Things That Should NOT Be in Tears of The Kingdom! 

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They literally had the perfect implementation of how to activate a sage ability in BotW. They could’ve made it so can could hold shield to activate Sidon, pressing A while drawing a bow for riju, pressing A while gliding for tulin, and pressing A while crouching for yunobo.

1:08 - Sidon's ability actually rivals Tulins for usefulness, but they don't make it super clear in the game all the things it can do. They only directly highlight the shielding and short range water projectile, which are the least useful parts of the ability. Riju is the least useful, as her radius grows too slowly, and you can replicate it faster by using Sidon's ability and attaching a lemon to an arrow. As a bonus, it'll effect every lemon you fire for a full two minutes instead of just one electric blast per ability use. That's because Sidon's ability makes you count as being *wet* for two full minutes whenever you use it. This makes all your projectiles wet, and wet Shock Fruits hit an area instead of a single spot (which is why Shock Fruits are so great for fishing, but with Sidon's help they're also good for hunting groups of lizards & hitting groups of enemies). This also prevents bomb flowers from exploding in your hands near magma, and Link from overheating while in the desert during the day or near magma, so you can completely replace all your heat protection gear and heat protection food with Sidon (as long as you activate him every two minutes in hot areas). This has a side effect of making Zora weapons far more powerful as well, since they attack like they're wet for that same two minutes and they deal double damage when wet.

I actually like that the reward for all the korok seeds is worthless. Finding and solving the puzzles is a tedious task. It would be really annoying if an amazing reward was lock behind 1000 korok seeds.

I pretty much only use the portable cooking pots in the depths. If I end up taking lots of gloom damage, it is nice to be able to whip up some sunny food, and there's not exactly a ton of pots down there. 😅

I used the portable cooking pots the most when playing through the end of the game *slight spoiler maybe* I just didn't make enough food to combat everything needed, so the fact that I could stop and cook extra specialized meals using the many pots I had accumulated, literally saved me

I would appreciate, if the rewards you can obtain were an actual item you can display in your home. For instance the reward for activating all the lightroots could be nice small table lamp to decorate Link's house with.

The champion abilities in BOTW were so intuitive to use, so it surprises me that Nintendo made the Sage abilities so much more difficult to engage with (though I do adore having my own posse backing me up so I keep them all out lol). Also, 100% agree with you on the copy-and-paste cutscenes. I hate that the original sages are nameless faceless characters who all give the same pointless exposition. They should've elaborated on different parts of the war as you suggested. For instance, the Gerdudo sage could've explained Ganondorf's motivations or why she didn't join him on his conquest. Would've made for a much more interesting story.

I used the portable cooking pots all the time, i personally think they should have at least 5 uses because i need a lot of stuff cooked when its raining or im away from a regular cooking pot.

Portable cooking pots are awesome for Blood Moon bonuses. I normally wasn't near a cooking pot when the blood moon started happening, but I could always throw out a few portables and get some extra duration attack meals, or a couple extra hearts on gloom healing meals. Very useful in my opinion. Those sages can burn though. I used Sidon's ability a lot late game to farm moldugas and I can't tell you how many times I got hammered by one while trying to chase his stupid shark a$$ down. My biggest beef of the game was having to change armor sets all the time though. Too cold, change armor, mini-boss, change armor, long zonai device trips, change armor, gliding from a sky island, change armor, climbing something wet, change armor, lighting weather, change armor...

The sage cutscene for Yunobo is more special than the others- why, you ask? Because the fire sage says what we all want to hear: “I’d like nothing more than to smash the Demon King.” Edit: Portable Pots can be used in vehicles as suspension.

Good point about the sages. It's interesting how they fixed that same problem with the weapons (needing to pause the game in order to get rid of a weapon) but somehow did not apply it to the sages. Having their abilities accessible through the ability wheel would definitely be a more intuitive option.

Koroks should of had an actual role in the story like the other 4 instead of being used as weapons slot upgrades

I agree with most of these. I do like the Sages in the 'fight with me' sense. Hardly ever use their abilities while fighting, but it's fun to stand back and watch them decimate an enemy camp for me. Then I run in and collect the goodies and the Zonaite

In my opinion, the memories could have been awesome rewards instead of treasures with pants from the BotW DLC/Amiibos. I think additional details to the story are the best rewards. I also think the Koroks would be totally fine if they were limited to the "bring a guy to another guy" mini-quests. Those are fun and actually challenging compared to flipping a stone.

The cooking pots are very useful for auto builds!!!! The suspension they give off is perfect!! Try it. Also the repeat cut scenes drove me nuts too so thank you for bringing that one up , lol.

I'm glad the korok completion reward sucks. It SHOULD suck, because you aren't supposed to do it. They want people playing casually to find enough, so they need way more then necessary. If there was something awesome for doing it, we'd all be mad about how hard it is to get, and how ultimately useless it is because you have already explored every inch of the map

I don’t really use portable pots now for their actual purpose, but they are actually quite useful for complex builds with ultrahand. It can be used as a flexible joint between different parts so I do get some use out of it (even if it’s not the intended purpose)

I do use the portable cooking pots when I was about to fight gannondorf and I do like them when I just go somewhere and realize I need some food. And I agree with the sages they shouldn't be the way they are.

Cooking pots are used a lot in builds to serve as a ball and socket joint. I've never used them for builds, but I've used them to cook emergency stamina meals before

Personally I'm glad getting all Korok seeds don't really have a good reward. Because if it did then I would feel obligated to do it, and there's just way too freaking many, so now I can just skip it and not feel upset about it.

Would have been cool if each sage told a different moment of the fight, in which they tried to attack the Demon King with their abilities, but failed. And if they just mixed up the dialogue and scenery of each scene as well, so it isnt so repetitive

The whole point of the reward for the Korok seeds being bad is because if the reward was actually good, then people would find out about it online, go out of their way using a guide to find all the Koroks and ruin the experience. You aren’t meant to 100% the Korok and that’s the message the literal turd is sending.

The thing that ticked me off most about TotK is having to collect sooooo many Lizalfos tails. Mainly because those assholes don't always drop a tail when you kill one. In fact, you often have to kill 3 lizalfos just to get 1 tail because they nearly always just drop a horn. But you need the damn tails to upgrade your armours. Nintendo made collecting those tails way too grindy. It's no wonder fans went crazy for duplication glitches.

I used the portable cooking pots like one time. Because I was down in the depths exploring and didn't want to leave just to make more gloom resistant foods... You'd expect them to be convenient, but since they are single use its awkward taking out like 10 of them and having to put food into each one at a time.

If I'm being honest, I don't recall _ever_ experiencing issues with rain during my playthrough of Totk. Climbing is way slower than finding a spot to Ascend or using Zonai flying machines, so there were rarely even any times where I had to deal with trying to climb while it was raining.

THEY SHOULD NOT GIVE THE KOROK SEEDS A GOOD REWARD if they make a really good reward, like, for example a hookshot, than you would have to spend so much time on every single file just to get it because you want it. If the reward is shit, than you don't feel like your missing out for not getting them.

Thank you for mentioning so many of my gripes from this game. Most content creators don't have the guts to be even slightly negative about TotK.

I didn't use the portable cooking pots at first, but then I started using them all the time. Need health? Need something for hot or cold weather? Whip up a fast meal there and then, no fast travelling needed which is especially useful when you're halfway up a mountain and ages from the nearest shrine. I know you CAN fast travel. You can even lay down a travel medallion and fast travel back easier, but you still need to travel to a shrine near a cooking pot, walk over to that cooking pot, hope it's not raining outside if you go to an outdoor one, and then travel back. Or you just whip out a cooking pot and make a meal there and then.

On the cooking pots: I was faced with a limited real life time to beat ganon, so whenever I died, I'd cook what I'd need then go back and face him again. Which honestly worked out well! Also a few times in the dungeons or other places/quests where it was impractical for me to leave just to cook one thing and then have to retrace my steps. I definitely used "real" cooking pots more, but they also saved me quite a few times.

my biggest issue with the sage abilities is that when i actually needed a particular sage, they would just keep running away from me 😅 especially for the Queen Gibdo fight that was frustrating

I love the portable pots. I use them plenty, just spawning in 20 at a time and cooking a meal in each of them, or using them in building! If you stack two of them, you can make a really strong shield that works against a lot of attacks, like gleeok lasers!

The cooking pots, in my opinion, are really useful. Have you ever made a car that is able to go up steep angles, but link jumps off the steering stick? Pop a stabilizer on the cooking pot with your steering stick, and link will stay upright while the car does whatever it needs. I also thought the cooking pot was useless until I found out about this feature

Some of these are more like changes but anyway, the portal pots are funny enough good for breaking armor by shooting them

I used portable pots when I was in the desert and had to cook cold resistance and heat resistance. I also used them to make gloom resistance in Hyrule castle, but I ran out and then I decided that they were 👎. I can relate so much with Tulin blowing away my items!

The one time when I found the portable cooking pots super helpful was quite at the beginning when riding on Dinraal's back. I wanted to travel the full round, but didn't have enough armor pieces yet so I needed flame resistance elixirs which I was able to brew up on the go. I think they're meant for early game and I can see them being much less useful later on when you have plenty of different armor sets and also the additional free teleport spots.

Pro tip: Sidon's water shield can temporarily shield you from hot temperatures as an alternative to clothing items or meals. It was the only way I survived my first entrance into Gerudo Desert in my most recent playthrough. So he's not useless after all! I've used portable cooking pots multiple times right before multiple boss battles too, since I always underprepare and I don't want to leave the dungeon to make a bunch of meals at a stable. Those meals saved my bacon when I struggled in those fights, so... yeah, I really like portable cooking pots. I think they're really neat and convenient.

They should've handled the sage abilities like they did in BotW with the champions. Here's my proposal. Tulin activates when you hold down the jump button like Revali's gale. Sidon activates when you hold up a shield for a few seconds. Yunobo activates on a first-stage charge attack and Riju activates when you hold down an arrow for a few seconds. None of this walking up to them and pressing A or accidentally activating them when you just want to pick up dropped items.

I like that the sages help you in combat. Tulins headshots saved me a couple of times. One thing i would have taken out is finding the teardrops in the glyphs. They can be literally anywhere on them. You can even spot it from far away because it wont appear until youre close to it.

I’ve seen so many cool builds with the cooking pots, I’m glad they exist. Also I did used a couple hunting down Ganon in the depths to make dishes with gloom recovery and attack buffs etc.

I use portable cooking pots all the time when exploring the depths. I dont usually make meals with sundelions when near actually cooking pots, and prefer to save them for when i really need to get hearts back, so having portable pots on hand are great for me

The one thing I want in a future LOZ game: a place to display armor sets in your home

Ive actually use the portable pot quite a bit, came in handy when dealing with environmental stuff when I realized I didn't have any potions/food with the effect on me before I had the armor to not worry. What came in the most handy was being able to make sticky potions before I realized I could build a shelter or just straight up didn't have fire wood left to wait out the rain because all the logs I was cutting down were for constructs not the wood. Also just being able to cook in the rain in general was nice

@HyruleGamer I THINK we might get the last 8 Shrines/Light Orbs in the DLC. Max out everything in the DLC. (I've expressed across many platforms, that I hope we get another layer to the map. A layer/map of lands that reflect the Sky Islands, but deeper UNDER the Depths. With Lightroots that reach through CAVES that are used to access the "Core" or "Void". This could also be used to get the Sage's Vows again, to upgrade all the Sage Powers to a higher power. 😂

I only cooked with a normal cooking pot once in the entire game, on the great sky island, and the rest of the times I used portable pots. It wasn’t planned, I would just sometimes realize I was out of food, but didn’t feel like teleporting and would just take out 10 portable pots that I had acquired unintentionally

I agree with the rest of your points but I'm someone who uses the portable pots quite a bit. There are lots of places where you can't easily find a cooking spot or the idea of looking around aimlessly for one would be annoying so they've been great for that. I don't tend to stock up on loads of meals so I quite often run out of ways to heal so they're great for me

Something they could have done for collecting all 1,000 korok seeds, was 2 koroks that stay with you and help you, they also could have used their leafs as a paraglider, so you don't use up stamina while paragliding.

as a completionist the second point is the most infuriating for me. It's feels so wrong, to have uneven stamina and hearts. I hope, they fix it in the DLC(s).

I do get all your points, but this is what I have to say in return: I always believed that you were never able to have a full amount of hearts so that when you eat meals that give you the extra green hearts, it still means something. Another reason is for the Demon Statue who swaps a stamina for a heart or vice versa. For example, if you discovered this statue super late in the game (which is probably super rare I know lol) with all of your hearts and stamina maxed out, it would mean nothing. Though yes, it can definitely get aesthetically annoying haha. Honestly I forgot about portable cooking pots haha. The only time I found myself using one was in a little space between where you fight Ganondorf's army, and then Ganondorf himself. It allowed me to cook some sundelion meals, because I hadn't cooked any before, and realized they were kind of required after a few attempts lol. Koroks. Mixed feelings with these lol. I think koroks are more about the journey trying find them, and exploring this massive world. I personally really enjoyed finding them in botw, and discovering secret little places in the map that I never would have found otherwise. I did also feel really satisfied seeing that %100.00 in the bottom corner. But yes, they probably should have changed the collectable item to be something different for a different game.

I'm not sure if someone else said this already, but the cooking pots are really useful for destroying rock armor! Attach it to an arrow and the rock armor dissolves in 1 hit.

I used portable cooking a lot. Every time in the depths when I saw a Lynel I had to cook something for atack. Every time I enhanced my horses, I had to whip out the portable pots.

agreed about the sages, especially the gerudo one - can't count how many times that I've had to chase her down, and agree with the about the bird, same with the bolder dude. one of my biggest irritations is that when talking with an NPC (especially the stable attendants) the game should remember if you 've been told the warnings and instructions once - how many times do we need to be warned? agree the cut scenes are really really long. and OMGosh - wtf is with all the rain??? oh, and lets mention how annoying the screaming of some npcs are - the fairies who upgrade armor or the dude in the balloon - I have to mute the tv when they come on.

The memories and korok seeds were worse in this imo because in the first game the point was it would push you to explore. You didn't know exactly where the memories were and needed to pay attention to landmarks and notice them when you were in the right area. Similarly, the korok seeds pushed you off the beaten path and gave you direction when you were just wandering around trying to decide what to do next. The memories here were not only all mapped out, but were hard to miss since they're giant landmarks. And the korok seeds felt redundant in a game with a lot less empty space to roam. You're instead encouraged to build vehicles and shoot into the sky to traverse long stretches, and a solid chunk of the koroks are the escort missions which were less "ooh a thing to quick do before I keep moving" and more "oh I thing I have to stop and think about and put time into solving that might lead me in a completely different direction than where I was heading"

The Sage powers being on a second reselection wheel might actually end up being annoying in its own way. What happens when you hit the button after it's selected, does it activate the selected sage or go back into the radial wheel to select a Sage again. And if it reactivates the Sage, does holding it pull up the Sage radial wheel or the ability radial wheel. Any way you set it up its either annoying to use the same Sage multiple times or annoying to use multiple Sages all at once of not both, and that's to forget the amount of pausing that could be going on constantly stopping gameplay to select Sages The idea I had is when you select Sage Abilities from the radial menu(maybe give it the Sages Will icon) it just reuses the already existing "Let's Go!" prompt but actually assigns each face button to a Sage (you'd have to run up to Minuru to get on her mech still but that feels fine, like climbing on a horse) and selecting them from the prompt will start them up like you walked over to them. Helps if you want to repeatedly use the same ability or use all the abilities at will without needing to menu constantly and doesn't screw with the contextual activation stuff with Tulin and Yunobo that works fine (tho I would make another change, PLEASE STOP COLLIDING WITH MY OWN VEHICLE YUNOBO YOU THROW THE BALLANCE SO OFF AAAAAAAA)

Definitely a yes on the sages I ended up just leaving birdy boy off as I was fed up of him blowing away items I thretend on multiple occasions to make him and his kin into chicken curry if he didn't stop it lol and I defo agree with you on the collection of poop I am normaly a bit meh about a costume reward but I would in this case prefer a fancy outfit than what we get

I like to use the zonai cooking pots in the depths. I haven't used them all that often above ground, though there were a few close calls where they bailed me out.

With the sages I agree, there are many ways you could improve on them (making them lie BotW) or other ways of changing them. The Portable Cooking pots, I use them sometimes, mostly when fighting the lynel colosseum, and in my way to the final fight.

In regards to the portable cooking pots, I found them the most useful in the depths. Specifically when going to the final boss so I could make food to take away the gloom effects.

Sidons ability is arguably one of the best mining tools in the game Yunobo and riju launch the ores everywhere but! If you use sidons ability with any weapon that has a damage over 30 (spears have to be 40, 2-handed can be 25) then the water projectile becomes a ranged, aimable, piecing ore destroyer capable of taking out 4-6 ores in one use. Significantly faster since you can also aim throw the projectile while moving

Occasionally I remember to pull out a bunch of cooking pots when a blood moon hits while I'm in an inconvenient area and already know that I'm gonna need to cook some more

The sage UI is one thing, but Yunobo’s AI is the pits bro. At least on my game he tends to hang back whenever armored enemies are around and then crowned me whenever I don’t want to burn or break something.

I never used cooking pots like they're intended except on the initial sky islands. However, they are great for fusing to an arrow to break large amounts of zonaite in the depths if you've run out of bombs. Also they break enemy armor as well. I've shot them at Rock Like Likes and armored bokoblins and the armor just comes off. Finally they can be fused to weapons to break ore deposits if you've run out of rocks.

If you are about to run out of battery using a zoni device and still need to continue using the item; if you whip out your cooking pot and make a meal on the fly, it will recharge your battery. It recharges by at least 3 full energy cells when a 5 item dish is cooked.

I may have only used the portable cooking pots once or twice, but in those cases they came in absolutely clutch. I was completely out of meals, and nowhere near a place where I could cook, but wanted to fight Gleeoks I had just randomly stumbled across unprepared.

I saw someone suggest that Hestu's Gift should have been a physical object you could fuse things to. When it breaks, you could just go back to Hestu to get another one. It doesn't even have to be that powerful. This way it would feel more like a reward than just having it be a png that sits in your inventory.

I agree with you on all of these. The sage ability activation requirements often get extremely annoying. Also, spirit sage is mostly useless for me to actually use, as the controls are very clunky for me. The button mapping for it doesn't make any sense to me. I mostly only use her for mining, so I don't have to waste my weapon durability, or to walk over Gloom. Otherwise, I merely let her smash things on her own, like the Hulk. Its super annoying to constantly accidentally click on the wrong sage, when they're all out, especially when its the spirit sage, who seems to love hovering as close as she can to me, or tulin, when im trying to rapidly pick up stuff, or Yunobo, when im trying to pick up stuff that would get ruined by fire, or cooked, when i wanted the raw ingredients. Its also annoying that Riju's ability doesn't last that long, & very slowly expands out. Having to wait for it to expand, only for it to suddenly turn off, cuz she got hit, is also very annoying...& i hate that Sidon's ability is mostly useless. I wish it was more like Mipha's abilities, shown in HW:AoC, & had multiple hits, not just 1. Also, yes the korok seeds are annoying to collect sooooo many of them, but I would have done it anyway, had it been a worthwhile reward. As soon as I found out it was literally a piece of poop, & every "seed" is just a mini piece of poop, I stopped bothering, after I fully expanded my weapon inventories. Id still do the puzzle or whatever, if i happened upon them, but i stopped actively seeking them out, & left more difficult/annoying ones behind, instead of being my usual determined self to get it done. The reward at the end needs to be worth it. Handing me a golden piece of poop at the end of a very long, grueling collection task wasn't funny or amusing in the least. It only served to piss me off...& I don't normally get mad.

I mostly use the Sages to help me fight a tough enemy, like one of the bosses. And Yunobu’s is useful for clearing out caves, especially when I’m low on bombs. So I’d be okay with leaving the champions in, just as companions, without their “abilities”.

I personally thought that it would be great to have certain sages appear when doing specific actions. For example, Tulin joining you while gliding. It would be great if Sidon would join you while you were swimming so you could have the choice of using him or the Zora armor to climb waterfalls (ofc that may make the Zora armor redundant but as someone who likes to collect armor sets & a Sidon simp, it's a win/win for me)/using him or building vehicles to cross bodies of water. Depends on how fast the players wants to go. Yunobo already joins the player when on a viable vehicle. I haven't really thought about what Riju would join Link in (other than shield surfing simply as a nod off to her role in BotW). A half-assed idea was to just have her appear every time Link whipped out a bow on the shield and smite whoever was unfortunate enough to get caught in the blast.

OK, I agree, sort of, that the UI for calling for Sage abilities could be easier. After all, it would actually be more realistic if you could call specific sages, regardless of where they are, rather than just tagging whoever is in front of you. Pressing (whatever control sequence) could represent yelling "hey Riju, let's make sparks!", "hey Yunobo, let's go for a tumble!", "hey Sidon, make me wet!", "hey Tulin, please blow this thing for me!", or (spoiler warning) "hey Mineru, let me ride you!". Sure, makes sense. I do think there's a kind of fun chaotic aspect to the way it works, and an emersive, spatial sense to it, but I definitely can see the argument it might be better another way. But I also think it's really fantastic having the sages there with you, in person (sort of), fighting with you, and directly supporting you with their powers. Obviously, Nintendo could have done both, maybe they should have done both, but I'm very glad that they at least tried this, rather than just keeping it the way it was in Breath. I love the companion sages, and if, for some reason, the only way Nintendo was going to think of doing it was with the finicky controls, I think it's well worth it.

My biggest peeve with the tears flashbacks was the point you mentioned, that it's possible to discover them out of order. First memory I did happened to be the first, but the next was #6 or 7. I was like, "who the heck is this?" (It was Mineru btw) I hadn't visited the Forgotten Temple yet, so I couldn't deduce the order. Because I wanted a nice streamlined telling of the story, I forced myself to wait until I had collected every memory so I could enjoy an uninterrupted and chronological story. What they should've done is have each tear unlock the next part of the story, so each player can experience the retelling in the proper order regardless of where they explore first.

01:04 Sidon's water wall safeguards you from one attack _and_ powers up zora weapons with the water warrior ability. He's the only sage you'll ever need...

Oh, I totally use portable cooking pots, especially if I’m on a long haul in the Depths where there’s literally none, or after a particularly tedious fight which used up a lot of meals (I’m looking at YOU, King Gleeok!) Also, because of their swivel, I and a lot of other builders have been using them for ball-and-socket joints.

I used the pots multiple times in the depths for when I need to cook Sundelions. Koroks: Not 900 or 1000. Maybe enough for building up our inventory, and not poop, but maybe a glider or an outfit.

I use the cookpots all the time, some times I needed food for some specific effects, specially to cure from miasma breaking my hearts and I didn't wanted to go through two load screens + having to walk to where I was all over again.

Arrrow + Portable Pot=Armor breaker. Especialy on a 5 arrow lynel bow.

I use the Zonai cooking pots. They come in handy when forget that you are out of stamina meals and it's quicker than warping to a town. I forget often. Tulin.......definitely a love/hate. He's blown so many choice, hard earned items right off cliff, yup. Rock boy and Riju too. At least Sidon's bubble isn't something that interferes with game play. cool video!

I remember myself thinking "Why the heck did they give my power-up LEGS?!" every time I wanted to activate Yunobo. I'd literally have to chase Yunobo through a crowd of enemies because he decided he wanted to go say Hi. Tulin is by far the best of the Sages. His long range attacks are super useful for taking out annoying Keese and Chu-chus, plus his head shots are really helpful for knocking down foes about to attack me. Add all that to his ability which is always available in the moments that you need it and I'd say he's the only sage I'd ever really want to be active at any given time. Shame he has a mischievous side to him that causes him to blow away all the monster parts on the ground whenever I try to pick them up.

i would've loved for a 1,000 korok seed reward to be the deku leaf from wind waker- it could be a fabric and could completely change the glider

I don't know, since in BotW I just like having 2 temporary hearts so that should I take that 1/4 heart damage (which I'll definitely do) I can still throw sword beams while wearing anything other than Link's Champion attire. Maybe they can change the color to brighter red (or green for stamina wheels) so they don't feel out of place. Also for the Cooking Pot it's actually pretty much what I wanted since during my BotW days I tend to run out of fire/heat/cold resistance midway and had to backtrack (or die). I know they each have their specific costumes, but it's just my preference of wearing Barbarian Set at all times and chug some elixirs for those extreme conditions. Well that was a long response, but other than that, I agree with your takes overall especially the sages and their ancestors. Don't debate me pls love u ♥️

I used the pots quite a bit, especially early in the game. I mainly used it to cover up my lack of preparedness and stop to make meals when I was lost in the depths. I’d definitely say they’re useful, even if I used them less often as the game went on. I have seen videos of people attaching them to arrows. I valued them enough not to do that and never had that many in stock, but I understand why people do that.

Good ones reviewed but I just want to say something that’d be really nice at least for me is having like 4 saved custom armor sets. Like if it gets cold, hold button then select. Flaming hot same thing. Back to normal temp, highest defence needs (your standard) bang, done. It’s just kinda annoying to me personally going through the start menu trying to select the right pieces of armor continously everytime the environment changes.

The portable pots are a life saver. I don’t use them often but when I do I use a bunch all at once. Also they have the properties of rocks so they’re good for fusing to two-handed weapons for mining.

Portable pots are great as blunt weapon and to use during rain; the sages are useful *if* you use them *before* the fights. Frox can be killed in seconds with Sidon and a combo with zora weapon, a bone and prof bone... Edit: I don't hate the koroks, but I wanted a item/mask/symbol to show if a tower region it's complete or not (like in OoT)

I use the portable Pots when I need to make food on the fly, whether it's before a boss fight or I'm about to fight Gloom Hands in The Depths or the surface. I can say the Sage ability idea would be great, a couple or so of the Heart/Stamina containers are actually locked behind a couple quests like the Statue in the Depths under the Great Plateau where you bring it's eyes to it, like you're collecting Spirit Orbs. I can see how it's repetitive to us, but like any narrative, the Sages aren't all there to witness it, so each one needs their own scene. Not saying they had to do copy/paste, but I understand the repetition, WE have seen it, but not the individual Sages locked in their realms due to their duties or their own issues. I can see though maybe having a small fight scene or each having a moment with the King & Queen before the Imprisoning War, but the narrative makes sense at least. The memories were actually my favorite part of the game, going from place-to-place, piecing together what happened, it had more narrative and felt more fulfilling than BOTW's Memories. I cried when I found the last one because of the secret revealed(no I will not spoil it here, that's rude.) . . . I can agree that the Korok Seed collecting was... not good, just to get more inventory slots to boot. I rather farm materials and Rupees to do that -_- And I agree, I love Tulin, he and the Stormwind Ark were my favorite parts of the game, bar none. Honestly, I can't say anything bad about this game. The Memories made me really connect to the game, the characters and the tragic tale that BOTW could not do or hold for me, all of the characters were lovely, and the game & it's story was so heart-touching, so inspirational, that I, not only decided to redraw a character based around the Zonai, but make a complete backstory, with a story to her tale, for why she's a Zonai and the crazy adventure that she has with Link and her friends to find out her past and fix the present, even at the cost of herself. THAT right there shows how a game can impact someone, not only to impress, but to inspire to create. This game did just that, and I will always label it as my favorite Zelda game next to Twilight Princess.

I am a firm believer that those who don't enjoy the sages don't know how to properly utilize them. I spent a little bit figuring out each individual ability and then practiced using them together. Now I can take down a horde using all of them reliably.

I do honestly use the portable cooking pot, because i always don't have enough materials to cook when I'm at a stable or smth. And i am always out of meals so if i am directly in front of a temple or strong enemy i am very much fricked with only unused potions from Addison.

Another option on the sage problem: just hold the whistle button to bring up a menue just like weapons, bows, shields, and items, to select between actively summoned sages. This would be even eaaier to use since it would only be 5 options deep at most at any given time. To cancel an ability, simply select them again the same way. Whistling could still be done by tapping the button, with the menu requiring a one second hold or so. Tulin's wind gust should still happen just by pressing A while gliding, and Yunobo's cannonball should still happem automatically with vehicles. Also, Sidon's water wall should not be dispelled by firing the water wave. Instead, have a cool down between water waves as long as the bubble is active, and have a cool down between the bubble breaking and its next activation so that the player cant simply have it up all the time. As it is, being able to tank 1 free hit is on very little use if the player has no offensive capability in the mean time.

As far as Koroks go, I saw a video that suggested that instead of the player needing to find all 1000 koroks, they would simply need to only find 200 out of the possible 1000. So you would get the maximum possible reward from that point on and probably not encounter any more koroks from that point onward. As far as your reasoning for Korok seeds not returning goes, I disagree. 100% completion is an intrinsically motivated activity, meaning that for the player engaging in that activity, they should be carrying it out with the understanding that the reward is the completion, not anything that the game itself has to offer you. It is only when something in a game is required to do that I believe that the game should provide a good reward.

I agree with all of them (quite strongly with most of them) except the portable cooking pots point. I did actually quite regularly utilize them when my exploration would bring me to a place that I needed a certain elixir , stat boost, or ability acquired from food that I didn’t already have in my inventory. Instead of warping away somewhere to cook it and going back again, I could just do it right there on the spot and carry on exploring!

I use the portable pots, both as ball joints, and to cook occasionally. Then again, I have a full inventory of meals, so I usually can only make one more meal anyway.

I used the pots at lot in depts. They were handy for gloom resistant food. To be honest I probably used to more than horses. They were completely redundant in the game with the new craft ability.

I find the portable cooking pots helpful in the depths. There aren't any stables or towns down there. Often times I'd find myself in between lightroots and didn't want to lose my place so teleporting to the overworld wasn't an option.

Look, finding all those Korok seeds is something I don’t want to do, and I’m USUALLY a completionist myself, but that’s just too much. I think the reward for finding em all is fine honestly If finding em all actually had a NICE reward, im either gonna constantly hate the fact that I don’t have it, or……no I’d say I’ll just always hate the fact that I don’t have it lol. I hate defending Nintendo, but in this case I will, im glad finding 1,000 Korok seeds only gives a key item

I agree 100 percent with this list, but, I do use portable pots a lot, like all the time. Whenever I'm in a rush and I need a Speed boosting meal or a quick attack boost and im out of pre-cooked meals, i just pop out a few portable pots really quick and make them right there.

I hate how the sages sabotage me. I was looking for hearty bass on Lightcast Island. I went to pick one up & Yunobo decided to roast it. I just turned off the switch & walked away. The only use I have for Sidon is when I have the lightscale trident/zora weapons, which is rare.

I actually use portable cooking pots. In dungeons, the sky, and the depths I’ve found them life saving. Obviously is not something I use all the time, but I like them being in the game.

I use the cooking pots, fans and springs the most. Sometimes I don’t want to leave my location to go to a cooking pot. Useful for when I am in the depths.

4:50 Well HG now u have met someone who did. I constantly used the PCP because if I was about to face a tough enemy such as a lynel it was handy to pull out a PCP and then cook a attack boost meal right there instead of having to trek back to the stable to cook and then back to where I was going to fight.

I use the cooking pots several times throughout my playthrough especially when I don’t have enough food stored before i fight a over-world bosses like lynels or gelocks. I also think korok seeds are still trash its should just be an upgrade at a shop in Tarry town or after completing several side adventures

I would like to see armor presets and armor hot swapping. I was hoping it would be in there but I wasn’t surprised when it was the same.