I think the possibility of the game being underwhelming is just as valid, I saw die hard fans of the first one giving up on the game and never finishing it, and several more giving well structured reasons of why is bad in long video essays, I don't think its a stretch to expect it to lose popularity because it wasn't good enough instead of it just had bad luck

I think it improved on everything that was great in BOTW, but it didn't improve any of BOTW's main flaws. The story is still mediocre. The dungeons are still barebones. The actors still can't do English accents properly. At least you can fix your weapons now.

Nowhere, i'm still here

People need to realize this game isn't a good sequel and stop calling it a "bad masterpiece". It's so laughable that zelda fans have to cope calling this terrible sequel a masterpiece. I'm a longtime Zelda fan from ALTTP and look, it's okay to not like something and admit it's not that great. This game fell off because it failed to be a sequel and even a good game. Zelda team wanted to make a roblox zonai builder game, and the fans and general audience wanted an adventure game, like BOTW was. Fans wanted more enemies, 8-12 dungeons, themed shrines, more overworld content/events and Dungeon items. Zelda team was only interested in going viral with their new toy, like how BOTW clips took off. They got the wrong idea of what people enjoyed about the game. There is nothing wrong with innovation and new gimmicks, but these gimmicks overshadowed the games development and are largely optional, resulting in poor content everywhere else. The depths are the most embarrassing bit of content added to a nintendo game. A wasteland of 90% 1 biome, recolored enemies with no new moves, ore grinding and 1 exclusive boss stretched across an entire extra empty underworld the size of the surface. Bosses, while having variety in design again, borrow from the worst 3D Zelda boss mechanics and are stunned when hit with a sage ability. Which practically makes shrines less valuable since in BOTW, the blights were more combat challenge oriented than the new set of bosses. The Dungeons still remain a joke in design, but are somehow even worse. In botw you couldn't climb the walls of these areas, but you can in TOTK which makes them inferior. There is no reason for freedom in dungeons, you have an overworld for that reason. They design these new dungeons for causal audiences so they don't get lost or have to think critically. That would be fine if the content in these dungeons were good, as in the desert temple. The overworld has lost so much special content from BOTW. Remember the dark ruins, thunder platform, lost woods, the dragon on the snowy mountain, eventide island? Well, the zelda team thought those weren't good, so they really decided to replace those with monster camps. I almost shut the game off for good when I realized Akahlla Citadel was open this time, only for there to be an enemy camp inside a cave. 6 years have passed in the game world, and it feels like 2 weeks after the calamity. Why are there no new towns or houses around the map? Why is everything the same? This is Zelda, 6 years is enough time to make up whatever you want. It's like they knew people would get bored since you can fly over everything with the sky islands and towers. And don't forget you can fight the same 3 enemy types again from botw with the same 3 weapon types. Gone are the guardians, which are essential to a game designed like this. You would think with how shameless they were with making this game, they would have used the Zonai dungeons boss as the gaurdian replacement, but I suppose absolutely nothing is better. Everything you would logically think would happen in this game just doesn't like rebuilding hyrule, real sage travel companions, etc, the story is an incoherent mess while treating the audience like toddlers and can't even fathom the thought of being connected to the game before it, so the story just turns into an adlibbed BOTW and is unimpressive and boring. You can say all of these things that might have had an impact on the game, but the title is just not very good and people did not care to talk about it a week after release because the realized they bought BOTW Master Quest with a little less. DLC and golden enemies would not do anything for discussion because they already spat in our faces. EOW being mediocre does not help either. Zelda interest is at an all-time low, and I hope the next game remembers to be a proper adventure game.

This was the place I expected to see Doctor Who mentioned

MY MAN WINDWAKERUNFLOODED!

terrible zelda game. good sandbox, but we i can say that if i want to play a sandbox game i play minecraft.

Once you do “everything” in the game, what is there to do in Hyrule? There is nothing to do on the sky islands. Once you light up the full depths and finish the Master Kogha quest, there’s no point in going down there again. (Except to get Zonaite.) As for the kingdoms of Hyrule itself, we have been over saturated with the map because other than the caves,it is much the same as BOTW.

Great video dude

what else do you want?? the game is in the top 10 best selling switch games. Just for reference, every Switch top 10 game outsells the best selling PS4 game (to use a popular console as a comparison). The game is a success, it is not a record breaking success, but that doesn't mean something went wrong with it.

Breath of the Wild wasn’t perfect but it was extremely necessary. Tears of the Kingdom wasn’t perfect and also wasn’t necessary. That’s the difference for me. If you’re going to make me pay $70 for a Zelda game, don’t give me the same exact outfits and weapons as the last game. Make new outfits and make new weapons. The dungeons were also trash and just as short and easy as the Divine Beasts were. There’s no excuse for that. If you consider the time periods that these games came out, Breath of the Wild is clearly better. Plain and simple. The story of Tears of the Kingdom had the potential to be one of the greatest stories in the entire series but they completely ruined it with all the confusing speculations, plot holes, and Zelda turning into a dragon is a far better game that I wish I was playing but once again it’s through memories and flashbacks. We already have an origins story with Skyward Sword so I don’t know why the “Zonai” were ever needed in the first place.

I feel like it’s because of the lack of bugs and stuff, now are game breaking bugs bad? Yes. Bugs that break the game are terrible and should be patched, but in BOTW, it felt so much more customizable, as you could do more than warp, you could BTB, Windbomb, Smuggle slide, in TOTK, as cool as it is to build something to get places, it’s just a single way, you can’t land a satisfying BTB or windbomb. Sometimes Glitches aren’t bad, they should be kept in, I feel like the movement glitches are a good example, as they didn’t break the game, they enhanced it

The stupid hover bike single handedly ruined TOTK

BotW is the better game.

It had worse story than BOTW somehow, easier shorter worse dungeons compared to BOTW, clunkier powerups and it kinda ruined lore of the Zelda BOTW and some of the series, master sword felt special before this game now it shatters against LE BEANY BOI. Game was easier and more tedious in general and didn't adress any of the BOTW's problems. Nobody recognizing Link is also a choice that just makes the game worse just make the save transfer system better. TOTK doesn't feel like a sequel to BOTW it feels like a remake that is a little different and a little worse than the original game. Also I didn't even finish the game despite %100 every region of the map I just got bored and stopped and I %100 botw 2 times and that didn't bore me. I feel like this wasn't the game they were intending to make it feels like they cancelled the actual sequel to BOTW 3-4 years in and rushed to make this in 2-3 years.

Ex-Nintendo fan here. I played the entirety of BOTW and to this day I still think it's a timeless masterpiece and the #1 Magnum Opus of Nintendo, aside from Super Smash Bros Ultimate. However, after years upon years of legal abuse and harassment against their fans, DMCA's against KZbinrs and mistreatment of developers like the Palworld team, I stopped supporting Nintendo, opting out of purchasing their products completely. But for totk in specific, for me, what made me stop playing was the mandatory underground sections. It was just too much of a drag to get through and be dependent on the constant gimmicks of light sources. Nintendo gloats about how gimmicky quirky and creative they are, when in reality Nintendo are insecure psychopaths who hold a corporate and legal monopoly over creativity. Also the story/lore of the game was very underwhelming/subpar. The lore of the Zonai did not make me feel as engaged as other races such as the Zora or the Rito which have more rich backstory with epic heroes.

Honestly, I think it's because TOTK was a bit too gimmicky for a Zelda game. Don't get me wrong, the engineering and building mechanic is brilliant and well implemented, but I think it would have been better suited in a different game. Granted, another IP wouldn't have had the gravity to attract as many players, but... I dunno. It didn't feel like Zelda to me, and I lost interest quickly. It wasn't what I wanted from Zelda.

Haven't watched the video but i think it's because people finished the game, not every game is supposed to be played over and over, specially single game experiences like TOTK, and that's completely fine

Something else that definat3ly helped botw was that it was the first open world zelda game. So everyone immediately flocked to get it and see how it is.

my conclusion was the dungeons had some staying power but there zelda memories where all to similer as far as what was said ...... the world didn't change like the chasms could have been wider an villages or towns didn't have any weight to there trubles the rito may encounter another blizzard an where will tulon an link will be then an the staying botw had background story 'the player learns after all the other memories what link did before the start of the game' both games are good games great if your trying to challenge your self with with strong enemies an no hit runs idk i think i lost my point lmao

Ok so we do not need the ancient armor, literally horses are barely used in Totk there’s no need. Also the extra shrines added in the dlc of botw, didn’t really add more “warp points” because nobody is going to warp to a shrine on the plateau that’s literally a few steps away from another shrine. Totk doesn’t need everything botw had in its dlc, cause if totk did, you would be making a video complaining about that….

I personally think that since BOTW was like a pseudo-remake of Zelda 1, TOTK should've been a pseudo-remake of Zelda 2 in some capacity.

I still think of Tears of the Kingdom as a direct upgrade to Breath of the Wild. I just can't go back and play the 2017 game anymore because this one already exists now with so many more features than before. I think it's mostly burnout and overhype being followed by a disappointment from not meeting fans' expectations. They didn't like that the world was reused, although it makes sense from a lore and development perspective. Why reinvent the wheel when you got a perfectly good wheel right here? There's still some changes to the map (and a whole new world in the form of the Depths below Hyrule) along with a better weapon system, but I guess the fans would rather pick apart what the game DIDN'T do for them instead of appreciating what the game DID. Again, this is mostly because they already got their content fill from Breath of the Wild and were wanting something far more in scope and variety. I already have gripes about all the same kinds of monsters being used over and over, not having real dungeons with real puzzles and gimmicks, and not having the old items like the Hookshot or other dedicated gadgets for puzzle-solving, but I appreciate that Tears of the Kingdom still gave us more variety than the last game and gave us different powers to work with. It may not have checked off all the traditional Zelda gimmicks, but it did slightly better than the last game with unique dungeon bosses, more enemies, and interesting mechanics to play with.

Still my favorite Zelda game. My interest has only grown as time has gone on

Just reacting to the title, because my will to consume Zelda related content has all been used up lately- I am part of the crowd that expected it to decline from the get-go, and although a good chunk of that is general gaming-industry fueled cynicism, I really belive TotK was set up to '''fail''' by sticking to a middle ground between DLC and 'Sequel'. I've heard the sentiment recently that Nintendo just likes to make their Zelda games mechanics-first, but what they did with BotW, intentionally or not, was such a good experience regardless of its flaws that there was simply no way they were going to even be able to maintain the status quo of it with a sequel without shifting focus in some way, by either making the sequel more 'true' to the vision of BotW or by cutting the umbilical cord and making TotK capable of standing on its own. What TotK brought to the table is cool, it just brought it to the wrong table- to quote myself, you can take the TotK out of the BotW, but you can't take the BotW out of the TotK, and in that way, TotK just permanently lives in BotW's shadow, for better and mostly for worse. From the day I learned they were reusing the map this was true to me, and I believe the general sentiment around TotK being slowly souring opinions and critiques is evidence that my unfortunate cynicism was based in reality as opposed to grumpy delusion or a secretly harbored ill will for all new things, aha TotK should've had a new map, or had more floating island content at the very least, and doubtless will forever be BotW's little sibling that could never quite hit the same mark :(

3 words: 70 DOLLAR DLC. Edit: Also, the story sucks. Zonaite farming is BORING. Sky islands were dissapointing. Reused map. I could go on for hours. Nice video btw.

For me, the major killing factor was Nintendo's immediate patches. As soon as I had learned a cool glitch, it got patched out! Now because of how many patches there are, there are way too many speedrun categories for any% alone! In Tears of the Kingdom, there are 5 any% speedrun categories, one for each major patch release (1.0.0, 1.1.0/1.1.1, 1.2.0, and the latest 1.2.1). For reference, BotW's any% has only two categories: Normal Mode and Master Mode... Now, I'm not a speedrunner by any means, and my glitch usage consists mainly of never running out of weapons or arrows (I didn't like the weapon breaking mechanic), but I'd do cool challenges in BotW through using glitches to get unique set-ups, like Slateless/Runeless. TotK just completely removed that possibility and, once I beat it, I didn't see a reason to come back to it.

Everybody I personally know that has a Switch also has BotW. No one else owns TotK though

Correct me if I am wrong but don't Stalhorses suddenly pass away when exposed to the surface area after a certain amount of time? It would be pretty anti-climactic to go to the trouble of capturing a stalhorse, registering it, fitting it with gear, naming it, only for it to suddenly pass away in the wild. As for the Lord of the Mountain, given what we know about it's connection to the late but great Satoru Iwata, I think it's better you cannot register it as It just feels....wrong.

Great video but...why is your co-host always in the right channel? It's kinda distracting.

You can't pet dogs The sages are useless And worst of all *YOU CAN'T MARRY RIJU OR SIDON*

But the video for escape the Great Plateau without the glider in Zelda Breath of the Wild?

I really feel like the lack of some meaningful late/postgame challenges like BotW's DLC is what kills it for me. Trial of the Sword would be PERFECT to do with the new systems, a string of Zonai shrine challenges, both puzzles and combat, using limited resources, having to cleverly use zonai devices and fusing to get as deep as you can. Maybe ways to upgrade Zonai device use, like making emitters stronger or making Wings and Balloons last longer.

Reused map, cut and paste content throughout the game and a wildy underwhelming sky region. Too much emphasis on making things with ultrahand. Everything made too easy using Recall. Those were things that ruined it for me.

It’s the lack of cool pirates. If they had put actual pirates in, none of the other issues would matter.

Thanks for letting me be a part of the video! I loved Tears of the Kingdom, but it wasn't a perfect sequel, and I enjoyed talking about some of my critiques here!

totk is a bit like galaxy 2 in my opinion, the clearly superior game, and yet it’s left in the first game’s shadow for some reason, it makes me kinda sad how masterpieces such as totk are just, forgotten

It’s because unlike BOTW, TOTK never got DLC and since it came out people have become aware of its shortcomings. That’s all.

Short answer: the game is amazing and critically acclaimed people just found other things to play

U are a liar

This game had so much potential to become big. Imagine if they implemented a 3D-Movie-Maker that allows players to record clips in user-created worlds, sample KZbin-audio and edit the recorded clips and KZbin-audio together to create independent movies from their favorite KZbinrs.