Been a while so I forgot that haha

I don't see that. It's been 100 years since the calamity so weapons aren't exactly going to be in the best condition (I only hate how weak the master sword feels and that the champion weapons break)

@@mattbattmatt, he’s a knight and a knight has a responsibility to maintain his gear. Weapons found in settlements should not have the same durability value as the same weapon if found in the wilderness due to people being there to maintain said weapons. And in TotK, why didn’t everyone think of melting down their gloom degraded weapons and reforge them? Isn’t the fuse mechanic supposed to be exclusive to Link’s Zonai arm or do the blacksmiths just take the weapons and physically replace the blade of the weapon with monster parts?

Can ya come up with better bait?

gameplay loop for botw was so bad, totk has so many improvements on botw

@@dablindscooter1973its funny how I disagree with both of you in most ways

@@mattbattmatt minute to Minute TOTK is fun but it never has made me want to come back to it like BOTW has, and the abilities in totk are refreshing and flat out better. However, it ultimately does feel like dlc bloated to the size of a full game.

Praying we get another moment like that one day

⁠@@mattbattmatt I started with Zelda 1 on NES back in 91. This game truly feels like a scaled up version of how our imaginations interpreted the original. Botw successfully recaptures the feeling of exploring hyrule for the first time, something no other Zelda game has been able to replicate since. They really hit the mark on this one. Give it time and I trust they will do it again someday. This series has a way of reinventing itself but always keeping its charms and what made it great to begin with.

THANKS GOAT 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Why would they work?

Yeah, only getting 2 tickets a day is rough if you missed an event. Ik it's to motivate you to play during events but it's still rough

@@mattbattmatt Yeah i’ve missed quite a few events just from forgetting since they announce them a few days before they begin

It's very impressive how they got it working.

Godot theme from ace attorney trials & tribulations

Never had the opportunity to

@@mattbattmatt I still have it on Wii U. hopefully they release the hd version on switch soon so more people can experience it. It’s my favorite game in the series.

@@michaelscarn5311hoping and praying hd version comes to switch in the June direct 🙏

Music: Cont. - Introduction - The song starts with the violins screaming at you with the melody used for the title card reveal at the beginning of the game when you jump off your first Sky Island. Not only is this a wonderful call back to the beginning of the game, it also the “Dragon backing motif” heard on the piano when your riding a dragon on the Sky/surface/depths. After that, the brass begin to blare Zelda’s Lullaby as a sort of backing to the track. Hitting you with the realization that you and Zelda are finally going to take Ganon down together. After that, the song takes to a sort of prelude. The piano is left to itself, some triangles, and the choir. The pianist begins to play 2 layered melodies. (It honestly baffles me that one single pianist can play this fast. The pianist played super fast in Breath of the Wild in “Dark Beast Ganon”, and came back for fucking ROUND 2 with this one) after this, a slowed down rendition of the Tears of the Kingdom main theme begins to play, lead by the Erhu, and harmonized by the French horn. Some sparse piano/synth is played in the background while this plays. This shows us that this is what it’s all been leading up to for all this time. After this part climaxes, a saxophone quartet begins to play a sweeping version of the sax lead phrase in the main theme. The piano in this case is playing an overlapping melody that includes the “Dragon Backing motif” once again, with some added keyboard twinkles between each chord. (Once again. Super fucking fast) representing that this battle is taking place in the sky. After the first phrase, a second phrase lead by the sax quartet begins, with a counter-melody being played on the Erhu. The Erhu representing Zelda, and the sax representing Link. The pianist settles down during this section to play a long glissando to show that you are skydiving for a majority of the fight.

Music: Cont. Pt. 2 - Climax - After this sax lead phrase, the orchestra focuses on one point, and begins to play the Breath of the Wild reference from the main theme. Referencing that this situation is very similar to what happened so many years ago. This smoothly transitions to Ganons theme, representing that you are fighting the Demon King once and for all. After this, the full orchestra begins an orchestrated version of the saxophone lead phrase! The string section is playing as loud and heart-wrenchingly as they can to convey that THIS IS IT! in the background of this first phrase of the climax, you can hear the brass playing the Breath of the Wild main theme! During ALL of this madness, the piano is playing as fast as it can, starting with a bunch of chords, and then playing a giant keyboard spanning glissando on top of that. (For context, this means the pianist was playing chords with (most likely) his left hand, and playing the glissando with his right) After this first phrase, the orchestra starts making big *BANGS*! By having even more brass play Zelda’s Lullaby to really set in that it’s almost over!

Music: Cont. Pt: 3 - Conclusion - The orchestra goes silent, and the piano is left to itself to play the “Dragon Backing motif”. But instead of playing in chords, it’s playing it in singular notes of perfect fourths. After the pianos first phrase, the orchestra comes back with sax, flute, and oboe playing the last four notes of the main theme separately, and then converging after they’ve all played once. During the orchestras play time, the pianist is playing their heart out, bringing back the “Dragon backing motif”, and the keyboard twinkles from the original sax lead phrase.

Story - The story of Tears of the Kingdom is one of the best. Since I’ve already had a yap-athon about the music, I’ll keep these last two sections short since, I personally just wanted to talk about the music, but I thought I’d be doing your video a disservice if that was all I talked about. For my thoughts, I thought the story was incredibly engaging, and I only had a few moments while playing the game where it was actually off of my mind. The story is much more present in this game, and I can really appreciate that. While yes, the Ancient Sages basically say the same things, it never really bothers me. I watch their cutscenes in full every time. I also love how the new Sages grow as people in the story. Tulin is a bit too self-reliant and arrogant at the beginning, just like Revali, but he comes around by the end, learning that team-work makes the dream-work! Yunobo is actually my second-favorite character among the Sages, he’s such a lovable coward! By the end of his temple, he’s thrown out any sense of self doubt, and become a true leader for the Gorons. Sidons character arc is a bit solemn, because it touches on themes of loss and over-protection. Something a lot of people can relate to. By the end of the temple, he is aware of the risks that he is taking and is prepared to do whatever it takes to protect Yona. Ryju probably had the least amount of character development. I think her theme was “becoming a true Gerudo”, but, that was already her theme in BotW, and, while it didn’t feel like a re-tread, it was noticeable.

Story: Cont. Pt. 2 - Minerus story arc is about fixing past mistakes. Her only mistake was really only letting Ganondorf survive, so it’s nice to hear her reference that in her lines near the end of the game. Zelda’s sacrifice was amazing. Knowing that during BotW, there was secretly two Zelda’s in Hyrule at once kinda blows me away. Catching her at the end of the game really set in stone that this was an amazing story. Now my brain has had a several month long debate between whether or not Demon Dragon or Last Catch are my favorite tracks.

Link's Crossbow Training but of course

I wish i knew why people hated the game so much

🥹thank you so much! This means a lot to me!

@@Todozaits mainly based on expectations not being met, and Totk not having as big of an impact which is to be expected

Hate fun? Maybe video games aren't for you.

@@TifffanyTaylor No, the game just wasn't fun to them.

@Words-. I don't believe it. Some people just want to be controversial & "unique". Man stfu it's unanimously a fun game. Get real.

@@TifffanyTaylor It’s this thing called personal preference. Personally, I would prefer a world that isn’t just recycled crap from the previous game with minimal changes. Part of the magic of BOTW was exploring this huge new world, and it made the game exciting to travel about in. But TOTK doesn’t do enough to change this world to where it feels like a unique experience, and that magic for me was lost. I expected after the time jump following the calamity, that the settlements would be far more built up, but what was added was very meagre. The depths are all a massive swath of the same biome stretching out for miles, with the only rewards there being reused DLC armour from Breath of the Wild, most of which isn’t upgradeable, redoing fights with the bosses of the main dungeons again, or getting blueprints from the Yiga, most of which I never used. The sky had some decent stuff, but for the most part was barren and lifeless. The dungeons have lost what has made them special in the past. Classic Zelda games knew how to make a cohesive structured experience, where the puzzles correlate together seamlessly. In Tears of the Kingdom, the dungeons are still just like divine beasts, where you go and solve five puzzles in any order of your choosing to activate switches, and then you go to the boss. It feels like I’m being told to do five separate shrines to open a door, not a Zelda dungeon. It’s further harmed by how broken Zonai devices are, as the game doesn’t disable them in the temples, so you can easily just make a hover bike and completely break the puzzles of traversal in the water and fire dungeon. Not to mention how piss poor the story is. It yet again has the problem of being flashbacks, meaning because we live in the present, we already know the outcome of the past events, leading to a lack of tension. I already knew that Rauru was going to seal Ganondorf and die doing it, as his hand is inside his chest in the opening. I already knew from the mural at the beginning of the game that Ganondorf was going to kill Sonia, and the cutscenes did not get me attached enough to her to actually care that she died. On top of this, because the bulk of the story is all occurring in the past without Link being there, it leads us, the players, to feel like we have a lack of agency in the story. Instead of our actions and choices driving it forward, we are inconsequential to the narrative, which in itself isn’t very good. Zelda never tells Rauru and Sonia about the happenings of the present, about the zombie man she fought and how she got the secret stone. She fails to piece together that Ganondorf being evil, despite having fought a demon called calamity GANON for 100 years. She suddenly thinks it’s a good idea to confront Ganon alone with Sonia, despite the two of them having powers that are hardly useful in a combative sense. Despite Zelda being meant to embody wisdom, she makes the most brain dead choices in all the cutscenes, leading to the narrative feeling contrived for it to make any sense whatsoever. Heck! They literally repeat the same cutscene FOUR TIMES IN A ROW! After you complete each dungeon, the sages cutscenes with their descendant is the EXACT same, barrring a few word choices. This game has MANY blatant flaws, and to pretend otherwise is disingenuous. If you liked this game, awesome, I’m happy for you, as a long time Zelda fan, I wish I’d enjoyed it too. But to act as though it’s perfect, or that there aren’t valid reasons a person may not like it, shows how an incredible lack of introspection on your part. So in summary, no, I’m not trying to be “controversial or unique” and no I won’t “shut the fuck up”. I genuinely think this game is nowhere near as good as people are saying, and didn’t have a fun time with it. That’s just me though.

@@TifffanyTaylorplease don't insult. Everybody's opinion is respected here

I used him the least... shame cause he could have been really cool! If I could catch up to him

😵‍💫 Yeah sorry. Made these videos a year ago when I was super into Xenoblade 3's dlc. Thankfully I haven't done this since!

It was already May 12th in January for me yesterday, so I wanted to upload this at a good time

@@mattbattmatt makes sense

*Japan

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