Just forgot to mention; but I played TotK before BotW, and I think that helped me appreciate it more because I didn’t experience that same Hyrule in the previous game so it all felt new and fresh. Just thought I’d mention that :) Edit: it’s been over a week since uploading this, and I can see that some people may have not realised why I made this video
I played BotW first, but by the time TotK came out, I haven't played BotW for 4 years... So it also felt "new and fresh" for me... But at the same time also familiar... Like coming home after a long, long journey 💙
Having played BotW multiple times and in fact done a playthrough right before starting TotK, I think there are areas where it hurts the game such as a lot of the side content, and other areas where it heavily benefits it such as Hyrule Castle and the 4 Regional quest towns.
I played BOTW multiple times and another time right before TOTK came out so that I could memorize every bit of the landscape and see all the differences. One thing I was really interested in in BOTW was the story behind the 8th heroine and I was so happy that there was a pretty lengthy quest line about that. But there were a few places in BOTW where there were small caves but the caves weren't there in TOTK. I guess some caves caved in while others opened up. All in all, I found the changes between games to be really fascinating and even though I knew the map like the back of my hand in BOTW, I can get lost in TOTK because it really is so different. I don't think people really appreciate all the differences if they don't know BOTW as well.
I'm not sure why is everyone giving so much hate to this game. I am a Zelda fan since OoT (which released when I was 9 yo), and even though I do love the old format, after experiencing all this freedom I would be disappointed to go back to the more limited formula of item collection.
TotK really has a personal soft spot to me. Its not only the one that git me into the Zelda franchise (ao far played BotW, OoT, MM, and now playing ALTTP, love them all) but it also revived my love for gaming after having never touched a console game for years. It does have flaws (like the sages or the 4 end of Dungeon curscenes) but these 250 hours were precious That title scene still gives me chills
@GonzalezCjuAn05 If you want to know why people dont like this game watch nerrels review of totk. It doesnt cover everything we dont like about it but it covers most of it in a very short amount of time. Its like a 20 minute watch, compared to all the other pointlessly 3 hour long critiques. If its trending its because a ton of people are resonating with the criticism they are hearing of the game. I have heard so many people shared my exact experience with the game lately, its nice to know im not a freak. Stop assuming all criticism is “just hate”, you will never see other perspectives if this is how you see the world
mostly my issue with the negativity is it's in bad faith. you could be equally as cruel to a game like ocarina of time, but nobody is because that game has been canonized as nearly perfect. when the scales tipped on totk, and it was generally okay to bash it, people went overboard. it's good for clicks.
I love this game like crazy. There were so many amazing moments. The health bar moment, diving to catch Zelda, descending into the depths for the first time, piecing together cool contraptions, being told to find Zelda and you realise she was right there at the very start, seeing the neat ways the different areas had changed and I could go on. The final trailer for the game was so freaking good. I was so sad when I found out there wouldn't be DLC because I want to go back and play it again so bad in a master mode.
I really have such a soft spot for Tears of the Kingdom, as it was the first Zelda game I was introduced to. I played it with my boyfriend, and I loved that it was shared, and I truly enjoyed it. The scenery is breathtaking, and this game really means a lot to me ❤️
You are the type of person who TotK was meant for. It wasn't really meant for people who played BotW before it. That's just how Nintendo is and for some people it can generate great experiences because you basically got a refined BotW that is just objectively better. I hope you will now become a die hard Zelda fan!
I've been playing video games since I was a child and have played all the big titles (Elden Ring, Red Dead Redemption, God of War...) and to this day I can say without a doubt that TotK is the best game of all time
Same as it’s favorite. It’s so close to being my perfect. I wish we had like 15 dungeons using ultrahand but other than that man what a fun game. I don’t think Nintendo will top this game for a while.
Aside from the trailers, i avoided all spoilers for this game, and I'm so glad I did. It made the main quest looking for Zelda so meaningful. I also think the ganondorf duel is the best Zelda boss fight, period. I love this game.
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I appreciate your video and your motivation for making it. TOTK took over as my favorite game, after OOT holding it for a very long time. It's OST managed to get it over the mark, after BOTW came close (I loved BOTW's OST as well, but like you said, TOTK had all of it plus a bunch of new favorites).
I love TotK! It's my favorite Zelda game and had such an incredible story with Zelda's sacrifice and the grand finale, on top of how fun the gameplay is. Subscribed!
Zelda games are so ungodly well made that truly none of the games are "bad" (Not even Zelda 2 is a bad game). In less then 5 years we will see more positive takes on TOTK. It happed with Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, and now with Skyward Sword.
very happy if you enjoyed the game but sadly BoTW was a 9/10 game for me and ToTK is 6-7/10 for me and I spent 150+ hours in both. BoTW - brand new game with SO many new ideas, gameplay and doesn't overstays its welcome that much. ToTK - a game with some amazing parts but incredibly recycled and copypasted-BoTW in many others and - unless you played BoTW before - very much bloated and repetitive (and a perfect example of 'less would be more')
1:14 - What we need to consider is that people who say TotK is bad are a part of what is called "vocal minority". But their opinion isn't really the universal one. There are very few games which achived such a huge succes, especially after enormous expectations. And 96/100 review average, 21 milion copies sold in a year and countless awards say that it really resonated with most people, so it is still objectively a masterpiece
No one has measured what the minority/majority of an opinion is, if the only stat we can pull is an aggregated score. It's definitely well rated, but that doesn't mean that the recurring criticism isn't valid, liking a game isn't binary. Now if you're only talking about people who say it's trash, I get you. Beyond that, people (like me) probably had a great time but many things they wish were done differently.
Tears of the Kingdom has my favorite version of the Temple of Time theme. The way the Saxophone and the Trumpet play a call and response piece really gives vibes of “The Final Trial” from BotW (with the Bagpipes soloing the whole time), and “Final Hours” from MM (The way the Sax and Trumpet feel as it they’re reaching out to each other). The game’s soundtrack overall has some of the most peak in the entire series. While yes, I’ll never forget Mr. Kondo-San’s compositions, I must say that a lot of the music in this game has reached his level of work. (No, I’m not here to suck off Colgera, and the 3rd Trailer BGM. But “Zelda’s Wish”, “Critical Decisions”, “Hyrule Castle (Surface)”, and “Construct Factory (Stage 3)” are all some of the most beautiful themes ever crafted for a video game. I applaud the Zelda Team.
320 hours in, am still doing a few side things (all backpack koroks and Hudson signs) and have not played the finale. But I can say that TOTK is my favorite game of all time. The more I play, the more I can see how the map is too angry for many, especially the depths, but I personally don't have a problem with it. That's why I say that it's my favorite gaming experience when I don't want to call it my favorite game
I needa replay this game again man. Despite all the negativity that surrounded the game months after release, I still hold the opinion that it’s one of the best games I’ve played alongside botw. Both unforgettable experiences for me.
Yep I noticed that when I was joking around that Link should be 122 years old because if he and Zelda are the same age before the calamity in botw Zelda was 17 which would make Link also 17, and after the calamity Link and Zelda should be 117. Totk takes place 5 years later which would make Link and Zelda 122 years old, but Zelda went back 10, 000 years in the past and she lived as an immortal dragon until present day making her 10,122 years old making their age age 10,000 years. Talk about a monstrous age gap, Zelda is the ultimate cougar, she's cougar prime just waiting to pounce on the much younger 122 year old. It was then that I realized that she should've been a dragon for the entirety of botw meaning that game could've have happened but tears is set right after breath making a time a paradox. The only explanation I could come up with is that there 2 Zeldas and dragon Zelda was just conveniently unnoticeable until tears.
I just started totk after finishing botw and i can say it is very adictive so far (i didnt like botw that much, it felt empty and it just had 4 simple abilities). Now with totk we have a lot of depth in gameplay with how you can build anything combined with zonai devices and vertical movement, i love it
Honestly, that was my favourite part of the first play-trough, figuring out what happened!! I felt so invested in the story, like never before 😭 I love TOTK
I love the game. It's so peaceful yet frantic. It's creative in so many ways. There's so much to do and places to explore. I have 100%ed it twice and I'm going for my third playthrough. Thanks for the video
I love both BotW and TotK despite their individual flaws. I love BotW's story and lore-especially the Champions. While TotK's story isn't delivered as well at it could have been, I still loved it-especially Zelda's characterization. I will say that TotK 's finale blows BotW's finale out of the water. I was disappointed with Dark Beast Ganon and thought I should have got to climb him Shadow of Colossus style, so the Dragon ending of TotK was absolutely incredible.
I only wish that it was a little more clear that the order you should collect the tears is on the walls in the Forgotten Temple. I did go there first, but I did the tears out of order because I was rushing (one switch and 3 family members all taking turns playing the game while trying to avoid spoilers). I wanted to find out the main story before I was spoiled on it, so I just went to all the tears as fast as I could and pieced together what happened by the 3rd tear I found.
nice! i put this on my top 3 zeldas, along with OoT and aLBW. such amazing depth and does its best with exploring. i LOVED the caves and some of the main quests like the zora's one with sidon coming to terms with his courage in believing in yona and not being scared of losing her. yea no game is perfect but i poured 290 hrs on it and it was WAY worth it! i think a lot of gamers just tend to be critics way too much and just enjoy games... we werent critics at 10 yrs old when ocarina of time came out, we just trucked through and played and had fun! thats how i see it. yea some criticism is worth mentioning but theres so much good here in totk imo.
Any time I see someone address "the discourse around the game", it's only focused on one side as if that was everything. "Haters" call out "shills" and vice versa, both call the other a vocal minority. From where I stand people have been criticizing the game since release, since then more have played the game and it's the same opinions showing up again and again. The majority is able to see flaws and still enjoy the game's strengths. I don't think a review can be fair if it doesn't account for pros and cons at the same time. BOTW was amazing and had flaws, or at least was focused on certain things more than others. TOTK is great too, more ambitious, but the way it doubles down on BOTW sometimes underlines limitations. And all of that, as usual, will affect each player differently based on their experience. If we don't acknowledge both sides at once, it's just a game of ping pong to "correct" the others as if there was a single True Experience.
I wholeheartedly understand all the criticism others give it. I ALSO have played through the game nearly 100% THREE TIMES. It's continuously fun when you set challenges. I can take out a silver lynel with only three hearts and no armor upgrades. I would've NEVER thought I could do that, but I enjoyed playing so much that I became a natural. 😅
Sitting comfy at my #8 favorite Zelda game. I can't explain it but the feelings of awe and emotion that people seem to have for the intro of Breath of the Wild when you step out of the Shrine of Resurrection, I just don't have that. But I did feel something similar when I jumped off the sky island and the theme swelled and the title dropped. I liked seeing the familiar places from the BotW and comparing and contrasting.
I remember a TON of people complaining how much they disliked pokemon black and white for whatever reason back in the day. Its all i ever saw in comment sections. I cant understate how much people disliked it(the vocal ones anyway) Now the people who grew up with black and white speak about how good those games were. The same thing will happen here. In a decade(s) people will talk about TOTK in a glowing light. Ive played most big releases the last few years (rdr2, botw, Odyssey, Elden ring, BG 3 , Persona 5,every resident evil remake) and TOTK is the best game ive played. I was there for OoT and Majora's mask so im not new to gaming. Its a shame all of the bandwagon hate videos there are, but in time it will change
I still can't believe people actually dislike this game... Genuinely... "wah its the same map, wah where's my classic dungeons? wah the story broke the pre-established canon even though Zelda games have never cared about canon in its entire existence!" Like come on man... The game makes Botw feel an incomplete game in comparison! The abilities alone are INSANE from a game development standpoint, and the changes were enough to make me explore the entire map again despite already doing so in Botw! (I guarantee you, if a modder went and rearranged everything on the map to even close to this level, people would praise them to high heavens and treat it as impressive). Yes, I get 6 years is a long time... Yes, the game isn't perfect... But people are acting like its some personal insult that killed their love of the series or something, just because it didn't make a brand new map and didn't have a mind blowing story (even though I personally thought the story was leagues better than Botw's). People just have way too high of expectations. They shouldn't have to make a "new Botw" that revolutionizes the gaming industry _every single time._ The amount of polish and graphical upgrades from Botw to Totk is insane (I'm willing to bet most people didn't realize that the entire skybox and movement of the sun and moon are entirely different between games). My only real complaint is that they didn't have DLC. Master Mode in Totk would have been GREAT, and extremely easy to implement, and having DLC would be the perfect way to fill out the Depths and Sky Islands a little more. Its honestly a shame that the devs consider this version of Hyrule to be complete, because there's so much potential they could still improve upon (ironically).
Fun fact, some people are different then you, we think differently, we enjoy different things, we dislike different things, and thats ok! I personally had such a crappy experience with totk that i stopped playing after 50 hours because I had literally almost 0 fun that entire time. Nerrel has a video on totk that sums up pretty well why we didnt like the game, if you are curious where we are coming from, give it a watch! Its about as long as this video. Just please, stop looking down on those that didnt enjoy the game, we werent looking for reasons to not like it, most of us are envy of those that did like it and tried the best to find ways to enjoy it. But its not for everyone.
@@mystraunt2705yet another person who regurgitates RUclipsrs takes and can't think for themselves. Nerrel couldn't even back up a car he built and kept driving into the wall...That wasn't just a bit in his video, he posted clips of him playing the game in his discord server and everyone roasted him for his massive skill issues. Congrats though, you blindly listen to RUclipsrs instead of forming your own opinions
@chooongusbug724 did you, even read my comment? I played the game, then watched nerrels video. He didnt change my opinion on the game, he just put into words some things that I couldn’t at the time. Is it really too hard to fathom, that someone doesnt like the game you like? I gurantee you might not like some of my favorite games, but I wouldn’t sit here and tell you that you were “just looking for reasons to not like the game, or, you are just regurgitating what some youtuber said”. I never said totk was a bad game, even once. Only that I, and many others, didnt enjoy it. Because not everyone is the same, we have different taste. Grow up
@mystraunt2705 I think you need to take your own advice with the grow up comment... especially when you jump to strawman arguments like, "why can't people fathom some don't like this game" while you have a hard time grasping that most people enjoy it. There's a reason you got push back outside of your echo chamber of Nerrel, when people say it's the vocal minority who don't like this game? That's the truth, it's one of the highest rated overall Zelda games and one of the highest rated games of all time. No amount of Nerrel glazing is gonna change that 🤷♀️
@chooongusbug724 lol, you seriously need to learn to read holy crap. I do understand why people like the game, theres plenty of things to like for a lot of people, Im not a lot of people. Even in nerrels video, he lays out a bunch of stuff people like about the game, but it didnt do it for him, because people have different taste!!!!!!! Name one way Im in an echo chamber? You make SO many assumptions about me in your replies, I only even brought up nerrels video because its a short and concise review as to not waste peoples time with repetitive details. IF YOU READ MY COMMENT, you would notice I never once said the game was bad. But its not a masterpiece for everyone, but so many zelda fanboys like you just assume something is “wrong with us, or we played the game wrong, or we found it too difficult” if we didnt like it. Maybe we just didnt like it, and want to talk about that because some might resonate with those feelings. I also never said most people dont like the game lol, not sure where you got that. But every single time I talk negatively about the game, even 2 years after release, I get shut down with the most braindead fanboy comments
Never thought of the way how he killed the Gleeok when it flew way up high. I always jumped on the fallen ice blocks and used the Reverse ability to fly upwards. This shows how TOTK encourages players to play like they want and everyone finds different solutions to the same problem. God I love BOTW and TOTK so much. ❤
I love TOTK! I have so many things I love! The depths are so freakin cool too. I the first time I went into a chasm I was skydiving in and I saw somethings out line and a Frox was just sitting there and had its mouth wide open trying to eat me. It scared the hell outta me lmao. Im a long time zelda fan and nothing comes quite close to the exploration in this game.
This video was so well done, and don’t even get my started on that thumbnail! I relate to you so hard on the comments acting like they didn’t even watch the video😂 keep going brother! - new subscriber
What ever you think about totk, it is still a master piece of game design especially from the programming stand point. Story telling like it isn't the best of zelda, sure, but even though it is much better then the most games ive played in resent time, especially if you can look at it more as a stand alone (exept botw maybe). The game mechanics chefs kiss. It is, as i heard, already study material in game related programming classes.
@thatguyinthevoid Yes, and it's great because it contrasts with the beginning of the game since the master sword breaks with those same attacks and now that Zelda made the sword stronger, it returns those attacks
I love totk but i truly believe that if Nintendo let us play throughout Zelda's story rather than make us watch it, it would be so much more impactful and the "hate" wouldn't be so much vile. Heck, just scrap the whole underworld map and focus on the past timeline map which can be so much different than botw map... and in the same time can even answer some of the mysteries on iconic location in botw.
The problem with Tears of the Kingdom story is that it has the same memory formula as Breath of the Wild. It’s a linear story that’s told in a non linear fashion and the vast majority of players will go through the game collecting the tears out of order. This worked better for Breath of the Wild because Link just woke up after 100 years and lost all his memories and you basically go around the post apocalyptic land trying to rediscover yourself and what happened to the champions. I witnessed Sonia die in one cutscene and then she was back alive in another because the memories were out of order. The sages aren’t really all that fleshed out because every cutscene after each dungeon has the sages say the same exact thing line for line word for word as all the other cutscenes in the game. It’s tedious and annoying from a story perspective. They also made it completely obvious from the start that Zelda was a puppet. Lastly, you can pull the master sword and discover that Zelda is the light dragon before doing any of the dungeons which means you will have to sit there and watch the sages see puppet zelda and you’ll know it’s an imposter but can’t do anything about it. The ancestors of the sages also witness zelda turning into a dragon and yet none of them inform Link about it at all. I just think the story is all over the place and doesn’t make that much sense. Breath of the Wild had a simple story but at least it made sense and had interesting characters. I didn’t really care about the new characters like Sonia and Mineru. I also think the Sheikah Tech from Breath of the Wild is more interesting especially from a lore perspective than the Zonai are in Tears of the Kingdom. I will admit that Zelda turning herself into a dragon was the ultimate sacrifice in the series besides maybe The King flooding himself and Hyrule in Wind Waker in hopes for a better future. It would have been better and more impactful if Zelda stayed a dragon but instead she wakes up and doesn’t remember anything. Almost like taking a nap for thousands of years and never had to suffer because of it. The cutscene where Rauru tells Ganondorf about the hero with the sword that seals the darkness was one of the greatest cutscenes ever. And the final fight in the sky with the two dragons has some of the most beautiful music in the entire series. I can hate on the game but also recognize when it does get it right. Overall, I thought the story could have been told so much better and at the end of the day it leads us with more questions than actual answers.
Your gameplay footage sums up one of the main reasons tears is in my top 3 Zelda games. I have spent over 1200 hrs in this game and have yet to see any one make a shield fusion that you made with the hylian shield. Is that a light dragon scale it’s fused to?
@ omg you just blew my mind rn. The fact I have never experimented with that weapon fusion makes me wanna kick my own ass. Only thing I would do differently is fuse the light dragon scale to one of the smaller Zonai shields so the blend is seemless
First time i ever bought a game on Day 1 at full price. It was a beautiful complete experience with no bugs and no updates and no adjustments needed. Put 500 hours into it before I went to face Ganondorf.
Finally someone that doesn’t just hate on this game. I mean sure, the game is not this amazing, legendary game that fans hyped it up to be before its release, but that *does not* mean it’s a bad game.
I’m so happy to see the fan base turn a little back toward appreciating TOTK. Yeah, it might feel like a super sized glorified maxed out DLC, but it’s also magical beyond compare in its toolbox. And, the layered discovery of the caves that weren’t even promoted like the sky islands, let alone AN extra player the Depths! I legit screamed like a child when I first: 1. Could land on a dragon! 2. Ride a dragon DOWN in a malice hole…. Forever… 3. Into this MASSIVE world that was a direct mirror or the overworld… Yeah, story is repetitive, temples were better but still repetitive, Depths got repetitive too, BUT the ability and freedom to self-innovate on a level I’ve never had in a game still wins one of the best games I’ve ever played.
10:58 a soul possessing a robot? Is that a fnaf reference. Just kidding but still having a ghost piloted robot mech is awesome. Who know that we would see crazier stuff than the master cycle in TOTK.
yeah the Master cycle is kinda over hyped and underwhelming when I think about it. wouldve been cool if I could use it throughout the game instead of getting it at the end, with the DLC, when I already did everything. but I guess that's why we have zonai devices in TOTK
Flip flopping between TOTK and BOTW is ok. Both are masterpieces, for me they are a 1A and 1B scenario. They are similar, yet so different at the same time. BOTW is a game that is so simple and beautiful to me, it really is you against nature. It kinda makes me want to cry of how beautiful and elegant it is. Meanwhile TOTK is this gigantic epic adventure, where now you have the abilities of a god and can experiment with everything. It is just too hype and fun to play to this day. I never thought I'd get that same feeling of exploration and getting lost in a world after I played BOTW back in 2017, but TOTK managed to bring those same feeling back and better than ever.
Breath of the Wild was by far my favourite game, but one thing always bugged me. Its that you simply can't do anything else with the dragons then to farm parts. When TotK let you ride them, if kicked BotW right off the throne. Yes, its one feature, that made it better then BotW for me, but hey, anyone has a feature they wished existed in BotW. This doesn't mean I hate BotW, no. The divine beasts are actually my favourites as well and despite everyone saying, they suck at a temple, I enjoyed playing them and in AoC we finally could play with them! So give me a game, that has everything from BotW (Divine beasts, ancient weapons etc.) and TotK and it will be the best game ever for me!
I absolutely love Tears of the Kingdom. Its nearly perfect. I personally like Breath of the Wild's story. I loved BotW's gameplay but this game is the most fun I've had since 2022, which was when I first played Breath of the Wild. This game takes third place behind Twilight Princess and Pokémon Gold as the greatest video game of all time.
3D Zelda is a paradox of a series at least to people outside of the fanbase. One of the highest critically acclaimed series, yet liking any game that's not Majoras Mask or Ocarina almost feels controversial
I feel like too many people are putting a game’s story as the forefront for why a game should be played. Do I think good stories can make a good video game? No, actually. I’d rather read a book of the story than have to work through a tedious means of telling it (not talking of totk here btw). I think a good story only enhances a game. It doesn’t necessarily have to be what makes a game good. Totk’s lore may be a bit more inconsistent than botw, but generally I had a lot more fun with the creative approaches I could find in totk instead of the more simplistic puzzles and trials that make up botw sometimes. Botw sometimes ends up boring after you find the best weapons to use because you generally don’t have much reason for using anything else. While their are powerful weapons in totk, it doesn’t exactly feel like it’s rewarding you differently for using those weapons instead of other ways, maybe even the opposite sometimes. I still do love botw for it’s more simplistic gameplay compared to totk, but in general I enjoy totk more than botw.
I do agree that a game is not reliant on its story, I decided to hold back on the gameplay in this video because I wanted to save my thoughts on it for a much grander video I have in the works. But I do agree with your points.
My first play through of the games, I prefer BotW because of the exploration. I loved the sense of discovery and challenge of navigating the landscape. In TotK, knowing the general world already, it just lost all that unfortunately. However, TotK is the better game and if I was to replay one, I'd choose TotK. Both are incredible games though
The biggest issue I have with TotK, which also applies to BotW, is the characters and story. There are some great parts in the story like you mentioned, but I think they could have done better..
I love the game, but I think I would’ve enjoyed the story a lot more if I wasn’t almost immediately spoiled on the twist by going to Death Mountain first because I love the Gorons so much. I found the Geoglyph and… knew exactly what happened to Zelda. 😑 I do still really love the game, but I don’t like the way these memories were handled. Edit: you sorta mentioned this, so never mind. I hadn’t finished the video before commenting.
This game is honestly fantastic I think people are hating on it because they have dumped 100 of hours into the game and are now bored. I see this happen all the time with these massive games, first they get raving reviews and later on people hate on it.
I'll start off with a few caveats; I didn't like TOTK, and preferred BOTW, and technically am a TOTK "hater". However, I have never once told someone who likes TOTK that they're wrong and horrible for liking TOTK. I'm very glad people liked the game. That said, 23:45 is my main reason for disliking the game. With Age of Calamity I was advised the game was a prequel. It wasn't. I was then advised TOTK was a sequel. It wasn't. Both feel like alternate realities. Which is fine. But as someone who adored BOTW and has spent over 1,000 in the game enjoying every minute, I have been lied to twice. What I loved about BOTW was changed and tweaked into a game that I was so excited for I couldn't wait and played it at 2 in the morning on launch day. I won't go into everything, but my favorite character (Kass) was gone, and I found the new mechanics overwhelming and the new sage abilities tedious. I am so happy that people like this game, or love it. I watched this since I'd watched tons of videos about people disliking the game, and wanted to see what you had to say. BOTW will always be a special game to me, but if I ever feel the itch to ride a hover bike, I'll come here.
@@frgierom4475yeah, agreed. Breath of the Wild in 2024 feels like a rough draft and gonna be honest? I always felt it was kind of empty, it reminded me of Skyrim but without anything to do in the world. So, I'm glad Tears came out, it's what ultimately sold me on open Zelda where Breath couldn't due to feeling incomplete
I really enjoyed the peaceful serenity of BOTW and didn't mind that parts of the game were just nature. It helped with the vibe they were going for. TOTK has an absolutely different feel to it.
People switched up hard on this game because at launch people were gushing over the game and saying things like "totk made botw feel like a tech demo", or they were gushing how the new ability were leagues better than the old sheikah slate abilities like how ultra hand is a direct upgrade to magnesis, or even developers gushing over that one animations in the depths where a wheel rolled up a chain and how fluid it was, explaining how hard that animation is animation like it tend to get hidden so the player doesn't noticed it but Nintendo were showing off their expertise in game making. I don't even need to mention all the different builds people made with ultra hand, building entire mech suits and attack helicopters and of course Korok torture devices. Nowadays any tears content on my feed is almost all negative and the positive ones are dated to around when the game came out, videos like why people now hate tears, or a million why totk isn't as good botw because it's doesn't have the same magic or charm or whatever. I honestly had to check the date of the video to find out if was an old video uploaded when people still thought that totk was a good game. It's nice to know that people other than me didn't switch up on the game and still think it's a great game. I think botw was a masterpiece and totk blows that game out of the water.
I think Rauru has *not* the Triforce for the simple Reason that the Triforce is not *Light Power* It is Omnipotent Power that can grant any wish regardless if the one with the wish is good or evil, if Rauru really did have the Triforce then Ganondorf wouldnt be in charge to begin with since the Secret Stones only *Double* the Powers within and it is mathematically and by Definition Impossible to surpass infinity, so it makes zero sense for Ganondorf with Double Power to surpass infinite power
@@Chris-gx1ei I do agree to an extent, but I think that the Triforce was in fact dormant inside him, which is why it awakened within Zelda in BotW when she needed it and then it went dormant again after it’s power was not needed. At least that’s how I like to see it
It may have dropped the ball as a sequel for BotW, but if we take it as a standalone game within its own merits, I'd say is one of the best Zelda games out there. I liked BotW, but TotK made me love the open world Zelda games.
Let me let you know.... you like totk a lot more. It is so much better than Botw. This is being said by someone whose favorite game ever was Chrono Trigger until BOTW came out. The reason people have this struggle is because when BOTW came out it was completely a new experience and even if you watched everything you could about it, you still knew basically nothing about it. Going into TOTK we knew what to expect and then every step of the way it was better than expectations. BOTW will always hold a place in my heart and mind for that amazing experience of something so new and amazing but TOTK is by all measures a better game.
I agree on the Story, I do like TotK's story more than Botws, in Botw we get everything spoiled from the very beginning, and the Memories we collect on the way are mostly 50% of Zelda having her Moodswings due to the psychological pressure she and her father puts on herself In Tears of the Kingdom we only know vaguely what happened, yet we get the Details told through Memories and Story Progression, The Story was way more connected with the one leading into the other, yet using the same Type of Storytelling however goes with the risk of spoiling everything else, thus I can understand why they dislike it.
The only way I can describe this game is epic. Is it perfect? No. Could it have more and be even better? Yes Is it still complex enough to have three separate playthroughs that all ended up vastly different just from slightly adjusting how I played the game? Yes And is it free enough to still be discovering new and random things and have some of the funniest and coolest moments happen on each of those playthroughs? Absolutely. TotK is probably the closest thing to a perfect game there is in my opinion. But since perfection isn't possible, and is different depending on the eye of the beholder, there will always be flaws. But those flaws don't detract from the full experience you get 200+ hours later in one playthrough, making useless machines, filling out completion percentage, and crying and screaming and cheering as quietly as possible while you freak out internally because you just beat the game but your parents are trying to sleep in the room across from you. And even though I played BotW before Totk, it didn't detract the experience, and even made me go back for a master mode playthrough of BotW I had been saying I would do but didn't for a year.
People hate this game? Everyone I know only hate that their wasn’t more added to explore on the overworld but other then that they all like it, to me I wish they added more islands to explore, only really 2 island to explore, one at spawn and the other is the storm island but that’s it, throw in like 6 more big island and I’m all for it, the depth imo r cool, have its own gameplay due to the gloom everywhere plus better weapons down there vs the corrupted ones on the surface
When looking at a game I love like this one, or one that I really don’t like (recent AC games), I try to consider the opposite side’s viewpoint so that I’m not completely biased one way or the other, recognizing that there are good and bad things done in every game. And while Totk made some missteps here and there, it is overall an extremely well made game and when it’s high points hit, they hit hard. Some Zelda fans even now are willing to accept some of the few things Skyward Sword did well, even though its problems are still very apparent even a decade later. I think the recent Totk hate is due to how when it first came out any who voiced criticisms were shouted down by those who loved it, and now the pendulum is swinging the other way. I hope eventually everything balances out and we can eventually have a balanced, nuanced discussion about this game and what it does well and what it doesn’t. So thanks for giving your opinion and trying to help stabilize the Zelda fans
I've got the impression that many (or most) people that love totk just automatically dismiss any criticism as "hating" just like how botw fans did a few years ago. Personally I enjoyed totk (I have around 400 hours on it) and adored botw even more, but I can't help but feel that it (totk) has a lot of missed opportunities, and trust me I tried REALLY hard to love this game. So it pains me when I and many others try criticizing it and we just kinda get generalized as being "angry haters that hate for the sake of hating" or whatever. It sounds silly and a bit hypocritical hearing some totk fans argue that we shouldn't treat them like dumbasses who like a dumb game (which is fair), while they do pretty much the same with "haters" who are only (usually) normal people expressing their own opinions that just happen to also be negative. I would much rather have a place where we could all say stuff freely without getting jumped by childish internet users. Because trust me, people on both sides of this argument are at fault here. It doesn't help that you're also barely interacting with negative feedback in the comment section (even if expressed in a civilized and respectful way) while hearting comments looking down on people who dislike totk? I don't even dislike it, so it's not like I'm getting defensive because of that, I merely find it to be pretty intellectually dishonest
@@naturalLog26 My intention was never to hurt anyone’s feelings. I respect everyone’s opinions and I enjoy hearing what others have to say about the game, positive or not. I recognise my mistake and I never meant to be offensive or look down on anyone. I just grew tired of reading so much hate during the year that I’ve kinda turned a blind eye to it. I apologise Edit: I actually finished writing a script earlier today, and a part of it features a little segment about how both haters and lovers should see each others point of views equally and not dispute about it or look down on each other because it’s pointless. Man, going into this I was not expecting this much controversy, but I guess that’s unsurprising considering it’s Tears of the Kingdom 😂 Edit 2: I had a feeling from the start that someone was going to comment on my amount of hearting 😂
Oh goodness, why is there always one person like you in the comment section of a video praising TotK? People like you have wrote off people who like the game as "receny bias" or "not having played the old games". Gonna be real? When I hear stuff like this and read comments like this? I feel you may be projecting because someone doesn't agree with you
Although I have my problems with TOTK, I absolutely love the game. A lot of the time when I see criticism, it just feels like hate. A good majority of the criticism or hate I see is in the context of BOTW. It sucks that they can’t see it as a stand-alone game, and it always has to be a BOTW sequel to them. Because yeah, it fails as a sequel. But it is an amazing game. So why should the fact it fails as a sequel be the entire reason for someone not enjoying the game? Maybe I don’t see it the way they do because I didn’t get very long with BOTW, and actually only finished it because TOTK was coming out. But my friend, who did have since release with BOTW, loves TOTK and has her criticisms. And almost none of them are relating to the fact it’s BOTW 2. In fact, her only really BOTW criticism is that (like me) she can’t return to BOTW now after playing TOTK because of the quality of life things TOTK has
I really can't bear those who hate totk, especially when they argue that botw is much better. Sure you might like glitches of nostalgia, but that isn't something which can be created by the developers.. Totk is brilliant and its the loud few who unfortunately represent the quiet many who like totk.
I'm one of those totk haters. I mean, I admire the game in many ways. Yet, I feel that its innovation wasn't fully realized. Most of the new content is great but once you experience something, like going in a cave or going to the depths, the same experience gets repeted without significant variation. This makes exploration dull and unexciting. I truly believe that botw has a world built with more care and intention than totk. Again, this doesn't make it a bad game, but a missed opportunity.
I wish people didn't try to divide so superficially. Sure you'll have trolls and pure haters. But if someone brings up criticism, I don't think it's fair to dismiss it as hate. And if enough people repeat the same criticism, I don't think it's fair to bundle everything and insist it only comes from a "vocal minority". I've enjoyed TOTK a lot and yet have a lot more criticism than I had with BOTW, because it doesn't exist in a vacuum.
@ I mean neither game is perfect but I think it’s kinda illogical to see something that has been wildly improved on, even though it was great and is still cool. Kinda like comparing a Spitfire to an F-35
@@fierybird more isn't always better (I won't repeat what I shared in another thread or youtube will end up flagging me for spam...). F-35 may be perfect for speed or battle, but may be overkill or overlooking other aspects of a complete experience.
Just forgot to mention; but I played TotK before BotW, and I think that helped me appreciate it more because I didn’t experience that same Hyrule in the previous game so it all felt new and fresh. Just thought I’d mention that :)
Edit: it’s been over a week since uploading this, and I can see that some people may have not realised why I made this video
I played BotW first, but by the time TotK came out, I haven't played BotW for 4 years... So it also felt "new and fresh" for me... But at the same time also familiar... Like coming home after a long, long journey 💙
Me too bro
The reason why people hated totk so much is bc it didn't have the same magic as botw, playing totk first truly let you realize how good it was
Having played BotW multiple times and in fact done a playthrough right before starting TotK, I think there are areas where it hurts the game such as a lot of the side content, and other areas where it heavily benefits it such as Hyrule Castle and the 4 Regional quest towns.
I played BOTW multiple times and another time right before TOTK came out so that I could memorize every bit of the landscape and see all the differences. One thing I was really interested in in BOTW was the story behind the 8th heroine and I was so happy that there was a pretty lengthy quest line about that. But there were a few places in BOTW where there were small caves but the caves weren't there in TOTK. I guess some caves caved in while others opened up.
All in all, I found the changes between games to be really fascinating and even though I knew the map like the back of my hand in BOTW, I can get lost in TOTK because it really is so different. I don't think people really appreciate all the differences if they don't know BOTW as well.
They could never make me hate you, TOTK
Bro just casually killed that gleeok without taking any damage and thought we wouldn’t notice!
Seriously that was impressive!
I'm not sure why is everyone giving so much hate to this game. I am a Zelda fan since OoT (which released when I was 9 yo), and even though I do love the old format, after experiencing all this freedom I would be disappointed to go back to the more limited formula of item collection.
TotK really has a personal soft spot to me. Its not only the one that git me into the Zelda franchise (ao far played BotW, OoT, MM, and now playing ALTTP, love them all) but it also revived my love for gaming after having never touched a console game for years. It does have flaws (like the sages or the 4 end of Dungeon curscenes) but these 250 hours were precious
That title scene still gives me chills
A positive video on Tears of the Kingdom in 2024? Wow
It’s overrated to me
@GANONDORFSDOG Overrated??? All I see online is negative/conflicted reviews of this game
@ yeah and all of you lovers overrate it
@ it will never beat breath of the wilds fun, and especially most of the older games
@GANONDORFSDOG i never played botw but yeah oot and mm are better
I loved this game. It's been depressing to see so much hate dogpiled onto it :/
It’s not hate, it’s criticism, which many times is valid…
@@JaylaSecura it's both
@@JaylaSecurano, it just a trend now to hate on this game for no reason
@GonzalezCjuAn05 If you want to know why people dont like this game watch nerrels review of totk. It doesnt cover everything we dont like about it but it covers most of it in a very short amount of time. Its like a 20 minute watch, compared to all the other pointlessly 3 hour long critiques.
If its trending its because a ton of people are resonating with the criticism they are hearing of the game. I have heard so many people shared my exact experience with the game lately, its nice to know im not a freak. Stop assuming all criticism is “just hate”, you will never see other perspectives if this is how you see the world
mostly my issue with the negativity is it's in bad faith. you could be equally as cruel to a game like ocarina of time, but nobody is because that game has been canonized as nearly perfect. when the scales tipped on totk, and it was generally okay to bash it, people went overboard. it's good for clicks.
I love this game like crazy. There were so many amazing moments. The health bar moment, diving to catch Zelda, descending into the depths for the first time, piecing together cool contraptions, being told to find Zelda and you realise she was right there at the very start, seeing the neat ways the different areas had changed and I could go on. The final trailer for the game was so freaking good. I was so sad when I found out there wouldn't be DLC because I want to go back and play it again so bad in a master mode.
I really have such a soft spot for Tears of the Kingdom, as it was the first Zelda game I was introduced to. I played it with my boyfriend, and I loved that it was shared, and I truly enjoyed it. The scenery is breathtaking, and this game really means a lot to me ❤️
I think one of the best ways to experience games is with your favourite them with your favourite people. It creates fond memories to look back on 😁
Did you play Breath of The Wild. It has one of the most beautiful stories ever!
@@Tranceporter33 I have not yet, I do plan to as soon as I can 😁
You are the type of person who TotK was meant for. It wasn't really meant for people who played BotW before it. That's just how Nintendo is and for some people it can generate great experiences because you basically got a refined BotW that is just objectively better. I hope you will now become a die hard Zelda fan!
@@mh6276I played TotK after BotW and found TotK to be way more enjoyable...I felt BotW kinda sucked TBH lol
I played BOTW first, but TOTK is still my favorite game of all time.
gonna save to my watch later im busy rn but big YES to the title and I'm so glad there are ppl like you posting positive feelings about this game.
I've been playing video games since I was a child and have played all the big titles (Elden Ring, Red Dead Redemption, God of War...) and to this day I can say without a doubt that TotK is the best game of all time
How dare you say TotK is better than ~just Dark Souls, but open word~?
Same as it’s favorite. It’s so close to being my perfect. I wish we had like 15 dungeons using ultrahand but other than that man what a fun game.
I don’t think Nintendo will top this game for a while.
Same for me
Have you played metroid prime?
@@mystraunt2705 no but I think its too old to rate it fairly
totk is one of the best games ever created and I'm tired of pretending it's not
facts
not even a top 10 zelda game
@archer58341/10 rage bait
an amazing game in general, but a terrible zelda game, imo
Aside from the trailers, i avoided all spoilers for this game, and I'm so glad I did. It made the main quest looking for Zelda so meaningful. I also think the ganondorf duel is the best Zelda boss fight, period. I love this game.
I appreciate your video and your motivation for making it. TOTK took over as my favorite game, after OOT holding it for a very long time. It's OST managed to get it over the mark, after BOTW came close (I loved BOTW's OST as well, but like you said, TOTK had all of it plus a bunch of new favorites).
I love TotK! It's my favorite Zelda game and had such an incredible story with Zelda's sacrifice and the grand finale, on top of how fun the gameplay is. Subscribed!
Zelda games are so ungodly well made that truly none of the games are "bad" (Not even Zelda 2 is a bad game). In less then 5 years we will see more positive takes on TOTK. It happed with Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, and now with Skyward Sword.
TOTK was an incredible experience, anyone who says otherwise is either blinded by nostalgia or hasnt played the game
very happy if you enjoyed the game but sadly BoTW was a 9/10 game for me and ToTK is 6-7/10 for me and I spent 150+ hours in both. BoTW - brand new game with SO many new ideas, gameplay and doesn't overstays its welcome that much. ToTK - a game with some amazing parts but incredibly recycled and copypasted-BoTW in many others and - unless you played BoTW before - very much bloated and repetitive (and a perfect example of 'less would be more')
Meh wasn't that good
Yall got duped by a 60 dollar beta
1:14 - What we need to consider is that people who say TotK is bad are a part of what is called "vocal minority". But their opinion isn't really the universal one. There are very few games which achived such a huge succes, especially after enormous expectations. And 96/100 review average, 21 milion copies sold in a year and countless awards say that it really resonated with most people, so it is still objectively a masterpiece
100%
@@thatguyinthevoid 💯🔥
You mean vocal minority.
No one has measured what the minority/majority of an opinion is, if the only stat we can pull is an aggregated score. It's definitely well rated, but that doesn't mean that the recurring criticism isn't valid, liking a game isn't binary. Now if you're only talking about people who say it's trash, I get you. Beyond that, people (like me) probably had a great time but many things they wish were done differently.
Vocal minority
Tears of the Kingdom has my favorite version of the Temple of Time theme. The way the Saxophone and the Trumpet play a call and response piece really gives vibes of “The Final Trial” from BotW (with the Bagpipes soloing the whole time), and “Final Hours” from MM (The way the Sax and Trumpet feel as it they’re reaching out to each other). The game’s soundtrack overall has some of the most peak in the entire series. While yes, I’ll never forget Mr. Kondo-San’s compositions, I must say that a lot of the music in this game has reached his level of work. (No, I’m not here to suck off Colgera, and the 3rd Trailer BGM. But “Zelda’s Wish”, “Critical Decisions”, “Hyrule Castle (Surface)”, and “Construct Factory (Stage 3)” are all some of the most beautiful themes ever crafted for a video game. I applaud the Zelda Team.
As someone who played BotW for 500+ hours and loves it to pieces I can still confidently say I prefer TotK
300 plus hours into this masterpiece and I’m still discovering new things - this is by far the best game Nintendo has ever made !
320 hours in, am still doing a few side things (all backpack koroks and Hudson signs) and have not played the finale. But I can say that TOTK is my favorite game of all time. The more I play, the more I can see how the map is too angry for many, especially the depths, but I personally don't have a problem with it. That's why I say that it's my favorite gaming experience when I don't want to call it my favorite game
We love TotK!!
TotK is peak, no doubt!
I needa replay this game again man. Despite all the negativity that surrounded the game months after release, I still hold the opinion that it’s one of the best games I’ve played alongside botw. Both unforgettable experiences for me.
Has anyone realised that TOTK had a TIME PARADOX?!
Yes that’s why the logo for the game is an ouroboros
exactly
So did Ocarina of Time with learning the Song of Storms
Yep I noticed that when I was joking around that Link should be 122 years old because if he and Zelda are the same age before the calamity in botw Zelda was 17 which would make Link also 17, and after the calamity Link and Zelda should be 117. Totk takes place 5 years later which would make Link and Zelda 122 years old, but Zelda went back 10, 000 years in the past and she lived as an immortal dragon until present day making her 10,122 years old making their age age 10,000 years. Talk about a monstrous age gap, Zelda is the ultimate cougar, she's cougar prime just waiting to pounce on the much younger 122 year old.
It was then that I realized that she should've been a dragon for the entirety of botw meaning that game could've have happened but tears is set right after breath making a time a paradox. The only explanation I could come up with is that there 2 Zeldas and dragon Zelda was just conveniently unnoticeable until tears.
@ it’s even worse than that, she went back at least 30000 years in the past
7:32 I like how the sheikah abilities looks more technological where is the zona abilities look more spiritual like magic
Your content is amazing!!!!!
I just started totk after finishing botw and i can say it is very adictive so far (i didnt like botw that much, it felt empty and it just had 4 simple abilities). Now with totk we have a lot of depth in gameplay with how you can build anything combined with zonai devices and vertical movement, i love it
Love the video and love TOTK, keep up the great work
Tears of the kingdom is PEAK Zelda and it sucks to see so many people jump on a hate train for it just for the sake of it.
Secret stone? Demon king??? 4x
You are so underrated! This video was so well made and I can a lot of effort was put into it! :)
Honestly, that was my favourite part of the first play-trough, figuring out what happened!! I felt so invested in the story, like never before 😭 I love TOTK
My favorite game of all time.
Finally someone that like totk again
I stand with you, this game is a freaking masterpiece
I love the game. It's so peaceful yet frantic. It's creative in so many ways. There's so much to do and places to explore. I have 100%ed it twice and I'm going for my third playthrough. Thanks for the video
I love both BotW and TotK despite their individual flaws. I love BotW's story and lore-especially the Champions. While TotK's story isn't delivered as well at it could have been, I still loved it-especially Zelda's characterization. I will say that TotK 's finale blows BotW's finale out of the water. I was disappointed with Dark Beast Ganon and thought I should have got to climb him Shadow of Colossus style, so the Dragon ending of TotK was absolutely incredible.
I only wish that it was a little more clear that the order you should collect the tears is on the walls in the Forgotten Temple. I did go there first, but I did the tears out of order because I was rushing (one switch and 3 family members all taking turns playing the game while trying to avoid spoilers). I wanted to find out the main story before I was spoiled on it, so I just went to all the tears as fast as I could and pieced together what happened by the 3rd tear I found.
nice! i put this on my top 3 zeldas, along with OoT and aLBW. such amazing depth and does its best with exploring. i LOVED the caves and some of the main quests like the zora's one with sidon coming to terms with his courage in believing in yona and not being scared of losing her. yea no game is perfect but i poured 290 hrs on it and it was WAY worth it! i think a lot of gamers just tend to be critics way too much and just enjoy games... we werent critics at 10 yrs old when ocarina of time came out, we just trucked through and played and had fun! thats how i see it. yea some criticism is worth mentioning but theres so much good here in totk imo.
Any time I see someone address "the discourse around the game", it's only focused on one side as if that was everything. "Haters" call out "shills" and vice versa, both call the other a vocal minority. From where I stand people have been criticizing the game since release, since then more have played the game and it's the same opinions showing up again and again. The majority is able to see flaws and still enjoy the game's strengths.
I don't think a review can be fair if it doesn't account for pros and cons at the same time. BOTW was amazing and had flaws, or at least was focused on certain things more than others. TOTK is great too, more ambitious, but the way it doubles down on BOTW sometimes underlines limitations. And all of that, as usual, will affect each player differently based on their experience.
If we don't acknowledge both sides at once, it's just a game of ping pong to "correct" the others as if there was a single True Experience.
I agree, sadly most people that need to read this either wont or wont actually take it to heart
I wholeheartedly understand all the criticism others give it. I ALSO have played through the game nearly 100% THREE TIMES. It's continuously fun when you set challenges. I can take out a silver lynel with only three hearts and no armor upgrades. I would've NEVER thought I could do that, but I enjoyed playing so much that I became a natural. 😅
@@jeffgoode9865 I’m on the same page as you 😅
I had my problems with the game in the middle, even paused a few months, but the ending was maybe one of the best I ever had in a Zelda or in general.
Sitting comfy at my #8 favorite Zelda game.
I can't explain it but the feelings of awe and emotion that people seem to have for the intro of Breath of the Wild when you step out of the Shrine of Resurrection, I just don't have that. But I did feel something similar when I jumped off the sky island and the theme swelled and the title dropped.
I liked seeing the familiar places from the BotW and comparing and contrasting.
I remember a TON of people complaining how much they disliked pokemon black and white for whatever reason back in the day. Its all i ever saw in comment sections. I cant understate how much people disliked it(the vocal ones anyway)
Now the people who grew up with black and white speak about how good those games were. The same thing will happen here. In a decade(s) people will talk about TOTK in a glowing light.
Ive played most big releases the last few years (rdr2, botw, Odyssey, Elden ring, BG 3 , Persona 5,every resident evil remake) and TOTK is the best game ive played. I was there for OoT and Majora's mask so im not new to gaming. Its a shame all of the bandwagon hate videos there are, but in time it will change
I still can't believe people actually dislike this game... Genuinely... "wah its the same map, wah where's my classic dungeons? wah the story broke the pre-established canon even though Zelda games have never cared about canon in its entire existence!"
Like come on man... The game makes Botw feel an incomplete game in comparison! The abilities alone are INSANE from a game development standpoint, and the changes were enough to make me explore the entire map again despite already doing so in Botw! (I guarantee you, if a modder went and rearranged everything on the map to even close to this level, people would praise them to high heavens and treat it as impressive).
Yes, I get 6 years is a long time... Yes, the game isn't perfect... But people are acting like its some personal insult that killed their love of the series or something, just because it didn't make a brand new map and didn't have a mind blowing story (even though I personally thought the story was leagues better than Botw's).
People just have way too high of expectations. They shouldn't have to make a "new Botw" that revolutionizes the gaming industry _every single time._ The amount of polish and graphical upgrades from Botw to Totk is insane (I'm willing to bet most people didn't realize that the entire skybox and movement of the sun and moon are entirely different between games).
My only real complaint is that they didn't have DLC. Master Mode in Totk would have been GREAT, and extremely easy to implement, and having DLC would be the perfect way to fill out the Depths and Sky Islands a little more. Its honestly a shame that the devs consider this version of Hyrule to be complete, because there's so much potential they could still improve upon (ironically).
Fun fact, some people are different then you, we think differently, we enjoy different things, we dislike different things, and thats ok! I personally had such a crappy experience with totk that i stopped playing after 50 hours because I had literally almost 0 fun that entire time.
Nerrel has a video on totk that sums up pretty well why we didnt like the game, if you are curious where we are coming from, give it a watch! Its about as long as this video.
Just please, stop looking down on those that didnt enjoy the game, we werent looking for reasons to not like it, most of us are envy of those that did like it and tried the best to find ways to enjoy it. But its not for everyone.
@@mystraunt2705yet another person who regurgitates RUclipsrs takes and can't think for themselves. Nerrel couldn't even back up a car he built and kept driving into the wall...That wasn't just a bit in his video, he posted clips of him playing the game in his discord server and everyone roasted him for his massive skill issues.
Congrats though, you blindly listen to RUclipsrs instead of forming your own opinions
@chooongusbug724 did you, even read my comment? I played the game, then watched nerrels video. He didnt change my opinion on the game, he just put into words some things that I couldn’t at the time.
Is it really too hard to fathom, that someone doesnt like the game you like? I gurantee you might not like some of my favorite games, but I wouldn’t sit here and tell you that you were “just looking for reasons to not like the game, or, you are just regurgitating what some youtuber said”.
I never said totk was a bad game, even once. Only that I, and many others, didnt enjoy it. Because not everyone is the same, we have different taste. Grow up
@mystraunt2705 I think you need to take your own advice with the grow up comment... especially when you jump to strawman arguments like, "why can't people fathom some don't like this game" while you have a hard time grasping that most people enjoy it.
There's a reason you got push back outside of your echo chamber of Nerrel, when people say it's the vocal minority who don't like this game? That's the truth, it's one of the highest rated overall Zelda games and one of the highest rated games of all time. No amount of Nerrel glazing is gonna change that 🤷♀️
@chooongusbug724 lol, you seriously need to learn to read holy crap. I do understand why people like the game, theres plenty of things to like for a lot of people, Im not a lot of people. Even in nerrels video, he lays out a bunch of stuff people like about the game, but it didnt do it for him, because people have different taste!!!!!!!
Name one way Im in an echo chamber? You make SO many assumptions about me in your replies, I only even brought up nerrels video because its a short and concise review as to not waste peoples time with repetitive details.
IF YOU READ MY COMMENT, you would notice I never once said the game was bad. But its not a masterpiece for everyone, but so many zelda fanboys like you just assume something is “wrong with us, or we played the game wrong, or we found it too difficult” if we didnt like it. Maybe we just didnt like it, and want to talk about that because some might resonate with those feelings.
I also never said most people dont like the game lol, not sure where you got that. But every single time I talk negatively about the game, even 2 years after release, I get shut down with the most braindead fanboy comments
Never thought of the way how he killed the Gleeok when it flew way up high. I always jumped on the fallen ice blocks and used the Reverse ability to fly upwards. This shows how TOTK encourages players to play like they want and everyone finds different solutions to the same problem. God I love BOTW and TOTK so much. ❤
I love TOTK! I have so many things I love! The depths are so freakin cool too. I the first time I went into a chasm I was skydiving in and I saw somethings out line and a Frox was just sitting there and had its mouth wide open trying to eat me. It scared the hell outta me lmao. Im a long time zelda fan and nothing comes quite close to the exploration in this game.
This video was so well done, and don’t even get my started on that thumbnail! I relate to you so hard on the comments acting like they didn’t even watch the video😂 keep going brother! - new subscriber
That last scene with Zelda and Link, that hits me right in my feelings 😅🥰❤️
I freaking love this game! It’s tied with Breath of the Wild as my favorite Zelda game!
If you fuse a rock to a stick, it should at least be hammer shaped - similar to how the rock axe looks.
Late game combat is just N64 Ocarina of Time’s Water Temple iron boots annoyance.
What ever you think about totk, it is still a master piece of game design especially from the programming stand point. Story telling like it isn't the best of zelda, sure, but even though it is much better then the most games ive played in resent time, especially if you can look at it more as a stand alone (exept botw maybe). The game mechanics chefs kiss. It is, as i heard, already study material in game related programming classes.
Actually you can destroy the gloom in the final boss with the master sword
@@Iron_Pac huh, did not know that
@thatguyinthevoid Yes, and it's great because it contrasts with the beginning of the game since the master sword breaks with those same attacks and now that Zelda made the sword stronger, it returns those attacks
The sad part is Riju's ability isnt even required for the Queen Gibdo. Any electric attack can make her vulnerable.
I love totk but i truly believe that if Nintendo let us play throughout Zelda's story rather than make us watch it, it would be so much more impactful and the "hate" wouldn't be so much vile.
Heck, just scrap the whole underworld map and focus on the past timeline map which can be so much different than botw map... and in the same time can even answer some of the mysteries on iconic location in botw.
The problem with Tears of the Kingdom story is that it has the same memory formula as Breath of the Wild. It’s a linear story that’s told in a non linear fashion and the vast majority of players will go through the game collecting the tears out of order. This worked better for Breath of the Wild because Link just woke up after 100 years and lost all his memories and you basically go around the post apocalyptic land trying to rediscover yourself and what happened to the champions. I witnessed Sonia die in one cutscene and then she was back alive in another because the memories were out of order. The sages aren’t really all that fleshed out because every cutscene after each dungeon has the sages say the same exact thing line for line word for word as all the other cutscenes in the game. It’s tedious and annoying from a story perspective. They also made it completely obvious from the start that Zelda was a puppet. Lastly, you can pull the master sword and discover that Zelda is the light dragon before doing any of the dungeons which means you will have to sit there and watch the sages see puppet zelda and you’ll know it’s an imposter but can’t do anything about it. The ancestors of the sages also witness zelda turning into a dragon and yet none of them inform Link about it at all. I just think the story is all over the place and doesn’t make that much sense. Breath of the Wild had a simple story but at least it made sense and had interesting characters. I didn’t really care about the new characters like Sonia and Mineru. I also think the Sheikah Tech from Breath of the Wild is more interesting especially from a lore perspective than the Zonai are in Tears of the Kingdom.
I will admit that Zelda turning herself into a dragon was the ultimate sacrifice in the series besides maybe The King flooding himself and Hyrule in Wind Waker in hopes for a better future. It would have been better and more impactful if Zelda stayed a dragon but instead she wakes up and doesn’t remember anything. Almost like taking a nap for thousands of years and never had to suffer because of it. The cutscene where Rauru tells Ganondorf about the hero with the sword that seals the darkness was one of the greatest cutscenes ever. And the final fight in the sky with the two dragons has some of the most beautiful music in the entire series. I can hate on the game but also recognize when it does get it right. Overall, I thought the story could have been told so much better and at the end of the day it leads us with more questions than actual answers.
I love this game too!
Your gameplay footage sums up one of the main reasons tears is in my top 3 Zelda games.
I have spent over 1200 hrs in this game and have yet to see any one make a shield fusion that you made with the hylian shield.
Is that a light dragon scale it’s fused to?
Yep, allows me to heal some damage on a parry
@ omg you just blew my mind rn. The fact I have never experimented with that weapon fusion makes me wanna kick my own ass.
Only thing I would do differently is fuse the light dragon scale to one of the smaller Zonai shields so the blend is seemless
First time i ever bought a game on Day 1 at full price. It was a beautiful complete experience with no bugs and no updates and no adjustments needed. Put 500 hours into it before I went to face Ganondorf.
one of the best games ever, i thought it wouldnt live up to the hype since botw set the bar high.
This is the greatest Zelda game ever made and possibly the greatest game I have ever played. I will never be a hater
Finally someone that doesn’t just hate on this game. I mean sure, the game is not this amazing, legendary game that fans hyped it up to be before its release, but that *does not* mean it’s a bad game.
I’m so happy to see the fan base turn a little back toward appreciating TOTK. Yeah, it might feel like a super sized glorified maxed out DLC, but it’s also magical beyond compare in its toolbox. And, the layered discovery of the caves that weren’t even promoted like the sky islands, let alone AN extra player the Depths! I legit screamed like a child when I first:
1. Could land on a dragon!
2. Ride a dragon DOWN in a malice hole…. Forever…
3. Into this MASSIVE world that was a direct mirror or the overworld…
Yeah, story is repetitive, temples were better but still repetitive, Depths got repetitive too, BUT the ability and freedom to self-innovate on a level I’ve never had in a game still wins one of the best games I’ve ever played.
10:58 a soul possessing a robot?
Is that a fnaf reference.
Just kidding but still having a ghost piloted robot mech is awesome.
Who know that we would see crazier stuff than the master cycle in TOTK.
yeah the Master cycle is kinda over hyped and underwhelming when I think about it. wouldve been cool if I could use it throughout the game instead of getting it at the end, with the DLC, when I already did everything. but I guess that's why we have zonai devices in TOTK
Flip flopping between TOTK and BOTW is ok. Both are masterpieces, for me they are a 1A and 1B scenario. They are similar, yet so different at the same time. BOTW is a game that is so simple and beautiful to me, it really is you against nature. It kinda makes me want to cry of how beautiful and elegant it is. Meanwhile TOTK is this gigantic epic adventure, where now you have the abilities of a god and can experiment with everything. It is just too hype and fun to play to this day. I never thought I'd get that same feeling of exploration and getting lost in a world after I played BOTW back in 2017, but TOTK managed to bring those same feeling back and better than ever.
I love this game, I enjoyed it a ton
Breath of the Wild was by far my favourite game, but one thing always bugged me. Its that you simply can't do anything else with the dragons then to farm parts. When TotK let you ride them, if kicked BotW right off the throne. Yes, its one feature, that made it better then BotW for me, but hey, anyone has a feature they wished existed in BotW. This doesn't mean I hate BotW, no. The divine beasts are actually my favourites as well and despite everyone saying, they suck at a temple, I enjoyed playing them and in AoC we finally could play with them! So give me a game, that has everything from BotW (Divine beasts, ancient weapons etc.) and TotK and it will be the best game ever for me!
Yeah F them haters, This is WAY more than just a Dlc...Top 3 zelda OAT
I don’t get why people are hating, i finished botw and totk so many times and never got bored!❤
tbqh I dont even really seperate BOTW and TOTK. to me they are like one 800+ hour game and I love it.
I absolutely love Tears of the Kingdom. Its nearly perfect. I personally like Breath of the Wild's story. I loved BotW's gameplay but this game is the most fun I've had since 2022, which was when I first played Breath of the Wild. This game takes third place behind Twilight Princess and Pokémon Gold as the greatest video game of all time.
The end lol
3D Zelda is a paradox of a series at least to people outside of the fanbase. One of the highest critically acclaimed series, yet liking any game that's not Majoras Mask or Ocarina almost feels controversial
@@Karlito1738 You’re not wrong unfortunately
I feel like too many people are putting a game’s story as the forefront for why a game should be played. Do I think good stories can make a good video game? No, actually. I’d rather read a book of the story than have to work through a tedious means of telling it (not talking of totk here btw). I think a good story only enhances a game. It doesn’t necessarily have to be what makes a game good. Totk’s lore may be a bit more inconsistent than botw, but generally I had a lot more fun with the creative approaches I could find in totk instead of the more simplistic puzzles and trials that make up botw sometimes. Botw sometimes ends up boring after you find the best weapons to use because you generally don’t have much reason for using anything else. While their are powerful weapons in totk, it doesn’t exactly feel like it’s rewarding you differently for using those weapons instead of other ways, maybe even the opposite sometimes. I still do love botw for it’s more simplistic gameplay compared to totk, but in general I enjoy totk more than botw.
I do agree that a game is not reliant on its story, I decided to hold back on the gameplay in this video because I wanted to save my thoughts on it for a much grander video I have in the works. But I do agree with your points.
Finnaly a positive video
My first play through of the games, I prefer BotW because of the exploration. I loved the sense of discovery and challenge of navigating the landscape. In TotK, knowing the general world already, it just lost all that unfortunately. However, TotK is the better game and if I was to replay one, I'd choose TotK. Both are incredible games though
Yeah replaying BotW right now and there's so many gameplay elements of Totk that I miss
I don't get the hate for totk recently. I have never played a game that genuinely touched my soul like tears did.
i played 20 hours so far its just botw dlc
The biggest issue I have with TotK, which also applies to BotW, is the characters and story. There are some great parts in the story like you mentioned, but I think they could have done better..
I love the game, but I think I would’ve enjoyed the story a lot more if I wasn’t almost immediately spoiled on the twist by going to Death Mountain first because I love the Gorons so much. I found the Geoglyph and… knew exactly what happened to Zelda. 😑
I do still really love the game, but I don’t like the way these memories were handled.
Edit: you sorta mentioned this, so never mind. I hadn’t finished the video before commenting.
This game is honestly fantastic I think people are hating on it because they have dumped 100 of hours into the game and are now bored. I see this happen all the time with these massive games, first they get raving reviews and later on people hate on it.
I'll start off with a few caveats; I didn't like TOTK, and preferred BOTW, and technically am a TOTK "hater". However, I have never once told someone who likes TOTK that they're wrong and horrible for liking TOTK. I'm very glad people liked the game.
That said, 23:45 is my main reason for disliking the game. With Age of Calamity I was advised the game was a prequel. It wasn't. I was then advised TOTK was a sequel. It wasn't. Both feel like alternate realities. Which is fine. But as someone who adored BOTW and has spent over 1,000 in the game enjoying every minute, I have been lied to twice. What I loved about BOTW was changed and tweaked into a game that I was so excited for I couldn't wait and played it at 2 in the morning on launch day. I won't go into everything, but my favorite character (Kass) was gone, and I found the new mechanics overwhelming and the new sage abilities tedious.
I am so happy that people like this game, or love it. I watched this since I'd watched tons of videos about people disliking the game, and wanted to see what you had to say. BOTW will always be a special game to me, but if I ever feel the itch to ride a hover bike, I'll come here.
BOTW lacks content and basically a beta for a better game
@@frgierom4475 Agree to disagree. :)
@@frgierom4475yeah, agreed. Breath of the Wild in 2024 feels like a rough draft and gonna be honest? I always felt it was kind of empty, it reminded me of Skyrim but without anything to do in the world. So, I'm glad Tears came out, it's what ultimately sold me on open Zelda where Breath couldn't due to feeling incomplete
I really enjoyed the peaceful serenity of BOTW and didn't mind that parts of the game were just nature. It helped with the vibe they were going for. TOTK has an absolutely different feel to it.
People switched up hard on this game because at launch people were gushing over the game and saying things like "totk made botw feel like a tech demo", or they were gushing how the new ability were leagues better than the old sheikah slate abilities like how ultra hand is a direct upgrade to magnesis, or even developers gushing over that one animations in the depths where a wheel rolled up a chain and how fluid it was, explaining how hard that animation is animation like it tend to get hidden so the player doesn't noticed it but Nintendo were showing off their expertise in game making. I don't even need to mention all the different builds people made with ultra hand, building entire mech suits and attack helicopters and of course Korok torture devices.
Nowadays any tears content on my feed is almost all negative and the positive ones are dated to around when the game came out, videos like why people now hate tears, or a million why totk isn't as good botw because it's doesn't have the same magic or charm or whatever. I honestly had to check the date of the video to find out if was an old video uploaded when people still thought that totk was a good game. It's nice to know that people other than me didn't switch up on the game and still think it's a great game. I think botw was a masterpiece and totk blows that game out of the water.
I think Rauru has *not* the Triforce for the simple Reason that the Triforce is not *Light Power*
It is Omnipotent Power that can grant any wish regardless if the one with the wish is good or evil, if Rauru really did have the Triforce then Ganondorf wouldnt be in charge to begin with since the Secret Stones only *Double* the Powers within and it is mathematically and by Definition Impossible to surpass infinity, so it makes zero sense for Ganondorf with Double Power to surpass infinite power
@@Chris-gx1ei I do agree to an extent, but I think that the Triforce was in fact dormant inside him, which is why it awakened within Zelda in BotW when she needed it and then it went dormant again after it’s power was not needed. At least that’s how I like to see it
I'm glad that I don't hate this game, I only think it's mid and I deeply enjoyed the first hundred hours before I couldn't enjoy it anymore
It may have dropped the ball as a sequel for BotW, but if we take it as a standalone game within its own merits, I'd say is one of the best Zelda games out there. I liked BotW, but TotK made me love the open world Zelda games.
Let me let you know.... you like totk a lot more. It is so much better than Botw. This is being said by someone whose favorite game ever was Chrono Trigger until BOTW came out. The reason people have this struggle is because when BOTW came out it was completely a new experience and even if you watched everything you could about it, you still knew basically nothing about it. Going into TOTK we knew what to expect and then every step of the way it was better than expectations. BOTW will always hold a place in my heart and mind for that amazing experience of something so new and amazing but TOTK is by all measures a better game.
I agree on the Story, I do like TotK's story more than Botws, in Botw we get everything spoiled from the very beginning, and the Memories we collect on the way are mostly 50% of Zelda having her Moodswings due to the psychological pressure she and her father puts on herself
In Tears of the Kingdom we only know vaguely what happened, yet we get the Details told through Memories and Story Progression, The Story was way more connected with the one leading into the other, yet using the same Type of Storytelling however goes with the risk of spoiling everything else, thus I can understand why they dislike it.
The only way I can describe this game is epic.
Is it perfect? No.
Could it have more and be even better? Yes
Is it still complex enough to have three separate playthroughs that all ended up vastly different just from slightly adjusting how I played the game? Yes
And is it free enough to still be discovering new and random things and have some of the funniest and coolest moments happen on each of those playthroughs? Absolutely.
TotK is probably the closest thing to a perfect game there is in my opinion. But since perfection isn't possible, and is different depending on the eye of the beholder, there will always be flaws. But those flaws don't detract from the full experience you get 200+ hours later in one playthrough, making useless machines, filling out completion percentage, and crying and screaming and cheering as quietly as possible while you freak out internally because you just beat the game but your parents are trying to sleep in the room across from you.
And even though I played BotW before Totk, it didn't detract the experience, and even made me go back for a master mode playthrough of BotW I had been saying I would do but didn't for a year.
I think there are better games in the series but this video changed my mind.
People hate this game? Everyone I know only hate that their wasn’t more added to explore on the overworld but other then that they all like it, to me I wish they added more islands to explore, only really 2 island to explore, one at spawn and the other is the storm island but that’s it, throw in like 6 more big island and I’m all for it, the depth imo r cool, have its own gameplay due to the gloom everywhere plus better weapons down there vs the corrupted ones on the surface
When looking at a game I love like this one, or one that I really don’t like (recent AC games), I try to consider the opposite side’s viewpoint so that I’m not completely biased one way or the other, recognizing that there are good and bad things done in every game. And while Totk made some missteps here and there, it is overall an extremely well made game and when it’s high points hit, they hit hard. Some Zelda fans even now are willing to accept some of the few things Skyward Sword did well, even though its problems are still very apparent even a decade later. I think the recent Totk hate is due to how when it first came out any who voiced criticisms were shouted down by those who loved it, and now the pendulum is swinging the other way. I hope eventually everything balances out and we can eventually have a balanced, nuanced discussion about this game and what it does well and what it doesn’t. So thanks for giving your opinion and trying to help stabilize the Zelda fans
Thoo op
Idk why everybody hates TOTK, for me is the best Zelda game ever, i love everything about it 😢
1:41 list ALL pros, NONE of the cons (lists multiple potential and direct cons in video)
I've got the impression that many (or most) people that love totk just automatically dismiss any criticism as "hating" just like how botw fans did a few years ago. Personally I enjoyed totk (I have around 400 hours on it) and adored botw even more, but I can't help but feel that it (totk) has a lot of missed opportunities, and trust me I tried REALLY hard to love this game. So it pains me when I and many others try criticizing it and we just kinda get generalized as being "angry haters that hate for the sake of hating" or whatever. It sounds silly and a bit hypocritical hearing some totk fans argue that we shouldn't treat them like dumbasses who like a dumb game (which is fair), while they do pretty much the same with "haters" who are only (usually) normal people expressing their own opinions that just happen to also be negative. I would much rather have a place where we could all say stuff freely without getting jumped by childish internet users. Because trust me, people on both sides of this argument are at fault here. It doesn't help that you're also barely interacting with negative feedback in the comment section (even if expressed in a civilized and respectful way) while hearting comments looking down on people who dislike totk? I don't even dislike it, so it's not like I'm getting defensive because of that, I merely find it to be pretty intellectually dishonest
@@naturalLog26 My intention was never to hurt anyone’s feelings. I respect everyone’s opinions and I enjoy hearing what others have to say about the game, positive or not. I recognise my mistake and I never meant to be offensive or look down on anyone. I just grew tired of reading so much hate during the year that I’ve kinda turned a blind eye to it. I apologise
Edit: I actually finished writing a script earlier today, and a part of it features a little segment about how both haters and lovers should see each others point of views equally and not dispute about it or look down on each other because it’s pointless.
Man, going into this I was not expecting this much controversy, but I guess that’s unsurprising considering it’s Tears of the Kingdom 😂
Edit 2: I had a feeling from the start that someone was going to comment on my amount of hearting 😂
Oh goodness, why is there always one person like you in the comment section of a video praising TotK? People like you have wrote off people who like the game as "receny bias" or "not having played the old games". Gonna be real? When I hear stuff like this and read comments like this? I feel you may be projecting because someone doesn't agree with you
10:43 I really like this part but he looks insane
Although I have my problems with TOTK, I absolutely love the game. A lot of the time when I see criticism, it just feels like hate. A good majority of the criticism or hate I see is in the context of BOTW. It sucks that they can’t see it as a stand-alone game, and it always has to be a BOTW sequel to them. Because yeah, it fails as a sequel. But it is an amazing game. So why should the fact it fails as a sequel be the entire reason for someone not enjoying the game?
Maybe I don’t see it the way they do because I didn’t get very long with BOTW, and actually only finished it because TOTK was coming out. But my friend, who did have since release with BOTW, loves TOTK and has her criticisms. And almost none of them are relating to the fact it’s BOTW 2. In fact, her only really BOTW criticism is that (like me) she can’t return to BOTW now after playing TOTK because of the quality of life things TOTK has
My problems with the timeline aside, i really did enjoy this game. I just thought it could be better, too.
I really can't bear those who hate totk, especially when they argue that botw is much better. Sure you might like glitches of nostalgia, but that isn't something which can be created by the developers.. Totk is brilliant and its the loud few who unfortunately represent the quiet many who like totk.
I'm one of those totk haters. I mean, I admire the game in many ways. Yet, I feel that its innovation wasn't fully realized. Most of the new content is great but once you experience something, like going in a cave or going to the depths, the same experience gets repeted without significant variation. This makes exploration dull and unexciting.
I truly believe that botw has a world built with more care and intention than totk. Again, this doesn't make it a bad game, but a missed opportunity.
I wish people didn't try to divide so superficially. Sure you'll have trolls and pure haters. But if someone brings up criticism, I don't think it's fair to dismiss it as hate. And if enough people repeat the same criticism, I don't think it's fair to bundle everything and insist it only comes from a "vocal minority".
I've enjoyed TOTK a lot and yet have a lot more criticism than I had with BOTW, because it doesn't exist in a vacuum.
@ I mean neither game is perfect but I think it’s kinda illogical to see something that has been wildly improved on, even though it was great and is still cool. Kinda like comparing a Spitfire to an F-35
@@fierybird more isn't always better (I won't repeat what I shared in another thread or youtube will end up flagging me for spam...). F-35 may be perfect for speed or battle, but may be overkill or overlooking other aspects of a complete experience.
I hate hate people who can't tolerate a different opinion