Fixing Breath of the Wild's Biggest Problems 

Your voice is so satisfying 😌

You posted before I was done my school work, but I watched it anyway. Life is good.

Thanks for asking how's life raz how about you

CEMU emulator could fix some of these problems

Is this video safe to watch PRE ever playing the game?🤔

YES!!! Why they never did this, I have no clue. The sequel needs this

It would be neat. I spent a lot of time trying to find new foods. Npcs will mention hints at recipes which is cool. I was excited when i realized you could make apple pie and other foods like that. Even if prime meat food is still the best for healing

I would kill for a cookbooooooooi

Yes! Also it'd be cool if they made more unique effects from recipes

@@rockbandandghmaster Hearty durian is the best thing for healing. Near the end of the game I literally just cooked them up one at a time because bonus hearts didn't matter. Prime meat is the best thing for money.

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@@tobyk5091 hello!

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Don't forget moblins and keese lol

This is the single biggest complaint I had with the game. The enemies were just way too repetitive. There was relatively little variation. And about 95% of the time, you were fighting bokoblins, moblins, or lizalfos, sometimes colored differently.

The game AT LEAST needed Darknuts.

@@dhans9662 and tektites would have been such an obvious choice

See: pokemon. Too much variation = other stuff having to be optimised to look worse

also make the house more useful

@@ryandrummond3794 there’s a house?😂😂 I play on and off so I don’t really know too much

@@cheyennelandgraf5081 you can get a house in Hateno Village at the top of the town across the bridge. Speak to the construction crew. You need to pay a certain amount of rupees plus stacks of wood. Then you can add upgrades but it's very limited.

Anakin's the father, isn't he? I am so sorry.

​@@cheyennelandgraf5081 damn dude, you should probably do the quest lol

ah yes, my favourite legend of zelda characters. Lugi and Maro

Bower kidnapped Princess Pach again

Why do i want this

my point exactly

Yes, this.

So true :D

i use it for getting ores too!

@@sophfuric In every game where you can use your sword to destroy pots and rocks you do that.

I only use my better weapons because of the durability glitch

They were the Crucible Knights before Crucible Knights.

yes

Definitely the biggest oversight by far.

honestly

Agreed. I'd love it if the post game included rebuilding and repopulating the kingdom and villages that were destroyed in the war 100 years ago, kind of like you did with Tarrytown

Maybe that might happen in botw 2 you know

@@ausnik Only thing is that the sequel to Breath of the Wild will probably be pretty direct, since it was originally going to be DLC. The threat isn't gone yet so it just wouldn't make sense to rebuild everything only for Ganondorf to come back two seconds later. Good idea, though. Maybe we'll get something like that in the sequel, 'cause Bolson construction is still around.

@@aidangreen7596 The threat of Ganon is everlasting though. It repeats itself, hence the legends and all the preparations 100 years ago. It's a kingdom that constantly rebuilds, goes through the war phase and returns. I'd love to see a rebuilding kingdom in the sequel where you still have bands of bokoblins and other beasts roaming about, just with more villages and towns. Then you can have a shadow plot of Ganaondorf's true body being resurrected, etc. Either way, any game where you can city build or kingdom build tends to be that much more fun because of it. Rebuilding and repopulating the likes of Hyurule Castle, Central Hyrule, Great Plateau, The Colosseum or the Akkala Fortress for example would be so much fun.

Agreed, I go out of my way to fight the black enemies now

Imo they made it worse. Now all you can find out in the world are bland sticks, and the only way to get resources to make better weapons is to fight monsters, breaking more weapons in the process. Its hard to get excited about getting weapons when I know they're gonna break in only an encounter or two, except now I have to worry about farming monster parts too.

​@@zacharywoloszynski4258 *wheeze*

​@@christians.3151 1. They've added a repair feature. Feed your weapon to an octo-rok, it gets a repair and an upgrade. This fixes a lot by itself. 2. I assume you're early in the game or don't do much fighting, because I get plenty of viable weapons from random enemy drops. That's where most of them have come from. If you fuse an actually good monster horn to the weapon, it'll increase durability and you can easily clear 2-3 camps with that weapon and a few arrows alone, so you don't have to "break more weapons" to get new ones. 3. You do not have to farm any more materials than you do in BotW, I have many many fusion materials because I get creative and think resourcefully about what weapons are worthy of what fuse materials. It's engaging, and far and away an improvement over BotW.

@@braveheart1320 I've beaten the game its entirety. If you're telling me that by visiting a octorok every 2 fights to repair extremely fragile weapons is an acceptable fix then that's just unreasonable. Also this was already a feature in BotW. Monsters will drop a lot of parts, but besides the horns most of them are garbage to fuse with, and they only drop like one horn, so yes you do have to kill damage sponge enemies and break weapons to get parts. I certainly found myself having to go out of my way to get any actual good parts. In botw, I never had to worry much because I always came across a healthy supply of decent swords no matter where I went. TotK just adds an unnecessary step to the process, and replaces anything interesting you'd find with boring sticks or rotted weapons that both break extremely quickly. I don't see how it's an improvement to go from fragile weapons that break quickly to fragile weapons that break quickly that I now have to craft myself. Just give me a cool sword and stop wasting my time.

that’s what i thought would happen when i first played the game i thought there would be an after main storyline quest where you have to help repair hyrule

but what would you fight? No more guardians because no more malice, and eventually all the monsters will die and not come back bc no more blood moons.

What specifically would be awesome about this idea lol

@@WagnerKoop exactly. The only benefit would be you feel the accomplishment of this and see the worlds reaction. That’s it

Luckily we have modding lol

Yes! Like in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, that gives you the option to drop the new thing or swap it with something else as soon as you take it. It is such a small thing but it would make a huge difference.

Agreed

Maybe pickup-able items in chests could just fall out when opened and be picked up that way. It would speed up chest looting and also solve the weapon switching problem.

@@sd19delta16 That would be better than now, but if you're unfamiliar with the weapon then you'd still maybe pick it up and have to drop it again if your current weapons are all superior. Having it be in a menu would be best.

I wish you could climb better when ypu level up the climbing clothes. And the same with swimming fast and leveling up the zora suite. The only thing that happens until now is that its defense gets better, which is okay for the knight suit but not for every suit.

Would have been awesome being able to dive underwater and find caves to explore, maybe long lost Sheika ruins, maybe an ocean-going sub-species of Zora?

yeah but some of the game mechanics and locations are built of the fact that you cant go underwater example: vah ruta

On one hand I'd love that but on the other hand.... Water movement is awful

Yes please! I got so frustrated whenever loot disappeared into the depths of the water :(

Breath of The Wild doesn't even have cave systems like Twilight Princess has...

Same

He's the hero of the wilds in this game. "hero of time" was just OoT

I would argue this is a trait all heroes of this time share though. In cutscenes we can see Urbosa parrying Yiga clansmen and time slow there too. Hyrule Warriors also seems to follow this trend too, but I imagine Link's real champion ability is his ability to grow and adapt at exponential rates, due to *his courage to fight on.* It is this courage and inner strength that also made the Master Sword choose Link as its equal as he is a warrior without an equal himself and consistently proves that the impossible is only a matter of perception.

Link is only the Hero of Time in Ocarina of Time.

Also he has bullet time so it makes sense That he can slow down time

I love that (even if its something different). *something* needs to be there and they could be optional super hard things like the weapons from FF7

THEY NEED A HOOKSHOT i have no health and max stamina and a lot of stamina lotions Also revalis gale isnt here its horizontal

​@@itsjayh They actually had the hookshoot in the game during testing phases. They decided to take it out because it made the climbing mechanic obsolete.

@@brotbrotsen1100 They could've just make it consume stamina. Right now in TOTK climbing is almost obsolete with the whole zonai devices thing, flying from the towers and fast traveling to a nearby sky island shrine and dropping.

@@Xeyph Yeah i know, just wanted to tell people why they left it out

Complaining about a game usually means you care about it, and are eager to see it improve. Keep doing it

@@poog6458 Exactly.

Same, man!

"I love this game! Here's why I hate it"

In botw 2, so need a fix weapons system! I got tired of breakable weapons and shields. I love the game, I just stop playing it after beating the game cuz tired of everything breaking

both you and pine called my idea smart today and now my ego is just unstoppable

@@razbuten Haha ^^ Use that rare occurrence wisely

When the king of RU-vid essays praise your idea, then you know you did good.

@@razbuten I also agree with you for that idea, its a great one, ( way better than anything I could come up with) the several hour video (made by joseph anderson I think) covers the dungeon problem much better. the combat needs a full overhaul as while it works great for the first 10 hours or so after that the progression just makes it less fun, the hyper bloated hp pool is the biggest offender, making environmental damage and creative tactics innificient, also you feel compelled to hoard the late game weapons, but there are other problems.

Yes ! My face literally lit up when he explained his idea!

I hate it, but it would have been far more tolerable if those didn’t atleast break. They are already mid tier and it just destroys the lore that these ancient weapons which have been passed down for generations shatter in a single fight with a lynel and then they are just like, no big deal we’ll forge another if you bring us a far more valuable diamond

They do have much more durability than common weapons, but they surely are weaker than free to replenish weapons of the same class, which makes repairing them not worth it. At least in TotK they are total MVPs so there’s much more incentive to always keep them and use them (and repair them with materials or rock octoroks)

The only one I use regularly is the Boulder Breaker, and that's almost exclusively against Taluses because of the 2x damage bonus. Urbosa's gear is vastly inferior to the awakened Master Sword and Hylian Shield, a great number of late game bows outclass Revali's bow in multiple ways, and Mipha's trident is far from the best spear in the game, and I hardly use spears anyway.

You know the dragon at the spring of power? I really liked the way that worked, I’d just rather it not end in a blessing shrine

There should be armor sets for all 3 dragons that you need to craft using the dragon parts or something. Also they should've made the other 2 work like Naydra where you had to free them from the malice before getting their resources. On top of that, I remember it being really boring to farm enough dragon parts for all my armor upgrades, so that could've been better.

I wish there was some sorta quests with the dragons. Like theres only 3 of them so a lot could’ve been done with them!

They can attack you ? Make the landscape beautiful ?

@@Nyxxy8 naydra's armour, cools you down in the desert, immunity to frost, increases damage from frost weapons

Why is this not up there with the 2k likes comments?

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FACTS that song is so good

The next one is supposed to be darker so maybe we get that on the next one even though it's a prequel?

@@ralexcraft990 But it's a sequel...

Imagine mipha taunting link, and Link just draws his sword and grits his teeth like a mad hound, thirsty for vengeance

@@psuedonym9999 Yes but set in the past.

@@sheridan5175 Then at the end once she's freed she decides it's been long enough and gives him a kiss.

And we needs cats, they aren't cats in the game

There should be pigs too. Wind waker link got a pig so breath of the wild needs em too

exactly - it's "BREATH of the wild" - and not "Ride the wild that breathes"; just to mention a point.. edit: If anyone just thinks about something like r/whooshing me, please I beg of you..just spare you the disgrace..

@@silvercrystal3 r/whoooooosh

@@AmazinglyAwkward *triggered

That’s why I feel that fighting the champions was the plan, but was cut for time

Ok but imagine if they looked like the champions, but corrupted. It just adds a layer of uncanny

Wait waterblight does what now

Waterblight heals itself? I've played and watched others play that fight, both the original and the champion's ballad, and never seen a hint of it. Guess we either kill it or die too quickly to notice?

It sounds good, but it just turns into farming low level weapons for the shards. Or farming high level weapons for the shards. Running out of weapons is rarely the issue, it's that most of the weapons are basically Identical. Royal sword is just a slightly better master sword. Same moveset. I find the weapons breaking in combat actually pulls me out of the game. Same with food being free full heals.

I didn't turn them off, I just often forgot to use them lol

Man that sounds amazing. I swam up a waterfall, climbed a tower and nearly insta killed ganon with the special power. Then I had a boring ass Horse fight. I was so disappointed I lost my motivation to explore the world and have barely been playing since then..

I didn't turn them off but went all the way through the secret entrance and Hyrule castle, plus the Lynel fight, because I was too scared to run around with all the guardians being there. Aka you can make the game tough if you want to :D

Same I didn't know they recharged for the longest time.

I didn't know that was the secret entrance! I was wondering for the longest time why I had so much trouble with the endgame...

They also could of added when link lays down on the bed they show him getting the spa makeover and massage lol

Got that Death Stranding inspo

Like the one is skyward sword?

I think so you can sit down on chairs and benches in skyward sword. I’ve played the original version before it’s actually my favorite Zelda game twilight is second. I’m also working on the hd version right now along with wind waker hd and links awakening.

that would be so annoying and would be such a waste of time

Bro this comment is crazy because im playing the witcher 3 in another tab rn. And thats fax, the witcher 3 has the best alchemy system in any game. Im never afraid to use my potions due to scarcity, but rather because of toxicity. Its a perfect system to curb potion spam

I haven’t played that but sounds a lot like elden ring (or any souls game). Instead of hoarding my red health potions I used them and then sat at a bonfire. It reset the area enemies (so there’s a penalty) but the refill is “free”

Yep, Potions/Decoctions and Estus Flasks work basically the same way. It took me a while to figure out how they worked, and I kinda wish the games explained it a bit better. For those playing The Witcher 3, don't forget about your oils.

Cool idea. Maybe not even an army, but just one character from each area, each showing Link a different path into the castle, and then assisting with the final boss fight, as an alternative to the giant laser assist the Divine Beasts give you. Have four boss fight stages, and each one helps with each stage.

Dude same!!!

Also riding horse sometimes

I saw him in the distance so assumed he was just an environmental thing. Then I did Naydra's quest and holy shit you can glide right up to them!

I remembered seeing them for the first time and I thought they were bosses. So I was scared to go near them for a while.

@@BibBubDude well idk if you knew this but theres a dragon boss fight in botw

Maybe the mirror shield from OoT

Yes but its not the hylian shield, which would be cooler

ancient shield but stronk

@@Sheila_Chu that does make sense

Honestly a pot lid is more efficient and much more cheaper

I came here to say exactly this. Changing these things to make the game "harder" or "more realistic" would have meant that I probably would have just handed my copy of the game to my husband and gone back to my cozy games. Difficulty barriers to game play for new gamers doesn't make better gamers--it makes those gamers choose different games, or (worse, from an industry standpoint) different hobbies altogether. 300 hours in, I'm grateful for my mask/snack/attack abilities. (Edited for clarity/word choice/thumbs) 😊

@@abby_the_skwrl 100% agree

I agree with you completely. Zeldas were never hard and sincerely they don’t need to be… the online community just have a very vocal, very challenge driven niche that always seem to bring these “ideas” to make it harder. You can always not use the “easy mechanics” if you wish.

I’m not a gamer but is there any precedent for consumables that go off over in-game time? Like the longer you hold on to an apple, bread, chicken, etc, the less health it replaces..?

@@chriskaprys No there’s no sort of decay with recovery items… Even meat where you would think a game like botw would probably have it go off. They restore the same amount even after a 1000 hours

@@chriskaprys The game Don't Starve (and the multiplayer Don't Starve Together) does this. Given the title of the game, it's kind of one of the core mechanics. Building a fridge is one of the most important things.

@@chaoslord8918neat!

Lol You ever played destiny?

no

@@zirkq destiny 1 had the same mechanic where the raid armor or weapons needed ancient shards to upgrade and you would get them from the raid or chest in the raid. You can also get them from breaking down clothes and weapons.

@@kevinmorelikekevout3639 That doesn't give incentive to use the powerful "consumable" items instead of hoarding them though. Drops is a completely different thing, the game already has enough of those. And going into a menu and destroying weapons is hardly any fun, using your powerful weapons and then get a little reward at the end of using instead of hoarding them is a much better solution.

@@Naryoril I was just describing the mechanic

This is what i think too!

I mean you can beat up revali in AoC but it would be cool in this style too.

oh also SPOILER you can get an armor by doing certain quests that lets you climb up walls as well, so you no longer have to use elixers at that point. also enemy variation was fixed a little, but also is much better imo because the fuse system and ultrahand (letting both you and enemies you different vehicles and interesting weapon types) has really improved variation in combat and encounters

also no you can't pet dogs :(

Octorock repair

Fusing objects to weapons can add up to 25 extra hits before it breaks. So that's why they take longer

I'm surprised not more people know about this, but the Ancient shield you can get at Akkala Ancient Tech Lab actually does auto-parry Guardian lasers.

@@yoshiwiiremotewithwiimotio2947 yeah but having an oh mirror shield from the classic games would have been great even if amiibo exclusive or something

And make sure it doesn't break after three uses with no way to repair it except for buying a new one

@@gamercore5216 It was kinda weird how in Wind Waker, Link's actual *official* shield was the mirror shield.

So the giant ancient shields

Bring back Darknuts!!

@@codagaming9186 YES! Darknuts would be so much fun to fight with the mechanics in BotW.

There needs to be sets of enemies for each region imo....

@@Watertrotter-ge5yp Remember the Darknuts in Twilight Princess? They were a legit threat. They could do that for Breath 2.

@@pizzamandhx While I understand why people find them cool, Darknuts honestly disappoint me. They were a mild threat when the game crammed three of them in one room to cheap shot Link, but one-on-ones with them were pushovers in both WW and TP. And while they look badass, they are just...big swordsman. We already got Blademasters to fit that bill. I'm really only interested in Darknuts if BotW2 is willing to make them truly ominous, beyond Lynel levels of threatening. Personally, I'm crossing my fingers for more overworld variety. Tektites hoppin around cliffs. Po haunting around at night. Dodongos runnin around the fields.

Yeah I’m not very great at the combat so the idea of having to eat food in realtime sounds absolutely agonizing to me also I really suck at actually triggering the flurry rush things. “it’s way too easy” was a shot to the heart lmao

@@Rabbit_Hill I often forget that flurry rushing is a thing bc its kinda tricky. I do think for me it's partly bc it takes alot of buttons in a specific way and idk if its an adhd thing or jsut something I struggle with.

Same, I LOVE botw but I really suck at combat, please dont make it harder 😅

lmao me except it took me nearly 12 hours without breaks

It took me 2 days

Lol same

I hated his second phase

i despise the divine beast puzzles, most of them are realising puzzles instead of working stuff out puzzles

Probably all 4 times

@@mics1234 I see your point that it is a very valuable ability, but if you make the cost of the ability too high, then players won’t acquire it until after they actually need it.

@@cyan.cephalopod Im 100% sure everyone needs a gear that beats rain.

@@mics1234 “before you actually need it” is not the same as “grind until it’s yours after you’ve finished 90% of the games content”

@@impeybarbicane You dont need to finish the game to max out armour pieces.

same though ;-;

Same :(

For people who are pretty good at the combat, yeah. It's too forgiving. The only requirement is that you dodge just before an attack would hit. That leaves a LOT of room and you don't even have to be that close. I shouldn't be able to flurry rush every attack from a horde of enemies.

Yeah, I found it too risky to pull off so I avoided it a lot. Headshots were easier to pull off, bombs were easier to throw, perfect blocks had less risk because if you're too late you just block instead, elemental weapons had CC capabilities, and heavy weapons did plenty of damage without a flurry. Like, there were times when I'd throw 40 bombs into a bokoblin skull through they eye socket so they didn't see me to kill them, rather than actually fight them because it was risky. Boring as hell, but effective enough and completely risk free.

Hard mode for those of us who can do it well would be great.

Me too, it’s my favorite game haha

Yeah, it's the cherry on top of this masterpiece of a video. HK is the best game I've ever played along with BOTW.

It’s just an annoyance if you want your weapons not to break at all, but by the mid to endgame, you just memorise or mark in the map where the good weapons are and replenish them or get duplicates every blood moon (if needed). Blood moons happen so frequently that there’s no actual scarcity: it’s just a part of gameplay loop (like mining diamonds for tools in Minecraft). TotK made it worse, for me, because pristine weapons are random, so there’s actual value in holding them and a chance of not being able to find a new one (or taking a ridiculous amount of time searching). But there’s actual weapon repair, so that game’s late game durability is also solved, with a different loop.

Seconded! While I did fine with botw, it took a few hundred hours before I could reliably fight, and even then,.no always. I generally play on the easiest level that isn't story-only, but I especially love games that let you change difficulty whenever. (I'm currently playing Fenyx Rising, and normal mode is great for me, but i'd have chosen story-only if I couldn't change whenever. And I would have missed out on so much enjoyment

Same I'm really bad at melee combat

Oh shirt.

Oh shirt.

it was so difficult to time for me until recently, idk how I figured it out but it finally clicked and now I kill every single lynel I see

*hits with weapon *sheathes weapon *runs away *repeats process till baddie's dead Or just do stasis reset whatever. lol

Didn’t Aonuma confirm it would be possible

@Tales Ferreira I can't remember if it was Aonuma. But they didn't think that most people would care about petting dogs, only for the overwhelming amount of complaints to hit them. They then said that they'll make sure to put it into BotW2

@Tales Ferreira I’m not sure if it was Aonuma but I remember someone said it would be possible.

@@LeviathanTamer31 Yeah I wasn’t quite sure if it was Aonuma, I actually just don’t remember and that was my best guess.

the only problem with this idea is that it is wayyy too easy for nintendo to accidentally ruin the fight because they make the fight so easy it is boring, or the former companions do next to nothing and it feels like a waste of time

@@acefluffyzeuss7617 You're probably right. It'd probably end up a Fierce Diety situation. Except in that case, it felt deserved after all the work you went through.

@@Amins88 for myself I’d be alright with a fierce deity situation, but I know lots of others wouldn’t. Back when majoras mask was originally released the margin in which players had for the companies was way larger and people weren’t all about critiquing the game and more about having fun, which don’t get me wrong lots of people still are. But there’s a growing group of people who only want hardcore gameplay, in which a fierce deity time would feel underwhelming and boring. Right now they have to get it bang on to please everyone with the assistance so that it feels like you earned it but not to the point that it overthrows the fight similar to the current final fight

Tbh even if ur idea is flawed I feel like it makes somewhat more sense than the video's proposal because it lets the champions also take their revenge rather than just powering you up (which they already do once you free them); the purpose of freeing the divine beasts is to free the champions' spirits AND be able to use the actual machines to ur advantage. Story-wise it wouldn't make sense to not use the beasts themselves to weaken Ganon

@@acefluffyzeuss7617 I played MM's on 64 as a kid (who didnt speak english) and my first ending was beating Majora's with normal link. Only after a few playthroughs I picked all masks and used fierce deity and I can garantee anyone that it simply felt magic.

Yes this, also since heart containers don't exist anymore if I see a small house I'd just think "just another korok spot nothing important here"

They kinda tried in some but this is so true, most are the same but it would have been so awesome to do a haunted mansion/town mission or something alike

They all look and play exactly the same. It's a disgrace compared to any of the previous Zelda games

well it was a clear conscious decision by Nintendo to standardise and speed up the development of 200 odd shrines. I prefer the proper dungeons too but i imagine they'd take 10x the dev time for the same "play time". They went for quantity when it came to shrines. But yeah... nothing beats those proper Zelda dungeons imo. They're more like themed labyrinths really and are the most memorable parts of past Zelda games. I'm hoping they make a return in BOTW 2. More "hand crafted" linear areas would be nice too... the journey through the Lost Woods gave us a taste of what a more guided section of the game could be like.

Agree. Spirit orbs should be scattered around the map not only in shrines. There is no reason to complete a hard challenge to enter a shrine telling you "you already proven your worth". It robs the environment from impacting the player

Sekiro did something similar to this with certain bosses on the death blow.

Also metroid dread did it with her counter

Yeah, that is a subtle touch, but I want like Revali fused into the Blight with malice dripping down his beak. That should would be horrifying and great.

@@razbuten Anything that allows me to stab Revali. I'm in.

@@NathanielRich me too omg 😍

@@NathanielRich yeah but, are you ready to stab Mipha?

@@razbuten but this is still a children’s game. You don’t want your enemy design to be too disturbing or cause nightmares for children. My cousin couldn’t play majoras mask for example because he found the moon to be too scary.

Agreed

Its is amazing

Hi :)

Good to see you here

Yes

Nice Idea!

That's a great idea

Could the four terminals be where you fight the blights talked about in the video? I think it'd fit pretty well. Another thing: To make sure it doesn't just become the champion's ballad thing all over again, where you have to go back and fight the blights a second time(and with your changed version, technically THREE times), how about instead of the blights appearing, it's dark versions of the champions themselves you have to fight, and then finally dark link as a secret final boss you fight in the sanctum in place of where the blights were just to shake things up a little, plus bring back an old foe!

That’s a good idea for sure

However: more obstacles means more routing, and while it would make speedruns slower, it'll make them more interesting. The better speedrun friendly idea is letting the player approach the obstacles from many different directions, with the faster ones being harder, and botw is pretty good in that

I think the timeframe depends on what you are fighting

Just practice, the easiest thing for me to flurry rush is a lynel because that's the only enemy I bothered trying for. I'm almost useless with with everything else lol.

YES

Just practice on lynels

@@shumeiyang1024 The window for Flurry Rush on its head-first charge attack is super generous, too, I feel. I've dodged when it's a meter in front of me, still got the Flurry Rush. I've dodged when it was basically hitting me, still got the FR. Compare that to Guardian laser parrying... I'll sometimes get the initial parry success "schwing", but take a bit of damage and not actually reflect it.

It could make sense. Tho, I wonder if the heart container could be what's left of their soul ?

@@-randomuser-4897 well, soul is not always about health

I think in concept that’s a good idea, but it would make you complete 8 more shrines to get the Master Sword

@@astandmixer8218 I don't think 8 shrines is a big deal.

@@astandmixer8218 Ooooor they could just make it consider both your stamina and your heart totals. So players that chose to improve stamina instead of hearts aren't needlessly punished and have to google "how to swap stamina for hearts" in frustration to get the sword. Yeah, I'm still salty.

i actually really love the idea of dungeons at the springs, in my opinion the spring of power and courage were quite boring to me, whereas seeing a dragon and freeing it from the malice was quite an adventure (also the first time i learned u can shoot arrows in the air!). I would love to see some sort of fire/lava themed dungeon, with its own separate boss, along with an electric dungeon where u have to use magnesis to activate electrical switches and a boss that deals us electric attacks. but than again there have been fiery/lava shrines that have milked this idea along with electrical shrines, but an icy dungeon would be new and innovative

Aren’t the spring of courage and power like connected to dungeons in skyward sword?

Zelda games, especially 3d zelda games, have never really been challenging. They're just kinda tedious. Most of the puzzles that people remember being hard were just confusing and poorly made.

Agreed. Doing Naydra’s spring first really set up the expectation that there would be an engaging mini-quest for the other two dragons, so that was quite a let-down.

my dream would be to have the spring dungeons be skyview and the earth temple but rundown and in a breath of the wild style

Thank you! I think it is really interesting how just the framing of something can change your perception, even though nothing in the game would really have to change by adding them.

@@razbuten I forget what game design video I was watching about this very thing. Probably something from Extra Credits? Anyway, they talked about an MMO that instituted an XP penalty if you'd been playing more than X hours a day. The players were up in arms, furious about the change. They felt penalized and constricted. So the devs ... changed nothing, but announced that instead, you'd get an XP *bonus* when logging on after so many hours inactive. And the players were happy! Same exact situation, different framing. I have to humbly disagree that your idea is just framing, though. You'd be adding a tangible, meaningful reward to weapon churn. Like, I'd actually USE Ruby the weapon smithing station with your idea. As it is I never do, because I don't want to spend valuable materials and rupees on stuff I know will just break. But if I have a steady income of Ancient Shards, then I'd give it a try. (And weapons from Ruby might give extra Ancient Shards when THEY break, being made of them!)

@@amandaschuller4546 That would be no less than *the* MMO, World of Warcraft. Also the Ancient Oven's name is Cherry, not Ruby.

@@Izandaia Ah, Cherry -- that's what I get for not checking the wiki. :-)

@@razbuten I disagree that its just framing changing your perception, its a genuine mechanical change that would totally alter how the game plays, though I think you still understand that on some level, having come up with the new system yourself. But for the sake of digression: You don't just not want to break weapons because you think it will weaken you in the future, it actually will deplete your arsenal in a way you probably won't be able to improve upon or even replenish very quickly, and certainly not without much effort. If the reward for fighting is just *possibly* easier fighting later on, and combat is optional + repetitive, there is no mechanical or intrinsic incentive to engage with the game at all. Ancient shards changes all of that. It is an explicit mechanic that makes turn breaking weapons from a downgrade to an upgrade. Instead of a wavering power level, that dips and rises abruptly when you acquire or lose a weapon, you are, technically, always getting stronger. Many have said it, but I'll say it again: this is a genius idea. I really hope something like this makes it into BotW 2 if the durability system is maintained for that game, because I honestly can't think of a better solution to the core issue of the system without a complete overhaul.

I think they could keep the attacks from the divine beasts but spread them through the fight and have them interrupt an aspect of the fight somehow. Stop some tough sequence that Ganon would do if you didn't have the beasts defeated. So, there would be four extra sequences of the fight to go through if you defeated no divine beasts (extra challenges for the crazy.) That way it feels like the beasts are contributing to defeating Ganon like they are meant to, but it doesn't feel like they are just autoing half the fight for you. At the same time, I feel like they would feel more involved throughout the fight. Fight, fight, fight... Now, Rudania! Fight, fight, fight... Now, Naboris! etc. I could also see it sort of the way you describe though, where instead of attacking Ganon directly they blast a powerup into you during the fight. So, you could have multiple moments of gaining strength throughout the fight. They blast you and the next time you hit Ganon you do extra damage or something like that. That way you are the agent of destruction, but they are still helping you.

Just spam them backflips

I think the timing is a bit janky too. You have to dodge when the hit-box starts, meaning you can time it so you dodge the hit perfectly and not get a flurry rush. It’s something that’s really bothered me since I noticed it and it needs fixed for the sequel imo. Still love the game overall though

yea you kind of need to back up until an attack misses then dodge as the swing passes in front of you to get rewarded for doing nothing

It depends on the attack but the spot to aim for is when the attack would hit, not just before, the moment you think its going to hit you. A lot of flurry rushes end with the attack passing through Link's torso and just doing nothing because "he got the rush!'

I dunno if it's just me, but I can also get Flurry Rushes when I'm no where close to being hit by the enemy

still no petting dogs :(((

Me too lol

me with all of my savage lynel gear that i try to never use

Me with 5 great flameblades

That's just way too overkill I miss the time when the bosses needed many tries to beat with a few pot to break for health but now you just need to have a stock of food and you just cannot die

@@marickjolivot Except that the game over screen is effectively the same thing. You just "die" and start over with next to no punishment. Adding food mid-fight just makes it more convenient. Alternatively you could really make the game punishing and make a game over permanent and you start from the beginning of the game. This difficulty would exclude a huge chunk of the audience and is the main reason I have never nor will ever pick up a dark souls game. I just don't find the concept of dying and retrying fun in my games and I know that plenty of other gamers feel the same too. This is why I love Master Mode and trial of the sword. Gives the hard core players something more of a challenge but still doesn't exclude players

@@marickjolivot I mean, if you find it too easy you could always just not do it y'know, eating food while in battle is a choice

@@aurum3747 but that still doesn’t fix the fact that the issue exists

@@juancampos9468 How is it an issue? People who find it convenient use it, people who find it too easy don't use it It's absolutely the best of both worlds

i feel like being able to sell weapons to an R&D merchant/smith (whatever you want them) and then being able to buy copies of them would easily mitigate this.

Is that a pointcrow reference?

“Hey guys point crow here. Do you ever get collectors anxiety in open world rpgs where there’s so much to see and so much to grab?”

Yes, I agree. I loved that mechanic in Twilight Princess and it was even more cool that you were learning them from the hero of time. BOTW could have done something similar, and since it merges all three timelines BOTW Link could have learned a move from a Link in each timeline. Would have been so cool.

One of my biggest desires for BOTW2 is special skills in the vein of the Hidden Skills in Twilight Princess.

As much as I loved the hidden skills, they made an already piss easy combat system trivial. If they're going to reintroduce that mechanic, enemies need to not only be stronger, but smarter, to compensate. But I haven't played Breath of the Wild so I don't know what its combat system is like in comparison to Twilight Princess.

@@ink4852 Yes, you make a fair point. Combat systems in previous Zeldas are almost all lacking in difficulty. BOTW is by far the most difficult Zelda game, especially early on. However, during the late game really the only enemy that will give you trouble is the lynel. I would much rather see smarter enemy AI than just tankier/higher damage dealing enemies. BOTW made pretty good strides in enemy AI so I'm excited to see what the future of Zleda holds.

That's my issue with weapon breaking. I love to master my tools and that just isn't an option if they break. So yeah, sword skills that either carry through to weapons, or having some unbreakable weapons all the way!

yeah it took me 40 minutes to beat thunder blight because I couldn't for the life of me do flurry rushes. I would always dodge the attack but somehow it never did a flurry rush.

I was decent at flurry rushes before thunder blight ganon, afterwards I was a god at them, I died so many times that I eventually had to adapt and learn, or else keep hitting my head against a wall.

@@ilyesbenachi5130 I beat it with the master sword and 15 hearts, and some food, it was an attrition fight, I just outlasted it lol.

@@ilyesbenachi5130 You need to use a one handed weapon

on the plus side your language comprehension is quite impressive for a four year old

Oh hi Kleric

At bare minimum they need to add the ability to pet dogs

Nintendo ninjas would first find a reason to DMCA this video and then steal these ideas to present them as their own

i didnt expect to see kleric

It's Nintendo they strictly do the bare minimum

Yea I loved fighting kohga and getting thru the hideout it felt very rewarding I think in botw 2 they should have more like stelh like missions although after playing age of clamity I don’t really want to fight the yiga clan anymore

@@yoursleepparalysisdemon6153 Thanks for the reply, i agree! Haven't tried out age of calamity though, would you recommend it?

@@krosus2019 yes I would definitely recommend aoc however it is a different game style however I personally do think it is worth

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Tell me how

@@breeze5926 Get on their back (headshot with a bow then running up is an easy way to do this). When you attack while on it your weapons take no damage

and lizalfoz

@@Kelpic ??? my weapons took damage unless I'm dumb or smthn

@@Whatismusic123 Likely mistaking losing durability from attacking the lynel normally and mounting. Attacking normally still takes durability as normal, except the Lynel is tanky as fuck so you'll lose a lot of weapons from it, but if you've mounted it then you don't lose anything. Just switch to a royal claymore every time you get on their back and you shred them.

Well boomerangs are just another kind of weapon in this game

@@dpc4548 who hurt you..

@@dpc4548 what did dogs ever do to you?

Well this is reassuring. I got an OLED as my first switch and am playing BotW for the first time and I hate that shit.

I didn’t mind it at the beginning. I am just now playing the game so I knew it was coming. I like that it forces you to be creative with engagements and sometimes prioritize stealth. That said, I just got to the Vah Ruta final boss and now the issue is specifically bows. And that I’m an idiot. I didn’t realize you could break ice with the rune because I’m dumb so I broke two bows at the shooting ice on Sidon’s back. Now I don’t have enough bow health to kill the final boss and I’m gonna have to go find enemies with bows. I feel like if there are enemies who can ONLY be killed from range, the game should have provided a permanent bow as well even if it only has five damage. Waterblight Ganon needed literally 4 more shots to die but I couldn’t kill him because I had no bow. Totally my fault but still irritating.

i hate how i can never use my master sword because i have 7 better swords and if i did use it it would snap quicker than a granola bar

True, I even use the master sword for mining

I’m thinking maybe instead of reapiring the master sword the sword recharges based on combat, so you don’t just throw weapons till they break

Thats the problem with many of these games. They dont give you a chance to save your game after starting the final boss fight, so when you reload your save, you are at the point just before the fight. I think this is done to avoid having to make an elaborate post-game and for it to make sense that you can fight the final boss again after already having beaten him.

It would also drain all the fun out of the game, if there is literally nothing left to fight in the world.

@@paragonyoshi4237 true, I guess they would need to leave a lot of stuff in, but I do think there is merit in this idea. because it makes defeating the final boss feel kind of underwhelming sometimes.