Positive Unpopular Opinions || Tears of the Kingdom 

I liked the lack of guardians, it made me able to feel like I could just sit still for moments and take the world in. I noticed parts of the world I never did in BOTW because something was always chasing me there.

Woweee thanks for double shout out there TGA! Great work on this video, and I think I’m aligned with almost everything you said here personally. Been replaying this game in my spare time lately (again) and it’s so hard to put down. I adore it

I also found it easy to see the memories in order. The game gives us everything we need to do so. We just need to listen to the NPCs. I have seen comments from people complaining that they saw the memories out of order, and my thought is that they didn’t even try.

As someone who loves pretty much everything about Totk and thinks it's a masterpiece, i'm happy that there are others who share my same opinion, especially through the thick fog of criticism around this game. I'm a classic Zelda superfan too, but i love Botw and Totk for what they are :)

Yeah, I cried too! Tears of joy with that end. First time with a game...

TotK is a masterpiece!

I really appreciate you making this video, because I've been hearing so much negativity about Tears of the Kingdom, when it was my Game of the Year last year, and my current favorite video game. Additionally, I agree with all of your unpopular opinions except that the story was good, but I think my standards for a good story are based on games like Zero Escape, where there's an insane amount of multiple timelines and character betrayals. I will at least admit that it's better than Breath of the Wild's. Keep up the good work with your RU-vidr Channel!

I also loved the story. I understand why people have problems with it, but I love it. And Zelda's sacrifice always makes me tear up

Opinion #1: Agreed, although, A Link Between Worlds was the first Zelda game to carry over a previous map. Opinion #2: Yes and no. I think many of the best shrines in TotK are better than any shrines in BotW, but that as a whole, BotW offers a slightly better shrine experience. Opinion #3: Agreed, although I may be a little more critical of them. I enjoyed them overall, but I do have gripes. Opinion #4: Agreed, there were only a couple NPCs who I thought should’ve clearly recognized Link, but as a whole, I wasn’t very bothered by it. Opinion #5: Disagree. BotW is still enjoyable and different enough to go back to for a unique experience. And then 6 and 7, I agree, but for different reasons and perspectives.

I love your annunciation as you do these videos. Part of me wants to think I hear a little bit of a Theatre or public speaking-related background behind your speech, but I could be wrong.

Great video! I actually agree with all points. 🙂

I agree with everything! TOTK is simply amazing. What is really unpopular for me are the haters and the trolls.

Always a pleasure to see things like this about this game, Geek!

The only point I disagreed with is liking regular dungeons 😂. Well, maybe also that it really bothered me that Bolson didn’t unambiguously remember Link-after all that work on the house, he should have remembered Link. Everyone else worked fine for me. But I basically agreed with everything. DLC cannot change major game mechanics and world physics. The depths are crazy cool. I feel this Hyrule suffers greatly without caves and usable horns, making BotW weird to replay (which I’ve done twice since completing TotK the first time). And I bawled my eyes out the first 8 or so times I played TotK, sometimes just _riding_ the Light dragon. I initially watched the memories out of order, but it didn’t bother me. I prefer BotW’s movement glitches and Champion cutscenes as well as Champion abilities, but the new Champion abilities work better for TotK if you consider anything but combat. Overall, a 20 out of 10 game for me. And a fun video from you!

It combined the wind waker level design with the Action rpg- souls/Bourne slow methodical. The fanboys think it's a sequel but it's just Ganon reincarnated by the tri-force pieces.

It is very hard to tell which opinions are held by the majority these days, and I've been in an endless cycle of feeling like the game was a letdown after engaging in discourse, then feeling like it's one of the best games I've ever played after going back to it myself. It seems to me like a lot of this comes down to people being upset that they may never get the classic Zelda experience they grew up with again, but I still find this whole classic vs modern debate really stupid since not only do the Wild games still have the Zelda adventure feel despite lacking a few other things, we're still in the very first world and era of the modern format. They have more opportunity than ever to change things, and then the flaws of the Wild games might end up being unique to those games as opposed to the death of those classic Zelda elements; we've seen it several times. And yeah, that story had so much to love about it. It didn't really teach us any lessons other than "teamwork will win you the day", but since when do we go to video game stories to learn lessons? Seeing beloved BotW characters become Sages, Ganondorf gain an actual Demon King body, Rauru seal him away and of course Zelda make her monumental sacrifice was all so cool, and that final boss was the single best I've ever played in a video game (funny how the same character gave us both the worst Zelda final boss and the best).

Yes!!!!! Im so glad to hear hype about the story, it was just the right kind of story for me. Awesome characters and the artistry to the cutscenes was so appealing to me, I was pulled in. Definitely also gassing up the demon dragon fight from now on too

I agree with the depths, I feel like it was worth it’s inclusion even if a lot of what you do down there is “samey” I also really appreciate that you brought up the base of the map being the same (as literally everyone does) BUT you actually acknowledged that the map has lots of changes which I barely see anyone bring up which is frustrating cuz it’s clear the devs made sure to put effort into making the world feel different even if the base of it, is the same. I don’t agree with everything in this vid, but I do think the game is a masterpiece of a video game and is incredibly fun to play…the lore and story tho…uhhh not my favourite but at least the boss fights were cinematic, fun, cool and most importantly LEGENDARY!!!

I love the video ❤️

I find it also a masterpiece, though a little harder than Zelda botw, and absurdly some wanted it even harder ... But I do get that some get fun out of a hard game, there are gamers that just want to relax with a game though.

I loved Tears of the Kingdom. It's not a DLC. Tears of the Kingdom is its own game. It's more or less expanded on from Breath of the Wild, and nothing is wrong with that. A Link Between Worlds is based off from A Link to the Past and is a really good game. Thumbs up.

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This is not the only Zelda to take place in the same world either, A Link Between Worlds did the exact same thing but added less to ALttP's Hyrule/Dark World lol

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yes, the intro was unnessery, make it one minute tops next time