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It was a joke. You can think whatever you want of the fact that I made it, but it doesn't constitute my entire opinion on Tears of the Kingdom. Way to completely miss the point of giving the other side of an argument a chance, by the way. It seems like you were looking for an excuse to dismiss an opinion which, as you note, was nuanced. If you think your 45-minute time investment deserves consideration from me, I spent a lot more time and effort on this than you have. Plus I don't bash people on the other side for being facetious about the things I like. If this is the attitude that you were going to bring to the rest of my content, I'm supremely grateful that you're not going to watch any of it. P.S. A little word of advice for whichever channel you move on to. If you disagree with something that person says, don't start things off with a presumptuous, nasty comment like the one you just left here. It burns bridges.

@@cinnamonnoir2487 Egg on my face… Sorry about that! Like, I knew it was a joke and all, but it still jarred me for some reason. I posted my comment kinda quickly to be punchy and funny as a joke too. Reading it back now, holy crap, that was rude! (I coulda swore I had a jokey “Tease 😜” emoji in there or something.) You have every right to call me on it and put me in my place. But for what it’s worth, I don’t mean it quite so harsh. 35 year old man here. I woke up with bad back pain and, CLEARLY, I was very irritable. Forgive me!!! You made an awesome video that had me all the way til the end. And I do indeed love Twilight Princess, you did a great job vocalizing why. Tears of the Kingdom may have its shortcomings, but it genuinely gave me many new favorite gaming moments of all time. That’s rare for me. The grandness of the sky scenery, the eeriness of the depths… shit brought me to tears multiple times! Even bogged down by old-school Zelda nostalgia as I am, I can’t discredit that newest entry. Peace my dude! Thanks for replying, and I hope no hard feelings! ✌️

@@Blucham Thank you for apologizing. I know it's a hard thing to do on social media because it makes you look vulnerable. I've been in that position myself, and it's tough. I happen not to like Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom's approaches to Zelda, but the fact that both games have a lot of appeal is undeniable. If you really enjoyed Tears of the Kingdom, that's great, and you have a lot of company. I'm glad you can also appreciate Twilight Princess; the reason I made this video in the first place is because in my experience it's very rare for people to like both, and I thought I'd look into the question of why that is. Regardless of what I said earlier, you're welcome to watch any video of mine and leave a comment on it. I ought to warn you, though, that a jokey emoji wouldn't necessarily have led me to take your initial comment in a better mood. I probably still would have been offended. Have a nice day, and I hope your back feels better.

That's a fair point, and of course A Link to the Past also did this in several of its dungeons (notably the Ice Palace and Turtle Rock), but the point that I and a few commenters on my videos have made is that these in-dungeon upgrades have virtually nothing to do with solving puzzles. This means that the way you solve puzzles in A Link Between Worlds rarely comes as a surprise because it's set up in advance via the items, although again, there are exceptions (the Dark Palace, for instance). My one big problem is that several of its in-dungeon items aren't _unique_ (three of them are Master Ores, for instance), and that makes the dungeons feel less unique. Calling the in-dungeon items in A Link Between Worlds "meaningful" is a bit of a stretch, though. They help you, but aside from the Titan's Mitt none of them is even used to gate off content, let alone changing the way you interact with the world. The Pegasus Boots and Flippers are much more meaningful in that sense, and I appreciate that you can't buy either of them; you have to find them out in the overworld, which feels good. It's just that in A Link to the Past there was a lot _more_ that you had to find that way. If we're not going to have the classic "items in dungeons" approach any more, we could at least have puzzle-solving tools that are a challenge to find out in the overworld. That said, A Link Between Worlds is quite a good Zelda game, and if you think the formula _needed_ to compromise, then yes, it's also a good compromise. I have never agreed with the premise that there was anything "stale" about the classic formula, but I do think A Link Between Worlds is an example of changing it in a good way.

Thank you. I appreciate the compliment. I will say, though, that many of my favorite channels have around the same subscriber count that I do, or even less! I think it's not so much that quality is punished on RUclips, but instead that a regular upload schedule and discussion of trending topics is rewarded. I don't blame RUclips for failing to promote me. They're a business, and I wouldn't bring in a lot of revenue (especially since I have no intention of monetizing my content even when/if the option becomes available). I'm glad I can host my content here and have people comment on it; that's all the reward I really need to keep me going.

You make an excellent case for musical instruments being an essential element of classic Zelda. Of course, in doing so you're helping to make my point, because this is _also_ something missing from Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. I don't believe that I stated at any point in the video that my list of classic Zelda elements was exhaustive. Of course there are more things that older Zelda games have in common, but my goal was just to show how completely Breath of the Wild overhauled the classic approach, and I think my list does a good job of demonstrating that. Nevertheless, I appreciate the input. If I were ever to make a video just about the elements that make older Zelda games what they are, musical instruments would definitely make the list. P.S. Incidentally, in addition to all the instances you mentioned, Link's Awakening not only has an ocarina but is also specifically about finding eight musical instruments to play a song.

I was referring to 3D Zelda games, so most of the ones you reference in your comment weren't considered. I understand that this is probably the most tenuous of the points of commonality I cited, but the idea is essential to Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess, and is present to a certain extent in A Link to the Past (people transforming in the Dark World, including Link) and The Wind Waker (Link controlling others with the Command Melody). Skyward Sword is the only pre-BOTW 3D Zelda game that completely lacks it. I don't know what makes you say that Young Link and Adult Link's abilities in Ocarina of Time are exactly the same. That's far from true. The only items they share in common are Deku Nuts, Bombs, the Ocarina, the Lens of Truth and various spells. Young Link is severely restricted in his choice of weapons and can't ride Epona or use alternate tunics and boots, while Adult Link can't fit in small gaps or plant Magic Beans. Entirely different areas are accessible depending on which age Link is _because_ of their different abilities. My point in the video may be stretching a bit, but yours is a radical oversimplification that strikes me as much farther off the mark.

If you don't like my videos, I'm glad to see you move on to something else. That being said, keep the vulgar insults to yourself. All you're doing is antagonizing other people for no good reason, and I hate to see rage-bait cluttering up any comment section and distracting attention from reasonable and civil discussions. Don't waste my time or the time of other people who use this comment section with your obnoxious ranting.

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

If you can afford it, I strongly recommend giving it a try on whatever system you find most convenient. There's a port on Steam, for instance, and I imagine using a mouse would make the Celestial Brush techniques much easier. I may come across in the video as if I always knew Okami was a fantastic game, but I originally bounced off of it myself and didn't really attempt a serious playthrough until several months later. It was the same experience I had with Majora's Mask as a teenager and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure as an adult; sometimes you have to try things twice!

The Wii version was infamously difficult...In my experience, joystick is best for this game. The classic PS2 is still argued as the "best" feeling iteration. Hope you give it another try!

@@lycheefreeze It's funny you say that, because the Wii version is the only one I've played!

@@cinnamonnoir2487 Its definitely not unplayable by any means, but for a game that seems tailormade for the wiimote mechanic, it def did NOT translate as well as we all were hoping back then.

You don't have to throw your life away for a mere difference of opinion. I can appreciate your position even though I disagree with it. Feel free to stay up on the hill, though. Hills are great.

I don't appreciate people flatly contradicting me without evidence, and then accusing me of slander for having a different opinion on what makes games good. We're even.

To be fair, Shadow of Erdtree hadn't come out when that discussion was happening, or even by the time I made this video. It's not like they could have known about it.

Based on what I've seen of the game so far, I'm not sure I agree with you that it's much more than a superficial change from Tears of the Kingdom. The central mechanic of summoning various enemies and objects to solve physics problems seems quite similar, and the approach is still "let you make your own solution" rather than having an intended solution that you need to figure out. "Bind" looks almost exactly like using Ultrahand to me, even if its uses are more restricted. I also frankly think the echoes system is pretty unwieldy, with a huge menu of options that often overlap each other's functions, and I particularly dislike that Zelda has no normal weapons or items of her own. There's no reason Zelda can't swing a sword or attack enemies with her staff; she's done that before when she wasn't even the player character. I like the idea of playing as Zelda, and I understand that they wanted to differentiate it from playing as Link, but I don't think they needed to go as far as they did to accomplish that. Consider A Link Between Worlds by way of contrast. The wall merge mechanic was a huge change that had interesting interactions with a lot of classic dungeon-crawling challenges...but those challenges and the items associated with them were still present. The game took the basic concept of A Link to the Past and made it feel brand-new just by giving you a new way to move around. With Echoes of Wisdom they've completely gutted the typical gameplay system and replaced it with something that, to me, feels a lot less like Zelda. I can appreciate a renewed focus on dungeon exploration, but what's in dungeons is more important to me than the mere fact of their existence. I do still need to see more of the game before I totally make up my mind on it, though, and I can see why it's attracted a lot of positive attention.

Yes, that's my point. Even if he technically has a title it doesn't have any real meaning, so the player forgets that it exists. I've never heard anyone referring to this Link as the Hero of the Wild. It's not like he has some deep understanding of nature or "wildness" that he uses to defeat Ganon, while in previous games the title "Hero of [Blank]" usually referred to something essential about the game's plot and themes. Also, strictly speaking, that title isn't something inherent to this Link. It's associated with a certain set of clothes he wears, which isn't even his default outfit. You refer to "official" green robes, but his actual standard clothing in BOTW is a very different-looking blue outfit. Becoming the classic Zelda hero is now just an optional aesthetic choice, which I consider quite telling.

Glad to hear it. And yes, I intend to talk a fair bit more about Golden Sun. You may have noticed that I haven't even covered any of the food in The Lost Age yet!

Honestly, if we're talking about this particular video, I'm blown away by the engagement it's received already. A lot of people seem to really care about this game and there's been some great comments on it. I do these videos for fun, not for money, so I don't have to worry about satisfying some program's idea of what "engagement" is. I believe that if you make one person think that's more real engagement than making a million people click. Not to bash your advice, because I'm sure it works, but I prefer to make videos my way.

​@@cinnamonnoir2487 No problem, content creation is not easy. And I can only speak for myself. I wouldve been eager to watch this video and hear your thoughts as im sure it must be good, especially if theres no background footage to artificially induce engagement. If you have real viewers on this video engaged purely by the merit of your speech then kudos to you! But personally, couldnt listen to your video simply because I wasnt visually engaged. Simple as that really. I liked this game as a kid and wouldve been nice to see the gameplay while hearing your thoughts. But you do you my friend, seems to work well enough!

No for sure they all had fairy’s. I wasn’t nitpicking btw I was just sitting here like wait wtf am I remembering wrong?

I know you weren't nitpicking, and you're correct, but you must not have read the description or the three other comments in which someone pointed out this mistake. Sorry for making you distrust your memory.

@@cinnamonnoir2487 ha you’re right I didn’t read the description. I always forget to. My bad

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