Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Overworld Analysis (vs Breath of the Wild) 

I’d love to have 1) a kinda selmi town 2) bigger Taburasa 3) Hyrule city. Maybe one surprising town aswrll

Don't think that's happening. That kind of thing requires a lot of manpower, a lot of knowledge, and a lot of time; All of which Hyrule currently lacks in spades, especially for the Hylians. Manpower is simple enough; The population simply isn't big enough to construct a full fledged capital in anything less than 10 years. Education is also simple: Most of the kingdom's architects are long dead, and the population is more concerned with basic survival than luxuries like education. Time is also self explanatory; Given that Tears of the Kingdom is set in the exact same Hyrule with near 1 to 1 resemblance to the previous one, it's most likely set less than a year after the events of the previous game, which is not enough time for anything complex. Quite simply, the main issue is that Hyrule simply doesn't have enough time to recover.

Hidden Picori village :0

I doubt we'll get *more*, but I think we'll see some significant changes. From what I've heard, TOTW is set immediately after BOTW, but we don't know what that exactly means - is that literally at the end of the cut scenes after BOTW ends, or weeks, months, or even a few years later? I'd be inclined to believe it isn't immediate, which would mean the malice around the castle would be gone and possibly the effects of the blood moon would be gone (since that's a "refueling of Ganon's power"). To me, that means the residents of Hyrule are safer, and would mean starting or growing families or further expanding towns and cities. The timeframe is the determining factor, because people *will* be comparing this to BOTW. If it's set a few days later but Gerudo Town expanded its walls, that doesn't make a lot of sense - how could that kind of construction be done in that short of a period? If nothing changes but it's been a few years, it's going to reflect more on the developers and to why nothing has changed during that period. Either way, I think it'd be a cool idea to see one or two small peaceful encampments of those that no longer wanted to be a part of, say, Rito Village or Kakariko.

@@dougc84 I kinda think it’s a few years later. I could have sworn Zelda’s hair changed and is longer in one trailer vs another.

Hookshot: The item that tears links arms off, and is the most fun to use! - - - - - - - - Watch MatPat's video on the hookshot if you dont understand

@@Zacian2.0 Watch TerminalMontage's video about the Forest Temple in Ocarina of Time to see it in action.

God I hope we can dive and that there are water dungeons and I would love to see some underground exploration ❤️

I think we’re definitely getting a hook shot

Fun tidbit! The claw shots were originally developed for BotW as some form of reward, but were scrapped due to how OP they were for climbing. If added, I would not be surprised if they had limitations to where they could be used.

I wish! But either hoe much is being added and that we haven't seen anything about it yet, I'm not holding my breath. But if it turns out to be a thing I'd be stoked. Though I'd wonder of it eiuld just be sort of diving under like before. Unless you get something to replace the iron boots like a buoyancy belt divers use irl. I missed being able to swim around as Zora Link in MM. As a kid I spent I don't know how many hours i spent just racing around the limited water areas and seeing how many times I could meke him jump out of the water like a dolphin. Lol Plus it really helped me integrate how to use an analog stick vs a D-pad to move. (Same with messing around in OoT and Mario 64. I was like 4 when the N64 was released in the U.S. and it was a few yrs old by the time we could afford to have both the system and games for it. )

oh god lol youre 100% right but as someone with irrationally strong thalassophobia, id shit my pants just about everytime i have to dive deep underwater. especially if they add massive fuck off water creatures down there... id actually cry at that point lmao

It would be pretty cool tbh, but I’m more inclined to believe that beyond means the underground. It could be both though, but I doubt it

@@spimbles I can't blame you. I LOVE the water but I get that feeling. Don't know if it's quite a phobia level but I've gotten that paranoia more often than id care ro admit as a kid with just an ordinary swimming pool where I can clearly see there is nothing there to worry about. Lol To be honest since my wasn't quite a full-fledged phobia, fighting the Lagicarius in Moster Hunter Tri, helped me get over it as well as growing out of it...Redeads still bother me though. I really struggled in OoT because of those. Even the skullchildren bothered me. (Gibdos didn't though.) I had a MASSIVE phobia of zombies. Like even hint at them let alone just say the word and I'd be 7 yrs old, sleeping with a knife under my pillow for the next week...Or not sleeping because I'd be too scared to. 😬 😆 I've grown out of it, but I still gotta be careful how much zombie media I consume or I'll still get myself all paranoid and freaked out.

Or they have the Picori as they once planned for BOTW in Minish Woods as another village

didn't skyloft return to the ground though?

My theory is that all the islands are part of the great plateau and other points of interest, as these places are a threat to Ganondorf. As monster maze stated in his analysis, the area where link jumps off the island, there are the islands that have different climates such as snow (similar to the snowy area on the great plateau) Ganondorf want to take out these points of interest as they serve a threat to his plan (whatever that is) the great plateau houses the shrine of resurrection and was a key area where link woke up in breath of the wild. If ganondorf takes out the shrine of resurrection, then the hero can't come back (in this iteration, as link could die and then simply be reborn many years later)

I think we're going to play two links the one with the green tunic and long hair will be before skyward sword

Imagine a second Great Flood is prophesizes to occur, and we have to raise as much of Hyrule as possible to save it..... I don’t think it’s likely, but that would be a badass concept for a game, sorta like a second Wind Waker but it’s a prequel.

@@newearth9027 there was a link before skyward sword it said it the manga version

Me too! I’m so excited 😁

Now I want pigs to come back, like in Wind Waker. 😅

Yep, the minute they said it was the same world, my response was “Good. It’ll be like coming home again after a long time.” I’m sure the world will have changed a lot, so I wasn’t mad about them reusing the map whatsoever.

But u sure you wouldnt be even happier discovering a new place that is a complete mystery to you? I donr wanna be a downwr im sure its gonna be a fine game but i think rediscovering will never be as fun as discotvering something for the first time and youre gonna get that a lot more with a new map

@@mr.f716 I honestly think it will be remixed to a degree that it will feel all new.

Wow he really did! Thats wild!

Damn you went back and looked that quick ! 😂 you deserve a pat on the back as well

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YESSS underwater is an eery place and exploring it in TOTK would be so awesome

That's why it's good to watch videos like this, and thanks to Zeltik we can. 😅

Makes sense considering the strong possibility of the Twili playing a big role in the game.

@@raskolnikov6443 interesting. Would be cool if that's the case 🤞

@@crabbuckets7506 yeah, we collected tears in twilight princess and it was in a similar form to what us seen on links belt.

@@showingthelinks8441 oh yeah that is a great point. I thought it might have something to do with the heroine statues but now you've got me thinking.

@@crabbuckets7506 now you have me thinking that maybe the zonal knew of the resurrection and worked on finding the twilight realm to get away from calamity Ganon. From is where we do the quest to complete the thing that looks like the mirror of twilight

Yeah, I... really hope we don't see too much reliance on enemies and enemy assets just being duct-taped together. XD

Dang I wasn’t even thinking about puzzle bosses but that would be nice. I hope we get amazing dungeons. It seems like we will. They know it’s what everyone wants.

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Same. I liked the fact that they took temples away from Botw, since the gimmick was getting old, but I really hope they reintroduce them this time around, hopefully in a new fashion.

Your wish came true they added more enemies in the new ToTK trailer

I'm confident that Nintendo has packed the map with new secrets that will make for a fresh and rewarding adventure. That blink and you'll miss it shot of a cave entrance has me hyped for potential massive underground interlinking cave systems.

To me it depends what the people in the world are doing. Are the abandoned ruins of towns we found in the middle of reconstruction or been reclaimed? Are more people out exploring the world. The same world with more people in it is perfectly fine to me, as it would very much change the feel of the very empty and abandoned Hyrule BoTW had

@@TheDarkFable Probably won't happen since the Switch can't handle it. It's probably the reason they decided to use an Hyrule that's fallen to ruin in the first place

@@lukerne9260 Well thats just false the Switch can 100% handle it. Really sick of people underestimating what the switch can actually do. Hyrules in ruins because the theme is "wilderness" so you can't have piles of civilization over the place

@@TheDarkFable lazyness is fine to you?

it’s too time consuming to produce elements, so more probable that the landscapes and contents are intentionally misrepresented in this footage, to make predictions impossible, and keep the final game more of a surprise.

We're only a few months from release - it's much too late to make major changes to the world. By this point they should really only have debugging and maybe some scripting work left to do.

@@joeschmoe3420 Yeah they still probably are hiding everything lol they can just use a “trailer version” of the world

It's coming out in May, they won't add a ton

@@joeschmoe3420 But this comment is referring to the E3 trailer from 2021.

Please, no. The temple of the sea king is largely responsible for Phantom Hourglass being my least favorite Zelda game.

Phantom Hourglass was the Temple of the Ocean King, Spirit Tracks was the Tower of Spirits

I actually really liked coming back to the same place over and over in both games, going to new floors and discovering shortcuts between them. Phantom Hourglass was my first Zelda game though, and I was kinda disappointed when other games didn't have that mechanic. It would be nice to see something like that return, maybe modified so it isn't as tedious for people who thought it was.

@@AnniFrikki I personally didn't mind it either but I know many did bcuz they found it repetitive. This was during the time when people weren't liking Zelda as much bcuz it was losing its sense of adventure & creativity I would say the main reason people didn't like the Temple was each time they had to start from scratch. That really bothered me. At least there was that halfway point

I'm hoping they still maintain a great sense of freedom. For ex in albw we could the 7 lorule dungeons in nearly any order. It's rumored there'll be 7 dungeons here. It'd be great to have multiple orders for them

Pfft, no. Zelda games doesn't have achievements. (I understand you're joking, and so am I.)

@@Abegilr_Dragonrider I think the Golden Poo is one big piece of achievement.

Except I wouldn’t go bragging about it, people might think your crazy. (I would know 💀)

@@RealRomplayer Yep, fitting for the game of the same ilk. Tears will be vastly superior - it actually resembles a Zelda game!

@@netweed09 Oh I see, your uncle works at Nintendo and that's why you already know how the new game will be like!

I think even after TotK comes out, it'll be fun to run around in BOTW world just so compare changes as we play through the game, especially because it is the same Hyrule! Lots of theory building even after we know TotK's story. There's always hidden things and mysteries with Zelda, which is why it's such a good franchise to replay. Now, off to collect more korok seeds! :P

Same

Honestly what i will be looking at is how much the zonai ruins have advanced or changed in totk vs botw.

I will definitely do the same :)

Absolutely! I think the same .

After mapping it out people think its actually above the thundre plateau which is very interesting

"We could see a lot more than meets the eye." uhhh we better? There is nothing new on the surface right now outside of like one cave.

oh really, can u share a link? Can't find it

@@LukeisStuff A link on this website shows the art. It's hard to see, but you can see it after a close examination.

@@blossom357 You are in multiple comment sections now just...being a downer to people who are excited. I understand your concerns for the game but it's also really hard to take you seriously when you're liking your own comments.

Im hoping that if they bring it back it will be like ocarina of time or wind waker instead of twilight princess so that we can hook into trees and other wooden stuff.

Those pointed bottoms on some of the sky islands do look suspiciously like grapple points. Maybe we won't get a hookshot but I wouldn't be surprised if Link can do some sort of long distance grab with his new arm.

I just want a Hookshot/Glider combo for launching, a la Just Cause. 😂😂

That would awesome. Maybe even a few darknuts or something as well.

@@Insertia_Nameia please!! Darknuts and redeads

" With underground being a confirmation" Source on this? It's in a story cutscene, that's all we know. Don't make assumptions.

@@blossom357 the Zelda team themselves? lol they said they were expanding the exploration underground

@@TheHitsubasa Show me a source.

I agree as it was something BOTW seriously lacked. Story is just as important as gameplay IMO

@@elsahyrule6711. Disagree; Not all games are reliant on story or gameplay, though the prime aspect is gameplay no matter how you look at it. People generally play games to have fun; They generally don't care for story. If people only cared for story, the typical PlayStation exclusive wouldn't get shit on for having boring gameplay.

@@dragonbornexpress5650 i understand what you are saying, however BOTW’s lack of story was what many people complained about. Some games can be great with no story but the Zelda series again IMO needs a balance of a good story and gameplay.

@@elsahyrule6711 and silly sidequests. We need them too

As much as I want it to change, I think till regularly stay the same. Especially if the game only takes place a few days after botw.

I think there will be dungeons !

Same here. I'm guessing the addition of caves will probably make it worth exploring the world again, since you won't know where they are.

I imagine the main differences, outside of the chunks, the sky islands, and the underground, would come come from seeing various locations in Hyrule working on redevelopment, having started prior to the events of the game, but otherwise it would be mostly the same ( unless the "travel to the past" theories are correct 🤔,) since it really does seem the bulk of changes comes from vertical directions.

Think we'll be dodging Guardians again?

I'm thinking the Sky Kingdom fell and crashed into Hyrule (like tears) and now parts of them have returned to the sky while leaving behind craters where they once were. I'm not sure but it's definitely something I noticed as well!

I haven’t noticed any holes. And the sky islands appear too big and numerous to be chunks of the existing Hyrule landscape. Plus what (admittedly very little) we have seen from the surface of those islands makes it apparent that they are new locations with no equivalent in BotW.

I stopped last yr because my then 7 yr old son accidentally deleted my main save on the main switch and I got...A little disheartened to say the least.

@@Insertia_Nameia My then 7-year-old daughter did the same to me. I feel your pain.

Yeah, the argument that seeing modern structures disproves this isn't 100%. It's possible that they are still reusing a lot of the previous landscape assets and didn't remove these achronistic features yet. These teaser trailers are the final product after all.

In the poster for the game there is, beside Death Mountain and Hyrule Castle, also a slightly pinkish tornado looking place. That could be the Deku Tree/Lost Wood. :)

Or maybe it sank below the ground.. Korok forest was surrounded by water with a thin land bridge connecting to Minshi Woods. Maybe it capsized or something

That might explain the root link was climbing in the new trailer

I'd say he's in the sky. If there is time travel we might see him when he's just a sprout. I hope the time travel is done well in that case

If they add some super deep ocean cave exploration that would be TERRIFYING

Not to mention a water temple...

@@omegawario7479 I'd have to wonder how that mechanic would work? Mayne the new system allows him to sink downtown the bottom (without the clunkyness of the iron boots,) or maybe gives him a magic equivalent of a boucency belt that divers use in real life, allowing you to control depth and swin around with X, Y, and Z axis. I would love that. Swimming around as Zora Link in MM was one of my favorite things to do.

@@Insertia_Nameia I imagined link having the ability to summon some kind of atmospheric diving suit with jets that let him swim and float with the jump button but a fast paced Zora suit like majoras would be awesome too. I just hope (if it happens) that link can still use his weapons at all times (maybe except most bow, only certain bows can work underwater?) so combat is still engaging. Something like swimming in monster hunter 3 but it doesn’t feel like your swimming in honey.

Just think of it as a HUGE and AWESOME mod for Botw. Because thats what it is. Not a sequel, hell not even a DLC. This is literally what would a fan made mod would do to Botw. The same map AGAIN? for a game that is ALL about exploration....Yeah. Im not even gonna get mad. I'll just enjoy it perceiving it as a mod for botw. Nintendo like all companies dont care about their consumers. If they called it a DLC, they couldnt have charged 70$ for it ;) But I'm I'm gonna love TOTK as a mod for botw. Its been 5-6 years since I last played botw and I really dont remember the specifics of where is what lol

@Zeltik sorry I'm laughing so hard at this spambot trying to use the 👆 emoji and failing with the🖕I mean lmaoooo fitting for some scam bullshit tho

Agreed!

I wonder if it is a Vessel of Tears? I was thinking that but we are shown 7 tears and his pouch has like 8 vial spaces. I wonder if it's a new magic system? It was planned for BOTW, but was discarded. Though it could be. We have tears again so we'd need something to hold them in once gathered.

@@Insertia_Nameia You know, I just had a thought: in the trailers, Link has the ability to reverse time. I wonder if the tears give Link that power.

@@travisnewberry936. No thanks; That's essentially just the magic meter with a new coat of paint.

It even looks like the sheikah pedestal is still there Perhaps they just haven't removed it yet and will for the final game Or maybe shrines will serve some new purpose somehow, or only work as fast travel points (only for the surface though) if you can reactivate them It could be there's some sheikah researcher npc that could have gone there to study the shrine and pedestal and you can do some side quest for them

Maybe, but that will be nowhere near as fun or interesting as discovering it all for the first time in the first game. Hopefully, there are plenty of sky islands, underground caves, and maybe even underwater exploration to make up for the fact that the worlds are similar.

@@eugger3011 I think so. the focus for this game will most likely be on Skyrule and the Caves Below Hyrule.

@@eugger3011. Subjective.

Might be in the past? Or maybe they just didnt load it

or maybe he died

I don't think that makes any sense, especially since nobody alive even thinks that Zelda is still alive; Hell, it's possible that some people would actually get pissed off at knowing that Zelda is back, and would probably even use her as a scapegoat for the destruction caused by the Second Calamity.

It would also make aoc canon of they did that

@@DogsRNice Hopefully Nintendo does since one the gameplay mechanics allows Link the ability to “time reversal” on objects as seen in the trailers.

Don’t because you’re gonna become used to the ground overworld and be dissapointed if the Tears of the Kingdom doesn’t change anything.

@@Nini-wq8uh but i generally dont want anyone to be disappointed... not for me, but for the series. i truly care for zelda.

You missed under water sections.

I do wonder just how much bigger the game can be Botw is already pretty large in terms of file size for a switch game and the map probably accounts for a large portion of that

You are forgetting that Covid came in the middle of this and made the development a bit longer. But, I agree that even 5 years of development time is ALOT for a sequel which uses the exact same overworld and NPCs for the most part..

I totally agree. It being the same map just seems bad idea

There's nothing to be " genuinely worried " about. You should want them to take as much time on this sequel as they can, even if the next trailer is four or five months from now, they don't need to rush any of this. It sounds like you're severely underestimating the talent and dedication to meticulous work that the Zelda team has. Stop acting like this is going to be a carbon copy of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, it's called a sequel for a reason. I can't stand to come across pessimistic comments like yours, when the first four words in your comment starts with " _Genuinely worried about this_ ", you make it sound like your worries are going to come to fruition when they are completely unfounded, you shouldn't entertain disappointing scenarios when there's nothing to be concerned about in the first place. If anything, you should be " _Genuinely excited about this_ ", because this Zelda sequel is shaping up to be arguably the most revolutionary action adventure game ever made.

@@Enigmaculate I am not afraid to admit I lean towards negative viewpoints if I don't see enough to be excited about, and I don't think my opinion is completely unfounded. It's less than 8 months before release and although a different game, 9 months before BotWs release sections of the great plateau were being played at E3. Nintendo heard enough feedback about the flaws of BotW and nothing has been addressed or shown in THREE trailers so far, and this trailer even has a 'game footage not final' disclaimer at the start. There is enough to be worried that this game will not be able to move away from the 'unused DLC ideas from BotW' and not its own separate world.

@@zyrixis9650. Sounds more like you already decided what you were going to be saying before you even watched the trailer; That makes you look petty.

@@zyrixis9650 Boy you really don't understand how video game development works do you? A lack of gameplay footage is not proof of " flaws not being addressed ". Game footage not final means exactly what it means, the game is still in the developmental stages, it's NOT complete yet. How do you not understand this simple concept? Video game development takes time, sometimes a considerably beefy amount of time. Also, Breath of the Wild was being developed in a pre-covid world. Have you forgotten that E3 was cancelled in 2020, which I'm sure had caused a lot of issues for all video game developers, then in 2021, E3 only had digital press conferences and zero physical interactions, and then E3 was cancelled AGAIN this year due to some omicron variant or some sh*t. This game is going to be significantly larger than Breath of the Wild, which is already inconceivable to think about, and the producer of the Legend of Zelda had uploaded a video on RU-vid detailing why they moved the release date up to next spring, they want to ensure that they take as much time as humanly possible with this sequel to ensure that it lives up to it's name. I'd much rather them keep it under wraps instead of spoiling us every two or three months with gameplay footage that they wouldn't have been ready to show to begin with. Maybe if you were modest in your expectations, you wouldn't be this worrisome and paranoid over like I said, UNFOUNDED WORRIES. That's right, UNFOUNDED WORRIES. Breath of the wild was delayed MULTIPLE times before it had eventually got released, and again, this was in a pre-covid world. Plus, one of the main reasons why Nintendo was so " open " with showing extensive gameplay footage was because it was already established what that Zelda game was going to be, an open world Zelda game, so the title (Breath of the Wild) wouldn't have been a major spoiler. Speaking of spoiling things, that's primarily the MAIN reason why Nintendo had been so tight lipped about the title of this Zelda sequel. The title (tears of the kingdom) could in fact be a double entendre, the word tear is a homonym, two identical words that have different meanings and pronunciations as a result. And when you analyze this most recent trailer, it becomes very evident as to why Nintendo kept the title a secret for so long. For starters, the tears could be referring to those seven hieroglyphic tears that's shown at the beginning of the trailer that's almost encircling that deity (who's presumably hylia), and it could also be referring to the " tears " of the kingdom itself, pieces of the kingdom being torn apart in other words, and to be completely honest, those two plausible theories look to be EXACTLY what's going on here. I don't care if it was 15 months since the last trailer, heck, I don't care how long it takes, you don't want the day to come when developers stop caring about meticulousness, dedication and hard work and they start succumbing to pressures of impatience from impatient people like you and they begin to release unfinished buggy catastrophes of video games, and then you blame them, ostracize them, and demonize them for doing so when you (plural) wanted them rush through it to begin with and not take their time with it and ONLY show gameplay footage when it was absolutely necessary. When it's all said and done, you're overdramatizing a trivial disclaimer that's only informing viewers that the footage that they're seeing on-screen is NOT the final product. So with that in mind, I'm going to humbly advise you once again to STOP WORRYING, don't get a dang ulcer worrying about a carbon copy that's never going to happen. I don't want to have to explain this again, this is as elementary as ABC 123.

In a good way

Magyar?

What does the TP music have to do with the cave theory?

@@crowstakingoff I accociate "Secret Caves" (meaning: You don't have to ever see their interior) strongly with TP.

I think it wouldn't have taken them the longest time to develop a zelda game ever if it was meant to be lazy.

@@phoenix9531 yeh but don't forget covid implications

@@phoenix9531 You think a longer development time means a bigger, better game? Oh boy, I got a Duke Nukem Forever to sell you. Bear in mind, TotK was *delayed*. Studios don't delay games to put more stuff in, they delay them to have more time to put in all the stuff they wanted to add. This isn't taking six years just to add in loads of content, it's because subpar management (or possibly incompetent programmers... or both) has brought the development team to a desperation point and they need time. Check out Halo Infinite for more details. It's taking them ten months (was supposed to be three, but the season was extended *twice*) to add a new map, a new gun, a new mode, and some armor. My point is... temper your expectations. This isn't going to be the grand overhaul you're thinking it will be.

@@xSilentZeroXx Im aware of the gaming industry and other games, thank you. What I said wasn't about all games and I also didn't say it in a vacuum. Its the zelda team. There is no series on the planet that has released high quality games without fail for 30 yeara like Zelda has. Even if its not everybody, it will be an above average game. In developer interviews Aonuma actually said they kept expanding the development time to add more things, then made dlc to add more and then decided to use the same engine and world for a sequel because they still had more. Now, of course I think them taking more time was wanted and welcomed by Nintendo, who told them to wait and release it at switch launch, but Im still certain I and most others will thoroughly enjoy this game. This is not 343 studios.

@@xSilentZeroXx Studios do delay games to put more stuff in.