In Defense of Reusing Maps in Game Sequels 

The fact that they used the original world for the sequel makes total sense story-wise.

As a Journalism student, I had a hearty giggle at the intro joke😂😂

I think it works. In Breath of the Wild, you had no idea where to go or what you would find there, or what you should do. In Tears of the Kingdom, you kind of know what to expect location wise, and some of the items you will find, but locations have changed and items will be in different locations. And then there is everything that is completely new. So you get to experience a sense of discovery in a different way.

If this turns into a trilogy the next thing is to have a earthquake and flood so we can explore beyond hyrule

Excelent Analisis! You really put in words lots of stuff I was thinking about but could not really explain. As well as giving me a new perspective into some of this stuff.. Great video! First one of yours I have watched but definitelly subscribing! Edit: Answering your question, I think if more games reused maps in this ingenious ways, it is actually better than doing something definitelly new. While playing Tears of the Kingdom I noticed I am already attached to THIS hyrule, so this definitelly gave me more emotions than a new world would have (have not yet finished the game though, taking my sweet time)

I really like the apple and orange analogy. I don't think there is anything wrong reusing maps as long as it is done well. FFX2 does it fine and make sense in that game, and GTA3 and Liberty City Stories works fine there too

Thank you for making a video about this. Even before totk was out i didn‘t really understand this complaint about resusing the map. And now that it‘s out for a little while and most of us played it for dozens of hours already it becomes even more clear that this is completely different game than botw. Like you can‘t walk 10 steps in totk without finding something new that was never in botw. And the most insane thing about this discussion is that the reused map is only like half the locantions in this game. The sky islands alone make a make big difference already and then you look at the underground and realize there is a completely new world down there. Great video keep it up!

Honestly I love zelda but its the lore that i really love and part of that is the geography. Now lore for botw and totk is horrible(as far as timeline placement) and wonderful [as far as new story). But i like that the geography didnt change, but time has passed so we see that. The game is absolutely better for having a consistent geography but a changing world.

Great video dude, very eloquently put and I enjoyed the silly jokes peppered throughout it. I admit when I found out they reused the same map I was put off for a bit but hearing your opinion has made me reconsider. Also, the "crucified" bit in the video description is very fitting since that's what players are doing to all of the koroks.

purah was 120 years old in BOTW, she was messing with age-altering tech that she messed up and caused her to look like a kid. in TOTK, she perfected it and is young looking despite being ~125 years old

Imagine being upset that WWI and WWII used the same planet😂😂

My biggest problem with using the same map was the koroks. It felt like more than half of them I got by lifting a stone and I wouldn't be surprised if some of those stones also had a korok in the previous game. Maybe they should have hidden the koroks in the depths, but that would actually be a p.i.t.a. if they were too well hidden.

i think this argument against totk is twofold, 1 is the idea of reusing the same map, its as you said, why complain when so many other games do it and no one complains, to add to that i dont know why they were expecting anything else, everyone speculated onbeing able to go past the borders and visit a new land but nintendo and the game never suggested as much, so this is a classic case of personal expectations not being met based on theories that had no base. the second, and this comes after the game came out, is the fact that the game is running on a 6 year old hardware and barely stutters, runs magnificently, has a decent open world, and a physics engine that still baffles everyone including myself, meanwhile PC xbox and ps5 are being met with AAA multi million dollar games that come out broken, unpolished, and we have to wait years before we get the actual intended working final product, a classic case of envy and jealousy.

I dont much care that they reused the map, i just wish there were more interesting locations to see. The depths were good, but to much of it is a barren wasteland, And the sky goes incredibly underutilized. The fact that most of your time up there is right at the beginning of the game is baffling to me.

did people think like they are going to make a botw sequal that takes in place like tamriel or middle earh?

Eh, if the next Horizon game (Horizon is awful btw) uses mostly the same map plus a some underground areas. People would be furious

How da hecc do you only have 369 subs???

I bet the same people who complained about the re used map also think Pokemon emerald / black-white 2 are perfect games. Edit: The only real criticism I personally have for the reused map is that all the guardian "corpses"? Are just gone. Who cleaned them up? It's just jarring, especially because it feels like this game could take place anywhere from weeks after botw to up to 10 years (entirely basing that off purah looking like a child in botw and now looking like a young adult (not up to a point in the story where the time jump from botw is explicitly stated, if it even is)

Hilarious to me how people were so hyped for stuff like No Man's Sky or Cyberpunk but when Nintendo showed TotK people were quick to complain.