Starting the game with a festival would have been amazing and could have established Link and Zelda's relationship in a much more meaningful way as they enjoyed a celebration together.
Oh no way. That would remove all the heavy elements of Darkness and solitude at the start. That is not the brand and vibe these games were aiming for - and I think the right choice was made.
@@kit76149 Ikr? Thanks for agreeing, or rather seeing sense! 👍 I'm not sure why people think just because a few years have passed the Hylians totally forgot about everything and somehow rebuilt the place back up right over so many soldiers that might have perished? Plus the Castle itself clearly had not recovered and returned back to it's former pristine state. Tears' dark tone is memorable and makes me want to get to the root of the issue, seeing the sick Hylian affected by the Gloom. It's gritty and you want to help them. The OP is mistaken, this is a Zelda adventure not Love Island or a Hylian version of a rom Com.
@@johnroberts524 I mean I get that in a sense but the "Happy Hour gatecrashing by dark forces" has been done a million times in any other game, including Zelda of course. I still prefer the eerie menacing approach. I like the creepy , low-key hitting from the shadows vibe. Spared Us the feeling of deja-Vu.
What is just as heartbreaking is a little story detail that was sort of hinted at in-game but not fully conveyed. In the Masterworks, there is apparently a section speaking of how Zelda felt an inner conflict with herself over whether she should rebuild Hyrule as a kingdom like before or if the people were better off without a Royal Family, sort of having feelings of inadequacy for not being there for her people when they needed her most during the recovery of the Calamity. It explains why she worked so hard to help Hyrule after destroying Calamity Ganon (beyond just being generally a virtuous Princess overall). Considering the kingdom keeps referring to her as “Princess” and the mass panic for when she goes missing, we sort of already know the answer of what everyone else thinks about reviving the sovereignty of the Royal Family of Hyrule from the people, at least as far as it goes for Zelda.
Gaahhhh, I wish that was included as a main plot point for her! Even if it does cover some of the same story beats for her in BotW with her feeling inadequate, the question of "are the people better off without a Royal Family" would have been a good one to ask and explore as part of the rebuilding efforts.
@@StuCheeks This is where I think Nintendo have now taken a big "L" in declaring gameplay>plot….plot is very important for players pf franchises like LOZ.
Part of me wonders if there's a timeline out there where Zelda saw the Election in Hateno and gets the idea for Democracy, akin to ancient Athens formalizing the system.
The concept of the “jungle entrance in the Farosh province’ would’ve given us the insight of how Zelda learned more about the Spring Dragons during her time in the Era of Hyrule’s Founding. How Dinraal, Farosh and Naydra were originally Zonais before turning into dragons that later forbids anyone to undergone Draconification.
or at least explain WHY they decided to forbade it. some traditions are meant to be abolished, like human sacrifices, slavery, and patriarchy. but in this case of draconification, Zelda knew the risks, but made the sacrifice for Link's quest to defeat Ganondorf. and that tradition, in honoring fallen soldiers who fought for their homelands' existence, freedom, sovereignty, is still worth keeping.
I really love this take 👍 How have you only got 1 response, this is easily among the the sparingly few best suggestions I've heard! The rest just wanted Castle Town to be rebuilt into Los Angeles, which is ridiculous and would totally remove the urgency and feeling of being overwhelmed in the game.
The Dragons are not Zonai. There is nothing that says they're Zonai. Breath of the Wild literally has a line from the Hylia Statues that the Dragons are "Spirits" who took the forms of Dragons. The Dragons being Zonai is just a popular theory video.
I would have loved to have more sky islands, of a greater variety. I recall reading that they tried to have more islands at first, but they felt it ended up cluttering the skies too much. My solution to that would be to have a system somewhat like skywards sword's, where from the ground up only the handful of islands that were lowest are visible, but once you've crossed into the sky past a sky-barrier, it reveals _all_ the islands to their full extent. Just imagine the visual spectacle of being shot into the skies, and then suddenly having an entire second world in the skies revealed once you pass by the cloud layer.
I think this was a pr reason they stated. The real reason they didn't add it was most likely the power of the switch. They can't just say that publicly when trying to promote their game. They were super ambitious just the switch wasn't going to handle all that. When the game came out people were shocked calling it a technological achievement and how amazing it was they were able to add all those features, rewind, building, physics. They pushed the switch to it's absolute limit.
honestly i think this is the fault of the open world style they went with. having the whole world be one giant seamless map is amazing in concept but it ended up halting their creativity :/
I love TOTK but it causes me equal amounts of sadness and disappointment. It deserved so much more! A lot of the game seems unfinished, storylines don't wrap up or end, loads of stuff hinted but not included. I wanted so much more for this game and the Zonai
It's crazy to me that Nintendo would abandoned DLC for this game. There is so much potential. The tools are in place, a rebuild Hyrule expansion pack would be awesome to add to this game. Integrate online ideas for buildings, or have special amibos for building parts.
My guess is that they already have a planning of how long the Switch 2 will last, and they estimated that they needed to start working on the next Zelda game ASAP if they wanted it to be released during the Switch 2 lifetime.
@@MoiMagnus1er true. Would be interesting if they made it into its own game. I know they said that the Zelda world was probably not going to be used again. But they did produce a Hyrule Warriors game using it.
This would've been pretty cool and was honestly something I kind of expected/hoped for in the years leading up to the game's release. Except for the amiibo part. I don't want to have to buy physical DLC to be able to use the entirety of a digital DLC that would've already been bought.
THE BEGINNING OH MY GOD??? there is nothing I wanted more in this game than for them to mention the champions. The Champion story is so incredibly heartbreaking and the closest thing that we get to some memory is the picture of Zelda’s house. The champions are barely acknowledged in tears of the kingdom, even after everything. I know they wanted to make it independent from breath of the wild, but it’s a direct sequel, it’s not independent.
I really loved how they paid their respects to Mipha with Mipha's Court, however, i was expecting a similar treatment to all the other Champions. If you think about it, Mipha is pretty much the only Champion who gets acknowledged more than once in TotK, Daruk gets mentioned ONCE during the stable photographs sidequest, and both Revali and Urbosa are practically without mention anywhere except for their weapon's descriptions. I'm not complaining too much, given how Mipha is the only one that mattered to me lmao, but still, it's a pretty big deservice to the rest of the Champions, kinda makes me feel weird knowing Zelda had time to build multiple stone tombstones across Hyrule in honor of the fallen, built a school and took over Link's house, but the thought of honoring her former guardians and friends in some sort of way never crossed her mind lol
Speaking of the champions, I can't believe they moved Mipha's statue as well. It's like Yeaaaaaah, we're done with her lol let's move her up the hill. All for that weird statue of Link riding Sidon that we all could have done without seeing TBH 😆
My issue with TotK is that it's a sequel, but it doesn't try to be. We get very few tidbits of BotW lore, but overall, TotK's story tries heavily to disconnect from it and bubble itself into it's own story/lore. All the new characters tend to lack depth or have very few screentime, it also feels like most of them are just plot devices to move the story forward for another, but feel stale in comparison. Characters like Rauru, Mineru, and Sonia get major characterization in past cutscenes, however, Rauru takes the place of King Rhoam/Old Man as the tutorial guide for the Sky Island and disappears afterwards, leaving his story to cutscenes, however, he just ends up feeling like a copypaste of whatever formula King Rhoam/Old Man had in BotW. (I personally think it would be cool to see him as another companion character like Midna since we basically got a part of him connected to Link's body), Mineru was withheld until the end of the story outside of cutscenes and she barely had any screentime as is, she barely got to interact with the other current Sages, because once you complete her quest, she stays in the Spirit Temple and the next time you see her, she fights alongside Link and the others during the horde/Ganondorf battles. I also think if the story allowed for her to come out of the Purah Pad, having it as another vessel, she could be a companion with her brother, so we could have had two companions. As for Sonia, she's a wonderful character, however, it's painful to see her killed so early on in the unlockable past cutscenes by a warlock punch to the back and then don't appear until the end for 1 min. (She didn't even get official art and a bio in the character gallery, it just shows unimportant she was) I could also throw it out there and say that Ancient Sages basically having no character other than just being the same rinse and repeat cutscene 4 times over hurts their importance to the story, they aren't EVEN named. They could have done a nice tie-in to Urbosa's post-Divine Beast cutscene and named Ancient Gerudo Sage, Nabooru, to tie in, but they didn't. My headcanon is that they are named Nabooru, Darunia, Ruto, and Mido. It also doesn't help that like almost every NPC in the game doesn't even recognize Link at all outside of a few character. It's just painful. I could also throw it out there that Link didn't feel like he much of a connection with Ganondorf at all, like they barely interacted and it didn't feel as personal to face him with Link, it would have been with Zelda, but not Link. Also without the Triforce being a huge importance to the story, they aren't connected over the conflict for it, Link and Ganondorf just felt so heavily disconnected this game. Also looking at the Master Works designs for the characters, we could have better looks for the characters, but they choose not to go that route and just went for simple designs, even for the current Sages. Also Yona, looked like a better character in concept art and it would have been amazing to see her be tough and holding a samurai sword in clothing, I just felt like they just downside her character to "wife" and took out something could have made her more memorable, but overall she's just Mipha 2.0. Honestly just so much wasted potential, I love the game, I really do and I feel like it improves the overall overworld from BotW, however, it just ends up shooting itself in the foot with all the issues it had, I'm not even gonna go into the fact they copied the formula from BotW, with the past cutscenes, compared to BotW, it was better if it was just used for Link's Memories and they did something else for the Tear memories.
In my opinion, this was the worst iteration of Ganondorf. Every previous appearance of Ganondorf has been amazing until this fool. No cunning plan, no motivations besides "pOwEr" The only good thing about him is his looks, can't argue with how awesome he looks. He should have stayed as a mummy lurking and slowly plotting for 10,000 years.
I love the game, but these revelations from Master Works are making me sad that we could have had so much more. Most of my complaints would have been fixed by the concept art I've seen so far
Though TOTK was a great game, it definitely could have been better and somehow still had untapped potential. One main or side quest I would have liked in the game was rebuilding Castle Town
For a game about building there's a surprising lack of rebuilding the kingdom. Imagine if we had a bunch of different tarry town-like side quests where we went to old ruined towns in botw, and were able to help restore them to a livable town. As is the only one like this is Lurelin, a village we already have visited and know what it looks like.
I would've loved the festival opening it could've been the festival of all the races come together to party the new champions are created and then link and zelda get a report from a knight about a cave near the castle they found, then link and zelda travel down the cave find the mural reciting the imprisoning war, and find ganondorfs mummy and then we get that cool as awakening cutscence and all the festival goers especially the new champions and impa feel the tremor of ganondorfs power pushing the castle up the people run away screaming. And that's the opening of totk. Oh and mmummified ganondorf would be up in the castle instead of in the depths doing nothing and zelda wouldn't turn into a dragon instead she would find the very first deku tree and place the master sword in its pedestal during the founding of hyrule and use the secret stones power to take her back to the future which causes the secret stone to shatter (i hate how totk was another time paradox) and this would either be DLC or an interlude where we play as zelda in both instances. And there would also be multiple sidequests similar to lurelin village where we rebuild villages. And each area would have a bolsons construction sign instead of them being dotted all over.
As much as I think exploring a fully-rebuilt castle town would be beyond awesome, I do kind of get why it is coming along slowly... Cities like Warsaw were re-built so quickly because it was home to alot of people...there were tons of people who had lives there and were invested into seeing those lives re-built. Meanwhile...even if there were some residents of Castle Town who survived the Calamity, the Calamity was a full century ago. Aside from Zelda, Link...and maybe the three shiekah elders themselves, I don't know if there were any confirmed surviving residents of castle town by the time BOTW happened. The few other hylians in the games who were around to see the Calamity were in Hateno at the time of it, if memory serves...and NOBODY wanted to go back and live anywhere near the center of Hyrule while those ancient guardians were zooming around, that's for sure. So Castle Town's rebuilding was likely coming along so slowly because there was a lack of able-bodied people who had viewed it as a home...
I was also really interested in this and upset at the unlikelyhood of it actually happening, but then I thought about it some more and realized how pointless it would actually be. The population of Hyrule was significantly decreased following the Calamity, and we're specifically told that all the Castle's residents were killed. Given the present day situation, there just isn't any reason to prioritize rebuilding such a massive settlement since the survivors all appear to have a home already. Certain traveling merchants may not, but at that point you could just build a smaller settlement for them. In addition, I like the idea that the knowledge on how to build with materials used for Hyrule Castle was lost to time as it shows how significant of a setback the Calamity was for the kingdom. The castle falling into neglect in the present is a good indicator for this.
I LOVE the original concepts way better. I have only played through this game once, and that was right after release. I haven't had the desire to play it again. Tears of the Kingdom was a huge letdown for me.
Yeah what we ended up getting was bland and empty copy-pasted environments for the skies, depths, and caves. I was genuinely surprised how little was changed after 6 years. I would much rather have these imaginative environments from the concepts rather than the Zonai devices which added little to no value to the game.
@@created3612 And the abilities that you get (like Ultrahand or Ascend) seemed more game breaking rather than tools to help you on your adventure. I can't tell you how many of the Shrine puzzles were rendered useless due to Ascend alone.
@@Kristen242008 Exactly. The game is way too open mainly because of the tools given. And because of that it ruins progression, storytelling, and any immersion or unique encounters you could’ve been able to experience because you can just bypass literally anything. Thats why so many people hated the fire temple, which I personally loved because I went through it the “intended” way.
Ganon was originally going to wield his iconic Trident in his Ganondorf form, which would’ve the first canon Zelda game other than Hyrule Warriors from its Legends rerelease onwards.
They could have easily incorporated that into the Demon King phase 2 fight. At half HP he conjures the trident or wields one made out of Zonai energy staff.
I’d dare say the Switch’s limitations played a role in them not implementing all sky islands designs: look at the complexity of one of the concept arts tho… that’d have been too much
I don't think the Switch capacity matters here (especially when they could just scalled down some idea), most of these design shouldn't be harder to load and process than some of the dungeons (only here the whole structure is more grouped and tightened). The main problem imo is the time and human ressources to make all this complex and unique design (and to think about interesting things to do).
I can’t believe we were robbed by Nintendo for not putting in the Hyrule restoration festival into Tears of the Kingdom. Let alone The temple of Light that beneath Hyrule Castle and the extra murals that shows more about the history Ganondorf (as seen in both the Master Works and the 2019 teaser of Tears of the Kingdom).
Not to mention actually have the Water Temple be underwater, or at least part of, or an extension to, the Ancient Water Works. Also, the Depths could have been a true place of nightmares if the Zelda team had done something similar to A Link to the Past: make uglier mirror versions of the monsters you battle above ground. The Frox was a beast that really had potential as being the "dark world" version of the Dodongo!
Ganondorf was totally robbed in this game. The coolest design and the most powerful, but basically no backstory. I really wish more of the ancient gerudo was shown, I wanted to know how Ganondorf gained power.
I hear you. And a playable Zelda would’ve been a great DLC. Since the game’s story has been divided into two separate time periods and two different perspective, i would like to see more of the Era of Hyrule’s founding.
This game deserved better. Despite the open world being massive. So much detail and story was missing. This world of Zelda really disappointed me and I just hope they learn from their mistakes from this onto their next main Zelda game.
If Echoes of Wisdom is anything to go by, they do seem to care about the character of Zelda that much to give her a nuanced role within the story. Here's to hoping Nintendo is changing their formula with coming games.
I think they wanted to believe story didn't matter and only gameplay. I still think it's a great gameplay game overall. I hope they return to story mattering way more next time like Skyward Sword. And not giving us a huge open world to start would be nice for a change too.
@@Ray-dl5mp I like open world, but if I don’t care for the npcs, the plight of the people, or can’t connect any of the lore because they retconned everything, it makes it pointless to explore. Like when I thought the pirate quest was to save the village from pirates, I imagined actual pirates or rogue hylian factions that are pillaging, but instead we got monsters cosplaying as pirates. It just seemed lazy and lot of the direction they went with because they had to sacrifice all these cool ideas just so they could make sure their new gimmicks with the engine would work day 1. So they would not be buggy or break the game too hard. Zelda isn’t minecraft and I think they forgot that to some degree. I’ve been playing since Zelda 1, just see my channel, I’m obsessed with Zelda and no, not just the classics, BotW is my favorite. And this game just felt like a knockoff of that game, with a worser story, and not a sequel at all because the game doesn’t truly feel connected to that game. It acts like most of it never happened except for some small minor details connecting the two but desperately wants to separate itself. It feels like they wanted to do a new zelda game with a completely different story but were too lazy to actually make a new zelda game from the ground up and instead,opted to reuse assets, add a new disconnected story using similar themes, have familiar faces, land and then slap a new label on it.
I can understand why in Creating a Champion why a lot of cut concepts didn’t make it into the game. For ToTK’s cut concepts, they feel like they would’ve just added so much and I can’t understand why they would’ve been cut.
@@firionkaiser8291 Where is Marin ? Did she want to be a seagull " forever " ? Did she want to see Link again and just never found him ? Why is there no legend of a singing seagull in any of the other games to prove the "real" ending is not just the one where she dies with the rest of the dreams ? And isn't the concept that Marin got her wish to be a seagull imply the dreams were (in some abstract context) alive ? So are you saying the people on the island were alive or that all dreams live like this ? "
@tattertot8259 "But I believe there must be something over there..." "If I was a seagull, I would fly as far as I could!" "I would fly to faraway places and sing for many people!" "If I wish to the Wind Fish, I wonder if my dream will come true..." - Marin Link's Awakening This was her wish to the wind fish, it wouldn't matter if we heard a legend of singing seagull considering the gap between games and if she was a seagull she would've long passed. It also wouldn't imply that said seagull could actually sing like Marin could either. While she did want to confess to Link, that never came to pass and seeing Link again was not part of her dream that she wished to wind fish. Its also possible the seagull was dreaming of being Marin like the other guy said and it comes full circle.
@@firionkaiser8291 Maybe maybe maybe way too much maybe . Maybe the wind fish is lying and the dreams are sentient creatures that don't deserve to die .
I really hope they go back to TOTK after the switch 2 comes out to add some of the features (ie more sky islands) that were likely limited bc of the switch’s capabilities I’m usually not a big fan of deluxe editions, but I think I’d buy one if they did that 🙌🏻
Yeah and maybe they could do a hw game based on the imprisoning war and upheaval, a totk sequel, and even a BOTW DX/switch 2 remaster with a depths map (because of 2 certain chasms)
I wish they would have pushed this to the switch 2 and actually put in these concept. I enjoyed the game, but going through the same hyrule again was exhausting. I didn't care for the depths or sky islands enough for them to make a difference.
I believe personally. The legend of link idea were original supposed to be in totk with zelda playable past a point. But they didn t have time so they made a new game with link s awakening new style.
Wish the main story dungeons storylines and dungeons were more fleshed out, and longer. I feel like the game is mostly side action and quests and adventures and the main quests are like 30% of the game
We can still get these concepts in future games! I know they may not involve Zonai or any of the characters we know from BOTW/TOTK but I would still love to see ancient ruins that look like these concepts.
Why don’t they add this cut content along with playable Zelda as a DLC like, after Ganondorf is destroyed, why does the game just end like that? No free play? No nothing?!!?
The problem is that they made the world too big. If they had made it smaller, then they would have included more interesting content overall. Decreased quantity would have increased quality.
Would love for them to “remaster” TotK on the Switch 2 and spend time programming in and including the cut content. 🤷♀️ just a thought, though highly unlikely. I imagine the devs are burnt out on this game-world after 10+ years in it
At least five years since the Calamity and the only thing Princess Zelda got done were some grave stone-like monuments in various areas and moving into Link's house? What a disservice to the Princess. Not all of Castle Town had to be rebuilt, but there could have been some completed buildings or even just nearly completed buildings. Something showing true progress. We didn't really see new buildings or towns anywhere; Hateno was the same, Gerudo Town was the same (didn't even have anything more at Kara Kara), Goron City, Kakariko, Zora's Domain (unless you count moving Mipha's statue to it's new place), same, same, same. None of these places had any progress from the multi year period that Zelda and Link wandered around? It doesn't fit with what we're told by various townsfolk Zelda did after the Calamity.
Imagine if you could have kept building up Hyrule Town as a sidequest in the game, same as you did in Tarrey town. Honestly when i saw the construction material platforms i got the impression and really hoped you'd actually be helping restore Hyrule amidst all the calamity bit by bit. shame that never happened and it only remained a resource pile for fusion and ultra-hand. Could easily had it so the pile is initially full and inaccessible, but once you help complete a nearby construction effort you get access to the leftover materials, same as currently.
@@fallatiuso Yep, if a poll was taken I am so confident that most players would say - keep your huge amount of depths, sky islands, caves and wells and give us more actual story relevant tasks instead…..
@@fallatiuso That would have been great! It seems the only reason those piles of building materials were around was so you could help the crazy sign guy.
I would've actually played through the whole game instead of stopping if these had been implemented, if the story wasn't all memory cutscenes and if they had real old fashion Zelda dungeons
I don't understand how some people in the coms really think the problem is the Switch hardware (except for the "Xenoblade" design clearly unfeasible), when the game itself had some complex designs. The problem is time and human ressources (most likely directed more to the construction gameplay than world design). That's why we have several version of the same sky island but none "sky mayan" design.
Ever since I heard of the Mod that makes TOTK Link into an actual Zonai…..I've been absolutely GUTTED that the game didn't have this as the main theme TBH (instead of Zonai arm, entire Zonai Link!). It would have allowed for the lack of recognition for the new players and excused the lack of recognition for returning players etc therefore making it a fresher game IMO….Link having to prove his identity to people like Purdah etc. Ah well…... 😆
I actually prefer the idea that Zelda is still not sure about rebuilding Hyrule to its former self. I was actually happy that there was no Hyrule capital back to what it was. I was hoping for maybe another village in the surface, but sure not for a full-on rebuilt Hyrule. The natural landscapes are what sells both of those games for me and I think that is what should be the focus.
There should have been at least 10 times the sky islands, and 10 times ones at least a fourth the size of the Great Sky Island. Given how far apart the are you don't really have a choice to land on a different set even when lauched by a tower. They should have had more things to find other than shrines. I would have traded The Depths for what I've mentioned for the sky islands
Not sure what to make of the comments here. TOTK improved on BOTW in so many ways, bigger world, more vertical, more ways to traverse the world, better dungeons, better bosses, even more and exceptional creativity applied to the gameplay. Then people watch this video and now TOTK is a terrible game... good job I guess. Perhaps the reason a lot of stuff was cut was because the switch hardware couldn't handle it all. I mean they only made seamless travel between sky to ground to underground maps which seems impossible for the switch already. Could they have added more to TOTK, sure. Are there reasons they didn't, probably good ones. Was TOTK a disappointment, not in the slightest.
The internet is full of outrage mostly these days, it's where negativity goes to party. If we had RUclips comments in the 90's, people would complain a lot then too. People seem to not see that though. Happiness for video game crowds are shortly lived. Negativity also sells really well for clicks. So it's part human nature (people online in general), and part what works for clicks. So it all kinda feeds itself back to negativity.
I mean…you can love TotK and that’s fine, and it’s a critical and financial success. But it’s probably the most controversial Zelda game within the fanbase since Skyward Sword and has been for a year. No idea why you’re acting surprised about it here.
@@abdieljove2011 the funny thing is every one of the last 3 games have been a huge controversy, but point taken. I usually defend the game, but Nintendo deciding to not change the art style, or world was always going to lead to this.
@@Ray-dl5mpThis is exactly what would happen, I was around for the release of Ocarina of Time and we all just complained in AoL chatrooms instead. The comments I heard then, they haven't changed. "OoT is just ALttP in 3d, OoT is empty, OoT's beta seemed cooler than the actual game we got, etc" this is a thing that's been going on for years unfortunately and you're correct, negativity gets clicks more so than someone saying "big popular game is good". When the next 3d Zelda comes out, everyone will complain about that then praise Tears of the Kingdom. Happens every time Breath of the Wild was also slammed for being too empty, not having enough content, the game having cooler concepts in its art book/Master works than what we got in the game, etc. Now it's perfect? Zelda fans are ridiculous TBH
@@JohnnyBoiiiiiiiii2004 yes the only thing that might hurt TOTK long term is if people just lump it tougher with BOTW but I agree with everything else you said and good insights. I also think in some ways people might not realize how good we have it with things like Fuse. This game (TOTK) really had a fun and cool gameplay loop that improved on BOTW that might be hard to top.
So true, it's as if Nintendo was so invested in the Ultrahand and Ascend mechanics that they simply didn't care about the story to the extent of what Link and Zelda deserved following the events of the previous game.
Same goes with Zelda. A playable Princess Zelda would’ve help the story itself. Exploring Hyrule in the Ear of Hyrule’s Founding is what we all wanted to explore.
I agree, I would have loved to see more of Link's character such as his backstory before and after he got the master seeing transition from a curious, lighthearted boy to a stoic and distant knight and how he deals with regaining all his memories. I would've also felt more connected and immersed in the story if we saw more of Link's emotions regarding the dragon tears and maybe a sort of personal journal similar to the Japanese adventure log in botw.
@@wace9174 So agree. If only this Link had been fleshed out more like his Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword counterparts, it would have been a mile more engaging experience compared to the emotionless mime the Wild games gave us.
Honestly the sky islands were kinda disappointing. You start off on this huge island with many different paths, but the rest of the game is just much smaller islands with linear progression that served as puzzles and no exploration. The depths were crazy, but admittedly somewhat stale. Basically the same biome throughout the entire map except under death mountain.
Hey Konrad & Everyone, im still mad there wasn't any DLC for Tears of the Kingdom. But What they could have did was add, a Post Game after the Story of the Game where everything is rebuilt so we can see and explore it, plus side Missions we could do in the Rebuilt Hyrule
I wish they could"ve included the cut content in the game and that would made it more better but that"s ok and i still liked the game and i"m excited and can"t wait to play echoes of wisdom!
When I first got to Castle Town in TOTK, I was disappointed to see it still in ruins. But then, I saw the construction materials and got excited. I thought that meant it was actually going to be rebuilt with my help as part of the gameplay! Double disappointment. There's a ton of construction materials for rebuilding Hyrule, but still most of it is in ruin and not actually being rebuilt.
As much as I loved Tears of The Kingdom, it does look like it could have been better. However, I am still content with it and think it is the best open world Zelda game.
Why don't we start a petition for Nintendo to give us missing content as a DLC or a remake of this game? I love TotK, it could have been so much better, we need to rebuild the kingdom, I'd love to be more involved in the plot and story, maybe show how Link is involved in the restoration of the kingdom and have an impact on the people of Hyrule, it's odd that important people such as Prince/King Sidon and the Gerudo knows who Link is but Hylians don't, imagine being the only voe allowed to enter Gerudo but nobody knows who you are like make it make sense and also we NEED to have mention of the Champions, there should be at least a monument, I hate having to feel as if a picture easter egg-ish hint is enough when it clearly isn't, I also believe that we can't just pretend that Sheikah tech didn't happen, maybe repurposing tech and making sure it is safe in the game for townspeople, maybe the Sheikah labs could have done something with that tech, I'd like to have a little side quest for the Master Cycle Zero, I thought that maybe we could help the people by temporarily taking them to a sky island, I loved being involved in defeating monsters with other habitants of the world we could have done it in the desert with the Gerudo, water with the help of the Zoras, in the freaking Sky with the Rito, even the Forest could have been super fun with a mini army of Koroks, idk, the Goron in the lava areas underground... imagine being able to have a festival or a gathering with all the races somewhere in Central Hyrule, yes, I am all over the place but I guess we all get an idea of what this game could have been and I totally understand that this is not a Hyrule Hero/Life Simulator but there could have been mini quests to make the game feel as an actual sequel, I don't feel as if the games are linked (no pun intended) enough- we didn't sleep for 100 years this time and it felt super weird to again have such an air of unfamiliarity around other Hylians - You guys get it, I know you have better ideas and theories that fit the story and I know you know what I mean I'm falling asleep but we as consumers could put some pressure and maybe get what we want although sometimes I'm not sure how beneficial it is to get what we want and never again be surprised or expect to get every story straightened after it comes out - I'm all over the place again - anyways if someone is willing to do it please tell me where to sign up for this
Shoulda coulda woulda but it a masterpiece in it self I love the game especially the exploration I do agree more should have been added to make it not so empty in spots but then again it probably wouldn’t been open world I am hoping for oot remastered would be great in that I consider that the best Zelda game beside totk botw ww and tw
Seeing some of the concepts for other sky islands makes me sad/mad they didn't go harder on the Zonai culture shown through the ruins. They should have leaned a lot harder into the archeology aspect. Maybe totally do away with the launch towers and making regional maps available from NPCs after completing quests to help them, but that also reveal new Zonai lore to the player. Retrieving items from the sky to give the archeologists? Or make the maps some sort of Zonai artifact left by Mineru to download into the PurahPad. (I know the towers are the "go check out that thing on the horizon" strategy that worked so well for BotW, but it was just too similar) I think they should have made early game traversing the sky to other islands mandatory before going to the surface. Loftwings? or some Zonai version. (Put the hand powers as in-world items to earn going around the GSI instead of just in the Shrines BotW style. Only ofter completing some main sky/Zonai related quest does the light dragon do her thing to reveal access to the surface. They should have only put shrines in the sky only and then require a sky-dive to surface locations. (Of course more better sky islands, but far fewer and more dense shrines. Maybe only whole vessels as rewards instead of orbs.) As for a rebuilt Castle Town. My thoughts are they should have leaned into Zelda as a time traveler and had Link wake up to a never-Calamity Hyrule totally in tact with a sitting royal family, including a Princess Zelda (but not the one Link lost), that he has to earn her trust to then help all the Regions. Just imagine the entire Map filled with small villages all over to explore, an entire Castle Town to learn its secrets, the other regions with more developed townships, and all the farms with people working their fields (to save from monsters). The Upheaval is the biggest thing to ever happen since the Prophet Zelda had been right about how to avoid all the horrible things so far. She did not predict the Upheaval!! btw, the Light Dragon is worshiped and has her own Spring somewhere just like the original three. also also: OG Zelda doesn't get transformed back, and remains the Light Dragon forever. However, new Zelda befriends the Hero, takes her on as her guard and so on.
The memory gimmick to storytell is alright but my gosh I just want the story to flesh out with the botw and totk characters, so much potential, sill loved both games so much tho
You're certainly correct in all the areas you say the game could have been better. I would have liked to see a more filled out sky with more infrastructure, a more vibrant depths, and more explorable lands further afield, like the lands to the north and west of Hyrule and those over the sea. But when I started watching this video, I had one thing primarily in mind: DID THEY HAVE ANY EARLIER PLANS FOR KASS?!
Disappointing masterpiece is an accurate summary. It was good, missed the mark on some lore reveals and missed the mark on active time events that happen presently, not through memories..much more was missing but that was the majority of what irked me.. I also feel like villages should have been more numerous with more stuff to actually do in them that makes each place feel special..and obviously dungeons were missing lol
They had so many great concepts and Ideas but implemented all the ones that wouldn’t take as much time and weren’t even nearly as good. It’s sad but I hope they’ll include those ideas in the next 3D Mainline game
Sorry for a double comment. Just wanted to say something else as well -- From this video and reading all the comments here, I'm glad to see I'm not alone in feeling like the game was missing key elements. I love it either way, but wow do I wish some of the early concepts would have actually been implemented. Everything in the Master Works book looks like a new a fresh take on this version of Hyrule that, if actually implemented, would have overridden the feeling I had of "most of this is the same as the last game and this isn't really a sequel."
I think what we got was great, but I do agree that they had so many amazing concepts that weren't fully realized in the end. More variety in the sky islands and depths would have made up for a lot of that honestly. The depths were far to vast to be simply one monotonous aesthetic throughout the area. I would have, at the very least, wanted the same amount of "regions" in the depths as we had on the surface (Akkala being autumn-themed, Faron being jungle/rainforest-themed, Lanayru being more wet, and having different stones making up the cliffs, Gerudo being a desert, Hebra being an arctic region, and so forth). I would have also loved to honestly see more zonai influence beneath the depths, apart from supply/vehicle depots, and the occasional forge or ruin. Why were they down there, apart from mining zonaite? What were the mysteries behind the mysterious statue of the dog-like race never before mentioned in BOTW/TOTK's universe? I feel like the limitations of the switch definitely played a big part in how much they could pack into the game, especially given the versatility the new abilities provided, so from a technical perspective, I understand why we didn't get that level of detail, it's still just a tad bit disappointing, given that we'll most likely never see these places again in the foreseeable future, unless they go back to BOTW or TOTK's storyline somewhere down the line after whatever is coming next for the franchise since I believe the zelda team has already stated that they're moving on from BOTW and TOTK (Honestly, I don't foresee us getting another open-world zelda game in a similar manner for a long time since they'd always be compared to BOTW and TOTK. They'll probably focus on remakes and remake sequels like Link's Awakening HD and Echoes of Wisdom, maybe even HD remasters of older games like Ocarina of Time, giving it a fresh modern coat of paint that they tend to do with their game franchises-)
I'm guessing Masterworks didn't shed any light on what they had planned for Kass or the whole internet would have been talking about it by now. #justiceforkass #gonebutnotforgotten
this is why folks were rightfully P.O.'ed when they announced that there would be no DLCs available for TotK. hence why the mod community made the challenge mode. and believe me, i'm this tempted into getting a PC-version of TotK for that reason alone, but i'm worried about getting swatted for playing a hacked version DESPITE ALREADY OWNING THE GAME'S CARTRIDGE I PAID FOR.
The Zelda we didn't get is one where the world as a whole changes as time goes on. We could have had link get some time travel powers, and go back to see the beginning of Hyrule, or like, the power of seasons, or opening different parts of the depths rather than just a big flat bland land. They gave link a fun new power, but the botw was the world and not link. The sequel needed to improve on the world in some way. There was nothing to see in the sky islands, nothing to see in the depths, and the mainland didn't have anything cool at the cool views anymore.
I nust find do odd the lack story continuity from BoTW to this game given its the sequel, but for me, if the game would have given me a few more unique moenets in the sky islands and in the depths, it would had been fine And yes, that would include more contrast in the artstyle.
I know why they cuz that much content because hardware issues... But damn can i cope get definitive edition or DLC with cut content for Switch 2? That hardware probably 3 time more stronger then current switch
Depths were always hinted since BOTW (which a switch 2 version of it by giving us a depths map with more shiekah tech would be a dream come true) so removing it wouldn’t feel right
Honestly, I got so burned out by both BotW, and to a greater extent, TotK, because of the general emptiness the games had for their vast world. These ideas making it into the game may well have saved it for me. I also had lots of trouble with reaching the sky islands, and having to build pretty much everything you needed to move onward. I genuinely would have liked the original concept far better. Though, I think I'm glad the depths are a darkened and gloom filled place at least. Though they could have still kept some stuff.
Hopefully we get a "Master Cut" with all the ideas for the "Switch 2". That will have everything we wanted. Botw had the DLC. So maybe they are planing something. Cuz y'all know that Nintendo likes its secrets.
The most far ahead issues problem would be the Switch Tech, probably the sky island is super hard to build like how do you map and draw this into the paper , imagine you look at a plane paper nothing else just white how to you want it to see the floating rock formations with sunset meadow grass and golden apple trees close to the cotton candy cloud of golden Sun, falling water falls that reflects a rainbow 🌈 from the sky and shattered pieces clustering rain drops have taken to fall from the land of Hyrule. With the power of Switch 2 Hopefully Nintendo would consider this to brush up in All there Sky island 🏝️ 👍🖤✌️💪.
I was hoping there'd be other sky islands the other two ceremony armor sets would've been revealed to being to unlocking or something...would've been nice. And I agree we should've had either rauru or mineru as guides but at the same time how could they do that without spoiling the story for us? Since either of them could've told us practically everything. Its a shame in the end we got what we ended up getting. Could have been much more but they kind of pigeon holed themselves
I still don't think it has to have been over 5 years between them. You can have full conversations with 3 and 4 year old humans in our world, and you're forgetting that Gerudo mature faster than Hylians, who are most comparable to our world humans.
This is the ultimate conclusion of: gameplay is the focal point of our mission with story as an after effect. Things were changed and removed or underdeveloped due to the world building being an afterthought. Even being fair they did strive to include actual dungeons (even though easily circumvented) and providing a narrative of succession. I wanted them to flesh out even any few things to their narrative conclusions vs the 100s of half finished plothole ridden extranious inclusions. It's just a shame that lore loving fans such as myself must rely mainly on perception and speculation vs hard conclusive points to enjoy.
i sweat totk is potential : the game , we're given infinite potential with the zonai at the cost of everything else in the game ( and a whole year of the game being late )
If you think about it, Tears of the Kingdom's story had a similar idea to Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed regarding succession. It's a shame that it never reached its full potential with that idea or as a sequel to Breath of the Wild in terms of the script department... So much potential gone to waste...
it is a bit pity the sky could have been more creative seanery . talking about things that didn.t make the final game . what happened to the animal ( drinking) and the bridge passing we saw in the first game promo ?
A few more Sky Island shrines could've given us those last 2 Heart Containers. A friend of mine also had an idea to bring the Big Octo back as an overworld boss in the Depths.
Leaving Revali out should be a crime against the Rito themselves. The Zonai Shrines also suck pretty hard compared to their Sheikah counterparts(Literally the Apparatus Shrines are better), and most of the Zonai Runes are gimmicky at best. Nearly every melee weapon in the game being so fragile, and relying on fusing them, are both so ridiculous to me. And taking away all of the elemental arrows(Especially Bomb Arrows!) for more fusion crap is also a let down. TotK is like a 6/10, compared to Breath of the Wild's near perfect 9.9/10, in my opinion.
WTF I still love totk but this is bullshit we were robbed the game would have been perfect if we had this they better implement this in a future Zelda game 🤬
This game will be the biggest disappointment for me lol. I can’t wait for Echos, I strongly feel they reused so much in tears because echos was being worked on as well.
EOW was mostly developed by Grezzo, the main Zelda team at Nintendo is working on the next 3D Zelda at least since 2022 when polishing for TOTK started.
@@gbr4732 How can you tell when Aonuma and Fujibayashi's recent interviews all seem to imply "open air Zelda is the _future_ of the series"? All the creativity and substance fans loved in previous installments has been replaced with openworld exploration, endless collectathon fetch quests and non engaging "optional storylines", emphasizing hours upon hours of repetition instead of an enjoyable and creative experience going through a proper narrative while traversing puzzle-filled dungeons, dilluting everything which made classic Zelda be loved by millions of fans.
BOTW and TOTK have some of the best side quests in the franchise, in addition to BOTW having one of the best, if not the BEST story in the franchise, with by far the best characters. And let's not act as if the old games weren't VERY flawed, gameplay wise and ESPECIALLY story wise.
@@Mirage475 That's a pretty optimistic way of looking at it. Honestly though, ToTK is the last time we're probably going to see the hero of the wild and imo it was a pretty disappointing ending to that era.
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Starting the game with a festival would have been amazing and could have established Link and Zelda's relationship in a much more meaningful way as they enjoyed a celebration together.
Oh no way. That would remove all the heavy elements of Darkness and solitude at the start. That is not the brand and vibe these games were aiming for - and I think the right choice was made.
@@netweed09 True, the dark opening would have been ruined tonally
@@kit76149 Ikr? Thanks for agreeing, or rather seeing sense! 👍
I'm not sure why people think just because a few years have passed the Hylians totally forgot about everything and somehow rebuilt the place back up right over so many soldiers that might have perished? Plus the Castle itself clearly had not recovered and returned back to it's former pristine state. Tears' dark tone is memorable and makes me want to get to the root of the issue, seeing the sick Hylian affected by the Gloom. It's gritty and you want to help them. The OP is mistaken, this is a Zelda adventure not Love Island or a Hylian version of a rom Com.
@@netweed09honestly a happy celebration being ruined by Ganondorf’s return would’ve been darker
@@johnroberts524 I mean I get that in a sense but the "Happy Hour gatecrashing by dark forces" has been done a million times in any other game, including Zelda of course. I still prefer the eerie menacing approach. I like the creepy , low-key hitting from the shadows vibe. Spared Us the feeling of deja-Vu.
I disliked how every time you beat a "Temple," the same cutscene would play. It made victory unsatisfying and stale.
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it was quite the same, but games are never perfect
What is just as heartbreaking is a little story detail that was sort of hinted at in-game but not fully conveyed. In the Masterworks, there is apparently a section speaking of how Zelda felt an inner conflict with herself over whether she should rebuild Hyrule as a kingdom like before or if the people were better off without a Royal Family, sort of having feelings of inadequacy for not being there for her people when they needed her most during the recovery of the Calamity. It explains why she worked so hard to help Hyrule after destroying Calamity Ganon (beyond just being generally a virtuous Princess overall). Considering the kingdom keeps referring to her as “Princess” and the mass panic for when she goes missing, we sort of already know the answer of what everyone else thinks about reviving the sovereignty of the Royal Family of Hyrule from the people, at least as far as it goes for Zelda.
Gaahhhh, I wish that was included as a main plot point for her! Even if it does cover some of the same story beats for her in BotW with her feeling inadequate, the question of "are the people better off without a Royal Family" would have been a good one to ask and explore as part of the rebuilding efforts.
@@StuCheeks This is where I think Nintendo have now taken a big "L" in declaring gameplay>plot….plot is very important for players pf franchises like LOZ.
You should've been able to choose wether to abolish monarchy or not (abolishing is obviously the right answer lol).
Part of me wonders if there's a timeline out there where Zelda saw the Election in Hateno and gets the idea for Democracy, akin to ancient Athens formalizing the system.
@@IdkpleasejustletmechangeitZelda games aren't RPGs, they're not about dynamic choices that effect the story.
The concept of the “jungle entrance in the Farosh province’ would’ve given us the insight of how Zelda learned more about the Spring Dragons during her time in the Era of Hyrule’s Founding. How Dinraal, Farosh and Naydra were originally Zonais before turning into dragons that later forbids anyone to undergone Draconification.
or at least explain WHY they decided to forbade it. some traditions are meant to be abolished, like human sacrifices, slavery, and patriarchy. but in this case of draconification, Zelda knew the risks, but made the sacrifice for Link's quest to defeat Ganondorf.
and that tradition, in honoring fallen soldiers who fought for their homelands' existence, freedom, sovereignty, is still worth keeping.
I really love this take 👍 How have you only got 1 response, this is easily among the the sparingly few best suggestions I've heard! The rest just wanted Castle Town to be rebuilt into Los Angeles, which is ridiculous and would totally remove the urgency and feeling of being overwhelmed in the game.
@@Echo81Rumple83 Patriarchy should be abolished, but that's why Zelda's kingdom remains a patriarchal monarchy LOL
The Dragons are not Zonai. There is nothing that says they're Zonai. Breath of the Wild literally has a line from the Hylia Statues that the Dragons are "Spirits" who took the forms of Dragons. The Dragons being Zonai is just a popular theory video.
I would have loved to have more sky islands, of a greater variety.
I recall reading that they tried to have more islands at first, but they felt it ended up cluttering the skies too much.
My solution to that would be to have a system somewhat like skywards sword's, where from the ground up only the handful of islands that were lowest are visible, but once you've crossed into the sky past a sky-barrier, it reveals _all_ the islands to their full extent.
Just imagine the visual spectacle of being shot into the skies, and then suddenly having an entire second world in the skies revealed once you pass by the cloud layer.
I think this was a pr reason they stated. The real reason they didn't add it was most likely the power of the switch. They can't just say that publicly when trying to promote their game. They were super ambitious just the switch wasn't going to handle all that. When the game came out people were shocked calling it a technological achievement and how amazing it was they were able to add all those features, rewind, building, physics. They pushed the switch to it's absolute limit.
@@toast7969 Wouldn't surprise me if that was the case.
"But you can't have any restrictions! its gotta be a giant sandbox and every player has to have the same sandbox story!" Is what Aonuma would say.
honestly i think this is the fault of the open world style they went with. having the whole world be one giant seamless map is amazing in concept but it ended up halting their creativity :/
I love TOTK but it causes me equal amounts of sadness and disappointment. It deserved so much more! A lot of the game seems unfinished, storylines don't wrap up or end, loads of stuff hinted but not included. I wanted so much more for this game and the Zonai
It's crazy to me that Nintendo would abandoned DLC for this game. There is so much potential. The tools are in place, a rebuild Hyrule expansion pack would be awesome to add to this game. Integrate online ideas for buildings, or have special amibos for building parts.
My guess is that they already have a planning of how long the Switch 2 will last, and they estimated that they needed to start working on the next Zelda game ASAP if they wanted it to be released during the Switch 2 lifetime.
@@MoiMagnus1er true. Would be interesting if they made it into its own game. I know they said that the Zelda world was probably not going to be used again. But they did produce a Hyrule Warriors game using it.
Ikr?? Well put 👍
This would've been pretty cool and was honestly something I kind of expected/hoped for in the years leading up to the game's release.
Except for the amiibo part. I don't want to have to buy physical DLC to be able to use the entirety of a digital DLC that would've already been bought.
ikr damn you switch 2
THE BEGINNING OH MY GOD??? there is nothing I wanted more in this game than for them to mention the champions. The Champion story is so incredibly heartbreaking and the closest thing that we get to some memory is the picture of Zelda’s house. The champions are barely acknowledged in tears of the kingdom, even after everything. I know they wanted to make it independent from breath of the wild, but it’s a direct sequel, it’s not independent.
The Sheikah Shrines were forgotten as well.
I really loved how they paid their respects to Mipha with Mipha's Court, however, i was expecting a similar treatment to all the other Champions.
If you think about it, Mipha is pretty much the only Champion who gets acknowledged more than once in TotK, Daruk gets mentioned ONCE during the stable photographs sidequest, and both Revali and Urbosa are practically without mention anywhere except for their weapon's descriptions.
I'm not complaining too much, given how Mipha is the only one that mattered to me lmao, but still, it's a pretty big deservice to the rest of the Champions, kinda makes me feel weird knowing Zelda had time to build multiple stone tombstones across Hyrule in honor of the fallen, built a school and took over Link's house, but the thought of honoring her former guardians and friends in some sort of way never crossed her mind lol
@@hermeschase4113 I LOVE HOW THEY CONTINUED TO MENTION MIPHA
@@hermeschase4113What, no mention of Link? They were Link’s friends too.
Speaking of the champions, I can't believe they moved Mipha's statue as well. It's like Yeaaaaaah, we're done with her lol let's move her up the hill. All for that weird statue of Link riding Sidon that we all could have done without seeing TBH 😆
My issue with TotK is that it's a sequel, but it doesn't try to be. We get very few tidbits of BotW lore, but overall, TotK's story tries heavily to disconnect from it and bubble itself into it's own story/lore. All the new characters tend to lack depth or have very few screentime, it also feels like most of them are just plot devices to move the story forward for another, but feel stale in comparison. Characters like Rauru, Mineru, and Sonia get major characterization in past cutscenes, however, Rauru takes the place of King Rhoam/Old Man as the tutorial guide for the Sky Island and disappears afterwards, leaving his story to cutscenes, however, he just ends up feeling like a copypaste of whatever formula King Rhoam/Old Man had in BotW. (I personally think it would be cool to see him as another companion character like Midna since we basically got a part of him connected to Link's body), Mineru was withheld until the end of the story outside of cutscenes and she barely had any screentime as is, she barely got to interact with the other current Sages, because once you complete her quest, she stays in the Spirit Temple and the next time you see her, she fights alongside Link and the others during the horde/Ganondorf battles. I also think if the story allowed for her to come out of the Purah Pad, having it as another vessel, she could be a companion with her brother, so we could have had two companions. As for Sonia, she's a wonderful character, however, it's painful to see her killed so early on in the unlockable past cutscenes by a warlock punch to the back and then don't appear until the end for 1 min. (She didn't even get official art and a bio in the character gallery, it just shows unimportant she was)
I could also throw it out there and say that Ancient Sages basically having no character other than just being the same rinse and repeat cutscene 4 times over hurts their importance to the story, they aren't EVEN named. They could have done a nice tie-in to Urbosa's post-Divine Beast cutscene and named Ancient Gerudo Sage, Nabooru, to tie in, but they didn't. My headcanon is that they are named Nabooru, Darunia, Ruto, and Mido.
It also doesn't help that like almost every NPC in the game doesn't even recognize Link at all outside of a few character. It's just painful.
I could also throw it out there that Link didn't feel like he much of a connection with Ganondorf at all, like they barely interacted and it didn't feel as personal to face him with Link, it would have been with Zelda, but not Link. Also without the Triforce being a huge importance to the story, they aren't connected over the conflict for it, Link and Ganondorf just felt so heavily disconnected this game.
Also looking at the Master Works designs for the characters, we could have better looks for the characters, but they choose not to go that route and just went for simple designs, even for the current Sages. Also Yona, looked like a better character in concept art and it would have been amazing to see her be tough and holding a samurai sword in clothing, I just felt like they just downside her character to "wife" and took out something could have made her more memorable, but overall she's just Mipha 2.0.
Honestly just so much wasted potential, I love the game, I really do and I feel like it improves the overall overworld from BotW, however, it just ends up shooting itself in the foot with all the issues it had, I'm not even gonna go into the fact they copied the formula from BotW, with the past cutscenes, compared to BotW, it was better if it was just used for Link's Memories and they did something else for the Tear memories.
In my opinion, this was the worst iteration of Ganondorf. Every previous appearance of Ganondorf has been amazing until this fool. No cunning plan, no motivations besides "pOwEr"
The only good thing about him is his looks, can't argue with how awesome he looks. He should have stayed as a mummy lurking and slowly plotting for 10,000 years.
I love the game, but these revelations from Master Works are making me sad that we could have had so much more. Most of my complaints would have been fixed by the concept art I've seen so far
Though TOTK was a great game, it definitely could have been better and somehow still had untapped potential. One main or side quest I would have liked in the game was rebuilding Castle Town
I wouldn’t have nothing against a sidegame where we just rebuild the homes and make new settlements in TOTK hyrule
For a game about building there's a surprising lack of rebuilding the kingdom. Imagine if we had a bunch of different tarry town-like side quests where we went to old ruined towns in botw, and were able to help restore them to a livable town. As is the only one like this is Lurelin, a village we already have visited and know what it looks like.
I would've loved the festival opening it could've been the festival of all the races come together to party the new champions are created and then link and zelda get a report from a knight about a cave near the castle they found, then link and zelda travel down the cave find the mural reciting the imprisoning war, and find ganondorfs mummy and then we get that cool as awakening cutscence and all the festival goers especially the new champions and impa feel the tremor of ganondorfs power pushing the castle up the people run away screaming. And that's the opening of totk. Oh and mmummified ganondorf would be up in the castle instead of in the depths doing nothing and zelda wouldn't turn into a dragon instead she would find the very first deku tree and place the master sword in its pedestal during the founding of hyrule and use the secret stones power to take her back to the future which causes the secret stone to shatter (i hate how totk was another time paradox) and this would either be DLC or an interlude where we play as zelda in both instances. And there would also be multiple sidequests similar to lurelin village where we rebuild villages. And each area would have a bolsons construction sign instead of them being dotted all over.
As much as I think exploring a fully-rebuilt castle town would be beyond awesome, I do kind of get why it is coming along slowly...
Cities like Warsaw were re-built so quickly because it was home to alot of people...there were tons of people who had lives there and were invested into seeing those lives re-built.
Meanwhile...even if there were some residents of Castle Town who survived the Calamity, the Calamity was a full century ago. Aside from Zelda, Link...and maybe the three shiekah elders themselves, I don't know if there were any confirmed surviving residents of castle town by the time BOTW happened. The few other hylians in the games who were around to see the Calamity were in Hateno at the time of it, if memory serves...and NOBODY wanted to go back and live anywhere near the center of Hyrule while those ancient guardians were zooming around, that's for sure.
So Castle Town's rebuilding was likely coming along so slowly because there was a lack of able-bodied people who had viewed it as a home...
I was also really interested in this and upset at the unlikelyhood of it actually happening, but then I thought about it some more and realized how pointless it would actually be. The population of Hyrule was significantly decreased following the Calamity, and we're specifically told that all the Castle's residents were killed. Given the present day situation, there just isn't any reason to prioritize rebuilding such a massive settlement since the survivors all appear to have a home already. Certain traveling merchants may not, but at that point you could just build a smaller settlement for them. In addition, I like the idea that the knowledge on how to build with materials used for Hyrule Castle was lost to time as it shows how significant of a setback the Calamity was for the kingdom. The castle falling into neglect in the present is a good indicator for this.
I LOVE the original concepts way better. I have only played through this game once, and that was right after release. I haven't had the desire to play it again. Tears of the Kingdom was a huge letdown for me.
Yeah what we ended up getting was bland and empty copy-pasted environments for the skies, depths, and caves. I was genuinely surprised how little was changed after 6 years. I would much rather have these imaginative environments from the concepts rather than the Zonai devices which added little to no value to the game.
@@created3612 And the abilities that you get (like Ultrahand or Ascend) seemed more game breaking rather than tools to help you on your adventure. I can't tell you how many of the Shrine puzzles were rendered useless due to Ascend alone.
@@Kristen242008 Exactly. The game is way too open mainly because of the tools given. And because of that it ruins progression, storytelling, and any immersion or unique encounters you could’ve been able to experience because you can just bypass literally anything. Thats why so many people hated the fire temple, which I personally loved because I went through it the “intended” way.
Same
Ganon was originally going to wield his iconic Trident in his Ganondorf form, which would’ve the first canon Zelda game other than Hyrule Warriors from its Legends rerelease onwards.
They could have easily incorporated that into the Demon King phase 2 fight. At half HP he conjures the trident or wields one made out of Zonai energy staff.
I’d dare say the Switch’s limitations played a role in them not implementing all sky islands designs: look at the complexity of one of the concept arts tho… that’d have been too much
I don't think the Switch capacity matters here (especially when they could just scalled down some idea), most of these design shouldn't be harder to load and process than some of the dungeons (only here the whole structure is more grouped and tightened).
The main problem imo is the time and human ressources to make all this complex and unique design (and to think about interesting things to do).
They definitely could've gotten rid of the literal worthless shrines
I can’t believe we were robbed by Nintendo for not putting in the Hyrule restoration festival into Tears of the Kingdom.
Let alone The temple of Light that beneath Hyrule Castle and the extra murals that shows more about the history Ganondorf (as seen in both the Master Works and the 2019 teaser of Tears of the Kingdom).
Not to mention actually have the Water Temple be underwater, or at least part of, or an extension to, the Ancient Water Works. Also, the Depths could have been a true place of nightmares if the Zelda team had done something similar to A Link to the Past: make uglier mirror versions of the monsters you battle above ground. The Frox was a beast that really had potential as being the "dark world" version of the Dodongo!
Its okay, they can make a spinoff of restoring all the settlements from 100 years ago.
Ganondorf was totally robbed in this game. The coolest design and the most powerful, but basically no backstory. I really wish more of the ancient gerudo was shown, I wanted to know how Ganondorf gained power.
@@Elliemaeggles we did know how the Sacred Stone allows him to be amplified. But how does Ganondorf gained power? Probably from Kotake and Koume.
@@aaronolson6736 A sequel to Age of Calamity? Now that’s what we need!
Man I need a DLC for totk so bad.
The whole game is a DLC, so there's that. 🤡
@@Obeliiix it feel more like an actual game than a dlc.
I hear you. And a playable Zelda would’ve been a great DLC. Since the game’s story has been divided into two separate time periods and two different perspective, i would like to see more of the Era of Hyrule’s founding.
@@a.jthomas6132They should have had Link and Zelda together the whole game, not have time travel shenanigans and a retconned founding of Hyrule.
@@a.jthomas6132 No, it felt emptier compared to BotW. It definitely felt like a glorified DLC.
This game deserved better. Despite the open world being massive. So much detail and story was missing. This world of Zelda really disappointed me and I just hope they learn from their mistakes from this onto their next main Zelda game.
If Echoes of Wisdom is anything to go by, they do seem to care about the character of Zelda that much to give her a nuanced role within the story. Here's to hoping Nintendo is changing their formula with coming games.
Don't worry we are 4 days for echoes of wisdom so they probably learn their lesson for that! This story will be great!
It’s because they decided to pull resources from cool story elements and settlements being made to make room for gimmicky mechanics like ultra-hand.
I think they wanted to believe story didn't matter and only gameplay. I still think it's a great gameplay game overall. I hope they return to story mattering way more next time like Skyward Sword. And not giving us a huge open world to start would be nice for a change too.
@@Ray-dl5mp I like open world, but if I don’t care for the npcs, the plight of the people, or can’t connect any of the lore because they retconned everything, it makes it pointless to explore. Like when I thought the pirate quest was to save the village from pirates, I imagined actual pirates or rogue hylian factions that are pillaging, but instead we got monsters cosplaying as pirates. It just seemed lazy and lot of the direction they went with because they had to sacrifice all these cool ideas just so they could make sure their new gimmicks with the engine would work day 1. So they would not be buggy or break the game too hard. Zelda isn’t minecraft and I think they forgot that to some degree. I’ve been playing since Zelda 1, just see my channel, I’m obsessed with Zelda and no, not just the classics, BotW is my favorite. And this game just felt like a knockoff of that game, with a worser story, and not a sequel at all because the game doesn’t truly feel connected to that game. It acts like most of it never happened except for some small minor details connecting the two but desperately wants to separate itself. It feels like they wanted to do a new zelda game with a completely different story but were too lazy to actually make a new zelda game from the ground up and instead,opted to reuse assets, add a new disconnected story using similar themes, have familiar faces, land and then slap a new label on it.
I can understand why in Creating a Champion why a lot of cut concepts didn’t make it into the game. For ToTK’s cut concepts, they feel like they would’ve just added so much and I can’t understand why they would’ve been cut.
That dress looks like Marin's dress . And that makes me want to save Marin from being trapped as a seagull forever .
The seagull had a dream that it was Marin.
You want to save Marin from her wish?
@@firionkaiser8291 Where is Marin ? Did she want to be a seagull " forever " ? Did she want to see Link again and just never found him ? Why is there no legend of a singing seagull in any of the other games to prove the "real" ending is not just the one where she dies with the rest of the dreams ? And isn't the concept that Marin got her wish to be a seagull imply the dreams were (in some abstract context) alive ? So are you saying the people on the island were alive or that all dreams live like this ? "
@tattertot8259
"But I believe there must be something over there..."
"If I was a seagull, I would fly as far as I could!"
"I would fly to faraway places and sing for many people!"
"If I wish to the Wind Fish, I wonder if my dream will come true..." - Marin Link's Awakening
This was her wish to the wind fish, it wouldn't matter if we heard a legend of singing seagull considering the gap between games and if she was a seagull she would've long passed. It also wouldn't imply that said seagull could actually sing like Marin could either. While she did want to confess to Link, that never came to pass and seeing Link again was not part of her dream that she wished to wind fish.
Its also possible the seagull was dreaming of being Marin like the other guy said and it comes full circle.
@@firionkaiser8291 Maybe maybe maybe way too much maybe . Maybe the wind fish is lying and the dreams are sentient creatures that don't deserve to die .
I really hope they go back to TOTK after the switch 2 comes out to add some of the features (ie more sky islands) that were likely limited bc of the switch’s capabilities
I’m usually not a big fan of deluxe editions, but I think I’d buy one if they did that 🙌🏻
Yeah and maybe they could do a hw game based on the imprisoning war and upheaval, a totk sequel, and even a BOTW DX/switch 2 remaster with a depths map (because of 2 certain chasms)
I wish they would have pushed this to the switch 2 and actually put in these concept. I enjoyed the game, but going through the same hyrule again was exhausting. I didn't care for the depths or sky islands enough for them to make a difference.
I believe personally. The legend of link idea were original supposed to be in totk with zelda playable past a point. But they didn t have time so they made a new game with link s awakening new style.
They had 6 years 😂 they dedicated that time to other bullshit
I need this book. When is it gonna be released in the states 😭
Wish the main story dungeons storylines and dungeons were more fleshed out, and longer. I feel like the game is mostly side action and quests and adventures and the main quests are like 30% of the game
Yep sure is, that's why speed runners have got it down to like 30 minutes or so now lol. It's great but most of it is optional 😬
We can still get these concepts in future games! I know they may not involve Zonai or any of the characters we know from BOTW/TOTK but I would still love to see ancient ruins that look like these concepts.
Why don’t they add this cut content along with playable Zelda as a DLC like, after Ganondorf is destroyed, why does the game just end like that? No free play? No nothing?!!?
The problem is that they made the world too big. If they had made it smaller, then they would have included more interesting content overall. Decreased quantity would have increased quality.
Would love for them to “remaster” TotK on the Switch 2 and spend time programming in and including the cut content. 🤷♀️ just a thought, though highly unlikely. I imagine the devs are burnt out on this game-world after 10+ years in it
Yeah and they add stuff to a BOTW switch 2 version as well. And make a totk sequel
So, a directors cut?
At least five years since the Calamity and the only thing Princess Zelda got done were some grave stone-like monuments in various areas and moving into Link's house? What a disservice to the Princess.
Not all of Castle Town had to be rebuilt, but there could have been some completed buildings or even just nearly completed buildings. Something showing true progress. We didn't really see new buildings or towns anywhere; Hateno was the same, Gerudo Town was the same (didn't even have anything more at Kara Kara), Goron City, Kakariko, Zora's Domain (unless you count moving Mipha's statue to it's new place), same, same, same. None of these places had any progress from the multi year period that Zelda and Link wandered around? It doesn't fit with what we're told by various townsfolk Zelda did after the Calamity.
Imagine if you could have kept building up Hyrule Town as a sidequest in the game, same as you did in Tarrey town.
Honestly when i saw the construction material platforms i got the impression and really hoped you'd actually be helping restore Hyrule amidst all the calamity bit by bit. shame that never happened and it only remained a resource pile for fusion and ultra-hand.
Could easily had it so the pile is initially full and inaccessible, but once you help complete a nearby construction effort you get access to the leftover materials, same as currently.
@@fallatiuso Yep, if a poll was taken I am so confident that most players would say - keep your huge amount of depths, sky islands, caves and wells and give us more actual story relevant tasks instead…..
@@fallatiuso That would have been great! It seems the only reason those piles of building materials were around was so you could help the crazy sign guy.
I did love Tears and thought it was a massive improvement over Botw but just 3:50 and 4:04 being included would have made the game twice as Good.
I would've actually played through the whole game instead of stopping if these had been implemented, if the story wasn't all memory cutscenes and if they had real old fashion Zelda dungeons
I don't understand how some people in the coms really think the problem is the Switch hardware (except for the "Xenoblade" design clearly unfeasible), when the game itself had some complex designs.
The problem is time and human ressources (most likely directed more to the construction gameplay than world design). That's why we have several version of the same sky island but none "sky mayan" design.
Ever since I heard of the Mod that makes TOTK Link into an actual Zonai…..I've been absolutely GUTTED that the game didn't have this as the main theme TBH (instead of Zonai arm, entire Zonai Link!). It would have allowed for the lack of recognition for the new players and excused the lack of recognition for returning players etc therefore making it a fresher game IMO….Link having to prove his identity to people like Purdah etc. Ah well…... 😆
True but at least we got the armor that turns you into one
I actually prefer the idea that Zelda is still not sure about rebuilding Hyrule to its former self. I was actually happy that there was no Hyrule capital back to what it was. I was hoping for maybe another village in the surface, but sure not for a full-on rebuilt Hyrule.
The natural landscapes are what sells both of those games for me and I think that is what should be the focus.
There should have been at least 10 times the sky islands, and 10 times ones at least a fourth the size of the Great Sky Island. Given how far apart the are you don't really have a choice to land on a different set even when lauched by a tower. They should have had more things to find other than shrines. I would have traded The Depths for what I've mentioned for the sky islands
Not sure what to make of the comments here. TOTK improved on BOTW in so many ways, bigger world, more vertical, more ways to traverse the world, better dungeons, better bosses, even more and exceptional creativity applied to the gameplay. Then people watch this video and now TOTK is a terrible game... good job I guess. Perhaps the reason a lot of stuff was cut was because the switch hardware couldn't handle it all. I mean they only made seamless travel between sky to ground to underground maps which seems impossible for the switch already. Could they have added more to TOTK, sure. Are there reasons they didn't, probably good ones. Was TOTK a disappointment, not in the slightest.
The internet is full of outrage mostly these days, it's where negativity goes to party. If we had RUclips comments in the 90's, people would complain a lot then too. People seem to not see that though. Happiness for video game crowds are shortly lived. Negativity also sells really well for clicks. So it's part human nature (people online in general), and part what works for clicks. So it all kinda feeds itself back to negativity.
I mean…you can love TotK and that’s fine, and it’s a critical and financial success. But it’s probably the most controversial Zelda game within the fanbase since Skyward Sword and has been for a year. No idea why you’re acting surprised about it here.
@@abdieljove2011 the funny thing is every one of the last 3 games have been a huge controversy, but point taken. I usually defend the game, but Nintendo deciding to not change the art style, or world was always going to lead to this.
@@Ray-dl5mpThis is exactly what would happen, I was around for the release of Ocarina of Time and we all just complained in AoL chatrooms instead. The comments I heard then, they haven't changed. "OoT is just ALttP in 3d, OoT is empty, OoT's beta seemed cooler than the actual game we got, etc" this is a thing that's been going on for years unfortunately and you're correct, negativity gets clicks more so than someone saying "big popular game is good". When the next 3d Zelda comes out, everyone will complain about that then praise Tears of the Kingdom. Happens every time
Breath of the Wild was also slammed for being too empty, not having enough content, the game having cooler concepts in its art book/Master works than what we got in the game, etc. Now it's perfect? Zelda fans are ridiculous TBH
@@JohnnyBoiiiiiiiii2004 yes the only thing that might hurt TOTK long term is if people just lump it tougher with BOTW but I agree with everything else you said and good insights. I also think in some ways people might not realize how good we have it with things like Fuse. This game (TOTK) really had a fun and cool gameplay loop that improved on BOTW that might be hard to top.
I wish this was real, link deserved better.
Big agree…
So true, it's as if Nintendo was so invested in the Ultrahand and Ascend mechanics that they simply didn't care about the story to the extent of what Link and Zelda deserved following the events of the previous game.
Same goes with Zelda. A playable Princess Zelda would’ve help the story itself. Exploring Hyrule in the Ear of Hyrule’s Founding is what we all wanted to explore.
I agree, I would have loved to see more of Link's character such as his backstory before and after he got the master seeing transition from a curious, lighthearted boy to a stoic and distant knight and how he deals with regaining all his memories. I would've also felt more connected and immersed in the story if we saw more of Link's emotions regarding the dragon tears and maybe a sort of personal journal similar to the Japanese adventure log in botw.
@@wace9174 So agree. If only this Link had been fleshed out more like his Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword counterparts, it would have been a mile more engaging experience compared to the emotionless mime the Wild games gave us.
Honestly the sky islands were kinda disappointing. You start off on this huge island with many different paths, but the rest of the game is just much smaller islands with linear progression that served as puzzles and no exploration. The depths were crazy, but admittedly somewhat stale. Basically the same biome throughout the entire map except under death mountain.
I love how Nintendo wanted to make a direct sequel without alienating new fans.
They say how they want a new version of BotW for switch 2 but I think TotK deserves it more considering how much was left out
Both should get new versions with new content. Even a third game to conclude the trilogy would be worth it
Hey Konrad & Everyone, im still mad there wasn't any DLC for Tears of the Kingdom. But What they could have did was add, a Post Game after the Story of the Game where everything is rebuilt so we can see and explore it, plus side Missions we could do in the Rebuilt Hyrule
I wish they could"ve included the cut content in the game and that would made it more better but that"s ok and i still liked the game and i"m excited and can"t wait to play echoes of wisdom!
I kinda wished we could travel between Zelda and links timeline which would be hard but way better!
The water landscape image is more likely to be in the zora region. You can see a sky island that looks like a snail shell, so that's my lead
When I first got to Castle Town in TOTK, I was disappointed to see it still in ruins.
But then, I saw the construction materials and got excited. I thought that meant it was actually going to be rebuilt with my help as part of the gameplay!
Double disappointment. There's a ton of construction materials for rebuilding Hyrule, but still most of it is in ruin and not actually being rebuilt.
As much as I loved Tears of The Kingdom, it does look like it could have been better. However, I am still content with it and think it is the best open world Zelda game.
More Zelda stuff (sky islands, lore, areas to discover,etc) in a Zelda game. Of course I would’ve wanted it!
Why don't we start a petition for Nintendo to give us missing content as a DLC or a remake of this game? I love TotK, it could have been so much better, we need to rebuild the kingdom, I'd love to be more involved in the plot and story, maybe show how Link is involved in the restoration of the kingdom and have an impact on the people of Hyrule, it's odd that important people such as Prince/King Sidon and the Gerudo knows who Link is but Hylians don't, imagine being the only voe allowed to enter Gerudo but nobody knows who you are like make it make sense and also we NEED to have mention of the Champions, there should be at least a monument, I hate having to feel as if a picture easter egg-ish hint is enough when it clearly isn't, I also believe that we can't just pretend that Sheikah tech didn't happen, maybe repurposing tech and making sure it is safe in the game for townspeople, maybe the Sheikah labs could have done something with that tech, I'd like to have a little side quest for the Master Cycle Zero, I thought that maybe we could help the people by temporarily taking them to a sky island, I loved being involved in defeating monsters with other habitants of the world we could have done it in the desert with the Gerudo, water with the help of the Zoras, in the freaking Sky with the Rito, even the Forest could have been super fun with a mini army of Koroks, idk, the Goron in the lava areas underground... imagine being able to have a festival or a gathering with all the races somewhere in Central Hyrule, yes, I am all over the place but I guess we all get an idea of what this game could have been and I totally understand that this is not a Hyrule Hero/Life Simulator but there could have been mini quests to make the game feel as an actual sequel, I don't feel as if the games are linked (no pun intended) enough- we didn't sleep for 100 years this time and it felt super weird to again have such an air of unfamiliarity around other Hylians - You guys get it, I know you have better ideas and theories that fit the story and I know you know what I mean I'm falling asleep but we as consumers could put some pressure and maybe get what we want although sometimes I'm not sure how beneficial it is to get what we want and never again be surprised or expect to get every story straightened after it comes out - I'm all over the place again - anyways if someone is willing to do it please tell me where to sign up for this
Shoulda coulda woulda but it a masterpiece in it self
I love the game especially the exploration I do agree more should have been added to make it not so empty in spots but then again it probably wouldn’t been open world
I am hoping for oot remastered would be great in that I consider that the best Zelda game beside totk botw ww and tw
Tears of the Missed Potential
Seeing some of the concepts for other sky islands makes me sad/mad they didn't go harder on the Zonai culture shown through the ruins.
They should have leaned a lot harder into the archeology aspect. Maybe totally do away with the launch towers and making regional maps available from NPCs after completing quests to help them, but that also reveal new Zonai lore to the player. Retrieving items from the sky to give the archeologists? Or make the maps some sort of Zonai artifact left by Mineru to download into the PurahPad. (I know the towers are the "go check out that thing on the horizon" strategy that worked so well for BotW, but it was just too similar)
I think they should have made early game traversing the sky to other islands mandatory before going to the surface. Loftwings? or some Zonai version. (Put the hand powers as in-world items to earn going around the GSI instead of just in the Shrines BotW style. Only ofter completing some main sky/Zonai related quest does the light dragon do her thing to reveal access to the surface.
They should have only put shrines in the sky only and then require a sky-dive to surface locations. (Of course more better sky islands, but far fewer and more dense shrines. Maybe only whole vessels as rewards instead of orbs.)
As for a rebuilt Castle Town. My thoughts are they should have leaned into Zelda as a time traveler and had Link wake up to a never-Calamity Hyrule totally in tact with a sitting royal family, including a Princess Zelda (but not the one Link lost), that he has to earn her trust to then help all the Regions. Just imagine the entire Map filled with small villages all over to explore, an entire Castle Town to learn its secrets, the other regions with more developed townships, and all the farms with people working their fields (to save from monsters). The Upheaval is the biggest thing to ever happen since the Prophet Zelda had been right about how to avoid all the horrible things so far. She did not predict the Upheaval!! btw, the Light Dragon is worshiped and has her own Spring somewhere just like the original three. also also: OG Zelda doesn't get transformed back, and remains the Light Dragon forever. However, new Zelda befriends the Hero, takes her on as her guard and so on.
The memory gimmick to storytell is alright but my gosh I just want the story to flesh out with the botw and totk characters, so much potential, sill loved both games so much tho
You're certainly correct in all the areas you say the game could have been better. I would have liked to see a more filled out sky with more infrastructure, a more vibrant depths, and more explorable lands further afield, like the lands to the north and west of Hyrule and those over the sea. But when I started watching this video, I had one thing primarily in mind:
DID THEY HAVE ANY EARLIER PLANS FOR KASS?!
I greatly miss having a proper companion.
Wished they did more with the koroks too.
Disappointing masterpiece is an accurate summary. It was good, missed the mark on some lore reveals and missed the mark on active time events that happen presently, not through memories..much more was missing but that was the majority of what irked me.. I also feel like villages should have been more numerous with more stuff to actually do in them that makes each place feel special..and obviously dungeons were missing lol
They had so many great concepts and Ideas but implemented all the ones that wouldn’t take as much time and weren’t even nearly as good. It’s sad but I hope they’ll include those ideas in the next 3D Mainline game
Sorry for a double comment. Just wanted to say something else as well -- From this video and reading all the comments here, I'm glad to see I'm not alone in feeling like the game was missing key elements. I love it either way, but wow do I wish some of the early concepts would have actually been implemented. Everything in the Master Works book looks like a new a fresh take on this version of Hyrule that, if actually implemented, would have overridden the feeling I had of "most of this is the same as the last game and this isn't really a sequel."
I think what we got was great, but I do agree that they had so many amazing concepts that weren't fully realized in the end. More variety in the sky islands and depths would have made up for a lot of that honestly. The depths were far to vast to be simply one monotonous aesthetic throughout the area. I would have, at the very least, wanted the same amount of "regions" in the depths as we had on the surface (Akkala being autumn-themed, Faron being jungle/rainforest-themed, Lanayru being more wet, and having different stones making up the cliffs, Gerudo being a desert, Hebra being an arctic region, and so forth). I would have also loved to honestly see more zonai influence beneath the depths, apart from supply/vehicle depots, and the occasional forge or ruin. Why were they down there, apart from mining zonaite? What were the mysteries behind the mysterious statue of the dog-like race never before mentioned in BOTW/TOTK's universe?
I feel like the limitations of the switch definitely played a big part in how much they could pack into the game, especially given the versatility the new abilities provided, so from a technical perspective, I understand why we didn't get that level of detail, it's still just a tad bit disappointing, given that we'll most likely never see these places again in the foreseeable future, unless they go back to BOTW or TOTK's storyline somewhere down the line after whatever is coming next for the franchise since I believe the zelda team has already stated that they're moving on from BOTW and TOTK (Honestly, I don't foresee us getting another open-world zelda game in a similar manner for a long time since they'd always be compared to BOTW and TOTK. They'll probably focus on remakes and remake sequels like Link's Awakening HD and Echoes of Wisdom, maybe even HD remasters of older games like Ocarina of Time, giving it a fresh modern coat of paint that they tend to do with their game franchises-)
I'm guessing Masterworks didn't shed any light on what they had planned for Kass or the whole internet would have been talking about it by now. #justiceforkass #gonebutnotforgotten
this is why folks were rightfully P.O.'ed when they announced that there would be no DLCs available for TotK. hence why the mod community made the challenge mode.
and believe me, i'm this tempted into getting a PC-version of TotK for that reason alone, but i'm worried about getting swatted for playing a hacked version DESPITE ALREADY OWNING THE GAME'S CARTRIDGE I PAID FOR.
"Tears of the Dragon" is such a cool title.
The Zelda we didn't get is one where the world as a whole changes as time goes on.
We could have had link get some time travel powers, and go back to see the beginning of Hyrule, or like, the power of seasons, or opening different parts of the depths rather than just a big flat bland land.
They gave link a fun new power, but the botw was the world and not link. The sequel needed to improve on the world in some way. There was nothing to see in the sky islands, nothing to see in the depths, and the mainland didn't have anything cool at the cool views anymore.
I nust find do odd the lack story continuity from BoTW to this game given its the sequel, but for me, if the game would have given me a few more unique moenets in the sky islands and in the depths, it would had been fine
And yes, that would include more contrast in the artstyle.
I know why they cuz that much content because hardware issues... But damn can i cope get definitive edition or DLC with cut content for Switch 2? That hardware probably 3 time more stronger then current switch
Yes and they could give us more content for a BOTW switch 2 version
Definitely could've got rid of the depths, and the useless shrines and used all that effort to make a real game
Depths were always hinted since BOTW (which a switch 2 version of it by giving us a depths map with more shiekah tech would be a dream come true) so removing it wouldn’t feel right
Honestly, I got so burned out by both BotW, and to a greater extent, TotK, because of the general emptiness the games had for their vast world. These ideas making it into the game may well have saved it for me. I also had lots of trouble with reaching the sky islands, and having to build pretty much everything you needed to move onward. I genuinely would have liked the original concept far better. Though, I think I'm glad the depths are a darkened and gloom filled place at least. Though they could have still kept some stuff.
Hopefully we get a "Master Cut" with all the ideas for the "Switch 2". That will have everything we wanted. Botw had the DLC. So maybe they are planing something. Cuz y'all know that Nintendo likes its secrets.
6 years for what was just a dlc. Man it could have been so much more
(Hot take) Nintendo should've waited until the next console to make a new 3D Zelda game
The most far ahead issues problem would be the Switch Tech, probably the sky island is super hard to build like how do you map and draw this into the paper , imagine you look at a plane paper nothing else just white how to you want it to see the floating rock formations with sunset meadow grass and golden apple trees close to the cotton candy cloud of golden Sun, falling water falls that reflects a rainbow 🌈 from the sky and shattered pieces clustering rain drops have taken to fall from the land of Hyrule. With the power of Switch 2 Hopefully Nintendo would consider this to brush up in All there Sky island 🏝️ 👍🖤✌️💪.
I was hoping there'd be other sky islands the other two ceremony armor sets would've been revealed to being to unlocking or something...would've been nice. And I agree we should've had either rauru or mineru as guides but at the same time how could they do that without spoiling the story for us? Since either of them could've told us practically everything. Its a shame in the end we got what we ended up getting. Could have been much more but they kind of pigeon holed themselves
Tears of the kingdom had/has so much potential yet so much missing
I still don't think it has to have been over 5 years between them. You can have full conversations with 3 and 4 year old humans in our world, and you're forgetting that Gerudo mature faster than Hylians, who are most comparable to our world humans.
This is the ultimate conclusion of: gameplay is the focal point of our mission with story as an after effect. Things were changed and removed or underdeveloped due to the world building being an afterthought. Even being fair they did strive to include actual dungeons (even though easily circumvented) and providing a narrative of succession. I wanted them to flesh out even any few things to their narrative conclusions vs the 100s of half finished plothole ridden extranious inclusions. It's just a shame that lore loving fans such as myself must rely mainly on perception and speculation vs hard conclusive points to enjoy.
i sweat totk is potential : the game , we're given infinite potential with the zonai at the cost of everything else in the game ( and a whole year of the game being late )
They pooped out TOTK so they could focus on the echoes of wisdom and that’s not nice
So cool, I wish there was more
dammit we missed a rebuilt castle town
If you think about it, Tears of the Kingdom's story had a similar idea to Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed regarding succession. It's a shame that it never reached its full potential with that idea or as a sequel to Breath of the Wild in terms of the script department...
So much potential gone to waste...
Great game but had much more potential
Cool Video!
it is a bit pity the sky could have been more creative seanery .
talking about things that didn.t make the final game .
what happened to the animal ( drinking) and the bridge passing we saw in the first game promo ?
A few more Sky Island shrines could've given us those last 2 Heart Containers. A friend of mine also had an idea to bring the Big Octo back as an overworld boss in the Depths.
Yeah or stamina wheels
ToTK could've been so much better
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Modders, get to work!
"tears of the kingdom is great" no, the concept art is
"tears of the kingdom is great" I agree
There are alot of things i wish were in this game but it was still a great time
Leaving Revali out should be a crime against the Rito themselves. The Zonai Shrines also suck pretty hard compared to their Sheikah counterparts(Literally the Apparatus Shrines are better), and most of the Zonai Runes are gimmicky at best. Nearly every melee weapon in the game being so fragile, and relying on fusing them, are both so ridiculous to me. And taking away all of the elemental arrows(Especially Bomb Arrows!) for more fusion crap is also a let down. TotK is like a 6/10, compared to Breath of the Wild's near perfect 9.9/10, in my opinion.
Idk but this one 3:36 bery much reminds me of castle in the sky
kinda mad they didnt just restore castle town. like yall wanted to ? why not? im sure we all wouldve rather had castle town than the entire depths
la verdad es que duele ver el como pudo haber sido....
They could at least added NG+ to it..
WTF I still love totk but this is bullshit we were robbed the game would have been perfect if we had this they better implement this in a future Zelda game 🤬
This game will be the biggest disappointment for me lol. I can’t wait for Echos, I strongly feel they reused so much in tears because echos was being worked on as well.
EOW was mostly developed by Grezzo, the main Zelda team at Nintendo is working on the next 3D Zelda at least since 2022 when polishing for TOTK started.
It is incredible how tears of the kingdom simply destroyed the zelda hype inside of me
It’s just one bad game execution, future Zelda games will be great
@@gbr4732 How can you tell when Aonuma and Fujibayashi's recent interviews all seem to imply "open air Zelda is the _future_ of the series"? All the creativity and substance fans loved in previous installments has been replaced with openworld exploration, endless collectathon fetch quests and non engaging "optional storylines", emphasizing hours upon hours of repetition instead of an enjoyable and creative experience going through a proper narrative while traversing puzzle-filled dungeons, dilluting everything which made classic Zelda be loved by millions of fans.
BOTW and TOTK have some of the best side quests in the franchise, in addition to BOTW having one of the best, if not the BEST story in the franchise, with by far the best characters. And let's not act as if the old games weren't VERY flawed, gameplay wise and ESPECIALLY story wise.
@javiervasquez625 what creativity and substance from previous games was lost? Provide examples please.
It's depressing
We could of had so much more than we got in totk. This makes me so disappointed with the final product we got 😢
They probably are saving other ideas for the next 3D game
@@Mirage475 That's a pretty optimistic way of looking at it. Honestly though, ToTK is the last time we're probably going to see the hero of the wild and imo it was a pretty disappointing ending to that era.
@@Mirage475yeah a sequel to totk
@@noobstoise1024I don’t think the wild era is over yet
This actually just depresses me
They sold the bag bro. First time I've ever felt the Zelda team underdelivered ngl.
They still made something great, but it still would have worked as a very very expensive dlc, rather than a second game
@@lomiification it wouldn’t be possible the game is a straight up new game not a dlc. It’s still underwhelming but not close to a dlc
We were robbed.
Such a fumble. Why Nintendo???