Arin's Shitty TOTK Builds [Game Grumps Compilation]

[@Leongon]

"Arin's shitty TOTK builds" and I don't think anyone is surprised that there's enough content in that category to make a two and a half hour video without using click bait or any trickery to extend the length artificially.

[@Madsquid994]

I remember laughing about this while I was editing every time I noticed the absurd number the total length had climbed to.

[@Thrillhou]

​@madsquid9943 oh dude. I was already giggly and I glanced at the progress bar to see how much was left and absolutely /howled/.

[@sarajerde8280]

2:13:00 Arin putting so much work into his sign apparatus only to immediately, accidentally, set it on fire WRECKS ME 😭😭💀

[@torgover-l1n]

"Now... Let's see who's the man."

[@NazoCrystal]

arin hanson's first response to seeing flames is to immediately pull out a fan. you can't even make it up at this point

[@voidfulreapers1496]

​@NazoCrystal I was just about to bring up that his first idea is to get out a fan which would've only made it worse

[@ghostiebaka2809]

THEN HE PULLS OUT A FUCKING FAN LMAOOOOO

[@BeannJuice]

He's reliving his moments when he owned a Dodge Intrepid.

[@harvstooth6917]

2:23:45 Arin spends 3 minutes planning, designing, and building his Frost Gleeok killing device. 2:26:53 Arin spends a little over a minute walking his Frost Gleeok killing device to the Frost Gleeok. 2:28:13 The Frost Gleeok killing device is instantly destroyed by the Frost Gleeok in less than 2 seconds.

[@kalimaude3532]

it's the way he remains standing at the controls, just sitting there in the snow as he attempts to understand what just happened, that elevates it to the truly sublime, I think.

[@walls_of_skulls6061]

“Whatever you’re building it doesn’t look dragon ready”

[@Just_The_Krust]

2:48 when it pops up that "Aaron is playing TETRIS 99" right after Arin fucks up at stacking shit. I just thought that was kinda funny.

[@Marccubus]

2+ hours of Arin not knowing he can get more battery space? Sign me up!

[@lyianx]

Dont think he ever grasped the concept of how gliding works either.

[@ryancarrell3186]

to be fair, I think he did try looking for the NPC that upgrades it at some point he just... got distracted after a bit.

[@Penquinn14]

@@lyianx when I rewatched that first segment they discovered the glider constructs I was so impressed with the game design for having the runway for them be aimed in the direction and angle that you can glide straight to it without steering. So I guess if you look at it in a way of Arin proving why game design takes certain paths it makes more sense

[@Zeus-tx5rh]

It's painful

[@mattszybiak4496]

once he figured out what was required (if he ever did) there’s no way in hell he’d do all the steps required without bitching. I don’t think it’s super fun expanding your battery either though to be fair. What’s less forgivable is Arin REFUSING to use the ascend ability.

[@rujellyroll]

1:16:28 is a perfect example of "task failed successfully"

[@wintermute5486]

Vanessa? laughing in the background is so funny

[@nintendoborn]

That was the funniest shrine I’ve seen

[@Rpa2424]

1:35:29 I haven't completed this playthrough but this one moment just made me cry laugh. Like, I haven't had such a good laugh like that in such a long time. God, I love their comedic timing.

[@Magic3Star]

That moment has the highest honor of living in my head rent-free 😂

[@MeekersMadhouse]

Arin should work for Boeing

[@Madsquid994]

XD

[@jackdawwizard]

he probably does with their track record

[@Purin95]

Well done sir

[@gemini_emerald1068]

They suck, their planes don't even bounce.

[@bakubread9308]

i love that every time he tries to build a contraption to fight a Gleeok it ends with the thing being IMMEDIATELY destroyed or circumvented within the first 10 seconds of the fight

[@TravisCooney-u7s]

"Did you just say whos the genius and then light the whole thing on fire?" Probably my favorite moment of the playthrough 😂

[@It_Is_The_Me]

Timestamp please?

[@Mersterr]

@@It_Is_The_Me 2:13:20

[@It_Is_The_Me]

@@Mersterr lol thank you

[@hunterhuang2500]

The fact this is over 2 hours long doesn't surprise me at all

[@OkayContent]

I still can’t comprehend Arin’s backwards physics logic of a plane using one fan right in the top center, and i’m pretty sure he’s seen planes in real life before 🤔

[@dreddmau0257]

The video length made me laugh the hardest out of anything.

[@bluethan806]

This compilation is 90% hilarious, and 10% kind of a critique on the overall building mechanics design of TotK. This is Arin, sure, and he gets some good moments in, now and then, but you can absolutely see his line of thinking and he definitely isn't the only player who has spent more time trying to build something that would convenience themselves than it would've taken for them to just do it themselves anyways

[@lyianx]

Arin's line of thinking is constantly being interrupted and rushed because hes recording a show and having Dan sometimes pushing him to hurry up or otherwise 'derailing' his train of thought. Hes probably not the only player, no, but hes also not the poster child for how problem solving mechanics should be tuned either.

[@Freakinout14]

heavily disagree. Im also a pretty big idiot but most of the necessary building in TOTK are SO FUCKING DIRECT AND LAID OUT FOR YOU I dont even understand how he could fuck up so badly. If you dont like building all you need to do is make the most elementary shit that THEY TEACH YOU and thats it. You dont even need to be that creative. I stg I used the same ass build to hold up most of the terry town signs. I barely built anything and still 100% the game wtf

[@ShivEevee]

He was also definitely dicking around a lot more than needed, and having a lot of fun doing it at times 😂

[@jordansorensen3906]

I've got the opposite opinion on this, I feel like the building trivializes the game too much, I mean you can make the objectively best way to get around with a steering stick and 2 fans, which makes almost every area in the game including a lot of puzzles stupidly easy, the guy I watched play totk literally discovered almost all of the underground in a single video because he would just fly over everything and hit the light root things, also I hate that there's really no reason to even make complicated things because you can achieve a better flying machine with 3 early game items, and after you make that there's almost no reason to make anything else custom, the game could've just had the auto builder and I feel like it mightve been better for it, thats just my take tho!

[@lilaclunablossom]

Why do people assume the only point of building is to do things faster

[@walls_of_skulls6061]

39:54 the wheel is rolling away Ok ok Omg where did it go It rolled away But like where tho Away

[@StrayBee]

I still need a compilation of Arin Exploding himself. One of everytime they forget they have ascend could be funny as well.

[@Penquinn14]

as long as the ascend comp starts with Arin talking shit when they first get it like "it makes traveling around too easy"

[@chelseahill1293]

"Its partiality cause I pay you" "No... its mostly cause you pay me" is my favourite exchange in game grumps history 😂

[@Yinlock470]

if only there was a spot on the glider for a steering wheel to go

[@emerlthegizoid9919]

1:35:30 Idk why but the slight silence as he breaks the contraption and rocket blasting off is too much for me not to mention Dan’s line😂

[@snail2661]

35:00 I like that Arin had the thing he needed in his hands but instead of investigating he fucks around with blocks for the next half hour

[@Blaizk]

Arin’s joy at 11:11 is so beautiful and funny. To fly so gracefully, only to land in the water😂

[@seandye8061]

His grasp on the situation is like watching a child learn about Legos

[@BetterCallThall]

After a lengthy grumps break, and a mere skim of the title of this video, it took me five minutes to realize I wasn't going to see a successful build.

[@milsharkie]

as an autistic person with a passable knowledge of basic kinesthetics and engineering, every single second of this was torturous to watch

[@kellydolan9717]

After all is said and done I think the laughter those cockamamie contraptions produced both from the Grumps and us lovelies made it all worth the price of admission.

[@blakewhite3131]

Early game before you know about steering sticks, the vehicle system seems so inconsequential, then its like AW HELL YEAH

[@ArgentoNatsu]

this got recommended to me while at work the fact that this was titled Arins Shitty TOTK builds made me giggle so loud my boss thought there was a joke she missed somehow 😅😂

[@decentDango]

I've honestly really enjoyed this Game Grumps content more so than I have for years, even how fun it is to see Arin's trial and error building whatever. But like, can someone let me know if he remembers that there is Recall and Ascend? Mostly the former, because it's funny to see parts or whole vehicles roll away, but the idea of Arin never considering Recalling things feels a proper bruh moment at least Xp

[@zoonfu]

he switches between remembering either of the two exists 😭

[@bearflipstable8365]

Arin putting his glider on the snow despite multiple times seeing the actual spot for gliders.

[@Levyathyn]

This will always be one of my favorite playthroughs from Arin. I don't care what anyone says, I don't care anything about the critique of his path... this game was MEANT to be played this way. This game was MEANT to be struggled through, by players dead-set on making things harder for themselves by choosing to build random crazy contraptions that barely work. It is the single best aspect of this game, and had Arin been made to miss out on it because of peer pressure or just going in with a different mindset, I would have been sad about it for the rest of my life.

[@CorriganM08]

No, it wasn't lol anyone with an ounce of logic would figure out how the zonai devices work pretty quickly. Arin is stupid. So he is incapable lol

[@Levyathyn]

And? Where in anything I said did I state that he beat the game what you consider the correct way? I said he had fun, and that's what I pointed at. In fact it's the only thing I said. So whatever you read, it wasn't my comment.

[@o.b.carson1338]

​@@CorriganM08☝️🤓

[@dataecto6135]

TRUEEEEEE ITS ENTERTAINING TO WATCH AND IF HES HAVING FUN DESPITE IT THEN IT IS VALID

[@WildfireBT-2918]

I don't care who you are that's funny - Arnold the cable guy 20XX

[@devilmaycraft6811]

i love how his go to always seems to be "Slap a wing on it, that'll make it work!" and it NEVER does

[@MrJonyish]

“HE’S OKAY” Danny every time

[@QueerQuetzal]

I never knew the wheels at the spare build part places were even funtional, they always looked so shitty that I never touched them. Should've known with that thought that Arin would use them 💚

[@aud7593]

ME TOO except i thought it needed an axle to work properly, i didnt know you could just glue em on amd they would SPIN

[@shaalis]

@@aud7593 you have to attach them at centre, however otherwise they will just not spin and become structural.

[@blakewhite3131]

​@@aud7593yeah that tripped me up too, but theres a sidequest at a stable where you fix a girls wagon with ultrahand, and then i was like. WAIT. I CAN HAVE HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGE

[@fabiocetrulo4462]

The amount of times he couldve used recall hurts

[@benschubert9830]

You found 150 minutes of this. Remarkable 👍

[@gossamer999]

okay but for real, the fourth build in here, the glider on top of the car, rocked. Just needed a little something extra

[@yaluckyboy]

excellent first choice 👌

[@TheLastLivinGameCube]

I mean, a rocket would make it easier for them to launch a plane, but it is not strictly necessary. They can just add a cart to the bottom and that would count as half a runway.

[@IncorporationXII]

This compilation could also be called, when someone with no understanding of physics tries to make simple machines

[@zackwhite6970]

I laughed too hard seeing the title followed by a 2.5hr long video

[@hamburgerlord7849]

Arin really putting those two years of high school to good use

[@alyshamcalpine2238]

the fact that this compilation is over two hours long is killing me

[@ScumDrops]

"What are they flappers?' More like floppers... am I right? 😇

[@maxspecs]

Sometimes, I wish Dan would take the time to learn some modern video games, because I feel like he'd make some wild shit in this one.

[@LordDarner]

25:10 This man clearly never passed physics. 🤦

[@Milonoto]

Arin dropped out of high school

[@quillquickcard8824]

Arin’s whole brand is stubborn incompetence. He works hard to play this badly. But the issue is that Arin also gets genuinely frustrated by his inability to progress, and by the time he is willing to actually try something competent to progress, he has utterly failed to learn or develop those skills.

[@Minorcas13]

it's actually impressive that Arin's building comprehension is lower than some 2nd graders Edit: same goes for Dan

[@JonathanOtt-o6w]

I have lost my IQ.

[@blakewhite3131]

11:40

[@blakewhite3131]

AND HE TRIES USING IT AS A LAND VEHICLE???? WITH THAT TINY BASE??? ITS SO TOP HEAVY AND THE FANS ARE ON TOP I LOVE ARIN SO MUCH

[@walls_of_skulls6061]

Where did that mushroom come from?? 18:56

[@tonyawwwno3364]

If you go from the 18 minute mark, you can see it happen

[@thebarghestiest]

"Arin people are watching this" well one of those people is me and joke's on Dan, I'm howling. This is how I build shit in TOTK 😂

[@TatumGrace-kw5eu]

11:40

[@deadlined825]

Dan's "just stack shit until it works" approach to the Hudson sign puzzles makes me think he'd be great at this game. If only the Switch's controls were big enough for his thumbs

[@celestialrodent]

TWO HOURS LMAO

[@yate0128]

2 HOURS?!

[@prettyoriginalnameprettyor7506]

Why does he say nutella like that

[@JamesCard-u1s]

I have never seen a person this bad at playing a game

[@sensudubs4421]

TWO AND A HALF HOURS?

[@fabiocetrulo4462]

I was tearing my eyes off at 2:10:00

[@Peppinospaghett]

2027 HERE I COME❗❗❗❗❗‼️

[@TheGamingPolitician]

I had some pretty embarrassing deaths on the Great Sky Island too 😭

[@BrobdingnagianPants]

WTF is a walkable city? Is that a city you can actually walk around in?

[@emilybarclay8831]

Yes, it’s in the name. Somewhere like London where if you want, you can absolutely walk easily and safely from one end of the city to another or any point in the city from any other, but obviously because London is so big we also have the tube for convenience. Most American cities physically don’t allow you to walk most places, since the car lobby in America has ensured that safe walkways and pavements are nonexistent

[@CorriganM08]

Arin is so dumb lol

[@DykeyPrincessPeach]

i'm not usually yelling at the screen when they're like "ah shit everyone's probably yelling at their screens" but this game? screaming. biting my keyboard. banging my fists against the walls. holy shit man

[@bluelfsuma]

_Holy shit._

[@EdwardTHead1776]

Is aron atupid?

[@jacquijaurena7915]

Me: man, the puzzles in this game are way too easy why tf did they dumb them down so much?? How many children are playing this?? Arin Hanson, 30-something, professional gamer:

[@cokeofcola8773]

i cant believe i used to respect this mans opinion on video games

[@shaalis]

*watches Arin build his sky bridge* Arrows plus keese or octorock eyes equals homing arrow that can be fired from the ground.

[@pauloltman4960]

18:01 I 100% agree with arin here, except for the point about the john wick sequels not being as good as the first one, I'd say that their just as good because the third and fourth ones are all continuations of the second one, cause in the second one, John had made that blood pact with the villain of that movie, but john wanted out because he was just sooo tired of being john wick, and just wanted to live alone and mourn his first dog and wife while washing off all the stink from the first film and then the bad guy comes and is like "just one last job man!" and John's like "no fuck off you've promised me five one last jobs I'm not doing it!" and the guy's like "dude you took the pact, I'm entitled to use it!" John still says no, and then bad guy leaves, but before he does, HE JUST BLOWS UP HIS HOUSE WITH A GRENADE LAUNCHER WITH ALL HIS STUFF INCLUDING THE PICTURE OF HIS WIFE! and then after the second movie, he officially retires but that means that he then has to die, and then the third and fourth movies are just him surviving the time he has until the league of assassins comes to get him and his like a bajillion dollar bounty!

[@klooks1013]

Ok

[@pauloltman4960]

@@klooks1013 that's a fair reaction, sorry I like talking about pieces of media I like and having thoughts about them

[@BenStuff]

So have they not looked up anything at all? Lmao how does he not know he can get mroe batteries ahahahahah also that skybridge clip was so infuriating like does he not remember they have a flying balloon

[@DonutHolestien]

Why would you ever look stuff up in a Zelda game?

[@DonutHolestien]

@@bigbadgammagnome but why not spend 50 hours in the underground chasing an unspecified objective while burning most of your consumables? That seems to be the smarter strategy for me

[@hansolobutimdead]

Is anyone else's quality complete dogshit when watching this video?

[@Madsquid994]

you can adjust the quality using the gear icon and manually force it to display in it's highest possible setting. but keep in mind that the original footage has been edited, exported, uploaded, downloaded, edited again, exported again and then reuploaded. the more of these steps you add the more the quality will be affected. but to make a compilation video like this it's unavoidable.

[@hansolobutimdead]

​@@Madsquid994 I tried. Changing the quality is unavailable. It's completely unwatchable for me

[@Madsquid994]

@@hansolobutimdead how do you mean it's unavailable? I've tried loading it on my browser and it seems to be working fine. are you having this issue on any other youtube videos?

[@gobogoblin8498]

Came to confirm OP's concerns. I have the same issue while watching on mobile yt. The quality is stuck at around 240-300p, and I can't adjust the resolution manually. It just says unavailable :(

[@Madsquid994]

@@gobogoblin8498 idk what to tell you, i've never seen this issue before. all i can suggest is to try watching on another device and see if that makes a difference.

[@Superboologan1]

Honestly? For as cool as totk is, the onus of having to build/manipulate stuff kinda felt like a chore sometimes

[@blakewhite3131]

Yeah, thats why autobuild is such a relief. I rarely made vehicles until i had steering sticks, sleds, carts, and wheels in my inventory. Rockets are also very useful for launching. Early game before you know about all of the devices, it just feels like more trouble than its worth. Then in autobuild you can favorite specific unique builds you made that you want to access easily, so its less hassle

[@lyianx]

Sure.. if you grossly over complicate it and forget about your base abilities. Which is what Arin did for many of these. Need to get the Wing up in the air so the fans can propel it? Lift it up for abit, then drop it, get on it, use Rewind on it, then hop on the controls, release rewind. Boom. You've got your launch. Need to shoot down that flying creature holding the tower control that's circling above? Attach an Eye to your arrow so it seeks it out in one shot. The shrine where he built a ramp after crossing the lava with the 'car'.. he could have gotten up on that platform in 2 seconds with Ascend. Arin, at least during recordings, is a bad example of how competent an 'average' player is because he has so many distractions pulling his focus off of the game in front of him. Which is a bad thing for an ADHD brain to have. I dont blame the guy at all, as he cant help it. Its only a chore if you make it a chore and just instantly go to building crap instead of thinking about what tools you have, and what challenge you need to overcome. But then again, some people may not like problem solving. *shrug*.

[@blakewhite3131]

@@lyianx yeah the ascend thing especially drove me crazy, because i LOVE ascend as someone who climbed so much to get to the top of everything in BOTW. I use that bad boy all the time. My adhd ocd ass was like Must Climb Every Peak. The arrow thing is goofy, yeah. Though I admit I spent an embarassing amount of time before realizing i could use keese eyes too, i was wasting the aerocuda?? eyes, or whatever the flying manta ray looking fellers are called. The rewind strat is big brain tho, i barely use recall

[@gingerkitten99]

Tbh you can skip a lot of those puzzles with a shield + rocket combo. But yeah I get what you mean.

[@dylweezy117]

This shit is why I only watched half of the series. I came in for the high points of plot, and abandoned the series as Arin spent literal hours dicking around making contraptions that don't work because he refuses to read or learn about game mechanics.

[@razorbackroar]

Wouldn’t pay $10 bucks for this game

[@DonutHolestien]

It's so unfortunate how boring the commentary is nowadays...

[@bronyferienminuet2125]

i hat the building in this game so much, too much shit requires it. its boring and people who can think straight can't pull this off. i stopped playing the game after about a couple weeks because I got so sick of trying to get to unreachable places.

[@lightdarksoul2097]

Dude if you think straight it's easy sounds like a you problem

[@Penquinn14]

the game basically shows you an example of what you need to do nearby every puzzle. The main difference between TotK and BotW is the building so complaining that "too much shit requires it" is such a weird take, it's part of the core gameplay mechanic that sets it apart from the game its meant to be a sequel for. It sounds like you just wanted more BotW DLC. It's hilarious that one of your reasons to stop playing was "I can't get to unreachable places", did you ever take the time to consider or reconsider that maybe those places have a reason you aren't meant to reach there using the method you were trying? Like maybe it's to stop you from getting to an area before you have more supplies like you would later in the game, OR maybe it really was an unreachable place in which case why are you trying to get there so hard? If it's meant to be unreachable there wouldn't be anything for you to get outside of the feeling of being a place you weren't meant to be. Why did you play this game if all you did was try to get to places you couldn't and disliked the building mechanic that was heavily advertised lol

[@JohnGraves1985]

ALTTP still remains the best Zelda game ever made, this game has too much bullshit bloat.

[@Thorozak]

20:35 OOOOPS!!!

[@RatedNforNick]

Soooo… am I correct in assuming that Sbassbear and the Game Grumps channel blatantly ripped you off by posting the video they posted today? Because it honestly seems like they’re taking credit for an idea you came up with two months ago.

[@Madsquid994]

i would say no for a couple of reasons. firstly I'm not the only person to have made a compilation like this, several others already existed before i uploaded mine. secondly, it wasn't my idea to do this in the first place, rather i made it because of that episode when danny says "it's just one more for the inevitable compilation", and realised that i could easily make such a compilation. i then took an ungodly amount of time to finish editing the thing and upload it. finally, this "content" belongs to the grumps, not me. i don't own the concept of compilation videos and it's not as if they just reuploaded my edit without crediting me or anything. it's also very possible that they've been sitting on their compilation for a long time and wanted to wait until a sufficient amount of time had passed before releasing it. if they release things like this just after the main series ends people might not want to rewatch something they've just seen, but if it's been a year people are more likely to click. in any case i don't really care, and their video is less than half the length of mine anyway so i am confident saying that mine is closer to definitive.