Ten Major Plot Holes in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom 

The ancient hero was still born LONG after Raru died, Raru fought Ganondorf and the ancient hero fought the first Calamity Ganon. Link and Zelda beat the second Calamity Ganon.

It didn't bother me that the master sword broke from ganon, I just assumed that Gannon with the secret stone is way more powerful than any Gannon that we have ever seen. But what bothered me is that after you get the master sword back when it has been bathing in sacred light for thousands of years, it should absolutely obliterate any normal enemy that it comes across. But instead, it basically acts like any other normal weapon, and even has to still use a cool down period From normal use

I thought it was weird that the Master sword spending so long stuck in Zelda's head, after Link pulled it out, could still power down, anything attached to it would still break, which makes sense?

The most puzzling thing to me was how Link was wearing his new tunic at the start of the game whilst examining the Hyrule castle dungeons with Zelda It was only revealed to be available to him after Link had read Zelda's diary in the well. He then went to the throne room in the castle to retrieve it.🤔

People don’t understand what potholes are. This game is filled with them. It’s honestly just sad.

Link's Arm: It was damaged beyond repair from a direct Primary Source Gloom attack which also poisoned his body. This is the whole reason that Link has to collect the light orbs, to help purify his body, like a cancer. Once that Gloom is expelled, the body can then be healed. Rauru used his spiritual arm as a temporary skin graft, until the wound could heal.

It's Rauru's stone that Zelda picks up when the seal gives up. The simplest explanation I've seen and share for the Master Sword corrosion is that the Secret Stones are simply that powerful with the appropriate host. The Triforce itself is apparently within Zelda, which showed up as a symbol as her sealing power awakened in BOTW. In TOTK we see the symbol on her right hand as she heals the sword. The sword's inconsistent resistance of course has gameplay reason albeit a rather lazy one, to avoid too big of an exception in their weapon degradation system. It's still the one that slays Ganon ultimately.

re: fragile Master Sword It's stated by Mineru that the Zonai Secret Stones were created by the gods themselves. With that in mind: Ganondorf's Secret Stone amplified his power of darkness to a level that could rival any other being who wielded a god-created relic, which includes the Triforce and the Master Sword, so in that context it's really not surprising that the Master Sword shattered when it met a force that was equal but opposite to it re: Ganondorf killing Sonia Zelda DID (kinda) warn Rauru that Ganondorf had evil intentions, and Rauru stated that he knew about them (in the A Show Of Fealty memory when Zelda says she's nervous about Ganondorf and Rauru brushes off her concerns with "I am well aware of that man's evil nature"[...]"there is nothing to worry about"). Rauru's fault here was that he was just so egotistical that he thought he would be able to keep tabs on Ganondorf at all times. He repeats this egotistical line of thought twice more before he seals Ganondorf: once when discussing what's to be done about the Demon King with the Sages and he says "our only hope is for me to defeat the Demon King", thinking he can defeat Ganondorf by himself even after having had to flee from him earlier, and again when he tells Zelda "that was a future where you never appeared in this world. And you are here now", completely disregarding what Zelda had JUST said about Ganondorf surviving to her time and believing that they would successfully defeat the Demon King the next day. Also Ganondorf definitely knew Rauru was watching him and that the invite to the castle was a way to keep tabs on him, so he did all his evil deeds while at the castle with the Puppet Zelda until there was an opening for him to act (one of the tablets in Messages From An Ancient Era details a ghost story about a "strange lady" that looks like Zelda wandering the castle at night, but this lady has "no light in her eyes" and Zelda doesn't remember taking these walks, meaning that this "strange lady" was the Puppet Zelda)

The shieka tech has been dismantled and repurposed. The game shows us by visual cues. Think about it like this, the divine beasts are essentially walking nukes that had been possessed for a century causing mayhem in their respective regions. Do you really think the people in those regions would want to keep these death machines, not knowing if they could be possessed again?

Literally almost none of these are plot holes.

Yep, no correlation between the names Ganondorf and calamityGanon whatsoever.

1. Yeah that was kinda wonky, but I guess it's still possible to let it slide as "not connecting the dots", especially as the evil in BOTW was know as "The Calamity" not as "Calamity Ganon". 2. Not a plot-hole. Just no plot the story was about. The Ancient Hero appeared during the first Calamity. The ancient past in TOTK took place long before the Calamity even happened, otherwise the story would be full of retcons to it's predecessor. 3./4. While I agree, that a stronger explanation would have been great, saying there is no info in the game is wrong. 2 questlines have some tidbits about the sheikah-tech, the shrines and/or the beasts. It's definitely not much, but we get pretty much the same explanation ingame that Fujibayashi gave in an interview. 5. Not a plot-hole, just a dumb move by Rauru. 6. Again, not a plot-hole. You are missing the fact, that different races age differently. The years that have passed are exactly 7 years. 7. Again, not a plot-hole. Just an unwise move by the sages. [By now I suspect you don't know what a plot-hole is...] 8. Not a plot-hole, considering BotW already changed the lore surrounding the Master Sword and TotK just went further with it. It's not as strong as previous titles made it out to be. That's simply it. 9. I only partly agree. Because there are a lot of characters that DO remember. And little kids can be excused. And not every adult needs to remember. However, yes there are some characters that should remember, but do not, that is true and those characters are in fact in a plot-hole limbo. 10. Ok yeah, Links arm is definitely a plot-hole... I suspect it was connected to Sonias and Raurus magic, light and time reverting it back to it's glorious state... but that's just a theory... a GAME THEORY~

mineru explained in a memory that the tablet was not from their age. this also explains that the divine beasts were from some time after.

there's something i did not understand and that is, if zelda is a direct descendant of rauru and sonia, and sonia dies with allegedly no children, how is that possible then?

As amazing this game is I can't forgive the lack of continuity between BOTW and TOTK, and for what? New players who didn't play BOTW? When I first got the game I expected that the divine beasts wouldn't be used again because that would make saving Hyrule too easy, but not seeing them at all is rudiculous. Imagine if we got an awesome cutscene where gloom bursts from under the castle and completely obliterates the DBs and the sheikah tech. Completely remove it if you want to but at least show us how it disappeared.

Sheikah Tech just vanishing its what i see just done so badly

I can’t stand the technological aspect of the new Zelda games. I see more and more technology, being incorporated and less mythology, magic and lore. I enjoy the fantasy of the middle ages/dark ages rather than batteries and motors ect.

Also rauru is just dumb. He gets multiple things wrong. He says he thinks he's the founder of hyrule, he's not. He says Zelda's time that she came from was different, and that she's doing something new, but in reality it's a closed loop, aka a causal loop.

The reason the Master Sword broke is Because Gloom is a corrosive substance and the Master Sword is not indestructable in the first place since it was able to be tempered with just mere mortal black smiths. Ganondorf technically didnt need Gloom to break it, he could try it with his mere strength to break it - if it wouldnt technically kill him by merely touching it

The ancient hero not showing up in the story or in cut scenes is not a plothole at all. Zelda time travels, yes, but to an entirely different era. One implied to be vastly more ancient than the time of the ancient hero of 10K years ago.

It is about six years between botw and totk and that would work or Seven

It wasn't that he looked at it. More like glaring lol

Someone said something about his arm got restored because of time power being amp by Rauru's power.

The guardians seems to be here still just.... Dead?

Yea Google doesn't even help with the time skip.

Prior to the end of ToTK, why doesn't Link tell everyone the truth about Zelda?

Haven’t watched the video yet but the zonai architecture and clothing style bugged me. All of the dungeons have there own style but still have zonai elements. Why? I thought they were the dungeons for each race. All the sages also wear zonai looking outfits, even before they become sages. The zonai civilisation really doesn’t make sense when you think about it deeper. So many questions. Why are the sages helms zonai? Why is the zonais Architecute more Japanese looking but there clothing is aztec inspired? Is the entirety of hyrule culture just zonai? What about the zonai in faron? Are the ancient Hylians in the memories wearing clothes of zonai or hylian origin? What does ancient hylian architecture look like before zonai influence? Why do they have those Aztec looking twin dragon interactive things with Japanese style architecture? These are all questions off the top of my head. The world building and lore was so bad for totk man. One last question. If the shrines are meant to seal away monsters why are there puzzles inside? Oh and are links abilities ones that all zonai had or special to RAURU

Links arm wasn't "repaired" it was literally "restored" Zelda had a few 1000 years shaved off her dragon form removing the stone from her throat, link had the entire gameplay time reversed to before his arm was decayed by Ganon.

Maybe someone can answer this for me. I wondered how the sky islands just appeared? Shouldn’t they have been floating around for thousands of years? And all throughout Botw you never see the light dragon. Did she just stay awhile from hyrule until this very time? Is there a link between calamity ganon and ganondorf? Was the calamity born out of the gloom? And how come the secret stone gave God like powers to Ganon but everyone else not so much?

Ugh seeing many videos like this makes me want DLC so much more. Too many unanswered questions!!

Zelda does not mention Calamity Ganon in a memory, but she does say the name Ganondorf gives her pause... or something like that. I really think we need to use our imagination. Zelda games often do not spell out every detail, and it's very likely Zelda has more than the short conversations we see in short memories.

I think my biggest issue with this game is that the Triforce is never even mentioned, and never appears. The symbol of the series entirely absent from the whole game. That just doesn't sit right with me.

For the master sword breacking there is an explanation that was given by youtuber by using the gapanyse version.

Link obviously still had his arm!!! Just too much damage to arm to continue his quest in finding Zelda n destroying ganondorf

Lack of ancient hero? What you mean?