TotK: What Happened?

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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.

Demon King?.....Secret Stone?

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. 🤧

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.

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.

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.

What zelda needs is Tingle

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

A two and a half hour long video from one of my favorite YouTubers 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!!!!!!

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 YouTubers / Twitter people who review stuff so sickly sweet like you have to love it 100 or you’re a hater