Age of Calamity's Story is Better than Breath of the Wild's (11 Reasons) 

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I am trying my hardest not to spoil a thing about AoC. It is very hard so I can’t answer that question lol. I’m hopefully getting it for Christmas

Mine is mipha and sidons moments together

Sidon saving Mipha at the last second from WaterBlight.

Screaming "JUGGYYYY" when you first meet the little guardian

Same

Yeah, I agree the whole botw universe is so cool to me now

Wait, but since AOC is a different timeline from Botw, does that mean that the personalities they have in this game aren’t canon? Sorry for the stupid question.

@@emilygould135 Well kind of. The actions they did in this game were different because the story was different, but you can see every champion pretty much having the same personality. The timeline split happened after each champion was born, so they are the same.

Breath of the wild seems to be a better story catered for someone who's never played a Zelda game properly before like me, but now that I have and I want to know more this game looks very appealing to me so I think they did a good job.👍

@Jocelyn Smith This is like the 50th time I am reminded about it and I still tear up

What's even more touching is that it seems they never (exactly) reveal the OG champions fate to them, and when Mipha tells Sidon "I am sure we will meet again soon" he just tears up and bids farewell.

Yeah, this was pretty much one of the few games I didn't spoil myself for.

@@Folfire "I mean - of course, right? Baby me should be around here somewhere. I didn't die, did I?"

@@michaelvisosky743I would agree that's what she meant, but it's not how he necessarily takes it. Would be interesting to read the script to be sure

I'll agree with this, if you agree that revali is a massive baby who is so one note that link shows a better range of emotion from him in this game.

And he dual wields spears.

@@Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective I'm neutral in the Revali argument, but the Great Fairies literaly call him "Such a good boy!" Not even joking here.

Baby Sidon could have taken on that Lynel. We just never gave him the chance. Also, how cute are his cheekies??

If future Sidon and baby Sidon ever meet I won't be able to handle it

When he ate it i died! They where kickin it hard! That one leaf though lol

i was like wait LINK STOP! YOUR TEETH!!! XD

Yeah! XD I remember a video that said they weren't sure if Link actually eat goron food, and then I saw that scene of age of calamity. Now we know link is able to eat anything

you can listen to it without crying

BotW forced you to read between the lines when it came to him. I knew he cared about her, but prioritized his role as the king before his role as a father. While it made him seem more cold and cruel, he just didn't want Hyrule and her people to fall. He could have done that in a better way, but I guess he had a lot to think about as the king of Hyrule, which is why he seems so.. distant in the first place. You can literally read about his feelings in the diary in his hidden study in Hyrule Castle after starting the DLC in BotW.

they found a way to incorporate the characterization we got from his botw diary into this game and i think that's rly cool

@@notalexus8125 as paid dlc...

@@firenze6478 ??

@@notalexus8125 you only get the diary after starting ballad of the champions, a paid add on.

I was in TEARS from that

YESSS that wrecked me!! And then when he had to leave her again 😭

Dude when I saw baby Sidon trying to fight the Lynal I was in tears then when I heard that I was S O B B I N G

Mipha was the first Champion I saved so when I saw Sidon I broke. That alone made the price worth it. It's fan service, true, BUT DAMMIT IT WAS SO GOOD

It does not matter because they will grow up together because nintendo are lazy and can't have anybody die

Your take is the closest to mine, friend.

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I say it was ruffley a month

@@neptuneplaneptune3367 maybe so. It doesn't give us an exact date does it?

I never realized that!

@@spproductions6901 I think Terrako did that during the original aftermath of the story, which is why Terrako doesn't exist in the canon timeline.. after that point atleast.

@@ankaplanka Terraco doesn't exist in the BotW timeline because he *always* travels back in time once Zelda awakens her power to save Link from the Guardians at Fort Hateno. I have a theory that Terraco was a failsafe Guardian created in case the plan to stop Calamity Ganon failed

DLC?

A DLC adventure from the Villain's perspectives? How delightfully devilsh

@@nightwalker174 Hopefully

doesn't that make BotW even worse though? like a good majority of the plot is hidden and you have to find it a lot of which you may never find at all.

@@pforgottonsoul what? How does finding out more about AoC do anything to botw?

The characters in aoc are so flat and boring. The writers are not the same of Botw they just transposed Botw champions into aoc and all it came out was... sarcastic Daruk and ‘the one who always complains’ Revali. Cmon.

Not to mention WAY more repetitive! 90 percent of the game would have consisted of Escort Mission after Escort Mission dragging Zelda through the 3 Springs to train.

I would of preferred to see the actual prequel This isn’t technically a prequel

For people wanting different things, it could be dissapointing. But to me, Age of calamity is the perfect celebration of botw they could have done. Its just fun seeing all these characters together, even if it is cheesy at times

​@Mystic Digi AoC is a nice game if we walk about the gameplay and the animations, but the writing, imo is poor and full of fanservice moments. I can understand if you like it but please, it's not even comparable to BotW. It makes me so sad to see that people nowadays still think BotW has no plot. It's all there guys, it's up to us to find it. Talk to the NPCs about the Champions. Talk to Kass. Read the diaries, fight the blights multiple times and you'll see those details that flesh them out perfectly. Anyway... I don't get what kind of new interaction made us realize what they're like in AoC?? Link that protects Zelda EVERY SINGLE TIME? I loved their relationship in BotW because it had FLAWS. They had EMOTIONS, in AoC everything about the writing is so cliché, cringey and BORING. Revali acting like a jerk? Yeah he's not the nicest among them but in BotW not only did he acknowledged Link, but we got to know why he acted that way. In AoC? Nothing of that. Mipha's relationship with Link barely existed. We got to know she's in love with him when she asked Daruk to train (speaking of which, why Daruk? Oh yeah they decided to made them speak so that we got to see 'hey wow look the champions are talking to each other yesss so cool' when it made no sense at all as Mipha COULD TRAIN WITH THE ZORA SOLDIERS) We had NO developmen from ANY of the characters, except MAYBE for the Yiga clan and King Rhoam. And "The characters barely existed in BotW" what? Sometimes I think people just play without even paying attention to the plot and the DLC they purposely included to give us more info about them. It's up to us to find the details, just because they're not in the cutscenes doesn't mean they don't exist. Just because AoC has more cutscenes doesn't mean it's better. BotW has less cutscenes but there is WAY much more depth to them (except from Daruk I guess, in AoC they made him sarcastic when he's naive in BotW so again out of character). Revali is way more deep in BotW, he's one of the best characters because he has real emotions and struggle with himself. So did Zelda in botw. So did even LINK IN BOTW. How could you say the character didn't exist in BotW when they even gave us a reason that explain WHY LINK DOESN'T TALK SMH

I like to think that the gerido soldiers we exploded during urbosa's recruit were secretly yigas, because god it would be a straight up massacre, I played with a friend and he was a fucking terrorist with bombs

@@matt4200 Well, they couldn't have all been Gerudo since it was the Gerudo city. Maybe you just wounded them.

Btw what happened to Sooga? I didn’t get what happened to him

@@chacalacalacaxd6538 he died to protect kogha from astor

Yes, the music in botw was ok, but it focused to much on piano. Like the aoc music

really? i preferred his to the others since he could actually fight back with it all of the others were just a shield.

Yea it was bad. I hated getting pelted by lynel arrows.

Rudiania's high AoE on the basic attack made up for his counter being pretty trash. Also had the easiest maps imo.

Yeah, I really didn't like his. Also, the motion controls were horrific for trying to aim his meteor bombardment ability, and while you desperately try to aim it correctly, you get pummeled by 20 igneous tallus'

@@vclapem9140 well that one is on you for using motion controls.

Technically she actually didn’t unlock it because she thought her dad was dead she did it because she didn’t want to lose another person that she loved when she knew she could’ve done something about it

@@galactic_clashx4056 Also, can we take a moment to appreciate the awesome footwork of Link taking on all 4 Blight Ganons at the same time. I mean it went south fairly quick but they did a great job showing him multi-task that encounter alone.

@@brandonhedges719 can we take one more moment to realize that they changed links height in botw like 10 times including in this game because now he’s shorter than Zelda yet In the picture that the gang took in the DLC link was very much taller than her

@@galactic_clashx4056 lol

@@brandonhedges719 If there's one thing that AoC's story did well, it's making Link look insanely badass. His fight against the blights, his fight against Sooga, his battle against the Malice version of the champion, PARRYING THE CEILING IN THE FINAL BATTLE....BotW's Link is a beast.

I mean, he also plays Phantom Thief fan or Moon Moe from Persona 5.

@@Silent_Fool true

Zelink fan lmao ☡

So right

Hell yeah ! Dude is super strong given that he has a handful of bananas to manage his stress, he can even sneeze a red guardian laser !

thats not how monarchy works but funny comment go brr

Blue_Refrigerator [;-;] in Hyrule monarchy it is. The women carry on the bloodline, which is why different king Hyrules have different middle names, their original last name

Hell never marry zelda no link ever has... He's just a hero that does hero stuff doesnt show romantic interest in anyone as it should remain

@@lh9591 thats now how hyrule monarchy works we havent even been introduced to that many hylian kings... The obes we have all look similar

@@drewhaynes1874 skyward sword did

I mean, he is a prophet, so it's not completely out of the question.

i would play it

Lol I would buy that

Enough ravioli slander in this house 😤

Yes, so much this! Their relationship was really nice and cute. I hope they become friends after the events of AoC.

Also Link: EATS ROCKS

I don't think that botw real past is that different to AOC story. I think the game gives you a new perspective while also answering some questions about breath of the Wild.

Yeah you can easely figure out the originsl events. Take out the towers rising, turn ewrey victory into an absulute defeat and imagine yhe Yiga just watching eating bananas and voila

That would be so depressing, nearly everyone dies

@@sandvichnavy2682 Also the fact that it's warriors game, it's REALLY hard to get a game over. If the game was gonna be about how they lose, then most of the endgame battles are just gonna end in defeat. Whether forced through cutscenes or have little dots on the map just disappear. It'll be like those times where you are objectively kicking the ass of a boss, but the cutscene plays mid through that forces a loss.

thats what i was thinking, they could incorperate a DLC where you can toggle on and off the MAIN BOTW STORY thing

I agree with everything you said haha I wish there was a free roam mode where you could just walk around the stages at your own pace and just look around

You're wrong botw's story was barely there. You didn't actually connect with anyone other than maybe zelda since she had and still has the most character development in both games. Botw has the greatest gameplay (besides combat) seen in games, but also has the worst story

@@hylianro everyone has their own opinion, i think botw's story was great, I'm not wrong, it's just my opinion

@@hylianro Hell no. I could connect a lot better to the champions in BotW, than in AoC. They were actually written a lot more intricately than in AoC. Revali for example actually had a reason for being a dick towards Link. He put himself through a tough and isolated training in order to become the best warrior of the Rito and with his entire race being proud of him, he held himself with high regard. So when he finally met Link, and Link stoically decided to ignore him, Revali took it as Link mocking him. That's a valid reason to dislike someone (heck, Link's silence is the same reason why Zelda also initially disliked him). In AoC, Revali didn't have to work hard for his ability and Link apparently doesn't have his reason for not talking anymore, so Revali literally just comes off as a douche for no reason. I liked Revali in BotW because he was fleshed out. In AoC however, he's just this flanderized version that's just a pure douche. AoC might have more cutscenes, but it also has significantly worse writing. The only thing that was improved was the Yiga Clan. The rest is worse.

@@MrSupahLink I agree. There was actually a lot behind the characters in Breath of the Wild, it was just that the game didn't have enough time to really get to show you all of it. In Age of Calamity, so much of what was so interesting about the story is either completely absent or glossed over. Just to name a few instances(I apologize in advance for the length): Zelda and Link's relationship had a really interesting progression in Breath of the Wild. She initially hates him because while she's worked incredibly hard and gotten nothing in return, Link has supposedly had everything handed to him without even trying. Zelda giving Link a chance after their run in with the Yiga Clan allows both of them to open up to each other in a way they haven't been able to with anyone else. It makes sense that a romance of some sorts could spring from that, the two share a similar burden in destiny and a similar mask that they have to wear through which friendship, and supposedly something deeper, could blossom. In Age of Calamity, this narrative element is so glossed over it might as well not even be there. Zelda is implied to take a liking to Link before he gets the Master Sword, meaning that their relationship is not built on mutual trust and similarities, but the barest of interactions. After he gets the sword, she never turns on Link like she does in the memories in Breath of the Wild. Instead she expresses minor dissatisfaction at Link's progress which is immediately resolved after a pep talk with Urbosa. Her powers awakening due to her love for Link, which is implied to be the same as in the original timeline, doesn't makes sense because they have not formed a meaningful connection. As you mentioned, Revali is flanderized to be a generic jerk in Age of Calamity, without any of the nuance that made his character interesting. In Breath of the Wild he is shown to harbor insecurities about his worth that he ties to his skill. He trains so hard and flaunts his abilities so much because he associates his self worth with being the best, a perception that Link challenges. That's why he dislikes him so much, not only because he takes his silence as mocking, but because he can't accept the fact that Link may very well be better than him and in his own eyes, render himself worthless. Revali harbors no such insecurities in Age of Calamity. After I gave such a thorough dissection of his original character, Revali is reduced to an arrogant prick who sees himself as superior for no real reason. There is no indication that he hates Link because he sees him as challenging his worldview, just that he sees him as beneath him. These are really just two examples of the story being overly simplified from what it was in Breath of the Wild. The way the memories and dairy entries conveyed the story made the story seem like a large interconnected web of characters and how they reacted to the impending Calamity individually, and how those choices spiraled into the interactions between other characters. In Age of Calamity everyone reacts to it as a collective, not as individuals. We never really get inside anyone's head aside from Zelda, and as such everyone else feels a lot more shallow than they were initially. When people say that the Champions lacked depth, they say that because the game only allocates a scant few of its already slim pickings of cutscenes to who they were. The real depth lies in the bigger picture that their diaries and the stories of Kass and their tribes paint. Age of Calamity offers nothing more than hollow fanservice. So in that essence it's just another Warriors game, but one with a ton of missed potential.

Breath of the Wild had more of a passively-told story through world elements, rather than being explicitly told. Age of Calamity is more in your face about the story.

That's subjective I spent 700 hours in botw age of calamity was a weekend

@@raybeauskillet9610 you don't need 700 hours to do everything in breath of the wild.

Yea but it's that fun finding the lore and just enjoying the physics and gameplay. Everything was pretty much cannon fodder in AoC. But to each his own that's why I said it's subjective.

@@raybeauskillet9610 quite honestly a lot of the gameplay in BotW kinda pissed me off. Like they introduced so many mechanics whose only purpose is to frustrate you.

Exactly. Terrako time traveled while Calamity Ganon had just awakened, during the first confrontation between Zelda and the beast.

Terrako jumps back in time around about two months if im correct, right? A hundred years is link's sleep, but the all events leading up to the fall of hyrule were less than a year,

Yeah he goes back about a month but brings the defendants back from 100yrs

@@jamesphan4165 nah about 1 month

I totally beefed up Rivoli just in case Link got, err... taken away from us. And was seriously nervous going into any Fort Hateno or Hyrule Field levels o_O

Eh, the timelines are a bit confusing. I also wouldn't take Nintendo too seriously with "trying to unify the timelines" since they've been known to barely follow their own timelines anyway. I mean, pretty sure after they released an official timeline, the very next game ignored it. Edit: I also feel like just making it a straight prequel wouldn't really fit with the Dynasty Warriors gameplay and character selection and the time travel timeline split thing gave them more creative freedom for the game's story.

Thank you! They’re two completely different games. C’mon people it’s a WARRIORS game.

I'd rather not have the timeline's remerged after this since it gives more room for Zelda games

That is very well written. :)

@@tsogobauggi8721 Thanks. Sorry if it got too big or even redundant. English isn't my native (?) language.

@@theyounglinker5044 No, those were good points on the differences of these two games. And English is not my first language either. :)

100%

Botw2 appears to be more story driven to begin with... we can hope...

agreed

@@a.liguria2698 Fingers crossed. Age of Calamity knocked it out of the park. Just a mini theory, but I believe with this New World running parallel with BOTW's universe, I think that the Champions from the New World will repay their gratitude by helping them stop Ganondorf. Not to mention, Mipha made a promise to Sidon that they will see each other again. This game has *SO* much potential to set up BOTW2!

@@jacobh6239 I hope no time travel like that though... if they want to bring the original champions back in botw2, they can perfectly use their botw selves, in ghost form.

what about sooga :(

“Stakes felt incredibly low” bro I was shitting myself at Akkala Citadel and Hateno Fort

@@dakuwaizu695 That's just the levels themselves being hard. But in terms of story, Egg-boi dissolves any and all tension and at no point does it feel like they could lose because the heroes have Game Genie. Nobody dies, not even Egg-boi, and the game never has the characters make any tough decisions or fail.

@@orangejuice3403 Sooga is present in the bonus credits.

@@HoleSam oh i didnt see him

Me too bud.

SAME there is one big story issue I have but besides that this story was actually really good in my opinion

Nbc was only good for his zelink videos anyway. This game has far better story than botw

@@hylianro i mean i personally enjoyed the story of botw a ton lmao, but this story is much more linear and therefore is more of a true narrative, so i understand the much more positive reception in general lol. and i enjoy some of nbc's content, although come to think of it less so as of recently lmao

Age of calamity is a warriors game. Everything is supposed to be laid out for you, which is why Breath of the wild is still amazing because you (link) have to figure it out and find your purpose. Age of calamity was well done, but you can’t compare it to botw because they’re completely different.

Breath of the Wilds story took a backseat in favour of the gameplay. AoC had the best Zelda story(while the gameplay got kinda repetitive). In my opinion, BotW is still the superior game, overall, but AoCs story was beautiful.

Botw has a very lack luster story

@@hylianro in your opinion

@@hylianro It was OK, but took a backseat in favour of gameplay

Terriko's pros: adorbs, is basically Guardian R2D2, EGG Cons: backstory makes no sense, you depend on him way too much

I love how they put one of the most powerful weapons right outside the entrance!

I wish for that level, you could turn off the time sensitivity. I would have just loved killing enemies and looking around the Great Plateau in my own pace.

That’s fair!

@@BanditGames thanks for respecting me lol

@@clava7851 to be fair botw has dark theme I'll give you that especially watching Zelda broke down crying and watching link almost died was pretty good so I can understand that also mipha story arc in botw was my favorite and the only connection I have in the entire game so even though I like age of calamity story wayy better then botw I still respect your opinion and plus botw was the reason why I fall in love mipha so yeah 😅

Agreed. Botw was more impactful than Aoc.

@@evalynbaun6672 ehhhhh yes and no in my opinion

The game is something different and I dare to say without fear of being wrong that it has a better story than many zelda. The only argument they use against the game is that you can skip everything and tell me does that change what happened? that's part of the player not the game. Tragedies make characters more interesting and give way to the evolution of characters. Have you ever wondered why people hate that characters revive? For this reason, because it is not necessary, the story was fine. This was a bad fanfic and I won't lie to you. I liked it but I still prefer the original work in my opinion better written and without fanservice.

Yes AOC completely takes away from their relationship. It's so disappointing.

We just wanted a prequelllllll

@@runawaygemm5397 i mean...the first half of the game would still happen almost the same way if it was an actual prequel to botw and when the time travelling happens you can already kinda imagine how they lost and what happened from then on

@APPLE ELPPA yeah pretty much, with a little bit of no. It came silent like a butterfly effect. Terrakos arrival already made link and zelda bond way earlier. Recruiting the champions was very different too because of the circumstances, but yeah i agree, i still think, it does give you a good image of a prequel until the time travelling happens

not really since this is only an alternate timeline

I totally agree, maybe I’m just stupid, but there was so much going on with it that there was a lot of the story that got lost on me.

I agree, there were a number of aspects about AoC story that didn't make too much sense in my opinion.

@@poisonedcrow9311 like what?

Like the character development. They added nothing new to the story about the champions, instead they are rewritten by new writers. Some plot holes I need to debate: - if Zelda built Terrako when we was a child why did Rhoam didn’t recognize him when Zelda show it? - Did Sooga die? - why did master Kohga get a redemption arc and not Revali? - why did Revali and Teba’s relationship was treated in a such boring way? I bet the writers hate him - who the hell is Astor? Is he a mage? How is he able to see the future? Was he the fortune teller the king was telling us about? - why, why why Link would be able to protect Zelda from a piece of falling castle without getting smashed - the master sword scene is ridiculous. They got to the woods but why? What if the wielder of the sword wasn’t among them??!? Nobody knew Link was the one destined to use it. Neither he did. Guess what would've happened if they got there and surprise no one is able to wield the sword, like "wow why did we come here in the first place again??"

@@galactic_clashx4056 For example, in the original timeline, Link got the Master Sword *before* the Champions got selected to pilot the Divine Beasts, I heard it is said he got it when he was 13. In this game, he got the Master Sword *after* the Champions got selected. Terrako couldn't have messed with it since he travelled back 1-3 months back in time. Way long after Link got the Master Sword in the original timeline. You may think, but for gameplay... Yes, I get it. Link couldn't have the Master Sword from the get-go gameplay-wise, but that's not it. In Zelda's diary in BotW, she said Link barely ever spoke bacause all of the pressure of being the chosen hero, a quality he conserved even after losing his memories. In AoC he had none of that pressure, yet he never speaks here. They outright changed things already explained, and the only plausible in-lore explanation for it (Terrako) wasn't the cause if it. At least in the original timeline things stay like they always were.

Yep I watched the whole thing

????so was the original game????

It is canon. Just not to botw

@@jayoctopus8832 It isn't canon just like the first Hyrule Warriors can be considered canon from a Timeline split still isn't canon so nothing is confirmed that Age Of Calamity really is in the timeline

Nintendo is unifying the timeline with botw, they are not dumb enough to split it again because of a spin off

Agree on everything, not ti mention how they treated the ‘Terrako summons the heroes from 100 years after Botw events’ thing in a such superficial way... and not to mention how they treated the champions

... yeah I totally agree with literally all of the points you mentioned

Not to mention how they completely forgot Revali’s plausible reasons to be resented to Link like he was in Botw! In aoc he’s just incoherent and jerk because he saw how Link fought him, he knows he’s a capable fighter so why being angry at him and insult him?

A lot of people say the story was lazy in age of calamity and I am on board with them I don’t know what this guy means when it’s better when it really isn’t just cheap things like how egg boy just wishes the descendants into existence now that was pretty cheap and lazy I wouldn’t to see more mipha and links relationship to grow nope their was half a scene of that the frame rate does drop a lot during my play through oh and there was no reason for mipha to have feelings for link since what was told what happened in her diary doesn’t even happen in the game egg boy I completely don’t care for him also when he turned bad was suppose to make us feel awfully sad,but honestly I just kinda rolled my eyes since the game just tells us to like him since he’s cute the only reason he exist was because of time travel which was used really wrong and once again cheap literally the champions balled got me to learn more about the game than the actual prequel yes even the memories got me to learn more yeah that father and daughter one yeah I got the gist from that I didn’t need the game to right out give me a straight forward summary of their relationship botw had everything this game had for characters,but better this game was not what we needed out of the franchise and the game just screams not canon considering that they don’t know who is the knight that seals the darkness is or how Zelda met the champions god I keep noticing more and more flaws the more I played in faceted I stopped playing since the started to feel repetitive so 4.7/10 at least the music was great

I haven't watched the video and I can say that it's not hard to have a better narrative structure than BOTW. But the story itself? Taste I guess.

@@UltimateTobi my distaste regarding aoc’s story comes from its marketing as a direct prequel. It changed a lot of things and I found it to be wasted potential. I didn’t love the ending either. As a stand-alone game (not comparing it to botw) I think the story is a lot better. The problems simply arise when compared to botw, which it should be as it was marketed that way, and is kind of sad that I have to look at it on its own. Still way cool to see generally what happened.

@@wellexcusemeprincess4122 I didn't mean to disagree with my statement. In fact I agree and I expected a 100% prequel. BOTW didn't have a proper narrative structure because its apocalyptic world called for a spread-out and cryptic story; as was presented. Of course it's easy to have a proper narrative structure compared to that. Now if the narrative/story itself is appealing comes down to taste. So technically I disagree with MNB and say no, AOC's story is not better. But different.

To respond to my own comment lol, I loved AOC’s presentation of it’s story. It was all laid out. I felt that botw had a better story but did not present it well.

@@UltimateTobi ah I see what you mean now. I agree with that, botw’s gameplay and overall style didn’t lend itself well to a strong structured narrative, it probably could have been done better but idk. AOC definitely had a easier time with that haha, so yeah I see what you’re saying now.

Lol, same. I was only like 9 minutes late

Agreed, in fact they’re a bit more 1-dimensional than in Botw’s DLC

Please go check out the channel Sideways. You'll understand how music can be a really important part of a story :)

There are several technical differences between a written book and an audiovisual story. In movies an animation there is much more less time to explain things, while books have pages. Good music is not just there, it is made to set tones, to set the scenes or tell a character secret. We can take for example Vah Ruta's theme in BOTW, that song really tells a lot about the champions final moments.

That's how I saw it. He wasn't malicious. Just strict and perhaps not emotionally available. Of course no proper treatment. But by no means intentionally abusive.

Based on what is shown in game, Zelda made more advancements against Gannon before her awakening(She set up guardians, checked and researched, she also did everything diplomatic) The king also did nothing but criticize Zelda while training a group of soldiers. Zelda did everything. Link wouldn't have found the master sword if he didn't care about Zelda.

@@shanebaeg18 yeah, but you gotta consider that we don't see what the king is doing in either this game or botw. Also consider that the males of the Royal Family don't have any special powers, I'm sure that if he had the same power as Zelda he wouldn't have been so hard on her.