The creators of Totk mentioned that the Sheikah tech mysteriously vanished after completing its purpose. 6:44 However, this should be clearly expressed in game
@@Fullmoonwerewolf Or they were programmed to leave Hyrule when the threat of Calamity Gannon ended. I can see the Sheikah doing that. To make sure these weapons of mass destruction, Divine Beasts, aren't used for any other purpose.
I still loved the hell out of it, even if I can agree with many of the specific criticisms. Played 255 hours doing most everything, but not absolutely everything(didn't upgrade nor even obtain all armors, missed like 8 shrines, etc). I did use some self-imposed limitations(max 10 hearts, limited weapon slots, no fast travel except for Medallion usage or to leave Depths) in order to help shake things up a bit and make it feel more interesting and challenging, as the game could otherwise be very easy/exploitable. And I think that helped make it a fresher experience, along with it having been like five years since I played Breath of the Wild. I'm glad I resisted the urge to replay BotW, cuz I think that would have had me burned out more and being more bothered by the map and enemy reuse and whatnot.
Yeah I played the hell out of botw for the 6 years following Totks release. I didn’t really impose any limitations on myself except for not using the towers to travel with the glider over long distances. At the start I found myself skipping huge areas by using the towers
Botw was revolutionary because it let you explore an entire map in ways never seen before in an open world (climbing, paragliding). The story was out of the way but still overall good and coherent, and was structured this way so we never were limited in our exploration. Still, after a few hundred hours on botw, i was done with this game, but i trusted that they would make it so reexploring the world would be interesting in totk. But i was disappointed. I expected the sequel to build upon the lore we already had and refine the exploration formula. In the end, totk is a sequel only in name. It is clear that they wanted to refine the physics engine and everything else was an afterthought. It feels like the world was reused more as a way to cut cost/time and less like they wanted a true sequel. The story, while flashier, is worse than botw's imo. It destroyed a lot of what botw established, didnt even exploit the new elements they introduced, and was structured in a way that shows they just didnt understand why it worked in botw. They heard "we want a more involved story" and went "lets do exactly like botw but flashier and linear" which destroys botw's greatest strength that was freedom. Honestly, it feels like totk was made for the people who post on twitter all the glitches they found in botw. Which is fine, people are valid in how they play! But as a zelda fan who discovered and fell in love with the series through the wind waker, it just feels bad to just... not really be the target audience anymore :') I know the next zelda will probably suck me back in, if only for the element of surprise, but yeah. Idk how i feel that they want that physics engine to be the heart of the game
As someone who didnt like BotW that much I found the issues carried over worse the second time around. I just got bored and didnt care about the game, because it gave me no reason to. As I didnt have much of a positive experience to balance it out it just doesnt hold up for me (the few highlights for me include Lightning Temple, the approach to the Wind temple, as well as finding the master sword). Mind you its an opinion Ive had since launch. As someone who doesnt like goofing around like a maniac trying to build contraptions without any sense of urgency in a series known for exceptional new takes on the traditional heros journey, it sours. Great vid tho.
"There's nothing to do in the depths" Pristine weapons, amiibo outfits, legendary weapons, rematches, colosseums, bargainer statues: Am I a joke to you?
A lot of those things are cool but the depths are huge. Once you’ve come across your third abandoned mine with another old outfit it starts becoming less special. The things you find in the depths after the first hour or two are things you’ve already seen. It doesn’t help that the main land has so much more of a variety in biomes and villages and stuff. When choosing between the two to explore there’s no contest. I just think it was a bit too ambitious and maybe they should’ve spent less time making a copy of the over world but with vines and more time making the sky islands cooler
@@Fullmoonwerewolf yeah, when I first randomly came across the fire temple down there, I was like, holy crap what an amazing thing to stumble on in the depths, there must be so much more amazingness down here. But that was kinda the high point already
@@mookymookymooo It's frustrating that both with the Depths and the sky islands, the game really frontloads the excitement and wonder. That said, I still quite liked both. It took me a while before I realize the correlation of the Depths to the overworld in terms of geography, and even longer for things like stables/lynels, temples, shrines, and whatnot. Which was cool. Also, I tackled the Thunderhead Isle before I was supposed to, and I thought the gimmick of being nearly blind was just part of how it went, and I had a great time with that novelty and ultimately discovering the bottom shrine location. Then laughed later when I realized I was supposed to have cleared the storms up via main story progression first!
I had fun playing this game, but to me it looked disappointing from the first gameplay trailer. I definitely don't feel like it was worth the 6 year wait nor worth 70 dollars. I do feel better knowing I was right all along though
The premise of this and a few dozen other videos on RUclips is severely flawed. The game isnt a live service, it isnt a Bethesda or ubi game that was broken for months after release, the game has not changed it a year, and the people that whined about wanting a different game probably didnt grow up in the last year either, so nothing has changed, and that makes these videos silly.
Again, not sure if you’ve watched the video because in it I explain that it sometimes takes awhile to form a strong opinion on something as big as this. The game didn’t change but the way I’ve thought about it changed. I’m off the high and now I can step back and look at it more critically. I didn’t 180 on it, but I certainly have more thoughts about it than I did when it released
@@Fullmoonwerewolf "the high" this is the entire point. "Hey guys, I've played this game for 200 hours, its super good!" 1 year later: "Hey guys, I've played this game for 1000 hours, its actually kind of boring!" The premise is absurd.
@daniel8181 it’s not about how much I’ve played it. I really haven’t played it much since then. It’s just about thought process. Have you ever beaten a game or watched a movie and thought one way of it but after a while to think about it more you start thinking another way. Or maybe other people point out things you never noticed. When it comes to Totk it’s not even a big difference there are just some things I’ve realized after having a year to settle on it
I played botw two years ago for the first time.
Totk is the game I still go back to and still do stuff in.
At this point it’s the one I go back to more but only because I’ve beaten botw 4 times lmao
The creators of Totk mentioned that the Sheikah tech mysteriously vanished after completing its purpose.
6:44
However, this should be clearly expressed in game
Regardless, kind seems like a cop out. Like they lost the rights to shieka tech lmao
@@Fullmoonwerewolf Or they were programmed to leave Hyrule when the threat of Calamity Gannon ended. I can see the Sheikah doing that. To make sure these weapons of mass destruction, Divine Beasts, aren't used for any other purpose.
Thank you for being able to critique one of your favorite games
Thank you, it was like euthanizing my own son
I still loved the hell out of it, even if I can agree with many of the specific criticisms. Played 255 hours doing most everything, but not absolutely everything(didn't upgrade nor even obtain all armors, missed like 8 shrines, etc). I did use some self-imposed limitations(max 10 hearts, limited weapon slots, no fast travel except for Medallion usage or to leave Depths) in order to help shake things up a bit and make it feel more interesting and challenging, as the game could otherwise be very easy/exploitable. And I think that helped make it a fresher experience, along with it having been like five years since I played Breath of the Wild. I'm glad I resisted the urge to replay BotW, cuz I think that would have had me burned out more and being more bothered by the map and enemy reuse and whatnot.
Yeah I played the hell out of botw for the 6 years following Totks release. I didn’t really impose any limitations on myself except for not using the towers to travel with the glider over long distances. At the start I found myself skipping huge areas by using the towers
I mean, it was a sequel. For me, that meant a rework of the original was within expectations. Like MM to OoT
What is mm and oot I’m dumb
@jimmyoshea2158 ocarina of time and majoras mask
@@Fullmoonwerewolf ohhh right thanks
Botw was revolutionary because it let you explore an entire map in ways never seen before in an open world (climbing, paragliding). The story was out of the way but still overall good and coherent, and was structured this way so we never were limited in our exploration.
Still, after a few hundred hours on botw, i was done with this game, but i trusted that they would make it so reexploring the world would be interesting in totk. But i was disappointed. I expected the sequel to build upon the lore we already had and refine the exploration formula. In the end, totk is a sequel only in name.
It is clear that they wanted to refine the physics engine and everything else was an afterthought. It feels like the world was reused more as a way to cut cost/time and less like they wanted a true sequel.
The story, while flashier, is worse than botw's imo. It destroyed a lot of what botw established, didnt even exploit the new elements they introduced, and was structured in a way that shows they just didnt understand why it worked in botw. They heard "we want a more involved story" and went "lets do exactly like botw but flashier and linear" which destroys botw's greatest strength that was freedom.
Honestly, it feels like totk was made for the people who post on twitter all the glitches they found in botw. Which is fine, people are valid in how they play! But as a zelda fan who discovered and fell in love with the series through the wind waker, it just feels bad to just... not really be the target audience anymore :')
I know the next zelda will probably suck me back in, if only for the element of surprise, but yeah. Idk how i feel that they want that physics engine to be the heart of the game
As someone who didnt like BotW that much I found the issues carried over worse the second time around. I just got bored and didnt care about the game, because it gave me no reason to. As I didnt have much of a positive experience to balance it out it just doesnt hold up for me (the few highlights for me include Lightning Temple, the approach to the Wind temple, as well as finding the master sword). Mind you its an opinion Ive had since launch. As someone who doesnt like goofing around like a maniac trying to build contraptions without any sense of urgency in a series known for exceptional new takes on the traditional heros journey, it sours. Great vid tho.
Thanks! And yeah I feel like this wouldn’t be a game people who didn’t like the first would love so it makes sense
The best game ever made imo
Yep
"There's nothing to do in the depths"
Pristine weapons, amiibo outfits, legendary weapons, rematches, colosseums, bargainer statues: Am I a joke to you?
Lmao you get what u mean tho. Not a ton going on in content wise nor geographical variation
@@Fullmoonwerewolf The Gerudo and Central Hyrule areas are incredibly flat lol
A lot of those things are cool but the depths are huge. Once you’ve come across your third abandoned mine with another old outfit it starts becoming less special. The things you find in the depths after the first hour or two are things you’ve already seen. It doesn’t help that the main land has so much more of a variety in biomes and villages and stuff. When choosing between the two to explore there’s no contest. I just think it was a bit too ambitious and maybe they should’ve spent less time making a copy of the over world but with vines and more time making the sky islands cooler
@@Fullmoonwerewolf yeah, when I first randomly came across the fire temple down there, I was like, holy crap what an amazing thing to stumble on in the depths, there must be so much more amazingness down here. But that was kinda the high point already
@@mookymookymooo It's frustrating that both with the Depths and the sky islands, the game really frontloads the excitement and wonder. That said, I still quite liked both. It took me a while before I realize the correlation of the Depths to the overworld in terms of geography, and even longer for things like stables/lynels, temples, shrines, and whatnot. Which was cool. Also, I tackled the Thunderhead Isle before I was supposed to, and I thought the gimmick of being nearly blind was just part of how it went, and I had a great time with that novelty and ultimately discovering the bottom shrine location. Then laughed later when I realized I was supposed to have cleared the storms up via main story progression first!
I had fun playing this game, but to me it looked disappointing from the first gameplay trailer. I definitely don't feel like it was worth the 6 year wait nor worth 70 dollars. I do feel better knowing I was right all along though
As good as it was a year ago, wtf is with people?
Did you watch the video?
The premise of this and a few dozen other videos on RUclips is severely flawed.
The game isnt a live service, it isnt a Bethesda or ubi game that was broken for months after release, the game has not changed it a year, and the people that whined about wanting a different game probably didnt grow up in the last year either, so nothing has changed, and that makes these videos silly.
Again, not sure if you’ve watched the video because in it I explain that it sometimes takes awhile to form a strong opinion on something as big as this. The game didn’t change but the way I’ve thought about it changed. I’m off the high and now I can step back and look at it more critically. I didn’t 180 on it, but I certainly have more thoughts about it than I did when it released
@@Fullmoonwerewolf "the high" this is the entire point.
"Hey guys, I've played this game for 200 hours, its super good!"
1 year later:
"Hey guys, I've played this game for 1000 hours, its actually kind of boring!"
The premise is absurd.
@daniel8181 it’s not about how much I’ve played it. I really haven’t played it much since then. It’s just about thought process. Have you ever beaten a game or watched a movie and thought one way of it but after a while to think about it more you start thinking another way. Or maybe other people point out things you never noticed. When it comes to Totk it’s not even a big difference there are just some things I’ve realized after having a year to settle on it