Ten Things Breath of the Wild Did Better Than Tears of the Kingdom! 

I still want master mode in tears of the kingdom. It was a huge missed opportunity they didn’t add it. Golden enemy’s could had the best looking horns to attach to your weapon. Plus the silver enemies feel too easy for to be the hardest enemy.

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I know someone's going to say that sidon eating fish is cannibalism but as long as you're not eating the same species as you are in this case the Zora sidon fine because he's just eating a stealth fin trout

Honestly, the overall feeling of the story of BotW was better than TotK to me. I can't really explain it properly, but in BotW it felt like Link was truly a part of the world, and you were uncovering bits and bobs along side him. When you met the Champions again, you had an instant connection, and a bittersweet moment after the Divine Beasts. The memories also worked better because they directly involved Link. In TotK, it's almost like we're in different dimension. Plenty of NPC's don't recognize Link from things we could have done in BotW (Bolson for example), and we're following a story (Zelda's) that's not ours. We have 0 connection to the ancient Sages, and while it's fun to have the Sages with you they're a bit bland. So for as vast as the world in TotK is, it feels "emptier" emotionally.

Actually I like the sages better than the champions because they keep me company while I travel, making less enemies attack you, their abilities are pretty useful and you can use them at any time. their not bad.

truly a perfect thumbnail, when fusing something with an arrow they should just make an option to sort out the items that dont add damage and dont have a special ability so you dont have to scroll that fare, also an option to sort by ability would be pretty good aswell

Love the thumbnail. Should have Riju saying “catch me if you can”, with Link screaming “MLG kid scream”

I like Totk's starting area more, yes it does make you use your ability's to travers. But the abilitys in totk are just more advanced in the first place to where a tutorial is needed. For example, if you didn't have to cross the lake using ultrahand when you got your battery, then how long do you think it would take some players to learn the battery. However even after saying this there still are some unnesasary parts in the great sky island, but some could say it adds more complexity. But in my honest opion I love both and think both the starting areas are amazing.

Uh...yeah you do get a clear pointer to Lookout landing. Before you jump down to Hyrule, You literally hear Zelda saying find me as you are looking straight at the tall ass tower landmark with the fort-town surrounding it.

i honestly still go back and play BOTW because of the guardians being so fun

totk’s tutorial is also a MAZE (I got lost) compared to the great plateau, while you can go anywhere within the great plateau in BotW, without a specific path, the great sky island you have to go specific paths (such as through caves) in order to get the last shrine.

In my opinion the sky islands were better than the plateau. I like how they make you use the abilities cause it shows off all the cool things you can do with them. Also it wouldn’t make sense if an advanced civilisation had a cloth glider. For the champion/sage abilities I think sages are way better. Sidon is a better daruk, tulin is more useful than revali cause of all the strategies you can pull off with him (and rocket shields completely replaces revali) yunobo is good to combo with tulin on grass for updrafts and amazing for hunting moldugas, riju is…. Riju is just riju we don’t talk about that.

One thing I was disappointed is the lack of showing Link’s struggling face when burning in a heated environment. He makes a face with one eye closed and teething gnashing.

The ability to know the enemy's health exact sum was great too.

The last 2 I really agree with. Where did all the elemental arrows go. And on top of that it was weird how everyone out there seemed to know how to fuse. So many references to fusing and I'm like wait, I don't need a magic arm to do this. There had to be a bettor way to communicate this fruit when attached to a arrow becomes a shock arrow than having a NPC tell you that it what they do despite not having the fuse ability.

I will say about the tutorial area I played totk first and finally leaving the great sky islands and seeing the rest of hyrule is definitely the best part of the tutorial, because in botw you were always able to see the rest of hyrule so close and you basically know the place before even leaving the great plateau, but totk you barely even think about it, so getting there and realizing theres a whole other world from the sky islands with new enemies is very cool It only works however if you haven’t played botw before because you’d already know what to expect, so botw’s tutorial area is still far better

Here are 2 things that totk did that made me fairly upset. 1. Is that the silver enemies dont drop off loot like they used to. I kill a silver bokoblin I'm botw and I get one of the gems from rubies, topaz, sapphires and diamonds. In totk they dropped none of it and instead from their parts. That's what killing silver enemies worth it. 2). They nerfed the prices of gems. In botw rubies were 210 per piece and now 110. Luminous was 70 and now they were nerfed to 20. Totk. Ruby 110 Sapphire 150 I think Amber 10 Topaz 80 Luminous stone 20 Opal 30 Diamond is still the same price for 500. Botw Ruby 210 Sapphire 250 Amber 30 Topaz 180 Luminous stone 70 Opal 60 Diamond 500. They were worth so much and now they made them almost priceless.

Lookout landing is pointed out to you after you get the mission to find her and marks it on your map. I'm looking at the bottom right of your screen as you say this..

Master-mode: Botw: 1 Totk: 0

The vows AI is crap especially with Riju and the Queen Gibdo

Sometimes I still accidentally try to use Revali's gale😔

I don't mind the arrow fuse system too much, since the most common items end up at the front of "most used", but it could clearly have been WAY better. They could have kept elemental arrows on the fuse menu, with an up-down scrolling list to choose exactly what you wanted to use to MAKE that arrow, for example. The only one I really hate is the Sage Powers. They work well enough outside of combat when using them to mine ores, keep cool in the desert, or glide, but they're a pain to use in combat. They could have all been a simple button press based on context such as "push button while building a charge attack to activate Yunobo, same button while blocking for Sidon, while aiming for Riju, etc. Maybe give them a longer cool down when activated that way if it's too spammable.

The item menu was way better in breath of the wild in my opinion there was no need to remove the extra pages and turn every tab into one huge page

You forgot weapons. In botw there are more fun weapons, like dragonbone weapons, a boomerang with 3 points and so on. TotK just has the same weapons as botw, but less and decayed versions.

Not to mention that the champion abilities are way better than the sage powers

One thing that i wanna put is the master sword : upon completing the dlc you get the best weapon in the game with very good damage and the highest durability in the entire game, the master sword gets its unique glowing look and feels powerful to use. Now in totk its a sword that can fuse like all others, yeah sure it has more damage potential (30 base damage + 55 lynel horn) but it lacks the durability and uniqueness it had in botw. So it feels less useful because you have to waste a ressource for a lot of damage for the master sword, and the blade loses its iconic look upon fusing and its not as durable as it once was, in a way when using the master sword in totk i don't feel like a true hero like in botw anymore. For me i believe botw was outright better than Totk, not just relatively to what both game brought new compared to each others but that botw just did it way better in so much more ways.

Well, it's true that, once you leave the Great Sky Islands, you're on your own. I've played botw since its release, but still, with more than 20 hours into totk, still didn't have the paraglider. No one told me I was supposed to go to Lookout Landing! I went to the Gerudo, and without the paraglider I couldn't benefit from the updrafts formed during the sandstorm to get to the destroyed city, also I went to the Zora and I just couldn't get there! Only a friend of mine told me where I could get it, after hours of frustration and overthinking... they could've really done it better...

Tears of the kingdom’s fuse arrows are by far better than botw

I like that there are other armies that help to fight in some areas of the game. In BOTW I would clear out all the guardians in castle town and think it would have been nice to have others join me at that point.

These are all great criticisms, but I’m surprised that you didn’t mention how TOTK removed the ability to see true HP numbers. There were a total of five pieces of armor which gave you that ability in BOTW, and since we now have all of those plus the new Champion’s Leathers, that would in theory make it a total of six armor pieces which should let you visualize HP, yet none of them (nor any other armor pieces) work. Looking through other videos, it seems like damage multipliers aren’t as straightforward this time around as they were in BOTW, but I don’t think that’s enough justification for having removed that ability altogether. Also, no Master Mode (or at least golden enemies in the base game) or Trial of the Sword. The reason why the Master Sword feels so weak in this game is that there aren’t enough situations where it gets powered up, so this kind of stems from the fact that Gloom Spawn aren’t as common as Guardians, as you said in the video. The fact that there won’t be DLC for this game to add these things (unless they’re playing 4D Chess with us) really makes me sad since Master Mode is where I spent most of my time in BOTW and also gave me a second save file on my main account. As it stands right now, I don’t feel like deleting my day 1 save file to start over (as much as I would like to), nor do I want to do it on a secondary account. I just don’t understand why they wouldn’t add these things for TOTK since they felt essential in BOTW the moment we got them.

11:27 Even Twilight Princess did the bomb arrows better than this. Sure, it’s annoying to switch between normal arrows and bomb arrows, at least I don’t have to manually fuse them each time I shoot.

I miss stasis and remote bombs

I would honestly pay any price just to play BotW for the first time again. The beauty, challenge, and exploration was perfect. BotW also introduced me to the series, and I've spend years and countless hours playing games from the series. TotK didn't feel like that at all, it always felt kind of boring to me.

There is some truth to the ancient horse armor and the guardians it was due to after the calamity they just disappeared not kidding the developers said and the starter island is the same but I say a bit better but I think the game is more atmospheric for its own good sometimes and also did you not see rauru around the starter sky island but anyways I wish to bring clarity to the ancient sheikah tech

The Elemental Arrowa are actually better in TotK, the more valuable the Elemental Item, the more Comprehensive the Elemental Explosion

Another thing Breath did better than Tears is that Breath had all Lynel weapons Tears the Lynda’s only had their bows and shields from the Lynel gear

Fluxes are kind of like Guardians you can stand on their heads and confuse them and they patrols like Guardian Stalkers and Guardian Skywatchers

when i did the first sage i was very dissapointed of it, because first of all: i dont want someone always near me that i can only activate by pressing A second: everytime i do puzzels in the free world (no city etc.) or want to interact with anything they always get right INTO me for some wierd reason so i always accedentily activate them third: at least 2 of them are useless and i only have them activated for battle, like for what should i use the water ability or the thunder. the thunder is just slow and i didn't even use it that much while doing the quest to get that sage and the water i never see an opportunity where it makes sense to use it. The goron one is useful when you have to bomb something but dont have the bomb flowers or on vehicles to use it as a canon and the orni is the best, because you save alot of time flying and get further without using much stamina But i really miss the old orni one to get high up, it made travelling so easy and getting up

I like the idea of the sage's avatars as companions but having all of them at once just makes fights a clusterfuck, and makes it harder to deliberately respond to enemy attacks, especially on larger groups. I usually just have Riju and Tulin with me. I feel like you can kind of mix Riju's lightning strikes as part of your "combos" (if you're the kind of player who likes mix-ups in the middle of a fight) and Tulin because he gets those headshots.

I like both games alot. TotK is probably the better one overall, but BotW had a number of things that it did better as well.

Having to ascend in Zora's domain felt like a snub after everything Link had done for them so far. Those elemental weapon buffs were fun lessons to learn.

6:47 so to warp to a shrine in a cave, you have to go through 2 loading screens, one for teleporting to it and the other is ascend.

Master mode not being in the game was honestly quite a fumble on their behalf. Master mode would have been beautiful for this game. After all the hardest things in the game are the 15 proving grounds shrines that house only constructs.I would also love to see what a golden lynel saber horn would look like. Or a golden lizalfos horn. Truly a missed opportunity

Totally underrated video, youtube, put it on the whole world’s front page’s… or else…

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Yeah I spent a good time thinking "wait they eliminated the glider here?"

one thing botw did better than totk was not removing kass

These are some of the bigger ones, but I thought Breath of the Wild was a much more enjoyable experience for a variety of reasons. Dungeon design, works design, story layout, low respect... There's a lot Tears of the Kingdom ignores in favour of just more having stuff in the world..

The thumbnail is so true

Tha faeries. And with that, upgrading your inventory. That worked flawlessly in BotW, but in Tears it's just a nuisance, almost impossible to fully upgrade any set. However my biggest gripe with TotK is the removal of Kass, I loved hearing the accordion in the distance, and also really enjoyed his shrine quests. Tears has the stable trotters(for musicians) and Penn(for quests), both fail miserably to replace Kass. I hoped they had removed him so he could come back in a DLC. So you can imagine how angry/sad I was when they announced there wasn't going to be one. The absolute absence of sheika tech is a major downgrade, yes the ancient horse set is missing but SO IS THE MASTER CYCLE, and this is a vehicle that cannot be mimicked in speed and agility with constructs!

The thumbnail is so accurate, when I was fighting gloom hands Sidon kept running away when I was trying to get him-

At first I thought why do the monsters have horns, and then one put its head down and came running at me and I knew why lol.

the zonai version of the ancient horse armor will probably be in totk, and the reason they dont have it yet because they dont want to reuse something thats EXACTLY the same, like how you need to get to robbie to use it,

13:30 you can whistle.... and if they are far away during battle they will teleport or run to you....

I feel like Breath of the Wild did the koroks better. In tears of the Kingdom, all the korok puzzles are the same thing. Build a vehicle, attach the korok, and then drive your way to the buddy. The Tears of the Kingdom korok puzzles can all just be solved with a hot air balloon and a fan. In Breath of the Wild, the korok puzzles were all different, unique and fun.

Me: man I wish guardians were in totk Friend: what’s a guardian Me: what did you just say

Nah tulin being like that in the title isnt canon

Things i miss: ancient weapons and armor, lynel and boko weapons, arrows, guardians, champions, gem prices, silver drops, and more

Unfortunately you forgot one more things botw has the totk doesn’t. Revali. NOW some will say that this is a DISADVANTAGE, but you are simply wrong.

should i re do botw ?

honestly they had made the most used section a custom bar instead I think it would of helped alot. granted my most used had apples front and center since I chucked them at anything I wanted to interact with and I probably wouldn't of put that on a custom bar...

Tulin could be more useful in battle if in the case you are grounded and used his ability he Revali’d you, and if in the airs he simply Tulin’d imo

i highly disagree on the arrows one i cannot stand the mechanics in botw

For most of them you're comparing irrelevant things, like the old man, guardians, etc. the storyline has changed making those things irrelevant, so this video makes no sense. BOTW didnt do them better, it's what they have that totk doesn't have anymore. for shrine quests etc are your opinion which I won't argue on. but the other things are like me making a 15 min video saying the fusing in totk is better than fusing in botw, see? it isn't in botw which you cant compare to in totk, and vice versa to the other points.

Does anyone even use horses anymore? I don't

Why doesn’t it show the Master Sword’s damage??

I agree with everything you just said, but i think you've missed 1 more point (you could have replaced this with the ancient hore armor), and the fact is that Breath of the Wild has more replayability. BOTW is a smaller game, and you can do various challenges when you decide to hit the new game button, such as: 1, all quest play 2, permadeth play 3, no champion abilites play 4, master mode (I've just started my 1st one, because i bought the 2 DLCs in a bundle after 6 years XD). In TOTK after I completed all 60 side adventures, 139 side quests and all the shrines I don't have the willpower to press the new game button. I beat it once and left it there. However I would gladly start a new game in BOTW a few month later as well.

Played tears of the kingdom for a few hours. It doesn't have the same feeling of wonder as Breath of the wild. I think they should have just moved on after the first game. it's obvious to me that the developers are tired of this version of Hyrule. I'll be playing Skyrim.

Ah yes someone who understands my brain

Ok, this helps me to understand totk.

Blue sounds like Mickey Mouse 💀

HOLY SHIT THE ACCENT

You sound exactly like that one meme with the empty the compartments of your pantaloons

This is a personal one, just a thought I'd like to share. I absolutely LOVED the atmosphere of BOTW than TOTK. The story telling was beautiful and intricate, there is literally nothing that I can find in BOTW that annoys me! While TOTK could be done better in some areas. I will not lie, I was disappointed at TOTK for... I dunno! It had a different atmosphere that was nice, you were not alone like in the last game, you had friends. But it just seems so... weird? But both games are amazing. I feel like TOTK won in the terms of the way it ended and BOTW won it the terms of the experience. There was so much mystery and lore in BOTW, I thought that there could've been some lore for the depths and Zonai as well. I wanted to learn about these ancient people, and understand what the depths were. There could've been another race that lived in the depths too, interacting with the Zonai that came for the Zonaite down there! But both games are amazing, I just wish TOTK was a bit more polished and had more lore.

Another one: Botw was great cuz everything was new. Totk is botw with another story that doesnt even work out!

Everything about TOTK is a disappointment. It's overrated.

This is my opinion and that’s your opinion but I think otherwise

I liked breath of the wild better tears is a grate game but breath of the wild is just better

When I first played Totk, I first ran into Hateno because I didn't know what to do. I did everything exept for finding Lookout Landing. When I saw a RU-vid Video about how to get the glider and searched for the place where the story continues and needed nearly a Hour to find it! That is redicolous!

I don’t like how tears of the Kingdom and horses useless defeats, the purpose of having a horse are getting a horse Honestly, I felt like this game, and botw probably should’ve been the same

Probably controversial, but I actually like needing to get the stuff you want for elemental arrows, rather than allowing players to be lazy pieces of sh*t, it encourages you to go out and explore the map. Also, the "Glooms Lair" doesn't feel like a random cave, you're literally going to the depths of the castle-

Blud got that british ahh accent

botw is better

Sounds like you are just used to botw holding your hand then totk actually being challenging

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