Watching the First Tears of the Kingdom Gameplay 

I fucking adore the cartoon logic of attaching a literal eyeball to an arrow to give it homing abilities.

As a college student, having this come out during my finals week will be a major test of my self restraint.

I love how most people’s first reaction to fusion arrows are “what does a meat arrow do???”

Nintendo really looked at us making flying machines in Breath of the Wild and said "what if that was a mechanic?". This is why Legend of Zelda is the best!

i bet the meat arrow can be used as bait from long range to distract enemies

So many hours will be put into this game, my family will miss me dearly.

The fuse mechanic is such a genius way to save durability at the same time giving more items usabilities.

Ultra Hand is the name of a famous mid-century Nintendo toy. It's an homage to their history.

My theory about the constructs is that the Ranger one is like a farmer who tends to the islands. While the ones that attack Link are guard constructs protecting the island. So they might not be evil; instead, they protect the islands.

I LOVE that this new fusion/crafting system is like the equivalent of Link duct taping stuff together

This solves a massive issue with BOTW items: their limited use. If you never interacted with the cooking system, like i did, you'd quickly accumulate a ton of items. the only other thing you could do with them is to upgrade your armor and after that, items loose all value. now even the Keese eyes have uses! an actual reason to hunt down enemies! no more running away because they aren't worth the 3 boko clubs to beat them all! Chuchu jelly aren't actually worthless!

The swirl "shrine" thing... ​I believe that is where you can use the "ascend" ability to go all the way to the sky islands if there isn't a fallen boulder nearby

Meat arrow idea: use it like bannanas for the yiga clan but for monsters. Shooting an arrow distracts monsters, but if there's meat attached, the distraction works even better. Plus, can give bokoblins a snack.

Honestly, now that I think about it, we know the Master Sword is broken. What if to get the master sword again we must find their pieces and fuse them together?

I can't wait to see all the weird and crazy things that people are going to make whilst I have my crappy little flying raft. Someone else will have a flying luxury ship with a hot tub. I can't wait to see all the amazing glitches that will be found, too. I was already hyped for this game, and now I'm extremely hyped for it. I'm not gonna sleep the night before it comes out. I'm gonna be like a kid on Christmas Eve staring at the clock.

Oh that fuse ability just made my hype go up so much. I was excited seeing the vehicles, but was afraid we’d have to go somewhere to craft them and would summon them with a rune thing. But the fact that you can just make things anywhere you have the parts? So sick. I do hope there’s a way to store parts tho, would be neat to still have some sort of “garage”

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The fuse concept is actually genius. It's solving the durability problem and also giving so many items purposes. Even gives so many more ways for combat.

I really like how they took monster parts that no one (or at least me) never used and instead just cooked food for all my needs now have renewed uses and reasons not to just mass sell at the first vender when they fill up the inventory.

At 1:21:12 look at the mini map and you can see that there is a shrine activated and he has 4 hearts so I think that the place he is at is the beginner area and that’s the reason that part of the map is activated and I also assume your gonna have to complete a 4 shrine like thing again which he has already done which is why he already has his 4 hearts🙂

Ok, so right as he says that there are multiple ways to get to the sky islands, he’s looking at one of the dragons. The dragons are also featured heavily in the background. Now, I might be reading too deep, but, assuming that nothing is an accident, what if link is able to catch rides on the dragons, after completing quests and the like. On a different note, I wonder how they are going to deal with the fact that not everyone did the same stuff in BotW. It looks like there is a new minimap, and it looks like the hand stuff is replacing runes, so what happened to the Sheika Slate? Was it with Zelda when she fell? So many questions.

I also personally like the durability system as well, but it also seems like they fixed some complaints about it with the Fuse mechanic as well.

big surpise for me to see the Zonai tech being used for enemies! Really intriged by this. Also, I agree about weapon durability. I will die on that hill. It made exploration in BOTW meanigful. The game threw weapons at you left and right, there are many many ways to get new/better weapons in that game, making durability a non-issue and only made combat thaty much more enjoyable IMO. Adding the Master Sword and re-makeable champions' weapons to the base weapons in the game gave us plenty of options. No need to ever fear breaking your favorite weapon in BOTW. I hate to say it but if that held u back from enjoying the game fully I'd say that is a "you problem" not a "game problem."

Don't get me wrong, my excitement to play this game has never been matched, breath of the wild was so special and I have always said I would give anything to play it again, and I feel like since it is the same map, it's going to give that experience. HOWEVER, part of what makes this game so exciting to me now is waiting to see what everyone else does. The community is multiplying my excitement tenfold

36:36 tip, you can use the comma and period buttons to go through a video frame by frame, If you didn't know

came here to see him say goodbye, amazing stream

About durability: I like the _concept_ of the durability system. I like what it is _trying_ to do. But I don't think it's well executed in the original game. In this game, even though durability technically hasn't changed, things like the fuse mechanic have changed how you have to interact with durability, and that may be enough to make the durability system achieve its goal properly. I say it doesn't work in the original because, rather than making you switch up your weapons, it heavily incentivizes you to horde tons of cool weapons that you never use and only use your lowest damage weapons. The point was to mix up the gameplay, but the effect was to recreate the same flaw where you only use one weapon. Not to mention, it incentivized you to not fight enemies late game, since environmental ways to kill enemies get nerfed by their massive health pools, which IMO is just unfun. Whether it actually does fix these issues is a question that won't be answered until the game comes out. But to me, it seems like Nintendo is taking this kind of strategy when addressing the shortcomings of BoTW on general, by allowing you to bend the rules if you're smart, and it's being tied in to the open world which I think is a very smart move. We see the same thing with stamina, where you can use Ascend to get past areas that would normally require stamina. I think this is interesting, because this also shows they were aware that the environment became less important the further you progressed into the game. It was still more important than other oepn world games, but not as much as on the Great Plateau, and the changes being made here are trying to ensure that the environment remains more relevant late game, which I really like. Again, whether it works in practice remains to be seen, but it shows they are legitimately trying to improve the weak points of the original game, and they're doing it in ways that are pretty unique. It's not just because it's cool, many of these features are clearly addressing criticism.

At 48:00 I just wanted to say that Aonuma said that there were multiple ways to get up to the islands, so teleport waypoints might be possible still. There’s no promising that a piece of sky debris is going to fall down at the exact moment you want to go up to the islands (unless somehow they coded one to fall every time you got close?) so I think it’s mainly an early game way or a “let’s do it if it’s there” way to get up to the islands.

36:28 the blue line in the bottom right corner is a border between inactivated map areas. This means there is some kind of tower or map activation area.

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I'm with you on the durability thing and I feel the same way about stamina. They force you to think around a problem and, as you said, use what you have. I also LOVED that there was no dungeon system(1 then 2 then 3...) in Breath of the Wild. I hope it stays true for this game. Bottom line: You can't please everyone.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one super curious about the meat arrow

32:31 those green swirls are likely alternative ways to get to the sky islands should you not get one of those falling rock's to go to, to use RECALL to get to them.

Dude the absolute hype! I’m so ready for this game! I hope they use these new mechanics in dungeons

May 12th cannot arrive soon enough!! Hopefully we'll see additional gameplay footage soon because this footage definitely wasn't enough on it's own to tide us over.

Oh My god, the skyward sword thing... Its a loop!!!! Constructs Look like these robots from the timeshift zones in gerudo desert!!!! I love this!!!!

Y-axis is up in more than just Minecraft, its used that way in lots of game design or cad software. The logic being X,Y is like the dimensions of the screen and Z is going into the screen. Which is what you sort of said but didn't realize when you said Z is depth (the way you were talking about it, you meant height). So that third coordinate could be Y or Z. Just because traditionally Z is up in most engineering disciplines, doesn't mean that's how it is everywhere

It’s such a jump from making a catapult on the great plateau. This is amazing

1:14:47 If you look here, it gives you the option to fuse the rock with your club, meaning you can indeed fuse more than two things together. I don’t know if this was mentioned afterwards, I just got really excited when I noticed.

To address the "Y is height" thing On a 2D plain graphs and use 'y' to denote the height of the graph. Some software and games apply this logic to 3D spaces, which is an easy mistake to make. In 3D spaces we use Z to mark height. The best way to think of this in my opinion is to imagine a 2D graph on the floor. The y axis would point forwards and the X axis would point to the right. The Z axis therefore would point upwards. If you are having trouble imagining this, draw a graph on some paper and place it on the floor. Hope this helps with any confusion

Zeldas always had the "stupid lil details" its great. Like in oot no need for the signs to cut in direction of the slices. But it does. And its a neat lil thing. Tons of it in botw and it looks like a lot here too. Love it ♡

Can’t wait to spend my whole summer completing this

1:14:47 - I wonder if by showing the log club as an option, that confirms fusing more than two items together. Or if that would replace the log with the rock.

Pro tip for scrolling through a youtube vid: using the < and > keys on the keyboard you can frame advance forward and back

1:14:47 shows that you can actually infinity infuse(so you can hold a 40meter broom to fight Ganon lmao) and 1:17:49 the big blocks in the distant left side also glows orange when infuse activates so maybe that can be a building block to (so you can do Minecraft or Lego stuff in Zelda maybe) omg I’m so so so excited!

No friends included** got me on the floor dying of laughter for at least 6 mins straight🤣 (3:40) trailer for multiplayer mod is awsome btw!

The fact that he mentions that the trees are unlike anything seen on the surface shows that the sky islands were not raised from the surface, but have been up there since before breath of the wild

I do believe that the Zonai primarily use the dragon deity in their construction (at least around the ruins in BotW). The dragon is associated with the Triforce of Power...Owl with Wisdom...something else for Courage that I can't remember. Maybe that's why the constructs/Zonai tech is fighting with Ganondorf. Either that, or based on what we know already, the Zonai were a strong race that based things on strength and power...so maybe that's why they have a hard on for the beast man.

@1:14:46 it gives the option to fuse the rock to the weapon which is already fused. This implies you will be able to fuse multiple objects!

Also, I think it’s not called Build because Ultrahand can be used to just move objects as well. I wanna attack a bunch of logs together and swing around a massive spear of logs to defeat foes.

The battery depletion varies between ground/water and air. You will need the larger battery to fly for longer periods. Thats whats good with the ballon.

1:17:49 You can see the large blocks in the background also light up, like you can attach stuff to these parts of the world.

Did anyone know the main tears of the kingdom theme was in skyward sword as a jingle? I never noticed it til a few days ago. This looks incredible man… 💯

Can't wait to get the game so i can make a log-house on wheels, and make Bolson destitute. After i start Link's Mobile Home business.

I love the long-term discussion about the axes. To clarify, PointCrow and his engineering degree are correct. When you are talking about 3-D images (spheres, cubes, real-world landscapes, etc.), the x-axis refers to left and right, the y-axis refers to forward and backward, and the z-axis refers to up and down (height/depth). When you are talking about 2-D images (circles, squares, flat maps, etc.), the x-axis refers to left and right on that plane, and the y-axis refers to up/forward and down/backward, depending on the orientation of the image. A horizontal 2-D image has right and left and forward and backward, and a vertical 2-D image right and left and up and down. In other news, that korok with the backpack is the cutest thing to ever happen in the LOZ universe.

Also at 1:34:35 the orange fields we see in the background is probably a boss arena where you fight the cube creature we saw in the second trailer.

I am so excited for the speedrun potential of this game as well as just the content itself, especially because it's coming out on my birthday. Can't wait to get my hands on it. RIP windbombs and BLSS tho.

Could Ultrahand be used in puzzles? Kinda like a surrotgate magnesis? At 1:17:48 you can see platforms you can interact with, so maybe a magnesis style puzzle or something like building platforms/bridges?

“Ultra Hand” is the name of one of the oldest toys Nintendo made back when Gunpei Yokoi was president.

36:15 "I need to reach my friend!" You probably need to take him up to the sky islands somehow?

Im not even kidding, there was a smile on my face that I couldn't wipe off while watching that. I'm literally so excited for this

The way the constructs freak out if they see you reminds me of the silent realms from Skyward Sword... perhaps more evidence for the time loop theory?

I feel like those spiral shrine things you have to fall into from above, and as you do it shrinks you down to picori size. then you go inside.

At 1:21:45 the battery icon in my opinion is where you can buy certain parts. Like you can find them in the world, but you could buy them if you want. Reason: Because it looks like the general store, inn, etc. icons

1:09:07 there is no Arrow changing button on the Dpad while aiming with the bow. So the different kinds of arrows don't exist normally anymore.

i hope there’s not a fuse limit, i want to see people build mansions out of logs

Eric, i think the "Ultrahand" must be a reference to a (Nintendo) Original Kids toy from Japan.

Theory; death mountains malice is teased in botw when daruk is in the cutscene with link, and the boulder falls from the mountain

The "green swirly shrines" are only green and swirly on the ground but not up in the air so it makes me think that they are another way to get up to the sky islands becuase he explicitly said "i hope you explore other ways to get up" so you go inside the "shrine" and use the ascend rune to ascend through the roof and the swirly things excelerate you up too the sky island.

Might be a long shot, but maybe the shrine things are ways to get underground. They did show caves in a different trailer.

the new shrines could be proper dungeon entrances. if u can jump into the ceiling, then u should be able to dig down into caves!

You’re one of the reasons I’m SO EXCITED for this game. I’m imagining the meme energy behind the Sidon bookshelf car but now with the ability to make REAL CARS. I cannot wait for people to figure out fun glitches and exploits for all the new stuff.

What if they bring back the "Minish" concept they had and scrapped in BotW and that´s how you enter those mini structures by "minimizing" Link like in the Minish Cap? and they´re like shrines but you do them as mini Link, maybe the spiral green energy is what makes you little?

It's the Z axis chatters, when he rode the rock up into the sky the X and Y stayed the same and the Z axis went from 50 to 500. It's not hard

Eric's reaction to the Zonai presence and fuse abilities, like other Zeldatubers' reactions - priceless!!!

POINT CROW when Link was using ultra hand, it highlights the objects you can fuse in yellow, when making a boat, the giant block in the background was HIGHLIGHTED YELLOW!!!!

This comes out right after finals for me! IM TREATING MYSELF 😄😄😄

Can’t wait to see modders add multiplayer so we can finally have Diddy Kong Racing 2: Tears of the Kingdom.

Around the time he is making the raft, everything in the environment that can be used to build is highlighted orange. If you look in the background, a large floating platform was also highlighted. I'm pretty sure we will be able to make moving towers or forts.

Just noticed, between all the abilities shown, recall is the only one to use golden energy, very similar to the effects used when Zelda uses her power in BOTW. Maybe that means something, I'm feeling like that is not a Zonai ability but more like a goddess one. Seems pretty deliberate the difference between that one and the other ones.

i need this right now so bad, the release date cannot come soon enough, foaming at the mouth from this tiny bit of gameplay

Korok with a backpack is worth the $70 price tag

1:27:45 Some are sky island security, and some are maintenance.

the way to get into the sprial shrines is gonna be you gotta be high enough above it to trigger the downward dive right into the spiral

Wonder how durability will work with the fuse ability. If 2 low weapons fuse get full, or if they'll just combine numbers. So excited

To hear development is done is very satisfying they could patch any bugs within the next month, all in all it looks very polished

They were teasing things left and right the entire time and I want the game now so I can go and find it all out

@PointCrow, thought you'd get a kick out of this...my daughters and I set up a TOTK little display with a countdown sign. We also have a red plastic button which records 30-seconds of audio. We've been recording some of the funniest lines from this video, and playing them back whenever we walk by and tap the button. You have some great one liners in this video!

You know there's going to be a puzzle where you have to use coordinates to get exactly below or above a specific world location 😅

Everyone needs to buy this so Nintendo can see the fans want Zelda and more amazing games can be produced

1:04:42 Oh Eric… you can’t just make a meat arrow… YOU CAN MAKE A MEAT STICK!

1:18:20 it’s called ultra hand because it’s a mix of building and magnisis

I think fuse is a very good workaround for the durability

I bet you could use a meat arrow to distract certain enemies. Or wolves.

Maybe those green spiral things are access to the underground, where there are puzzless and something to get this games equivalent of spirit orbs. That's what it makes me think of at least from looking at it

Since it wasn't mentioned, I think the cubes are the labyrinths which means they are zonai structures.

If you fuse the arrow with that leaf thing, maybe it will become the unused gale arrow?

His collectors anxiety is going to be bonkers with all the possible items

40:35 around the shrine you can see a staircase to the weird magicy spiral: it could be a sort of chute that sends you up to the sky where there is a puzzle Edit: the one in the sky island would probably just send you higher

PointCrow, when you have a RU-vid video paused you can use the 'comma' and 'decimal' keys to move one frame backward or forward, respectively.