I don't understand why Nintendo is so scared of creating complex storylines. It clearly worked for Elden Ring. Perhaps the main story doesn't need to be complex, yet the World could definitly be. No it must be! For a World as big as botw and totk the devs should have given it more love, more detail. Besides, as long as you market your game properly, LIKE ELDEN RING, it shouldn't be a problem to sell well. I mean Nintendo brought us some fire trailers but they came kinda late. The trailers were bombastic and actionfilled but at the end totk only delivered mid content, busywork, no true feeling of acomplishment because everything is so easy or too anoying to bother. Like if I ever see another tutorial or survival dungeon, I'm gonna lose it. Elden Rings dungeons felt so natural and big. Totks shrines, altough with very cool music that kinda give me yugioh vibes(if you know you know) and cool design, felt way too easy and samey. Obviously the same mistake botw did but is pardoned because it was their first try. The puzzles were so easy that I could just look at them and solve them in under 5 seconds. You have way too much freedom overall and by that ruining every puzzle if there even were any. You could just use the meta flying device that uses parts that don't expire when used and by that you already beat the game. Look, I want to be gatekept,I want to solve puzzles as they were intended and I want progresively stronger and more varied enemies. I want an amazing story like Skyward sword altough some parts of it were kinda odd, but it definitly went into the right direction. Atleast it did for me. Like why can't we have something that looks like Twilight Princess, has the soundtrack and cinematic story of Skyward sword and themes that rival Majoras Mask? Like who's gonna stop you my guys?
@@mattgreen3714 played since Awakening and I thought it was pretty good. Kinda generic but they made it work with the art and the music. Struggle Grind Shine, classic structure
If a Zelda game did world traversal like Elden Ring and embeded dungeons into the world like Elden Ring did with its legacy dungeons, GOTY. I hope Nintendo learns from Elden Ring because From Software is the undisputed king of game design at the moment.
Oh my days...Elden Ring was actually the truest Zelda game out of all the Zelda's (especially TotK, because I despise TotK and never want see something close to it again and and the Zonai suck and are uniteresting, Rauru is some weird OC...). Yeah but honestly the devs lost touch. Just reached the end of your video and I must say it. That was pretty Based. Never kneel to the hype and the Fanboys.
BTW... there's a video showing the sliders to make Link without a mod. It's kinda BotW Link and is obviously using the vanilla character creator so it's not a 1-to-1 match (I would *love* to get a mod that adds some of Link's iconic outfits to the game without adding Link entirely), but it's kind of amazing.
I don't want freedom Nintendo put me back in the linear Majora's Mask timeloop again. Also, I can't tell if this is a mental breakdown or an advertisement. If it IS an advertisement, it worked. Eldin Ring looks sick.
THEY JUST NEEDED TO MAKE THE SKY RED AFTER HYRULE CASTLE ;-; actually add what we were shown in the cutscene, a fucking army. Instead we come out of hyrule castle and everyone is like "that was crazy, anyways, lets go exploring!"
I'm an *extremely* casual gamer and this may be the first time I've been tempted to pick up a non-Nintendo console since PS2. Also, long time listener/subscriber, first time commenter, and your "...to sleep to" series has definitely helped with that over the last 6 months! Love your work!
Thanks homie! I think you’ll honestly dig it. It’s way too good. I’m not trying t advertise the game but more urge people who want a powerfully good story & game to play it.
You're exactly right; TOTK would have hit a lot harder if the wait wasn't as long. But playing Elden Ring first in 2022 then TOTK in 2023 left me feeling underwhelmed. FromSoftware raised the bar before Nintendo could get TOTK out the door. BTW - I really love seeing someone call out the similarities between Elden Ring and Zelda, by the way. They're so overt!
RIGHT??? i felt like "why has no one made this video" and honestly youre totally right, they spoke loud and clear before nintendo had the chance to open its mouth
Dude yeah facts, considering also i kinda think ranni is the 'canon' ending for breaking the samsara cycle idk the more i look at it the more blatant it becomes
0:25 Already starting out strong Ü [Edit]- I've been wanting to play a souls game for a long while and even once got the chance to, on a PS3 that now no longer works. That was nearly a year ago. I feel like it would take me a while to get use to how much is going on on screen all at once, everything I've seen from this game it feels like my brain is getting overloaded from the amount of detail in just one pixel.
My character is literally Zelda herself with a staff and the Moonlight Greatsword. And ofc she’s Ranni’s consort😜 My head canon now is that this is where she was while draconified and asleep with a sword tangled in her hair
After not even beating ToTK and being heavily disappointed by it, my buddies kept begging me to play Elden Ring. Didn't care for it at first but now I've been playing for three weeks straight as a Ganondorf copy/paste character. This game gives me the same feeling Twilight Princess did as a kid. It's awesome.
Yes, they absolutely did, theres direct quotes from Miyazaki. I didn't feel the need to show it because i didnt want the whole thing to get to bogged down with convoluted facts. If anything i wanted to show the quote about hardship but opted not to in the end.
@@MoxieWatts that’s fair. i remember hearing from someone that both games were kinda inspired by each other or more so both creators acknowledged each other that’s so cool that they actually did. also i’ve been loving the elden ring content! subbed for zelda but i’m obsessed with dark souls too so it works out lol
i would be surprised if zelda fans are not souls fans However i can understand it not being the case the other way around Elden Ring is probably the best game of our modern time yet
I have tried and tried and tried to love this game but I just cannot get into it. Thirty hours I've played now and just can't get into it. Its very much like Zelda but it's just a bit too bleak for me. I love BOTW and TOTK for the light and shade within the game. One minute you can be exploring a vast, unforgivable dessert. The next you'll be in a calm and cheery village. Elden Ring just feels a bit too one note in its world.
@@MoxieWatts I don't think I did? Is that the massive castle at the start? I very tempted to try to give it another go as I now have done pretty much everything in TOTK except the koroks!
[yo you literally have to] its too good you just gotta start exploring some stuff. If you cant you just gotta grind a few levels and build some into vigor and youll be rockin and rollin champ
@@MoxieWatts No joke, I absolutely loved the Kings Field games, but I think something was lost with Demon's Souls. Mostly improvements all around, but some spark for me wasn't there anymore, and the newer games never recovered it. But, the lore across all of the games is top notch.
Imagine me, an Elden Ring fan, watching adamant anti-Elden Ring streamers (no judgement, it is ok to dislike things) play TotK, and see so many new features that were huge parts to Elden Ring, I felt like I was going insane. Obviously the fuse mechanic is the front and central feature... and I doubt a lot of it was intentional but like.... I mean... C'mon...
@@MoxieWatts i did! I got like halfway through it before the ADHD took hold of me. Still listened to all the lore videos tho so ik whats up. It fulfilled the need that totk couldn’t!
moxie i took ur advice, i’ve been playing for a week and this game is wack, marika is literally just dysfunctional hylia, go girl go get ur selfcest himbo constort, we will love you no matter what
1. Shouldn’t you have saved this for the next April Fools? XD 2. What’s your take on a live action Zelda movie? Do you want to see a Nintendo cinematic universe? Do you want to see more 6-year-olds scarred for life by watching Nintendo Infinity War and Nintendo Endgame? Do you want to see fan-favorite characters weep in despair that their world is beyond repair due to the damage done by Galeem and Dharkon? Do you just not want to give a sh!t and just say that World of Light (Ultimate) and Subspace Emissary (Brawl) were all just the characters shooting for a movie because the Hand Brothers (Master and Crazy Hands) asked for it for the sake of promoting Smash behind the scenes? Do you just want to ask me what I’m asking you? Do you want me to repeat the questions and go on a seemingly endless loop? 3. There was this guy I used to watch, and he was playing Skyrim with Zelda music in the background, a handful of Zelda sound effects, MY LITTLE PONY DRAGONS!, a Portal (Valve’s Portal) gun converted into an explosive potato launcher, and flying saucers with the NPCs being all, “You wish to defeat me?!” Just by the mere sight of alien spacecraft! His name was Lasercorn. He’s not what he used to be now, but this was WAY back. Like 10 years ago back… He was part of a group that I used to watch until they all stopped being fun anymore… sad, but I long moved on from it. When you have the time, you can watch his Skyrim with mods videos. 4. All jokes aside, my ranking of the 3D Zelda games (and the platforms they’re best at): - 7. Tears of the Kingdom - 6. Breath of the Wild (Switch) - 5. The Wind Waker (Wii U) (Also Toon Link X Hat Kid, where’s that shipping?) - 4. Skyward Sword (Switch) - *3. Twilight Princess (GameCube)* (Sorry, but so much more should’ve been done in Wii U) - *2. Majora’s Mask (N64)* (Sorry, but the 3DS version is a b!£ch slap…) - *1. Ocarina of Time (N64 AND 3DS) (Can’t go wrong with both, but N64 version has the better atmosphere)* (Side note: my history with the 2D Zeldas isn’t very enthusiastic… bizarre, I know… but where’s my remake for Minish Cap?) 5. Now ranking my Top 5 Princess Zelda incarnations: - 5. Hyrule Warriors - 4. Skyward Sword - 3. Ocarina of Time - 2. Twilight Princess - *1. SUPER SMASH BROS. ULTIMATE* (Yep, she’s my main! The ultimate troll! Hands down my favorite Princess Zelda!) 6. Any chance of Elden Ring coming to next-gen Switch?
1. It couldnt wait any longer...the energy needed to come out 2. had me rollin bruv 3. thats hilarious and i need links homie 4. these rankings are fair and just homie. I like your style g. 5. best zelda is absoluteky windwaker, i will throw hands about this fact.
3. m.ruclips.net/p/PLSQLuzURfkOt_6cUChYNysTQrDarrT6gy 4. Thanks! 5. Tetra? So you prefer the bossy pirate turned kind-hearted and still smug princess over her descendant that a lot give praise to for being Link’s ghostly travel companion.
This is true, but I want them to do better, bring back the things that made zelda memorable: the tools/weapons/items that allowed you to progress #bringgameprogressionback2024
Definitely intended to be cannon to zelda lore 💯
Can't believe we all over looked this
Hmmm
Feels like I've seen this one somewhere 🤔🤔🤔
Nah just can't put my finger on it
I heard Radagon was some sort of Demon King, he utilized some sort of Secret Stone
omfg LMAO@@jamesn3122
At least fromsoft tries to make lore coherent to the world and gameplay
did someone say DEMON KING?
The story of TOTK felt like getting spit in the face as a lifelong Zelda fan
I don't understand why Nintendo is so scared of creating complex storylines. It clearly worked for Elden Ring. Perhaps the main story doesn't need to be complex, yet the World could definitly be. No it must be! For a World as big as botw and totk the devs should have given it more love, more detail. Besides, as long as you market your game properly, LIKE ELDEN RING, it shouldn't be a problem to sell well. I mean Nintendo brought us some fire trailers but they came kinda late. The trailers were bombastic and actionfilled but at the end totk only delivered mid content, busywork, no true feeling of acomplishment because everything is so easy or too anoying to bother. Like if I ever see another tutorial or survival dungeon, I'm gonna lose it. Elden Rings dungeons felt so natural and big. Totks shrines, altough with very cool music that kinda give me yugioh vibes(if you know you know) and cool design, felt way too easy and samey. Obviously the same mistake botw did but is pardoned because it was their first try. The puzzles were so easy that I could just look at them and solve them in under 5 seconds. You have way too much freedom overall and by that ruining every puzzle if there even were any. You could just use the meta flying device that uses parts that don't expire when used and by that you already beat the game. Look, I want to be gatekept,I want to solve puzzles as they were intended and I want progresively stronger and more varied enemies. I want an amazing story like Skyward sword altough some parts of it were kinda odd, but it definitly went into the right direction. Atleast it did for me. Like why can't we have something that looks like Twilight Princess, has the soundtrack and cinematic story of Skyward sword and themes that rival Majoras Mask? Like who's gonna stop you my guys?
Why did the old sheikah tech disappear?
nintendo: Guess :p
@@mattgreen3714 played since Awakening and I thought it was pretty good. Kinda generic but they made it work with the art and the music. Struggle Grind Shine, classic structure
If a Zelda game did world traversal like Elden Ring and embeded dungeons into the world like Elden Ring did with its legacy dungeons, GOTY. I hope Nintendo learns from Elden Ring because From Software is the undisputed king of game design at the moment.
as your next president of nintendo i advocate for items inside dungeons that unlock new areas again.
#gameprogression
Oh my days...Elden Ring was actually the truest Zelda game out of all the Zelda's (especially TotK, because I despise TotK and never want see something close to it again and and the Zonai suck and are uniteresting, Rauru is some weird OC...). Yeah but honestly the devs lost touch.
Just reached the end of your video and I must say it. That was pretty Based. Never kneel to the hype and the Fanboys.
PREACH DICE
P R E A C H
I loved when Link turned into a Blaidd...oh wait
BTW... there's a video showing the sliders to make Link without a mod. It's kinda BotW Link and is obviously using the vanilla character creator so it's not a 1-to-1 match (I would *love* to get a mod that adds some of Link's iconic outfits to the game without adding Link entirely), but it's kind of amazing.
hell yeah! I didnt look **too** far into it, just enough to mention but good to know!!
This was fucking hilarious 😂
Also the dedication to the opening cutscene was actually great!
it probably took upwards of 40-50 takes
i wont bore you with the technicals unless you want them
@@MoxieWatts daamn, 40-50 takes!? That's even more impressive than I was expecting!
I don't want freedom Nintendo put me back in the linear Majora's Mask timeloop again. Also, I can't tell if this is a mental breakdown or an advertisement. If it IS an advertisement, it worked. Eldin Ring looks sick.
THEY JUST NEEDED TO MAKE THE SKY RED AFTER HYRULE CASTLE ;-;
actually add what we were shown in the cutscene, a fucking army. Instead we come out of hyrule castle and everyone is like "that was crazy, anyways, lets go exploring!"
play the game im telling you, you'll thank me
@@MoxieWatts I most certainly will 👍
If you'd like very specifically Majora's Mask again, may I recommend Outer Wilds?
@@Kitty255Again Play Bloodborne next my guy
Been saying forever that souls games are just grown up zelda games, perfect video to go along with the pitch
thanks man! my brother made me play elden ring
he was like c'mon its literally zelda
So after months over months of procrastination on purchasing this game, I just did during this video lol
10/10 we LOVE to see it!! keep me up to date homie~
I’m about to for same reason lol
"kek" in the captions but not said in video...I love this lol
there are a few details hidden in the captions
I’d love a Zelda game with this aesthetic. Unfortunately Nintendo refuses to make a powerful console 😭
lemme tell you a secret... no one wants to say it, but this game is canon.
@@MoxieWatts Both games feel EXTREMELY inspired by Berserk as well
That ghost tree is too big and it scares me! Haha
[ the deku tree is just kinda big in this timeline ]
@@MoxieWatts dead!! Haha
I'm an *extremely* casual gamer and this may be the first time I've been tempted to pick up a non-Nintendo console since PS2.
Also, long time listener/subscriber, first time commenter, and your "...to sleep to" series has definitely helped with that over the last 6 months! Love your work!
Thanks homie! I think you’ll honestly dig it. It’s way too good. I’m not trying t advertise the game but more urge people who want a powerfully good story & game to play it.
You're exactly right; TOTK would have hit a lot harder if the wait wasn't as long. But playing Elden Ring first in 2022 then TOTK in 2023 left me feeling underwhelmed. FromSoftware raised the bar before Nintendo could get TOTK out the door.
BTW - I really love seeing someone call out the similarities between Elden Ring and Zelda, by the way. They're so overt!
RIGHT??? i felt like "why has no one made this video"
and honestly youre totally right, they spoke loud and clear before nintendo had the chance to open its mouth
I love how the sword of night and flames replaced the master sword in the logo
0:18
I really like how this game iterates on the old story of "Cute lady is in trouble, are you a bad enough dude to save her for the evil ginger".
Dude yeah facts, considering also i kinda think ranni is the 'canon' ending for breaking the samsara cycle idk the more i look at it the more blatant it becomes
0:25
Already starting out strong Ü
[Edit]- I've been wanting to play a souls game for a long while and even once got the chance to, on a PS3 that now no longer works. That was nearly a year ago.
I feel like it would take me a while to get use to how much is going on on screen all at once, everything I've seen from this game it feels like my brain is getting overloaded from the amount of detail in just one pixel.
My character is literally Zelda herself with a staff and the Moonlight Greatsword. And ofc she’s Ranni’s consort😜 My head canon now is that this is where she was while draconified and asleep with a sword tangled in her hair
bruv i couldnt even play the game with the music on
Where can I play this mod? 😁
there [may or] may not be direct links in the description ;)
this is incredible lol
tysm
After not even beating ToTK and being heavily disappointed by it, my buddies kept begging me to play Elden Ring. Didn't care for it at first but now I've been playing for three weeks straight as a Ganondorf copy/paste character.
This game gives me the same feeling Twilight Princess did as a kid. It's awesome.
its 100% like that...it felt like grown up TP :')
"Eldin" Ringgggg
look i gotta bit of a southern twang its hard to drop while im recording
I mean like the Eldin province !!
The Eldin bridge, Eldin Volcano stealth with the Mogmas, etc
I like salt, it's such a nice flavour.
I prefered BotW over ER but the game is really good and freaking gorgeous.
idk either
i think fromsoft took a little inspo from botw
Yes, they absolutely did, theres direct quotes from Miyazaki. I didn't feel the need to show it because i didnt want the whole thing to get to bogged down with convoluted facts. If anything i wanted to show the quote about hardship but opted not to in the end.
@@MoxieWatts that’s fair. i remember hearing from someone that both games were kinda inspired by each other or more so both creators acknowledged each other that’s so cool that they actually did. also i’ve been loving the elden ring content! subbed for zelda but i’m obsessed with dark souls too so it works out lol
So Im not the only one who saw that Elden Ring boss and said "Thats the Ganon fight we deserved!!"
no sir
*me during the fight* this is the best ganon fight ever
Moxie, why is your voice so sensual?? ❤❤ I don't even care what the topic is. I just want to here you passionately talk about something.
always bb~
i would be surprised if zelda fans are not souls fans
However i can understand it not being the case the other way around
Elden Ring is probably the best game of our modern time yet
look we are squishy you gotta understand~ souls scary
It´s funny and it´s true
Best video ever!! xD
luv u
@@MoxieWatts Luv you too ^^ ♥
I have tried and tried and tried to love this game but I just cannot get into it. Thirty hours I've played now and just can't get into it. Its very much like Zelda but it's just a bit too bleak for me. I love BOTW and TOTK for the light and shade within the game. One minute you can be exploring a vast, unforgivable dessert. The next you'll be in a calm and cheery village. Elden Ring just feels a bit too one note in its world.
Can I ask if you made it past stormveil? the game does really pick up after.... all the good weapons and incantations come after that
@@MoxieWatts I don't think I did? Is that the massive castle at the start? I very tempted to try to give it another go as I now have done pretty much everything in TOTK except the koroks!
Lol I just love all the “dot worry about it, don’t ask questions!!” So damn funny
"The short answer, don't worry about it."
-Telegraph article 2023
@@MoxieWatts thats pretty much the gist, DONT ASK QUESTIONS!! DONT THINK ABOUT IT. I love that
Remember fellas: if Nintendo takes it down, it’s canon
its a satire
Man I really wish I liked this game 😔 I may have to give it a third chance
[yo you literally have to] its too good you just gotta start exploring some stuff. If you cant you just gotta grind a few levels and build some into vigor and youll be rockin and rollin champ
If this is peaking lore videos stretching back to King's Field, I am all for it.
it just might stretch that far back fam Im playing DS right now and it's soooo hard
@@MoxieWatts No joke, I absolutely loved the Kings Field games, but I think something was lost with Demon's Souls. Mostly improvements all around, but some spark for me wasn't there anymore, and the newer games never recovered it. But, the lore across all of the games is top notch.
Imagine me, an Elden Ring fan, watching adamant anti-Elden Ring streamers (no judgement, it is ok to dislike things) play TotK, and see so many new features that were huge parts to Elden Ring, I felt like I was going insane. Obviously the fuse mechanic is the front and central feature... and I doubt a lot of it was intentional but like.... I mean... C'mon...
my feelings exactly
what sealed the deal was them adding the secret stones story line...
thats how we got the same cutscene 4 times.
one could say i flipflopped
elden ring is what totk should have been
fax
I just bought elden ring in the steam winter sale and have been totk’s #1 hater. This video has me motivated to download it the moment I get home
i hope you did
@@MoxieWatts i did! I got like halfway through it before the ADHD took hold of me. Still listened to all the lore videos tho so ik whats up. It fulfilled the need that totk couldn’t!
That thumbnail has Link looking like Mary mother of Christ
made by CrAiyon
DADDY CHILL I CAN'T 😂😂😂
i had to
Well I'm gonna play elden ring again for the 4th time
It is my favorite Zelda game as well . I love the ending when link burns Hyrule , hope it is the canon ending 😅
I think its meant to be the canon one bc then we get dark souls
moxie i took ur advice, i’ve been playing for a week and this game is wack, marika is literally just dysfunctional hylia, go girl go get ur selfcest himbo constort, we will love you no matter what
omg imma need a play by play of this
this is the funniest shit i seen all week lol i been pissing myself laughing since i read it.
Ok where do i get this mod
[there may or may not be direct links in the description]
Where to find game
Steam, PS library & Xbox!
1. Shouldn’t you have saved this for the next April Fools? XD
2. What’s your take on a live action Zelda movie? Do you want to see a Nintendo cinematic universe? Do you want to see more 6-year-olds scarred for life by watching Nintendo Infinity War and Nintendo Endgame? Do you want to see fan-favorite characters weep in despair that their world is beyond repair due to the damage done by Galeem and Dharkon? Do you just not want to give a sh!t and just say that World of Light (Ultimate) and Subspace Emissary (Brawl) were all just the characters shooting for a movie because the Hand Brothers (Master and Crazy Hands) asked for it for the sake of promoting Smash behind the scenes? Do you just want to ask me what I’m asking you? Do you want me to repeat the questions and go on a seemingly endless loop?
3. There was this guy I used to watch, and he was playing Skyrim with Zelda music in the background, a handful of Zelda sound effects, MY LITTLE PONY DRAGONS!, a Portal (Valve’s Portal) gun converted into an explosive potato launcher, and flying saucers with the NPCs being all, “You wish to defeat me?!” Just by the mere sight of alien spacecraft! His name was Lasercorn. He’s not what he used to be now, but this was WAY back. Like 10 years ago back… He was part of a group that I used to watch until they all stopped being fun anymore… sad, but I long moved on from it. When you have the time, you can watch his Skyrim with mods videos.
4. All jokes aside, my ranking of the 3D Zelda games (and the platforms they’re best at):
- 7. Tears of the Kingdom
- 6. Breath of the Wild (Switch)
- 5. The Wind Waker (Wii U) (Also Toon Link X Hat Kid, where’s that shipping?)
- 4. Skyward Sword (Switch)
- *3. Twilight Princess (GameCube)* (Sorry, but so much more should’ve been done in Wii U)
- *2. Majora’s Mask (N64)* (Sorry, but the 3DS version is a b!£ch slap…)
- *1. Ocarina of Time (N64 AND 3DS) (Can’t go wrong with both, but N64 version has the better atmosphere)*
(Side note: my history with the 2D Zeldas isn’t very enthusiastic… bizarre, I know… but where’s my remake for Minish Cap?)
5. Now ranking my Top 5 Princess Zelda incarnations:
- 5. Hyrule Warriors
- 4. Skyward Sword
- 3. Ocarina of Time
- 2. Twilight Princess
- *1. SUPER SMASH BROS. ULTIMATE* (Yep, she’s my main! The ultimate troll! Hands down my favorite Princess Zelda!)
6. Any chance of Elden Ring coming to next-gen Switch?
1. It couldnt wait any longer...the energy needed to come out
2. had me rollin bruv
3. thats hilarious and i need links homie
4. these rankings are fair and just homie. I like your style g.
5. best zelda is absoluteky windwaker, i will throw hands about this fact.
3. m.ruclips.net/p/PLSQLuzURfkOt_6cUChYNysTQrDarrT6gy
4. Thanks!
5. Tetra? So you prefer the bossy pirate turned kind-hearted and still smug princess over her descendant that a lot give praise to for being Link’s ghostly travel companion.
I still prefer the Zelda series over the Souls series.. it wouldn't exist if not for Zelda, after all.
This is true, but I want them to do better, bring back the things that made zelda memorable: the tools/weapons/items that allowed you to progress
#bringgameprogressionback2024