You know ... I think one of my favorite things about the Korok Seeds is that they're a direct testament to the excellence of the map design. So the entire concept is if you see something "weird" or "out of place", like a rock all on its own or a set of three fruit trees or a group of boulders, it's probably a Korok Seed. In order for that to work as a game mechanic, there must not be anything in the game that looks "fake" that _isn't_ a Korok Seed. They're explicitly training their players to search out things in the game world that look even the slightest bit unnatural, and to expect a reward for finding those things. They can't do this unless they're 100% certain that their world design looks completely and totally natural and organic. And they pull this off beautifully. It's really incredible if you think about it.
I didn’t even know the korok seeds existed until I played the game. I had a super genuine moment where I saw a circle of rocks with one missing. I thought to myself, “hm i wonder” and I found a rock next to it, filled in the circle, and by golly the korok appeared. I was super surprised how it felt like I discovered that all on my own, and it felt super genuine
@@gh8735 I wish I would have those moments a little more often. The internet and trailers spoiler so much these days, it's barely a surprise to play a new game...
LaNoir right. I stayed away from mostly any footage of the game until I got my hands on the game. Though there is a ton of stuff in the game not shown in any of the trailers
UGH wtf are you talking about it's more then 3 hours LONG it's WAY over 10 minutes. I'm waiting for a comment like this that is actually serious cause yknow someone out there will Lmao.
I went to Zora's domain before I ever even spoke to Impa. I was on my way to kakariko village and somehow through exploring I just ended up meeting Sidon. Dude told me to meet him up at the top of the river and despite seeing all the thunder and I rain I just went "ok, I guess I'm gonna do this now". Keep in mind the waypoint leading me to Impa was active the entire time, I just didn't feel like going towards it lol. After beating Zora's Domain I went to Impa and she told me all the plot stuff. I spoke to her again without even leaving the room and she said was surprised I had already beaten one of the beasts lol
So I left a comment two years ago about how great this review was and how it made me want to play the game. This is now probably my favorite game I've ever played, and this video is a comfort watch for me. I have watched it like, 10+ times. Thanks for this, Arlo. I cannot wait for the Big Fat Review of Tears of the Kingdom and Pikmin 4. :3
Got the Switch 5 years ago when it was released and always intended on getting BotW but some how 5 years slipped by. I picked up the game a month ago when I took two weeks off from my job. During my play time I was looking up reviews and other content on BotW and I ran into this video. I was still about halfway through the game so I did not want to spoil the game for myself. This game consumed me. I am a busy working adult! So hype for TotK!
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That's how I feel about the arceus review. I already had played it all before watching but I'm planning to watch it again. Like reminiscing about a game you love with a friend or something.
Here some Time-Stamps 0:00 Introduction 2:56 The Magic of Exploration 18:06 Presentation, Sound, and Atmosphere 49:04 Story, Characters, and... That Ending 1:11:05 Difficulty, Combat, and Progression 1:43:09 Traversal, Physics, and "Crafting" 2:22:44 Shrines, Dungeons, and Quests 3:02:29 A New Era of Zelda
Yeah! Like is he really that lazy that he can't finish the whole thing? Like *3 hours* , really? That's barely any content! WE WANT THE 15 HOUR VERSION
@@rdm0108 Honestly tho, When botw2 comes out i'm not gonna watch any videos for it, just gonna go into it with no knowledge of what to expect. A complete surprise :D
I went in to breath of the wild ENTIRELY blind. Not even knowing what link would look like. I have a distinct memory of playing the game when it first came out and coming upon a stable at night and thinking “uh oh. monsters” and approaching the stable by crouching and having my weapon drawn. those were the good days. it was amazing.
i went in completely blind too. i remember thinking the great plateau was the whole map so when i accidentally put out a marker far away using my scope i opened my map to remove it but I couldn't find it, not knowing that I could zoom out. i ended up googling it and finding out that way that you can zoom out in the map and then i kinda realized that the great plateau was not the full map. i wasn't sure though.
2:53:15 Today, more than 2 years after BotW has released, I learned that you can burn the Hinox's wooden leg guards and shock the metal ones, even though I thought by this point I knew everything. This is the game that just keeps on giving.
@@whythehecknot5038 how is it excessive? 17 ads on *200 MINUTES* worth of videos. RUclipsrs put 3 ads every 10 minutes. This is less than 1 every 10 minutes. The length of the video is important z not just the number of ads.
i actually went to rito village first and completed the divine beast stuff before going anywhere else, literally just because i wanted tabantha wheat. i saved rito village because i wanted to make carrot cake
I did the same for a shrine I couldn't figure out how to do because I was an idiot 9 year old and literally got revalis gale just to find out it didn't work and finished the shrine with the easiest solution I've ever seen.
I accidentally fought Ganon early, because I wanted to find a cookbook, and thought the "kitchen" would be inside the palace. ...There wasn't a kitchen there.
@@override7486 Read my comment again. The kitchen is in the lower levels of the castle, just not the palace itself, which is where you fight Ganon. I know there's a quest for it, that's why I was there in the first place.
I recently watched a star fragment land in a river next to a waterfall in the Akkala region. I noticed that if I used stasis, it could clearly be seen at the bottom of the river, but I couldn't dive deep enough to get it. There were two metal chests nearby that I started pushing the fragment around with, but it was slow and tedious. I then tried using stasis on the fragment and launching it using magnesis and the chests. After a couple of launches, I intentionally knocked it out of the water and onto a beach where I could pick it up. I also figured out a long time ago that you could place down five bundles of wood and light them on fire to create an updraft to help you glide above enemies or obstacles. No other zelda game has this level of interaction. It's incredible.
Talking about Cryonis being the “least useful rune” and then talking about how rain sucks for climbing… It gave me the idea of using a Cryonis laser to freeze a climbable path up a surface while it’s raining! Would make the rune way more fun and cool to use
Seems awesome, and now that we know that the runes will be altered (at least we saw that in the trailer with the time-stop rune that I forgot the name of), we might be getting something like that for cryonis!
It would be useful but would ultimately ruin one of the challenges that the game gives you. What‘s the point of rain if you can just freeze your way around it?
@@teddybear5788 Maybe you would unlock it after getting all the labyrinths done or some sort of underrated quest like them, would grant it after a lot of effort
@@invadeandraid that would be a nice idea, but then in an open world game you could just do that right at the start and we're back with my first comment.
Noo! The most important aspect of Lynels you didn't mention it! When it makes eye contact with you as long as you are unarmed it will passively watch, it will swap between bow and melee as you do, it will fight honorable and fair, your skills against it, it is the monster that shows you the peak choices you might have in combat. You cannot however invade a certain amount of its personal space without enraging it. I do forget, but I believe you are even allowed to to go free as long as it's not already drawn a weapon and engage you in combat. It's hard to believe this creature is a monster of Ganon, with a similar image of him.
Lynels are Lawful Evil. Yeah, they are some of Gannondorf's troops, but they have standards. Which is why my Hyrule is going to have a massive Lynel problem at some point - they get my respect. Plus, as a design, they're awesome. And kick my ass.
@@TKDGal76 Yeah when you fight the stronger ones that start going supernova, that really starts to push the terror factor! If one of these minions had access to the Triforce of power I think they really couldn't be stopped.
when I got the champions weapons in breath of the wild, I never used them either because to me they were like precious antiquity, and I didn't want to break them. Instead I used them for the mounts in links house. I know everyone else used the great swords for those, and I did to at first, but I decided on mounting the champion weapons as a sort of memorial to my fallen comrades. Edit: Wow I've never gotten so many thumbs up on a comment before. It feels good.
@@theotherbeatle707 which what makes it great! It teaches you to treasure things more. A lot of games are just like "oh you have now you have it forever" and slowly feels like "eh cool"
I feel like the piano also lends to the sense of solitude. The other games had music with a larger sense of fullness. The lone piano found throughout the areas reminds you of your own isolation. The people are gone and thus the music halls are empty. Then when you get to the villages you are reminded that society has barely survived and it's amazing.
You could say most of society survived, probably 42 percent, why? Because at the rate that hirule healed, it means that there was many people, many people still alive, still, the player could feel kind of lonely, but, he has many towns to accompany him, and there is not only humans to accompany but also the spirits of the champions, or even corocs, anyway everyone's opinion matters, but I just feel you say that because of the, cought, cought, PIANO=SAD formula, but piano could be fun, happiness, or just beatifullnes, same with the violin
@@kristopher3623 I'd hardly call it 'most' of society surviving. Youv'e had a hundred years since the disaster - that's two generations of possible breeding and re-population of Hyrule and look how little has been achieved. Ganons beasts have been picking people off slowly over time too, granted - yet towns aren't densely populated a lot of the time. The ones that are, they tend to be the last bastion of an entire species. Compare the number of forgotten hamlets, castles, ect. to the handful of sparsely populated towns and the implied loss of life is a little haunting. Hyrule castle alone was armed to the teeth by hundreds of soldiers judging by memories. As for the company, ghosts and forest spirits aren't the best but Link definitely has options - it's just how few and far between they are. Aside from the occasional stable, I've gone hours without seeing a friendly face as I explore Hyrule. The way the Piano is used can mean so much and a lone instrument is very evocative symbolically. I'd agree that specifically within BotW the slow tempo and soft, non-intrusive nature emphasizes the macabre beauty of the world around you as well as your isolation from what little pockets of society remain. I'd be lying if I didn't say something about the delicate piano composition coupled with the ruined imagery didn't rip out a visceral feeling of sadness just as easily as it did wonder. "Oh, this world is empty. Everyone is gone."
One if my most memorable moments playing this game for the first time was when I went to my first divine beast. I decided to go to Rito first, since it was one of the things that grabbed my attention at the beginning. I somehow ended up on the back end of the chasm that the village was in, so I couldn’t see the bridge on the other end. I’m racking my brain for like 10 minutes about how on earth I’m gonna get up there, and I then decide that I just have to craft some stamina potions. I spend about an hour gathering resource, before warping back to that spot and starting the long climb up to the village. I used all my potions and just BARELY made it up to the Rito village. The music starting up as I sat there and felt so accomplished was amazing… Until I realized that there was a bridge on the other side…
My first time playing Skyrim I couldn't find ivarstead to get up the mountain so I basically fought thru "Bethesda climbing" up the other side of the mountain, finding out how to get around the storms cuz I had no shouts yet, went across the throat of the world, and back down to the Grey beards. I was pissed when I learned about the stairs
@@astolfofansunny4047 in my opinion, this is what the game is all about. You can always play it your own way. There will often be a direct and easy way for newcomers who aren't sure what to do. But if you find a way to solve a problem by yourself, the game encourages you to do so. That's what makes it so great.
First divine beast interaction for me was the elephant one in the water. I jumped off a mountain (pretty sure it was the Lynal one or however you spell Lynal) anyway I slowly floated down onto it when out of nowhere it’s boss health bar appeared and it activated. Genuinely shit my pants when that happened it just made a loud sound and hit me with a shockwave or something.
I remember how surprised I was when I discovered Lurelin village. It is so far from all the necessary story locations, you would never know it was there without going on a massive detour through Faron. Might be my favourite village in the game.
First playthrough, never new it existed. Second playthrough only found it cause I went right first to the big forest with farosh (wanted early durians and bananas) and discovered good GOD are porgies broken🤣
I feel like absolutely no one has pointed out the horror and panic you feel when you think you saw a lynel notice you, but it’s just a bokoblin on a horse.
Best thing you can do against lynels is shoot them in the face for stagger, climb on their backs to hit 5 times for no durability-draining damage, then when you get flung off, slow mo shoot him in the back of the head a few times. Rinse and repeat, and you're now a force of nature against Lynels.
36:40 this is the beauty of having a silent protagonist. you don't know how they feel about things, you don't know _if_ they feel anything about it. so it's up to YOU to determine the mood. and BotW did a phenomenal job at setting the tone. solemn.
“But the deer don’t know that. The grass doesn’t know that” Man, what brilliant lines. This video had me so emotional in so many different places. You’ve got such an eloquence that kept me captivated all the way through. Thanks for this video. I really appreciate this ❤️
Added timestamps so that Arlo doesn't have to: 0:00: Intro 2:56: The magic of exploration 18:07: Presentation, sound and atmosphere 49:05: Story and characters 1:11:06: Difficulty, combat and progression 1:43:10: Traversal, physics and ''crafting'' 2:22:46: Shrines, dungeons and quests 3:02:30: A new era of Zelda 3:18:21: BLOOD MOONS and "I AM GOING TO DIE!!
One of my favorite things about this game is that I was able to get through the icy part of the great plateau without knowing how to cook or getting the clothes-I just held a freakin torch in my hand the whole time up the mountain and it worked. And finding out from friends later about their methods and all of us going “I didn’t know you could do that!” was just awesome.
I literally ate the peppers raw and thought it worked. I just assumed it mitigated the damage as opposed to actually preventing it lol. I just figured I'd better move fast if I wanted that shrine
I had no idea the dragons existed for a long time. Then one day I'm exploring and I see the wind, then I get hit by a ball of lightning, and as I'm recoiling from the confusion I see a giant friggin' dragon rising out of the water beside me. I think that was the one moment that really cemented to me that this was completely unlike any other game I've ever played. This massive thing just exists, out in the wild, and you have no obligation to find it, I just tripped over it randomly.
Same. I saw one rising up from over lake hylia and was like :O And then when I was fighting a silver lynel the fire dragon came up from behind me out of nowhere and started firing fireballs at me. Was pretty wild, not gonna lie. Very memorable. Both beautiful and terrifying.
Would of been cool if when you found the memories you had to actually play them instead of watch. Imagine fighting the guardians until they eventually just overwhelm you and that's the memory
0:00 Intro 2:55 The magic of Exploration.......14:30 best joke in the video 18:05 Presentation, Sound And Atmosphere 49:03 Story and Characters 1:11:03 Difficulty, Combat and Progression 1:43:08 Traversal, Physics and Crafting 2:22:44 Shrines, Dungeons and Quests....... 2:24:08 second best joke in the video 3:02:28 A New Era of Zelda 3:20:45 bonus scene :)
46:35 The use of horns seems to be reserved for the largest bosses. Horns push a lot of air, and make a powerful sound. But a piano literally has ten fingers crawling around the keys like spider legs, or Guardian legs. And those Guardian legs wriggle quick, just like the music. The guardian shifts left and right, ducks aside, hunkers down for a shot, and the music mimics that.
"Ganon went on a rampage, tons of people died, there was fire everywhere, it was just one giant mess... ...but the deer dont know that. The grass doesn't care. The sun and moon rise and set like always. Nature is just...nature, and nature is beautiful." Can we talk about how poetic this line is?
No, and also, it's just plain wrong to say nature is beautiful when it created ganon and hence the disasters lmao. You people need to stop romanticizing this shit.
I came back to this after finishing Tears of the Kingdom and nearly fell out of my chair when I heard Arlo's crafting suggestions. It feels like Nintendo execs watched this and were like, "Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN!!!"
Too bad the execution of that sucks so bad is IMHO more game breaking than lack any of it in BOTW. And there's ton more of such gimmicky ideas in TOTK, it's baffling.
I have had issues sleeping for over 10 years. I wake up multiple times a night and usually it takes a long time for my brain to shut off. This video is the number one thing that has kept my mind from running wild at night. I have this on repeat all night long and have been sleeping so much better. Thank you Arlo.
@@mariomaster101official I'm not going to lie, it meant a lot to me that he did that. Doesn't make too much sense for him to check something like this on a year old video but I'm glad he did. ☺️ I can't describe how much better I'm sleeping now, how much less running my mind does in the middle of the night. The only thing that wakes me up sometimes is when at the end he screams "I'm going to die!" At the end when talking about blood moons 😂 Also, thank you for saying that! ☺️
@@linkthepig4219 I have a whole bunch of his videos on a playlist now, I cannot explain how much better in sleeping and how much these videos about games I love have helped with my overall health.
I know it's like normal for a Zelda game to end and you just spawn outside of the boss door but I was really hoping that when I beat BOTW I was going to be able to explore the world with Gannon dead and have some new thing happen. I was so disappointed. But I should have known
“But, at the very least, we can all hope that Breath of the Wild will eventually get its very own ‘Majora’s Mask’ equivalent.” [Arlo at 1:10:40] Nintendo: yes.
connorthepotato Judging by ganondorf’s return, it _looks_ more story based. At the very least, by bringing back a fan-favorite, they are at least listening to fans and their criticisms.
@@afriendlycampfire260totk still dropped the ball though. Fuse is not a crafting system, it's just a gimmicky mechanic that changed the meta to require all viable weapons to have a shitty looking fuse. Missed potential for sure.
@@skyellama8374 honestly I hate how shitty strong weapons fused weapons look in totk like the only way that I can make a strong weapon is by fusing another dumb lynel saber horn
This is just an observation, but I'd be willing to wager that vastly more people have a few moments available to watch as opposed to 3+ hours. Going even further out, not many folks are interested in LoZ research papers as much as things like smoky-eyed-cat make-up tutorials, getting 200HP boosts from air filters, or cryptocurrency secrets "they" don't want you to know. This a niche.
@Otneimica it doesn't say shit about how shallow people have become (we are animals, we are basically wired to act the way we act) but you're right about the attention span part
I first played botw in January of this year. I was completely going in blind, never caring at all or knowing anything about the Zelda franchise. It truly changed my gaming experience forever.
Gibbet did you have a Switch at the time? I’d be super surprised if you somehow had a switch but hadn’t heard of BOTW. It is *the* game to have with a switch.
Jacob The Poet Twilight Princess and Ocarina of Time?!? I understand if you couldn’t get into Zelda after playing those titles, but even after playing BOTW and you still don’t like it, makes me think you don’t appreciate good games.
@@ts7844you mean 0.00001% got past the first second, am I right? Oh wait, I meant NANOSECOND! No one watched the video. The view count is bots from North Korea and North Pole. Haha 🌈
I think one of the most legendary moments I had in this game was in my fight against that damn Lynel. When I first saw it I knew I had to fight it and kill it so I ran right up to it and died instantly. After a couple a deaths I decided to try and cheese it so I climbed on a rock so he couldn’t get to me and would peel from the rock to deal chip damage. After he fired his arrows into the rock, he decided to try something different. He shot his arrow straight up and I actually laughed at him thinking his AI must be full on broken, but then the arrow came back down straight on top of me and I died again. From this point forward, I knew I couldn’t cheese him anymore. For the next hour I decided to try and kill him, each time I got closer and closer but died. Then something clicked and I learned his pattern, I knew when to dodge and mount and arrow him and I finally won. I have never had a game make me feel so relieved and happy and it was the cherry on the cake to buy the dlc and watch hero’s path show how many times I died but in the end became victorious.
That’s amazing! Man, it’s really cool how well this game sets up for stories. It’s like sitting by a campfire and telling others campfire stories. This is like the perfect internet era game!
the first time i saw a lynel was by the lanayru road, and i panicked and ran away as soon as i saw it. when i got to zora's later and heard them talking about the lynel, i was dreading climbing up the mountain
Trey Atkins I didn’t even really have to fight the Lynel. I got a chest of 5 Shock Arrows in the Mount Lanayru (Hateno) region and took the free Shock Arrow in Zora’s Domain on the way out. By the time I left Shatterback, I had 28 Shock Arrows. I then felt gutsy and charged that Lynel. It didn’t end well.
Lol the first time i saw one i took it on mano a mano and got shit on for an hour straight before i decided they were probably end game content. And then i came back later and got shit on for another hour before finallt getting a kill
@@raulrojas9253 Because imagine you're looking for an in-depth review of Breath, and you find *this* - a three-and-a-half hour mega deep dive by a fucking puppet. This is a way cooler pitch to non-subscribers than a half dozen different episodes.
@@raulrojas9253 Also for binging. It's great for background noise while cleaning, and Arlo is surprisingly one or the more mature(See: Less swear and dirty joke heavy) Gaming RUclipsrs, and it's good to just listen to, leave eventually, and just pick up later.
@@AlriikRidesAgain "Less swear and dirty joke heavy" is a pretty low bar to clear. Highly recommend Joseph Anderson, KingK, etc for more "mature" in-depth reviews/retrospectives on a regular basis (though this video is just fine :3)
When Cookie Monster overcame his addiction, his sentences became more coherent and he lost a lot of weight. And then he turned to video games, a new vice.
I only just now started playing it and I'm in love. I have revalis Gale and it's so amazing it baffles me I've never heard of this game and I just love it so much ♥️
Yes, I bought this game 3 years ago when I was in 7th grade, every thing from that year feels nostalgic to me now mostly because it was the best year of my life
Arlo - your crafting comments are spot on. I was so disappointed that I couldn't decorate my house in a meaningful way, I always wanted to have a pond where I could stock fish or even a farm area with my own stables and places to plant trees or veg
i think it makes sense that the memories link needs to see again to regain his memories aren’t the ones where he’s fighting but the time he spent with the people he loved
I agree. You already have the heroic weight of your mission. You know it if you've played a Zelda game. You know it if you've played any video game at all. But the personal weight of the tragedy for Link? That's where the connection to the character happens. You have to see his relationship with Zelda grow, above all else. It creates a real urgency to save her. And I think the absolute most important aspect of the failure to seal Ganon 100 years ago is to show that Link himself failed. That he never even made it there. That he *wasn't* yet a fully-realized hero back then, even if he was wildly impressive as a knight. You have a responsibility not only to saving Hyrule and Zelda, but a responsibility to redeem Link.
"The idea that even ONE person on this great big planet would want to hear me talk about one game for 3 hours is absurd." has over 5 million views and is still being watched several years later*
I drive long distances and have listened to this review many, many times. Thankfully I’m not as sensitive to spoilers as yourself. I’ve never been into Zelda games, never have, and I thought I never would…until now. This review alone made me want to get the game just to see for myself and I have to say it’s one of, if not, THE best game I’ve ever played and I’m only a few hours in! Thank you for this review (which I still listen to as it gives me great audio entertainment whilst driving), because if it weren’t for this one video I undoubtedly would not have experienced this masterpiece. Thank you once and again and keep up the great work. I can’t wait for the Big Fat Review of Tears Of The Kingdom! 👍🏼
Banuner at least naydra has a little bit of lore. Although I wish I got to fight them in order to get an item. Because just an arrow doesn't seem realistic when it comes to a HUGE DRAGON
I’ll sometimes listen to the soundtrack for this game on RUclips as I study. I’ll tell ya, when that guardians theme kicks in my entire body immediately tenses up because of how many times those things destroyed me during my first 50 hours
Oh I listen to that during homework or drawing to But yes that guardian music was freaking me OUT and. I’m now practicing my shield dash so it becomes less scary
1:02:05 it’s worth noting as well that since link had amnesia his personality is more distinct between the time skip, since he forgot his oath of silence. He acts more goofy in dialogue options in the actual gameplay while he’s more somber in memories.
See. I saw that a lot of this info was false in the end because, well, there's going to be a sequel. Nintendo intentionally skipped a TON of info because they had a sequel for the game in mind. That's a theory, anyways. :)
It's so amazing watching such an in depth review for a game I love. This was my first Zelda game and it just felt absolutely magical, I felt like I was walking through a Ghibli movie
@@adityachandrapradeepnair2920 I cant wait for it i held off this whole time but the last few weeks botw 2 is all I've been thinking about. I cannot wait for another of this masterpiece.
with what you said about the importance of nature persisting despite the calamity, it's one of the things that makes the game so close to my heart. i think there are things about this game thematically that touch on trauma, in general, in a very special way. when i lost someone tragically i often thought about the fact that nature persisted, and that gave me great comfort. link's silence and the relaxing soundtrack, added to the majority of the gameplay being adventuring alone, almost gave me a sense of companionship with another lonely wounded soul whose world was changed irreversibly. i never rly see link as a stand in for me as a gamer, more like someone i have empathy for who i'm guiding on an internal healing journey as well as an external saving-the-world journey. and the way the game contrasts link's internal journey--the fact that he really isn't Just a lawful hero, that he is chaotic and loves to cook and the pressure put on him as the chosen one is often to his detriment emotionally--and his external mission to save zelda and avenge the champions, makes it even more nuanced and complex. it's like the player IS the midna or navi or fi of the game, it feels a lot closer and vulnerable and PERSONAL to bare witness to link's activities in the past and present. it is genuinely a healing experience to play this game in the same way it's healing to be in nature.
Imo if there was a crafting system it would've been really cool if you could only build weapons/shields if you had taken an in-game photo of the gear in question. It would give even more of an incentive to use the camera rune, which is nice because I rarely used it at all unless I wanted to look for specific materials to upgrade my armor.
OHHH That's smart, that would be really cool! And I getcha ^^ Same here, or if I wanted to take cool screenshots of memorable moments or OC inspirations or something!
@@superbowyiming What if your slate and runes were also tied to another meter that worked like stamina, then the shrines and/or guardians gave you parts to take to Purah to upgrade the meter. Then, when you go find Robbie in the Akkala Highlands, he gives you a brand new rune that lets your slate reconstruct a weapon or shield you took a picture of, and the new meter for your slate is the durability for the gear, albiet not as durable or powerful as the actual gear so you still feel a need to find the actual weapon and can't just abuse reconstructing a Savage Lynel bow all the time. It would remove the necessity for some players to keep a hammer, axe, korok leaf, and torch in their inventory at all times, fix the problem of some gear having limited supply (the Rito Shield, Forest Sword, and most the tier 1-2 Lynel Gear), and some other issues with only a small sacrifice on the impact that weapon durability has on the gameplay.
Reminds me of Dark Cloud 2. If you wanted to invent new gear for yourself you needed inspiration which, like in real life, doesn't come from nowhere. You must seek inspiration: go places, make memories, and take lots of pictures. Dark Cloud 2 may have failed on the shelves but many subtle things like that mechanic stuck with me.
The ending in Breath of the wild has hidden beauty. One of the bird guys sings a song about how pink pedals reveal true love, and you see them fall at the end of the ending with memories
When he started talking about how everything was in ruins, I thought about how if Earth in a couple hundred years would look like Zelda BOTW. I also thought about how people in a post apocalyptic world would feel when they saw New York City or Las Vegas in ruins. Imagine your whole city or town gone; everything about it, gone; the place's history, gone; hundreds, thousands or maybe millions of people living there, gone. Just the feeling that was once a whole city or town where you are standing really messes you up. Also, the feeling of knowing in a couple hundred years that your history, your family's history, your friends' history, and everyone's history is buried under rock and dirt messes you up too. Just some thoughts.
Ty The Great that’s also the sad thing about that too, your name is lost to the wind after a generation or two. Your name only gets remembered if you were a VERY important part of history. Like George Washington or Albert Einstein. Even those names after a long times will be forgotten forever.
I looked at the date if this video and say April of 2019. It's almost been 3 years since I watched my favorite Arlo video ever. I've watched you ever since your Paper Mario video went viral a long time ago, and have genuine memories of this channel in my early childhood. (currently 15, almost 16 years old) You're channel is one of the things that has stuck with me for this long. I've had friends leave, my sister move out, get married, and my other sister go to college, but this channel stayed with me this whole time. It almost feels like this channel, and in turn, Arlo was and still is apart of my life in a way I can't fully explain. Thank you so much for what you've done for me and I'm sure many, many other people. If you end up seeing this, thank you, Arlo. I hope one day I can thank you in person at a convention of some kind. Also, I saw your mental health video you uploaded a few days ago, and I'd just like to say, I relate to putting things off so much. During quarantine, I was virtual the entire time in school, and I'm normally an A and B student, and I turned into a B, C, D, and F student because I would continually put things off until the very end when the stress outweighs the feeling to not do anything. Sorry for the wall, I just have a lot to say + 1am brain = a text wall. Anyways goodnight and have a good day everyone who reads this :)
thanks for being real and open! I def hit that wall of anxiety and stress about6 months ago. Honestly, I know God lets that stuff happen so that we will reach out to him. And he has made all the difference
Wait til you’ve been watching a channel for 10+ years !! A beautiful sincere feeling. I started watching TheRadBrad back in 2011. I had just graduated Highschool and went str8 off to college. I was 18, I turn 30 this September. Brad was maybe like 23 or so back then when I found him. The crazy part is how we both had our first child around the same time and they were girls!! I also watched Brad obtain a corgi pup he named chubbs! I’ve watched chubbs grow with brad to now seeing chubbs grow with Brads daughter. It’s so dope.
I was watching videos on autoplay, until i fell asleep, i then proceed to wake up to 1 hour into a 3 hours video about a FAT review about zelda being narrated by the cookie monster, amazing 10/10 documentary would watch again
When you were talking about spoilers, I was like “that’s so silly, I love knowing everything about a game even before going in!” And then remembered the pure delight I had simply discovering there were moose in botw for the first time …
Didn't find my first bear in botw until a solid 150 hours in, and then I found out you can ride them like horses after seeing bokoblins do it. That was a truly special moment.
Well there you go. BOTW is full of neat little things like that. Also the animals in the mountain zone have top quality meat. So if you see a moose, shoot it. Be careful to pick up the meat right away before it freezes.
When I first played this game, I left the plateau and went towards the Hyrule bridge. As soon as I start walking across the bridge, timed perfectly, I saw Faron, the green dragon coming from my left under the bridge and arcing above it. I just stopped walking, used my camera to follow him, and just stared in awe. I immediately fell in love with the game at that moment.
I had the exact same experience. We were early in the game, not many weapons, just trying to kill those lizfalos on the bridge. You kill them, look up and just see this majestic dragon wrapping around the bridge, which you had never even imaged would be here, it’s just so perfectly timed. Some people don’t even see them for 10+ hours of playing, given that they only spawn at certain times. It’s just such great design.
Even two year later, Breath of the Wild CONTINUES to impress me. I played it for half of my plane ride to Tokyo a couple weeks back and I was STILL having fun exploring and having fun with the game's mechanics.
colton421 I mean, I agree with him. I’m playing through the game for the first time now, I’m decently far in (75 shrines, all the memories found, 3 divine beasts done) & the game has not lived up to the hype AT ALL. It’s been mostly a chore.
Hello Arlo, I just wanted you to know that this video got me through my labor of having my baby. I watched this and listens to this as I was trying to get through some very very painful contractions. Your calming voice and watching The Zelda content was a good distraction but also relaxing and gave me something to focus on. Thank you!
As a player who knew only the original Link game back in the 80's and now this one, I must say I have no criticism whatsoever of any part of this masterpiece. I never played a single other game like Skyward Sword, etc. I couldn't believe the changes. I am not a gamer at all and this is just pure joy. I played yesterday for 2 hours and discovered 3 new Koroks. Oh, I beat the game and have the DLC and am on Master Mode and all that. I'm also 71. I remember Pong for crying out loud! Cutting edge in its day. You kids just don't get it. I love saying that. And I can't wait for the next Breath of the Wild.
@@Breached18 And even as a man in his 70's I loved the exploration part. Having finished the game and defeated Ganon and that after Ganon thing I felt like a great journey had been completed and I was victorious. And the graphics blew me away. Well, the whole experience was immersive and fulfilling. Part two? Better hurry - my reflexes are fading. lol.
@@mikeyh0 its coming in the spring of 2023, I'd recommend playing the previous zelda games, especially Ocarina of time, Link to the past, and Majoras Mask, or just watch Zelda Lore videos.
Have you tried the elder scrolls series? Skyrim is where I started, and it’s a fun little world to run around in. Fallout is another great open world franchise, and fallout new Vegas and fallout 4 feel like real places.
@@lindboknifeandtool I did look a bit at Skyrim. Very appealing. Red Dead Redemption looked cool, too. But I'm thinking my playing days are nearing their end. The new BoTW for sure.
After about a week of having this big fat beautiful review up in my browser window, consuming it in bite-sized chunks in between working from home, I have finally finished this video completely, beginning to end. It's been a hot minute since I beat the game and this was such a thoughtful, refreshing, and engaging look back on it. Thanks Arlo for your insight, positivity, and lovable humor - and for creating the best background video on the RUclipss!
Coming to this EXTREMELY late here, but regarding the battle that wounded Link so badly, you missed the environmental storytelling there. The memory is found in a vast field full of destroyed Guardians. The implication is that Link took down *dozens* of them, all attacking at once, a true marathon of a battle, all alone, while protecting Zelda.
Just watched this Review before starting the game for my first time. I loved this and can't wait to start my ingame adventure. ARLO just got my subscription with this piece of art! ~Passion - Hikaru Utada plays on background~
i loved seeing the dragons for the first time. my first thought was, "great i'm gonna have to fight that" in a mix of nervousness and excitement...disappointing you only fight one and it doesn't even attack you
Idk I was pretty happy when I first got close to one, heard the music, and found out they weren’t enemies, just dragons that fly around allow you to interact with them without them even acknowledging you
You don't actually FIGHT Naydra. You free it from the Malice that had entrapped it. That was actually the first dragon that I encountered, so it was more of a tutorial on how dragons and Springs worked for me than anything.
@@OneTrueNobody Considering they did that I'm pretty sure they know what you're "actually doing", your just arguing pointless semantics, it's functionally like you're fighting the dragon
@@CrowLady0_0 To me it was kinda underwhelming and awkward, part of that is probably because I got naydra spoiled but also chasing a dragon down just isn't that enjoyable with how the paraglider works, even with revali's gale it took a windbomb for me to finish naydra off, not talking about it skillwise but just that there isn't any intended way to match a dragon's speed/height
I too was afraid of the Zora lynel but instead of sneaking around to collect arrows or kill it I ended up going all the way to Gerudo and finishing the quest to enter the town just to buy some electric arrows. That was what made me realise that there were so many tactics to this game.
I will always remember the moment I fell in love with this game. I had gotten to Hateno Village and I decide to explore the beach. Then, in the distance, I hear something. Is that...an accordion? I thought that it was just background music. But what for? So I look through my scope, and what do you know, there’s a bird man on top of a rock way in the middle of the ocean. Weren’t they in Wind Waker? But they look so different now. Well, I gotta get to this guy, there’s no way he doesn’t have some kind of dialogue. So I kid you not, I spent about half an hour trying to figure out how to get to this guy. I try chugging a bunch of stamina potions, using a raft, using Octorock balloons, anything. I eventually used a combination of the three, just barely making it with a sliver of stamina left. I climb up the rock pillar, and hey, he’s playing the accordion. I talk to him, and he expresses his shock on how far out I’ve made it considering I can’t fly. And that filled me with satisfaction like nothing else. He introduces himself as Kaz, and plays me a song about the legendary Hero of Time. I didn’t even solve the riddle, but I knew right then and there that I loved this game. Kaz is still my Switch pfp to this day.
You know ... I think one of my favorite things about the Korok Seeds is that they're a direct testament to the excellence of the map design. So the entire concept is if you see something "weird" or "out of place", like a rock all on its own or a set of three fruit trees or a group of boulders, it's probably a Korok Seed. In order for that to work as a game mechanic, there must not be anything in the game that looks "fake" that _isn't_ a Korok Seed. They're explicitly training their players to search out things in the game world that look even the slightest bit unnatural, and to expect a reward for finding those things. They can't do this unless they're 100% certain that their world design looks completely and totally natural and organic. And they pull this off beautifully. It's really incredible if you think about it.
Oh boi, when I was in a town on the sea and totally random looked up and saw that banana on the coconut palm tree...IT DROVE ME CRAAAAZY!!!
@DarthFennec That’s the Nintendo way.
I didn’t even know the korok seeds existed until I played the game. I had a super genuine moment where I saw a circle of rocks with one missing. I thought to myself, “hm i wonder” and I found a rock next to it, filled in the circle, and by golly the korok appeared. I was super surprised how it felt like I discovered that all on my own, and it felt super genuine
@@gh8735 I wish I would have those moments a little more often. The internet and trailers spoiler so much these days, it's barely a surprise to play a new game...
LaNoir right. I stayed away from mostly any footage of the game until I got my hands on the game. Though there is a ton of stuff in the game not shown in any of the trailers
You just HAD to hit that 10 minute mark didn't you?
BossCrazyRoss this is the most underrated comment of all time
@@kevvdawgcooldude1412 Thanks bud
UGH wtf are you talking about it's more then 3 hours LONG it's WAY over 10 minutes. I'm waiting for a comment like this that is actually serious cause yknow someone out there will Lmao.
@@CynthiaTestarossa Glad you're joking. You almost made me use my secret weapon
You dumb dumb, video says 3 hours 20 mins
“Most people went to Zora first.” For some reason I went to Gerudo first and was terrified that every boss fight would be that hard...
samee
I went to the Rito, it was the farthest away and I was up to explore
Me too bro
I went zora, rito, gerudo, gorons
I went to Zora's domain before I ever even spoke to Impa. I was on my way to kakariko village and somehow through exploring I just ended up meeting Sidon. Dude told me to meet him up at the top of the river and despite seeing all the thunder and I rain I just went "ok, I guess I'm gonna do this now". Keep in mind the waypoint leading me to Impa was active the entire time, I just didn't feel like going towards it lol. After beating Zora's Domain I went to Impa and she told me all the plot stuff. I spoke to her again without even leaving the room and she said was surprised I had already beaten one of the beasts lol
So I left a comment two years ago about how great this review was and how it made me want to play the game. This is now probably my favorite game I've ever played, and this video is a comfort watch for me. I have watched it like, 10+ times. Thanks for this, Arlo. I cannot wait for the Big Fat Review of Tears of the Kingdom and Pikmin 4. :3
Got the Switch 5 years ago when it was released and always intended on getting BotW but some how 5 years slipped by. I picked up the game a month ago when I took two weeks off from my job. During my play time I was looking up reviews and other content on BotW and I ran into this video. I was still about halfway through the game so I did not want to spoil the game for myself.
This game consumed me. I am a busy working adult!
So hype for TotK!
That’s 30 hours of arlo botw
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Best 30 hours of your life?
That's how I feel about the arceus review. I already had played it all before watching but I'm planning to watch it again. Like reminiscing about a game you love with a friend or something.
Here some Time-Stamps
0:00 Introduction
2:56 The Magic of Exploration
18:06 Presentation, Sound, and Atmosphere
49:04 Story, Characters, and... That Ending
1:11:05 Difficulty, Combat, and Progression
1:43:09 Traversal, Physics, and "Crafting"
2:22:44 Shrines, Dungeons, and Quests
3:02:29 A New Era of Zelda
Thanks, that's helpful
srry im commenting the same as the person before but thank you! also wanted to comment so ur comment gets moved up :)
that's actually why I commented lol, to try and get this more visibility
Hm
Very helpful!🙏🙏🙏
Will you stop joking around and release the FULL review!
Yeah! Like is he really that lazy that he can't finish the whole thing? Like *3 hours* , really? That's barely any content! WE WANT THE 15 HOUR VERSION
@@angry8232 yeah! I'm waiting for the 25 hour version
I’m still waiting for the 1005 hour version
I think she wants a score. I mean, if you haven't figured out it's a 7/7 by now then you should be ashaimed
Gaming With Calvin It was sarcastic toy dumbass
Arlo: Makes 3 hour review of BOTW
Nintendo: Lets make him do another one
*BOTW 2 is announced*
Dj Khaled: *in the distance* another one
xD
Wait a minute. 3 hour video? Botw2?
..... HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED PEOPLE!!!!!!
@@rdm0108 Honestly tho, When botw2 comes out i'm not gonna watch any videos for it, just gonna go into it with no knowledge of what to expect. A complete surprise :D
Well the rumor is that the only reason Nintendo is making Breath of the Wild 2 is because they watched this review.
I went in to breath of the wild ENTIRELY blind. Not even knowing what link would look like. I have a distinct memory of playing the game when it first came out and coming upon a stable at night and thinking “uh oh. monsters” and approaching the stable by crouching and having my weapon drawn.
those were the good days. it was amazing.
I'm hoping to do that with totk, I was spoiled a lot on botw because i didn't get the game until a year after release
Yeah I went into it only having heard the name Zelda in passing and not even knowing what the game/series is about
i went in completely blind too. i remember thinking the great plateau was the whole map so when i accidentally put out a marker far away using my scope i opened my map to remove it but I couldn't find it, not knowing that I could zoom out. i ended up googling it and finding out that way that you can zoom out in the map and then i kinda realized that the great plateau was not the full map. i wasn't sure though.
I went in (to my knowledge) completely blind too but I got it when I was like 11 so it’s more due to me being a kid
@@teathesilkwing7616 same lmao
Looking forward to the 6 hour review of Breath of the Wild VR.
2:53:15 Today, more than 2 years after BotW has released, I learned that you can burn the Hinox's wooden leg guards and shock the metal ones, even though I thought by this point I knew everything. This is the game that just keeps on giving.
....... I was today years old when i learned this
I recently learned you can parry lynel attacks after a full summer of just hunting them.
@@mb-qi1qq oof thats gotta hurt
Well. There's a thing I now know.
I found it out when I only had flame weapons on me. Wasn't expecting it though.
Was going to block ads, but anyone who puts together a three hour passion project has earned my upmost respect.
Liked and subbed
Welcome welcome
Yeah, ads a little excessive, but its not **that** bad
*utmost
@@whythehecknot5038 how is it excessive? 17 ads on *200 MINUTES* worth of videos. RUclipsrs put 3 ads every 10 minutes. This is less than 1 every 10 minutes. The length of the video is important z not just the number of ads.
@@itsnottimetostop4462 your right, sorry. I didnt do any math, i just counted on feelings. He deserves all the money he gets anyway.
i actually went to rito village first and completed the divine beast stuff before going anywhere else, literally just because i wanted tabantha wheat. i saved rito village because i wanted to make carrot cake
I did the same for a shrine I couldn't figure out how to do because I was an idiot 9 year old and literally got revalis gale just to find out it didn't work and finished the shrine with the easiest solution I've ever seen.
I went to Gerudo town first because I didn’t want to walk far
I didn’t finish the beast did the other three and then came back
I accidentally fought Ganon early, because I wanted to find a cookbook, and thought the "kitchen" would be inside the palace.
...There wasn't a kitchen there.
@@fernando47180 WTF? There is. There is even specific quest regarding it.
@@override7486 Read my comment again. The kitchen is in the lower levels of the castle, just not the palace itself, which is where you fight Ganon. I know there's a quest for it, that's why I was there in the first place.
You wrote "advemture" 2:11:59
Analysis invalid.
Lol
Captain Sanke same, fuckkkk
I thought that was some english joke I didn't get
Imvalid*
I think it was a joke
Me: “It’s my turn to pick the movie”
Brother: “Alright, you better pick something good.”
Me:
You picked something good
Tell him it's a Muppets Movie.
@@AlriikRidesAgain Muppets: the story of Link
Brother: Leaves immediately because this is the fourth time you've pulled this crap
Brother: Why, this is the eighteenth time this weekend!!!
I recently watched a star fragment land in a river next to a waterfall in the Akkala region. I noticed that if I used stasis, it could clearly be seen at the bottom of the river, but I couldn't dive deep enough to get it. There were two metal chests nearby that I started pushing the fragment around with, but it was slow and tedious. I then tried using stasis on the fragment and launching it using magnesis and the chests. After a couple of launches, I intentionally knocked it out of the water and onto a beach where I could pick it up. I also figured out a long time ago that you could place down five bundles of wood and light them on fire to create an updraft to help you glide above enemies or obstacles. No other zelda game has this level of interaction. It's incredible.
Sums up botws specialty perfectly
I always thought when the fragments went into water they were gone forever, that's awesome!
Talking about Cryonis being the “least useful rune” and then talking about how rain sucks for climbing…
It gave me the idea of using a Cryonis laser to freeze a climbable path up a surface while it’s raining!
Would make the rune way more fun and cool to use
I've never seen this and this is such a cool idea, I'm up for another rune upgrade
Seems awesome, and now that we know that the runes will be altered (at least we saw that in the trailer with the time-stop rune that I forgot the name of), we might be getting something like that for cryonis!
It would be useful but would ultimately ruin one of the challenges that the game gives you. What‘s the point of rain if you can just freeze your way around it?
@@teddybear5788 Maybe you would unlock it after getting all the labyrinths done or some sort of underrated quest like them, would grant it after a lot of effort
@@invadeandraid that would be a nice idea, but then in an open world game you could just do that right at the start and we're back with my first comment.
Noo! The most important aspect of Lynels you didn't mention it!
When it makes eye contact with you as long as you are unarmed it will passively watch, it will swap between bow and melee as you do, it will fight honorable and fair, your skills against it, it is the monster that shows you the peak choices you might have in combat. You cannot however invade a certain amount of its personal space without enraging it. I do forget, but I believe you are even allowed to to go free as long as it's not already drawn a weapon and engage you in combat. It's hard to believe this creature is a monster of Ganon, with a similar image of him.
I've played over 255 hours and I NEVER even knew about the "unarmed won't agro" aspect. Kudos
Lynels are Lawful Evil. Yeah, they are some of Gannondorf's troops, but they have standards. Which is why my Hyrule is going to have a massive Lynel problem at some point - they get my respect.
Plus, as a design, they're awesome. And kick my ass.
@@curtisjackson4090 well, it seems that im not alone
Had no idea, Lynel’s fought with honor.....to a degree. They are still terrifying tho.......
@@TKDGal76 Yeah when you fight the stronger ones that start going supernova, that really starts to push the terror factor! If one of these minions had access to the Triforce of power I think they really couldn't be stopped.
when I got the champions weapons in breath of the wild, I never used them either because to me they were like precious antiquity, and I didn't want to break them. Instead I used them for the mounts in links house. I know everyone else used the great swords for those, and I did to at first, but I decided on mounting the champion weapons as a sort of memorial to my fallen comrades.
Edit: Wow I've never gotten so many thumbs up on a comment before. It feels good.
Imagine it being like every other game where you can just use the cool shit u find instead of being scared of it breaking
I did the exact same thing
I did it too
Same man
@@theotherbeatle707 which what makes it great! It teaches you to treasure things more. A lot of games are just like "oh you have now you have it forever" and slowly feels like "eh cool"
I feel like the piano also lends to the sense of solitude. The other games had music with a larger sense of fullness. The lone piano found throughout the areas reminds you of your own isolation. The people are gone and thus the music halls are empty. Then when you get to the villages you are reminded that society has barely survived and it's amazing.
I couldn't agree more. I also think how beautiful the horse riding theme is, just a piano and violin, 1 for link and the other for your companion.
You could say most of society survived, probably 42 percent, why? Because at the rate that hirule healed, it means that there was many people, many people still alive, still, the player could feel kind of lonely, but, he has many towns to accompany him, and there is not only humans to accompany but also the spirits of the champions, or even corocs, anyway everyone's opinion matters, but I just feel you say that because of the, cought, cought, PIANO=SAD formula, but piano could be fun, happiness, or just beatifullnes, same with the violin
But also piano gives a scence of wilderness, the music matches the sounds from the wild.
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@@kristopher3623 I'd hardly call it 'most' of society surviving. Youv'e had a hundred years since the disaster - that's two generations of possible breeding and re-population of Hyrule and look how little has been achieved. Ganons beasts have been picking people off slowly over time too, granted - yet towns aren't densely populated a lot of the time. The ones that are, they tend to be the last bastion of an entire species. Compare the number of forgotten hamlets, castles, ect. to the handful of sparsely populated towns and the implied loss of life is a little haunting. Hyrule castle alone was armed to the teeth by hundreds of soldiers judging by memories.
As for the company, ghosts and forest spirits aren't the best but Link definitely has options - it's just how few and far between they are. Aside from the occasional stable, I've gone hours without seeing a friendly face as I explore Hyrule. The way the Piano is used can mean so much and a lone instrument is very evocative symbolically. I'd agree that specifically within BotW the slow tempo and soft, non-intrusive nature emphasizes the macabre beauty of the world around you as well as your isolation from what little pockets of society remain. I'd be lying if I didn't say something about the delicate piano composition coupled with the ruined imagery didn't rip out a visceral feeling of sadness just as easily as it did wonder.
"Oh, this world is empty.
Everyone is gone."
One if my most memorable moments playing this game for the first time was when I went to my first divine beast.
I decided to go to Rito first, since it was one of the things that grabbed my attention at the beginning.
I somehow ended up on the back end of the chasm that the village was in, so I couldn’t see the bridge on the other end. I’m racking my brain for like 10 minutes about how on earth I’m gonna get up there, and I then decide that I just have to craft some stamina potions.
I spend about an hour gathering resource, before warping back to that spot and starting the long climb up to the village. I used all my potions and just BARELY made it up to the Rito village.
The music starting up as I sat there and felt so accomplished was amazing…
Until I realized that there was a bridge on the other side…
Even muppets can feel that pain
My first time playing Skyrim I couldn't find ivarstead to get up the mountain so I basically fought thru "Bethesda climbing" up the other side of the mountain, finding out how to get around the storms cuz I had no shouts yet, went across the throat of the world, and back down to the Grey beards. I was pissed when I learned about the stairs
It's that moment of: " YES!!! I AM THE B- . . . . . OH COME ON!!!" XD
@@astolfofansunny4047 in my opinion, this is what the game is all about. You can always play it your own way. There will often be a direct and easy way for newcomers who aren't sure what to do. But if you find a way to solve a problem by yourself, the game encourages you to do so. That's what makes it so great.
First divine beast interaction for me was the elephant one in the water. I jumped off a mountain (pretty sure it was the Lynal one or however you spell Lynal) anyway I slowly floated down onto it when out of nowhere it’s boss health bar appeared and it activated. Genuinely shit my pants when that happened it just made a loud sound and hit me with a shockwave or something.
I WISH, in all of those part where you said “I’m not even gonna get started on that” I wish you got started on it. Make it 2 hours longer
Same
I feel like he says that to keep himself from going insane. Making a video like this is already a pretty big time and energy consumption
Honestly I listen to long videos when I have a session of terraria
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I remember how surprised I was when I discovered Lurelin village. It is so far from all the necessary story locations, you would never know it was there without going on a massive detour through Faron. Might be my favourite village in the game.
it was such a pleasant treat to find such a unique place when i first found it
First playthrough, never new it existed. Second playthrough only found it cause I went right first to the big forest with farosh (wanted early durians and bananas) and discovered good GOD are porgies broken🤣
I remember fooling around and traveling the beaches entirely on foot. It was a welcoming surprise!
@@darcidious99 same!
@@angelkato1401 lurelin is the place on the beach right?
I feel like absolutely no one has pointed out the horror and panic you feel when you think you saw a lynel notice you, but it’s just a bokoblin on a horse.
no thanks. What about hearing the guardian piano
ShadowFax that’s also horrifying
The first couple of Lynel gave me trouble but once i realized how broken Stasis is on them they have never ever bothered me since.
I personally prefer flurry rushes, considering I’ve gotten pretty good at timing them.
Best thing you can do against lynels is shoot them in the face for stagger, climb on their backs to hit 5 times for no durability-draining damage, then when you get flung off, slow mo shoot him in the back of the head a few times. Rinse and repeat, and you're now a force of nature against Lynels.
36:40 this is the beauty of having a silent protagonist. you don't know how they feel about things, you don't know _if_ they feel anything about it. so it's up to YOU to determine the mood. and BotW did a phenomenal job at setting the tone. solemn.
First 10 seconds
"Hello friends, I'm here to talk a little bit about breath of the wild"
*3 hour video*
"A LITTLE BIT"
He spoke the truth
Well... This is only half of the game. The game is over 200+ hours long. This only covers about 100 hours of the game... IN 3 HOURS!?
Like #1000!
Haha so funny bc the video is long hahaha
“But the deer don’t know that. The grass doesn’t know that” Man, what brilliant lines. This video had me so emotional in so many different places. You’ve got such an eloquence that kept me captivated all the way through. Thanks for this video. I really appreciate this ❤️
Yes it was a great review. Some parts are really poetic and romantic.
Felt a bit maudlin to me.
´FLUFF' A loud sound just erupted out of my ass. Ya it felt maudlin to me too.
Added timestamps so that Arlo doesn't have to:
0:00: Intro
2:56: The magic of exploration
18:07: Presentation, sound and atmosphere
49:05: Story and characters
1:11:06: Difficulty, combat and progression
1:43:10: Traversal, physics and ''crafting''
2:22:46: Shrines, dungeons and quests
3:02:30: A new era of Zelda
3:18:21: BLOOD MOONS and "I AM GOING TO DIE!!
Bruh
Wow, thank you for this 🙏
Very useful
@@arabellaallen5613 Sorry, to lazy to actually finish it😂
@@arabellaallen5613 Sorry, to lazy to actually finish it😂
@@Ravio_Z haha lol
One of my favorite things about this game is that I was able to get through the icy part of the great plateau without knowing how to cook or getting the clothes-I just held a freakin torch in my hand the whole time up the mountain and it worked. And finding out from friends later about their methods and all of us going “I didn’t know you could do that!” was just awesome.
I literally ate the peppers raw and thought it worked. I just assumed it mitigated the damage as opposed to actually preventing it lol. I just figured I'd better move fast if I wanted that shrine
I had no idea the dragons existed for a long time. Then one day I'm exploring and I see the wind, then I get hit by a ball of lightning, and as I'm recoiling from the confusion I see a giant friggin' dragon rising out of the water beside me. I think that was the one moment that really cemented to me that this was completely unlike any other game I've ever played. This massive thing just exists, out in the wild, and you have no obligation to find it, I just tripped over it randomly.
Same. I saw one rising up from over lake hylia and was like :O
And then when I was fighting a silver lynel the fire dragon came up from behind me out of nowhere and started firing fireballs at me. Was pretty wild, not gonna lie. Very memorable. Both beautiful and terrifying.
*laughs in 3 years of skyrim experience*
Dragons are real.
Bearded, komodo and sea dragons are all dragons.
Would of been cool if when you found the memories you had to actually play them instead of watch. Imagine fighting the guardians until they eventually just overwhelm you and that's the memory
Wow that would've been really cool
Sounds like halo reach’s ending lol
yeah kinda like persona 5's beginning
What if you defeat them tho?
@@KNDraws Then you get to fight lynels and guardians at the same time.
0:00 Intro
2:55 The magic of Exploration.......14:30 best joke in the video
18:05 Presentation, Sound And Atmosphere
49:03 Story and Characters
1:11:03 Difficulty, Combat and Progression
1:43:08 Traversal, Physics and Crafting
2:22:44 Shrines, Dungeons and Quests....... 2:24:08 second best joke in the video
3:02:28 A New Era of Zelda
3:20:45 bonus scene :)
Colfdra Legend I
Those weren't really jokes
@@gnarkilleptic4871 were you watching the video?
Thanks
DA REAL DAMN MVP
46:35 The use of horns seems to be reserved for the largest bosses. Horns push a lot of air, and make a powerful sound. But a piano literally has ten fingers crawling around the keys like spider legs, or Guardian legs. And those Guardian legs wriggle quick, just like the music. The guardian shifts left and right, ducks aside, hunkers down for a shot, and the music mimics that.
Finally! They released the full season of Sesame Street!
What are you talking about? This is only episode one
brought to you by the letters N, 6 and 4...
@@joejoe2658 Ah yes, my favorite letters, 6 and 4.
I want the directors cut with commentary from the french devs
@@goldbergshekelwitz1596 we we
"Ganon went on a rampage, tons of people died, there was fire everywhere, it was just one giant mess...
...but the deer dont know that. The grass doesn't care. The sun and moon rise and set like always. Nature is just...nature, and nature is beautiful."
Can we talk about how poetic this line is?
also here hm?
i like it a lot but at the same time it scares me cus it reminds me just how insignifigant i am in the grand scheme of reality lol
Ganon is spelled wrong.
No, and also, it's just plain wrong to say nature is beautiful when it created ganon and hence the disasters lmao. You people need to stop romanticizing this shit.
Rainn Chen stfu
Me: I dont like 10 part vids
Arlo: Ok
I came back to this after finishing Tears of the Kingdom and nearly fell out of my chair when I heard Arlo's crafting suggestions. It feels like Nintendo execs watched this and were like, "Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN!!!"
Too bad the execution of that sucks so bad is IMHO more game breaking than lack any of it in BOTW. And there's ton more of such gimmicky ideas in TOTK, it's baffling.
Avengers Endgame: Our movie runs for 3 hours!
Arlo: Hold my butternut squash
Avengers Endgame: yes please
BUTTERNUT SQUASH? YES PLEASE!
Vela S Where? What youtuber?
You don't know how much I just laughed out loud at that!
Yeah, but Solid Thanos.
I have had issues sleeping for over 10 years. I wake up multiple times a night and usually it takes a long time for my brain to shut off.
This video is the number one thing that has kept my mind from running wild at night. I have this on repeat all night long and have been sleeping so much better.
Thank you Arlo.
Wow Arlo hearted a comment that's 1 day old in a 1 year video also yeah Jon I hope you have good nights you deserve it
@@mariomaster101official I'm not going to lie, it meant a lot to me that he did that. Doesn't make too much sense for him to check something like this on a year old video but I'm glad he did. ☺️
I can't describe how much better I'm sleeping now, how much less running my mind does in the middle of the night.
The only thing that wakes me up sometimes is when at the end he screams "I'm going to die!" At the end when talking about blood moons 😂
Also, thank you for saying that! ☺️
@@Corndog1340 no problem
Arlo hearted the comment that's wholesome af
@@linkthepig4219 I have a whole bunch of his videos on a playlist now, I cannot explain how much better in sleeping and how much these videos about games I love have helped with my overall health.
not gonna lie, beating that lynel in zora domain for the first time was such a satisfying achievement
I just used an ancient arrow. I have no shame
@@litessbu same
@@litessbu those arrows are the only reason I find guardian parts. They make master mode easy.
@@boscy stop
@@boscy what
I know it's like normal for a Zelda game to end and you just spawn outside of the boss door but I was really hoping that when I beat BOTW I was going to be able to explore the world with Gannon dead and have some new thing happen. I was so disappointed. But I should have known
“But, at the very least, we can all hope that Breath of the Wild will eventually get its very own ‘Majora’s Mask’ equivalent.” [Arlo at 1:10:40]
Nintendo: yes.
Nswitch The comment isn’t saying that Arlo predicted Nintendo is making a BOTW sequel, but a Majora’s Mask style sequel.
Nintendo: TECHNICALY
...
connorthepotato Judging by ganondorf’s return, it _looks_ more story based. At the very least, by bringing back a fan-favorite, they are at least listening to fans and their criticisms.
@@Purple_SlothStory was so disappointing lmao I'm so tired of nintendo games without stories
Marvel: Avengers Endgame is gonna be exactly 3 hours long
Arlo: Hold my peanutbutter sandwich and my juice box
I love the specific non-beer food & drink items
And butternut squash.
Hold my lasagna and my wine
And Arlo includes bathroom breaks
Nice one!
8 seconds in: "I'm here today to talk a _little_ bit about Zelda: Breath of the Wild."
_looks at video length_
Me: :|
I'm halfway in, I better buckle up cause I'm here for the long haul
Marissa Crego im 2 and a half hours in 😳
@@bubblyytiffyy I'm 30 minutes in
14 mins in I'll come back to you at about 11:30 am
A L I T T L E B I T
Man the complaints about no crafting system aged like fine wine
Facts 😂
Why!
what happened
@@AstaIsAMonstertotk
@@afriendlycampfire260totk still dropped the ball though. Fuse is not a crafting system, it's just a gimmicky mechanic that changed the meta to require all viable weapons to have a shitty looking fuse. Missed potential for sure.
@@skyellama8374 honestly I hate how shitty strong weapons fused weapons look in totk like the only way that I can make a strong weapon is by fusing another dumb lynel saber horn
me after watching 3 hours and 20 minutes of thoughtful, well researched, well presented content:
“yeah i guess i’ll give it a like”
@Otneimica Pretty depressing when you think about how much effort he put into this video
@Otneimica Yes this is so true! I try to make an effort support videos like this by subscribing.
6.2 million views and only 62 thousand likes. I always like videos i enjoy and it surprises me how many people don't.
This is just an observation, but I'd be willing to wager that vastly more people have a few moments available to watch as opposed to 3+ hours. Going even further out, not many folks are interested in LoZ research papers as much as things like smoky-eyed-cat make-up tutorials, getting 200HP boosts from air filters, or cryptocurrency secrets "they" don't want you to know. This a niche.
@Otneimica it doesn't say shit about how shallow people have become (we are animals, we are basically wired to act the way we act) but you're right about the attention span part
I first played botw in January of this year. I was completely going in blind, never caring at all or knowing anything about the Zelda franchise. It truly changed my gaming experience forever.
The same thing happened to me, I didn't even know about thos game until my uncle decided to buy me the game
Gibbet did you have a Switch at the time? I’d be super surprised if you somehow had a switch but hadn’t heard of BOTW. It is *the* game to have with a switch.
@@ryancarrell3186 lol, no, I got the switch and the game at the same time
Jacob The Poet Twilight Princess and Ocarina of Time?!? I understand if you couldn’t get into Zelda after playing those titles, but even after playing BOTW and you still don’t like it, makes me think you don’t appreciate good games.
Everyone’s different but I highly recommend
This video took me back to 2017 when I first played BOTW. Gotta say Arlo, you went all out on this one. Nice job.
Over 8M views now. Well done Arlo. Well deserved.
Yea 1% got past 10 minutes with the unbearable voice.
@@ts7844 Nothing cant stop the haters
Coming back to see his opinions on this game vs TotK
@@ts7844you mean 0.00001% got past the first second, am I right? Oh wait, I meant NANOSECOND! No one watched the video. The view count is bots from North Korea and North Pole. Haha 🌈
@@robertschnobert9090you are a fool
My Mother was a biiig fan of the Zelda Series, but she died as i was 13. I bet she would have LOVED Breath of the Wild
Rest in peace 🙏🏿
R.I.P |:
she's living it right now, bro.
That sucks man, sorry to hear that
May your mom be like link and be resurrected to play Zelda. RIP.
I think one of the most legendary moments I had in this game was in my fight against that damn Lynel. When I first saw it I knew I had to fight it and kill it so I ran right up to it and died instantly. After a couple a deaths I decided to try and cheese it so I climbed on a rock so he couldn’t get to me and would peel from the rock to deal chip damage. After he fired his arrows into the rock, he decided to try something different. He shot his arrow straight up and I actually laughed at him thinking his AI must be full on broken, but then the arrow came back down straight on top of me and I died again. From this point forward, I knew I couldn’t cheese him anymore. For the next hour I decided to try and kill him, each time I got closer and closer but died. Then something clicked and I learned his pattern, I knew when to dodge and mount and arrow him and I finally won. I have never had a game make me feel so relieved and happy and it was the cherry on the cake to buy the dlc and watch hero’s path show how many times I died but in the end became victorious.
That’s amazing! Man, it’s really cool how well this game sets up for stories. It’s like sitting by a campfire and telling others campfire stories. This is like the perfect internet era game!
Been doing this for 2 days straight and I still can’t get it
@@pokemaster8989 you don’t have to right now! That Lynel will always be there for you when you’re ready.
Congrats, you got gud.
Giant dad would be proud.
This was an intense comment
the first time i saw a lynel was by the lanayru road, and i panicked and ran away as soon as i saw it. when i got to zora's later and heard them talking about the lynel, i was dreading climbing up the mountain
When I first met the Lynel, I was just like "you want me to grab how many arrows?"
Trey Atkins I didn’t even really have to fight the Lynel. I got a chest of 5 Shock Arrows in the Mount Lanayru (Hateno) region and took the free Shock Arrow in Zora’s Domain on the way out. By the time I left Shatterback, I had 28 Shock Arrows. I then felt gutsy and charged that Lynel. It didn’t end well.
My first time seeing a lynel was at the mountain. Then it one-shotted me.
Then i git gud and defeated it.
I beat the Lynel in the Zora regina by hoarding and cooking mighty durians and hoarding fairies.
Lol the first time i saw one i took it on mano a mano and got shit on for an hour straight before i decided they were probably end game content. And then i came back later and got shit on for another hour before finallt getting a kill
3:17:14 "...now it feels like the sky is the limit"
indeed... that aged well
Damn, that is big fat indeed.
*Skips video*
I respect your opinion.
Bruh sound effect #2
*skips to the end of the video*
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@@raulrojas9253 Because imagine you're looking for an in-depth review of Breath, and you find *this* - a three-and-a-half hour mega deep dive by a fucking puppet. This is a way cooler pitch to non-subscribers than a half dozen different episodes.
@@raulrojas9253 Also for binging. It's great for background noise while cleaning, and Arlo is surprisingly one or the more mature(See: Less swear and dirty joke heavy) Gaming RUclipsrs, and it's good to just listen to, leave eventually, and just pick up later.
@@AlriikRidesAgain "Less swear and dirty joke heavy" is a pretty low bar to clear. Highly recommend Joseph Anderson, KingK, etc for more "mature" in-depth reviews/retrospectives on a regular basis (though this video is just fine :3)
When Cookie Monster overcame his addiction, his sentences became more coherent and he lost a lot of weight. And then he turned to video games, a new vice.
Z is for Zelda; that's good enough for me.
It’s clearly Grover without a nose
This game has only been out for 3 years and it’s already nostalgic
I only just now started playing it and I'm in love. I have revalis Gale and it's so amazing it baffles me I've never heard of this game and I just love it so much ♥️
No.
@@moviefilmstudios9828 yes.
just shows how great this game is
Yes, I bought this game 3 years ago when I was in 7th grade, every thing from that year feels nostalgic to me now mostly because it was the best year of my life
Arlo - your crafting comments are spot on. I was so disappointed that I couldn't decorate my house in a meaningful way, I always wanted to have a pond where I could stock fish or even a farm area with my own stables and places to plant trees or veg
i think it makes sense that the memories link needs to see again to regain his memories aren’t the ones where he’s fighting but the time he spent with the people he loved
I agree. You already have the heroic weight of your mission. You know it if you've played a Zelda game. You know it if you've played any video game at all.
But the personal weight of the tragedy for Link? That's where the connection to the character happens. You have to see his relationship with Zelda grow, above all else. It creates a real urgency to save her. And I think the absolute most important aspect of the failure to seal Ganon 100 years ago is to show that Link himself failed. That he never even made it there. That he *wasn't* yet a fully-realized hero back then, even if he was wildly impressive as a knight. You have a responsibility not only to saving Hyrule and Zelda, but a responsibility to redeem Link.
Makes sense locically. No sense for a games story tho
I hadn’t ever considered that. What an amazing point.
While that is true, they could have struck a more equal balance of fighting and talking. Good point though.
Person*
On my third viewing of this video and I just realized that arlo's horses are named "butternut" and "squash"
Yes, please!
Mine are
Juan.
Man.
Epona
Juan. is dead.
that's like 10 hours of just this video
@@conic2721 on my current playthrogh I have just one horse and I called jim quartz. No deep reason, I just really like the word
Why in the HELL, would you watch this 3 times, let alone ONCE?
“It’s all just very still.”
As a Yiga Clan member is chasing you in the background.
jwalt2577 I once was chased by a Yiga Soldier who got shot by a Guardian as a Guardian also chased me.
33:17 if anyone is wondering
Alex Jaimes thanks
33:26
Horses became a lot more useful in this game with the addition of the ancient horse armor where you can whistle from anywhere and it teleports to you.
Master Cycle Zero:
"The idea that even ONE person on this great big planet would want to hear me talk about one game for 3 hours is absurd."
has over 5 million views and is still being watched several years later*
Exactly
2 years =/= several. Just saiyan
Lmao yes
It’s his most popular video lmao
I will be waiting for his 6 hour video on botw 2
This is longer than Avengers: Endgame. Respect.
Copied
me me I didn’t see anybody else that commented that lol
And more engaging too
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@@alexrawls3074 you trying to summon a demon over here?
Me fighting ganon: wow this is pretty easy
Me when it starts raining: OH MY GOSH WHYYYYYYY
“Looks up to the sky on my knees dramatically “ NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Rain is the true antagonist in this game.
I drive long distances and have listened to this review many, many times. Thankfully I’m not as sensitive to spoilers as yourself. I’ve never been into Zelda games, never have, and I thought I never would…until now. This review alone made me want to get the game just to see for myself and I have to say it’s one of, if not, THE best game I’ve ever played and I’m only a few hours in! Thank you for this review (which I still listen to as it gives me great audio entertainment whilst driving), because if it weren’t for this one video I undoubtedly would not have experienced this masterpiece. Thank you once and again and keep up the great work. I can’t wait for the Big Fat Review of Tears Of The Kingdom! 👍🏼
Same!
You perfectly summarized how I felt about the dragons
“Huh wonder what WTF IS THAT”
Followed shortly by, "Do I have to FIGHT THAT THING!?"
Banuner at least naydra has a little bit of lore. Although I wish I got to fight them in order to get an item. Because just an arrow doesn't seem realistic when it comes to a HUGE DRAGON
I’ll sometimes listen to the soundtrack for this game on RUclips as I study. I’ll tell ya, when that guardians theme kicks in my entire body immediately tenses up because of how many times those things destroyed me during my first 50 hours
Oh I listen to that during homework or drawing to
But yes that guardian music was freaking me OUT and. I’m now practicing my shield dash so it becomes less scary
1:02:05 it’s worth noting as well that since link had amnesia his personality is more distinct between the time skip, since he forgot his oath of silence. He acts more goofy in dialogue options in the actual gameplay while he’s more somber in memories.
super interesting point!!
let's seal the deal!
@@wordswarsandsymphonies It’s to set seal
Funny mute versus mute mute
@@nyahnyahson523 yep. "Oath of silence" haha. Hilarious.
I appreciate how positive you are without disregarding things that could have genuinely made the game better
Adore this game. So being able to listen to someone talk about it for over 3 hours.. bliss.
I'm watching a 60 hour long playthrough rn
@@calamitify3140 damn I watched a 12 hour stream of a botw playthrough once but that's-
💕💕
I didn't know you had your own Movie, Arlo!
I was just thinking the same thing. I've watched movies half as long as this lol.
I subbed 2 u
Did you know that he actually had a cameo in one of the muppit movies?
Watching this after they just revealed development on botw 2 only to hype myself up
Dray Brinkerhoff me too.
Amen me too hahaha
See. I saw that a lot of this info was false in the end because, well, there's going to be a sequel.
Nintendo intentionally skipped a TON of info because they had a sequel for the game in mind.
That's a theory, anyways. :)
ModernMilkshake it wasn’t intended to be falce and it isn’t. Botw 2 was thought to be something like 2021 not 2019
@@amhanson_ as i said, it was just a theory. :/
It's so amazing watching such an in depth review for a game I love. This was my first Zelda game and it just felt absolutely magical, I felt like I was walking through a Ghibli movie
I can't wait for "A big fat review of breath of the wild 2"!
Obviously you have to wait like a year 😔
@@adityachandrapradeepnair2920 better to wait 10 years for a MASTER OF A GAME than rush it and ends like FALLOUT76 OR CYBERBUG
@@kleinfeicht yea but I’d rather play it before I die 😂☠️
@@adityachandrapradeepnair2920 I cant wait for it i held off this whole time but the last few weeks botw 2 is all I've been thinking about. I cannot wait for another of this masterpiece.
@Zane Blaire well yeah nobody is saying they want them to rush the game out unfinished we are just excited to play the game
"And hopefully Breath of the Wild will get it's very own Majora's Mask equivalent"
Is Arlo a prophet?
No I think thats just what we all wanted
@@Gayd1 and I think that was a rhetorical question
inshallah
frog LV. 20 No... arlo isn’t a prophet
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ARLO IS AN ALMIGHTY GOD
i read this EXACTLY when arlo said this
“The Rito are very quiet and dignified”
Revali: hold my bow
It still balances out, he’s dignified to the point of arrogance, but he doesn’t know how to keep his beak shut
Mr. Snark xD
you misspelled Ravioli
REVALI’S GALE IS NOW READY
with what you said about the importance of nature persisting despite the calamity, it's one of the things that makes the game so close to my heart. i think there are things about this game thematically that touch on trauma, in general, in a very special way. when i lost someone tragically i often thought about the fact that nature persisted, and that gave me great comfort. link's silence and the relaxing soundtrack, added to the majority of the gameplay being adventuring alone, almost gave me a sense of companionship with another lonely wounded soul whose world was changed irreversibly. i never rly see link as a stand in for me as a gamer, more like someone i have empathy for who i'm guiding on an internal healing journey as well as an external saving-the-world journey. and the way the game contrasts link's internal journey--the fact that he really isn't Just a lawful hero, that he is chaotic and loves to cook and the pressure put on him as the chosen one is often to his detriment emotionally--and his external mission to save zelda and avenge the champions, makes it even more nuanced and complex. it's like the player IS the midna or navi or fi of the game, it feels a lot closer and vulnerable and PERSONAL to bare witness to link's activities in the past and present. it is genuinely a healing experience to play this game in the same way it's healing to be in nature.
So true I love this so much about this game
The thought of how much footage had to be recorded, watched, and edited to create this gives me a headache
Imo if there was a crafting system it would've been really cool if you could only build weapons/shields if you had taken an in-game photo of the gear in question. It would give even more of an incentive to use the camera rune, which is nice because I rarely used it at all unless I wanted to look for specific materials to upgrade my armor.
I think it's still a boring solution to Zelda. Maybe weapons come out from the photo is a more interesting idea?
OHHH That's smart, that would be really cool! And I getcha ^^ Same here, or if I wanted to take cool screenshots of memorable moments or OC inspirations or something!
@@superbowyiming Ooooh, yeah, I like that idea with the photos, too! ^^ Clever!
@@superbowyiming What if your slate and runes were also tied to another meter that worked like stamina, then the shrines and/or guardians gave you parts to take to Purah to upgrade the meter.
Then, when you go find Robbie in the Akkala Highlands, he gives you a brand new rune that lets your slate reconstruct a weapon or shield you took a picture of, and the new meter for your slate is the durability for the gear, albiet not as durable or powerful as the actual gear so you still feel a need to find the actual weapon and can't just abuse reconstructing a Savage Lynel bow all the time.
It would remove the necessity for some players to keep a hammer, axe, korok leaf, and torch in their inventory at all times, fix the problem of some gear having limited supply (the Rito Shield, Forest Sword, and most the tier 1-2 Lynel Gear), and some other issues with only a small sacrifice on the impact that weapon durability has on the gameplay.
Reminds me of Dark Cloud 2. If you wanted to invent new gear for yourself you needed inspiration which, like in real life, doesn't come from nowhere. You must seek inspiration: go places, make memories, and take lots of pictures. Dark Cloud 2 may have failed on the shelves but many subtle things like that mechanic stuck with me.
I bet he hasn't even played the game. If you're gonna make a review please make sure it's longer than a meer 3 and a half hours.
Make it 3 and a half days if you really know how the game works. 3 and a half hours for a "full" review? Yeah right.
Trey Atkins Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. Should have been 3 weeks AT LEAST.
My Namo pffff 3 weeks? MORE LIKE 3 YEARS
Jenjorgo Jorg ha. laughable, it should’ve been 3 decades
Pathetic im in the middle of making a 3 century reveiw
This video autoplays on my TV so many times, it's like a cozy video to fall asleep to now
The ending in Breath of the wild has hidden beauty. One of the bird guys sings a song about how pink pedals reveal true love, and you see them fall at the end of the ending with memories
I actually never knew that, when/where does kass (I assume) say this?
@@AlphaxZero28 If you do all the quests and beat the game, you'll unlock it. I'm not gonna spoil.
@@AlphaxZero28 do the Tarrey Town quest and pay close attention to what Bolson says near the marriage.
Ok I can't take this anymore why do so many people use that channel icon?!
@@Gayd1 It's funny, and I like the artstyle
When he started talking about how everything was in ruins, I thought about how if Earth in a couple hundred years would look like Zelda BOTW. I also thought about how people in a post apocalyptic world would feel when they saw New York City or Las Vegas in ruins. Imagine your whole city or town gone; everything about it, gone; the place's history, gone; hundreds, thousands or maybe millions of people living there, gone. Just the feeling that was once a whole city or town where you are standing really messes you up. Also, the feeling of knowing in a couple hundred years that your history, your family's history, your friends' history, and everyone's history is buried under rock and dirt messes you up too. Just some thoughts.
Don’t sub or else we’ll shoot.... time to copy my life history onto uranium
Ty The Great that’s also the sad thing about that too, your name is lost to the wind after a generation or two. Your name only gets remembered if you were a VERY important part of history. Like George Washington or Albert Einstein. Even those names after a long times will be forgotten forever.
Fallout is basically this, especially New Vegas
I looked at the date if this video and say April of 2019. It's almost been 3 years since I watched my favorite Arlo video ever. I've watched you ever since your Paper Mario video went viral a long time ago, and have genuine memories of this channel in my early childhood. (currently 15, almost 16 years old) You're channel is one of the things that has stuck with me for this long. I've had friends leave, my sister move out, get married, and my other sister go to college, but this channel stayed with me this whole time. It almost feels like this channel, and in turn, Arlo was and still is apart of my life in a way I can't fully explain. Thank you so much for what you've done for me and I'm sure many, many other people. If you end up seeing this, thank you, Arlo. I hope one day I can thank you in person at a convention of some kind.
Also, I saw your mental health video you uploaded a few days ago, and I'd just like to say, I relate to putting things off so much. During quarantine, I was virtual the entire time in school, and I'm normally an A and B student, and I turned into a B, C, D, and F student because I would continually put things off until the very end when the stress outweighs the feeling to not do anything.
Sorry for the wall, I just have a lot to say + 1am brain = a text wall. Anyways goodnight and have a good day everyone who reads this :)
thanks for being real and open! I def hit that wall of anxiety and stress about6 months ago. Honestly, I know God lets that stuff happen so that we will reach out to him. And he has made all the difference
Wait til you’ve been watching a channel for 10+ years !! A beautiful sincere feeling. I started watching TheRadBrad back in 2011. I had just graduated Highschool and went str8 off to college. I was 18, I turn 30 this September. Brad was maybe like 23 or so back then when I found him. The crazy part is how we both had our first child around the same time and they were girls!! I also watched Brad obtain a corgi pup he named chubbs! I’ve watched chubbs grow with brad to now seeing chubbs grow with Brads daughter. It’s so dope.
I hope you are ok buddy... Stay strong and just do the best you can.
I was watching videos on autoplay, until i fell asleep, i then proceed to wake up to 1 hour into a 3 hours video about a FAT review about zelda being narrated by the cookie monster, amazing 10/10 documentary would watch again
When you were talking about spoilers, I was like “that’s so silly, I love knowing everything about a game even before going in!” And then remembered the pure delight I had simply discovering there were moose in botw for the first time …
@Ana Amaro For a second I thought you were a bot
the first time I saw one of those wooly rhinos I was absolutely amazed for some reason, even though they're just animals they're so freaking neat
Didn't find my first bear in botw until a solid 150 hours in, and then I found out you can ride them like horses after seeing bokoblins do it. That was a truly special moment.
Well there you go. BOTW is full of neat little things like that. Also the animals in the mountain zone have top quality meat. So if you see a moose, shoot it. Be careful to pick up the meat right away before it freezes.
When I first played this game, I left the plateau and went towards the Hyrule bridge. As soon as I start walking across the bridge, timed perfectly, I saw Faron, the green dragon coming from my left under the bridge and arcing above it. I just stopped walking, used my camera to follow him, and just stared in awe. I immediately fell in love with the game at that moment.
I had the exact same experience. We were early in the game, not many weapons, just trying to kill those lizfalos on the bridge. You kill them, look up and just see this majestic dragon wrapping around the bridge, which you had never even imaged would be here, it’s just so perfectly timed. Some people don’t even see them for 10+ hours of playing, given that they only spawn at certain times. It’s just such great design.
I was on the Plateau when i saw Dinraal. It was awesome.
Faron is yellow.
Even two year later, Breath of the Wild CONTINUES to impress me. I played it for half of my plane ride to Tokyo a couple weeks back and I was STILL having fun exploring and having fun with the game's mechanics.
omg its roger
Gol D. Roger?! tell me! What is One Piece? Please!!! Oda won’t tell me :(
@J M Show us on the doll where BOTW touched you.
J M Good job bro, you didn’t fool anybody. Obvious troll. Was that supposed to fool people?
colton421 I mean, I agree with him. I’m playing through the game for the first time now, I’m decently far in (75 shrines, all the memories found, 3 divine beasts done) & the game has not lived up to the hype AT ALL. It’s been mostly a chore.
Hello Arlo, I just wanted you to know that this video got me through my labor of having my baby.
I watched this and listens to this as I was trying to get through some very very painful contractions. Your calming voice and watching The Zelda content was a good distraction but also relaxing and gave me something to focus on. Thank you!
"Track down that one frog to make my pants stronger"
-Arlo, 2019
For me it was those fire lizards.
I'm also tempted to ask the timestamp so you have to watch the whole thing again just to find it.
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This is essentially how furries work
@@aidanrettich6552 Dude what the heck?!
As a player who knew only the original Link game back in the 80's and now this one, I must say I have no criticism whatsoever of any part of this masterpiece. I never played a single other game like Skyward Sword, etc. I couldn't believe the changes. I am not a gamer at all and this is just pure joy. I played yesterday for 2 hours and discovered 3 new Koroks. Oh, I beat the game and have the DLC and am on Master Mode and all that. I'm also 71. I remember Pong for crying out loud! Cutting edge in its day. You kids just don't get it. I love saying that. And I can't wait for the next Breath of the Wild.
BoTW returns zelda to its roots of exploration
@@Breached18 And even as a man in his 70's I loved the exploration part. Having finished the game and defeated Ganon and that after Ganon thing I felt like a great journey had been completed and I was victorious. And the graphics blew me away. Well, the whole experience was immersive and fulfilling. Part two? Better hurry - my reflexes are fading. lol.
@@mikeyh0 its coming in the spring of 2023, I'd recommend playing the previous zelda games, especially Ocarina of time, Link to the past, and Majoras Mask, or just watch Zelda Lore videos.
Have you tried the elder scrolls series? Skyrim is where I started, and it’s a fun little world to run around in.
Fallout is another great open world franchise, and fallout new Vegas and fallout 4 feel like real places.
@@lindboknifeandtool I did look a bit at Skyrim. Very appealing. Red Dead Redemption looked cool, too. But I'm thinking my playing days are nearing their end. The new BoTW for sure.
After about a week of having this big fat beautiful review up in my browser window, consuming it in bite-sized chunks in between working from home, I have finally finished this video completely, beginning to end. It's been a hot minute since I beat the game and this was such a thoughtful, refreshing, and engaging look back on it. Thanks Arlo for your insight, positivity, and lovable humor - and for creating the best background video on the RUclipss!
Wow look at arlo liking comments on a 3 year old video all the power to him
@@tonyblock721 I honestly was shocked and very flattered! Arlo's a cool dude.
Coming to this EXTREMELY late here, but regarding the battle that wounded Link so badly, you missed the environmental storytelling there. The memory is found in a vast field full of destroyed Guardians. The implication is that Link took down *dozens* of them, all attacking at once, a true marathon of a battle, all alone, while protecting Zelda.
I always mix up Zelda and Link hahaha. How do you remember which one is the hero? 🌈
This level of passion from any independent creator should always, ALWAYS be applauded. Here's to many more reviews!
I can drink to that!!
*Big Fat Reviews
For some reason, until I got to the last sentence, I thought you were talking about the game lol.
couldn't agree more!
Just watched this Review before starting the game for my first time. I loved this and can't wait to start my ingame adventure.
ARLO just got my subscription with this piece of art! ~Passion - Hikaru Utada plays on background~
i loved seeing the dragons for the first time. my first thought was, "great i'm gonna have to fight that" in a mix of nervousness and excitement...disappointing you only fight one and it doesn't even attack you
Idk I was pretty happy when I first got close to one, heard the music, and found out they weren’t enemies, just dragons that fly around allow you to interact with them without them even acknowledging you
You don't actually FIGHT Naydra. You free it from the Malice that had entrapped it. That was actually the first dragon that I encountered, so it was more of a tutorial on how dragons and Springs worked for me than anything.
@@OneTrueNobody Considering they did that I'm pretty sure they know what you're "actually doing", your just arguing pointless semantics, it's functionally like you're fighting the dragon
i wish you would have to free all 3 dragons. i had a lot of fun doing it but was disappointed that i could only do it that one time
@@CrowLady0_0 To me it was kinda underwhelming and awkward, part of that is probably because I got naydra spoiled but also chasing a dragon down just isn't that enjoyable with how the paraglider works, even with revali's gale it took a windbomb for me to finish naydra off, not talking about it skillwise but just that there isn't any intended way to match a dragon's speed/height
I too was afraid of the Zora lynel but instead of sneaking around to collect arrows or kill it I ended up going all the way to Gerudo and finishing the quest to enter the town just to buy some electric arrows. That was what made me realise that there were so many tactics to this game.
Lmao i did that too bc i went up the mountain and immediately jusr said nooe and warped to gerudo
I decided to go overkill and I killed the lynel my first time. Now that may sound like me bragging, but I died. 23 times.
diernaman WOAAAHH I did something very similar. I went all the way to akkala and got ancient arrows and just removed the lynel from existence.
I did Ruta last and just teleported to Gerudo to buy the arrows
I just teleported to the beachside village, bought them, and then teleported back to the dam 😳
I still come back to this review every once in a while. Thanks Arlo, you’ve kept me company for a lot of night shifts
I will always remember the moment I fell in love with this game. I had gotten to Hateno Village and I decide to explore the beach. Then, in the distance, I hear something. Is that...an accordion? I thought that it was just background music. But what for? So I look through my scope, and what do you know, there’s a bird man on top of a rock way in the middle of the ocean. Weren’t they in Wind Waker? But they look so different now. Well, I gotta get to this guy, there’s no way he doesn’t have some kind of dialogue. So I kid you not, I spent about half an hour trying to figure out how to get to this guy. I try chugging a bunch of stamina potions, using a raft, using Octorock balloons, anything. I eventually used a combination of the three, just barely making it with a sliver of stamina left. I climb up the rock pillar, and hey, he’s playing the accordion. I talk to him, and he expresses his shock on how far out I’ve made it considering I can’t fly. And that filled me with satisfaction like nothing else. He introduces himself as Kaz, and plays me a song about the legendary Hero of Time. I didn’t even solve the riddle, but I knew right then and there that I loved this game. Kaz is still my Switch pfp to this day.
I could watch a movie, but honestly this is better.
I did watch a movie, and then this was in my recommended so here we are
2 movies
Ikr i have watched this so many times now and cant het over it.
Oh hey
i cant watch movies they are all long, boring and apocalyptic.
There are two ‘Nintendo gotta Nintendo’ moments in botw.
1: Gyro puzzles.
2: The FREAKING YIGA CLAN HIDEOUT
Yiga clan hideout fun unless you rush it
But the gyro puzzles...
I didn’t mind a most of the gyro puzzles but some are total ass
You can use the platform to yeet the ball to the end of the puzzle
I don't understand the hate for the Yiga hideout.
It was one of the most "Zelda" parts of the whole game.
Watching this after TOTK came out made me realize how much Arlo was right about