Useless Zelda Facts! - Tears of the Kingdom (no spoilers) 

Here's a good one. In Breath of the wild, the Bolson Construction Company only hires people who's names end in "son". We can assume the same about the Hudson Construction Company. One of its employees, the one who helps you build your dream house, is named Granteson. This is the NPC in Breath of the Wild who would show up in Tarrey Town near the end of the quest and sell you replicas of rare armor and weapons you've found on your journey, including the Hylian shield. He is also the son of Robbie, the Sheika scientist. However, in Breath of the Wild, the character's name was just Grante, meaning that he literally changed his name just so Hudson Construction would hire him.

If you wear the phantom ganon armor set aka the “evil spirit” set, NPCs will be scared of you. Also, if you ask cece’s comment on the armor set, she will say it looks like it “leapt out of a painting” a reference to phantom ganon’s boss fight in ocarina of time, where he does exactly that and attacks by litterally jumping out of paintings.

In case no one said it, the ghosts disappear because they are not to be seen by unworthy eyes. You can find this out by reading the yiga journals in the depths. They say they find floating weapons atop strange rock formations. The yiga cannot see the ghost soldiers.

One most people probably know by now: if you drop a mighty banana next to a disguised yiga (like the one pretending to be Zelda during the Duelling Peaks Stable ‘Potential Princess Sightings!’ quest) they’ll tell themselves something along the line of ‘resist temptation’! Also if you try to pick up the random banana trap while dressed in the yiga outfit, the yiga who set the trap will tell you not to touch it as it’s bait for Link! 😂

Regarding the first fact of the video : Link's ladder climbing physics were slightly changed in TOTK, he now jumps further into the ladder and climbs a bit faster. This change likely affected this very short ladder, and they didn't specifically test it. It's very likely this ladder is completely untouched, it's just that it got affected by Link's slight physics change.

I HAVE ONE THAT I JUST LEARNED. The Purah voice actor actually voices Pauline in Mario odyssey and she voices Barbie in a very strange Barbie tv show

Something really cool I just noticed while I was playing: The Secret Spring of Revival, found near the Great Abandoned Central Mine, is actually located directly underneath the Shrine of Resurrection (the starting area in BOTW.) This healing spring water is probably what flowed up to the bath that revived Link during those 100 years.

One really handy depths/overworld connection that I don't see anyone talking about is that the peaks of named mountains in the overworld are mines in the depths, which always have a treasure chest and heaps of zonaite to mine!

Tulin can be seen in breath of the wild at the flight range. He asks you to show him your skills at hitting all 20 targets, which implies that link inspired him to learn archery.

Something else nifty about the depths. Underneath every goddess statue, there is a bargainer statue. For the little goddess statues, there's a little bargainer/mostly buried one. For the Giant goddess statue, there is a massive bargainer statue completely uncovered and standing in the depths. Pretty neat detail

Another similarity between the depths and the surface is that when there is a construction post on the surface (thing things with planks and wheels) there is a zonai part depot underneath it, can be nice if you are out of fans or steering sticks and need to make a hover bike (and are out of the funny rocks)

Here's one: while some paraglider fabrics glow in the dark (e.g. Mirror of Twilight, Majora's Mask), the Stalnox one actually changes. During the day it looks like a pale jumble of bones, but at night/in the depths, you get a glow-in-the-dark standing Stalnox :)

Am I the only one to notice that the emitters (excluding the beam emitter) are built in reference to the dragons of that element? The shock emitter has a twisted horn, just as the lightning dragon, Farosh. The other two are harder to see but the flame emitter has two horns on either side of the head just like Dinraal and the frost emitter has a bunch of horns around the neck area (just like Naydra)

Another "useless" fact, is that if you collect a lot of kook's seeds without ever going to the korok forest, they would start giving you texts that you HAVE to go there because something weird may be happening (also hetsu tells you the same)

Not sure how well-known this is but the unnamed island above Castle Town Prison is filled with Mountain Crows. On the island itself, you can find hoards of arrows and flint the birds have collected in little pockets here and there. Based on their compendium entry, we can assume these birds collected/stole these nice shiny things. I can’t remember if I’ve seen this in any other spot in the game but I thought it was a cool detail!

One useless fact I discovered has to do with the dye shop in Hateno. There are lots of little details in and around (behind, on top of) that shop that always seemed cool to me, most of which were present in BoTW as well. The newest little detail I found, though, is that Nintendo actually took the time to program two little hinges tucked away under the roof of the chimney that Link now gets shot out of whenever he edits his paraglider's appearance. It's such a small detail, and I doubt many people take the time to climb up there and look for it, so I was thrilled to see Nintendo chose to include it. For those who aren't aware of some of the other cool details surrounding the dye shop, here are a few of my favorites: The river directly behind the dye shop has cloths soaking in it to remove the excess dye (a method actually used in older times when dying fabric). These cloths are *downstream* from the general community cooking area, which is important for obvious reasons. Also behind the shop are some large, shallow pots with leftover dried dye coating the inside edges. If you hop around from one to another of these, it *slightly* changes the hue of the world around you to match the color of the dye you're standing on. There are also some neat little cloth-dying tools set out on the rooftop of the dye shop - again, not an area most players would take time to explore, so it's cool to see Nintendo including it. There are also loads of unique dying tools inside the shop. Most shops have items unique to the type of shop it is inside of them, but the sheer number and detail on these considering how few players will take the time to pull out a camera or zoom in to look has always impressed me.

Fun Fact: the stone stacks you find ghosts on aren't just stone formations, they are actually cairns, little stacks of flat stones used as a landmark, grave, or monument!

Here's one: an interesting difference between the two games is that in BotW Gorons were freely allowed into Gerudo Town, seemingly under the idea that they're a one gender race so they get an exception. Not the case as of TotK, in which there's not only no Gorons in the town but one actively being denied entrance, which begs the question of what changed between the two games

In one of the memories, Ganondorf is speaking to Rauru and directly behind him is koume and kotake (Twinrova/Ganondorf's mother/s). Their names are also written in Hylian on the demon king's bow

I found a pretty interesting fact from a botanical perspective. The muddle buds, puffshrooms and bomb flowers in the depths mostly tend to grow around giant plants that resemble the corresponding plant. The puffshroom for example, becomes one of those fully grown giant mushroom platforms

The reason why the three outfits have the numbers as words is because the number is the first word of the sentence. In common writing it absolutely isn't necessary but the writers decided to be "proper," creating what appears to be an odd situation that, in my opinion, fits Cece as a character as well.

In BotW & TotK, if Link opens a chest by kicking it with no lower body armor equipped, he'll hop up and down a little while holding his foot in pain. But in TotK, this also happens if he's wearing the trousers of one of the new weather-attack armors (Ember, Frostbite, & Charged) because Link's still barefoot while wearing them.

I love how confidently this dude pronounced the shrine and light roots. And seemingly did a good job with it too

1. According to flavor text, Staminoka bass are actually a subspecies of Hyrule bass rather than a separate species. 2. The Yiga clan members have different dialogue depending on if you fall for the banana trap or not. Also trying to chop a Yiga disguised as a tree yields a 3rd unique dialogue line.

As far as the CeCe numbers are concerned, most writing style guides recommend writing out numbers when they're themfirst word of the sentence. And sure enough, if you look at CeCe dialogue the three armors you mentioned are the only ones where she gives the number first ('a hundred waterlogged points' vs. 'A waterlogged 100 points'). So while it might seem odd at first, her dialogue is stylistically correct... which seems oddly fitting given the character.

The cloth physics for the hylian hood got a bit of an overhaul. In BotW wind would cause the cape to clip through the shield on links back, but now it no longer does that!

3:46 Furthermore, the bridge they seamingly cut from the opening can be seen too! Its actually the room DIRECTLY behind where you start in the opening. In the game there is a Silver Moblin and Gloom Hands in that room. If you look at it, you can see that the bridge collapsed but is indeed there, and the Luminous Stone seen throughout is also present in the corners just like in the trailer. I do think the E3 trailer actually has a good chance of having happened in the game, they still couldn't get the Don Don over the bridge and so they left it, then we cut to the real opening.

There's a yiga swordmaster who doesn't recognize link, so you can take off the yiga outfit while in the swordmaster room with no consequences. Also, you can attack a portable pot to an arrow and it'll destroy The armor of enemies with armor

Golden Apples are very reflective during the day. If you zoom into one using your purah pad, you will see that it Reflects the exact location around it and it updates in real time when you move it with ultrahand. There's no reason for this, they could have just used a reflective texture like the metal cap in Super Mario 64, but no, it accurately reflects the location around anywhere it is. Golden Apples glow a bit and are not as reflective during the night, but even then, you can see the reflection if you look hard enough.

There’s a torch at the bottom of the pit where you originally found Ganondorf that Zelda was holding in the beginning of the game.

When exploring the depths with Robbie he actually draws attention to the link between lightroots and shrines on the surface, saying that he thinks the lightroot that you find him at lines up with a shrine on the surface. I had thought it was a squares and rectangles thing where there was a lightroot under every shrine but not a shrine over every lightroot for a while since I couldn't find one of the great plateau ones and boldly assumed it wouldn't be in a cave since it was right next to a chasm. (I did learn otherwise and it was very useful for completing every shrine without a map or guide)

Two more things to note, Purah compliments Link on finding Zelda's present if you wear the champion's leathers while talking to her, and the monster eradication squads comment on whether or not you are wearing the master sword after helping them out. Also the champions leathers allow you to shoot a sword beam if you hold the master sword and do a charged throw.

All the Bargainer Statues in the depths correspond to something sacred above ground which honestly makes them creepier. There are ones directly beneath the springs of Courage, Wisdom and Power. There is one directly beneath the Goddess Statue in the Forgotten Temple. There is one beneath the Temple of Time on the Great Plateau. There was one that I thought broke the rule until I realized it was situated directly beneath the Temple of Time in the sky. There are also some big ass dragon skeletons located directly under the locations of the whale skeletons above ground.

This one is already pretty well known, Tulin's great eagle bow has two feathers attached to it. One pink and one white, which both come from his parents. It's also present in his spirit form which is pretty neat edit: nvm im stupid ah hell, the feathers are on the quiver and not on the bow

I was surprised by the amount of Yiga Clan interactions that were added in the game, derived from wearing the new Yiga armor. There's obviously the areas where you can only enter if you're wearing it, but you also get new dialogue with disguised Yiga members walking around, and they won't attack you if you're wearing it. This doesn't go for traps unfortunately, which will always trigger, except for the Princess Zelda trap. If you walk up to them while wearing the costume, they'll chastise you for getting so close because you'll "ruin the trap". Also, if you enter the underground Gerudo city, then put on the Yiga Mask, you'll be immediately thrown in jail.

The Wind Tempel is a giant reference to the windwaker, its shaped like a boat, the boss is colgera an alternative to windwakers molgera that was the boss in Dragonroost islands dungeon wich is the home of the ritos in that game and the music from dragonroost island got remixed and is now colgeras boss theme wich is absolutly useless to know but I think its an really nice detail

Funny thing I noticed in Gerudo town is that if you fuse the desk from the Voe and You classroom in BotW and bring the fused item to the underground class in the bunker, the teacher actually has a thought bubble noticing the desk lol

8:55 the fact that totk doesn’t acknowledge the Hylian Hood with the Champion’s Tunic and Hylian Trousers is absolutely horrifying

Might be interesting to go through all of the Yiga 'lore' books found in the depths, which gives us perspective of the depths from the eyes of the yiga, like ones talking about those spirits, the gloom, the poe statues, and etc.

A straight up useful fact about the depths if you're trying to 100% the map: Under every named forest on the surface is a similarly named grove in the depths.

Riju’s seal gives coordinates to all kinds of useful stuff. First it gave me all the coordinates to find the orbs (I don’t remember the name of the side quest). Then it gave me the coordinates to another random side quest. It also gave me the coordinates to find Ganondorf.

Here's a fun one: between BotW and TotK, every single wrecked Guardian on the overworld was removed, even from places where obviously nobody would have gone to remove them, like the Forgotten Temple and beneath the labyrinth in Akkala. There is one singular exception to this: There is still a non-functional Guardian tied to the top of the Hateno Ancient Tech Lab. It also has an identically placed Korok on it, the only instance I actually noticed a 100% reproduced combination of Korok puzzle and location.

After you complete the stable side adventure in your underpants, you can find two of those guards endlessly throwing punches still in their underpants right above Deplian Badlands Cave. Bonus: if you’ve done both endurance tests, you’ll find the endurance guy there with them too

That steering stick moving in the Recall animation is actually a really funny demonstration of how the game duplicates the same rendered object specifically for that effect. Because obviously if you take multiple steering sticks out of your inventory, it's two separate models being rendered. But the Recall animation shows duplicates of the model being recalled along that yellow line, and it takes a simpler approach by just redrawing the same rendered model along the line, but with a colored overlay. Which is why when you manipulate the object model being redrawn for the effect, it effects the ones along the yellow line to. I found a similar thing in Halo Infinite, with the UNSC sniper rifle. Because when holding the rifle, the screen on the scope shows what the rifle is looking at. if you have a second sniper rifle laying on the ground, you can still see the screen on the second rifle, and it will display the same view as the one you're holding. Which is another example of the same render being redrawn for the additional object model, presumably to save on system memory, since you can have it be a single object taking up system memory, and then have it duplicated in video memory. rather than multiple completely distinct objects taking up both system and video memory.

12:21 one thing I noticed in my French game, is that the reverse name of one shrine has a huge mistake: The “Mo Lonqu” shrine should have the “Uqnol Om” light root, but it’s actually the “Uqnol Omeriautcnas” light root because they also included the reversed word “sanctuaire” which is French for shrine

I'd argue that the inverted shrine/root name thing isn't useless, because it's another hint that the shrines and lightroots are linked, which is *incredibly* helpful. Seriously, I adore that they're linked. It means that you can discover lightroots in the depths, and then use that data to find all the surface shrines, and after that it's fairly easy to find the shrines in the sky. No googling shrine locations for me this time! Edit: also, the grave/cairns thing is also not useless, because pristine weapons are *very* potent, and that large cairn is a good spot to go looking after blood moons.

Fun fact, if you attach a cannon to a homing cart while there are no enemies around and stand directly in their line of fire, they’ll intentionally miss you

After finding and reporting the Abandoned Central Mine to Josha and wrapping up that questline, Robbie will straight up abandon his wife without her apparent knowledge. She just keep sweeping the emergency shelter, wondering when she and her husband will head home together.

One more useless fact: If you put on one of the divine beasts masks while with the sages activated, the respective sage spirit will wear the green zonai masks used by the original sages. For exemple, if you wear Vah Medoh's mask, tulin will get the ancient sage of wind mask, if you wear vah naboris mask, riju will get the ancient sage of lightning mask, and so on with each sage

One fun little fact is that all the springs on the surface have a lava fountain beneath them in the depths. This fact brought to you by the Yiga. I read it in one of their journals. Also, the Yiga have an official song. It's pretty funny to find that journal lol. The yiga journal entries in general are FULL of silly little facts and comments. Oh, and there is one guardian left in the game. It's at the top of the Hateno lab.

The numbers in Cece's ratings get spelled out in certain phrasings because they are at the start of the sentence. It is almost universal standard style in English to spell out any number that begins a sentence. This rule is so strongly encouraged in written English that, if it conflicts with another standard, most English style guides will advise you to rephrase the sentence instead so that the number is not the first thing in it. And in situations where it absolutely must start the sentence, spelling out is generally preferred.

8:00 I believe this is because in English literature it’s more “proper” to spell out numbers if they go first in a sentence (or text box). Could also help with programming things but I dunno what language they used so idunno

Continuing on the shrine names, since they have to be different backwards, there can't have any palindromic names, but this only applies to shrines on the surface. There are a couple shrines in the sky that have names that read the same forwards and backwards

The reason you can't take pictures of the soldier spirit statue things is because no one can see them other than Link. One of the Yiga journals reports that floating weapons have been found on those little mounds. The fact that you cant take a picture is probably a little detail to stop Link from showing them to anyone else.

There are other links between the surface & depths. Each goddess statue that isn't in a major settlement is directly above a bargainer statue in the depths, with the sizes of them usually corresponding. That includes the one on the Great Sky Island, so it's not just the surface. The only exception is the one on Dragonhead Island, so I figure that must be the one they found and brought back up to Lookout Landing. (The major settlements each have an Abandoned Mine instead, so were there once bargainer statues there that got mined away? We know from BotW that Tarry Town's goddess statue predates Tarry Town...)

Two things: any horse you had in BOTW will be brought over (if your save file is on the same switch), and if you wear a divine helm the corresponding Vow will have the ancient sage's mask on.

Fun little thing about the Dondons. There is a stable quest with Penn (for the frog outfit) and it was about Zelda controling some kind of monster. After finding the Dondon farm it's actually revealed that Zelda would ride on them, just like Zelda did within the trailer.

13:47 for the single shadow soldiers, my current theory is that they were buried on the surface at the same spots, probably in small holes. In the depths, those holes would be mirrored, so that’s why they stand on small platforms! Edit: Also, the figures not showing up in the camera rune might be due to the shadow soldiers only being visible to certain people, Link being one of them. Certain Yiga journal entries mention how they see weapons floating on rocks that disappear when they approach, so it makes sense that the shadows hide from certain people and pieces of technology.

I just helped out my 4th Sage, and even finished the Hateno election quest. Never bothered to talk to Cece ever again and had NO idea she did that! 😅😅😅

The Zora Greaves don't grant an ability like the other two pieces in its set, but you still need to upgrade it to get the set bonus.

I've actually got a really cool useless detail that I've been looking for a place to share. I saw this in Lurelin village at just after sunset, but I'm sure you could see it elsewhere too. When it's dark/night if you look at the eyes of the cows from certain angles their eyes will appear to glow just like they do in real life. Basically some animals have something called a "tapetum lucidum" at the back of their eyes that reflects light, and that was a detail the lighting team felt should be added I guess. I believe it works for dogs as well, but it's easier to see with cows because their eyes are completely black normally and they don't move around as much. I'd imagine it's true for other animals (deer, foxes, bears etc.) too, but I haven't investigated that myself. Love these types of vids. Keep it up!

Interesting details: Link will actually hum certain melodies during the full cooking animation. One example is the Saria's Song theme from Ocarina of Time, where he hums the 6 notes that the player plays in that game. I believe there's a RU-vid video that has an example of this. Another neat little detail is that the Constructs who give you the glide set will compliment you if you wear it around them, saying "You look nice in that" and similar little quotes. Portable Pots, one of the zonai devices, isn't just able to stabalize on slight slopes, it's a full on Ball and Socket joint, which is technically a useful fact for Ultrahand builds, but to most regular players, is just a neat detail. The Charged headdress, Frostbite headdress, and Ember headdress all have the horns mimic that of their respective dragons, Farosh, Naydra, and Dinraal. Speaking of the Charged set in particular, Rauru actually wears that set himself, notably when he's a ghost in the beginning of the game. The exception is that he isn't wearing the headdress, and thank goodness for that because it looks like a giant di- One of the more obvious ones is that underneath every major town is an abandoned mine. There's the Abandoned Lanayru mine under Zora's Domain, Abandonded Gerudo mine under Gerudo town, etc. Underneath every major Goddess statue (therefore not including ones in towns) is a bargainer statue, including the 3 at the 3 springs, one underneath the forgotten temple, and one under the old temple of time from BotW. The Shrine of Resurrection is obviously... different, but at least the water inside is a hot spring, so it techically restores your health!

in general, I think they changed how the "step up" animations work -- it is much easier in TotK to walk up and onto small platforms, items, etc-- but conversely harder to jump onto them. the mini ladder may be a side effect of that.

The names being inverted were actually useful. I learned about it before doing all the shrines from a post and did all shrines after I did all lightroots. Anytime there was an annoying cave shrine I just searched the inverted name to find the entrance to the cave lol

Something i just realized in game- depending on how far away Link is from the camera, he will sound either louder or more muffled. How I discovered this was by riding a tow horse with a large board attached like a flatboard. Basically when the camera was way behind Link because of the large board, his "hyahs" when he spurred the horse was noticeably quiter than when Link was facing the camera on the horse, as there was no huge board that needed to be in the camera at that angle, so the camera was closer. I think it is interesting the devs thought of that detail as that is how it is irl.

In the depths there is a Yiga note regarding the pristine weapons, it mentions how they float there and nobody knows why or how. Meaning Link is one of the few, if not only, people who can see ghosts/spirits in the game

A decent amount of NPCs react to Ring Garlonds, you can fuse a ring garlond to your shield and some NPCs comment on it like a visitor in Kakariko and almost all stable owners have different reactions to your garlond varying from compliments to jealousy since they all sell them, obviously the best choice is to buy the kids garlond in Kakariko

Everywhere that there was a shrine in botw, there is now a depths hole in that location. Some people think that it's just for the great plateau, but it's actually for all of them.

I think that for the ladder it is Link's animations that changed between games (if I'm not mistaken his ladder jumps are now faster to do in succession and he generally goes higher when he does one)

I got one! In botw, Link had a unique animation for walking or running across a log He'd balance with his arms out, pretty adorable But for some reason that animation isn't in totk I find that weird since it would've been way more useful in totk with all the flimsy bridges you're gonna be building and balancing across No clue why they took it out

I think the answer to the ladder question is not that the ladder has changed, but actually that Link's reach while climbing is longer in TOTK. You can actually see it in this video, Link reaches nearly above the ladder in TOTK, while he just grabs the top rung in BOTW. Whether this is to make climbing easier for the player or to show literal character "growth" in Link's climbing capabilities, I dont know. Lol

In Link’s house in Tears of the Kingdom, similar music plays like the one that plays in Link’s house in Ocarina of Time.

I'm not sure if anybody else mentioned this yet, but If you feed the Dondons luminous stones, they'll spawn in rare ores for you after a couple in game days

Another parallel between the depths and the surface is that beneath every non town Hylia statue is a bargainers statue. You'd think the Plains bargainer statue is an exception but no, it lines up perfectly with the temple of time Hylia statue in the sky.

There are a ton of neat music easter eggs : if you go in the cave under Rito village, the music will be played with a filter and reverb. If you approach the zonai artifacts quary near Tarrey town, the music will gradually add pickaxe sounds...

Maybe the reason why we have six dragons in Hyrule is because six Sages ate their secret stones. Also, while we have four elemental temples in the game, we also have the Temple Of Time, and time is Zelda’s power. Plus, there is the Forgotten Temple, which may or may not correspond with another power, and we have the Sage Temple Ruins, which is probably important. Finally, let’s notice that, although the Zonai are extinct, someone from somewhere must have known how to program Constructs to say and do certain things, and someone must have brought them from somewhere, as we do not see Constructs in BOTW.

Another interesting connection between the depths and the surface is that every single hot springs has lava falls beneath it in the depths, showing what's heating it up

If you have a sand seal plushie fused onto a weapon or shield and stand near Riju, her dialogue box changes to say "Patricia..." You can get sand seal plushies from Riju's bedroom or from the old lady who runs the plushie minigame Similar dialogue box changes happen in other places as well. You get a lot of these if you wear the CeCe hat and stand near NPCs who wear the Cece clothes If you have a beetle in your inventory and talk to Beedle he will take it Furthermore, if you sell a bug or a buy a bug from Beedle he will give you life advice If you've defeated Master Kohga, NPCs in the yiga hideout will have unique dialogue If you show Hudson a picture of Mattison after she has moved to Gerudo Town, he will have unique dialogue If you ascend into the prison cell in the Gerudo shelter then talk to the guard, she will be confused how you got there During the "For the Princess!" Quest (part of the Lucky Clover Gazette reporting) you can talk with the naked NPCs and they will comment on your uniform. Also the girl behind the stable will be mad at you You can do terrible things to the NPCs that you transport (Impa, the Stable Trotters, the raft dude, etc) If you leave with the hot air balloon without Impa she'll say "Wait for me!" Similar to this you can drown the Stable trotters and other horrible things If you have fire near some NPCs their dialogue box will be like "too hot!" If you gallop your horse near them they'll say "Don't trample me!" If you stand around shirtless for a while, link has an idle animation where he flexes his new arm Botrick, an NPC found in a cage in some bokoblin camps, will give you a reward if you get the cage off of him. However, if you remove the cage but then put him back in it, he says "Oh I could have swors I had been freed." He also has unique dialogue based on the phase of the moon After beating all of the lucky clover gazette quests, you can find Penn standing at the same spot that Kass was found in BoTW Also birds gather around Penn like they did with Kass

Quick correction: A dogs tail that's not moving and it straight out is more of an alertness thing than wagging it, it all depends on the breed and the dogs personality. When their tails are sstraight out, it's usually because they focus on someting, not an act of dominance :))

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SPOILERS: Some stuff I haven't seen mentioned in the comments already The zora and Gerudo champions have a face under their mask but the Goron and Rito ones don't/have an incomplete face The face of Bubullfrogs are actually multiple bluepees glued together The wanted posters for Link and Zelda in the Clover Gazette have several words after "link" or "zelda", impliying family names or second surnames but they're unreadable (I extracted the texture and it's still just a pixelated thing) Tarrey Town has a different music variation for nighttime which is exclusive to TotK If you do not reach for Zelda at the very end you end up falling in place the writing on gloom weapons mention koume and Kotake, they are also visible in the cutscenes where Ganondorf bows to Rauru and the Molduga attack one The stone slabs around Zora's domain have different text than in BotW, one mentions Ruto from OoT Cooking pots can be used to make all-terrain vehicules by sticking them to wheels. They also don't work with fire so they don't warm you and you can't be burned by them There is a way to drift with vehicules by pressing then releasing the brakes but I don't remember exactly how to do it the game's internal development name is "EX-King", breath of the wild's is "U-King" There is a special message in case you get a schema stone before autobuild even though it is unlikely (it says "A stone etched with what looks like a design schematic. It could be useful...). Same thing for talking to the evil statue without getting a single heart or stamina (impossible since you need to get a heart to progress through the door of time, it says "What's this? You haven't received even one more Heart Container or Stamina Vessel? Such a pity... I was eager to help you with a minor transaction. But not if you have nothing to trade. Consult a Goddess Statue to improve yourself, and then return here to pray."). The Master Sword at the beginning of the game is not the real Master Sword, it is indestructible and can be acquired via glitches. It can't send Ganon's gloom attacks back even though it glows during the fight Wild animals behave differently than in BotW, riding a bear is much harder because it won't go straight There is a "quest" (doesn't count as a quest) near a stable where a lady mentions a cuccoo inside a well and that it doesn't want to be alone. The intended solution is to throw another cuccoo in the well to get an egg but you can also get the cuccoo out. It doesn't do anything and the cuccoo will despawn rapidly. You can hear the rain on your paraglider when gliding when it's raining, in botw it always is the same sound paragliding or not The noise fans make when they are activated is the same as the charging spindash sound from Sonic Adventure There is different dialogue for interacting with the Yiga and Master Kohga when wearing the Yiga suit The flower lady from BotW has calmed down and will (calmly) react to you hurting the flowers but also watering them, with different dialogue depending on the weather Most players won't encounter it this way but it's possible to get the battery via another zonai construct at the beginning if you do shrines in the "wrong" order. Speedrunners get it that way The Zonai ruins on land are stated to be older than the sky islands, which makes the timeline all the more confusing The tomb of Zelda's father can be found in the mountains on the great plateau where he sometimes hung out in the previous game. There is a royal claymore next to it because it's the king's weapon in age of the calamity All gloom hands are left-handed

Ladders in tears of the kingdom work a little differently to ladders in breath of the wild! Link climbs ladders slightly faster in tears of the kingdom, and can also jump up them faster. This could be why the ladder in Hateno doesn't work properly, but is a cool fact nonetheless.

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There are several other connections between the surface and the depths, but I guess that's too useful for this video to cover. In case anyone's curious: ~Hot springs on the surface correspond with lavafalls in the depths. ~Large goddess statues and the two temples of time on the surface/in the sky correspond to bargainer statues in the depths. ~Named villages/towns on the surface correspond with abandoned mines in the depths. ~Named mountains on the surface correspond with canyon mines in the depths. The main exception is Satori Mountain, which has something else that's interesting instead. ~Named forests/woods on the surface correspond with named groves in the depths. (Also, in these groves, you can always find a large tree-trunk horseshoe with a chest containing either a large crystallized charge or a "nostalgic" weapon or armor piece.) The depths beneath the Faron region are an exception to this rule, perhaps because they're too busy serving another spoiler-y purpose.

If you go into the chasam under hyrule castle, past where the game started, into the room where ganon reawakens and you jump down that chasm, you’ll find a torch at the bottom, laying on the floor. This torch is the same one that zelda was carrying at the beginning of the game, and dropped when she fell after the floor was broken

Well, I guess Cece’s hat is a way of getting a decent score with the two ancient pieces!

I'm surprised that you didn't mention how the Collector statues of the Depths are related to the large Goddess statues! There's a Collector directly below each of the three Triforce springs, one under the Forgotten Temple, one under the Temple of Time ruins on the Great Plateau, and one under the Temple of Time on the sky island - each has a large Goddess statue there!

So, I have seen people talk about the divine helms, and if you wear it, the corresponding sage will also wear it, but the one who his ancestor wore. That's cool, but it seem weird to me that mineru, the fifth sage, didn't have this property, so I tested different helmets to wear. For my surprise, if you wear the zonnanium helmet, mineru's apearence will change!

The spirits not showing up in the camera is more on how really only link can see them. Some of the yiga depth hideout books say that they just see floating weapons. So the camera is probs just reacting to what is actually there. Which is well nothing, just a floating weapon.

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The light roots kinda make the shrine detector worthless. Once I realized they were 1 to 1, it wasn't too hard to fill the map out on the surface. Shrines where you had to go out of your way to find a cave entry were a pain, though.

The saddest part about the Champion's pic is that it only works if you did it in Normal mode. I got the game and DLC months later so I just did the Champion's Ballad in Master mode so… no picture for me

12:54 The Rito Stable also doesn't have a Lynel in the depths below it, but that's probably just because it was replaced with the Lucky Clover Gazette.

I have a few useless facts of my own: -If you become a professor at the hateno school, the kids will draw a little picture of link and the class. It’s posted to the right of the chalkboard and it’s so endearing -there are almost no remnants of the sheikah tech left in the world, except for the guardians on the top of the hateno lab, the lever josha pulls to activate the skyview towers, the divine beast masks, the ancient blades, and the six claws that grab link when scanning the map at the skyview towers (they’re guardian legs) -there’s a cucco in the south akkala stable well that won’t call the homies upon you no matter how much you attack it

i never thought of buying a second hylian hood so i can have one up and one down and switch between them without having to talk to cece...i kept mine up because i make link use it when he's out in the rain, and when it stops raining i just make him take it off. next time i play i'm talking to cece and then buying a second, that's such a good idea!

If you make a part 2, you should include the fact that stakes, when stuck in the ground and hit by a beam emitter (not sure if anything else works), it will make a chime noise and the pitch of it is determined by how deep it is in the ground. There's a fairly popular video called "Making music with stakes (Saria's Song)" that shows it off. Definitely useless but still pretty cool

You were talking about exceptions to lightroots being below shrines, and there are 3 more notable exceptions: the three labyrinths' lightroots would intersect with the chasm tunnels, so they were moved about 30 meters to the side.

The only reason I quickly realized the thing with the shrine and lightroot names, is that I have a habit of reading words backwards for no reason when I'm bored.

Did you know you can fuse Riju's stuffed sand seals to weapons to create bouncy weapons? Also, if you solve the Riju quest before talking to her (as in lighting the pillars or whatever) she won't come to the statue thing in the middle until you do. Link will do his 'wave my hands for everything I say to people because apparently sign language doesn't exist) and she'll be impressed that you "solved the riddle already"(idr what she said exactly)

The sages vow items in the key items section in your inventory almost perfectly match the colours of links arm abilities, except for some reason only 2 of them are under the matching ones which is really frustrating. I think its because when you sort the inventory, they go into the games „intended“ order of temples (wind, fire, water, lightning), while the abilities are also in the „intended“ order of when you get them (ultrahand, fuse, ascend, recall, autobuild), regardless it just is really annoying.