The Dark Secrets of Tears of the Kingdom 

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the chat being censored when riju showed up is some real environmental storytelling

Having a statue of Link riding his best friend is quite the power move on Yona

I was about to cry over sonia dying and then ganon went and made whatever that face was, shocked me so much I completely stopped

yona's entire segment talking about sidon's statue including his "best friend link" has the exact same energy as "historians say they were incredibly close, writing letters and poetry to each othe-"

The fact that Ganon's tear was implanted on his forehead, and how in botw you have to shoot the forehead of Calamity Ganon to officially destroy him with a Bow that seals darkness with light, it really just awes me how much is really thought of when connecting the story progression with these two games

for anyone confused about the difference between Gibdos and Redeads, Redeads are the zambies you fight in OoT and WW, they scream to freeze you and then latch onto you to drain your health. Gibdos are the things you fight in TP with the big swords, and are very similar to redeads, being zambies that scream to freeze you, but instead of draining your health in that game they just crush you with a big af sword. and it appears in this game they are also legally insects :)

36:45 Addition to the "fake Zelda clone" that Ganon summons, we know that she is not the real Zelda because she is wearing clothes from the Zonai age and not the present blue tunic. Thats because the past Ganon had never seen her in the present clothes and were not able to create an illusion of Zelda with the present blue tunic. And thats why we see her roaming around Hyrule in Zonai clothes

crazy thing is this game confirms that the calamity was just a puppet created from his power just LEAKING out. With him in full control it makes sense why this game is so much harder and why gloom is more dangerous than malice was.

For everyone, Pointcrow looked for the final entrance to the mines like a 30 minutes. That is how hidden it was. (No sarcasm intended,it would take me longer)

Chat spamming smiles when the light dragon flew by to block out spoilers is the most wholesome thing I've seen from a live chat

i can't wait for him to find the missing memories and piece the story together. It's actually quite fun to watch this episode with knowledge of the story and realising how close he got to figuring out a massive clue

It's cool how Kohga's defeat cutscene is basically the opposite of what happened in BOTW

The whole Gerudo section is the best in the entire game. It felt the most like a classic 3D Zelda area, which is what I wanted most in this game. The dungeon actually had puzzles in it that took some time for me to figure out, unlike the zora dungeon that was over in like 5 minutes

I can imagine riju being like: "are those my plushies?" when link pulled out the sand seal weapon

"With the power of the plushies i shall commit murder" my quote of the day

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone do the rail shrine the “correct” way yet (myself included) and that always makes it fun to see the the way people try and do it

I love that the stones just let the sages summon a shadow demon of themselves lol

fun fact: if you go to the ruins north of gerudo town before going to the actual town, riju will already be there and the quest will just start. Found it completely on accident trying to get to gerudo town because I couldn't see jack shit

I honestly really loved the great fairy quests because the stable trotters theme is based on the theme makar plays in WW when he becomes the sage of earth. Not only that but the violinist has the same violin Makar had.

so when i stumbled onto Riju… i ran out where she was training and was a millimeter away from being nailed by her lightning strike 😂 scared the shit outta me

I like how Eric had the foresight to take chat off screen when Riju appeared.

Honestly the crawling Gibdos in the second half of the boss fight are straight up fast zombie nightmare fuel. Thanks nintendo for giving me nightmares.

36:13 Ganondorf’s goofy face alone makes this game being $70 worth it

For the rail shrine, skipping the first two sections by shield grinding caused information to be missed for how to properly beat the latter half of the shrine.

Eric is the perfect cross between wholesome and 2023 streamer culture

For anyone wondering about the length of time skip between BOTW and TotK, it is not yet confirmed. The wiki (for whatever you can trust it) on the Tulin page says “several” years have passed, how wonderfully vague. If we use Mattison as a metric, who seems to be about 4-5, we get that potentially ~5-6 years have passed. That is complicated by the fact that in the BOTW lore, Gerudo mature faster than Hylians, so she could be potentially as young as 3, pushing ToTK to only ~4 years after BOTW. We have no further metric for base Gerudo ages at the moment, but they *might* use the same age of adulthood as the Hylians, that being 17, keep this in mind for later. Edit2: someone in the comments reminded me that Link in BOTW is not considered old enough for a Noble Pursuit, but is once TotK comes around, which leads me to believe that 17 is *not* the age of adulthood for Gerudo. Another metric could be Tulin, as he seems to age from ~7 in BOTW to ~13 in TotK, which seems to support a gap of ~6 years. That however is complicated that Rivali’s age at death was 21, and imo he looks comparable to what you might expect someone ~30 to look like, which implies that Rito could develop faster than Hylians, and that ~6 years could once again perhaps be ~4 years. Purah is no help at all since she artificially locked herself to her ~20-25 year old form from Age of Calamity. TotK Link and Zelda and Paya have not substantially aged from their BOTW selves, with BOTW Link and Zelda at the Hylian age of majority of 17, and BOTW Paya at ~18-20, so I doubt the gap was more than a few years. Where am I going with this? Riju is confirmed to be 12 in BOTW. Even the most generous estimates of the time gap have her at 17-18, which *might* mean adulthood for the Gerudo, but also might not, and given that she is still on par with Link in height even in Heels, whereas the known Gerudo adults are all substantially taller than Link, I think it is reasonable to assume that she is not yet a full adult, and is in all likelihood still a teenager, so please stop whining about Erik censoring chat and telling them to stop being creepy about the potentially underage person. Edit: Inb4 I get a bunch of comments saying: “I’m a teenager/similar age, it’s fine if I do it”, perhaps take this into consideration: an important lesson that I believe is part of maturity is realizing that being horny on main/in public rather than coming across as funny can contribute to making an environment where people feel unsafe, so consider learning to keep such things private.

… I just realized Dog% is still a viable speedrun category in Tears of the Kingdom, and I cannot wait to see it.

The difference between PointCrow doing the mission with Haite as intended vs RTGame trying lead her down the well to her death is so fucking funny

1:20 I was also confused as to why they were called Gibdos and not Redeads, so I looked it up. From the Zelda Wiki: “Burning away a Gibdo's bandages in Majora's Mask will even reveal it to be a ReDead, while in other games, burning a Gibdo's bandages instead reveals a Stalfos.” So I guess Gibdos are just bandaged Redeads. Makes sense given their similarities.

Watching people's first reactions to the Gloom Hands will always be my favorite thing, because that was also my reaction *lol* I hate them so much, even if they do become easy to beat after a while.

Pointcrow is the perfect combination of Funny, Serious, Chaotic, and Wholesome. But all in the perfect way

All elements make gibdo vulnerable. You used lightning and light, but water, ice, & fire all work as well.

As soon as the Ultrahand crafting mechanic was revealed, my first thought was "Fusing Sidon with a Bookshelf to create Hyrule's first Car." I'm honestly surprised there hasn't been a reference to that yet. Surely I'm not the only one who thought that?

Btw, Gibdos have already existed in previous Legend of Zelda games, along with ReDeads. So Gibdos in TotK aren't just renamed ReDeads. (albeit they do share similarities, since ReDeads are basically zombies, while Gibdos have always been mummies)

Alot of Totk seem to be inspired by Mikayzaki films. Links arm is like in princess mononoke, being corrupted by a dark power. An advance extinct civilization from islands in the sky=Castle in the sky. Spirits/ the blessing stones that increase hearts and stamina= Spirited away stones at entrance of spirit realm. Nausica=underground area, it even has spores and fungal tree things as well.

For those wondering about the rail puzzle… It’s a T shape. You need something between the rails so your platform doesn’t fall off.

The Redead uses to give me massive repulsive and disconcerted vibes when I was a kid, with OOT. It was one of my first instances being utterly disgusted by how something moved, looked, and sounded to a horrifying degree. Not sure why it was them, as they're pretty tame lol. It just makes me feel validated how yakky Point is getting setting Redead 2.0 lol.

W editors for blurring chat. They were on some degenerate shit. It was very uncomfortable

So Sidon gets down on one knee, gives Link a ring, and then gives him a vow…. They’re best friends

Watching pointcrow solve the desert puzzles I realized I solved them ALL wrong.

20:52 Fun fact, when I played this, I didn't know those removable blocks were there. I thought the puzzle was going back through the entrance and using ascend under it. It technically worked, but upon leaving I noticed those blocks and felt very stupid lol

PointCrow gagging every time a gibdo crawled toward him is what really sent me 😭😭😭

20:50 At least he actually found the intended solution. I didn't see the movable rocks so I trekked all the way through the basement until I was right underneath the room and used ascend. It wasn't until I was already in that I saw the rocks could be moved...

The way I learned gibdos are weak to every element is from when I used a leftover ice lizal spear, and noticed their skin turned white after a stab. After that I processed that they’re weak to elemental stuff, and I started chucking splashfruits at them after my spear broke

29:15 - that was one of the easiest shrines for me, yet I was completely astonished with how smart Eric was to find that solution. Like, holy hell, that was brilliant!!!

1:05:33 as a Backyardigans fan, it’s my duty to point out that the type of instruments gathered are the same types gathered in the worman polka palace episode. Seeing the whole band ride on a raft stirred that up in me. Drums, horn, wind, strings. Is this a common quartet? I’ll probably google it later but it’s just a cool memory.

The entirety of the lighting temple reminded me of the earth temple from Wind waker. Even the boss fight especially

Since it seems you haven't noticed, most of the memory glyphs also have a korok somewhere in them. I've noticed it's usually where there is a tear shape (I'm not talking about the memory tear, I mean one in the glyph)

I don’t blame Eric for taking 35 minutes in the rail shrine. They don’t make it super obvious what you have to build, but once you figure it out you FIGURE it out I just can’t wait for him to get to more rail shenangians and wind Bomb his way out of it 💀

I thought they were redeads too at first but they're related but distinct. Gibdo is also the one I knew first, but since redeads are so iconic I forgot gibdos exist...

The face after killing sonia was right in the uncanny valley and to me its creepy but its cool cuz of how creepy it is i love it

Whoever is the chatter that said let him cook during the 35 min shrine is GOATED

I love how you censored chat during the intro to Riju. I'm happy how you handled it during the livestream

I love how kogha went from a joke in both to a badass joke in totk

the fact that chat was blurred during the riju introduction worries me incredibly

I really like how in tears of the Kingdom, depending on what your character is wearing, he will wear it in the cut scene, compared to something like breath of the wild, where all the cut scenes usually pop up in the past, and the ones in the present don’t appear as cinematic as tears of the Kingdom

For anyone also playing whenever you see one of those cherry blossom trees like pcrow saw on satori mountain look around the tree trunk youll see a stone dish/dais. If you set an apple on it similar to the korok puzzles with the stone statues you offered apples in breath of the wild something neat happens. :)

the fact that he got that one part of the water temple without bullet time is crazy hahaha

I love how he's genuinely giddy about everything. It's awesome 😂

This game has one fatal flaw Sidon is engaged WHATS THE POINT OF LIFE

It's so cool that you can enter the bunker in different ways! I just followed some children who showed me a secret entrance in the school!

There’s definitely going to be some stuff online about Sidon and his power double-teaming link.

Chat was so bad during Riju they just censored it 😂

That built for rails shrine took me the longest any of them has taken so far. I ended up making a table with three legs so it would ride all three rails at the same time

I love how the Gerudo constantly bring up how short Link is compared to them

I love how many different ways there are to do things in this game, always more than one answer (99% of the time)

PointCrow being disgusted at the Gibdos is something I'll never get tired of. They really stepped up their design

me, at 10 pm: hmm i’m gonna stop playing zelda for today and try and go to bed early me, at 3 am, with my switch in my bed: ah sick new hour and half long pointcrow video

I wonder, what would happen if you went exactly where Zelda is standing in the Blood Moon cutscene, and then triggered a Blood Moon? Would you catch her?

I had obscene dumb luck and shot that switch through the spinning cube on the 3rd try from ground level. Yet another incident in my saga of "I doubt that's how I was supposed to do it, but...works for me!"

In the water temple with the fire door you are supposed to envelop yourself in water from sidon and just walk through. The game is built in a way so you don't need zonai devices to do something just in case you don't have any, tho yes they can be used, and I'm this case worked perfectly too, and I love the freedom it gives you as a player

Thank you for your amazing playthrough and content in general!!!!

I got a burger king ad at 7:11 😭 Immediately after Riju yells "Zelda, wait!" the burger king jingle plays. Why, RU-vid, why.

1:20:43 Sidon was really like: Hey, no spoilers!!

56:15 "easy shrine" bro this took me about 1½ hours💀

even tho i watched all the streams so far, appreciating all the editing work and watching scenes for the second time is just as entertaining as the first time :D

“What in the vertically” those words hit so hard I decided to grow a foot and a half and turn my life around

I've been watching the streams, and gotta say, it's been a blast watching you play! Keep it up Eric!

I've been watching all the VODs, loving the content!!

Oh wow. Im surprised you condensed the last two dungeons into one video? I figured you’d have a video for each but it’s fun to watch nonetheless

As I watch him do the water temple, I’ve realized I have abused glitches way too much.

This was such a great couple of streams glad yall were there

When I beat the game, I didn't expect such an amazing boss. Great game dude, excited to see you beat it.

Dear point crow, I think you would like to know that in the water temple, for the fast spinny thing you were meant to go to into bullet time and shoot it with chuchu jelly . You didn't cheese it. You did it the hard way 💀

I just discover your playtrough a few days ago. I love that you are so amazed from this beautiful game so I get hooked. Greetings from Germany

The shrine you took 35 minutes on... I don't know how long I took, but my eventual solution was a box I could ride in. The box rotating wasn't a problem because I was surrounded on all sides by the platforms. I have no idea if my solution was the main "intended" one or not either.

21:00 At least you didn't take what I thought was the solution of backtracking the entire start of the dungeon to ascend. :V

It just seems like Point crow doesn’t know what health restoration foods are.

Love the energy. Love the edit. Also loved that we solved the puzzles slightly differently.

the gerudo battle is literally the best! i also think queen gibdo was the most difficult of the 4 bosses

Is no one gonna talk about how eric had to censor the stream when it came to riju?

May I say congratulations to the editors of the videos Pcrow makes PS 45:11 (you'll know ;)

I love the queen gibdo, such a cool boss!

50:49 related to this, i think this was like the very first thing i discovered- I immediately went to Kakariko Village when i first started playing

36:13 I physically hollered at this face when I first saw it. It's so comically exaggerated

Point crow made the queen gibdo fight look so easy

literally just finished watching your totk video and boom- Part 3 uploaded 12 minutes ago!

I was watching your stream and I felt legitimate pain when you were trying to complete the shrine.

Honestly, I never played Breath of the wild for longer than 20 minutes, but watching this makes me want to go actually experience that game so I can play this one for myself. I also love watching someone who knows the lore play this game because idk what's happening or who is who half the time lol