Tears of the Kingdom is a sequel after all, so you can't expect the entire game to feel completely new, but I still found a lot of the optional content in this game pretty boring, which is why I made this video I really like this game, but I just have no desire to play it at the moment, and I hope that'll change.
This entire game doesn’t feel like a sequel. They just rewrote BotW, used false advertising when marketing it and slapped a higher price tag just for two more map layers. This game is as much a “sequel” as Galaxy 2 was for Mario. The only games I’ll say Nintendo legit counts as “sequels” is Splatoon
I agree with you that the replay ability is low after beating the game. I completely reset my game which made it fun again. I also did that with breath of the wild. Bow was such a new game playing it from the beginning with the dlc.
> because it's a sequel you can't expect it to feel completely new guys That's a really stupid argument to make there are plenty of amazing sequels that are entirely different from their previous entries
Tears of the Kingdom went too big. They remixed the surface, added sky islands, created an underworld, and a revolutionary physics system. They did too much, leading to the surface feeling repetitive, the sky feeling copy paste, the depths empty, and ultra hand not being utilized very much. They should’ve toned it down and focused on making each piece of content amazing, rather than creating many pieces of content.
Agreed. Kinda feel like at a certain point, I was getting pretty bored cause its just too big, content was getting repetitive, and the combat just wasnt as challenging as in botw. One point I will give it is the fire, thunder, and wind temples.
Spot on. It was a quantity-first mindset, and I feel they dispensed with conservation of detail and mechanic cohesion right out of the gate. This is also exactly what happened what happened with Zelda II back in the eighties. They went way too big and did way too much to try to outdo the first one.
the fact that they put Korok seeds in the game again instead of simply making it a different item killed me so hard. such a major freaking letdown. like …. i have to do this AGAIN?
No silly, the game doesn't _force_ you to. So, you're wrong - you *don't have to* unless you want a ton of extra weapon slots. Again which is upto you and that you don't even need so much in this game vs the previous one.
@kickingbackpunchingcones4099 No it doesn't lol. Casual players? Fine: the game isn't a timed Mario Kaizo run jeez lol. It caters for all Skill levels. They can chill in this game too, their skill and efforts are reflected in the level of Enemies that spawn in the overworld: so please don't try that one. 🙄 And whatever happened to a game Upskilling players? Thats why you're encouraged to explore, fight and gain back your Master Sword. It's a Zelda game, remember?
@kickingbackpunchingcones4099 Ok - but that's not the games fault, is it? And I did post a little micro-guide in reply to you in how 'casuals' can get the best start but for some strange reason it was removed. Yes, Tears is tougher than Breath at the start because Hylian weapons are now rusty - but hey, We wanted a tough Zelda game (besides Breath) for the 1st time in 15+ years and now we complain? 🙄 The key is to get the Master Sword early , the games secret shortcut.
@@netweed09just because the game doesn't force you to do something doesn't mean it isn't poor design. For those of us who actually enjoy getting everything, they've given a challenge with the same 2 or 3 repeated types of koroks 700 times. It's ridiculous
I played it and I have around 12 hearts and I feel bored as f*k. I’m looking forward to Twilight Princess and Wind Waker being ported to the Switch this year to take this depressing feeling that TotK is giving me away from my mind, because this game is seriously depressing me
@@JCardo2502 interesting. I guess if I had to play a recent traditional Zelda it would be Twilight. Wind Waker looks great but I can't ever get into it enough to finish it.
You see, I milked BotW, and could not finish TotK, the game was making feel fatigued, I played it for like two weeks when it came out and honestly I was forcing myself the whole time, the more I explored the more annoyed I was getting, today I decided to give it another try and quit within 5 mins, maybe one day I get to finish it but for now it will stay on my shelf. Edit: BTW I beat Link’s Awakening this week for the first time since I had a GBC and man it was amazing, I really want Zelda to go back to its roots, 10-12 classic dungeons instead of a sea of emptiness with a few cutscenes.
Same. I feel like TOTK was just getting tediously annoying to explore. Too many points to have to revisit, map out, do a million shrines, korok seeds, bubbul gems. My burnout was horrible with this game. Botw was a lot mor fun to me.
Also, the breakable weapons makes everything less special and less unique. In the older traditional Zelda games, everytime you obtain new weapons, it feels special and meaningful. You can finally open up or access new areas.
I completely agree as I've spent hundreds of hours playing BOTW and nearly finished it to 100%. I honestly stopped playing TOTK after just one week and it's a damn shame because I really tried to like the game. There's a huge lack of innovation, and everything felt like a lousy replication of BOTW in all aspects. I mean for Christ's sake, they even let you re-use the same horses from BOTW too.. All of the main & side quests felt like a chore, and there are simply way too many places to explore which felt tedious and mentally draining. I still think TOTK is a decent game, but I can't justify spending my time doing the same repetitive tasks over and over again. I never thought I'd say this, but TOTK is the first Zelda game that felt underwhelming and boring.
What a _terrible_ opinion! So, you want Link to be a baby again and have his adventure walled by a 2ft high fence, a tree or an NPC (the Immovable Object) blocking a 1 tile path?? All to wield a hookshot that objectively, does very little?? Jeez, you have _no idea_ , lol. Older games like Minish Cap were good but Mr Aonuma wanted those to be portable & was limited by Nintendos hardware. Maybe if you take those rose tinted glasses off you'd see something.
Because there was _nothing_ in the old game lol. The D!vine -Blands- , I mean Beasts were controllable and so deemed too dangerous for operation. The Sheikah failed , basically. How has not clicked??
Not sure how nintendo get away with reusing so much after 7 years to very little pushback, completely ridiculous and any other game company that wasnt constantly viewed with rose tinted glasses would've recieved justified backlash.
first few months I loved this game, then i beat and lost interest less then a month later. Idk man zelda games half the size feel more exciting longer and more immersive. I also get very tired people saying it's ground-breaking there are plenty of open world games that better now. The witcher 3, hogwarts legacy, xenoblade chronicles, xenoblade chronicles 3, mario odyssey, rdr 2.
this is so relatable dude, i planed on 100%ing it but got boring after getting 20 out of 40 hearts and 75% of the depths map, it does feel really incomplete
I took a multiple month break because I had no motivation to even finish the game and recently I powered through and beat it but I don’t want to do any extra content because I feel like the game is just boring. If I play in that hyrule again it’s definitely going to be in breath of the wild where I actually wanted to do everything
@@traviscunningham7062 botw was my first real video game that wasn’t Mario cart and it’s my favorite becuase I’m nostalgic for it but I can agree twilight princess is amazing
Honestly that's what happened with me and BOTW. Then, when TOTK came out I knew it would be good but I didn't buy it. True open world like these games tend to be is just too much time investment for me as an adult, I have work to do and people to see. Like I love a game that's long. Miitopia being one of those that's in my all-time favorites, I go all the way to final post-game every time I start a new save over months of playing an hour here or there. I have 190 hours of the port logged cumulatively on my switch, and I haven't even gotten halfway through all the content I want to cover in my second playthrough (not accounting for my full playthrough 3DS copy either). But if there's no goal I'm progressing towards, I lose motivation because it becomes a time sink that's bad for my real life. I liked messing around in BOTW fighting Lynels or doing a random quest/shrine, but never touched most of the insane amount of content the game offers. Still had the best weapons and other stuff. It just feels empty after that point though because I was so overpowered that I could just beat the game without shrines or koroks anyways. Makes it feel like the extra exploration doesn't really matter I guess. I don't want to play a game just to fill hours of time, I want to experience something new with a good narrative that's enjoyable to play. And I think that's why the open world direction many games have been taking isn't my cup of tea personally. It's all just a backdrop to world exploration and mechanics gyms, which leads to uneven progress and heavily disjointed narratives. This is one situation where choices in games are just too open ended for the average player IMO. That all being said though TOTK and BOTW are probably objectively some of the best games of all time in terms of their features and moving parts. Just not for a game player who has other commitments and fun hobbies to explore. Thanks for reading if you got this far, I'm a paragraph andy and happy to be one :)
@@greyscaleadavenI share your sentiments. As much as i love BOTW and just maybe around 25% because I had 69 Shrines but not beaten the a single devine beast because i want to get stronger and more prepared, it was eating too much of my time that i suppose to share to my family and friends and I'm always sleepy at work for two weeks now! I ran the game for about 89 hours already because I am too hooked to put it down because it's my first time to play that vast open world game! I am so excited but I realised I'm already an adult. I have more important things to do. I miss being a kid. I've grown to a poor family and the only thing that I had before was a Famicom way when it's not trending anymore and a gameboy gift by our relatives to my brother but that's it. I always watch other neighbours play or rent an hour in a shop in middle school because it's pricey herein our country to even rent for me. But I'm a gamer, And i love playing video games. I justt download emulators on my phone and laptop.😂😂😂 I'm so amazed in BOTW. I love RPG games and also the story is very captivating but at the end of the day, We have bigger things to do. I hope I can play 24 hours nonstop just for once and forget about everything even for a day. I'm 39 now but I'm still a gamer at heart.❤
@@ahrdee-ho5mn Always cool to hear about other people's experiences when it comes to games! Definitely a shared experience downloading free stuff to computers to still experience some older games that were past my time even as a kid. That's something that people don't consider too, gaming is such an expensive hobby and prices can inflate quite high in certain countries. I'm a game dev so it's something I have to keep in mind when it comes to looking at how games or consoles are priced. It takes a lot for full-time workers to find the energy/time to play games and that's something we also look at too. It can really drain you, and as a result heavy investment games like BOTW/TOTK can be difficult to really get into all the way. I'm glad you're finding ways to play, and enjoying the time that you do have with games!
I put in 500 hrs before 1.2 nerfed duping. Then I dropped it entirely. I spent so much time duping just so that I could play the game. And I didn’t 100%, so imagine without duping how long farming to farm to farm something else to buy gear to play the game would take….
I put 2,000 hours or so in BOTW and even got on the speed running craze and completed 100% of the game, but TOTK I put 500 hours in it and just completed the game and did about 70% and that's about it. As a legend of zelda fan since the original, I totally agree, and for some reason, I thought I was the only one. So thank you.
Only 500 hours?! Jesus Christ. I get it though, game was a snooze fest, as in BOTW exists, when I finished TOTK I immediately put it on OfferUp and sold it while it was worth close to its value. I never want to play it again, unlike the classics, I could easily go back and play one of the older Zelda games, and I’m not even a Zelda fan anymore.
You’re most definitely not the only one. I’ve been voicing my complaints about this game since May. I literally cannot believe they had 6 years to make this game with the same map and dropped the ball THIS hard whilst Elden ring was developed from the ground up in the same time period. Unbelievable.
@@APsGTG Breath of the wild set TOTKs expectations to an insane level, but they just went and copy pasted with just changing the colors. And man don’t get me started on how boring as hell combat is, it’s basically non existent. If they spent half the time on combat that they spent on the Lego Fortnite BS, it could have been actually something special. It’s fine, Fromsofts changing the industry these days, it used to be Zelda.
What did you even do during your playthroughs? I have 800 hours and 200 hours on BOTW and TOTK respectively and have 100% them both. How can you spend 500 hours on TOTK and not even 100% it?
The game sucked. As a lifelong Zelda fan, I tried my hardest…but man, if this is going to be how future Zelda’s are, what a huge disappointment. I actually love the open world idea…but make it interesting. And I think they were foolish to abandon true unique dungeons and the bosses still don’t stack up at all. The story is about as stale and lifeless as it gets, even by Zelda standards.
I feel exactly the same way except I can't get into it. I've tried so many times, but after 5 hours I can't get into it. I just end up going back and playing Botw, and recently Links awakening.
I replayed Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Super Mario RPG remake, Metroid Prime Remastered and Kirby: Return to Dreamland Deluxe more times than I do with this game.
Must have put in atleast 250 hours into BOTW, completing it twice. Soon as I touch Hyrule in TOTK my heart sank. It felt like Nintendo have cashed in on a major dlc.
While I didn't feel this way, since I really never got bored of the game and only stopped playing to play metroid and grind pantheon 5, I can understand why someone would feel this way, even though I never run out of entertaining things to do
I played the game for some hours past the initial tutorial and just stopped playing after that. It just felt going back to BOTW. The core ideas are the same. Do the shrines, get the Korok seeds, same art style, same map with some extras, same characters, same method of story telling, etc. Breath of the Wild felt fresh because it was so different from other open world games. But since then, there has been plenty of open world games and a general fatigue has set in from all these open world games. I am now craving for a tight level design and more linearity because frankly I don’t have the kind of time I used to just fuck around the map in a game only for the reward to be underwhelming. Also, recently purchased a PS5 and realised just how behind Zelda is in terms of graphics and performance. Performance more than the graphics honestly. Like you said in the video, I can deal with 30fps but drops below that are annoying and kill the fun.
I mean, did you actually play the game then?? I'm _sure_ there was a Main quest you missed in there somewhere. 😂 The only waste of time and boredom here is your ridiculous by-the-numbers rant of a typical moaner who 90% likely doesn't even own the game; just glazed over a few of those contrarian ''critique'' videos, hopped on the few hate bandwagons like these and lashes out ''fanbOy!1'' at anyone who praises the game. 🥱🥱🥱🥱
Botw was not so different form other open world games. It was the same, with more issues if compared to others. For example, a game that wants to be about exploration keeps you to the ground as much as it can, it doesn't let you consume the map by flying everywhere. Also, static enemies are not for an open world of this kind, with all this freedom of movement. Morover, there is nothing really special to find in the world, nothing really interesting, except for a few things. People often complain about ubisoft open world games but they are far superior in everything. My favorite games are open world games, and I really wanted Zelda to go in that direction. However, when I played botw it did not feel fresh to me, nor different, nor better in any way. I was quite dissppointed.
Idk why but playing totk makes me feel nauseous, the over abundance of things to do all of which have very little impact. The absurd amount of grinding you need to do just to lay around with ultrahand or making better weapons really detracts from the game.
Another thing I feel ruined the experience for me is that nobody remembers what you did in Botw like I for example 100% the game only to be treated as a stranger in totk if that’s the respect I get then I want a refund on my time
For me I go back to TOTK every week not because of the content but because of the fun i can make for myself the game has so many different mechanics enemys and bosses for me to experiment with and combine to have more fun then any of the premade content in the game
I agree, TOTK felt like more Botw, and as someone who had Botw as their fav game, I’m good with that. There’s enough new mechanics and areas to keep things interesting, along with a new story, shrines/dungeons, and bosses
Got this and Skyrim for my new first-time Switch. I just want it to be more like Elden Ring. The mood to play Elden Ring just doesn’t outweigh playing a handheld. It’s odd how people recommended I play Breath of The Wild before this… even fans who played BOTW years ago got burned out on TOTK. How could a new fan play both in a row lol. So I just skipped BOTW and went to TOTK. I just think it’s slow.
Yea I loved tears of the kingdom but after I beat it I just felt empty not that it was a bad game just I didn’t have the energy to push through I got at least 60% of the game done but I just ended it their but I’ll probably go replay it because I was more for the story then the side content (but still a great game to play)
Same feeling here. Although I’m a great fan of the entire franchise, this game makes me SO bored. I tried my best to do as much side quests as possible, also get all suits. But I’m just going to beat Ganon and I’m done
Loved both games, but in tears there is so much content, i was thinking exactly that playing the game one day and then i found a sage's will. Like even more shit to do. I didnt bother to even search for them
Yeah all the little items you find that they don’t explain at all is really frustrating, huge map and you have to find the exact spot each type needs to be used. I never wanted to own a game I had to google shit for
As a lifelong zelda fan i gave up after the completing the third area. Something went wrong with this one. Zelda really needs to go back to dungeon based games. I feek like all the good reviews send Nintendo in the wrong direction
If you add up all of the time you spend skipping through cut scenes like shrines, light roots, that stupid sign guy, buying arrows, etc… it adds up to several hours of just smashing a button to get out of the cut scene you have already skipped literally hundreds of times. This game is trash.
Ultra hand is a terrible addition. The shrines are far too reliant on using ultra hand to complete. The building mechanic is only useful for streamers to produce content and has little entertainment value in game. I would rather use cryonis to cross a river than spend 15+ minutes to build a massive bridge or even longer to build a raft. It just feels like ultra hand is designed to waste my time.
I feel the same way. I was on a road trip recently, and I figured to pass the time I would get back to Totk. But after a few minutes, I just stopped playing and picked up Sonic Frontiers instead. I just find that game more fun.
I think the fact that it took so long to finally come out (it shouldn't have) and there was such a huge buildup to the actual release, that I couldn't help but to be disappointed by the fact that this game seems like not much more than a fancy DLC for botw. I didn't even finish it yet. I played about 100 hours or so and put it down one day, and just haven't returned. I will finish it before too long, but man oh man......I was really let down by the entire experience. 😢
I stopped too. The game itself isn’t bad. The problem for me was the map. Surface is too damn big 60% of the map are mountains and dead space with trees. I would understand if these dead space have more enemies or have more up and down movement. But this was not the case, walking towards your objective start to became tedious and there’s no conversation between characters, is just silence while you walk for like 10 mins. And don’t get me started with the depth as you mentioned. IMO this game is not a 10 or 9, It’s a 7.5 to 8. Traveling from Point A to B is very tedious.
Oh man. So many comments saying this game is boring. I 100% AGREE. I’m having an existential crisis because of this game! I truly have NO desire to finish it! THIS! A ZELDA GAME!! I want to go back to classic Zelda. Craft me an interesting contained world with cool characters to meet. Maybe spice things up by giving Link some new fighting skills to exploit enemy weaknesses! I’m glad everyone is admitting that this game is lame overall. It’s time we start being honest. This game is BORING!!
I stopped playing TotK halfway through. Everything felt so repetitive and 60% of what I played was boring grind. Similar to BotW, the enemy variety is soooooo bad (main reason I stopped playing), the music is a joke compared to older Zelda games, the open-ended structure of the game destroys any sense of satisfying progression. The story is corny and badly written, the caves after a while felt exactly the same, The Depths was an empty place with nothing interesting going on, and I had much higher hopes for the sky islands. Also, I despise how the game's prologue has such a captivating dark, eerie vibe (my favorite type of ambience) only for that vibe never again to be seen for the rest of the game. I can't emphasize how embarrassing and incompetent it was for the developers to have created this awful inconsistency in tone. My dream Zelda game: There's a satanic cult that worships Majora. They're initially in Termina, but learn about the powers of the Triforce, so their mission is to steal the Triforce to resuscitate Majora. The Triforce in this timelines has for generations been passed down the royal bloodline, so Zelda has the full Triforce. The cult learns about this, and throughout the game, the cult is hunting Zelda, trying to kill her and steal the Triforce imbued in her. Link and Impa are given the mission, by the king, to protect Zelda (this is our main trio. Zelda, Impa, and Link should've always been that, can't believe that it hasn't happened yet officially). To keep the Triforce safe, Zelda decides to split it. Link gets the Triforce of courage, Zelda gets the Triforce of power (she has immense magical powers that originate in her strong, sacred bloodline), and Impa, coming from a secret society of esoteric knowledge (the Sheikah), gets the Triforce of wisdom. This game returns to its roots, being heavily inspired by European architecture, Christian mythology, European folklore and folk music. There are tons of hidden churches (similar aesthetic to Temple of Time and real-life churches across Europe) scattered throughout the map, each of them has a corresponding underground dungeon filled with scary enemies, such as redeads, ghosts, ancient giants etc.
yeah i feel you, Breath of the wild i actually wanted to 100% becouse 1-it was my first-ish zelda game (i played a bit of minish cap on my phone) and 2-it was borrowed, and i didn't know when my friend would want it back so i enjoyed it while playing a lot of it, and it was fun, got all armors, all misions etc, a true 100%, nothing left to do, but when i bought totk it felt kind of the same, sure, the first weeks were awesome, but at the end of the day, it was the same, and i just couldn't bring myself to do it again, i left a lot of things, but i did what i thought was at least neccesary, until it was not fun anymore, and i got hollow knight so i didn't even care about it for months
Ceave Perspective made an exhaustive video critiquing TOTK and I really recommend watching it!! He put a lot of the thoughts and feelings I had about the game into words which made me rethink how I approach game design. It was very insightful!!
I saw Ceave Gaming made a critique video on it a while ago, if that's the channel you're referring to. I didn't watch it but it did pop on my recommended tab.
I personally think TOTK has some of the worst game design I have ever played. After 10 hours I got the glider and was just so frustrated and crappy feeling from getting there. Nothing is intuitive. It's like nintendo thinks they are above the rules and anything they make will stick.
@@mellifont96 it’s so sad cuz there’s so much good in the game too. It’s so close to being an outstanding game but the few things holding it back are so massive that it ruins the whole experience. It’s very disappointing.
TOTK is a great game IF you never played BOTW before. If you put on any effort, finished, or loved BOTW, then TOTK will feel bland and meaningless, offensive, even. They take the extra step to pretend the prequel never existed. Nobody remembers you, nobody remembers the Champions, sheika tech is gone, horses are completely useless now, Zelda steals your house, even my favorite bird boy Kass is gone. The replacements are just... Worse. Constructs aren't as fun as guardians, Sages don't hold a candle to Champions, no ultrahand contraption is as agile as the master cycle, besides wind temple and maybe lightning temple divine beasts are way cooler and engaging than any temple, stable trotters Penn are WAY WORSE than Kass.. I could keep all day long, but you get the idea.
@@spaghetti3406 Criticism is NOT “rage baiting.” I have the right to criticize everyone’s incompetence. Blame yourselves before blaming an obvious masterpiece
Breath of the Wild is in my top 10 best video games of all time. Tears of the Kingdom is one of the most uninteresting Zelda game I’ve ever played in years
@@WyvrnOnYT Oh gr8 pls don't bother lol. Another boring half hour or so of: ''thIs is what the ZeLda team shouLd take nooTe oF!1'' Elden ring that just copied Dark Souls; spammed re-Skins of Bosses at you (over 150+ bosses in the game????!) that were the same old bullet Sponges and nothing else - and who's World is good but needs a geforce RTX2080 to half run it smoothly and the Switch really has that? Jeez,, imagine if people used their brains.
İ have beat it Tears of the kingdom to but İ loved so much but is not the same feeling with İ was playing first time Breath of the wild. Breath of the wild first time it was huge big different game İ have ever seen. İ have played Breath of the wild 490 hours. Tears of the kingdom is a better game than Breath of the wild for me. There are lot things the same. Tears of the kingdom right now İ have played 150 hours. İ am not sure if İ can play it 490 hours like Breath of the wild.
I am in the middle of totk right now, and the burnout is starting to take hold. I'm becoming tempted to just give up on side content as a whole, and just get the game done and over with. I think totk would have worked as its own game, but as a sequel it fails immensely to re-envigorate the magic of playing botw for the first time
I understand that angle and opinion; but I mainly disagree sorry. Honestly it's the reverse for me. As a longstanding Zelda fan I've been _craving_ for a game like this that _finally_ incorporates actual Dungeons into the seamless overworld and honestly, they're a sight to behold. I'm unsure why so many who claim to be Zelda fans or, have even played Tears conveniently label them ''D!vine Beasts 2.0'' (a very lazy take) , or skip over this content altogether!
@@netweed09 I cant fathom how someone would enjoy this game that much. The ultrahand gimmicks and lack of clear direction make the game feel like watching aboring documentary on vhs in elementary school.
@@mellifont96 Well, I dunno about that opinion fella (stuff like lack of clear direction?) but if you're concerned about me you got _a lot_ more worrying to do maybe as I'm merely one of over _20 million_ who have bought (and mostly) enjoyed the game. I could elaborate on so many aspects of how Ultrahand alone is fun (and all _depending_ on how you use it, if at all much) but you are forgoing _so_ many gameplay aspects , I cannot in turn wrap my head around how one wouldn't enjoy it.
my least favorite part of tears of the kingdom was probably the fact that everything you do in the game is the exact same not the same to breath of the wild same to tears of the kingdom. with breath of the wild not everything was copied and pasted it had a ton a cool and unique stuff but with tears of the kingdom it just has the same core elements make a machine with ultra hand and fuse items. It is just so boring people talk about how it has so much new content but the fact is it is all copied and pasted content I don't like doing the same thing over and over again.
One of the main problems is that there's just too much stuff with no clear indicator what is and isn't worth doing. When I need a guide just to sift what sidequests are worth my time and what will just reward me with some food and rupees, it really just ruins the game for me. It was time consuming enough to go for the shrines, finding Koroks, dragon tears and qll that stuff so i rarely bothered with any of the side quests because my hands were already full. I'm sick of playing it and yet I feel like I've barely scratched the surface, and I ended up just looking up on thr Internet how to get to Ganondorf after finding the fifth sage because I really don't want to do any more tedious exploration in the depths for Josha. I just want to get it over with. The fact that I don't have nearly as much time on my hands as I did with BOTW just makes it worse.
It was way way way way too fucking easy. I can't believe they didn't release a master mode. Also, the new armors suck and you either have to look them up or find them completely randomly.
Using the same world was the biggest mistake the zelda team has ever made. EVEN with that said, i still put nearly 200 hours into a world i already had dropped 400 hours in..But i havent gone back, no replay after i beat totk. I can't believe the zelda team didn't realize discover/exploration is a huge part of zelda. The physics system in the new zelda is the single biggest advancement in gaming of this era- i dare you to challenge me.
To me it kinda looks like the stuff from Just Cause 4 but with more refinement. I swear I've seen the exact implementation in another game before too. Looks cool, I just don't think it contributes much at the end of the day. Classic sequel gimmick.
Nah, Zelda BOTW was ahead of its time in 2017 but was completely surpassed by Red Dead Redemption 2 in the open world genre in 2018-2019, and by 2023 was completely outdated. Using the same engine to create a "new BOTW" was a stupid mistake of Nintendo, and it is obvious that the game had problems in its development, it is the zelda that look longer to build while at the same time it is the zelda with the least improvement.
I wish the story had better pacing, I wish it didn’t feel like past games, including Breath of the Wild didn’t feel like it was being retconned,. I like it for the most part, but am not fully satisfied.with it. I wish everything didn’t feel so overwhelming. There’s three times the amount of area to explore and so many tasks, shrines, n side quests that it overwhelming.
I wanted BotW meets OoT, not BotW meets Banjo Kazooie: Nuts 'n Bolts. They took so much of the Zelda formula out of BotW to make the open world work, find a way to put some of that back in, ya know?
I was definitely nowhere near as motivated to finish TotK as I was BotW. BotW felt so new and unique, but when BotW already existed, TotK just felt like a mod. Definitely a huge mod, but still a mod. The story massively let me down too. I’m a story-focused player and TotK didn’t deliver a good story. BotW at least had an interesting narrative for the past, but TotK just felt… wrong. It didn’t feel like it had an impact on the story of today’s world. How many times did the Calamity get mentioned in TotK? The main plot of BotW? None. Not once. It felt like a bunch of thoughts thrown together and none of them really felt collected. I feel like a lot of people have started to realize this. I’m seeing more and more, “Why TotK was not as good BotW,” videos now. I loved BotW and the Zelda series as a whole and I want to see the Zelda team make another amazing game like they did in the past. But, in the meantime, we can share our opinions in RUclips comments and videos.
It was slush content obviously. Getting one shot dude…. It’s harder than any souls game, the parry window is smaller, the dodge is less effective, enemies do more damage, and some things are so difficult or rare to collect it forces you to dupe basically. I never felt that way with souls, even farming proof of concord kept. BOTW/TOTK tries to pass off a gliding and climbing simulator as exploration
I literally felt the same as SOON as I beat it I used glitches to speed up the process of beating it when I SAID I WOULD NOT USE GLITCHES I feel the exact SAME
Definitely hoping with the next zelda game, itll be something without as much burnout at botw or totk. Something closer to windwaker, majoras, or Twilight, where theyre more thematically interesting rather than big open game interesting. Something about medium length where 100%ing the game is possible and not just korok seeds again.
Well you certainly got further than I did. I dropped the game within 10-13 hours. The story didn't do it for me. A lot of it pretended BOTW didn't exist for story telling and world building. It rubbed me the wrong way, as if my accomplishments in BOTW meant nothing. I understand why they did this. They didn't want newcomers being confused and feel the need to do "homework". Why make a sequel then if the story and especially worldbuilding is gonna be this disconnected? Gameplay didn't grab my attention either unfortunately. The team absolutely pushed the engine to its limits, I commend them for that. However, they forgot to do the same for gameplay. Any issue I had involving BOTW's gameplay is still here, untouched if you could say. The Zonai hand imo is not as fun as the Shiekah Slate. I appreciate the fans for creating crazy stuff with the Ultra Hand, but I'm a goddamn idiot that can't create anything remotely good. I had a better time with BOTW and I don't think I'll ever touch TOTK ever again.
If you beat the game thats justifiable. As long you beat the game thats ight. I see the game as a 1 time experience and boy it was amazing! I find botw more boring than totk. Botw is about the wild nature exploration and totk is about torture your enemies do stupid shit with fun mechs. :)
I find it ironic in the first game Kohga falls down a hole. In this, he gets launched up a hole. I pretty much turn on ToTK just to pick on the yiga, since you know, they defected from the Sheikah...
For me: BotW = I was obessed and had to do every single thing I could think of. ToTK = I beat the game... didn't care for the depths and well I already had quick fatigue from BotW so I didn't even care to do everything. BoTW just hit differently at the end of the day.
Lol, what did you do in Botw; collect carrots and see how many swords you could break in 5 minutes?? Breath is the most counter-intuitive game known to man. Tears fixed that massive flaw, thankfully.
@@encompassthyeclipse7278 Lol, same tired quip can be levelled at this nonsense speaking 'creator': wasted his whole time barking at a _very Successful_ Zelda game. This is simply another lazy ''Tears critique'' video that glazes over everything and says next to nothing. Probably removes sensible comments too. Eh, We do not Care. 🤡
It’s not fun to build different weapons from different combinations and elements and specs? Well what do you consider fun? Looking 2 second at a realistic rock design? 😂
Great video! Totally agree! Additionally; i also have been finding solace in the rdr franchise. Just finished 2 and am probably gonna start 1 for the first time. Way better games than totk
How many error 00000000F did you get while going through RDR2? I’d have disconnects every half hour. Beat the main story and haven’t turned it on since because of that
@@encompassthyeclipse7278 rip man. I played it once on PS4 and once on PC and never got anything like that. A couple of minor glitches here and there but nothing that serious. Glad you managed to finish the story under those conditions!
I never thought I’d like a game more than BotW, I just loved TotK at least 2x more than BotW. Still playing regularly for hours at a time coming up on a year later. I played hundreds of hours of BotW and TotK may surpass that into near 1000. The world isn’t just a place I like to spend time in and I like to take my time with side quests and stories and reading into lore and putting the micro stories together in my mind. I think it’s crazy how many videos of criticism there are. The main story is great and I’m glad they gave content that makes the game endlessly replayable almost but not quite as much as Skyrim. I just think having a large game and filling it to the brim with literal 100s of hours of meaningful substantial top tier content is unrealistic. The main quest is the meat and potatoes for critical path. Everything else is for people who love the world and exploring without needing a waypoint to direct them to do every small taste.
''ju$T doN't caRe!1'' *(but I'll hop on YT's algorithm and post my droning , by the million ''Old Zelda games R the Be$t!1'' Nostalgipinion rant again)* 🥱
Tears of the Kingdom is a sequel after all, so you can't expect the entire game to feel completely new, but I still found a lot of the optional content in this game pretty boring, which is why I made this video
I really like this game, but I just have no desire to play it at the moment, and I hope that'll change.
Itll change
This entire game doesn’t feel like a sequel. They just rewrote BotW, used false advertising when marketing it and slapped a higher price tag just for two more map layers. This game is as much a “sequel” as Galaxy 2 was for Mario. The only games I’ll say Nintendo legit counts as “sequels” is Splatoon
I agree with you that the replay ability is low after beating the game. I completely reset my game which made it fun again. I also did that with breath of the wild. Bow was such a new game playing it from the beginning with the dlc.
> because it's a sequel you can't expect it to feel completely new guys
That's a really stupid argument to make there are plenty of amazing sequels that are entirely different from their previous entries
Depths are NOT empty. You’re just not good at scanning your surroundings.
Tears of the Kingdom went too big. They remixed the surface, added sky islands, created an underworld, and a revolutionary physics system. They did too much, leading to the surface feeling repetitive, the sky feeling copy paste, the depths empty, and ultra hand not being utilized very much. They should’ve toned it down and focused on making each piece of content amazing, rather than creating many pieces of content.
exactly, I think botw has less content but every single part of it is fleshed out
Agreed. Kinda feel like at a certain point, I was getting pretty bored cause its just too big, content was getting repetitive, and the combat just wasnt as challenging as in botw. One point I will give it is the fire, thunder, and wind temples.
Spot on. It was a quantity-first mindset, and I feel they dispensed with conservation of detail and mechanic cohesion right out of the gate. This is also exactly what happened what happened with Zelda II back in the eighties. They went way too big and did way too much to try to outdo the first one.
I would say they didn’t do enough to compensate for the massive world
@@paragon1466 because they couldn’t flesh out the massive things. If they fleshed out the sky and depths, there certainly would be
the fact that they put Korok seeds in the game again instead of simply making it a different item killed me so hard. such a major freaking letdown.
like …. i have to do this AGAIN?
The funniest part is how blind faithed fans would still defend the game calling it innovative 😆
No silly, the game doesn't _force_ you to. So, you're wrong - you *don't have to* unless you want a ton of extra weapon slots. Again which is upto you and that you don't even need so much in this game vs the previous one.
@kickingbackpunchingcones4099 No it doesn't lol. Casual players? Fine: the game isn't a timed Mario Kaizo run jeez lol. It caters for all Skill levels. They can chill in this game too, their skill and efforts are reflected in the level of Enemies that spawn in the overworld: so please don't try that one. 🙄 And whatever happened to a game Upskilling players? Thats why you're encouraged to explore, fight and gain back your Master Sword. It's a Zelda game, remember?
@kickingbackpunchingcones4099 Ok - but that's not the games fault, is it? And I did post a little micro-guide in reply to you in how 'casuals' can get the best start but for some strange reason it was removed. Yes, Tears is tougher than Breath at the start because Hylian weapons are now rusty - but hey, We wanted a tough Zelda game (besides Breath) for the 1st time in 15+ years and now we complain? 🙄 The key is to get the Master Sword early , the games secret shortcut.
@@netweed09just because the game doesn't force you to do something doesn't mean it isn't poor design. For those of us who actually enjoy getting everything, they've given a challenge with the same 2 or 3 repeated types of koroks 700 times. It's ridiculous
This is the first Zelda game that I basically have no urge to play.
I played it and I have around 12 hearts and I feel bored as f*k. I’m looking forward to Twilight Princess and Wind Waker being ported to the Switch this year to take this depressing feeling that TotK is giving me away from my mind, because this game is seriously depressing me
@@JCardo2502 interesting. I guess if I had to play a recent traditional Zelda it would be Twilight. Wind Waker looks great but I can't ever get into it enough to finish it.
I think Links awakening is a great Zelda game. I also really enjoyed link between worlds on the 3DS.
Because you’re not smart enough to appreciate an obvious masterpiece
Bro, SAME. I just can’t bring myself to play this. It’s so boring!
They forgot to include the campaign.
You see, I milked BotW, and could not finish TotK, the game was making feel fatigued, I played it for like two weeks when it came out and honestly I was forcing myself the whole time, the more I explored the more annoyed I was getting, today I decided to give it another try and quit within 5 mins, maybe one day I get to finish it but for now it will stay on my shelf.
Edit: BTW I beat Link’s Awakening this week for the first time since I had a GBC and man it was amazing, I really want Zelda to go back to its roots, 10-12 classic dungeons instead of a sea of emptiness with a few cutscenes.
Same. I feel like TOTK was just getting tediously annoying to explore. Too many points to have to revisit, map out, do a million shrines, korok seeds, bubbul gems. My burnout was horrible with this game. Botw was a lot mor fun to me.
Also, the breakable weapons makes everything less special and less unique. In the older traditional Zelda games, everytime you obtain new weapons, it feels special and meaningful. You can finally open up or access new areas.
@@robnhood1416A game mechanic that was introduced to make you farm, I would expect something like this from Bungie and not Nintendo but here we are...
I completely agree as I've spent hundreds of hours playing BOTW and nearly finished it to 100%. I honestly stopped playing TOTK after just one week and it's a damn shame because I really tried to like the game. There's a huge lack of innovation, and everything felt like a lousy replication of BOTW in all aspects. I mean for Christ's sake, they even let you re-use the same horses from BOTW too.. All of the main & side quests felt like a chore, and there are simply way too many places to explore which felt tedious and mentally draining. I still think TOTK is a decent game, but I can't justify spending my time doing the same repetitive tasks over and over again. I never thought I'd say this, but TOTK is the first Zelda game that felt underwhelming and boring.
What a _terrible_ opinion! So, you want Link to be a baby again and have his adventure walled by a 2ft high fence, a tree or an NPC (the Immovable Object) blocking a 1 tile path?? All to wield a hookshot that objectively, does very little?? Jeez, you have _no idea_ , lol. Older games like Minish Cap were good but Mr Aonuma wanted those to be portable & was limited by Nintendos hardware. Maybe if you take those rose tinted glasses off you'd see something.
its a sequel right? then why the fuck does no one know me and wheres the divine beasts
-Where the fuck are the Sheikahs
-Where the fuck are the Divine Beasts;
-Where the fuck is Kass?
Because there was _nothing_ in the old game lol. The D!vine -Blands- , I mean Beasts were controllable and so deemed too dangerous for operation. The Sheikah failed , basically. How has not clicked??
Does NOT matter. None of this requires an explanation. Move on biiiccchh
@@DanielMazahreh cock ride Nintendo while ur mum watches next time pussy
Played 30 hours got bored
Can't imagine how
Not sure how nintendo get away with reusing so much after 7 years to very little pushback, completely ridiculous and any other game company that wasnt constantly viewed with rose tinted glasses would've recieved justified backlash.
Backlash is actually unjustified. Tears is a masterpiece biiiccchh
first few months I loved this game, then i beat and lost interest less then a month later. Idk man zelda games half the size feel more exciting longer and more immersive. I also get very tired people saying it's ground-breaking there are plenty of open world games that better now. The witcher 3, hogwarts legacy, xenoblade chronicles, xenoblade chronicles 3, mario odyssey, rdr 2.
this is so relatable dude, i planed on 100%ing it but got boring after getting 20 out of 40 hearts and 75% of the depths map, it does feel really incomplete
Feels very complete & an obvious masterpiece. You are just not smart enough
@@DanielMazahreh sure...
I took a multiple month break because I had no motivation to even finish the game and recently I powered through and beat it but I don’t want to do any extra content because I feel like the game is just boring. If I play in that hyrule again it’s definitely going to be in breath of the wild where I actually wanted to do everything
BOTW is overrated. I just want a traditional Zelda game like Twilight Princess.
@@traviscunningham7062 botw was my first real video game that wasn’t Mario cart and it’s my favorite becuase I’m nostalgic for it but I can agree twilight princess is amazing
Honestly that's what happened with me and BOTW. Then, when TOTK came out I knew it would be good but I didn't buy it. True open world like these games tend to be is just too much time investment for me as an adult, I have work to do and people to see. Like I love a game that's long. Miitopia being one of those that's in my all-time favorites, I go all the way to final post-game every time I start a new save over months of playing an hour here or there. I have 190 hours of the port logged cumulatively on my switch, and I haven't even gotten halfway through all the content I want to cover in my second playthrough (not accounting for my full playthrough 3DS copy either). But if there's no goal I'm progressing towards, I lose motivation because it becomes a time sink that's bad for my real life. I liked messing around in BOTW fighting Lynels or doing a random quest/shrine, but never touched most of the insane amount of content the game offers. Still had the best weapons and other stuff. It just feels empty after that point though because I was so overpowered that I could just beat the game without shrines or koroks anyways. Makes it feel like the extra exploration doesn't really matter I guess. I don't want to play a game just to fill hours of time, I want to experience something new with a good narrative that's enjoyable to play. And I think that's why the open world direction many games have been taking isn't my cup of tea personally. It's all just a backdrop to world exploration and mechanics gyms, which leads to uneven progress and heavily disjointed narratives. This is one situation where choices in games are just too open ended for the average player IMO. That all being said though TOTK and BOTW are probably objectively some of the best games of all time in terms of their features and moving parts. Just not for a game player who has other commitments and fun hobbies to explore. Thanks for reading if you got this far, I'm a paragraph andy and happy to be one :)
@@greyscaleadavenI share your sentiments. As much as i love BOTW and just maybe around 25% because I had 69 Shrines but not beaten the a single devine beast because i want to get stronger and more prepared, it was eating too much of my time that i suppose to share to my family and friends and I'm always sleepy at work for two weeks now! I ran the game for about 89 hours already because I am too hooked to put it down because it's my first time to play that vast open world game! I am so excited but I realised I'm already an adult. I have more important things to do. I miss being a kid. I've grown to a poor family and the only thing that I had before was a Famicom way when it's not trending anymore and a gameboy gift by our relatives to my brother but that's it. I always watch other neighbours play or rent an hour in a shop in middle school because it's pricey herein our country to even rent for me. But I'm a gamer, And i love playing video games. I justt download emulators on my phone and laptop.😂😂😂
I'm so amazed in BOTW. I love RPG games and also the story is very captivating but at the end of the day, We have bigger things to do. I hope I can play 24 hours nonstop just for once and forget about everything even for a day. I'm 39 now but I'm still a gamer at heart.❤
@@ahrdee-ho5mn Always cool to hear about other people's experiences when it comes to games! Definitely a shared experience downloading free stuff to computers to still experience some older games that were past my time even as a kid. That's something that people don't consider too, gaming is such an expensive hobby and prices can inflate quite high in certain countries. I'm a game dev so it's something I have to keep in mind when it comes to looking at how games or consoles are priced. It takes a lot for full-time workers to find the energy/time to play games and that's something we also look at too. It can really drain you, and as a result heavy investment games like BOTW/TOTK can be difficult to really get into all the way. I'm glad you're finding ways to play, and enjoying the time that you do have with games!
I put in 500 hrs before 1.2 nerfed duping. Then I dropped it entirely. I spent so much time duping just so that I could play the game. And I didn’t 100%, so imagine without duping how long farming to farm to farm something else to buy gear to play the game would take….
I put 2,000 hours or so in BOTW and even got on the speed running craze and completed 100% of the game, but TOTK I put 500 hours in it and just completed the game and did about 70% and that's about it. As a legend of zelda fan since the original, I totally agree, and for some reason, I thought I was the only one. So thank you.
Only 500 hours?! Jesus Christ. I get it though, game was a snooze fest, as in BOTW exists, when I finished TOTK I immediately put it on OfferUp and sold it while it was worth close to its value. I never want to play it again, unlike the classics, I could easily go back and play one of the older Zelda games, and I’m not even a Zelda fan anymore.
You’re most definitely not the only one. I’ve been voicing my complaints about this game since May. I literally cannot believe they had 6 years to make this game with the same map and dropped the ball THIS hard whilst Elden ring was developed from the ground up in the same time period. Unbelievable.
@@ronthorn3same bro. I wish I saved my money
@@APsGTG Breath of the wild set TOTKs expectations to an insane level, but they just went and copy pasted with just changing the colors. And man don’t get me started on how boring as hell combat is, it’s basically non existent. If they spent half the time on combat that they spent on the Lego Fortnite BS, it could have been actually something special. It’s fine, Fromsofts changing the industry these days, it used to be Zelda.
What did you even do during your playthroughs? I have 800 hours and 200 hours on BOTW and TOTK respectively and have 100% them both.
How can you spend 500 hours on TOTK and not even 100% it?
The game sucked. As a lifelong Zelda fan, I tried my hardest…but man, if this is going to be how future Zelda’s are, what a huge disappointment. I actually love the open world idea…but make it interesting. And I think they were foolish to abandon true unique dungeons and the bosses still don’t stack up at all. The story is about as stale and lifeless as it gets, even by Zelda standards.
Its true. It did suck. I didnt like BOTW. But BOTW is wayy better than this minecraft game with a zelda skin
TotK is a masterpiece. Good riddance, we don’t need Zelda fans like you with low standards.
I feel exactly the same way except I can't get into it. I've tried so many times, but after 5 hours I can't get into it. I just end up going back and playing Botw, and recently Links awakening.
I replayed Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Super Mario RPG remake, Metroid Prime Remastered and Kirby: Return to Dreamland Deluxe more times than I do with this game.
Must have put in atleast 250 hours into BOTW, completing it twice. Soon as I touch Hyrule in TOTK my heart sank. It felt like Nintendo have cashed in on a major dlc.
While I didn't feel this way, since I really never got bored of the game and only stopped playing to play metroid and grind pantheon 5, I can understand why someone would feel this way, even though I never run out of entertaining things to do
I totally don't play TotK just for content... 👀👀
I played the game for some hours past the initial tutorial and just stopped playing after that. It just felt going back to BOTW. The core ideas are the same. Do the shrines, get the Korok seeds, same art style, same map with some extras, same characters, same method of story telling, etc. Breath of the Wild felt fresh because it was so different from other open world games. But since then, there has been plenty of open world games and a general fatigue has set in from all these open world games. I am now craving for a tight level design and more linearity because frankly I don’t have the kind of time I used to just fuck around the map in a game only for the reward to be underwhelming. Also, recently purchased a PS5 and realised just how behind Zelda is in terms of graphics and performance. Performance more than the graphics honestly. Like you said in the video, I can deal with 30fps but drops below that are annoying and kill the fun.
I mean, did you actually play the game then?? I'm _sure_ there was a Main quest you missed in there somewhere. 😂 The only waste of time and boredom here is your ridiculous by-the-numbers rant of a typical moaner who 90% likely doesn't even own the game; just glazed over a few of those contrarian ''critique'' videos, hopped on the few hate bandwagons like these and lashes out ''fanbOy!1'' at anyone who praises the game. 🥱🥱🥱🥱
Botw was not so different form other open world games.
It was the same, with more issues if compared to others.
For example, a game that wants to be about exploration keeps you to the ground as much as it can, it doesn't let you consume the map by flying everywhere. Also, static enemies are not for an open world of this kind, with all this freedom of movement.
Morover, there is nothing really special to find in the world, nothing really interesting, except for a few things.
People often complain about ubisoft open world games but they are far superior in everything.
My favorite games are open world games, and I really wanted Zelda to go in that direction.
However, when I played botw it did not feel fresh to me, nor different, nor better in any way.
I was quite dissppointed.
Idk why but playing totk makes me feel nauseous, the over abundance of things to do all of which have very little impact. The absurd amount of grinding you need to do just to lay around with ultrahand or making better weapons really detracts from the game.
Another thing I feel ruined the experience for me is that nobody remembers what you did in Botw like I for example 100% the game only to be treated as a stranger in totk if that’s the respect I get then I want a refund on my time
For me I go back to TOTK every week not because of the content but because of the fun i can make for myself the game has so many different mechanics enemys and bosses for me to experiment with and combine to have more fun then any of the premade content in the game
The underground in this game compared to underground in Elden ring is shockingly bad
It was just “missing something” the best way I could put it
This Zelda game tried to be so many different things that it winded up losing it's identity.
I agree, TOTK felt like more Botw, and as someone who had Botw as their fav game, I’m good with that. There’s enough new mechanics and areas to keep things interesting, along with a new story, shrines/dungeons, and bosses
Got this and Skyrim for my new first-time Switch. I just want it to be more like Elden Ring. The mood to play Elden Ring just doesn’t outweigh playing a handheld. It’s odd how people recommended I play Breath of The Wild before this… even fans who played BOTW years ago got burned out on TOTK. How could a new fan play both in a row lol. So I just skipped BOTW and went to TOTK. I just think it’s slow.
Yea I loved tears of the kingdom but after I beat it I just felt empty not that it was a bad game just I didn’t have the energy to push through I got at least 60% of the game done but I just ended it their but I’ll probably go replay it because I was more for the story then the side content (but still a great game to play)
Same feeling here. Although I’m a great fan of the entire franchise, this game makes me SO bored. I tried my best to do as much side quests as possible, also get all suits. But I’m just going to beat Ganon and I’m done
I feel the same, except i completed every adventure quest...
Did you enjoy them? Or do you think they dragged quite a bit.
@@WyvrnOnYTit was on and off, some were the best parts of the game and some were unnecessary and unrewarding
Loved both games, but in tears there is so much content, i was thinking exactly that playing the game one day and then i found a sage's will. Like even more shit to do. I didnt bother to even search for them
Yeah all the little items you find that they don’t explain at all is really frustrating, huge map and you have to find the exact spot each type needs to be used. I never wanted to own a game I had to google shit for
As a lifelong zelda fan i gave up after the completing the third area. Something went wrong with this one. Zelda really needs to go back to dungeon based games. I feek like all the good reviews send Nintendo in the wrong direction
If you add up all of the time you spend skipping through cut scenes like shrines, light roots, that stupid sign guy, buying arrows, etc… it adds up to several hours of just smashing a button to get out of the cut scene you have already skipped literally hundreds of times. This game is trash.
To be fair, this same point could be made for some of the greatest games ever made. Not a very strong argument in my opinion.
Ultra hand is a terrible addition. The shrines are far too reliant on using ultra hand to complete.
The building mechanic is only useful for streamers to produce content and has little entertainment value in game.
I would rather use cryonis to cross a river than spend 15+ minutes to build a massive bridge or even longer to build a raft. It just feels like ultra hand is designed to waste my time.
I feel the same way. I was on a road trip recently, and I figured to pass the time I would get back to Totk. But after a few minutes, I just stopped playing and picked up Sonic Frontiers instead. I just find that game more fun.
Lol , cool 🧢
I never got bored with this game tbh
I think the fact that it took so long to finally come out (it shouldn't have) and there was such a huge buildup to the actual release, that I couldn't help but to be disappointed by the fact that this game seems like not much more than a fancy DLC for botw. I didn't even finish it yet. I played about 100 hours or so and put it down one day, and just haven't returned. I will finish it before too long, but man oh man......I was really let down by the entire experience. 😢
I stopped too.
The game itself isn’t bad.
The problem for me was the map.
Surface is too damn big 60% of the map are mountains and dead space with trees. I would understand if these dead space have more enemies or have more up and down movement. But this was not the case, walking towards your objective start to became tedious and there’s no conversation between characters, is just silence while you walk for like 10 mins. And don’t get me started with the depth as you mentioned.
IMO this game is not a 10 or 9,
It’s a 7.5 to 8. Traveling from Point A to B is very tedious.
Oh man. So many comments saying this game is boring. I 100% AGREE. I’m having an existential crisis because of this game! I truly have NO desire to finish it! THIS! A ZELDA GAME!!
I want to go back to classic Zelda. Craft me an interesting contained world with cool characters to meet. Maybe spice things up by giving Link some new fighting skills to exploit enemy weaknesses!
I’m glad everyone is admitting that this game is lame overall. It’s time we start being honest. This game is BORING!!
I stopped playing TotK halfway through. Everything felt so repetitive and 60% of what I played was boring grind. Similar to BotW, the enemy variety is soooooo bad (main reason I stopped playing), the music is a joke compared to older Zelda games, the open-ended structure of the game destroys any sense of satisfying progression.
The story is corny and badly written, the caves after a while felt exactly the same, The Depths was an empty place with nothing interesting going on, and I had much higher hopes for the sky islands.
Also, I despise how the game's prologue has such a captivating dark, eerie vibe (my favorite type of ambience) only for that vibe never again to be seen for the rest of the game. I can't emphasize how embarrassing and incompetent it was for the developers to have created this awful inconsistency in tone.
My dream Zelda game: There's a satanic cult that worships Majora. They're initially in Termina, but learn about the powers of the Triforce, so their mission is to steal the Triforce to resuscitate Majora.
The Triforce in this timelines has for generations been passed down the royal bloodline, so Zelda has the full Triforce. The cult learns about this, and throughout the game, the cult is hunting Zelda, trying to kill her and steal the Triforce imbued in her.
Link and Impa are given the mission, by the king, to protect Zelda (this is our main trio. Zelda, Impa, and Link should've always been that, can't believe that it hasn't happened yet officially).
To keep the Triforce safe, Zelda decides to split it. Link gets the Triforce of courage, Zelda gets the Triforce of power (she has immense magical powers that originate in her strong, sacred bloodline), and Impa, coming from a secret society of esoteric knowledge (the Sheikah), gets the Triforce of wisdom.
This game returns to its roots, being heavily inspired by European architecture, Christian mythology, European folklore and folk music.
There are tons of hidden churches (similar aesthetic to Temple of Time and real-life churches across Europe) scattered throughout the map, each of them has a corresponding underground dungeon filled with scary enemies, such as redeads, ghosts, ancient giants etc.
yeah i feel you, Breath of the wild i actually wanted to 100% becouse 1-it was my first-ish zelda game (i played a bit of minish cap on my phone) and 2-it was borrowed, and i didn't know when my friend would want it back so i enjoyed it while playing a lot of it, and it was fun, got all armors, all misions etc, a true 100%, nothing left to do, but when i bought totk it felt kind of the same, sure, the first weeks were awesome, but at the end of the day, it was the same, and i just couldn't bring myself to do it again, i left a lot of things, but i did what i thought was at least neccesary, until it was not fun anymore, and i got hollow knight so i didn't even care about it for months
Hollow Knight is such a good game, it actually changed the way I look at games and showed me what a good game is.
@@twistedcoasters1533 Couldn't agree more
Ceave Perspective made an exhaustive video critiquing TOTK and I really recommend watching it!! He put a lot of the thoughts and feelings I had about the game into words which made me rethink how I approach game design. It was very insightful!!
I saw Ceave Gaming made a critique video on it a while ago, if that's the channel you're referring to. I didn't watch it but it did pop on my recommended tab.
@@WyvrnOnYT yeah that one :)
I personally think TOTK has some of the worst game design I have ever played. After 10 hours I got the glider and was just so frustrated and crappy feeling from getting there. Nothing is intuitive. It's like nintendo thinks they are above the rules and anything they make will stick.
@@mellifont96 it’s so sad cuz there’s so much good in the game too. It’s so close to being an outstanding game but the few things holding it back are so massive that it ruins the whole experience. It’s very disappointing.
TOTK is a great game IF you never played BOTW before.
If you put on any effort, finished, or loved BOTW, then TOTK will feel bland and meaningless, offensive, even.
They take the extra step to pretend the prequel never existed. Nobody remembers you, nobody remembers the Champions, sheika tech is gone, horses are completely useless now, Zelda steals your house, even my favorite bird boy Kass is gone.
The replacements are just... Worse.
Constructs aren't as fun as guardians, Sages don't hold a candle to Champions, no ultrahand contraption is as agile as the master cycle, besides wind temple and maybe lightning temple divine beasts are way cooler and engaging than any temple, stable trotters Penn are WAY WORSE than Kass..
I could keep all day long, but you get the idea.
It’s so hard too because it says tulip is in a cave but in reality he’s on the mountain of the cave
That’s because your English sucks
They were so focused on making the adventure the same no matter which direction you went that they destroyed the freedom that they sought
Adventure is NOT the same no matter which direction. You’re just not good at exploring & lack creativity
@@DanielMazahrehwhy are you talking shit in every comment on this video? Make your own comment and stop rage baiting. Mozart would be disappointed.
@@spaghetti3406 Criticism is NOT “rage baiting.” I have the right to criticize everyone’s incompetence. Blame yourselves before blaming an obvious masterpiece
@@DanielMazahreh i also have the right to criticize your aggressive fanboying in every reply
@@spaghetti3406 NOT a fanboy to begin with as I am simply giving credit to obviously misunderstood and underrated masterpieces.
I really disliked Breath of the Wild, but really enjoyed the way Tears of the Kingdom started....then it just became Breath of the Wild 2.0 🥵
Annoying weapon durability system? Nah thanks
Best part of botw gardians
Best part of totk korok space program
Breath of the Wild is in my top 10 best video games of all time.
Tears of the Kingdom is one of the most uninteresting Zelda game I’ve ever played in years
That doesn’t make any sense.
I literally started playing Earthbound afterwards
For me personally, SS was more fun the TOTK at the end of the day because I went back to SS constantly. TOTK? Fuck no
What to play instead:
Dark Souls.
I'll get into Elden Ring eventually..
Baldur's Gate 3
@@SolidLoach You don't need to understand the lore.
@@WyvrnOnYT Oh gr8 pls don't bother lol. Another boring half hour or so of: ''thIs is what the ZeLda team shouLd take nooTe oF!1'' Elden ring that just copied Dark Souls; spammed re-Skins of Bosses at you (over 150+ bosses in the game????!) that were the same old bullet Sponges and nothing else - and who's World is good but needs a geforce RTX2080 to half run it smoothly and the Switch really has that? Jeez,, imagine if people used their brains.
İ have beat it Tears of the kingdom to but İ loved so much but is not the same feeling with İ was playing first time Breath of the wild.
Breath of the wild first time it was huge big different game İ have ever seen. İ have played Breath of the wild 490 hours.
Tears of the kingdom is a better game than Breath of the wild for me. There are lot things the same. Tears of the kingdom right now İ have played 150 hours. İ am not sure if İ can play it 490 hours like Breath of the wild.
I am in the middle of totk right now, and the burnout is starting to take hold. I'm becoming tempted to just give up on side content as a whole, and just get the game done and over with. I think totk would have worked as its own game, but as a sequel it fails immensely to re-envigorate the magic of playing botw for the first time
Well said.
I understand that angle and opinion; but I mainly disagree sorry. Honestly it's the reverse for me. As a longstanding Zelda fan I've been _craving_ for a game like this that _finally_ incorporates actual Dungeons into the seamless overworld and honestly, they're a sight to behold. I'm unsure why so many who claim to be Zelda fans or, have even played Tears conveniently label them ''D!vine Beasts 2.0'' (a very lazy take) , or skip over this content altogether!
@@netweed09 I cant fathom how someone would enjoy this game that much. The ultrahand gimmicks and lack of clear direction make the game feel like watching aboring documentary on vhs in elementary school.
@@mellifont96 Well, I dunno about that opinion fella (stuff like lack of clear direction?) but if you're concerned about me you got _a lot_ more worrying to do maybe as I'm merely one of over _20 million_ who have bought (and mostly) enjoyed the game. I could elaborate on so many aspects of how Ultrahand alone is fun (and all _depending_ on how you use it, if at all much) but you are forgoing _so_ many gameplay aspects , I cannot in turn wrap my head around how one wouldn't enjoy it.
This game is an awful sequel.
my least favorite part of tears of the kingdom was probably the fact that everything you do in the game is the exact same not the same to breath of the wild same to tears of the kingdom. with breath of the wild not everything was copied and pasted it had a ton a cool and unique stuff but with tears of the kingdom it just has the same core elements make a machine with ultra hand and fuse items. It is just so boring people talk about how it has so much new content but the fact is it is all copied and pasted content I don't like doing the same thing over and over again.
Bagels
Yolo swag, i felled the same vibes 2 hours in idk if this is good or ok
One of the main problems is that there's just too much stuff with no clear indicator what is and isn't worth doing. When I need a guide just to sift what sidequests are worth my time and what will just reward me with some food and rupees, it really just ruins the game for me. It was time consuming enough to go for the shrines, finding Koroks, dragon tears and qll that stuff so i rarely bothered with any of the side quests because my hands were already full. I'm sick of playing it and yet I feel like I've barely scratched the surface, and I ended up just looking up on thr Internet how to get to Ganondorf after finding the fifth sage because I really don't want to do any more tedious exploration in the depths for Josha. I just want to get it over with.
The fact that I don't have nearly as much time on my hands as I did with BOTW just makes it worse.
We need more Honest reactions. Glad I came across your video.
Im so glad im not a framerate sensitive player
Yeah, these gamers about frames are just excessively nitpicking & not smart people
It was way way way way too fucking easy. I can't believe they didn't release a master mode. Also, the new armors suck and you either have to look them up or find them completely randomly.
Tears felt like it was so close to being great
I’ve been on that stupid tutorial area since I bought it and god it’s so fucking boring.
Because you suck
Using the same world was the biggest mistake the zelda team has ever made. EVEN with that said, i still put nearly 200 hours into a world i already had dropped 400 hours in..But i havent gone back, no replay after i beat totk. I can't believe the zelda team didn't realize discover/exploration is a huge part of zelda.
The physics system in the new zelda is the single biggest advancement in gaming of this era- i dare you to challenge me.
To me it kinda looks like the stuff from Just Cause 4 but with more refinement.
I swear I've seen the exact implementation in another game before too.
Looks cool, I just don't think it contributes much at the end of the day. Classic sequel gimmick.
Nah, Zelda BOTW was ahead of its time in 2017 but was completely surpassed by Red Dead Redemption 2 in the open world genre in 2018-2019, and by 2023 was completely outdated.
Using the same engine to create a "new BOTW" was a stupid mistake of Nintendo, and it is obvious that the game had problems in its development, it is the zelda that look longer to build while at the same time it is the zelda with the least improvement.
I wish the story had better pacing, I wish it didn’t feel like past games, including Breath of the Wild didn’t feel like it was being retconned,. I like it for the most part, but am not fully satisfied.with it. I wish everything didn’t feel so overwhelming. There’s three times the amount of area to explore and so many tasks, shrines, n side quests that it overwhelming.
I wanted BotW meets OoT, not BotW meets Banjo Kazooie: Nuts 'n Bolts.
They took so much of the Zelda formula out of BotW to make the open world work, find a way to put some of that back in, ya know?
823 views, 22k likes. RUclips is broken again.
I was definitely nowhere near as motivated to finish TotK as I was BotW. BotW felt so new and unique, but when BotW already existed, TotK just felt like a mod. Definitely a huge mod, but still a mod. The story massively let me down too. I’m a story-focused player and TotK didn’t deliver a good story. BotW at least had an interesting narrative for the past, but TotK just felt… wrong. It didn’t feel like it had an impact on the story of today’s world. How many times did the Calamity get mentioned in TotK? The main plot of BotW? None. Not once. It felt like a bunch of thoughts thrown together and none of them really felt collected. I feel like a lot of people have started to realize this. I’m seeing more and more, “Why TotK was not as good BotW,” videos now. I loved BotW and the Zelda series as a whole and I want to see the Zelda team make another amazing game like they did in the past. But, in the meantime, we can share our opinions in RUclips comments and videos.
Your loss
Tears of Boredom
Right on, I do like totk, but I lovvve botw
You should try Baldur's Gate 3
It was slush content obviously. Getting one shot dude…. It’s harder than any souls game, the parry window is smaller, the dodge is less effective, enemies do more damage, and some things are so difficult or rare to collect it forces you to dupe basically. I never felt that way with souls, even farming proof of concord kept. BOTW/TOTK tries to pass off a gliding and climbing simulator as exploration
I literally felt the same as SOON as I beat it I used glitches to speed up the process of beating it when I SAID I WOULD NOT USE GLITCHES I feel the exact SAME
not the same without BTBs to be honest
@@itsjackl I mostly used windbombs
@@linkededits and yet they’re not in it as well
@@itsjackl it’s sad
I loved the game, I beat it and got it on release day, but I hav barely played since
Definitely hoping with the next zelda game, itll be something without as much burnout at botw or totk. Something closer to windwaker, majoras, or Twilight, where theyre more thematically interesting rather than big open game interesting. Something about medium length where 100%ing the game is possible and not just korok seeds again.
Because you suck. I replayed it 7 times
Real
ADHD maybe???
It's more fun to play TOTK but BOTW is the one that stole my heart...
Well you certainly got further than I did. I dropped the game within 10-13 hours. The story didn't do it for me. A lot of it pretended BOTW didn't exist for story telling and world building. It rubbed me the wrong way, as if my accomplishments in BOTW meant nothing. I understand why they did this. They didn't want newcomers being confused and feel the need to do "homework". Why make a sequel then if the story and especially worldbuilding is gonna be this disconnected?
Gameplay didn't grab my attention either unfortunately. The team absolutely pushed the engine to its limits, I commend them for that. However, they forgot to do the same for gameplay. Any issue I had involving BOTW's gameplay is still here, untouched if you could say. The Zonai hand imo is not as fun as the Shiekah Slate. I appreciate the fans for creating crazy stuff with the Ultra Hand, but I'm a goddamn idiot that can't create anything remotely good.
I had a better time with BOTW and I don't think I'll ever touch TOTK ever again.
If you beat the game thats justifiable. As long you beat the game thats ight. I see the game as a 1 time experience and boy it was amazing! I find botw more boring than totk. Botw is about the wild nature exploration and totk is about torture your enemies do stupid shit with fun mechs. :)
I find it ironic in the first game Kohga falls down a hole. In this, he gets launched up a hole. I pretty much turn on ToTK just to pick on the yiga, since you know, they defected from the Sheikah...
I feel like ToTK suffers from the same fate as COD: MW3 in that they both feel like overpriced dlc rather than full new games.
Thats wild i fucking loved it! 😅
For me: BotW = I was obessed and had to do every single thing I could think of.
ToTK = I beat the game... didn't care for the depths and well I already had quick fatigue from BotW so I didn't even care to do everything. BoTW just hit differently at the end of the day.
Lol, what did you do in Botw; collect carrots and see how many swords you could break in 5 minutes?? Breath is the most counter-intuitive game known to man. Tears fixed that massive flaw, thankfully.
Hears why i stopped watching you
Reason 1
I don’t care
You cared enough to comment and provide this guy some money, jokes on you pal
@@encompassthyeclipse7278 Lol, same tired quip can be levelled at this nonsense speaking 'creator': wasted his whole time barking at a _very Successful_ Zelda game. This is simply another lazy ''Tears critique'' video that glazes over everything and says next to nothing. Probably removes sensible comments too. Eh, We do not Care. 🤡
It’s not fun to build different weapons from different combinations and elements and specs? Well what do you consider fun? Looking 2 second at a realistic rock design? 😂
Great video! Totally agree! Additionally; i also have been finding solace in the rdr franchise. Just finished 2 and am probably gonna start 1 for the first time. Way better games than totk
How many error 00000000F did you get while going through RDR2? I’d have disconnects every half hour. Beat the main story and haven’t turned it on since because of that
@@encompassthyeclipse7278 rip man. I played it once on PS4 and once on PC and never got anything like that. A couple of minor glitches here and there but nothing that serious. Glad you managed to finish the story under those conditions!
Im like the only comment with less than 500 subs lol
Depths are NOT empty. You’re just not good at scanning your surroundings AKA exploring.
I never thought I’d like a game more than BotW, I just loved TotK at least 2x more than BotW. Still playing regularly for hours at a time coming up on a year later. I played hundreds of hours of BotW and TotK may surpass that into near 1000. The world isn’t just a place I like to spend time in and I like to take my time with side quests and stories and reading into lore and putting the micro stories together in my mind. I think it’s crazy how many videos of criticism there are. The main story is great and I’m glad they gave content that makes the game endlessly replayable almost but not quite as much as Skyrim. I just think having a large game and filling it to the brim with literal 100s of hours of meaningful substantial top tier content is unrealistic. The main quest is the meat and potatoes for critical path. Everything else is for people who love the world and exploring without needing a waypoint to direct them to do every small taste.
Huh, I loved Botw, but was never hyped for this one nor I ever cared for it, it seemed like a meh cashgrab with a gimmicky crafting system... just meh
Or it's popular to crap on it now lol.
Shout out to fitgirl repacks for letting me try the game before buying it so i saved my money
Its boring as fk
''ju$T doN't caRe!1'' *(but I'll hop on YT's algorithm and post my droning , by the million ''Old Zelda games R the Be$t!1'' Nostalgipinion rant again)*
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