ZELDA: Tears of the Kingdom is EVERYTHING we WANTED | Nontendo Podcast #53

[@crobinson2624]

When I first landed in Hyrule, I was shocked at really how different it is, because people like to focus on the people, places, and things at are the same but it felt like retuning to your childhood town after 30 years and seeing everything that is different.

[@TheMRock888]

Exactly!

[@hooky17]

That’s actually a pretty perfect analogy. It’s slightly familiar at best but everything’s disorienting because it’s different

[@PunsandPixels]

Plus it’s so fun to look at an area and be like oh that wasn’t here before. Or wait was that here before? And ohhh they put a cave in this spot! I loved the changes to the mountain top where you fight the first lynel in botw as a zora quest.

[@endless_del]

its similar enough that i knew the general area i landed in but it still felt so different that i second guessed myself until i saw the castle's position and confirmed i was right with my initial instinct. all that just within the time it took to swim out of a small pond and climb up a hill.

[@skooch5769]

People have to be more honest about what a "new map" would mean. It's likely just a rearrangement of the same old zelda same things, but death mountain is at the bottom of the map!

[@SnazzyParesh]

Honestly, this has to be one of my favourite games of all time. It deserves game of the year

[@mr.cheesytoad5845]

Absolutely it does. But I don't have faith in the Game Awards

[@PunsandPixels]

Or game of the decade but there’s no award for that

[@PeachBootyPoppin]

It’s not my personal game of the year, but it will probably win.

[@skooch5769]

​@@Iamsora777 its gonna beat spiderman 2 lmao

[@Ckrost]

@@Iamsora777like elden ring , it’s inevitable tears of the kingdom will win it

[@kengelina]

Wood being so proud of Bob for loving the game is such a vibe

[@HonkeyHustleDDC]

This game is so fun and as Wood loves to say to describe a switch game Addicting lol. The worst part is I’m torn because my wife just surprised me with a Xbox Series X as a early birthday present. And I’m like omg babe thaaank you…. But Zelda for now 😅

[@izzywoods794]

She sounds like she supports your hobbies so im sure she understands🥰😂

[@lc3212]

That’s my issue right now lol. My older brother had an Xbox series s just sitting and he wasn’t using it since he’s always in his ps5 or switch (when he does play games he’s not on them 24/7 lol) he just wasn’t using it so surprised me with it so I could play Jedi survivor and other next gen games on gamepass he knew I wanted to trying like plague tale requiem and deathloop and I just got it last week a day after I got totk lol. So I’m trying to jump between but I keep wanting to play totk lol. The more I explore the more I’m getting into it. I’ve been doing side things and just getting distracting so I’m like wood here I’ve only done two of the regional quest lines cause I keep looking and like “oh that look interesting what’s that smoke there, there’s green there” lol. It feels like botw and plays like it but the new abilities have me more engaged in experimenting with totk then breath of the wild did. Love it.

[@obiwanshinobi87]

My wife got me Jedi survivor considering as you might have noticed I am a Star wars fan... but I keep going back to TOTK

[@lc3212]

@@obiwanshinobi87 same wel other than my older brother got it for me.

[@OutsideTheRopes]

That’s okay you got time to get to it.

[@Nintendofan91]

1:31:28 y’all missed important dialogue from Purah where she explains her aging and actually explicitly says her age.

[@TROBassGuitar]

When?

[@Nintendofan91]

@@TROBassGuitar I think it’s after the first cutscene when you see her for the first time. You also learn more about it in her journal.

[@bdtgames5888]

@@Nintendofan91 I think it's actually from a journal in the hateno research lab? I think she said her body is now 20 or 22 or something?

[@grey3414]

​@@bdtgames5888 yeah, I remember her gushing over her skin!

[@shelliblossom8953]

its more common sense she turned her age back too far at some point she gonna wanna fix it

[@erikhendrickson59]

26:13 My guess would be the volumetric effects on the Sky Islands. All of the volumetric clouds, that also become volumetric fog as they pass over you, are very computationally-heavy and are some of the best I've ever seen. They really look fantastic and again provide just another example that Nintendo's software engineers are actually real-life Wizards. Sure, Tears is only rendering at 720/900/1080p, but short of ray-tracing volumetric effects are almost always the most performance-heavy graphics settings in a PC game. And again, in Tears those clouds needs to be rendered such that the player could *_move through them at any time._*

[@gnarface3831]

The moving through is crazy to me cause the obvious shortcut is to make them 2d to save on the CPU load. They definitely have ongoing optimizations that change how things are rendered based on what the game predicts you’re going to do next. The loading screens lower the GPU and overclock the CPU so we get quick loads. They really should boost up the memory speed if they can, even if it’s only under heavy loads cause that was the biggest performance gain

[@TheOnyxSpy]

They honestly are wizards. I think the absolute CRAZIEST thing about TotK is that the entire game is 16GB 😶 What kind of technological wizardry and magic does it take to do that?! There are literally save files for games that are like, 1/16 the size of this entire game, it's NUTS

[@ethancknight]

The confusion about fusion and durability is that fusing doesn’t seem to actually repair things, but it does increase durability on items that aren’t destroyed already. Like a twig fused with a rock will last longer than a twig by itself, but if the twig is almost already broken, the then adding a rock really won’t help. It’s still almost broken.

[@guuumby_1468]

The scale is ratio based. If you fuse it at 100% weapon health it will give you a larger overall health i.e. 1000/1000 HP. If you put it on at 2/100 and assume that the fuse adds a multiplier of 10ths base health number will be multiples (2x10=20) leaving you with a weapon health level post-fuse of 20/1000.

[@CaptainWolffi]

My brother and I play the game together and we call it "Legend of my attention span: tears of not keeping focus" because there is so much stuff that constantly shows up to distract us from what we were doing

[@Fernie52984]

Admittedly i love these guys, hearing them talk while I work cracks me up. Also I can listen to TOTK talk all day. Great job guys, considering patreon

[@Schooby_dooby]

These two here looking like young Gandalf and Sauron talking about the greatest game of all time 😂 makes me so happy hearing them talk up my favorite series. Good chat, fellas

[@falconblack]

Lmao😂

[@thelennon07]

i can't unsee this now...ever hahah

[@SuperCred1t]

So many special secrets and extras it's wild. So much stuff to love and I've only cleared on temple. MASSIVE game

[@kengelina]

I agree with how they took everything people wanted in BOTW and made it happen. And as an ADHD human, no matter how much instruction I get, I’m going to get distracted 58 times on the way to my destination (and then 58 times within each of those 58 distractions) I really appreciate the markers on the map for main quests 😂 I’m really enjoying this game although I definitely die a LOT

[@Danarchy3]

Not every thing. Breakable weapons suck

[@shelliblossom8953]

as an adhd human too what saves it for me is the pins

[@cosygracegames]

The obsession with this game is real! I loved hearing you guys talk all about it and it’s so fun hearing woods passionate love for the series- I am shocked by the depth of how fleshed out the world is, love finding the hidden aspects which makes me feel like I’m the first person to discover such and such, and all the unique new music fusing with the old classics too! Love it so much!

[@CaptainMyron]

To anyone frustrated with weapon breaking there are rock octorocs in Eldin region and they work the same way to botw. You can repair and buff your weapons there, they do it every blood moon. So find the spots that have 2-3 octorocs drop a travel medallion there and you can repair your savage Lynel bows and silver Lynel blades there. After a point in the game you will juggle between 2-3 weapons and 2-3 bows.

[@Danarchy3]

That’s the stupidest work around I’ve ever heard. In every other Zelda game you fight with swords. Not breakable sticks! Your argument is like “to all those who are upset you don’t get birthday cake, here’s some broccoli

[@shelliblossom8953]

i find breakable weapons fun i really dont understand people hatred for them

[@TheodorTavkhelidze]

I agree that controls for me are very intuitive as i don't play a lot of other games. And i learned these controls in BOTW. This feels like an upgrade. I was amazed how they made so many abilities and systems so easy to access

[@ancientflames]

the controls are better, yet still arguably suck compared to lots of other games

[@endless_del]

yeah it's a bit confusing during battle when you're switching from melee weapons to bows constantly but other than that it's a breeze for me. but most of the other games i play, i play on PC so i don't have other controller schematics burned into my brain. although i still occasionally press X to open the inventory like it does in animal crossing

[@turnerflorence9658]

While I agree I hate trying to summon the companions while they run away from you.

[@davadh]

Decayed weapons are a part of the story. But yes it is a convenience to make up for the fusing ability

[@dannydee2668]

This game was the only game I have ever pre-ordered, And I'm so glad I did.

[@chaconj]

I think as people start completing their play throughs, your streams will keep growing in views from people who see your videos after they catch up to you

[@dugganater]

Definitely. One of my favorite parts about finishing a game is I can go and watch playthroughs and speedruns of it lmao

[@montypython1533]

Personally, I don't understand harping on reviewers for being "biased." Reviews are inherently opinion and I don't think there's any way to objectively review art. I think the smarter thing to do is find reviewers you tend to agree with and listen to them. Like, I don't listen to Anthony Fantano's reviews because I think he's "objectively right," I listen to him because my tastes are similar enough to his that I can find cool new music. I don't understand focusing so much on whether or not the Meta Critic score is right or not.

[@ondda2]

exactly!!!!! wood was totally off

[@helena9305]

One thing that got me so excited was seeing the select button in the album to delete multiple photos at the time! Such a tiny detail but makes the experience so much better! The amount of times I’ve played this and said “thank you Nintendo” for all these little tweaks is incredible! 🤩

[@helena9305]

My motto for this game is also: “it’s not how you SHOULD do it, it’s how you CAN do it”

[@criticallysarcastic]

You could do that in botw as well though, it’s not a totk new thing.

[@Space2050]

I keep feeling like I am learning from every shrine I do, sort of like with every new level of Super Mario World. With Mario, you see coins, and they trigger the question of how do I use what I know to solve this puzzle. In Tears of the Kingdom, you enter a shrine, see goal, then think about what you can do to reach the goal. I have built so many bridges to solve rails or flying machines to reach a deck ascend could have reached. Every shrine expands my abilities within the game. Tears of the Kingdom 11/10

[@roxannadhuffman1876]

THERE IS NO WAY ITS ALREADY BEEN A YEAR!!!! I remember watching the first episode.

[@kylebartkiewicz7274]

I wish you guys had more episodes like this where you just talk about a switch game you like and are playing

[@TheGrossDemon]

If it helps, i believe in BOTW Purah had accidently turned herself into a child with a potion or magic or something. She mentions it when you first see her in TOTK as well as they say it in BOTW i believe. Shes like 100 and something years old lol, apparently shes Impa's older sister.

[@prons_gaming5083]

35:36 did you notice if the sign leans on your design slightly crooked, he'll keep it up itself slightly crooked. He doesn't automatically straighten it for you. It shows you can change the outcome slightly with your different designs to hold it up

[@princessjello]

Yes i had a really jank solve and every time i see it i just turn the camera in shame

[@KevinLynnPorter]

I love his anger towards the end and then bob's chuckle from it!

[@Gilliebeany]

Wood's hair is literally looking SO good that I'm jealous!

[@v0Ray0v]

I Love this Game. I accidently found "the deep" while stumbling into a hole and was Like "there is anither layer to this? Are you freaking kidding me?" God this Game doesent Stop to amaze me.

[@gnarface3831]

I’ve been telling people I think tears of the kingdom might be the best game ever made

[@TbPl-yg4kk]

Lmao. Y’all guzzling the koolaid.

[@barrydabee6752]

@@TbPl-yg4kkbro play it and find out

[@netweed09]

@@TbPl-yg4kk Oooh, surprised you didn't also hit Us with the ''oVerRaTed'' label of wisdom there(!)

[@TbPl-yg4kk]

@@netweed09 I assumed that would be contextually apparent, but I guess not. I forget how dumb you have to be to enjoy this garbage.

[@kfed9834]

55:00 for anyone who's curious about the durability thing, so each weapon has an innate durability, and a possible fuse durability. It has a maximum durability though, fusing a monster part will give you the maximum fuse durability possible all at once. if you fuse something with durability itself though like another weapon, it will use the possible fuse durability but be draining the attached weapon's durability itself. I think the average fuse durability is 25 additional durability with the exception of a few weapons. But so if you have a 5 durability weapon and fuse a 6 durability weapon you'll use up the 6 durability weapon and when it breaks, you still have a possible 19 durability remaining if you fuse it again. And if you used 4 of the durability before even fusing then you just add up to 25 durability, but you'd still have base durability + fuse durability. Bottom line, thinking about fusing as repairing your weapon is wrong conceptually, you have a limit on the durability no matter what you fuse, but fusing does increase the durability up from base by a fair amount.

[@skiesraha1]

“Treat the girl right” 😂 love Wood

[@neonswift]

15 hours in I was determined to seek out a place I "shouldn't be at" and I got spine tingles from the atmosphere and then promptly fled after getting in way too deep. Nintendo clearly asked "why would a player do this?" regarding every single aspect of the game and have made every facet of it compelling. TIP: On modern day 4K TVs the game can be made to look a lot better if you lower the brightness, up the contrast and colour, and sharpen it a bit. It makes all the colours pop and also deepens the shadows significantly.

[@ed_5578]

watching this at work gets me so hyped to play it tonight

[@everettcorder5977]

Wood's argument against the bad reviews is absolutely unhinged. He just straight up thinks the game is good and doesn't want others to think otherwise.

[@criticallysarcastic]

It is a good game though, it’s amazing, is it the greatest game of all time? Eh, it’s up for debate. Tbf most negative reviews are usually just people who are butthurt about something or who just hate for the sake of hating. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, people will hate and people will love the game. Elden ring got hate because people were butt hurt about getting killed all the time because they refused to learn the mechanics so they blamed the game and called it horrible when others know it was an amazing game. We can literally have a game that can be flawless but people will still find something to be negative about.

[@denerribeiro5881]

Here, I already have 50 hours of gameplay and I've only completed 1 dungeon from the main story. Everything else, side quests... discovering things, exploring, playing with the zonai devices. GOTY to me

[@az-cv1ql]

same here! 60+ hours now and still only one dungeon finished 😅

[@SebastianTheGreat]

I think the way to fix the Metacritic thing is if they took the median score for publication reviews rather than the average score

[@ActionJaxonH]

Or just toss any unusual data points that fall outside of 2 standard deviations, or heck, even just toss outliers beyond 3 standard deviations. Something to eliminate those rogue outliers, and there's always at least 1.

[@TROBassGuitar]

​@@ActionJaxonH I mean it's wild that some random site can just come out with some bs review and then not exactly tank the score but drop it a whole point which is wild

[@timmys-cornerxo]

I just don’t get the whole failing grade thing… Isn’t failing below 50? I’d personally say 60 means I didn’t like it but it’s not a bad game… Maybe that’s a Europe vs USA thing??

[@TROBassGuitar]

@@timmys-cornerxo a d- is failing there's no school letting you pass with a d- average

[@timmys-cornerxo]

@@TROBassGuitar hmmm weird Sorry I’m not used to letter grades 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

[@somebaker2613]

My gosh, 37:11 I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I thought I just suck super hard and can't get used to it. But I agree that it sucks getting all frantic and needing to use an ability and then throw a weapon or crouch unintentionally. It's just unintuitive controls. Thank you, internet stranger, for validating my experience

[@MedalionDS9]

Just noticed in the thumbnail, it sorta looks like Wood and Bob have a blonde streak in their hair but it's just the lighting

[@MedalionDS9]

@@derpyalien2903 But I gotz to

[@PunsandPixels]

58:21 man this whole conversation about this mini boss had me feeling so dumb. When it turned into a ufo I didn’t even think of ascend! I would run away where it couldn’t see me until it would turn into a robot again 😂 Man! But gonna try all these techniques going forward

[@DLinton]

A wakeup call for gaming. I'll hard agree with that. I don't play Zelda games but it looks so much different from all the other open world stuff out there.

[@bogywhite9311]

Play the game already!

[@alex_whitney]

​@bogywhite9311 Nobody has to play it if they do not want to.

[@Nintendofan91]

The log has been a huge quality of life improvement. 38:58

[@Scilence23]

I wasn't feeling this until we got to the Zelda enemas. Now I gotta get the game!

[@jsan2548]

“Butt-chug Trade Coffee.” ~ Bob probably

[@irresponsible-cardboard]

To me, I think the best way to describe BotW and TotK, is that BotW is built off Science, and TotK is built off Engineering. Both equally phenomenal. Imagine making the greatest game of all time with new hardware that was built off outdated specs and then toppling that with an even better game with the same outdated hardware 7 years later. Like, what are other companies doing lol.

[@strifexiii9557]

Wood is right. The game definitely looks best when playing in handheld on the OLED.

[@izuku_m789]

I’ve tried getting it to work for me on the TV, but it’s just NOT good. Vivid mode on a Switch OLED is not only tolerable but even quite good. I wish it was 60fps at least, but to be fair this is probably the smoothest feeling 30fps I’ve seen in a while, you notice it’s 30, but it doesn’t feel as juttery and janky as a lot of other games do. It’ll more than hold me over till I can rom dump my copy

[@ninjason57]

Technically speaking there’s less PPI on the oled model due to its larger screen size. Contrast is better though.

[@izuku_m789]

@@ninjason57 contrast and vibrance are definitely compensating, but PPI is a very real factor, I’ll have to dig out my old switch and do a comparison

[@izzywoods794]

Yes! Im so glad i got the zelda edition OLED and upgraded from my old switch. It looks amazing. It also looks good on my large monitor but OLED is easily the best looking

[@ChipipoydotcomdotPH]

Totk is the closest we get for terraria 3d, what people love about the open world games is the sand box part, plus 2 more platforms to explore the depths and the sky islands, the new abilities that are fun to mess with and a wonderful breathtaking homie's kiss of a story, This game is the best open world game as of this day for me. If nintendo somehow desides to add a mode or dlc where four players can play together ill turn into a big fat octorock

[@seejayfranklin]

Tears of the Kingdom is like activating the GOD mode cheat code

[@AntonioLopez-rn4to]

😂 Love these little kids who are in their 40s getting excited about magic wands. The world needs a ton more people like these in order to become a better place. Thank you Nintendo.

[@niclovinn001]

This game is absolutely incredible, I’m so happy that they spent the time, it’s just incredible

[@xredxsixx4871]

I think the only thing missing from this game in my opinion is full voice acting if it had that it would be unparalleled

[@kingdanett4043]

Purah's diary states that she was back to her 20 year old self. She did the de-aging experiment again and was successful this time in getting to the age she wanted to be

[@Ex-Soldier23]

where is her diary located? I would like to read it

[@jsan2548]

@@Ex-Soldier23 There are three of them scattered around that I know of. I’ve found two. They’ve both been hidden under beds. One is in a place you’d expect it and that will point you toward another.

[@PunsandPixels]

Start with her diary in lookout landing. That will lead you to the others

[@Theofficialzackking]

I just discovered the underground area. I am losing my mind!

[@jordanamandareact]

Bob I’m so happy you caught that enema slip haha I started laughing to myself and then you start yelling it, I started dying haha thank you guys, you guys are the best!

[@pencilcheck]

the chasm is insane scary, saw some mini-bosses, temple bosses, and a weird slug like boss, and tons of other stuff. insane!!!

[@PunsandPixels]

I jumped down one in a far corner of the map and landed on a mini boss. Soooo freaky!

[@Mjs-08]

2D zelda comes next with throwback feels

[@TommyDaSavage]

“No one had a Wii-U”? Huh? I played BOTW on my Wii-U & still do. Probably the best console Nintendo ever made. I have all the old Metroid games & Zelda games on it that I can play whenever I want. It is awesome.

[@aarontinoco259]

About the block Boss. That reminds me of the Boss in the Water temple of Ocarina of Time. The way you pull out the “heart” of the golem using Ultra Hand vs using the Hook Shot to pull out the “heart” of the monster of water.

[@brimusic33]

Thank you all for not spoiling it for all of us

[@joshuadavid5549]

Zelda Tears of the Kingdom is fun 🎉I like Korok seed hunting!

[@Grubkiller35]

Hey wood refrenced me haha i was the guy in the chat where they did officially say this is the format going forward

[@HiltsyAdventure]

I just got a switch a couple of weeks ago and borrowed breath of the wild for my daughter, and then she told me a new one's coming out so we both got it. And tears of the kingdom is awesome, wild is cool too. It's funny you seeing all the people saying now the switch is not as good because it's not as powerful, It's like they're expecting a tablet to be as good as a desktop computer. This thing is freaking handheld it's amazing, My first handheld gaming device was original game boy.

[@kokalombia]

The controls are weird and is hard to get into them, I'm currently 30hrs in and still sometimes make mistakes. But one thing that have been helping me is thinking about the buttons as "held" or "press" and every press is and action and every hold is a menu, sound ridiculous but just thinking that way has helped a lot. Also my only complaint is really the bow. It's amazing that you can fuse with everything but that menu get too long too quickly

[@skooch5769]

They arent weird. Once you understand the orientation, its simple.

[@kokalombia]

@@skooch5769 you can't throw from the items menu (up dpad). That's weird They doesn't use down dpad which could be useful to map any button (I would put recall or maybe even ultrahand). That's also weird. You cannot drop items right in the "option" menu. That's a weird in my book The thing is, I find them weird. If you don't that's awesome but I'm not complaining for the sake of it, this is the best game ever made. It doesn't make it flawless tho. At least, in my opinion

[@skooch5769]

@@kokalombia yeah, its specific, but you should be adjusted to it after 30 hours.

[@samuelmartin117]

The change back of Zelda would feel how going from Arceus to Violet felt for me. I enjoy Violet, but LOVED Arceus and want more of that. 1:28:28

[@nreun345]

I like the koroks that are just wallong them would be fine, but takes a long time so you just build something

[@frequency_vibes7822]

Really like bobs point on people not consuming any Zelda content on KZbin. Lol I know personally I only watched the last trailer once and didn’t watch any videos on the game at all for a couple months before release. And I’ve only now started watching a couple KZbinrs play throughs cause I’m a good amount into the story. I don’t mind seeing small stuff I either potentially missed or other peoples thought process on the game now cause I’m a good 20ish hours in. Just avoiding story spoilers till I finish that now

[@GameJunctionMedia]

Really enjoyed the podcast episode!

[@Mtanic]

I think the issue with the sky visuals is the sun up there, because when it shines hard, it's hard and you can't see anything. But that's realistic.

[@LawsonRLewis]

Now this makes a lot of sense now you mention it.

[@aaronasissoard1098]

Button map them 😅 I swapped X for Left analog click, left analog click to right analog click, then right analog click to X and it made it so much better for me and makes way more sense

[@rafael12121998]

The seamlessness can be shotty at times. There were a few times that I dived straight down to the depths and the game froze for a bit so the map can load.

[@SparksSupreme]

If you remember an old game called Beyond Good & Evil, there was a selection wheel for the alphabet that went in spiral. It went from A to Z and after that seamlessly repeated itself. I wish TotK item and weapon selection was made in that manner.

[@bgjck]

It's kind of cool that all the stuff that had like no use in the 1st game actually have cool uses in this game

[@bookedfox]

I think its absolutely ridiculous that a large chunk of this video was being upset that there were two negative reviews of the game and saying that if you dont like the game you shouldn't review. That is honestly really stupid. That's the purpose of reviews- to tell if something is good or not. If a restaurant only pleases 3/10 customers, but only the ones who have a good time review it, I'm gonna expect a good meal and be hugely let down and have wasted my money and my time. Even if the restaurant pleases 9.5/10 people, but only the positive experiences review, then Im going to expect perfection and if those few issues some people had crop up, Im going to be more disappointed than I would had I been expecting from the get-go some possible hang-ups with the establishment. Likewise, if I go to a game review website and all the reviews are gushing across the board, I am going to assume that there is literally nothing wrong with the game at all. That it will be massively enjoyed by literally any player in the world. But the second reviewer is correct- if you *like* a linear story and quest flow and *don't* like being left to wander, this is probably not the game for you, in fact it is probably the worst offender of all video games in your eyes. So not being warned about that would be awful because now you're out over $100 ($90+tax) in total for a game which wasn't designed for you. I *want* to hear somebody's opinion that they honestly hated it and that it didn't innovate as much as they were hoping. If I were to check out the reviews on a game and saw 96 I'd go 'wow, that's high' then I'd look at the reviews and see that it's actually basically perfect expect for a few people and be even more impressed. And what it would tell me altogether is "this is a perfect game *UNLESS* you are this type of player. And that is useful. That is the point of these websites. It was really odd seeing two adults (less so Wulff) talking about these people like they'd commited a crime. Like the game is too sacred to review poorly. To move away from the topic of the video to go through these people's profiles just to see what they reviewed everything else, to try and justify saying that their opinions are either all wrong or that they conflict. It honestly felt really childish to watch and I would have left the video but I was enjoying it a lot before that and wanted to wait for it to get back on track. I've only seen a few of this channel's videos (though I've seen some of each individual's videos and am subscribed to Wulff) but I still felt disappointed.

[@PresidentEvil2]

This is the one podcast I've been waiting for

[@dannyphantasmo7225]

You guys make a great point that miyamoto is still a intricate part of the development if you look at halo gears etc the people who worked on the best games of the franchise are no longer around or unheard in the process I’m happy Zelda came out the way it did because the gaming industry does need to wake up as whole tired of incomplete dlc bs

[@BlackF0x_]

In Purah journal there is a line that states that she managed to turn herself into 20 years old before TOTK events started (maybe even about 2-5 years before TOTK) so yeah, she is def over 18 in all senses))

[@TheDigitalWatcher]

Purah's in Age of Calamity. She's Impa's sister. She's well over 100.

[@BlackF0x_]

@@TheDigitalWatcher we are talking about body age, she was 100 years old loli in BOTW and in few years reversed hereself to 20 years equivalent. I didn't think I need to explain this more to anyone, THAT is why I wrote 'in ALL senses' -- because mentally she was a 100+ old already

[@beezybaby101]

I haven’t played Zelda since 1998 on the N64 I was 8 lol I just bought a switch and tears of the kingdom it comes Monday we’ll see what happens 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@jacobpro_]

What happened?

[@blarp7948]

I totally get not understanding why someone doesn’t like something that’s important to you. It frustrates me all the time. But you really can’t rag on someone this much just for not liking the game. It’s a 10/10 in my book, but I understand why it’s not the kind of game some people like. And that’s fine. If you’re a reviewer it’s your job to give your opinion, not just do what everyone else does.

[@TysonASMR]

It would be cool if you could use zonal charges to repair weapons that are about to break or something

[@worldhumanisticforumthegoo2861]

My biggest critic: The beginning is way to linear for a Zelda game, going from A to B, its like ok you got the abilities now let the game start. Second: I wish the upper World would have bigger Islands to explore. 3rd: I wish the shrines would ve really heavy riddles and much bigger. 4th: The exploring and searching für shrines in botw I liked better. Botw and Totk are both awesome.

[@cleverman383]

Most Zelda games aside from BotW and TotK were entirely linear.

[@worldhumanisticforumthegoo2861]

@@cleverman383 I Played Zelda on NES, as far as I remember it wasnt linear but maybe Im wrong

[@cleverman383]

@@worldhumanisticforumthegoo2861 Yeah, the NES game was the least linear. But there was still a definite correct order to doing things in. And then most of the series after that, everything from A Link to the Past to Ocarina of Time to Link's Awakening were all very linear with some sidequests thrown in to allow some exploration on the side.

[@bookedfox]

Purah's description and one of her journals tell you that she lartially undid the deaging. It's weird because Hudson and Rhondson have a child who looks at least four years old, but Koko and Cottla still look the same age so not sure what happened there lol

[@tasarasforever]

I'm playing TotK in 4k on my Switch 😎 I'm using the mClassic and the PhotoFast 4k upscaler (the red one, not the Pro, the PhotoFast Pro 4k upscaler sucks). The mClassic is responsible for smoothing the edges and making the colors better, then the PhotoFast takes the signal and upscaling it to 4k. And it looks AWESOME on my 65 inches Samsung 4k TV. You guys need to try this.

[@gabrielclimaco8619]

the chasms was in the trailers and reddit was going nuts about it. It actually made me crazy that you didn’t talk about it in the podcast, made me question if it was even real (glad it was)

[@samueleeles-jp9ez]

Can not wait to play this game! Just finished botw and now i am just waiting for my paycheck 😂

[@SilentCGamer]

My biggest gripe, if ypu can call it that, is the way ypu sepect items to throw and attach to arrows. It would have been way better to just have a wheel of maybe 16 items set up exactly how you change the abilities with the option to just slot which ever items you want to that wheel. I hate the long scrolling list.

[@Nintentips.]

They actually did say that they like this format for Zelda going forward as it lets people do what they imagined them doing in Zelda

[@GeeklingNo1]

Spoilers for one of the stable quests: So at each stable has a mini quest for you to do and theyre all fun little mysteries to figure out. my favorite so far has been the one closest to Rio village where they've lost their goats. This was after they were fed whole pinecones for some reason. I was walking away and noticed that there were quite a few pine cones on the ground as i walked and thought hmmm, this is interesting. I followed them and what do I find? goats. Now the way I'm describing this sounds like it was an obvious thing but to be honest I wasn't even doing the stable quests at this point. I'd spoken to the stable hand who mentioned in passing that he was using pinecones in his goat food. Not obviously, just in passing. Then I noticed some random pine cones on the path. I even picked some of them up foor fuel. They weren't like like a straight path or anything, just every 5 feet or so, a random pinecone. Once I started to follow them I was convinced that they weren't actually gonna go anywhere. I just followed them on a whim. It was the most organic, well designed clues I'd seen in a game. Litterally just because I followed some pine cones

[@pmlabowicz3903]

I bought my first switch last Saturday just to play totk, but I'm too addicted to hardcore classic world of warcraft to play it much right now 😆

[@bogywhite9311]

Play the game

[@joshp2080]

I will stand in line until midnight for the release of Zelda Enemas

[@joetenuta]

Breath of the wild was like okay heres the world we created heres a story that we all know and love now go have fun. Tears of the kingdom is like alright how can we scale this to something bigger and better this game has reached my all time greatest ever made because the story the gameplay the exploration you can play this for years and still feel really good about it.

[@jip182001]

Sometimes I feel like I’m playing 3 different because the Sky, the land and underground are so different and I explore them differently

[@Whatarewetalkingabouthere]

Woods point at like 8mins in. Phenomenal

[@Mobik_]

BOTW felt a bit empty... but here I feel that I get into someone all the time, everything feels so alive

[@martindion4846]

This game is something special!

[@bookedfox]

BoTW took me about 100 hours before I went and fought Ganon for the first time; ToTK took me 175. I had played 165 hours by June 8th. Still shifting between being embarrased or impressed for myself about that. Now Im at 185, I really slowed down after beating it. I decided to finish it because I felt that I would get burnout if I didn't lol

[@endless_del]

the thing about the game making you feel smart regardless how you solve a puzzle is so true, but it also has a funny way of making you feel incredibly stupid when you finally realize the "intended" solution. i did a shrine where you had to push a mine cart up a steep rail using a rocket. i couldn't make it work so instead i built myself a staircase out of the carts, used the rockets to create a bridge underneath the upper area, and attach another mine cart at the end of it so i could use ascend to skip the rail puzzle. i felt like a genius. until i realized i was positioning the rocket's tail wrong and that's why it wasn't pushing me up the rail. what should have taken under a minute instead took me 15 😅 i'm still proud of myself for finding a way to hack the system, but damn if i'm not an idiot for it

[@jacobpro_]

Weird how at the 16:30 or so mark, Wood says Tears is “the best game ever made” but now in November 2023, he recently tweeted that BG3 deserves game of the year. What!! If Zelda had come out in Oct/Nov, I think it would be a lock for GOTY but everyone has forgotten how magical Tears is after 6-7 months.

[@maximotheone]

I like to look at the map for little details its how i found stuff in the depth. Knew what structures looked like and marked if i did them its how i found mines and yiga But its also how i got into the lost woods . Couldnt figure it out at first couldnt walk i couldnt skydive in. But as i was scanning the map i saw the silhouette for the rising tower under the lost woods and it clicked.

[@acehumpty8603]

Oh man that cucco stable quest was UH MMMM AH SOO GOOD

[@TheGrossDemon]

It's the fact that I could be skydiving at night and suddenly a shooting star will either start falling with me or fly past me forcing me to chase it down and grab it in the sky is what makes this the best game lol. Just being in the world made BOTW so much fun, but THIS game! This game is so many levels of gaming that it's not even funny.

[@erinjoy8338]

I just started playing today on my new totk oled edition!!! Such a beautiful game

[@Hadosama]

It should be no surprise that TOTK has sold insanely well already (absolutely I don’t wanna take anything from that accomplishment) it’s zelda it’s one of Nintendos triforce if you will which i consider to be to Mario, Pokemon, then Zelda. Zelda is one of the Juggernauts of gaming, it’s a beloved franchise with multiple titles that many people rank as the GOAT. Also TOTK is amazing (other than performance issues)

[@michaelgibson3479]

Technically Nintendo's big three should be mario, Zelda and kirby. I think Nintendo just handles pokemon's marketing, the Pokemon company handles finances and I think the anime and all that and gamefreak makes the games.

[@TheAlibabatree]

Before Botw, Zelda games never sold that well. They sold well enough, but not like crazy double digit mainstream numbers.