tree fronds transparency is that it absolutely kill your fps 🥰

Sibilant, learned a new word today! Thanks for these videos, they’re great!

You can tell TOTK design team were all Terraria players who hated having their hard work wiped out by random lava

After seeing the quality of the pictures in TOTK I understand why they tried so hard to obscure them in BOTW

Items do not sink in lava in TOTK because lava is not as deep as it was in BOTW, as stated in fact #10. For example, you can make a Zonai vehicle with big wheels, and most of the time it will not sink.

Love watching these videos. Alot of this stuff u would never realize on my own

The detail that went into TOTK is amazing. I can't believe people complaining that the game cost $70. I dare anyone to try and build as good of a game for $70. Plus, considering inflation from 2017, TOTK is a bargain! I didn't think BOTW could be topped. TOTK did it, although I'm finding a lot more glitches in TOTK. I'm also having spots where the game freezes on me in TOTK. A more powerful Switch would remedy that.

Thank you very much for teaching me a new word. :) I'll be using it for sure.

my cat was watching this too and at 4:53 when the butterfly on the right flew off the screen, she was trying to figure out where it went lol

Man, I wish I knew about the skeleton arm buff thing back at the beginning of my playthrough. I had just assumed that they were still pretty weak and useless weapons so I never bothered to even check. They would have been really helpful for early game battles!

I bet the footprint change came along at some point in the development of the miner's armour set

4:07 How did you get that photo? It looks sick.

Quick note: as far as I know, in totk the damage shown on the two-handed weapons is a bit lower than the actual damage, so I think both bone arms have been buffed by +15

a subtle difference I've noticed has to do with the hearts. most people obviously will notice that the max number of hearts is higher in totk, but what I haven't seen pointed out much is that... the colour of hearts is different in totk compared to botw!! in botw they are a more saturated red I immediately noticed this when looking back at botw clips after playing wayyyyy too much totk. found myself going "huh, those hearts are very red" and turns out there is in fact a colour difference I wonder if other UI elements like that have changed in similar ways?

When enemies are holding a weapon that's on fire, it eventually breaks. If you defeat them while it's still on fire and collect their weapon the durability gets fully restored

I couldn't remember how many photos we were allowed to take but I was thinking I was able to take a lot more before I had to clear out the album

Any differences in controller rumble between the two games?

1:21 *Sauron's gaze pierces my soul*

There’s also a new sound in Totk when paragliding in the rain

Do dense items also float on lava? Do flammable items still burn in it?

I dunno if you already pointed this out, but I noticed you can no longer take pictures of enemies for the compendium as they’re dying. I wanted the lynel’s dying pose for my compendium pic like I do in botw and it just doesn’t work smh.

The floating on Lava thing makes a lot of sense. Lava IRL is much denser than water, and so something would have to be significantly heavy in order to actually sink in it. Also, I like to interpret the Bone Arms being stronger in TOTK as Monsters being stronger due to the return of Ganondorf

I’ll need to confirm, but the random Yiga clan encounters. When they shoot arrows at you and miss, you can now pick the missed arrows up. If I remember correctly in BOTW, you couldn’t.

I noticed a lot of these, especially the Camera storage, but some I didn’t know were different, like the tree leaves. Also, in TOTK the two handed weapons do more damage than we’re told, so the moblin arm got a huge buff

so what im learning from your videos is that ninbtendo remade botw from scratch and added an extra continent underground and some islands above everything and so very many new mechanics and items oh lord, so much

1:14 I discovered that after shooting a silver horroblin into lava and the parts didn't burn. was pretty happy to get the horn

Did you know you can launch from lookout landing and make it to the depths in hyrule castle using just the glide armor? I hope you try this, it was fun to discover for myself.

4:51 there is in fact a weapon in Totk that still has the sound

In contrast to Tarrey Town, in Lurelin village you could gallop in BotW but STILL can gallop in TotK.

I'm almost sure the photo Album limit being extended to 64 is a nod to the N64 because back when that system came out a ton of games had the number 64 attached to it and Zelda 64 was a working title for Ocarina of Time for a while before it was changed. Maybe, could be. lol

This is a really weird thing to say, but I love Looygi’s vocabulary! It’s MUCH better than that of most other RU-vidrs. It makes him sound like he’s truly an expert of the game. I learned what sibilant means lmao

one thing I noticed in totk that probably was not the case in botw (my memory is a bit hazy on this) is that in botw if a fish escapes link and goes deeper underwater, link can't grab it anymore. But in totk no matter how deep the fish goes link can still grab it.

The Bokoblin in BotW looked weird and then I realized I'm used to them having big horns now

I noticed the durability one when I was trying to keep a strong weapon on 1 durability so I could give it to a rock octorock later, and was confused when it broke early (it was an eightfold longblade and I hit an enemy close up so it lost 2 durability at once and just broke lol)

Amazing what developing for one console can do for optimization

here you can tell the difference between a game made for the Wii U and the Switch 💀

Lava chuchu fire jelly..but new question..how can we get the chuchu from within the lava..

0:50 Technically the word you're looking for is "disintegrate", since dissolving happens in liquid, not open air.

I’m glad they made monster parts fireproof. There’s been a lot of times I hit an enemy camp’s bomb barrels, and the guts and stuff disintegrate before I can collect them.

Thanks for teaching me what “sibalant” means!

monster parts probably dont burn up in totk because of the whole weapon fusing mechanic i would imagine nintendo would get lots of hate comments if everyones silver lynel saber horns just disintegrated on death mountain

what about lizal arms? did they get a damage buff also?

I almost didn't recognize looygi bros from the thumbnail 😂😂

200+ hours clocked in and I forgot you could change the range when Link is carrying materials

Amazing what can be done when you're not coding for the Wii-U!

I think the reason in botw u could full speed on ur horse in tarrey town is because u helped build and it wasn’t there at the start so the game didn’t really recognize it as a village

It takes a better man than me to not take a photo when that orange text and box pops up around an item in camera mode.

Also footstep audio in general is far more dynamic 2:30

I keep asking about the change in the direction of the moon. BotW orbited right to left, but in TotK, the moon orbits left to right. That's a massive difference, as it's mirrored, which had me asking completers of the game if it's referenced.

I like the the part where LINK is decending from the lava... he walks with caution too... lol..

I just noticed the wolves no longer run away from monsters

love this game it looks and plays far better than the previous zelda title

Makes sense that materials would "float" on the surface of the lava. Lava may be less dense than solid rock, but it is still _rock._

4:07 idk why but in totk my camera is super blurry it kinda sucks but looking at the photos you took they’re clear as day does anyone know if there’s a way to fix this?

I wonder if they made things float on lava on purpose. Since real lava is extremely dense, most things will float on it (while burning.)

8:01 thanks for not including Pyper in the outro. I dont like how his flute sounds in combination with the stable theme and the other instruments. His melody sounds very often completely unfitting and not nice

I HATE how we can’t go any faster than a trot in towns - like, if I’m gonna run somebody down then I can do it at any speed, especially if I’m riding one of the giant horses. There’s no need to slow down my progress. -__-

i love these videos...

Is that a Dinraal headpiece???? Where oh where do I find _that_ ??

7:43 shut up korok I'll help you find your friend in a second!

nice intro😎😎

the last one... one was a Bokoblin Arm the other is a Moblin Arm....

I'm almost 50 years old and I don't think I've ever heard "sibilant" before. Had to look it up. I love the internet.

Just done all 152 shrines like 5 minutes ago🥳

I am trying not to judge your for neglecting your hyrule compendium, but it's hard

God the old Bokoblins look so pitiful with their tiny horns

Their attack power has been rised

Credit for the ending of this video showing the band WITHOUT the kid. Cuz holy moly that flute just ruins the music.

Where is Piper??

all these idiots saying botw and totk are the same game when you literally cant even gallop in tarrey town anymore

Technically the two-handed bone arm deals 30 attack, but TotK lies in yhe damage values and every two-handed weapon shows 0.95 of their actual damage per hit

My contribuition to the next video: The longer you charge your attack with spears-like weapons on totk, stronger and longer it is, different from botw.

i'm glad horses got over their xenophobia and actually recognize tarrey town as a legitimate state this time around

Man, the image quality of photos is the biggest bummer. Why do they insist on using the HIGHEST possible JPEG compression?? I don't understand. They can't possibly take up that much space... Some photos I've taken if there's a lot of colors and texture just look horrendous. It's upsetting. I wanna share the cool shots I take, but too many look terrible. And I don't want to have to set up a capture card just for that.

I think Terry Town is the only zelda music i don't like. It's like a tribute to groose or something