Tears of the Kingdom with a side of salt (First Impressions) 

Renamed the vid to first impressions cuz theres already alot in my own video I disagree with Working on the full game version!

As someone who DID memorize the entire map in BotW, I can tell you that they changed it enough that my muscle memory and landmark spotting isn’t working. And that makes me happy. Edit: Dude, if I get one more comment that starts with “Same!”…

Man, Scott is such a humble guy. He didn't even mention how he set a world record for the amogus% speedrun.

The "loading screens" with Ascend are actually just "the camera was about to clip into the wall" screens.

While I miss infinite bombs, I do love that they've increased the drop rate of arrows.

I really wished they mentioned why the Shiekah tech/Divine Beasts are all just mia. Hell, even the tech in the Shrine of Resurrection is gone, despite the cave still being called the Shrine of Resurrection and the water there being able to heal you

Still kind of hard to believe breath of the wild is over half a decade old.

It's rare to see a finished game in 2023

I don't know if the story or something else ever leads you there, but I bumbled into the autobuild ability, which was an incredible experience, honestly. It makes the building way better.

I am 100% certain there will be another Hyrule Warriors with an alternate timeline.

As someone whose beaten botw five times at least, and have memorized pretty much the whole map, I have never felt lost in that game, I always knew where I was. In Tears of the Kingdom, I have never felt so lost. It feels like a whole new map, helped especially by the fact that you start in an area you’d probably NEVER go.

Gameplay/Map spoilers ahead: There's a "rune" you can get from the underground area underneath the great plateau that allows you to save and quick build stuff. To find it more easily, go to the goddess statue on the plateau and you'll start a quest. Follow it and you should get to the temple that has the rune. Not 100% sure, but I think you can also use zonite to supplement for materials you don't have nearby, like if you lack a wheel. Not 100% sure on that part, but I did have a wheel inexplicably appear out of thin air while building. It's such a great rune that I can't believe they don't have you get it via the main story. Also, there's at least 1 of the gacha capsule machines with more than 4 devices in it.

I was so surprised the first time I blindly walked into a well expecting to find a treasure chest surrounded by a stone ring and instead dropped straight down into a freakin cavern. The underground mechanic is so cool.

Well that was fast.

I think the loading screens for Rise is just for when the camera would clip into the wall. Sometimes when the camera is in the right position, you don't get the "loading" screen, at least in my experience

Legend of Zelda: Garrys of the Mod is fun as hell so far

The depths are huge. Once you light up an area that is physically isolated from the rest of the depths, you really get a sense of how deep below Hyrule it truly is. So far, I got nearly 50 of those underground checkpoints, but it's clear to me (ever since the 20th) that not all of them evenly light up those areas

I haven’t watched the video yet but the biggest thing I wanted them to add was the ability to swap out weapons while in a chest. And that’s exactly what they did. It was kinda freaky because it was exactly how I’d imagine they’d do it

There are some creepy enemies in this game there fact that they are not everywhere just makes them even scarier. I ran into the Hand enemy that you cant kill with normal weapon 45mins after reaching the surface. They are scarier than guardians imo

From what I've seen, the coolest stuff happens in the past, but there's a LOT more cool stuff happening in the present compared to BotW, specially if you do the side adventures.

Having to combine stuff individually with every arrow is going to drive me insane...

Auto build is underground. From what I've been told there's a hole in the great plateau, you go down it, go west, do a thing, and then fight a boss afterwards

Minor none story spoilers but I do have one gripe with Tears of the Kingdom Sages replace champion abilities but instead of being button activated they physically follow you and help in combat. I thought this was an amazing idea and was super exited to roll up to gannon with the whole squad following me. Until you start to actually get multiple. There is no easy way to activate their abilities, you have to run up to them as they move around (and sometimes run away from you) in order to talk to them to activate their abilities. I find very few of the abilities worth it to stop combat and put myself at risk of getting hit to first find who I want and then go run after them. They are all good abilities and would be absolutely amazing if they worked like BOTW did it but I actually turn 2 of them off since they contribute so little outside of their niche and end up just being clutter making it hard to see the enemies. other than the abilities being hard to use I really think TotK makes BotW look like a public beta, its world is so much more expansive and detailed

The autobuild thing is super essential to actually making use of your builds. You can bookmark and favorite certain builds as well as just pull from history, and if all the required parts aren't in the area, you can just supplement with zoanite. Like, if there aren't enough fans around you, you can spend 3 zoanite to simply create one out of glue and complete the build. Really cool and helpful ability, strange to hide it behind a super out-of-the-way sidequest

Yup this game looks cool. Some of the game's mechanics are fascinating. A finished game in 2023. With no noticable bugs? impossible!!! Again Scott's new design has some nice drip.

The whistle run thing had really really weird ramifications because I was just trying to get to the like, end of the first area, and for some reason my stamina started to drain at a rate that made sprinting just ineffective. Dunno how I did it, but it lasted for a WHILE, until I fully reset my controller.

JESUS THAT WAS FAST. You just streamed almost 9 hours of the game

6:45 I’ve heard some are, not sure about the entire thing. I understand if they need to do memories for back in time to give us context, but I was hoping they’d just do the stuff they did with Skyward Sword where we got the explanation of where Zelda was at the end or hand fed to us by the villain.

I'm happy to hear there are actually dungeons. When I walked into the shrines my first thought was "dang it it's all just shrine based" bur it seems like that's not entirely true

Playing this game still feels like a dream

The game is actually using the Splatoon 3 engine, based on what some data miners were saying looking through the code.

Definitely wanna see a follow up when you finish the game. It’s hard to say you want more if you haven’t even completed it

you dont need the fuse ability selected to use fused arrows, you just need to press up on the dpad

The Legend of Zelda, Nuts and Bolts looks great!

Explaining the loss of abilities from the previous game, in the 100% memories post credits bonus scene for BotW: Zelda mentions how divine beast Vah Ruta suddenly stopped working and went inert sometime after the defeat of Calamity Ganon, it's implied that the Ancient Sheikah equipment from Shrines to Divine Beasts to the Sheikah Slate degraded one by one after Calamity Ganon's defeat until it was all unusable. Afaik the only reason the Purah Pad even exists is because presumably Purah and Robbie reverse engineered the Sheikah Slate during an offscreen interaction before it was disabled. Zelda Also mentions no longer being able to hear the Voice of the Master Sword at all which could also imply a reason as to why Ganondorf in TotK is so easily able to break it at the start of the game aside from attributing it to Gloom's natural debilitating attribute.

How in the heck did that "Use fuse for every single elemental arrow" thing ever get past testing? That's so incredibly dumb.

I will never get over how cheap it felt for Age of Calamity to come out and its a fucking time travel, alternate timeline piece of crap. They knew damn well what people were expecting. They knew damn well what we wanted. And then they said "Ha! You thought!"

1:51 wayyyyy better, if you have several enemies with different weaknesses: shoot, press uparrow, fire shot pow, shoot, press uparrow, ice shot pow idk but its fast if you get used to it sorting by most used and best attack up are two amazing categories!!

Despite a few gripes, it's a marvel this game is as solid as it is. And yeah, i can understand you wanting even more for the increased price tag, but the funny thing is that this game actually costs less than BoTW due to inflation. Geez, inflation is scary.

You forgot to mention that you can shield surf on the rails and grind on them. It only works going forward or downward, but is still really cool.

The auto build mode can be found by going to the great plateau and checking one of the new plot devices at the location of the old shrines from breath of the wild. From there just explore a bit till you find a big building

up arrow while aiming with bow achieve the same result as "fusing", if aiming with weapon throw, the up arrow will allow to throw an object. Useful to throw glowseed without loosing an arrow for example. Also, try to kill all hands when they spawn, but be cautious!

I will say that ice insect thing that looks like those things that destroyed the glider in naussica was an amazing boss. Easy as guck but it was an amazingly buetiful fight and it has a killer ethstetic plus its the one reccommended to be done first so it makes sense it would be easier.

i saw the game also has new world bosses. i saw what looked like a lightning dragon off in the horizon when i was shrine hunting, as well as one bridge looking like it hosted the 3 headed dragon boss from the first Zelda game, brought back to modern appearance

You definitely should play some more, the experience changes quite a bit, things get more familiar and systems evolve. Also, the story is well, I'll not spoil. Have fun everyone.

3:20 I actually found a way around that glider with the three fans dying on you. I always put extra fans on it, and then I build another glider in front of it under the front fans and hop onto that before the first one disappears. As long as you positioned them correctly, and don't mind building most of the time you're flying it, you can get around the entire outer perimeter of the map without ever landing just by adding fans and gliders while it's gliding. Also, the Autobuild ability makes this a breeze.

inb4 a lot of missing character development, relationships, and exposition is saved for a canonically dubious game called "Hyrule Warriors: Hand of Upheaval" that acts as the sequal in the AoC time branch

I love ascend, I’ve already used it to skip so much I actually managed to make my way into hyrule castle using it and got a ton of overpowered bows and such

Tip: you don't have to select fuse to attach any item to your arrows. You just have to press the up arrow and it counts the same.

when I first saw the Zonai glider and the first thing I did was blast the Top Gun sound track.

I haven't gotten autobuild yet either... but i hear it saves up to 30 pre made things. Including recipes you find throughout the world, and ones you make on your own, and can favorite them

As someone who used the BestBuy bribery exploit, I can say with confidence that you need to go to the Rito village first and do the Gerudo desert last. We're now 2-for-2 on the Gerudo area having cancerous bosses. Also, I hope you know how to use a shield because you _can_ go stealth if you want, but most enemies only take significant damage with highly optimized melee weapons and a flurry rush. The difficulty curve now follows Terraria rules but the durability has gotten worse so there's no sense of reward for making a good weapon, but Hestu is really easy to find so that helps.

Ganondorf has a glow up and is voiced by Matthew mercer 😮‍💨 I see why people are simping for this man 🤣

Its hard to find high-quality, actually funny RU-vidrs like you! Keep up the great work!

I love your videos. Have been subbed since the overwatch days. So happy to see you keep thriving on YT. *Cheers!*

Can't wait to buy the game so I can constantly change my mood from "damn, this game rules" to "I really spent 70 bucks for this crap" Edit: I bought it. It's okay.

The underground is absolutely terrifying if you go there with four hearts. Idk how it'll be later, but rn it's sick

Bro knows what he was doing with that thumbnail

the "loading screen" for ascend is actually not a loading screen at all. that screen appears whenever the camera clips through terrain. you actually move at the same speed regardless of if the green "loading screen" appears or not.

I'm someone who's honestly mixed about BOTW. The new stuff was cool, but I missed a lot of the stuff that made Zelda games what they are. Lack of enemy variety, progression with getting new items and dungeons were all issues I had with the first game. I'm interested to see if they die fix these issues before I buy the game.

Seems like the biggest gripe this review has is the building taking long and not having stuff to build with but like he says, there's Autobuild. You get it from a quest line right at the very start "lookout landing" area and can have it unlocked within minutes of getting down to land. Not only does it auto build, but it keeps you build stuff even if you don't have the items to build it with so long as you have some ores which are super common.

Fun fact the underground towers are were the shrines used to be. Also go the stuff take away Island underground

1:20 this only happens when your camera clips into an object, they just put a one size fits all screen instead of blocking what is clipped. It’s just a lot easier than blocking only what you need to block.

Its so SHOCKINLY well optimised for running on the damn switch

WOAH a entire new area! Called The Depths? WOAH THAT SO CREEPY AND COOL! I bet its filled with unique creepy enimies right? WRONG its filled with recycled enemies and ONE unique enemy, (his smaller counterpart doesn't count) This was the most insulting part of the game. I felt conned. But what do you expect? This is the problem with "open world" games. There will always be things lacking.

The Autobuild completely fixes the complaint about building, it’s kind of great

Actually, the most exploring/classic part of the dungeos are all the paths to the final "boss room" with the terminals to activate. In those parts you have many rooms with chest and even some bosses

Most of the cool stuff happens in the past, building machines is a chore and base weapons are garbage now: "I can't believe I paid 70 bucks for this crap (pejorative)" Link fuses a bomb to a boomerang, exploding on his face on return, killing him instantly and throwing him six thousand feet into the ground: "I can't believe I paid 70 bucks for this crap (affectionate)"

"not going to spoil it" "the boss is..." Oh thanks Scott

3:35 About building: Spoiller allert!!! Within the chasm in the great platoe, you can go trough a long path that will lead you to a facility with 2 peaple researching zonai devices, when you interact with then, you eventualy figure out they're yiga clan members and enter a boss fight with master koga, as a reward, you get the autobuild rune, it can recreate anything you build if the materials are near, and if you don't have all the materials you can just pay zonite to create the lacking materials, so you only nead to build once and save it in the rune's favorites to have access to it whenever you want.

The auto build is in the pit on the great plateau (in the spot where the magnesis shrine is in botw). Build a car with the provided materials, activate the glowy thing, then just drive forward until you see a zonai building. Make sure you have a decent amount of arrows. You will understand when you get there

If I had to describe Tears of the Kingdom it would be “It’s Breath of the Wild except I have to do more work to do stuff now.” For example instead of me finding a boat to cross the water I now have to make the boat in order to cross the water. Also I never knew how much I took Revali’s Gale for granted 😭

Welp, now that the sequel has come out. I think it’s finally time I play Breath of The Wild.

Mechanic changes I’ve noticed: To counteract the need to fuse stuff to arrows EVERY TIME, Bullet Time actually now uses stamina only when you fire! More fragile materials fused to weapons actually break first, like Gibdos bones.

Lol boy this was quick my guy had it waiting to be uploaded good stuff!

I actually had enough points from my GameStop pro membership (cringe, I know, but worth) to get the game physically for $54 after tax and shipping. Can't wait to play it myself! Edit: after playing it for a bit and accidentally stumbling on the spot where you get the autobuild ability, I can confirm the game is fun and autobuild makes things way easier as you can [redacted to avoid spoilers]

Your asking for more even though you’ve barley scratched the surface

i just think it’s funny that Rauru said even the Zonai called them “Zonai Devices.”. my phone is now my “Human Device.” also, without the controller device, put a glider on a cart. you can still steer like in he sky

Honestly, this game is fantastic. The autobuild is in the depths along with a familiar face and new questline

Man, if only he knew you didn’t have to select fuse for every separate arrow

I've played it a little bit, and I have the say the main thing I miss is since bombs are no longer an innate ability (at least not in the beginning as far as I know) you can't bomb launch at will for covering large distances. I do hope someone finds a way to do it with bomb flowers though (or whatever explosives available) and I wonder if the bullet time shield jumps still work.

God I wish they outright said why the sheikah are all just gone. Like, It’s sort of implied that the tech is being repurposed (see: towers containing what is obviously sheikah tech, the Purah Pad being a sort of upgraded sheikah slate, etc), but that doesn’t explain how in the short time between games, *every tower has been replaced, every shrine is just gone, and how nobody ever seems to say sheikah, as if it’s some kind of illegal word*.

Auto Build is really cool. You find it in the Depths and can recreate builds you've done with either existing surrounding items or consuming Zoanite Stones.

The way I see it, if your willing to spend 60 for BotW then your definitely willing to spend 70 for TotK

I hope for arrows they allow you to favorite fuse items

I noticed the thing about the ascend load screen. It usually happens on things where the camera can't follow through

3:28 SPOILERS . . . . Autobuild is in the depths under the Great Plateau and lets you save stuff that you've built and rebuild it with nearby objects or Zonaite.

Scott, you can drop zonai glider "Wing" in the air! You can slash-drop (sword weapons) ontop of it from any tower, and redrop a new Wing if/when it's timer runs out!

I can’t promise you that it will be worth 70$ by the end, but it definitely gets drastically better as the game goes on

full spoilers but- yeah scott is going to lose his SHIT.

Auto-Build is in the Central Underground mine, where you meet Master Kohga for the first time in the game.

Can't believe Scott put the bottle down long enough to crank this bad boy out

The sheikah stuff is explained in Japanese. Just like BOTW the translation was botched

underground central mine. do the quest and you get the auto build. if you have enough zonai shards or whatever you can build favorites, schemtics or recently built things without having the materials on hand

6:51 Nintendo: “Heyyy, that’s not a bad idea!” (Releases Hyrule Warriors: Age of Ganondorf in 2025)

I played it for a few hours so far and it plays great And actually feels like a finished game instead of a lackluster wait for DLC minigames we've been getting this decade

I miss the old zelda games but its still a fun game tho i agree with the "why is all the cool shit in the past" also it would of been cool if they added loftwings since the whole sky region

Can I ask you how your drawn character moves on streams

In the smaller hole in the great Plato in the icey side take the rails and you can find the auto builder but you fight a boss when you get it.

So, can someone answer this for me without spoiling anything? For someone who enjoyed BotW and enjoys LoZ but isn’t very into it as others are, is it worth the $70 or is that too much?