TotK: What Happened? 

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OH MY GOSH. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I WOULD HAVE PAID FOR UNDERWATER EXPLORATION TO COME BACK. I WAS EXPECTING IT IN TOTK. If I could turn back time. If I could find a way. I would gladly trade half of the depths to have underwater areas. 🤧

1:00:22 You took words out of my mouth. Words cannot describe how disappointed I felt. The first time I saw this scene, I got goosebumps and a huge smile on my face. When Ganondorf said their names and then said “Rauru placed his faith in you”, I went CRAZY, only to minutes later discover that I had been deluded. While it was one of the best intros of the franchise for me, it was also one of the biggest disappointments... I really expected Ganondorf was talking about the timeline and the previous games.

Demon King?.....Secret Stone?

Totk to me just feels like a well made playground testing game. Like Garry’s mod or something. That uses the botw map as a base and had have some forced story to make it passible. You can so tell it started out as a dlc. That had ambitious gameplay ideas but were too complicated for a budget of a dlc.

Hey guys! I’ll be hosting a live discussion on the game this weekend featuring a ton of other creators… stay tuned!!

I miss how there would be main console Zelda games that would get the prime attention and then portable Zelda games that were small, fun adventures that didn't require meeting any expectations, but still had enough love and care to be included with the main games. I would love to see a return to that; even if some of the smaller zelda games being released are remakes/ re-imaginings of an older game like they've done before. It's nice being able to have a Zelda game that doesn't have pressure attached to it.

I love how every one in this comment section is like, "Wait, I just realized that this is a compilation"

I'm with you. I was hoping for so much that was left out. And it wasn't just the cut scenes that were copy and paste. The whole thing was dang near a reskin of Breath.

A 2 and a half hour vid from bandit, its a good day

My favorite Zelda game is Link's Awakening (any of the three versions, since each one has something special to it for me)! I still remember accidentally stumbling across the bug in the original version that moves Link to the edge of the next 'page' of the map when opening the map at the edge of the current screen, and how it cost me that attempt at the pothole maze, and how I spent the next few years thinking there was just a spot in the maze that would jump you to outside the fence if you weren't careful. Somehow, that weird misunderstanding didn't hurt my opinion of the game at all, even if it would be a while before I got back to the game after that.

As a game designer, constraints are actually a good thing. Their comments, coupled with recent products, make me question their education. Personally, I think they are designers second and business leaders first.

“See, now I’m ranting-” No, everything you’ve said is pretty valid and on point. Validates my own feelings about TorK’s life and story overall.

It seems that I have similar problems with a lot of people regarding exploration, the Sky and the Depths but after months I have settled to some conclusions. (it's huge but couldn't write less) The Sky Islands where marketed like they would be the next big thing to explore with on-island footage coming only from the Great Sky Island (the only explorable). At the end, the Skies are one unchangeable, monotonous environment acting mainly as a traversal puzzle with you trying to go from a tower to a shrine or from a shrine to the green shrine-stone and back. And after you solve them they act as quick travel points to access places on surface. Nintendo underestimated the ultrahand creations limiting only Wings and Hot Air Balloons. But by using cheap, long lasting builds like hover-bike, upgrading your battery, doing the Recall trick, using Zonai charges or cooking mid-air you can bypass EVERY obstacle in the Sky. Something that indicates the puzzle-soling nature of the Skies, away from exploration, are the collectable items. Only 2 types of flora and 4 types of fauna are exclusive to the Sky with the total 13 and 12 respectively found in general. Even chests are mostly either the end goal or locked behind a puzzle. The Depths on the other hand initially are all about traversing the hostile darkness but the scenery gets boring quickly with the sameness of the environment and the unvarying pace of gameplay. After that, they have three purposes: combat, Crystallized Charges, Zonaites, legacy Armor. All in strictly defined places. Soldier ghosts with strong weapons, monster camps (only 7 types I think), Lynels, colosseums, Yiga basses (only 6 types), Master Kohga arenas (the abandoned mines), Frox areas/arenas, Hinoxes, Taluses, Flux Constractors arenas, one King Gleeok arena and main-story bosses arenas are for those three purposes and all in clearly defined areas. The Abandoned Mines are for Crystallized Charges, Zonaites and Armor. Aside those, there is almost NOTHING in between. Most of the map is empty space. Not the BOTW or TOTK surface-map "nothing" that is full of small things to do. Again, that's indicated by the collectables. 3 mushrooms (1 non exclusive), 1 insect, 1 "animal" (stal horse witch is not exclusive) and poes. Chests are tide to combat or abandoned mines with few exceptions. That's all about the Depths. Death Mountain is the only unique place. It's also the only part with chests that are not tied to combat or abandoned mines but on exploration instead. So, to recap: -Depths are for upgrading your battery, finding powerful weapons and Zonaites for autobuild, helping with Sky puzzles and Surface exploration. -Skies are for big elaborate traversal puzzles and to have access everywhere in the Surface. -And finally, the Surface itself. With 100 caves, 58 wells (some just undercover Chasms), diverce flora (41 out of 45) and fauna (87 out of 92), divers bioms and environment, rivers and lakes, changing weather, chests, Korok puzzles, Adisson signs, settlements, NPCs, many many points of interest, almost every main quests and side adventures/quest, more evenly distributed enemies and countless enemy camps variations (we even have pirate ships!). The game is still the Surface. Sky and Depths are designed as quick breaks from your on-Surface gameplay. I WISH they were way more than they ended up being… And I wish Zonai theme would be more upfront and flashed out like Sheikah was in BOTW… But unfortunately that's the case. For me, the Surface has changed enough to the point that after more than 1.100 hours, 5 playthroughs and hundreds upon hundreds of videos on BOTW is still making me want to explore everything finding new things every time.

Nice shot, homie. We share similar sentiments, so don't feel too lonely out there. I think it's healthy and a good thing to be critical of our favourite franchises. I'm definitely looking forward to how your channel evolves into something you really love.

OMFG WE HAVE BEEN BLESSED 2 hours!!!!! Edit: oh it’s a compilation 😅 still I wanna say I love how you give us your TRUE and HONEST opinions on the game instead of some RU-vidrs / Twitter people who review stuff so sickly sweet like you have to love it 100 or you’re a hater

A two and a half hour long video from one of my favorite RU-vidrs about one of my favorite subjects (opinions about tears of the kingdom) and it’s a dead day at work with little more than nothing to do. Lets FREAKING GOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

In the next Zelda game, I really do hope we have a smaller map. It may seem counter-intuitive, but most if not all of this game's problems stem from wanting a large overworld. Weapon durability, poor enemy scaling, copy-paste enemies and missions, repetitive main quests, removing heart pieces, etc. It's a serious issue of quality over quantity that it feels like almost nobody is addressing. I think a smaller game where they could focus on the little details and making everything more unique would do wonders for the franchise. I think Link also needs more of a set backstory. Nothing crazy, but literally anything to tie him to the world he's in would help. When you think about old Zelda games, places like Outset Island and Skyloft are comfortable places you feel you can escape to, and the Wild games don't quite have a replacement. Sure, there's Terry Town, Lookout Landing, the houses, etc. but none of them feel like home enough, if you catch my drift. As for overall lore, some of the motifs of the previous games really need to return. Specifically the Triforce. The reason I love Zelda so much is because each game feels so different, only tied together by story motifs and characters. But the Wild games opted to throw out most preestablished motifs in favor of new stuff. I understand it may feel repetitive to Nintendo to reuse the same story assets and plot devices over and over... but it's really not? I don't care if the games are directly connected through a timeline or multiverse theory, the series just needs to have enough source material to call it a series-- with the removal of so many major story motifs, it's really drifting away from that title.

This is exactly what I needed today! Thank you

I'm actually hopeful for the next Zelda project now that they are apparently dropping everything they have done with BoTW and ToTK. I'd love to be gate kept by not having certain items again and not being able to climb walls. I was so excited for the ice walls as obstacles but they weren't as prevalent as I thought they'd be from tutorial island.

This is exactly what I needed right now. Thank you man Edit: Nevermind it’s just a compilation

The one thing that no one seems to be talking about is the actual "lack" of weapons in totk, and the weird look that the fuses force on you. Botw had some awesome looking weapons that were just absent, the lightning spear, the rock smasher, edge of duality ect, where are they? Fusing could've been alot better if they allowed you to to keep the look of pristine weapons by fusing a twin of that weapon and combining their power, or fusing something like a knights claymore with a broadsword to make a one handed version of the knights claymore ect. The nerfed and ugglified the weapons to force fusing on you.

You’ve put to words exactly what I was feeling! Zelda’s lore is at the heart of why the series is so cherished - to just negate all of that with some sort of ancient aliens angle makes it feel empty and lacking the special sauce all the previous games had. Elder Scrolls is my other favorite game series, and they manage to weave/massage conflicting lore across games, and it actually adds to the intrigue and theory crafting. Beautiful and well-made games are always the goal, but if they lack heart and story I’m out.

Will take me a few sessions but will watch this for sure!

The story and lore in this game was terrible. After all those years in development I was hoping they'd cook up something great. Even disregarding that, and ignoring the fact it's basically Breath of the Wild's map copy-pasted, but I had no motivation to explore anything. The new physics tools were cool but I feel like that's what their budget went into. If I wanted to explore a large open wasteland with terrible textures and half-baked combat I'd play Fallout 3

I've agreed with all your points in your videos, I was scared I was the only one to feel this way for a long time 🙏

35:46 i cannot agree more about the bombs being an ability. I love using bomb flowers, but i HATE constantly having to go run around the Depths for them, or hoping i stumble upon a few of them in a cave, to the point where i usually try to keep my bomb quantities around 20-30, or 50-60 if i have 30 minutes to kill farming in the Depths for them or for Poes. Let's be honest here. Which adult with a full time job and responsibilities has the time to farm for resources at the pace this game allows you to? The little free time i have to play games isn't enough to warrant spending it on getting items, so that playing with said items is the only thing making it fun. In any other game i could get currency from defeating pretty much any enemy to then be able to buy the items i want, instead of having to look for rupees for hours to find a few, or farming for stuff to sell to get a few hundred. The economy of the game is not good because it is so hard to find rupees. And the rewards for basically any task rarely feels worth it after a certain point of progression. If the enemies scale up in difficulty as you play, so should the rewards from fighting them or those found in chests. But the rewards aren't really worth it after a while and i don't want to use my powerful weapons for fear of breaking them, i don't want to go looking for koroks to expand my inventory, i don't want to spend hours in the depths looking for large crystallized charges to boost my battery. And upgrading armor pieces is easier in BOTW because you inly need the materials without having to pay to upgrade them on top. These are some of the reasons why after having upgraded a basic armor set to the max and upgrading most of the ones that give you really beneficial buffs or status effects, as soon as you get that set bonus, it's not worth the hassle to find the materials to upgrade them further. Basically after 200 hours, even though i haven't done all the shrines, i think i have 12 left, i don't really want to do the rest or do the spring side quest or whatever, because i know the reward is just gonna be a basic ass piece of armor i can't upgrade or that isn't worth upgrading.

1:08:00 It's very clear that they wanted to make a new unrelated zelda game, but they also wanted to use the already developed world and assets. The solution is to gaslight the fans into thinking the story is less important than the gameplay

Hell yea Zelda content I can sit and watch for hours

This is a great video! I am really enjoying it ❤❤

I dont know if I'm coping but I liked the game. It hurts me to see how it affected people negativelly. I do get the critics, and I try to see it with the positive. I tried to concentrate on the positive of the game because after finishing the game the first time amd seeing it with neutral eyes, I was so disappointed that I was gonna stop being a Zelda fan. But now after a few months, I managed to make peace with it and enjoy it

Holy Moly... Now that's a critique!

I’m a fan of the channel now, finally subscribed. Keep going brother

I of course already watched these videos and they are really great. I wanted to ask you if you could make a video about the next Zelda game or the perfect Zelda game as you imagine it. Not like in the last Video of this one but more like making a concept of a new Link and a new Hyrule and how the next Zelda looks for you. Maybe using some concept art or fan art as references. I hope you know what I mean. I appreciate your videos and the dedication you bring with it. Thank you for making my day every day.

Sorry so many comments. 😅 I just wanna pop back in one last time to say the outro music just made me so so so happy. I haven't heard it since ToTK released because I was avouding spoilers and I didn't realize how much I missed that little bit of music. 😊

While I'd personally prefer a linear Zelda game, I think a structure like open-zone would work really well for the series. Throw Link into an area with a few key items, a few side quests, and a few dungeons, and once he's beaten a dungeon or two, he can leave to the next area. It's not as free as BoTW and ToTK are, however I feel like "true freedom" isn't what the franchise needs anyways. A game can feel open and expansive without being open and expansive. Giving the player options of companions, key items, story choices, what dungeons to do, etc. could help the game feel open-ended while saving on development time (and hopefully allowing everything to feel somewhat cohesive to boot).

Personally, i loved Tears of the Kingdom more than Breath. I think it perfected that specific formula. However, overall, I also agree with your criticisms as well. With both Botw and Totk, they lacked that same feeling older games had. I hope the next game retains the open world formula from Totk, but it incorporates storytelling and some liniarity when it comes to dungeons and items like previous games. Also, one thing i personally feel they need to do is make it full voice acting even with your random NPC.

Shoot that Wizrobe/nice shot! Loved hearing your thoughts on this, you put into words a lot of my feeligns after playing the game

Sorry for so much posting but I'm excited to hear you talk about your favorite franchises.

yaaaaaay I love Bandit's vids, I love long vids, so... yay 🤩🥳

Tysm for giving your honest opinions on TotK. I prefer BotW, for many reasons, but I think the main reason is because it gave me an experience like no other and was just something so new and different for the franchise. Whereas, as it pains me to say that TotK was just BotW DLC. I know that was how the game came to be, but it was just something fun to play for a bit and I’ve only come back here and there to it. Unlike BotW, where I just kept playing many times after I finished.

i feel like one more year of dev time would have made a world of difference for this game. totk has a really cool mechanic ( though it was not for some people) nothing else got any focus. i felt the world and every other feature of the game felt to disconnected from ultrahand, where climbing, combat, and many other features could be undermind by flying or battle contraptions. i understand that without reusing botw, they would never have been able to make ultrahand but i think it feel to disconnected from evreything and honestly lore and secrets also felt like a backburner idea.

12:00 about that tidbit. I hated that the game insinuated that the Original Games, lore wise took place in the same world as TOTK, yes.... But thousands upon thousands of years apart from each other and THEN the imprisonment war happens on top of all these important successes.... Again, I could be wrong, hence why I use the word "insinuated", however, it was a strange realization to have coupled with the fact that BOTW had no impact on its sequel. Basically. Like, where are even the Divine Beasts?? For example... The game is a direct continuation... And to follow on the "everything is new lore bit" the Depths could have had a part of it BE Lorule. LORULE. An obscure-ish dimension in the same franchise. It could had added existing lore to the very... very lacking Depths that the game already offer. The same with the Sky Islands, some of them I didn't even bother to visit as they were.... empty. Barren. But here we are, good video regardless mate. You end up addressing this too. Amazing video dude.

Hi Bandit ! Thanks so much ! Am currently struggling to go back in game and finish it and was thinking that something was strange with the game, that I was feeling strange about it... not hype as much as i was with Botw, that I struggled finishing because I did not want the expérience to end... You're putting words on my feelings and I am relieved not being the only one... It's okay not to 100% like totk... it's okay to dislike some parts of a Zelda game. So thanks ❤

This is so good you have no idea. Been arguing a lot of these points for months and you put it into words perfectly for me, thanks!

I would of given up the whole depths to have: A. Underwater game play B. More sky islands, according to one of the devs they had so many ideas that the sky was over cluttered and they had to get rid of most of them, I want cluttered sky’s, that is what I was expecting, not the complete pile of crap that we got

Hi! Still watching! My first Zelda game I finished was BotW, which encouraged me to go back and play Twilight Princess because that was my first Zelda game as a kid (but I couldn’t finish it too dumb of kid lol). Quickly absorbed as many of the games I could get my hands on and fell in love. But even with Breath of the Wild being the first of my Zelda franchise love, I definitely felt the “staleness” of Tears of the Kingdom lore. Not even recency bias could hide the lackluster story of the sequel. Mind you, gameplay was fun still

your complaint about ganons power level i found interesting because that scene parallels the scene of midna destroying zant in twilight princess you explained that in a video 4 years ago and i think all the same elements are in tears of the kingdoms story by the way that video from 4 years ago was done realy well this is something to look into

My favourite Zelda game is Twilight Princess.

Hello I’m still watching this. I’m glad you’re thinking of branching out on different franchises. Pokémon is my favorite franchise but I would love to see some franchises that you are interested in.

i watched the entire thing and forgot all the secret phrases to type but i just wanted to say how much i enjoyed watching this. it put all of my feelings into words for me

I love these rants, I thought I was the only one!

1:55:40 My favorite Zelda Game is Twilight Princess forever. Always loved it and I think it has one of the best stories as well as side stories from the franchise. Majoras Mask is the next, soooo good!

worst part for me was how unbelievably unrewarding the entire game is. to a point where i don't even open chests sometimes, and the ones i do, i often leave it if it's a weapon/shield. for a zelda game, that's incredibly off base. 1 opal in a chest (imagine getting rupees & treasure maps. then ore once you've already collected an enemies camp chests) and looting some crates for taking out an enemy platform, shitty broken weapons, monster parts which you quickly have too much of, an occasional free meal that i don't need, thousands of brightbloom seeds that i can't pick up anymore bc they're maxxed out, no matter where you're exploring or what task is completed, the payoff feels like...😐 thats it?? it's like they said hey let's make this like real life where you work hard just to be rewarded with more work and you never really get anything/anywhere that feels fulfilling or satisfying :D just grind til you die

What zelda needs is Tingle

BotW was the first Zelda game played to completion (just a couple months back, almost done with TotK by now too) and the moment I heard Impa explain "the battle between the princess, her swordsman and the calamity has been repeating for 10000 years" I went "oh so they're basically admitting we don't care about writing a continuous narrative every game is just a new version of the same basic plot". Seems like you might be happier with this series as a newcomer these days haha

I am so happy for a long video to listen to an unnecessary amount of times!! 😆 10/10

I find it funny how Elden ring was in development for less time costed less and had like triple the amount of content then in totk lol. Couldnt have said this better tbh great video! also nice shot ;)

1) Favorite franchise: Final Fantasy 2) I don't think the people in charge of Zelda actually care about narrative anymore... since Nintendo bigwigs went on record disregarding narrative in games, I'm not surprised. 3) Nice shot! 4) My favorite Zelda game is BotW (treating TotK as DLC) 5) Oracle of Seasons had seasons... but having an actual season progression system that changes some of the events of the world and the side quests according to the season sounds AMAZING. 6) Wandering bosses would be AWESOME!!! 7) Pieces of hearts coming back would be AWESOME!! 8) Dungeons would be AWESOME!! 9) Rogue-lite dungeons would be AWESOME!! 10) Game modes would be would be AWESOME!! 11) We definitely need a new villain. Ganondorf is getting annoying... 12) Underwater is so iffy... It would be nice to be able to swim and do combat, so long as they figure out a way to keep the same flow. Having underwater gameplay that is slower than regular gameplay is very annoying. 13) Guild Wars 2 has the best use for mounts that I have seen in ANY game. 1X) This whole video was AWESOME!!

I just felt like there was too much going on at once. I wasn’t addicted to it like I was BOTW

I can understand why Nintendo named it, tears of the kingdom. The lore made all of us tear up 😭😂

TotK feels like they focussed exclusively on evolving the sandbox, and everything else kind of fell by the wayside: Meaningful exploration, complex and tighter designed puzzles, continuity in its story and lore with BotW… It all creates such a huge disconnect with the game for me, I still can‘t appreciate it for what it is.

One... I mean... ONE DLC bringing Kass back, where he comes back from his travels/studies with 8 songs that will present 8 challenges to be accomplished in 8 locations that could be mixed between new Sky Islands, Surface (caves or such) and Depths areas that upon completion, will give you 8 blessings to fulfill the 2 remaining hearts and small cutscenes or storyline explaining some events in the past and between the 2 games, with a final dungeon which could be the missing Rauru Castle with an alternate boss would be such a great thing! 1) The Sheikah Tech Disappearance (shrines, beasts, guardians, columns) and what happened between the 2 games; 2) The lore of Ganondorf and his 2 mothers (shown on story flashback) and why no new Gerudo males were born; 3) The creation of ruins (like Typhlo, mazes and Faron region); 4) The Story of the Zonai and why they disappeared; 5) Draconification and Farosh/Dinrall/Naydra story; 6) The ancient hero aspect lore and what happened 10000 years ago; 7) The lore and who were the 4 champions retainers of the stones on Rauru time; 8) Anything else related to Zelda when she lived on Rauru time back that could close any other open story left unanswered through the games. One DLC would fulfill it all as ot did not need to be long or too much detailed, but giving us a hint would be sufficient...

Nice shot. You shot that wizrobe.

This is my first time seeing your 20 suggestions for zelda video, so i'm probably not the first person to think of this but: for your "seasons changing and ephemeral dungeons" idea, have you played Oracle of Seasons? because you just described Oracle of Seasons lmao edit: choosing a companion with different abilities is also in the oracle games. now i'm wishing for an oracle games remake lol

I could literally listen to you rant for hours, mate. Especially if it's about something as relatable as this. I've been listening to this in parts while walking the dog, doing the groceries, household chores and even while in the shower. And I'm not even halfway through lol. I'll take a Zelda Bandit Rant every week lol. That aside, thank you for being so honest. I felt the EXACT same way about this game and seriously thought something was wrong with me. Also, Reddit definitely made me feel lonely because of it. Really liked that expression. Thanks again!

I watched all of these videos separately and then I proceeded to watch them all together. I don't know if I'm bored, procrastinating, or finally found someone who's able to critize a game to death while still loving it. Its also comforting I get the validation knowing other people have the same opinion as me haha, but personally here are my takes on TOTK if anyone wants to read them. (English is not my first language im sorry) Firstly, the game should have started with a boss fight. Now, this is ig more of an opinion rather than an actual criticism, but I think that playing through the story is a lot more fun than hearing or watching the story. I think the huge build up from going all the way down and finding the ancient tablets, and zonai malarkey to find ganon (or whatever the evil entity was), down there, would have been the perfect time to initiate a boss fight. And then maybe when we try to weaken the evil entity with Zelda's powers, Link strikes his sword and it breaks. It would have been more powerful if the player was able to experience that rather than, a very well built up scene just for some random guy to save us. I think a boss fight where you are supposed to lose would have just given the player more oomph to want to explore and want to beat him because the player lost in the beginning. Secondly, the story. I mean seriously what is going on with the story. The lost memories thing really did work for Link the first time, but AGAIN? Like come on. I dont think its necessarily lazy, but for another link to just have everything go black and be saved from such an intense battle is annoying. Granted, I do think that someone had to save him from ganon so link couldnt die, I mean the story has to progress somehow, but why couldn't it have felt more survival esc where we were stuck down there until we found the stone and then raru is summoned or whatever. Bc to be quite frank, if Rarauu can just save Links life then why didn't he just stop Ganon right then and there (I know its more nuance to it then just that but) my point is its silly that Raruu can save Link teleport him far away in his weakened state mind you. Then why didn't he just do that when Ganon first arrived? (Again I know its more nuance, but it just makes the story seem a little silly dramatic, instead of fantasy dramatic.) Thirdly, the map. The whole point around the hype of TOTK was the sky, and its literally 5 islands and a bunch of copycat islands (The dungeons, thundercloud isles, and great sky, Labyrinthe)(ANd then basically any shrine quest in the sky is one of 3 kill a boss or guiding those green stones) and Bandit does say this, but I really just want to reiterate how good of a point that is. Granted development for the game of BOTW compared to TOTK was a lot less, but honestly I would have rather them just spend more time on it then releasing a good enough game. The depths when you first see them is SO cool, like man I wanted to explore the heck outta those things, and then the bosses down there are all repeats, in just retextured forms, like no different attacks or anything, and to top it off the same reward you run around finding poe spirits. (Im not complaining necessarily about reused bosses but its literally one of the only things to fine down there.) The thing about BOTW, is it was one of the first games where open world didnt mean dead space, but tears of the kingdom feels like SO, much dead space. Since IM tired and already have a math test to do Ill rap this up but overall again, totk is a great game, but just what it could have been could have made one of my favorite franchises so good. The only thing I can really say is I wish companies would take a long time to release not just good products but beyond average, rather than it feeling like, yeah they liked it last time so theyll like it this time.)

I said this in one of your videos but I'll say it again. I'm pretty sure Ganondorf only dies in Twilight Princess cause the Triforce leaves him, not cause the master sword is more powerful than the Triforce. (Also Zant was the one to actually kill him if I remember correctly) It's been a while since I played Twilight Princess so I may be misremembering stuff but I'm pretty sure that's how it goes.

2:13:46 That was honestly a pretty good Matt Mercer impression

I really didn't like the fact that Link had a companion for every dungeon because they're more than a game-companion like Navi or Midna, they are the main characters in each dungeon and Link just seems along for the ride which is re-inforced by the cutscenes where he might as well not be there. In Wind Waker you had Medli for one dungeons which was fine because it was limited and those dungeons were also good. We have four very mediocre dungeons in Tears of the Kingdom and Link might as well not be there for any of them as the whole plot is about the companion character.

I'm going to be honest. I had a lot of the same feelings when i first picked it up when it just came out. I put down TOTK for a while then came back to it later and enjoyed it immensely more. I think it helped with how much I hyped myself up from BOTW and game me time to breath between the two games. Then the lore I've seen since I felt more receptive to. Like, I needed a pallet cleanse between the two so I didn't hold it to expectations and just enjoyed it for what it was.

I heard that THERE WERE MORE THAN A HUNDRED ISLANDS originally. They even got carried away, but they were told to basically delete 99% of the sky islands cause they thought it was "to cluttered"

My head canon is Tears of the Kingdom is an alternate timeline

Still watching, at the very moment I can't tell between Metroid and monster hunter. Both are just incredible.

What I wish the creators would have said was that the reason this Hyrule did not fit into the timelines is because this is an alternate universe Hyrule (like Lowrule, Termina, The Golden Land ect.). My personal theory on this is, this is an alternate Hyrule that I call “The Zonai Hyrule” and the Hyrule from the previous titles with the split timeline is the “Prime Hyrule.” Each has their own history, creation myths, laws of nature, etc. The “Zonai Universe” is clearly more "sci fi" technologically advanced while the “Prime Hyrule” is more mystical and magic dependent.

Nice shot. I'm surprised how little people talk about the fact that the "barbaric zonai tribe" mentioned in botw doesn't fit at all with what we see of the tribe in totk. At no point does it look like the barbarian armor could actually be zonai. So even the zonai are inconsistent with botw.

Not ALL of the Sheikah tech "disappeared". 😐

2:24:31 just thought id be helpful and say that you can create multiple save files. If you create a new user on your switch and load the game it will not overlap with your main users save file. This effectively allows for multiple different save files to run on one switch with one copy of the game purchased.

I totally understand how you feel but respectfully Nintendo has never had any incentive to suck up to theorists. The connected lore has always been at the mercy of whatever content Nintendo thought would make for an interesting new experience. I feel like the hierarchy has always been: interesting new game mechanics > new lore > connecting to old lore. It may be a lot more apparent now, but I think that's in part because Nintendo finally caved to the fans and gave us a timeline, only for them to move forward with the series without really caring about it. But in reality it was just as much of an afterthought when previous games were being developed

idk i still think there is a lot of untapped lore potential in this game that a lot of people are just dismissing as "Tears of the Kingdom has no lore, the developers do not care at all" someone found out Breath and Tears use Alchemy

Honeslty... What I want in a zelda game... is the story. Thats the biggest reason I play these games. Twilight Princess moved me so much. Skyward sword was the same, even though the story has a few repetetive hic ups. On a lesser extent but still up there I love the gameplay That included the dungeons. Link to the past I had a blast with. Breath of the wild had great gameplay (and techically tears did too since it's a copy with a few upgrades like ultra hand, but we all know where it fails everywhere else). Story and gameplay. Thats what I've loved

1:32:41 I would love to see the Twili again. I mean I love the theory that they were the ones making the Majoras Mask and they could easily come with another artifact like that for a new game villain or so, just like Skull Kid or Zant.

I think it would be cool to pull the birth by sleep thing and make it where you can choose one of the Triforce timeline u want to go through (ganondorf, link, or Zelda) and make each storyline unique to that character

Your video explains my zelda pain!!

Instead of finding clothing from past games in chests around the world, what if you found recipes for that gear and you could get materials to craft it? Customize it, even. Same for weapons. Like “Oh cool I’m in a cave and I just found recipes for the Engineer’s Clothes and the Lokomo Sword, let me go collect the necessary materials and head back to my house to craft it”. New magic would be great. A healing spell would be great. A fire spell, a spell to temporarily disable your foes. Bring back instruments, but you get to pick which one, or you could get all of them. I’d love it if they’d bring back the Spirit Flute. Etc.

I would like bigger and more storyline “temples.” They can keep the small shrines, but the big temples are what I’m missing.

I think the main problem with sequels is the new creators don’t study on what worked in the context of that story and why it worked. Nostalgia hits don’t work for people that use their noggins to connect storyline dots. Because the only reason it’s nostalgic is because that event took place in a story worked in the context of that story. Proper set up and play offs were put in place to satisfy a consumer. That’s very linear and vague but we need to start recognizing what will make good sequels and why they fail so often

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

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I disagree with a handful of your points, but for the main selling point of the game (except for building), there needed to be so much more islands and they needed to be much bigger and unique. It was in all the trailers and very hyped up to be this whole new hyrule in the sky, the only good islands were the temples, and starter island. Finding the depths for the first time was my favorite part of the game, it was so awesome and even if the depths weren’t very cool jumping into a seemingly bottomless pit and then finding this whole new world shrouded in darkness, it was awesome and also extremely spooky, and pretty cool at first, also 🎉MASTER KHOGA🎉. While the frox and others were cool and all, I was hoping to see a lot less malice monsters and more of a interesting and unique creatures for this alien looking are, maybe just a bunch of weird passive monsters and maybe even the old creepy guardian designs. Also, after that section where he recognized Link and Zelda, I was going crazy wondering which Gannondorf he was crazy fun, and when I still thought he was a gannondorf from another game was one of the best parts of the game for me as well, I thought he was gonna be going showing up threw out the game kinda like Demise’s sword dude, expect cooler because it’s GANNONDORF, also when I saw the trailer I was really hoping that demise would show but because if the sword breaks then he can get out, because he was trapped in there. I was expecting this story would be the ultimate Zelda game connecting different games, imagine Demise and Gannon making some devious schemes a lot more badass moments, a take for the fans but also just a good game for newcomers. Basically the first game in the franchise to actually acknowledge there are other games in the timeline(except the warrior games) you guys are smart enough to get my point, even if it wasn’t as grand as Demise, the original evil, at least give us ocarina of time Gannon or wind wake Gannon. Also I want guardians back for epic mech fights. Or just mechs or massive creatures that don’t disintegrate you builds immediately. [Edit] sorry for typos and stuff. Very long comment, not fixing it

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It pissed me off that the starting area in TotK was called the Great Sky Island. It couldn't have been more unique? It HAD to rip off the Great Plateau? That was the first clue that this game would be a redo of BotW.

You have a great voice this is my goodnight video tonight

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I will say that I disagree with bandit's thoughts on the amiibo exclusive items from breath of the wild being discoverable. I don't mind delving into the bottom of a mine to find a chest with some sort of cosmetic or weapon.

Nintendo couldn’t have taken inspiration from Elden Ring for whatever that comparison was, the game was in development for so long and the depths were ingrained into the story. Maybe it resembles Elden Ring, but not an inspiration I appreciate the gameplay beside the commentary, but honestly it did have a big impact on your commentary and I think made it hard to understand some of your points

if you need a source of untapped lore theorycrafting i think the monster hunter franchise will be fantastic! the playerbase has just grown immensely and suprisingly not many youtubers actually get into the lore nitty gritty. admittedly the series doesnt focus on its history and story as much, but between item and weapon descriptions, and enviromental details in maps especially in the games pre monster hunter world theres alot to peice together or even just finding small things in a single map that might explain why certain ruins look the way they do etc

Damm….. nice shot!

Nice shot, Bandit.

It got to the point where if I heard “demon king?” “Secret stone?” I would get annoyed instantly