You didn’t find the Colgera boss theme memorable? I thought it was the best song in the game, having listened to the entire soundtrack. It’s epic, incorporates themes from Wind Waker and Rito Village, and has a great sense of tension. It’s the only standout track for me in the soundtrack honestly.

12:25 Literally no one: Link: Iêgh ghâr œ in gŵa Æh

08:14 i spot a Vinesauce reference

I remember the backlash the "$70 BoTW DLC" crowd got when the game was released. Even I brushed them off. Lo and behold. They were so right lol.

Ball souls

"Without summons" - I was with you until that line. The DLC has two types of upgrades, one of them is to your summons. Use them. I too use mainly strength weapons, I also use a shield, like a sane person. You'd be surprised how many bosses get stumped by a counter attack. Edit: one more thing. The game may not tell you, but you can definitely figure out what affinity weapon a boss is weak to. The most obvious one, if you fight in water use an electric imbued weapon.

Bro kept talking about how much hes played the game and then says he only has 400hours wtf

Minor note, otherwise I'm enjoying your spicy analysis: If you are going to say something incorrect and then correct yourself with text on screen, you should at least mention that in the audio for folks who are just listening. Otherwise you're basically just not admitting you were wrong at all to a significant chunk of the audience for long-form content.

This video is spot-on. It’s not just that it’s too hard, it’s that it’s too hard in a way that isn’t fun or engaging. The base game had this same issue in spots too but the whole DLC is like this. This combat system needs an overhaul if the bosses are gonna keep getting more aggressive and faster with every entry.

For a first video, this is absolutely fantastic. This is content I would expect from people who have been doing it for many years, but you’re nailing it on day 1! My money is that you’re gonna far bro, keep it up!

Dam, colossal weapons are so bad kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKDKnWuhd9Fmm68 By far the worst weapon type.

I agree with everything. I was excited to play AS Zelda, but it ultimately felt as though I was playing as an NPC. Tbh, I think the Swordfighter Form was what the echo system should have been. Instead of summoning monsters to fight for you, Zelda should have been using her magic to copy their traits and apply it to herself. This way, Might Crystals and Energy limit how much of it you can use, putting a focus on problem-solving instead of just summoning literally anything or a bed and waiting. It would also help keep the player actually engaged in combat. And without object echoes, solving puzzles would require more thought. Zelda could also be made less useless outside of the form, giving her a staff attack that replenishes energy on hit, adding another layer of complexity to the system. You could also experiment with costumes for actually useful abilities, like how dressing up as Sheik would give Zelda more of a combat focus at the expense of lowering your energy. Idk. Anything would have been better than what we got. Examples just in case: (in general, offensive echoes would give extra damage to her attacks based on Might level. The more Might Crystals you apply to her staff, the higher level echo she can use) Darknuts would slow Zelda down, but would add damage reduction and a sweep to her attacks. Lizalfos would give Zelda a dash attack that can cross horizontal gaps. Water Zols would make her player model grow in rainy conditions, giving Zelda more range and the ability to just walk over small gaps. Bokoblins would be more combat-focused, giving her ranged attacks or a sword and shield. Flying enemies would give her the ability to glide. Sea Urchins would give her a thorns effect that whenever an enemy damages her, she deals passive damage in return. etc. etc.

Another masterclass of a video

Maybe to make puzzles better and to balance puzzles and combat while keeping the base system present here there should be less things that you can copy and copy items are meant to complete puzzles in dungeons. So you don’t have a Sticker star situation in having the player have no idea what they might need before a puzzle pops up the item or items that might be needed in a dungeon or multiple dungeons can be hinted at and it’s up to the player to figure out where to find it and or what it is based on the hints given and how this items use is important for the dungeon. Of course the items would be more interesting then say a rock or a statue. Items have already been important to dungeons in the past but now their just something you’d have to find while exploring the world prior. As for combat you could keep Zelda’s ability to copy and summon monsters for combat and separate battle copy items or puzzle copy items and remove her ability to copy most objects and some monsters are more or less effective than others as bosses have weaknesses to certain types of attacks. Let’s say you control a summon and it has a set hp and you also have cooldown before you can summon another battle monster and you can only use one battle copy item at a time. Maybe when a monster Zelda summons dies she has to avoid attacks until the cooldown timer ends to make it so she’s doing more than just summoning she also needs to evade attacks when her summon goes down. As for puzzle copy items there would be a limit too so you cant break a puzzle by summoning enough in number of an item.

Nice to hear you talk about Zelda and stuff the constant between the two approaches is just interesting to hear about (loved your Wonder video I found too btw). The new 2D Zelda game does look very BOTW/TOK like. Looks short but fun to traverse, travel seems seemless from some gameplay I saw and the short game might make it so the experimentation aspect keeps you engaged throughout the game, especially since most of the map is new unlike TOK. Dungeons seem not great unfortunately based on what I’m hearing. I was hoping dungeons might look better as the game progresses.

I think the voice directing has to be the biggest issue when it comes to the quality of the performances, because a handful of performances that are handled so mediocrely have real talented voice actors/actresses behind them. Chris Hackney's (Rauru) performance as Dimitri in. 3Hs was great for instance.

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eNOUGH OF YOUR WRONG WORDINGS! ITS NOT FUCKING 2D, IT JUST HAS A TOP TO DOWN VIEW!~ ITS NOT THE SAME!!!!

Seems to be a step in the right direction after totk, i still think the ideal zelda game is somewhere in between oot and botw. I know it’s possible but they keep using this open puzzle design that I cant stand. If every puzzle has infinite solutions then every puzzle has one solution.

I really like this game & 100% agree with all your points, especially the fast travel, I don't even use the horse

They just can't find the right balance between freedom and story-led gameplay. Bizarrely, this game frustrated me both with the story being overly dominating (e.g. long periods of un-skippable dialogue like in the Zora section) and sandbox elements which makes large parts of dungeons and puzzles redundant. It seems they feel they have to do the latter so the game is 'unbreakable' - how can you 'break' a game that gives you almost complete freedom over how you solve the puzzles?

Based take on Elden Ring and especially this DLC. It was a massive let down for me as well.

Echoes of a Good Zelda Game. It's a great "starter Zelda," but I can't help but feel that it was was a huge missed opportunity to finally give us good 2D dungeons again.

I know a lot of people are likely still enamored with the sandbox of BotW/TotK. I never was. I had some fun with BotW but it was among my least liked Zelda games. Then came TotK and it _is_ my least liked. For all the things they "fixed" like having villages actually feel like notable locations and having actual characters, they still fumbled the concept of dungeons and the building/manipulating tool kind of ruined the experience for me. And absolutely, I like puzzles that have intention to them. I'd be fine if there were two or even three intended solutions, based on things you have on hand or risks you'd be willing to take (like damage boosts). But a free-for-all where you can basically bullsh-t your way through any and all puzzles gets old really fast. Which sucks when it's an open world game meant to eat up your time with time-wasting mechanics as the foundation for all open-world games. Echoes of Wisdom was a better experience, but yeah it does still suffer from a lot of the same fundamental "took kit" problems of those other two games. And I was kind of surprised that they found a way to make the Link To The Past map feel dull and flat. Like, it's literally made from 3-dimensional polygons, but still... secrets are easily solved/obtained whenever you first happen upon them and are usually some useless consumable. I had something like 2k rupees by the time I was halfway through and there's just no need for that many. It has a similar mechanic as the Breath/Tears outfits but now they're mostly charms -- and again just give slight numerical changes like damage taken, swim speed, or air time, jump height, etc. No changes to gameplay, nothing _new._ You can get a horse, but I don't know why. But, the copy mechanic at least has the potential for progression rather than an unchanging toolkit. But it feels lazy. Not enough care was put in to create limitations to be overcome. It's a LoZ game in the visual style of the Link's Awakening remake. But it hews too closely to the modern, uninspired approach to the franchise. I'd like to get a remake on Switch (or Switch 2, I guess) for Twilight Princess and/or Windwaker since I didn't get a WiiU back in the day. I expect we'll see more of the BotW/TotK approach in the future because the _money_ was really good for Nintendo. But creatively they really need to do something different. Going back to only linear would make me happy but honestly they need to thread the gap between the two. Have a strong story and more _designed_ game experience, but with physics _toys_ streamers can show off to help sell the game to their audiences. Add in some actual _progression items_ and I think that could work. Have curated dungeons with bespoke solutions to puzzles, have a _good_ story.... and let people build stupid stuff in a part of the game (but make it skippable for those of us super not interested?). Yeah, this is why I still feel BotW should have been a new IP. Because now there's a very divided fan base.

I think thankfully, they seem to have done everything they want with this formula of Zelda.

I did like the dungeons in this game, but my personal favorite is probably a link between worlds or twilight princess I’m not sure

idk if it’s just youtubers who happen to love to nit pick or i’m easy to please because most of the gripes I see in these videos didn’t even cross my mind

you sound like a guy who likes watching his wife get fucked by other men.

The cold open was a delight (that Zelda grabbing a piece of heart while aflame bit)

Nice Animorphs thumbnail for the video!

that thumbnail reminds me of animorphs

I think you had a little too high expectations of this game. Many parts weren't really advanced and it was by no means a hard game, in fact it was really easy. But I personally, still found a lot of enjoyment in it, and it was probably because I barely had any expectations. That said it's fine if you did have expectations, but I think this wasn't a game meant to be very complex and if the devs wanted they could definitely worked around the designes of the puzzles. While I agree that some areas were pretty badly designed (the water temple which you can literally beat in 5 miniutes) overall I personally think they were pretty well done. they were not very complex, not in the slightest, but overall it was a solid experience. If you like the more linear puzzles then this game really isn't for you, but if you can appreciate these more open puzzles this is definitely a game for you, just like you said. I have one big complaint though. The bosses were WAY too easy. I never even once felt like I was about to die, and I never did die to a boss. The final boss in particular felt like they didn't even try to make it challenging.

The water block is way too op. It can do everything a bed can (except healing) but better

2:10 To be fair that one's from OoT

Alright. To start I just want to preface that I was going into this game a bit skeptical coming off the insane disappointment from my previous Zelda experience with TotK, and had even higher expectations because as I mentioned in a stream, I much prefer 2D Zelda to 3D Zelda to begin with That being said, I will just come out and say that I was ultimately disappointed yet again to the point that I didn't even bother finishing the game this time around. I've just been letting my fiancée play through the rest of it. At this point I've come to the realization that I much prefer the classic formula over whatever Nintendo is doing nowadays, even if I played numerous games with the old formula. It just doesn't get stale for me. This new formula CANNOT facilitate clever puzzle design due to the developers wanting ultimate player freedom and I knew this was going to be an issue once I started exploring the open world and found out I could easily circumvent navigation by stacking beds and by how often I saw the same type of "puzzles" repeated multiple times throughout Combat wasn't an issue at first but it didn't take long for me to get annoyed at waiting around for the echoes to attack enemies and much like you, once I found an echo I liked, I stuck with them for the rest of my playtime (blue moblin and spear moblins). Beds? Don't get me started on the beds. I can't tell you how many times I just dropped down a bed in the middle of a boss fight and healed back up to full. I never even crafted a potion a single time throughout the game besides the one needed for the Gerudo rift quest Dungeons were way too linear for me. Indivdual puzzle after individual puzzle after individual puzzle. One room to the next room, to the the next room and so on. The reason I prefer the 2D games is that they seem to have more maze like structure to their dungeons and have a sense of progression when the dungeon item recontextualizes how you interact with the dungeon as a whole All in all, I thought them going open world for a 2D Zelda game (I haven't played ALBW) was an interesting idea, but again it fell flat for me due to the severe lack of level/world progression that this new formula has and the dungeons pale in comparison to the other 2D games. I hate to say it but after being disappointed twice in a row now I don't think I'll be looking forward to the next new Zelda game if they stick with this formula

holy skibidi

My issue with the premise and framing of this supposedly Zelda focused game is... she's useless. She walks around and gets Tri to summon things for her and can't do a single thing for herself. Why is she here when the little lemon bitch could just be doing all this on his own? If she can use the rod to make Tri do things surely Tri can just do that anyway. When I think of playable Zelda I think of the abilities she's shown in past games, most prominently magic and archery, and also that cool fencing Zelda from Warriors. This Zelda can't do anything without transforming into fucking Link! Why??? I wanted an exploration of the unique things Zelda can bring to the table, the little twists on the classic formula, a different style, a different perspective. I got a damn talking magic lemon.

Echoes of Wisdom felt off after about 5 hours of playtime for me, It felt as if the game was trying to be a baby Breath of the Wild and I severely dislike that. The dungeons have been absolutely mutilated and ruined, the goddamn awful UI was brought back, and to top it all off, they made the game so unbelievably baby. Kirby and the Forgotten Land was harder then this game. Even though time and time again Zelda used to prove itself as the hardest IP, out of Nintendo's big three (Mario, Pokemon, and Zelda). I have been a fan of this series ever since I was 7 years old and I didn't at all care that I sucked at the game because I was still having fun! Kids really don't *need* to be babied by having awfully easy puzzles and a cooking system that is so braindeadly (This is a (REAL) word) designed that I think the guy that came up with it must have been on the stuff that Walter White was cooking. I am so annoyed at how the Zelda team chose to fix almost none of the issues I had with BOTW and TOTK that I am certain that I could make better designed Dungeons, UI, and Health system then they did with this game. Everything feels half baked and doesn't feel like any major thought was put into how they wanted the player to play the game, It feels flat out lazy and unpolished. They even reused multiple bosses, MULTIPLE TIMES, And even a few from other games...!? They had years to cook this game up some actual *new* content and yet they still reused so many bosses from other games. Christ, it seems like the Zelda team has a Metroid and Mario problem. Even saying this, I still enjoyed the game quite a bit. one of the biggest flaws for me was the combat yet After I put some limits on myself and only used automatons, I did start enjoying it a lot more. That being said you shouldn't NEED to place limits on yourself to have fun, the game should just be *FUN* (Shocker, I know). The music was also really, really fantastic, It's up there with Majora's Mask for me. Which is saying a lot because I really like that game's music. The river River Zora Village theme is PEAK. The story was pretty good in my opinion. It lacks any sort of continuity, but for what it is, I like it. It's nothing ground breaking but I thought it was a nice enough story. Great video, Goof has knocked it out of the park with this video. Great job Goof. Ima go Skibidi a Rizz real quick. "Bye Bye"

Mr.goof, I think it’s high time you try an actual good and fun Zelda-like that scratches all the itches you’ve been wanting inside of a game. Try “Crosscode” as I truly feel it is one of the best 2d Zelda-likes of all time (it’s also the most underrated game I know of)

Isn’t it weird that electricity used to be green in botw, but in totk it’s yellow?

OOOOOH! A GOOF VIDEO ESSAY?! Time to sit my booty down and deep throat some oreos!!

Combat:😴🛌😴🛌😴🛌😴 Game: 👶👶👶 Enjoyment: 🤷‍♂

This game just makes me appreciate how good Breath of the wild was.

You know... being let down only because you're super hyped about something makes a TON of sense. I was incredibly hyped about Elden Ring's DLC, and just as incredibly let down. Yet I loved the main game when it first released... and I knew nothing about it. I'd never watched the trailers, never cultivated that hype... In fact, it was a impulsive purchase. I saw a bunch of people playing it on twitch, saw that it had good reviews, and the few images I saw of it made it seem interesting. I knew nothing about it and barely anything about From Software. And I loved every second of my time with it. Maybe hype and excitement are bad, after all. As for Tears of the Kingdom... I was never able to complete it. I love Breath of the Wild and will never stop praising it. Its sequel... not so much. Great video. :)

The contraption at 13:39 is hilarious