I still want master mode in tears of the kingdom. It was a huge missed opportunity they didn’t add it. Golden enemy’s could had the best looking horns to attach to your weapon. Plus the silver enemies feel too easy for to be the hardest enemy.
Yeah master mode would have been incredible to see in Tears of the Kingdom. Imagine more powerful Flux Constructs, Frox, Gleeoks and Gloom Spawn too! Or they appeared in new areas and stuff...
Especially considering how you're basically set for weapons for the rest of the game once you take down a dozen or so silvers. I really like how TotK used fuse to tie high quality weapons to beating stronger enemies, and was a huge step up from destroying a royal broadsword just to get another one... but silver horns combined with weapon abilities like Gerudo or Zora really lets you fuse completely broken (100+ damage) weapons that the game really wasn't designed for. Legit, fuse a silver boko horn to a Zora weapon, and if you can consistently maintain the 'wet' status, you have a weapon able to take down another 6 silver bokos and make another 6 swords. Repeat once or twice and your arsenal is set for the rest of the game. At least in BotW they had it where if you wanted to maintain an inventory of high quality weapons, you had to CONSTANTLY fight high tier enemies to make out net-neutral, or you actually had to experiment and get creative with combat (such as using the environment for fall damage or drowing enemies) to get more mileage out of your weapons.
Yeah but if they handle it like last master mode it’ll just be boring again. Oh no the enemies i already have the muscle memory to never get hit by ever have more health and have regen. That doesn’t make things harder. Every enemy should of had new attacks and behaviors but the only one was the delayed guardian laser.
@@ultimaterecoil1136 Yeah that's definitely an issue unfortunately. Master mode was a pretty bad extra difficulty mode, especially when compared to Master Quest in Ocarina of Time. But god I'd love a real hard difficulty mode for TotK at some point. Something that goes almost Relics of the Past style hard with the difficulty increase and new enemies and harder enemies being way more common.
Honestly, the overall feeling of the story of BotW was better than TotK to me. I can't really explain it properly, but in BotW it felt like Link was truly a part of the world, and you were uncovering bits and bobs along side him. When you met the Champions again, you had an instant connection, and a bittersweet moment after the Divine Beasts. The memories also worked better because they directly involved Link. In TotK, it's almost like we're in different dimension. Plenty of NPC's don't recognize Link from things we could have done in BotW (Bolson for example), and we're following a story (Zelda's) that's not ours. We have 0 connection to the ancient Sages, and while it's fun to have the Sages with you they're a bit bland. So for as vast as the world in TotK is, it feels "emptier" emotionally.
NPCs not recognising Link was definitely a mistake in TotK. Like, some do, but they didn't go far enough there, especially with obvious ones like Beedle, Hestu, Bolson, etc. And that's a fair point about the emotional aspect. We don't really know anything about the sages, so Link really doesn't have much in common with them to be invested in. There's not much to go off when Link only has a personal connection to Zelda and Rauru.
OH MY MAN!!! You have just explained that feeling I get playing the game COMPLETELY!!!!!! For some reason I always thought that the game just felt.. well empty.
How is it like we`re in different dimenison? Not everyone would recognize Link though (nah he recognizes us), no you are following your story too. What about the modern sages? They really aren`t bland tbh. I don`t see how it feels emptier emotionally.
I know someone's going to say that sidon eating fish is cannibalism but as long as you're not eating the same species as you are in this case the Zora sidon fine because he's just eating a stealth fin trout
Actually I like the sages better than the champions because they keep me company while I travel, making less enemies attack you, their abilities are pretty useful and you can use them at any time. their not bad.
That's fair. I do personally like how they provide company to Link in this game, and leave them on because of that. Just wish they were a bit... smarter I guess
The worst part was they felt the need to have an extra way to open the map other than 1 button press, but not the need to be able to activate exactly the sage ability you want when you want to. Like what is the point of the map rune, just have a sage rune which makes a menu pop up and lets you select the ability you want to use
truly a perfect thumbnail, when fusing something with an arrow they should just make an option to sort out the items that dont add damage and dont have a special ability so you dont have to scroll that fare, also an option to sort by ability would be pretty good aswell
not only that, autofuse like what TP did. Sure it’s not perfect, having to open the menu to switch between regular arrows and bomb arrows, the least they did was not to manuelly select an item to fuse each time you fire.
They should add a filter, but also I would have liked you to have favorites I guess. Why not be able to make that menu be 6 or so slots filled with Items you picked ahead of time. Then if you need something not in this selection, you can simply push a button to expand the menu to be the whole list with the option to filter it too.
totk’s tutorial is also a MAZE (I got lost) compared to the great plateau, while you can go anywhere within the great plateau in BotW, without a specific path, the great sky island you have to go specific paths (such as through caves) in order to get the last shrine.
I personally didn't get lost that much on the Great Sky Island, but it's very much a 'you have to go down this path to get to the next area' type of place, which is a huge downgrade from the open nature of the Great Plateau. If you can't figure out that path, well then you're just stuck until you do.
@@froggycolouring I think it's because they do have a more linear setup for the dungeon intros/story sequences, and thought that would be good for the Great Sky Island too. It's just that: A. Said dungeon intros/sequences are still way more open about how to play them, since they're set in a world you can explore any which way, and let you use all kinds of tricks and tech to navigate. There's way more freedom in the lead up from Rito Village to the Wind Temple than the Great Sky Island cause of that. B. The intro is a bad fit for said gameplay, since it's meant to be more of a taste of the gameplay as a whole, not a linear corridor.
I agree! first time i played it took me FOREVER because i would go a path because on the map it looks possible, just to go there and see its in there air out of reach ;-; also why cant you warp to shrines before you do all three?? it would have saved me SO much time instead of walking around looking for a way
I will say about the tutorial area I played totk first and finally leaving the great sky islands and seeing the rest of hyrule is definitely the best part of the tutorial, because in botw you were always able to see the rest of hyrule so close and you basically know the place before even leaving the great plateau, but totk you barely even think about it, so getting there and realizing theres a whole other world from the sky islands with new enemies is very cool It only works however if you haven’t played botw before because you’d already know what to expect, so botw’s tutorial area is still far better
That's an interesting point. The world beyond the intro area is more of a mystery in Tears of the Kingdom, since you can't see it from said area. It definitely must make an impression for fans who started with TotK.
Uh...yeah you do get a clear pointer to Lookout landing. Before you jump down to Hyrule, You literally hear Zelda saying find me as you are looking straight at the tall ass tower landmark with the fort-town surrounding it.
In my opinion the sky islands were better than the plateau. I like how they make you use the abilities cause it shows off all the cool things you can do with them. Also it wouldn’t make sense if an advanced civilisation had a cloth glider. For the champion/sage abilities I think sages are way better. Sidon is a better daruk, tulin is more useful than revali cause of all the strategies you can pull off with him (and rocket shields completely replaces revali) yunobo is good to combo with tulin on grass for updrafts and amazing for hunting moldugas, riju is…. Riju is just riju we don’t talk about that.
That's fair, everyone's entitled to their opinion, and the Great Sky Island definitely did do some things right. I might talk about this game's level design in another video to be honest, since it feels like it learnt some nice lessons from other Nintendo franchises in a sense.
@@alialittlepageberry2318 I have actually been trying to play BOTW and yeah it is fun. I am still trying to learn laser parries though so you can see my frustration when I think I do it and then end up as a corpse half a second later.
The last 2 I really agree with. Where did all the elemental arrows go. And on top of that it was weird how everyone out there seemed to know how to fuse. So many references to fusing and I'm like wait, I don't need a magic arm to do this. There had to be a bettor way to communicate this fruit when attached to a arrow becomes a shock arrow than having a NPC tell you that it what they do despite not having the fuse ability.
That's a really interesting point now I think about it. No one except Link can use the Fuse ability, yet now every arrow shop sells materials that are only useful to people with the Fuse ability? That seems really weird to me,
Here are 2 things that totk did that made me fairly upset. 1. Is that the silver enemies dont drop off loot like they used to. I kill a silver bokoblin I'm botw and I get one of the gems from rubies, topaz, sapphires and diamonds. In totk they dropped none of it and instead from their parts. That's what killing silver enemies worth it. 2). They nerfed the prices of gems. In botw rubies were 210 per piece and now 110. Luminous was 70 and now they were nerfed to 20. Totk. Ruby 110 Sapphire 150 I think Amber 10 Topaz 80 Luminous stone 20 Opal 30 Diamond is still the same price for 500. Botw Ruby 210 Sapphire 250 Amber 30 Topaz 180 Luminous stone 70 Opal 60 Diamond 500. They were worth so much and now they made them almost priceless.
Oh they nerfed pretty much every type of material as far as sale price goes. Seems like they really hated how easy it was to make money in Breath of the Wild, and wanted to prevent that easiness in Tears of the Kingdom. Stopping silver enemies from dropping gems is another piece of that change.
I like Totk's starting area more, yes it does make you use your ability's to travers. But the abilitys in totk are just more advanced in the first place to where a tutorial is needed. For example, if you didn't have to cross the lake using ultrahand when you got your battery, then how long do you think it would take some players to learn the battery. However even after saying this there still are some unnesasary parts in the great sky island, but some could say it adds more complexity. But in my honest opion I love both and think both the starting areas are amazing.
@@GamingReinventedI’d like less tutorials though. EVERY single Shrine was a tutorial and usually didn’t expand upon the idea it introduced. One example is the “Alignment” Shrine.
I would honestly pay any price just to play BotW for the first time again. The beauty, challenge, and exploration was perfect. BotW also introduced me to the series, and I've spend years and countless hours playing games from the series. TotK didn't feel like that at all, it always felt kind of boring to me.
I don't mind the arrow fuse system too much, since the most common items end up at the front of "most used", but it could clearly have been WAY better. They could have kept elemental arrows on the fuse menu, with an up-down scrolling list to choose exactly what you wanted to use to MAKE that arrow, for example. The only one I really hate is the Sage Powers. They work well enough outside of combat when using them to mine ores, keep cool in the desert, or glide, but they're a pain to use in combat. They could have all been a simple button press based on context such as "push button while building a charge attack to activate Yunobo, same button while blocking for Sidon, while aiming for Riju, etc. Maybe give them a longer cool down when activated that way if it's too spammable.
The sage powers are definitely better for things like mining ore and breaking rock walls than combat. But them having a context sensitive trigger would have helped a lot here. And yeah, have us choose the item to create with Fuse, and choose the material to make it with. Kinda like the dye shop in Hateno to an extent.
One thing I was disappointed is the lack of showing Link’s struggling face when burning in a heated environment. He makes a face with one eye closed and teething gnashing.
The AI for the sage avatars is definitely questionable. It doesn't understand how to prioritise targets at all, so if a random Stal enemy wanders into a fight with a boss or Lynel, all the sages will focus on the non threat instead.
@@ghb323 That's a good scenario relatively speaking. I had a situation once where Link mounted the Lynel to attack in... then got knocked straight back off by Mineru, who decided to use a shock emitter at that exact time.
Master Mode and something like the Trial of the Sword is missing. The pedestal could literally be where you place the Master Sword before diving to the surface for the first time. They could have done them as free updates than DLC. Remote bombs are better as they can be used anywhere even in Death Mountain. The way you access the Divine Beasts are better as you fight against a legendary weapon than just going down a long path (looking at you Tulin's quest). It's a lot more peaceful as I don't have to worry about Gloom Spawn (basically strong enemies that spawn out of nowhere).
Oh god I forgot that was removed. It was a great ability the Champion's Tunic and Divine Beast helms had, and it's strange it's not present in Tears of the Kingdom.
@@GamingReinvented I think it isn't present because the damage values of spears and two handed swords are different than what they say, and that would be very obvious if your 40 damage weapon brought an enemy to 838/880
Easier to use but not better. Just as an example, Revali. All he does is lift you into the air. Tulin shoots you forward. Also rocket shields make Revali useless and if you want to recreate Revali's Gail in TOTK, just turn a fan upwards and jump up and glide
@@Grimm196 tulin’s ability is the only sage power that is truly useful. The other sage powers are worse versions of champion abilities. Yonubo’s charge isn’t that useful in combat and you can break rocks with other things. Sidon’s water shield just sucks and riju’s lightning is super annoying to use and is bad compared to urbosa’s fury
You forgot weapons. In botw there are more fun weapons, like dragonbone weapons, a boomerang with 3 points and so on. TotK just has the same weapons as botw, but less and decayed versions.
..are you kidding? The ability to fuse made the game SOO much better because it gave us cooler weapons! There’s so many combinations you can make and I love that it actually makes all the monster parts you get pretty useful. Also finding the pristine weapons in the depths is the best way of finding good weapons
@@buttercuplex the fuse is mostly just "slap on a bad-looking stone for extra damage and elemental abilitys" there are a few exeptions, like the silver lizalfos horn and the wind-cleaver + elemental blades but That's it. And the pristine versions are just copied and pasted from botw. They just deal extra damage, That's it.
@@mariorockysonicmegasochjag weapons also have their own set of base abilities in totk (charge attack stamina boost, desperate strength, gerudo and zora weapons giving double attack power to fuses etc. ). Botw offered no special effects other than elementals so end game you wind up with all the same weapons for the high attack power.
@@buttercuplex True, but they still removed a lot of cool-looking weapons. They could've replaced the pristine weapons with other stuff. Or made the pristine versions uniqe.
Weapons are a strange case, because I think both games had things they did better there. I like Fuse and the possibilities that brings. Having a Hudson cutout on the end of a weapon (or something actually useful like a Lynel horn, Gleeok horn, gemstone, etc) is awesome. But I do wish they didn't drop like a ton of BoTW weapons in the process. All the unique Lynel weapons are gone, many of the Boko ones are gone, Windcleavers are gone, the Spring Loaded Hammer is gone... If they had both all the unique weapon types and Fuse, it'd be great.
Lookout landing is pointed out to you after you get the mission to find her and marks it on your map. I'm looking at the bottom right of your screen as you say this..
I like the idea of the sage's avatars as companions but having all of them at once just makes fights a clusterfuck, and makes it harder to deliberately respond to enemy attacks, especially on larger groups. I usually just have Riju and Tulin with me. I feel like you can kind of mix Riju's lightning strikes as part of your "combos" (if you're the kind of player who likes mix-ups in the middle of a fight) and Tulin because he gets those headshots.
Same story... Despite having a Zonai rocket... Revali's Gale is better. Press and hold X and leave it. And whoooop... you are flying. Easier. Better. More comfortable.
Well, it's true that, once you leave the Great Sky Islands, you're on your own. I've played botw since its release, but still, with more than 20 hours into totk, still didn't have the paraglider. No one told me I was supposed to go to Lookout Landing! I went to the Gerudo, and without the paraglider I couldn't benefit from the updrafts formed during the sandstorm to get to the destroyed city, also I went to the Zora and I just couldn't get there! Only a friend of mine told me where I could get it, after hours of frustration and overthinking... they could've really done it better...
@@Grimm196 but now seriously I don't remember them saying to go there, and I didn't know you could get the paraglider there... and I wanted desparatelly to know how the other cities had changed, so I headed there first...
I like that there are other armies that help to fight in some areas of the game. In BOTW I would clear out all the guardians in castle town and think it would have been nice to have others join me at that point.
Yeah the army sidequests are great. Do wish you had them help fight an overworld boss or something at some point though, would be neat to see them to try to fight a Lynel, Hinox, Gleeok, etc.
These are some of the bigger ones, but I thought Breath of the Wild was a much more enjoyable experience for a variety of reasons. Dungeon design, works design, story layout, low respect... There's a lot Tears of the Kingdom ignores in favour of just more having stuff in the world..
Oh weapons are a big thing that I really forgot to include in this video. I like Fuse, but not having Lynel weapons, ancient weapons, Boko weapons, and various novelty weapons hurt the game quite a bit.
11:27 Even Twilight Princess did the bomb arrows better than this. Sure, it’s annoying to switch between normal arrows and bomb arrows, at least I don’t have to manually fuse them each time I shoot.
Yeah having to use Fuse to switch between arrow types is honestly clunky as hell. I get why it works that way, but it makes more commonly used arrow types a pain to use conveniently.
One thing that i wanna put is the master sword : upon completing the dlc you get the best weapon in the game with very good damage and the highest durability in the entire game, the master sword gets its unique glowing look and feels powerful to use. Now in totk its a sword that can fuse like all others, yeah sure it has more damage potential (30 base damage + 55 lynel horn) but it lacks the durability and uniqueness it had in botw. So it feels less useful because you have to waste a ressource for a lot of damage for the master sword, and the blade loses its iconic look upon fusing and its not as durable as it once was, in a way when using the master sword in totk i don't feel like a true hero like in botw anymore. For me i believe botw was outright better than Totk, not just relatively to what both game brought new compared to each others but that botw just did it way better in so much more ways.
Yeah, the durability upgrade would be nice. And given the Master Sword actually does upgrade around Gloom enemies and during the final battle, they could have easily added a Trial of the Sword equivalent to provide that effect permanently.
Tha faeries. And with that, upgrading your inventory. That worked flawlessly in BotW, but in Tears it's just a nuisance, almost impossible to fully upgrade any set. However my biggest gripe with TotK is the removal of Kass, I loved hearing the accordion in the distance, and also really enjoyed his shrine quests. Tears has the stable trotters(for musicians) and Penn(for quests), both fail miserably to replace Kass. I hoped they had removed him so he could come back in a DLC. So you can imagine how angry/sad I was when they announced there wasn't going to be one. The absolute absence of sheika tech is a major downgrade, yes the ancient horse set is missing but SO IS THE MASTER CYCLE, and this is a vehicle that cannot be mimicked in speed and agility with constructs!
Oh I miss Kass for sure. Penn is great and I did like the Stable Trotters, but Kass was such a cool character in BoTW, and it's so weird seeing him completely absent here. Fairy wise I'm honestly kinda mixed about. Personally I think both games kinda messed up there, since the upgrade process is boring as hell. Oh neat, you get a cutscene for each upgrade level. But it's for each level per armour piece, and with like a hundred of them... yeah, it gets old fast in both BoTW and TotK. Fairy fountain quests are something I think TotK did better at first, and BoTW probably did better later on. First time you play, they're neat. Third, fourth or fifth time? You probably just wish you could spend money to do it.
This is a personal one, just a thought I'd like to share. I absolutely LOVED the atmosphere of BOTW than TOTK. The story telling was beautiful and intricate, there is literally nothing that I can find in BOTW that annoys me! While TOTK could be done better in some areas. I will not lie, I was disappointed at TOTK for... I dunno! It had a different atmosphere that was nice, you were not alone like in the last game, you had friends. But it just seems so... weird? But both games are amazing. I feel like TOTK won in the terms of the way it ended and BOTW won it the terms of the experience. There was so much mystery and lore in BOTW, I thought that there could've been some lore for the depths and Zonai as well. I wanted to learn about these ancient people, and understand what the depths were. There could've been another race that lived in the depths too, interacting with the Zonai that came for the Zonaite down there! But both games are amazing, I just wish TOTK was a bit more polished and had more lore.
Your point about not seeing more of the Zonai and their lore is a very good one. It's disappointing how in a game meant to make them prominent, we only see get to see two Zonai in the entire title, one of which is dead by the main story and one which survives as a ghost inside a mech. I would have imagined we'd encounter at least a few more, right? And it's definitely weird that the Sky and Depths have literally no towns or NPCs in, barring the Yiga, a few Constructs and a few Zonai Survey Team members that only appear during one quest.
@@GamingReinvented Yes! I don't exactly know why but Nintendo didn't really do much with the lore. It felt like they wanted to upgrade the mechanics more. I read some other comments and they mentioned how emotionless this game is, along with the fact that nobody remembers you! I was ready to hear people talk to me as the Hero of Hyrule. Back in BOTW, nobody knew that or our connection with the princess, not even many of the prominent characters. I feel like only the Zora knew who we were. It was frustrating honestly. And its even more frustrating seeing no one acknowledging our status, even the Sages! Nothing was mentioned about what happened in the time gap between BOTW and TOTK. Another frustrating thing is how fast the Sheikah tech just vanished, like not a single trace except the Hateno Research Lab. I would've liked to hear about how they brought it to Purah to recycle it or even some mention about it! It was a big thing that vanished without much talk about it, we were left to connect to pieces. I feel disappointed at TOTK for this, but it still is a great game no matter what. I guess the fun mechanics make up for it? My feelings are very mixed and biased, even more so because BOTW was my first Zelda game.
when i did the first sage i was very dissapointed of it, because first of all: i dont want someone always near me that i can only activate by pressing A second: everytime i do puzzels in the free world (no city etc.) or want to interact with anything they always get right INTO me for some wierd reason so i always accedentily activate them third: at least 2 of them are useless and i only have them activated for battle, like for what should i use the water ability or the thunder. the thunder is just slow and i didn't even use it that much while doing the quest to get that sage and the water i never see an opportunity where it makes sense to use it. The goron one is useful when you have to bomb something but dont have the bomb flowers or on vehicles to use it as a canon and the orni is the best, because you save alot of time flying and get further without using much stamina But i really miss the old orni one to get high up, it made travelling so easy and getting up
I feel like Breath of the Wild did the koroks better. In tears of the Kingdom, all the korok puzzles are the same thing. Build a vehicle, attach the korok, and then drive your way to the buddy. The Tears of the Kingdom korok puzzles can all just be solved with a hot air balloon and a fan. In Breath of the Wild, the korok puzzles were all different, unique and fun.
You obviously haven't looked for hidden koroks. The only new korok idea was the carry the korok to the smoke but you can still find the old ones. Kind of hard to say the BOTW koroks also have multiple of the same type of puzzle solving. Can't really call those unique either
Only 100 of the TotK Koroks use the 'take the Korok its friend' system, with the other 900 being like in BoTW. My advice when it comes to collecting Korok seeds in general though is... don't bother getting more than you need to, otherwise it'll bore you to tears. Got all of them in BoTW, AoC and TotK, and I still wonder if it was worth it...
@@Grimm196 There were, and I think they were part of a sidequest or something. Either way, the task was to find them in a bunch of missions where they were well out of the way of the main path, with one of said missions being that obnoxious one where you'd die/fail in one hit.
I actually kind of like the Sage abilities in this game (but that's probably because I just don't use them lol) One minor nitpick I have is that there's no way to see how much health an enemy has; in the old game you had the Champion's Tunic, but in this game you've got two of the things and neither one shows the actual number of health the enemies have
Master mode not being in the game was honestly quite a fumble on their behalf. Master mode would have been beautiful for this game. After all the hardest things in the game are the 15 proving grounds shrines that house only constructs.I would also love to see what a golden lynel saber horn would look like. Or a golden lizalfos horn. Truly a missed opportunity
These are all great criticisms, but I’m surprised that you didn’t mention how TOTK removed the ability to see true HP numbers. There were a total of five pieces of armor which gave you that ability in BOTW, and since we now have all of those plus the new Champion’s Leathers, that would in theory make it a total of six armor pieces which should let you visualize HP, yet none of them (nor any other armor pieces) work. Looking through other videos, it seems like damage multipliers aren’t as straightforward this time around as they were in BOTW, but I don’t think that’s enough justification for having removed that ability altogether. Also, no Master Mode (or at least golden enemies in the base game) or Trial of the Sword. The reason why the Master Sword feels so weak in this game is that there aren’t enough situations where it gets powered up, so this kind of stems from the fact that Gloom Spawn aren’t as common as Guardians, as you said in the video. The fact that there won’t be DLC for this game to add these things (unless they’re playing 4D Chess with us) really makes me sad since Master Mode is where I spent most of my time in BOTW and also gave me a second save file on my main account. As it stands right now, I don’t feel like deleting my day 1 save file to start over (as much as I would like to), nor do I want to do it on a secondary account. I just don’t understand why they wouldn’t add these things for TOTK since they felt essential in BOTW the moment we got them.
Honestly, I would have included the HP number point, but kinda forgot. It is ridiculous it's not present though. I also left out things I thought DLC would patch in later, or that would likely have been huge selling points for that DLC like the Trial of the Sword or Master Mode. I just had a level of (misplaced) hope that we were getting DLC at some point. But now we're not... yeah, I should have included them. Or heck, added 'DLC' to the list in general seeing how incomplete TotK sorta feels without it.
Revali would be useless in TOTK. There are rocket shields that launch you up and you also have fans that you can activate while facing up to shoot air up to launch up. Revali's Gale is useless
@@Grimm196 Revali's Gale is useful BECAUSE stuff like rocet shields and fans do it but better. A lot of people fail to realize how much of a game changer the champion's abilities were, and that's one of the core reasons why the sages would suck even if they could be activated properly. Being able to ascend quickly was something you couldn't do in BotW UNTIL you got Revali's gale. the same cannot be said for any other ability except for tulin while gliding, because there wasn't an easy way to move horizontally in TotK until you got tulin. And even that becomes obsolete a lot of the time because of hoverbikes and other flying machines.
Having to ascend in Zora's domain felt like a snub after everything Link had done for them so far. Those elemental weapon buffs were fun lessons to learn.
Played tears of the kingdom for a few hours. It doesn't have the same feeling of wonder as Breath of the wild. I think they should have just moved on after the first game. it's obvious to me that the developers are tired of this version of Hyrule. I'll be playing Skyrim.
Yeah, having his ability work like Revali's Gale when on the ground would be great. At the moment, it's basically useless when not gliding, since it only affects materials, Wind Temple turbines and weak enemies.
There is some truth to the ancient horse armor and the guardians it was due to after the calamity they just disappeared not kidding the developers said and the starter island is the same but I say a bit better but I think the game is more atmospheric for its own good sometimes and also did you not see rauru around the starter sky island but anyways I wish to bring clarity to the ancient sheikah tech
Oh I saw the Sheikah tech thing (and dislike the explanation, but that's another thing entirely). Unfortunately, the video was already scheduled at the time, and I really didn't want to have to go and edit everything last minute to comment on the update.
I think the reason why ancient stuff is basically gone because they were repurposed into the totk towers. Guardian arms are used to hand the stuff to Link to scan the area. I mostly do think they removed everything so new people can walk in without walking botw spoils.
honestly they had made the most used section a custom bar instead I think it would of helped alot. granted my most used had apples front and center since I chucked them at anything I wanted to interact with and I probably wouldn't of put that on a custom bar...
Being able to choose which materials you have in a favourites list would arguably be the best setup. Then you could include bomb flowers there but not apples, etc.
the zonai version of the ancient horse armor will probably be in totk, and the reason they dont have it yet because they dont want to reuse something thats EXACTLY the same, like how you need to get to robbie to use it,
I agree with everything you just said, but i think you've missed 1 more point (you could have replaced this with the ancient hore armor), and the fact is that Breath of the Wild has more replayability. BOTW is a smaller game, and you can do various challenges when you decide to hit the new game button, such as: 1, all quest play 2, permadeth play 3, no champion abilites play 4, master mode (I've just started my 1st one, because i bought the 2 DLCs in a bundle after 6 years XD). In TOTK after I completed all 60 side adventures, 139 side quests and all the shrines I don't have the willpower to press the new game button. I beat it once and left it there. However I would gladly start a new game in BOTW a few month later as well.
That's an interesting point, especially given TotK seems designed to make certain BoTW challenges more plausible (no Paraglider for example). But the sheer length of TotK can definitely make it exhausting to replay for sure
The Gloom Hands are supposed to be the Guardian equivalent, and they don’t do it well. Fighting them is pointless because you can sit on a tall rock and they will go away after a while.
BotW had better story, world building and atmosphere. TotK shits on the Zelda lore and doesn’t even do a good job at being a direct sequel to BotW. Also, Link and Zelda should have been playable and together the whole game, like with ST.
When I first played Totk, I first ran into Hateno because I didn't know what to do. I did everything exept for finding Lookout Landing. When I saw a RUclips Video about how to get the glider and searched for the place where the story continues and needed nearly a Hour to find it! That is redicolous!
@@XD-zi2sd When you first played Botw, did you straight ran into the defeat Ganon Quest? I thought the Castle would be as terrifying as in the last game. But it isn't.
Probably controversial, but I actually like needing to get the stuff you want for elemental arrows, rather than allowing players to be lazy pieces of sh*t, it encourages you to go out and explore the map. Also, the "Glooms Lair" doesn't feel like a random cave, you're literally going to the depths of the castle-
For most of them you're comparing irrelevant things, like the old man, guardians, etc. the storyline has changed making those things irrelevant, so this video makes no sense. BOTW didnt do them better, it's what they have that totk doesn't have anymore. for shrine quests etc are your opinion which I won't argue on. but the other things are like me making a 15 min video saying the fusing in totk is better than fusing in botw, see? it isn't in botw which you cant compare to in totk, and vice versa to the other points.
Story is bad, Fs with pre-established key lore aspects, absolutely shatters all the Master Sword's reputation, unga bunga buff Dorf with little to no ambition other than "me strongest there is" uninteresting, nearly everyone forgot who you were despite this game taking place a mere 4-6 years after Wild, Rauru existing is an insult, no Fi, no breaking of the Demise curse despite it being falsely hinted being the case what with all the Skyward Sword PR this game got (I distinctly remember Skyward Sword being advertised as heavily linked to TotK somehow which, again, is misleading as on Nintendo's part), no dog petting, no hookshot spiderman swinging with the physics being suuuuch a driving factor in these newer Zelda games, no underwater exploration instead a damp dark smelly overgrown cave can't see jack, COLLOSAL missed opportunity to hitch the princess with her handsome knight in shining armor, no stakes since Zelda's sacrifice was reversed giving the story little to no agency or consequence, Link as a protagonist felt nonexistent feels like everyone else was the star of the show not the guy who's saving all their 🫏s, no Link backstory before any of this went down aka no Arryl 2 or Granny 2 aka NOT WIND WAKER, didn't make me cry like Twilight Princess, dungeons are STILL NOT dungeons (pulling a couple levers to open a door and then be treated with literally the same copy-paste cutscene at the very end with each champion? Yeah naw), sky islands hardly anything worth noting although they are pretty asf to look at, I was expecting a totally NEW revamped endgame super Saiyan master sword golden tier 4 legendary new hilt new everything but naw same design with a booboo scar and hilariously less powerful... hoverbike autobuild pales in comparison to THE Master Cycle As a game, sure, it's leagues above BotW but BotW will never be topped as a one-in-a-lifetime *experience* TotK was an overblown $70 DLC and I'm tired of pretending it's not. Mid.
That's fair, everyone's welcome to their opinion! Out of curiosity, what things did Breath of the Wild do better outside of those listed in their video, at least in your opinion?
I don’t like how tears of the Kingdom and horses useless defeats, the purpose of having a horse are getting a horse Honestly, I felt like this game, and botw probably should’ve been the same
Horses are definitely less useful in TotK, and it's a shame because BoTW already made them fairly useless as is. The games are just too big, too open ended and too easy to fast travel to make them worth using for the most part. And scrapping the ancient horse armour without a Zonai equivalent was a very dumb move indeed.
I personally enjoyed BOTW a lot more than TOTK. TOTK is just... kinda boring. The temples and cut scenes tied to them are extremely repetitive, the game is littered with continuity errors from the previous game (BOTW), it's annoying as all hell that so many NPCs don't remember Link even after he saved or built their entire town, it's too easy to get the tear geoglyph memories in an order that completely spoils the story, Ultrahand is gimmicky and clunky and has way too short a range, and my final gripe... the sages abilities suck! Bonus gripe: The house building is terrible! But as this is unimportant to the actual game and completely optional, I didn't include it with my main gripes. Also... I really miss guardians! They were so scary and so fun and nothing in TOTK even compares! Some people try to say the Gloom Spawn is to replace the guardians, but the gloom spawn, while initially very scary looking, is actually rather pathetic once you actually try to fight it.
Not really, I've beaten the original game dozens of times, done various speedrun tactics, and have enjoyed Tears of the Kingdom a ton. There are just some things I feel the last game did better.
Devs are focused on bugs more than other things right now. BOTW also didn't get a Master Made till a few years later and TOTK has been out for only a few months. Also they said TOTK wouldn't get dlc, pretty sure at least.
I still want master mode in tears of the kingdom. It was a huge missed opportunity they didn’t add it. Golden enemy’s could had the best looking horns to attach to your weapon. Plus the silver enemies feel too easy for to be the hardest enemy.
Yeah master mode would have been incredible to see in Tears of the Kingdom. Imagine more powerful Flux Constructs, Frox, Gleeoks and Gloom Spawn too! Or they appeared in new areas and stuff...
Especially considering how you're basically set for weapons for the rest of the game once you take down a dozen or so silvers. I really like how TotK used fuse to tie high quality weapons to beating stronger enemies, and was a huge step up from destroying a royal broadsword just to get another one... but silver horns combined with weapon abilities like Gerudo or Zora really lets you fuse completely broken (100+ damage) weapons that the game really wasn't designed for. Legit, fuse a silver boko horn to a Zora weapon, and if you can consistently maintain the 'wet' status, you have a weapon able to take down another 6 silver bokos and make another 6 swords. Repeat once or twice and your arsenal is set for the rest of the game.
At least in BotW they had it where if you wanted to maintain an inventory of high quality weapons, you had to CONSTANTLY fight high tier enemies to make out net-neutral, or you actually had to experiment and get creative with combat (such as using the environment for fall damage or drowing enemies) to get more mileage out of your weapons.
Yeah but if they handle it like last master mode it’ll just be boring again. Oh no the enemies i already have the muscle memory to never get hit by ever have more health and have regen. That doesn’t make things harder. Every enemy should of had new attacks and behaviors but the only one was the delayed guardian laser.
@@ultimaterecoil1136 Yeah that's definitely an issue unfortunately. Master mode was a pretty bad extra difficulty mode, especially when compared to Master Quest in Ocarina of Time.
But god I'd love a real hard difficulty mode for TotK at some point. Something that goes almost Relics of the Past style hard with the difficulty increase and new enemies and harder enemies being way more common.
definitely adding it in the future dlcs
Honestly, the overall feeling of the story of BotW was better than TotK to me. I can't really explain it properly, but in BotW it felt like Link was truly a part of the world, and you were uncovering bits and bobs along side him. When you met the Champions again, you had an instant connection, and a bittersweet moment after the Divine Beasts. The memories also worked better because they directly involved Link.
In TotK, it's almost like we're in different dimension. Plenty of NPC's don't recognize Link from things we could have done in BotW (Bolson for example), and we're following a story (Zelda's) that's not ours. We have 0 connection to the ancient Sages, and while it's fun to have the Sages with you they're a bit bland. So for as vast as the world in TotK is, it feels "emptier" emotionally.
NPCs not recognising Link was definitely a mistake in TotK. Like, some do, but they didn't go far enough there, especially with obvious ones like Beedle, Hestu, Bolson, etc.
And that's a fair point about the emotional aspect. We don't really know anything about the sages, so Link really doesn't have much in common with them to be invested in. There's not much to go off when Link only has a personal connection to Zelda and Rauru.
OH MY MAN!!! You have just explained that feeling I get playing the game COMPLETELY!!!!!! For some reason I always thought that the game just felt.. well empty.
yes, also you see the same flashback 4 times and most of sages don't have a face so you do this mostly for revenge of your arm than anything else
@@jesusantonio6740 Yeah those story cutscenes get very old very quickly.
How is it like we`re in different dimenison? Not everyone would recognize Link though (nah he recognizes us), no you are following your story too. What about the modern sages? They really aren`t bland tbh. I don`t see how it feels emptier emotionally.
I know someone's going to say that sidon eating fish is cannibalism but as long as you're not eating the same species as you are in this case the Zora sidon fine because he's just eating a stealth fin trout
So you're saying Sidon eating the trout is fine because it's like humans eating homo erectus or neanderthals?
@@npcrah Yes basically technically we are not the same species we are very closely related but not the same species
Eh, given the Zora sell fish themselves, I'm guessing they don't see it as a taboo, and I'm deferring judgement to them.
Fr like not every fish is a zora, it’s be like claiming a person eating a gorilla is csnabalism because we’re both apes
That is like saying a shark eating a fish is cannibalism.
Actually I like the sages better than the champions because they keep me company while I travel, making less enemies attack you, their abilities are pretty useful and you can use them at any time. their not bad.
That's fair. I do personally like how they provide company to Link in this game, and leave them on because of that. Just wish they were a bit... smarter I guess
I love the idea of them keeping you company.
I just...I wish their powers weren't all activated by the A button. THAT'S what makes me sad.
@@Shiny_Misty Exactly! Give us better ways to use the sage abilities, and they'll be far better for sure.
The worst part was they felt the need to have an extra way to open the map other than 1 button press, but not the need to be able to activate exactly the sage ability you want when you want to. Like what is the point of the map rune, just have a sage rune which makes a menu pop up and lets you select the ability you want to use
@@raphaelchan7574 Yeah why does that even exist? The - button works fine
truly a perfect thumbnail, when fusing something with an arrow they should just make an option to sort out the items that dont add damage and dont have a special ability so you dont have to scroll that fare, also an option to sort by ability would be pretty good aswell
Yeah a way to filter out non damaging items/combat viable ones would be very useful to say the least, as would a way to sort by ability.
not only that, autofuse like what TP did. Sure it’s not perfect, having to open the menu to switch between regular arrows and bomb arrows, the least they did was not to manuelly select an item to fuse each time you fire.
They should add a filter, but also I would have liked you to have favorites I guess. Why not be able to make that menu be 6 or so slots filled with Items you picked ahead of time. Then if you need something not in this selection, you can simply push a button to expand the menu to be the whole list with the option to filter it too.
totk’s tutorial is also a MAZE (I got lost) compared to the great plateau, while you can go anywhere within the great plateau in BotW, without a specific path, the great sky island you have to go specific paths (such as through caves) in order to get the last shrine.
I personally didn't get lost that much on the Great Sky Island, but it's very much a 'you have to go down this path to get to the next area' type of place, which is a huge downgrade from the open nature of the Great Plateau.
If you can't figure out that path, well then you're just stuck until you do.
Exactly totk is an open world game, so why would they teach you how to play a linear path in the tutorial?
@@froggycolouring I think it's because they do have a more linear setup for the dungeon intros/story sequences, and thought that would be good for the Great Sky Island too.
It's just that:
A. Said dungeon intros/sequences are still way more open about how to play them, since they're set in a world you can explore any which way, and let you use all kinds of tricks and tech to navigate. There's way more freedom in the lead up from Rito Village to the Wind Temple than the Great Sky Island cause of that.
B. The intro is a bad fit for said gameplay, since it's meant to be more of a taste of the gameplay as a whole, not a linear corridor.
I agree! first time i played it took me FOREVER because i would go a path because on the map it looks possible, just to go there and see its in there air out of reach ;-; also why cant you warp to shrines before you do all three?? it would have saved me SO much time instead of walking around looking for a way
how did you get lost? BOTW's tutorial is way more confusing with that one shrine on the cliff
I will say about the tutorial area I played totk first and finally leaving the great sky islands and seeing the rest of hyrule is definitely the best part of the tutorial, because in botw you were always able to see the rest of hyrule so close and you basically know the place before even leaving the great plateau, but totk you barely even think about it, so getting there and realizing theres a whole other world from the sky islands with new enemies is very cool
It only works however if you haven’t played botw before because you’d already know what to expect, so botw’s tutorial area is still far better
That's an interesting point. The world beyond the intro area is more of a mystery in Tears of the Kingdom, since you can't see it from said area. It definitely must make an impression for fans who started with TotK.
I have to admit… BOTW did a way better job showcasing it’s open world than ToTK
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Uh...yeah you do get a clear pointer to Lookout landing. Before you jump down to Hyrule, You literally hear Zelda saying find me as you are looking straight at the tall ass tower landmark with the fort-town surrounding it.
In my opinion the sky islands were better than the plateau. I like how they make you use the abilities cause it shows off all the cool things you can do with them. Also it wouldn’t make sense if an advanced civilisation had a cloth glider. For the champion/sage abilities I think sages are way better. Sidon is a better daruk, tulin is more useful than revali cause of all the strategies you can pull off with him (and rocket shields completely replaces revali) yunobo is good to combo with tulin on grass for updrafts and amazing for hunting moldugas, riju is…. Riju is just riju we don’t talk about that.
That's fair, everyone's entitled to their opinion, and the Great Sky Island definitely did do some things right. I might talk about this game's level design in another video to be honest, since it feels like it learnt some nice lessons from other Nintendo franchises in a sense.
Love the thumbnail. Should have Riju saying “catch me if you can”, with Link screaming “MLG kid scream”
Hah maybe I should have done that. If only I'd have though of that idea when commissioning the thumbnail, lol
i honestly still go back and play BOTW because of the guardians being so fun
The Guardians are amazing enemies, and super fun to fight
Guardians are not fun for people who can't get the timing of the laser parry or actually just being chased by them relentlessly for a while
@@Grimm196 i used to have the same issues so thats understandable
@@alialittlepageberry2318 I have actually been trying to play BOTW and yeah it is fun. I am still trying to learn laser parries though so you can see my frustration when I think I do it and then end up as a corpse half a second later.
@@Grimm196 The solution is simply to get gud. Or use daruk or the ancient shield. Or chop of their legs. Or about a dozen other solutions.
The last 2 I really agree with. Where did all the elemental arrows go. And on top of that it was weird how everyone out there seemed to know how to fuse. So many references to fusing and I'm like wait, I don't need a magic arm to do this. There had to be a bettor way to communicate this fruit when attached to a arrow becomes a shock arrow than having a NPC tell you that it what they do despite not having the fuse ability.
That's a really interesting point now I think about it. No one except Link can use the Fuse ability, yet now every arrow shop sells materials that are only useful to people with the Fuse ability?
That seems really weird to me,
Here are 2 things that totk did that made me fairly upset.
1. Is that the silver enemies dont drop off loot like they used to. I kill a silver bokoblin I'm botw and I get one of the gems from rubies, topaz, sapphires and diamonds. In totk they dropped none of it and instead from their parts. That's what killing silver enemies worth it.
2). They nerfed the prices of gems. In botw rubies were 210 per piece and now 110. Luminous was 70 and now they were nerfed to 20.
Totk.
Ruby 110
Sapphire 150 I think
Amber 10
Topaz 80
Luminous stone 20
Opal 30
Diamond is still the same price for 500.
Botw
Ruby 210
Sapphire 250
Amber 30
Topaz 180
Luminous stone 70
Opal 60
Diamond 500.
They were worth so much and now they made them almost priceless.
Oh they nerfed pretty much every type of material as far as sale price goes. Seems like they really hated how easy it was to make money in Breath of the Wild, and wanted to prevent that easiness in Tears of the Kingdom.
Stopping silver enemies from dropping gems is another piece of that change.
I like Totk's starting area more, yes it does make you use your ability's to travers. But the abilitys in totk are just more advanced in the first place to where a tutorial is needed. For example, if you didn't have to cross the lake using ultrahand when you got your battery, then how long do you think it would take some players to learn the battery. However even after saying this there still are some unnesasary parts in the great sky island, but some could say it adds more complexity. But in my honest opion I love both and think both the starting areas are amazing.
That's fair, the abilities in Tears of the Kingdom definitely are more complex. There's more to teach there for sure.
@@GamingReinventedI’d like less tutorials though. EVERY single Shrine was a tutorial and usually didn’t expand upon the idea it introduced. One example is the “Alignment” Shrine.
@@HungryWarden That's a fair point. There were a lot of tutorial based shrines in TotK for sure.
I would honestly pay any price just to play BotW for the first time again. The beauty, challenge, and exploration was perfect. BotW also introduced me to the series, and I've spend years and countless hours playing games from the series. TotK didn't feel like that at all, it always felt kind of boring to me.
I do wish I could experience BoTW for the first time again for sure. It's not the same when you know everything about it's world in replays...
I don't mind the arrow fuse system too much, since the most common items end up at the front of "most used", but it could clearly have been WAY better. They could have kept elemental arrows on the fuse menu, with an up-down scrolling list to choose exactly what you wanted to use to MAKE that arrow, for example.
The only one I really hate is the Sage Powers. They work well enough outside of combat when using them to mine ores, keep cool in the desert, or glide, but they're a pain to use in combat. They could have all been a simple button press based on context such as "push button while building a charge attack to activate Yunobo, same button while blocking for Sidon, while aiming for Riju, etc. Maybe give them a longer cool down when activated that way if it's too spammable.
The sage powers are definitely better for things like mining ore and breaking rock walls than combat.
But them having a context sensitive trigger would have helped a lot here.
And yeah, have us choose the item to create with Fuse, and choose the material to make it with. Kinda like the dye shop in Hateno to an extent.
One thing I was disappointed is the lack of showing Link’s struggling face when burning in a heated environment. He makes a face with one eye closed and teething gnashing.
Edit: it’s patched. Devs probably forgot to add that “link burning” face.
The vows AI is crap especially with Riju and the Queen Gibdo
The AI for the sage avatars is definitely questionable. It doesn't understand how to prioritise targets at all, so if a random Stal enemy wanders into a fight with a boss or Lynel, all the sages will focus on the non threat instead.
Riju: catch me if you can!
Link: We’re fighting Queen Gibdo! Literally an enemy invading your town. It’s not the time to be playing.
Link: stand next to a stunned lynel, presses A to mount.
Link: Mounts… On Mineru instead because She’s next to Link.
@@ghb323 That's a good scenario relatively speaking. I had a situation once where Link mounted the Lynel to attack in... then got knocked straight back off by Mineru, who decided to use a shock emitter at that exact time.
Master Mode and something like the Trial of the Sword is missing. The pedestal could literally be where you place the Master Sword before diving to the surface for the first time. They could have done them as free updates than DLC. Remote bombs are better as they can be used anywhere even in Death Mountain. The way you access the Divine Beasts are better as you fight against a legendary weapon than just going down a long path (looking at you Tulin's quest). It's a lot more peaceful as I don't have to worry about Gloom Spawn (basically strong enemies that spawn out of nowhere).
The ability to know the enemy's health exact sum was great too.
Oh god I forgot that was removed. It was a great ability the Champion's Tunic and Divine Beast helms had, and it's strange it's not present in Tears of the Kingdom.
@@GamingReinvented I think it isn't present because the damage values of spears and two handed swords are different than what they say, and that would be very obvious if your 40 damage weapon brought an enemy to 838/880
@@NottSaying Yeah that seems very likely to me. They wanted to hide that weapons have different damage values than they're supposed to.
@@GamingReinventedso basically, they’re doing false advertising and trying to cover it up?
@@HungryWarden I guess so
Not to mention that the champion abilities are way better than the sage powers
Yeah the champion abilities are way easier and more fun to use.
Easier to use but not better. Just as an example, Revali. All he does is lift you into the air. Tulin shoots you forward. Also rocket shields make Revali useless and if you want to recreate Revali's Gail in TOTK, just turn a fan upwards and jump up and glide
@@Grimm196 tulin’s ability is the only sage power that is truly useful. The other sage powers are worse versions of champion abilities. Yonubo’s charge isn’t that useful in combat and you can break rocks with other things. Sidon’s water shield just sucks and riju’s lightning is super annoying to use and is bad compared to urbosa’s fury
Sidon is op with Zora weapons tho
@@imsomegaded_ Yeah, that's the one good thing about Sidon's ability. Makes Zora weapons more useful.
You forgot weapons. In botw there are more fun weapons, like dragonbone weapons, a boomerang with 3 points and so on. TotK just has the same weapons as botw, but less and decayed versions.
..are you kidding? The ability to fuse made the game SOO much better because it gave us cooler weapons! There’s so many combinations you can make and I love that it actually makes all the monster parts you get pretty useful. Also finding the pristine weapons in the depths is the best way of finding good weapons
@@buttercuplex the fuse is mostly just "slap on a bad-looking stone for extra damage and elemental abilitys" there are a few exeptions, like the silver lizalfos horn and the wind-cleaver + elemental blades but That's it. And the pristine versions are just copied and pasted from botw. They just deal extra damage, That's it.
@@mariorockysonicmegasochjag weapons also have their own set of base abilities in totk (charge attack stamina boost, desperate strength, gerudo and zora weapons giving double attack power to fuses etc. ). Botw offered no special effects other than elementals so end game you wind up with all the same weapons for the high attack power.
@@buttercuplex True, but they still removed a lot of cool-looking weapons. They could've replaced the pristine weapons with other stuff. Or made the pristine versions uniqe.
Weapons are a strange case, because I think both games had things they did better there.
I like Fuse and the possibilities that brings. Having a Hudson cutout on the end of a weapon (or something actually useful like a Lynel horn, Gleeok horn, gemstone, etc) is awesome.
But I do wish they didn't drop like a ton of BoTW weapons in the process. All the unique Lynel weapons are gone, many of the Boko ones are gone, Windcleavers are gone, the Spring Loaded Hammer is gone...
If they had both all the unique weapon types and Fuse, it'd be great.
Lookout landing is pointed out to you after you get the mission to find her and marks it on your map. I'm looking at the bottom right of your screen as you say this..
I like the idea of the sage's avatars as companions but having all of them at once just makes fights a clusterfuck, and makes it harder to deliberately respond to enemy attacks, especially on larger groups.
I usually just have Riju and Tulin with me. I feel like you can kind of mix Riju's lightning strikes as part of your "combos" (if you're the kind of player who likes mix-ups in the middle of a fight) and Tulin because he gets those headshots.
Sometimes I still accidentally try to use Revali's gale😔
I mean it's quite easy to do, especially if you're so used to Breath of the Wild's mechanics!
Same story... Despite having a Zonai rocket... Revali's Gale is better. Press and hold X and leave it. And whoooop... you are flying.
Easier. Better. More comfortable.
Well, it's true that, once you leave the Great Sky Islands, you're on your own. I've played botw since its release, but still, with more than 20 hours into totk, still didn't have the paraglider. No one told me I was supposed to go to Lookout Landing! I went to the Gerudo, and without the paraglider I couldn't benefit from the updrafts formed during the sandstorm to get to the destroyed city, also I went to the Zora and I just couldn't get there! Only a friend of mine told me where I could get it, after hours of frustration and overthinking... they could've really done it better...
But you are literally told to go to Lookout Landing. It is also the closest place to explore so I don't understand how you didn't go there first
@@Grimm196 Yeah guess I'm blind ''---'
@@Grimm196 but now seriously I don't remember them saying to go there, and I didn't know you could get the paraglider there... and I wanted desparatelly to know how the other cities had changed, so I headed there first...
@@febebe9851 but it marks the location with the yellow mission dot and it tells you through the quest description
I went to zora domain and was wondering what is wrong with miphas chestplatte and why swimming up waterfalls kills me
6:47 so to warp to a shrine in a cave, you have to go through 2 loading screens, one for teleporting to it and the other is ascend.
Yeah pretty much. Same with the ones near Rito Village and Zora's Domain
I like that there are other armies that help to fight in some areas of the game. In BOTW I would clear out all the guardians in castle town and think it would have been nice to have others join me at that point.
Yeah the army sidequests are great. Do wish you had them help fight an overworld boss or something at some point though, would be neat to see them to try to fight a Lynel, Hinox, Gleeok, etc.
These are some of the bigger ones, but I thought Breath of the Wild was a much more enjoyable experience for a variety of reasons. Dungeon design, works design, story layout, low respect... There's a lot Tears of the Kingdom ignores in favour of just more having stuff in the world..
Things i miss:
ancient weapons and armor, lynel and boko weapons, arrows, guardians, champions, gem prices, silver drops, and more
Oh weapons are a big thing that I really forgot to include in this video. I like Fuse, but not having Lynel weapons, ancient weapons, Boko weapons, and various novelty weapons hurt the game quite a bit.
People actually remember Boko weapons? Also they removed ancient stuff to not spoil BOTW stuff in TOTK if the person is new to the games
11:27 Even Twilight Princess did the bomb arrows better than this. Sure, it’s annoying to switch between normal arrows and bomb arrows, at least I don’t have to manually fuse them each time I shoot.
Yeah having to use Fuse to switch between arrow types is honestly clunky as hell. I get why it works that way, but it makes more commonly used arrow types a pain to use conveniently.
A favorites and an auto-fuse would fix this.
@@ghb323 Agreed. And maybe a setting to at least be able to auto select the material for the BoTW style elemental arrows too.
One thing that i wanna put is the master sword : upon completing the dlc you get the best weapon in the game with very good damage and the highest durability in the entire game, the master sword gets its unique glowing look and feels powerful to use. Now in totk its a sword that can fuse like all others, yeah sure it has more damage potential (30 base damage + 55 lynel horn) but it lacks the durability and uniqueness it had in botw. So it feels less useful because you have to waste a ressource for a lot of damage for the master sword, and the blade loses its iconic look upon fusing and its not as durable as it once was, in a way when using the master sword in totk i don't feel like a true hero like in botw anymore. For me i believe botw was outright better than Totk, not just relatively to what both game brought new compared to each others but that botw just did it way better in so much more ways.
Yeah, the durability upgrade would be nice. And given the Master Sword actually does upgrade around Gloom enemies and during the final battle, they could have easily added a Trial of the Sword equivalent to provide that effect permanently.
Tha faeries.
And with that, upgrading your inventory.
That worked flawlessly in BotW, but in Tears it's just a nuisance, almost impossible to fully upgrade any set.
However my biggest gripe with TotK is the removal of Kass, I loved hearing the accordion in the distance, and also really enjoyed his shrine quests.
Tears has the stable trotters(for musicians) and Penn(for quests), both fail miserably to replace Kass. I hoped they had removed him so he could come back in a DLC. So you can imagine how angry/sad I was when they announced there wasn't going to be one.
The absolute absence of sheika tech is a major downgrade, yes the ancient horse set is missing but SO IS THE MASTER CYCLE, and this is a vehicle that cannot be mimicked in speed and agility with constructs!
Oh I miss Kass for sure. Penn is great and I did like the Stable Trotters, but Kass was such a cool character in BoTW, and it's so weird seeing him completely absent here.
Fairy wise I'm honestly kinda mixed about. Personally I think both games kinda messed up there, since the upgrade process is boring as hell. Oh neat, you get a cutscene for each upgrade level. But it's for each level per armour piece, and with like a hundred of them... yeah, it gets old fast in both BoTW and TotK.
Fairy fountain quests are something I think TotK did better at first, and BoTW probably did better later on. First time you play, they're neat. Third, fourth or fifth time? You probably just wish you could spend money to do it.
The item menu was way better in breath of the wild in my opinion there was no need to remove the extra pages and turn every tab into one huge page
This is a personal one, just a thought I'd like to share. I absolutely LOVED the atmosphere of BOTW than TOTK. The story telling was beautiful and intricate, there is literally nothing that I can find in BOTW that annoys me! While TOTK could be done better in some areas. I will not lie, I was disappointed at TOTK for... I dunno! It had a different atmosphere that was nice, you were not alone like in the last game, you had friends. But it just seems so... weird? But both games are amazing. I feel like TOTK won in the terms of the way it ended and BOTW won it the terms of the experience. There was so much mystery and lore in BOTW, I thought that there could've been some lore for the depths and Zonai as well. I wanted to learn about these ancient people, and understand what the depths were. There could've been another race that lived in the depths too, interacting with the Zonai that came for the Zonaite down there! But both games are amazing, I just wish TOTK was a bit more polished and had more lore.
Your point about not seeing more of the Zonai and their lore is a very good one. It's disappointing how in a game meant to make them prominent, we only see get to see two Zonai in the entire title, one of which is dead by the main story and one which survives as a ghost inside a mech. I would have imagined we'd encounter at least a few more, right?
And it's definitely weird that the Sky and Depths have literally no towns or NPCs in, barring the Yiga, a few Constructs and a few Zonai Survey Team members that only appear during one quest.
@@GamingReinvented Yes! I don't exactly know why but Nintendo didn't really do much with the lore. It felt like they wanted to upgrade the mechanics more. I read some other comments and they mentioned how emotionless this game is, along with the fact that nobody remembers you! I was ready to hear people talk to me as the Hero of Hyrule. Back in BOTW, nobody knew that or our connection with the princess, not even many of the prominent characters. I feel like only the Zora knew who we were. It was frustrating honestly. And its even more frustrating seeing no one acknowledging our status, even the Sages! Nothing was mentioned about what happened in the time gap between BOTW and TOTK.
Another frustrating thing is how fast the Sheikah tech just vanished, like not a single trace except the Hateno Research Lab. I would've liked to hear about how they brought it to Purah to recycle it or even some mention about it! It was a big thing that vanished without much talk about it, we were left to connect to pieces. I feel disappointed at TOTK for this, but it still is a great game no matter what. I guess the fun mechanics make up for it? My feelings are very mixed and biased, even more so because BOTW was my first Zelda game.
BOW IS piece of ART. Everything fits... TOK IS a Toy box
Mostly agree with you!
when i did the first sage i was very dissapointed of it, because first of all: i dont want someone always near me that i can only activate by pressing A
second: everytime i do puzzels in the free world (no city etc.) or want to interact with anything they always get right INTO me for some wierd reason so i always accedentily activate them
third: at least 2 of them are useless and i only have them activated for battle, like for what should i use the water ability or the thunder. the thunder is just slow and i didn't even use it that much while doing the quest to get that sage and the water i never see an opportunity where it makes sense to use it.
The goron one is useful when you have to bomb something but dont have the bomb flowers or on vehicles to use it as a canon and the orni is the best, because you save alot of time flying and get further without using much stamina
But i really miss the old orni one to get high up, it made travelling so easy and getting up
I miss stasis and remote bombs
Honestly same. Especially the bombs when it comes to mining and breaking walls...
And windbombs, but they would have been removed anyways as they are a bug/exploit
@@admiraloscar3320 Yeah, and BLS for the same reason (the one where you hover through the air by holding a bomb in some strange way)
I'm just glad this comment didn't say kryonis. Most useless one
@@Grimm196 Cryonis is useful. Have you seen what you can do to guardians in bullet time?
I feel like Breath of the Wild did the koroks better. In tears of the Kingdom, all the korok puzzles are the same thing. Build a vehicle, attach the korok, and then drive your way to the buddy. The Tears of the Kingdom korok puzzles can all just be solved with a hot air balloon and a fan. In Breath of the Wild, the korok puzzles were all different, unique and fun.
You obviously haven't looked for hidden koroks. The only new korok idea was the carry the korok to the smoke but you can still find the old ones. Kind of hard to say the BOTW koroks also have multiple of the same type of puzzle solving. Can't really call those unique either
Only 100 of the TotK Koroks use the 'take the Korok its friend' system, with the other 900 being like in BoTW.
My advice when it comes to collecting Korok seeds in general though is... don't bother getting more than you need to, otherwise it'll bore you to tears. Got all of them in BoTW, AoC and TotK, and I still wonder if it was worth it...
@@GamingReinvented there were koroks in AoC? I don't remember them when I played. Gonna guess that is why you are able to play as Hestu?
@@Grimm196 There were, and I think they were part of a sidequest or something. Either way, the task was to find them in a bunch of missions where they were well out of the way of the main path, with one of said missions being that obnoxious one where you'd die/fail in one hit.
I actually kind of like the Sage abilities in this game (but that's probably because I just don't use them lol)
One minor nitpick I have is that there's no way to see how much health an enemy has; in the old game you had the Champion's Tunic, but in this game you've got two of the things and neither one shows the actual number of health the enemies have
I'm still surprised there's no way to see enemy HP in TotK.
I like both games alot. TotK is probably the better one overall, but BotW had a number of things that it did better as well.
Yeah same here. Both games have their pros and cons.
Another thing Breath did better than Tears is that Breath had all Lynel weapons Tears the Lynda’s only had their bows and shields from the Lynel gear
I miss Lynel weapons in TotK...
@@GamingReinvented Nintendo should’ve kept them those were my favorite part about the last game
Totally underrated video, youtube, put it on the whole world’s front page’s… or else…
Thanks!
Master mode not being in the game was honestly quite a fumble on their behalf. Master mode would have been beautiful for this game. After all the hardest things in the game are the 15 proving grounds shrines that house only constructs.I would also love to see what a golden lynel saber horn would look like. Or a golden lizalfos horn. Truly a missed opportunity
Me: man I wish guardians were in totk
Friend: what’s a guardian
Me: what did you just say
Apparently your friend lives in Hyrule given how little the population there remember the Guardians or Sheikah tech...
@@GamingReinvented alr lol
These are all great criticisms, but I’m surprised that you didn’t mention how TOTK removed the ability to see true HP numbers. There were a total of five pieces of armor which gave you that ability in BOTW, and since we now have all of those plus the new Champion’s Leathers, that would in theory make it a total of six armor pieces which should let you visualize HP, yet none of them (nor any other armor pieces) work. Looking through other videos, it seems like damage multipliers aren’t as straightforward this time around as they were in BOTW, but I don’t think that’s enough justification for having removed that ability altogether.
Also, no Master Mode (or at least golden enemies in the base game) or Trial of the Sword. The reason why the Master Sword feels so weak in this game is that there aren’t enough situations where it gets powered up, so this kind of stems from the fact that Gloom Spawn aren’t as common as Guardians, as you said in the video. The fact that there won’t be DLC for this game to add these things (unless they’re playing 4D Chess with us) really makes me sad since Master Mode is where I spent most of my time in BOTW and also gave me a second save file on my main account. As it stands right now, I don’t feel like deleting my day 1 save file to start over (as much as I would like to), nor do I want to do it on a secondary account. I just don’t understand why they wouldn’t add these things for TOTK since they felt essential in BOTW the moment we got them.
Honestly, I would have included the HP number point, but kinda forgot. It is ridiculous it's not present though.
I also left out things I thought DLC would patch in later, or that would likely have been huge selling points for that DLC like the Trial of the Sword or Master Mode. I just had a level of (misplaced) hope that we were getting DLC at some point.
But now we're not... yeah, I should have included them. Or heck, added 'DLC' to the list in general seeing how incomplete TotK sorta feels without it.
Yeah I spent a good time thinking "wait they eliminated the glider here?"
Oh god that must have made navigation a complete nightmare
The thumbnail is so true
Unfortunately you forgot one more things botw has the totk doesn’t.
Revali.
NOW some will say that this is a DISADVANTAGE, but you are simply wrong.
Revali would be useless in TOTK. There are rocket shields that launch you up and you also have fans that you can activate while facing up to shoot air up to launch up. Revali's Gale is useless
@@Grimm196 Irdc I love him anyway.
@@Grimm196 Revali's Gale is useful BECAUSE stuff like rocet shields and fans do it but better. A lot of people fail to realize how much of a game changer the champion's abilities were, and that's one of the core reasons why the sages would suck even if they could be activated properly. Being able to ascend quickly was something you couldn't do in BotW UNTIL you got Revali's gale. the same cannot be said for any other ability except for tulin while gliding, because there wasn't an easy way to move horizontally in TotK until you got tulin. And even that becomes obsolete a lot of the time because of hoverbikes and other flying machines.
2:48 That doesn’t explain why the guardians aren’t at least being kept in a junk pile somewhere to be recycled, not to mention the divine beasts.
Having to ascend in Zora's domain felt like a snub after everything Link had done for them so far.
Those elemental weapon buffs were fun lessons to learn.
The thumbnail is so accurate, when I was fighting gloom hands Sidon kept running away when I was trying to get him-
Yeah, the sages are not exactly the kind who like to go where they're needed at all times.
Frr!!! Like whenever I don’t need to use them they just get close to me and I activate them by accident-
None of the sages like the camera directly on them. So every time we chase them, the camera hits and they'd scatter.
Played tears of the kingdom for a few hours. It doesn't have the same feeling of wonder as Breath of the wild. I think they should have just moved on after the first game. it's obvious to me that the developers are tired of this version of Hyrule. I'll be playing Skyrim.
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Tulin could be more useful in battle if in the case you are grounded and used his ability he Revali’d you, and if in the airs he simply Tulin’d imo
Yeah, having his ability work like Revali's Gale when on the ground would be great. At the moment, it's basically useless when not gliding, since it only affects materials, Wind Temple turbines and weak enemies.
@@GamingReinvented Even an acorn is more useful in battle
At first I thought why do the monsters have horns, and then one put its head down and came running at me and I knew why lol.
There is some truth to the ancient horse armor and the guardians it was due to after the calamity they just disappeared not kidding the developers said and the starter island is the same but I say a bit better but I think the game is more atmospheric for its own good sometimes and also did you not see rauru around the starter sky island but anyways I wish to bring clarity to the ancient sheikah tech
Oh I saw the Sheikah tech thing (and dislike the explanation, but that's another thing entirely).
Unfortunately, the video was already scheduled at the time, and I really didn't want to have to go and edit everything last minute to comment on the update.
I think the reason why ancient stuff is basically gone because they were repurposed into the totk towers. Guardian arms are used to hand the stuff to Link to scan the area. I mostly do think they removed everything so new people can walk in without walking botw spoils.
@@Grimm196 I prefer this explanation to the developer one, because it makes a lot more sense.
honestly they had made the most used section a custom bar instead I think it would of helped alot. granted my most used had apples front and center since I chucked them at anything I wanted to interact with and I probably wouldn't of put that on a custom bar...
Start chucking bomb plants then lol
Being able to choose which materials you have in a favourites list would arguably be the best setup. Then you could include bomb flowers there but not apples, etc.
one thing botw did better than totk was not removing kass
I still miss Kass. So wish he was in TotK
the zonai version of the ancient horse armor will probably be in totk, and the reason they dont have it yet because they dont want to reuse something thats EXACTLY the same, like how you need to get to robbie to use it,
Sadly they've said there are no plans for DLC here.
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13:30 you can whistle.... and if they are far away during battle they will teleport or run to you....
True, though my experience is that it's less than 100% reliable.
HOLY SHIT THE ACCENT
Nah tulin being like that in the title isnt canon
Tears of the kingdom’s fuse arrows are by far better than botw
I agree with everything you just said, but i think you've missed 1 more point (you could have replaced this with the ancient hore armor), and the fact is that Breath of the Wild has more replayability. BOTW is a smaller game, and you can do various challenges when you decide to hit the new game button, such as:
1, all quest play
2, permadeth play
3, no champion abilites play
4, master mode (I've just started my 1st one, because i bought the 2 DLCs in a bundle after 6 years XD).
In TOTK after I completed all 60 side adventures, 139 side quests and all the shrines I don't have the willpower to press the new game button. I beat it once and left it there. However I would gladly start a new game in BOTW a few month later as well.
That's an interesting point, especially given TotK seems designed to make certain BoTW challenges more plausible (no Paraglider for example).
But the sheer length of TotK can definitely make it exhausting to replay for sure
10:32 Wrong. When Zelda says to find her at the end of the Great Sky Island, they clearly show Lookout Landing.
Fluxes are kind of like Guardians you can stand on their heads and confuse them and they patrols like Guardian Stalkers and Guardian Skywatchers
The Gloom Hands are supposed to be the Guardian equivalent, and they don’t do it well. Fighting them is pointless because you can sit on a tall rock and they will go away after a while.
@@HungryWarden The Gloom Hands were terrifying and annoying and I just shoot them with bombs to get rid of them because they are so ANNOYING
@@BrandonJackson2005 I didn’t think they were terrifying. In fact, they were pretty generic horror stuff.
Another one:
Botw was great cuz everything was new. Totk is botw with another story that doesnt even work out!
Ah yes someone who understands my brain
Glad to see you have similar thoughts about the games!
Everything about TOTK is a disappointment. It's overrated.
Not everything, just half of it.
Mostly agree with you!
Does anyone even use horses anymore? I don't
I only use horses if I want to mess around with them. They're simply not that useful in the grand of scheme of things.
Yes
What's a horse?
BotW had better story, world building and atmosphere. TotK shits on the Zelda lore and doesn’t even do a good job at being a direct sequel to BotW. Also, Link and Zelda should have been playable and together the whole game, like with ST.
Why doesn’t it show the Master Sword’s damage??
When I first played Totk, I first ran into Hateno because I didn't know what to do. I did everything exept for finding Lookout Landing. When I saw a RUclips Video about how to get the glider and searched for the place where the story continues and needed nearly a Hour to find it! That is redicolous!
But...there is na blinking yellow dot on the map for Lookout Landing, and a quest update.
It’s not that hard to walk towards a yellow dot on the main quest
@@XD-zi2sd When you first played Botw, did you straight ran into the defeat Ganon Quest? I thought the Castle would be as terrifying as in the last game. But it isn't.
LOL! All you had to do is stick to the main quest objective. Your comment is ridiculous.
@@mirrorman-mw3zu ???There is no marker like that in totk
Probably controversial, but I actually like needing to get the stuff you want for elemental arrows, rather than allowing players to be lazy pieces of sh*t, it encourages you to go out and explore the map. Also, the "Glooms Lair" doesn't feel like a random cave, you're literally going to the depths of the castle-
Blue sounds like Mickey Mouse 💀
The Elemental Arrowa are actually better in TotK, the more valuable the Elemental Item, the more Comprehensive the Elemental Explosion
Who needs elements when you have bombs
For most of them you're comparing irrelevant things, like the old man, guardians, etc. the storyline has changed making those things irrelevant, so this video makes no sense. BOTW didnt do them better, it's what they have that totk doesn't have anymore. for shrine quests etc are your opinion which I won't argue on. but the other things are like me making a 15 min video saying the fusing in totk is better than fusing in botw, see? it isn't in botw which you cant compare to in totk, and vice versa to the other points.
Ok, this helps me to understand totk.
Story is bad, Fs with pre-established key lore aspects, absolutely shatters all the Master Sword's reputation, unga bunga buff Dorf with little to no ambition other than "me strongest there is" uninteresting, nearly everyone forgot who you were despite this game taking place a mere 4-6 years after Wild, Rauru existing is an insult, no Fi, no breaking of the Demise curse despite it being falsely hinted being the case what with all the Skyward Sword PR this game got (I distinctly remember Skyward Sword being advertised as heavily linked to TotK somehow which, again, is misleading as on Nintendo's part), no dog petting, no hookshot spiderman swinging with the physics being suuuuch a driving factor in these newer Zelda games, no underwater exploration instead a damp dark smelly overgrown cave can't see jack, COLLOSAL missed opportunity to hitch the princess with her handsome knight in shining armor, no stakes since Zelda's sacrifice was reversed giving the story little to no agency or consequence, Link as a protagonist felt nonexistent feels like everyone else was the star of the show not the guy who's saving all their 🫏s, no Link backstory before any of this went down aka no Arryl 2 or Granny 2 aka NOT WIND WAKER, didn't make me cry like Twilight Princess, dungeons are STILL NOT dungeons (pulling a couple levers to open a door and then be treated with literally the same copy-paste cutscene at the very end with each champion? Yeah naw), sky islands hardly anything worth noting although they are pretty asf to look at, I was expecting a totally NEW revamped endgame super Saiyan master sword golden tier 4 legendary new hilt new everything but naw same design with a booboo scar and hilariously less powerful... hoverbike autobuild pales in comparison to THE Master Cycle
As a game, sure, it's leagues above BotW but BotW will never be topped as a one-in-a-lifetime *experience*
TotK was an overblown $70 DLC and I'm tired of pretending it's not. Mid.
I liked breath of the wild better tears is a grate game but breath of the wild is just better
That's fair, everyone's welcome to their opinion! Out of curiosity, what things did Breath of the Wild do better outside of those listed in their video, at least in your opinion?
I don’t like how tears of the Kingdom and horses useless defeats, the purpose of having a horse are getting a horse Honestly, I felt like this game, and botw probably should’ve been the same
Horses are definitely less useful in TotK, and it's a shame because BoTW already made them fairly useless as is. The games are just too big, too open ended and too easy to fast travel to make them worth using for the most part.
And scrapping the ancient horse armour without a Zonai equivalent was a very dumb move indeed.
This is my opinion and that’s your opinion but I think otherwise
i highly disagree on the arrows one i cannot stand the mechanics in botw
I personally enjoyed BOTW a lot more than TOTK. TOTK is just... kinda boring. The temples and cut scenes tied to them are extremely repetitive, the game is littered with continuity errors from the previous game (BOTW), it's annoying as all hell that so many NPCs don't remember Link even after he saved or built their entire town, it's too easy to get the tear geoglyph memories in an order that completely spoils the story, Ultrahand is gimmicky and clunky and has way too short a range, and my final gripe... the sages abilities suck!
Bonus gripe: The house building is terrible! But as this is unimportant to the actual game and completely optional, I didn't include it with my main gripes.
Also... I really miss guardians! They were so scary and so fun and nothing in TOTK even compares! Some people try to say the Gloom Spawn is to replace the guardians, but the gloom spawn, while initially very scary looking, is actually rather pathetic once you actually try to fight it.
Any particular reasons why? Like some of the ones on this list?
Blud got that british ahh accent
Yeah
You sound exactly like that one meme with the empty the compartments of your pantaloons
botw is better
people who laughed when they heard his voice
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Sounds like you are just used to botw holding your hand then totk actually being challenging
Not really, I've beaten the original game dozens of times, done various speedrun tactics, and have enjoyed Tears of the Kingdom a ton. There are just some things I feel the last game did better.
You're mean
@@NageratSevarg thanks
@@blaketoomer8503 of course
@@NageratSevargtf is this oblivion ass conversation 💀💀
Master-mode:
Botw: 1
Totk: 0
Honestly I'm still shocked we don't have at least master mode and a Trial of the Sword equivalent in ToTK...
@@GamingReinvented modding😏
@@mouton_tordu Oh very true! I think I even wrote about a master mode mod one of my friends was developing for the game
Devs are focused on bugs more than other things right now. BOTW also didn't get a Master Made till a few years later and TOTK has been out for only a few months. Also they said TOTK wouldn't get dlc, pretty sure at least.