Is Breath of the Wild BETTER than Tears of the Kingdom? 

@knightpohtaytoe I have been thinking about making a video on this topic as well (for my first youtube video). You used some really good points in your video that I would like to use or mention in my own video if I end making one that it is. So I was wondering if that would be fine with you to possibly borrow some clips in your video. Love the content as well, and I finally subscribed. (possibly the 69420th subscriber. I rly dunno know)

@@lmarkert4590 yeah that's totally fine!

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So you’re nostalgia blind

@@staledorito6174 I think botw is better to and I only got it in 2023

@@Jasper-yt1xj nah totk is just a better botw

@@staledorito6174 I can see why why people like totk more but personally I just like botw better

So did u never experience jumping off the great sky island and having the sky turn blood red and the music change on the way to lookout landing? And turning to see bloody hands coming at u at FREAKING MACH 10 AND U LITERALLY CANT OUTRUN IT????

Tears of the kingdom more fun moment to moment but botw probably better objectively

? What a strange opinion! I felt the _Absolute_ reverse of this: Tear's reinstating of the more traditional Zelda Dungeons over Botws ,, nothing emptiness is what totally promotes Adventure. I totally felt after a 10 year hiatus since Skyward Sword, I was playing a massive Zelda game all over again!

​@@netweed09I agree. That's an odd observation and claim that it "lacks sense of adventure". I have explored far more of the Totk map than I ever did in Botw. There is a lot more things in between everything but that's a positive to me, Botw was so empty that it was bound to be changed in Totk.

@@Ben-zg8xkthat’s exactly how I feel about ToTK. The gameplay of ToTK is crazier and more creative, but BoTW offers the greater experience. Flying to the top of a structure in the sky isn’t the same as a scaling a mountain only using stamina. If ToTK had a completely new world that was built for its mechanics, then it could have been even better.

yes the story has more feeling cause you knew the deads and you know them again as player with the flashback but the new story is about people you didn't know the flashback are the same 4 times most of them even don't have a face, the flashback is zelda doing things in the past and not your memories so you're like ok i do this more for revenge of my arm

yup, you hit the nail right on the head. Ive never played botw, so i'm surprised when people are shitting on it coz i freaking love it lol

Actually that's not true. I just completed the spirit temple 2 days ago and I still haven't done the gerudo or eldin temples yet

@@Rustyhound-Cartoons They each have the exact same cutscene minus the one in the Spirit Temple

​@kalanamalros not the spirit temple though which is what I was referring to. And it doesn't have to be done after the other four. I did it after the wind and water temple and it served as a very refreshing change of pace

@@Rustyhound-Cartoons That's what I was referring to as well I made this comment without knowing that you could go there at any time I was also referring to my own experience along with probably a lot of other people that completed the Regional Phenomena and the Crisis at Hyrule Castle Main Quests before doing the Spirit Temple

This may be controversial as I’ve seen many people in polls say they love the TotK temples more than the BotW divine beasts, but I prefer the BotW versions as they share more of a common theme and have a way more/better story to them. Even if the blights can get a little repetitive, I believe they were more fun and had a real challenge to them unlike the TotK equivalent.

The difference is that when breath of the wild released nobody expected there to be many glitches so there weren't many glitchhunters but when totk released glitchhunters went hard right out of the gate, so I think we've already most of the big stuff

If that were true we would never have gotten blss. There will always be the possibility of finding more. Ultrahand and recall are also orders of magnitude more complex combinatorically than any of the botw runes so it leaves a lot more room for glitches (even if the devs have had 7+ years to test the base engine and minimise them)

@@anonymousperson015 my previous comment also works as a reply to this

A big thing with totk is Nintendo didn’t WANT its fan base to find any movement glitches, they even patched a bunch of the glitches the fans found. It was a huge slap in the face for the fan base. It’s also IMPOSSIBLE for a lot of movement glitches because of hard cut speed limits nintendo put in the game.

@@knightpohtaytoerating games on which one has more glitches is such a backwards way of thinking. I bet your favorite game ever is cyberpunk 2077 on launch day.

Agreed. They changed the timeline/story and didn’t continue off of BOTW. Which is ironic because they took 70% of BOTW’s formula.

They both cater to one playthrough because they're too fucking long why play again when you can just play more?

I wish ToTK had significantly more sky islands! That was my favorite part!

I could not agree more with u, plus i though i was the only one who thought totk kinda sucked compares to botw

TotK story is weird, like it takes place pretty far ahead of botw, possibly 100 years even yet everyone is still alive. Well maybe I guess with purah’s aging/anti aging device that’s not a problem. But also the ancient hyrule referee to is far before the ancient hyrule from botw.

How u view the games mostly depends on which u played first. I played totk first so going back to botw felt like a downgrade. It was a still a good game but I don't really like the aesthetic of the guardians and Sheika tech, and it's everywhere, even the bosses. Also it kinda sucks to get around without glitches. And fuck calamity ganon, it was so boring of a fight, removing half the health of an already easy boss as a consequence of playing through the game was such a stupid idea. I had more of a challenge fighting red lynels.

​@@o0ugi860yes, it totally depends on what you played first. That's why I couldn't really get into TotK I used crafts to just get all the towers done, finished the main story, got spoiled by memories of Zelda out of order (memories in BotW couldn't have done so) and just finished it and never touched it again, while having played BotW for 100s of hours.

Thats such a subjective way to look at it. Sure for u it might be that way but have you considered that some people who bought totk never played botw? So that argument just completely doesn’t apply to those people.

Yeah but that dosn't really make the game worse then BOTW on it's own, like imagine if you never played BOTW and played TOTK first, and I think when viewed in isolation TOTK is better.

Most time was spent refining the physics engine Its a Miracle this game came out finished with hardly any glitches

​@@MatanumiNo it's not. Multiple people have theorized with evidence to back it that TOTK has been in production before and after BOTW, and BOTW was just a placeholder for the real game that is TOTK.

Totk is so much different from botw it’s mad. Other than animations, the worlds surface (which is incredibly different) and the basic elements of the combat and crafting system. Mostly the rest of the experience is completely different.

@@50zezimaThat’s a rubbish theory. But that’s why it’s a theory I guess.

I think that's pretty rare, nice!

@@knightpohtaytoe No it's not. After finishing TOTK I immediately switched over to playing BOTW. I missed BOTW while I doubt I ever play TOTK again. Tulin is the only sage worth using. I missed having the ability.

​@@sandys.1891alot of ppl like u, who love botw so much that they don't want totk to be better. Of course u prefer botw, there's nostalgia involved, it's less about u thinking totk is worse and more about your pre existing attachment to botw

@@o0ugi860 It's not that I "love" BOTW. It's that Nintendo repeated the same mistake. Ocarina of Time is LOZ's greatest game. Nintendo followed Ocarina of Time with Wind Waker. It bombed. I played it once and it's still growing cobwebs in my storage bin. TOTK is another Wind Waker. If only Nintendo would have built on the success of BOTW. Instead they veered off altering the timeline. I have a 35 yr history with Nintendo thru LOZ. Nothing ever changes with this company. They will never learn. Which is why hardcore LOZ fans go back and play the few successful games.

@@sandys.1891 well no, they followed ocarina of time with majora

Thank you this video is cap

finally, someone said it!

Nobody is saying BotW feels more like a classic Zelda game. Nobody. TotK has a better story....that does not at all fit the format in which it was told. Non-linear story telling does not work with the linear story with plot twists that TotK presents. First time I played the game the second memory I discovered...was the memory of Zelda deciding she would become a dragon, completely spoiling the entire story, outright ruining the main quest that revolved around trying to find out what happened to Zelda...it also completely falls apart the second you realize there's no reason at all Rauru couldn't have told you everything right at the begining. BotW has a much simpler story, but it fits much better with the type of games these are. Knowing the end of the story and finding memories that fill in the gaps of the protagonists amnesia that just add context and elaborate on the events you already know happened works much better for a game that tells it's story in a completely non-linear format. There is not a single memory that you find in BotW that spoils the story and breaks the immersion. TotK on the other hand requires the player to completely go out of their way to collect the memories in their specific order AFTER doing all four of the main dungeons just to preserve immersion and have the story presented in a that doesn't give away the massive plot twist. Tl;dr: TotK has a deeper and better written story that fails to be bettwe than than its predecessor's simpler story, purely because of the way this gameplay format fundamentally presents story.

Better story? the TOTK story is so boring that I actually fell asleep during one of the memories. Granted, it was bed time, but it wasn’t at all a good story.

Yeah but they're a lot more strict than botw's movement glitches

that's very exciting

in botw did for me so we dissipated eachothers game experience

@@Cricketycrktyeah i came because of botw

👍👍 Thank you! There _are_ some proper Zelda fans out there after all! 😅😄

I hardcore agree with you. When I first went into a cave and saw a bunch of new enemies and a new places to experience within the main map, it blew my mind. Even months after, having only just opened some new paths, I get a sense of awe every time. There's one cave specifically that starts at a well and opens into the beach on the bottom of the map and it dropped my jaw to end up there. I understand there's a huge community for mods, glitches, challenges, etc, but to say this game doesn't have the wow factor is crazy to me. I think this game is hard for completionists who want to breeze through it. It has a lot of hurtles for those people. Reply

For me, Botw is a work of art. Totk is a game. Nothing wrong with either of those things, but they are very different.

@@alibabaschultz352stop the pretentious bs.

@@PaulOniel534 Its ok to have different opinions without name calling.

@@alibabaschultz352aw did I offend you 😢

I’m the first. I also don’t like a world littered with stupid rubble like the Sky Islands.

Yeah but some people prefer that lonely post-apocalyptic feel. Although I agree with you, I prefer the more populated world

@@knightpohtaytoe then play BotW but don't say that TotK isn't as good as the first game.

You can remove zonai devices from the menu. Also, why bother with any of that when you can go in a cave or any over hang and ascend, or make any combination of tools to get you up. In most places, if you just stop moving and look up, you will see a falling platform to rewind and go up that way. Plus I spammed Ravali all the time just so I could get all 3 charges to cooldown, kind of a dumb mechanic that the one you used cant cool on it's own. All that said, still I miss it but I think tulin's makes more sense from a gameplay perspective.

😂😂 Nailed it. 👍🏻 Also, “Hey, you like those extra powers you get from champions? How about we have a ghost version of them follow you around everywhere and get in your way, instead of a simple key combo?” 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

What if Revali‘s Gale isn’t ready? Then there’s no way going up. In TotK if you have rockets you can use them all the time

@@Marikus_Eternal Uuuuhhh…you climb? 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

@@scubasteve2189rocket is faster. And it could be raining

It's a better written story, but it does not fit this style of gameplay nearly as well as the story BotW tells. If you don't go out of your way to specifically collect the memories in the right order than the story spoil a itself hard, and if you don't wait to do this until completing almost all of the main quest then it renders it entire main quest nonsensical. BotW's story was much more simple and shallow, but it's a better story for this kind of game. Every memory in BotW just provides context for the events you already know happened. The story cannot be spoiled if you collect them out of order nor is the main quest ruined if you get them all before completely the main areas. Knowing what lead up to the Calamity doesn't change or ruin the context of Links stopping the Devine beasts. Know the princess is actually a dragon flying around in the sky completely ruins the mystery narrative TotKs main quest presents. The sad thing is that could have Bern completely nullified if there was a dialogue option to tell everybody what you knew and have the sages be like "huh, no shit...since you're already here and we're buddies, help me save my home from Ganondorfs bullshit?" And have the mories presented in the correct order regardless of what gliffs you're getting them from.

@@eddiedead2702 ik, but in Botw you always collect them randomly cause you don't know certainly if the images are in order until you watch lots of them, while in totk you can clearly see that they are in order just by the first two. Also, this wouldn't be a "story problem", but a "gameplay problem". (Sorry if some things I wrote are not clear, I am Italian and I am 15 years old.)

totk is ok but botw is the best story wise.

Tears of the Kingdom’s story was so boring I actually fell asleep during one of the memories. It was bed time but still.

is there a dlc now?

@@ahrdee-ho5mnnope.

Mine: Runes: ToTK Champion/Sage Abilities: BoTW Combat: BoTW Dungeons: BoTW Bosses: BoTW Main Story: BoTW Characters: BoTW World and Exploration: BoTW Side Quests: BoTW Rewards: BoTW Music: BoTW Replayability: ToTK

My opinion: Abilities: TotK- BotW's abilities are good, but TotK's are a lot more creative. Combat: TotK- Ultrahand brings so many more ways to approach combat, and there's a lot more enemy variety. Shrines: TotK- The only thing that is worse about the shrines are challenges and music, but TotK's are a lot more creative, plus Proving Grounds are miles better than the Tests of Strength. Towers: BotW- Tears of the Kingdom's towers are way too annoying because there's always a stupid puzzle with it, and BotW's tower music and simplicity is better. Champion/Sage Abilities: BotW- Every single ability in BotW is better than TotK's counterpart, Daruk is better than Yunobo, Mipha is better than Sidon, Urbosa is better than Riju, and Revali is a little bit better than Tulin. Dungeons: TotK- I never played the classic Zelda games, and I really liked the dungeons. Definitely harder than the Divine Beasts, I needed a guide for Naboris, but in TotK I needed a guide for Wind Temple and Lightning Temple because me stupid Bosses: TotK- I loved the bosses in both games, but TotK's boss rematches let me fight them a lot more, but for BotW I need a whole new playthrough to fight Kohga and the Blights again. I guess TotK didn't let you refight Kohga, Seized Construct, Moravia, and Sludge Like, but, eh. Main Story: BotW- I like the simplicity of BotW's story, and AoC made me like it even more. World and Exploration: BotW- Man, that magical feeling of exploring BotW's world for the first time... need I say more? Side Quests: BotW- I think the side quests were more creative in BotW, such as Tarrey Town, Eventide Island, and Korok Trials. Rewards: TotK- Resources are much more valuable in TotK because of Fuse. Music: TotK- Lot better soundtrack with songs like Colgera and Demon Dragon. Replayablity: BotW- I just love the classic feeling of BotW, however, TotK is better for challenge runs because of Fuse and new armor sets. Overall: TotK- If you saw my other comment, I think TotK barely wins because it has more content, but the two games have equal flaws. However, BotW's first playthrough is way better than anything in TotK.

I wanna hope Nintendo goes back on that and saves it for their next system because maybe they’d be comfortable making a DLC for a much more powerful system

They said they couldn't think of anything else to add

Thanks! And yeah that's completely fair on the mod side, progress is being made every day.

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@@knightpohtaytoethanks I watched the video very nice

I was so excited when I first saw the ability because I thought I could make a replica of one of the Divine Beasts out of Zonai parts, but I was so pissed when I discovered there was a limit to how much you can attach.

Master Cycle Zero is better than any movement options in TOTK.

I might make that some day, but I’m still learning Python.

Already some solid ones in development thankfully

Not true.

@@HungryWarden just a opinion lol but objectively totk is better lol. Bigger and more creative.

@@gerardohunez_17 I hate when people say OBJECTIVELY OMG I WON’T SURVIVE IF SOMEBODY DOESN’T AGREE like shut the hell up you’re so annoying.

TOTK is a great experience for me so far since I don’t have the experience of playing BOTW other than the demo at Walmart lmao. That might’ve helped me like TOTK more than I would have, since all I was familiar with was the combat and food.

hahahaha

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