Tears of the Kingdom Isn't Perfect (Spoilers) - Scott The Woz

Scott doesn't need credibility, he needs to complain about a Zelda game.
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[@RivalLinkVO]

Glad to see the “Scott bitches about a game he really likes for 35 minutes” genre is still alive and kicking!

[@ThisGuyDannyyy]

This video will be on Trending

[@ThisGuyDannyyy]

If this video gets to #1 on Trending, Scott needs to shave his head

[@VillHelm76]

@@ThisGuyDannyyy nfdl

[@darcidious99]

Actually he hates it, I saw this really cool channel called "scott hates botw" where he said this game was bad, so yeah, he hates it, sorry :/

[@s_oba]

@@darcidious99 😲

[@SunshineCasy]

"When they do your autopsy, you're going to have a different set of teeth." What a creative hate-mail threat! It's intimidating and it evokes curiousity at the same time.

[@ElFreakinCid]

My favourite will always be "When I'm through with you, milk will never taste the same!"

[@Otto_Von_Beansmarck]

@@ElFreakinCid Whilst I do think that's a great threat I find it to be a little too sensually toned which gets in the way of the threat

[@chad9166]

hey we didn't ask

[@JamesTDG]

And that's the kind of insult I've been missing.

[@itzpeanut9904]

@@ElFreakinCid will their confrontation ruin all milk for everyone forever. will they give you milk so good all normal milk is completely bland in comparison?? all good questions but none will receive answers

[@cv7368]

It was legitimately so weird how all marketing around TOTK revolved around the sky islands, when they just ended up being a handful of small optional shrines

[@shinzo111]

Otherwise no one would buy it for… $70!

[@lilaclunablossom]

That's just straight-up a lie but ok

[@shinzo111]

@@lilaclunablossom it’s not a lie, have you seen the map of the sky islands? That and building a car was the only thing they could show in the trailers. Why are you simping so hard for a first party Nintendo game

[@blackchickiedee7]

I was worried about that too. Seeing how Skyward sword didn't quite get the mark with that, I was skeptical on how they would handle sky islands with a bigger map. And turns out they still struggled in that area. Nintendo at times has the right idea for things but has poor execution

[@spaciouswheat4580]

That is genuinely unfactual but alright lol.

[@ariabelove]

The number one thing that threw me off in Tears of The Kingdom is how all of the sheikah technology was just completely missing with no explanation as to why. It just made it seem so disconnected from BOTW

[@jacksonhaslam2753]

Well, not completely missing. You can see a number of spots where it's been repurposed or scavenged for parts, but yeah, they didn't explain a lot of it

[@danibeck3771]

They explained why. Purah and Robbie repurposed it for the sky view towers and their other research

[@woopoganntnt7379]

it was repurposed lol

[@evobsm2328]

​@@danibeck3771 And suddenly AAAAAALLLLL of it is gone? Even the shrine of resurection?

[@spimuru5040]

they retconned sheikah technology but not sasan 0/10

[@Patterrz]

Knowing that Link DOES speak, we just don't see it usually, and having him not explain what's going on to ANYONE is so strange

[@nelsonpina1797]

Also the game is a ripoff of garrys mod

[@joshua-connorknapp5947]

​@@nelsonpina1797points for being unique

[@Finnishmanni]

@@nelsonpina1797 lmao. It kinda is and kinda isn't. Totk is basically just botw with much more simplified gmod building and with a sloppy story.

[@JenukiDa]

it'd be interesting if link had some kind of curse or trauma that made him unable to speak about it maybe

[@adistefano_]

@@nelsonpina1797me when games have physics

[@kayonesoft]

Scott missed talking about the 5th sage, which totally changes EVERYTHING by telling the sage story a 5th time!

[@BestSomebodyNA]

To be fair, the 5th sage actually showed us what actually happened and gave one of the most badass scenes involving royalty characters not named Zelda. But yes i agree it was way too repetitive.

[@captainswagger2838]

​@@BestSomebodyNAthe whole cutscene was amazing, Peak even.

[@kirbyholdingacross7324]

I mean in totk's defense, imagine if you're getting sent out on a battle/ war with NO context of whats happening so your world doesn't succumb to destruction and only your silent friend knows what's going on. Sounds kinda like being drafted

[@ContraG]

Mineru was pointless and useless. I hate how at the end Zelda cries when she leaves and we're expected to care about a her

[@SM-ns9ru]

@@ContraG right exactly. When a character is that underbaked and pointless, yet presented as important and tragic, it leaves a really terrible taste in your mouth.

[@cv7368]

Honestly I feel the biggest thing by far that holds TOTK back is how much it wants to copy BOTW in terms of gameplay but wants to disconnect with BOTW in terms of story. Copying the shrines, temple order, story structure, combat, enemies, UI, items, and unlockables to be nearly identical from BOTW makes the game feel way less unique and fresh. But at the same time, the game weirdly never wants to reference BOTW in the story at any cost.

[@planescaped]

Seriously, it is also trying to have its cake and eat it too. It's trying to be a game for people who never played BoTW, but also trying to be a game for people who played BoTW. As a result its just comes off as a poorly thought out mess that is neither here nor there. It is kind of embarrassing that this is all we got after 6 years and them having the head start of reusing the map...

[@kakyointhemilfhunter4273]

​@@planescapedAll the differences seem like a 2 year dev time to me... Not sure how they stretched it out for 6

[@zemocon2868]

TotK has tons of BotW references. Every significant npc remembers Link and the Calamity is often mentioned.

[@ZeranZeran]

The story is awful and I hate the Zonai design so much. "Ancient warrior tribe" in Botw Somehow turned into weird Furry foxkin human hybrids. They don't even feel like a Zelda creature, it feels like some weird DeviantArt crap

[@ZeranZeran]

@@zemocon2868 I have little interested in walking around and talking to every NPC in sight. The game is somehow worse than BOTW

[@DoktorKumpel]

Would have loved a town in the sky where the robots sell and have some more side quests.

[@Aninefivesiix]

I wish the sky had more content in general

[@Daniel-kx3zz]

I wish the sky had more weight in the story. Prologue and two temples was the entire content. After that, we only have grinding points or shortcuts. The cover sell us a story about the sky but the most important part of the game is underground

[@lozangekitten-gamer7626]

@@Daniel-kx3zz Agreed, I did partake in all shrines, and lightroots, and while the Underground was the best place to mass collect pristine weapons, Amiibo items (assuming players don't own Zelda franchise Amiibo), and a ton of Zonaite for crystallized charges leading to more batteries, there's so much emptiness that you could almost write an elegy joking aside, the Depths being an inverted layout of the surface is really cool, its flora is really creative, and it leaves to imagination how much the Zonai used to thrive down there... although they could have done a tiny bit of a Skyward Sword moment by showing us how lively the depths were and gathering exclusive items that way

[@dylanvo6394]

The fact Scott told his followers on Twitter to upload a voice sample for him to use for a skit shows that this is already a brilliant video, but it’s wholesome for him to do that.

[@enesaue2192]

I think they are KZbin colleagues, not fans. I recognised Schafrilla’s voice in there.

[@staticwarrior]

​@@enesaue2192 nah there was a tweet a while back

[@Nerdtendo6366]

Scott uploading his Cereal video to the PH is still one of his best bits. It’s so simple to yet so effective

[@ThisGuyDannyyy]

This video will be #1 on Trending

[@bill-bath9621]

did he actually do it

[@diamond-sk2ll]

​@@bill-bath9621yes but i think it got taken down

[@MystiKayla27]

​@@bill-bath9621I've heard from a bunch of people it was taken down because he was underage, but yes he actually did that

[@mattmas6628]

@@diamond-sk2ll he is 26, so he wasn’t underage in 2017

[@Stew91]

Scott's summary of TotK's plot is spot on. Also, I like how Ganondorf, for some reason, just chills underground waiting for you to get to him until the end of Link's journey. At least Ocarina of Time Ganondorf had an excuse in the second half, because he essentially won.

[@camquoc5718]

ok

[@lef4843]

aight

[@paul-nj1ig]

He did have a reasom to do that though, he was regaining his strength

[@blakelandry9313]

@@paul-nj1ig and it took him that long lol

[@PatManDX]

@@blakelandry9313 You know what they say, 10000 years can give you such a crick in the neck.

[@sIsReal]

20:31 something that I just realized that I really miss from breath of the wild is the little scenes that we got of the champions and their Divine beasts after you beat the dungeon. Revalis honestly made me tear up when I first saw it. Breath of the wilds story just felt so much more personal

[@ishdaafish]

Cant wait for the "scott hates tears of the kingdom channel" along with more hourly uploads.

[@MacenW]

Scott hates breath of the wild is back baby

[@callmezeldaonemoartime]

@@MacenWScott Hates Breath of the Wild is gone baby

[@CamDaGR8X]

⁠@@callmezeldaonemoartime Scott hates Breath of the Wild is awesome baby

[@fbiagent..]

Don’t forget that channels uploads. Maybe that channel will have minutely uploads

[@Zorgot.]

tbh kinda surprised and happy he committed to the bit and logged back onto that channel just to upload a couple more videos for this

[@superLuigi675]

while i mostly agree with Scott, i’m very surprised he found out about gloom healing foods at the FINAL BOSS

[@willbland981]

They never explained that at all

[@galactirabbit955]

​@@willbland981there's a whole npc in hateno telling you about this

[@Cas593]

To his credit i only learned about it after the credits

[@simeonMichael87]

@@willbland981most of the time items will tell you what they do when you cook them if you read their description, this sounds like your reading comprehension skills r Dawg shit

[@habirton]

Agreed. Gloom resistance is new to me, but I haven't even finished the game yet (doing side quests whenever I get around to playing TOTK). Gloom healing on the other hand is explained/hinted at early on and is kind of a must to explore the depths.

[@trumanway3763]

"first time viewer, long time caller". That is the Internet in a nutshell.

[@facepwnagewtf]

But have you ever considered that everyone on the internet is an idiot?

[@yazeldafan]

Majora's Mask is an example what a sequel should do. The structure is completely different than Oot.

[@rouge939]

Yeah when they announced this game I wondered if they’d take the safe route or do something creative like Majoras Mask. They did the former

[@Mike.3v2.4_YT]

Scott eating cereal on the Hub will forever be iconic.

[@tastypastry04gaming91]

Is that an actual thing?

[@pucco7412]

@@tastypastry04gaming91 do you dare find out

[@TheCrimson__]

I'm pretty sure it use to, but I think it got taken down@@tastypastry04gaming91

[@rojusrutkauskas4952]

​@tastypastry04gaming91 Yes It Is, But The Video Got Deleted

[@insomaniac1796]

​@@rojusrutkauskas4952finally something new to watch there and its gone,bummer

[@iiTsFaded_]

The fact that he asked his entire audience on Twitter to send in voice samples to use in this skit is awesome. It’s great to see he enjoys fan interaction. I think I heard the sample I sent in very briefly during the jumble of dialogue at the end. If so, thanks for including me, Scott!

[@STICKOMEDIA]

I think I was in the jumble too, that would be fun to try to carefully listen to over and over again lmao

[@Ace_defective]

Same here, I don’t know if I’m insane but I think I hear myself in the end there.

[@Kaz_minos]

I also think that, maybe we are in the video, or maybe we're all just crazy, let's believe the one that makes us happier

[@TheKpa11]

Yes eXactly

[@MutaScale]

@@Kaz_minos I swore I heard my voice in the jumble as well. Though that depends, did anyone else hear a mention of Sonichu?

[@user-jt8cc9rs4s]

It is always wild to me how creative your jokes are all for what is often a 1 second payoff. Having the guy say he's going to come to Ohio and then cut to you erasing Ohio from the map is just too clever/funny.

[@user-po3vg5qm7t]

Does Scott live in Ohio?

[@user-jt8cc9rs4s]

@@user-po3vg5qm7t Ohio? Where is that? I don't see it on my map.

[@user-po3vg5qm7t]

@@user-jt8cc9rs4s Who wrote "Ohio" on my map, what? Must be a joke meme or something.

[@bepis_real]

I especially admired the edit for “You” “Me” and “Sh.t in my Pants Jerry” 21:24 for convenience

[@qweb7148]

Fan fact, that was me!

[@yonkadingo3683]

I was so excited when Zonai were confirmed in the game. I remember how much speculation was around the Zonai, spawning dozens of theories. And when we finally get a chance to have the Zonai fleshed out… they aren’t. There are Rauru and Mineru and we learn very little about what the Zonai were like from them. And now Nintendo said they don’t plan on making DLC so I guess the Zonai will go down as a forgotten species in the Zelda games, unless they’re brought back in future titles.

[@netweed09]

Yea, I mean that was my only other criticism of Tears. But sort of that's a back-handed compliment to how interesting the Lore is and the game's potential. No DLC was painful news. The only other I have is that it constantly overheats my Switch and chugs at 20fps!

[@yonkadingo3683]

@@netweed09 Its not a backhanded compliment. There’s is no lore behind the Zonai because we are hardly given any.

[@netweed09]

@@yonkadingo3683 ​ Have you properly played the game or just watching influencer videos? They literally play out scenes from Rauru's time and he gives Us some insight into how the Zonai set up their 'sources of light'. But of course, I already admitted We could have gotten much more and really should have time-travelled back into their world. Though, that would complicate and confuddle things a whole lot. Anyhow, I'm more of a 'Dungeons person' but still they could have done more here too.

[@yonkadingo3683]

@@netweed09 Yes I did play the game 🙄. The flashbacks still give us hardly lore about the Zonai. That’s why I’m complaining about it.

[@netweed09]

@@yonkadingo3683 Watching (nearly) all of them gives Us a little (though I wouldn't say 'hardly any'.) But of course, We could and really should have gotten a lot more. The game could have also built a lot more on top of it, so yea I didn't deny that aspect.

[@Spunow]

Fun fact. If you don't do any of the dungeons prior to fighting Gannon, you have to fight harder versions of every boss in the game before you can fight Gannon. That includes the horde of enemies which you now have to deal with yourself.

[@junktruck]

This happened in the first game as well, but I think it's more overt there because of the fact they also flat-out took chunks out of Ganons health bar

[@ShadowsWrath4]

Banned.

[@dootsouls]

I love how the final Ganondorf boss fight just freaks you the fuck out. The extra-long hp bar, dodging flurry rushes, and permanent health removal is good at getting you to fix your posture.

[@mlwrance]

Completely agree! It's such a great fake out

[@Tyler-sf4kv]

"getting you to fix your posture" is such a good way to put it, and I can't believe I've never heard that phrase before

[@ubermaster1]

That fight was the perfect example of that meme of that guy sitting straight up on his chair, it's exactly what I did once I saw that my HP loss was essentially permanent in the fight.

[@Tokomi]

too bad its still easy

[@Triforce_of_Doom]

On top of that stuff, another bit that hit me was when fucking up like 3 parries was enough to get the "Hylian Shield is heavily damaged" notice. That is one hell of a way to give a Zelda veteran an "oh shit" face.

[@jonathansantiago5327]

The Pie in the Face is funny enough, but the slow real-time motion is pure gold.

[@FenixHalcyon]

This is actually the best and most thorough critique of TotK I've ever seen. Really helped describe how I've been feeling about the game.

[@netweed09]

Wait ,waittt hang on: this guy has 2MN _(2 million)_ Subscribers ,, is doing a video (a critique video no less) on a Zelda game - but as of 0:38 , he has _not_ even completed Ocarina of Time???? Wha?? What did I just listen to?! 😅😄 The _only_ Zelda games he beat was Botw (and now supposedly, Tears of the Kingdom?) I mean, he is funny though.

[@darny2314]

@@netweed09 Not everyone wants to play an outdated game

[@netweed09]

@@darny2314 Calling Ocarina of Time 'outdated' - you ain't got nothing here, lol. Not taking you seriously, you can carry on though.

[@darny2314]

@@netweed09 Yeah I'm not serious but I do think you're a bit strange that not beating OOT makes someone unqualified to critique other Zelda games.

[@netweed09]

@@darny2314 It's not 'strange' at all lol? Rather, the opposite point of view! It's like a wannabe historian not acknowledging History yet jumping in at the top of the Wisdom Tree and saying "Hey,, Listen!!" "I'm _very_ important and my fountain of knowledge is brimming!" I know little to nothing about Xenoblade but its like me playing 3 , never having properly played a Xeno game before and willing to believe the Xenoblade community will consider my opinion important or educated. Yeah its all games but it does matter.

[@jackofdiamonds7303]

Hey Scott, how could you not think this game is perfect? It added pinecones!

[@King_Luigi]

It also lets you make Pizzas!

[@killergrooves2438]

@@King_LuigiI didn’t know that.

[@adistefano_]

@@killergrooves2438that was the working title for this game believe it or not

[@bluehunt3436]

And tomatoes!!

[@bluehunt3436]

@@adistefano_LOL

[@sussybakka3822]

Getting a Scott video a week later is truly a miracle

[@ThisGuyDannyyy]

I bet someone a bitcoin this video will be #1 on Trending

[@StarchEdwards]

Wym, he uploads hourly content

[@Caketurtle7]

@@ThisGuyDannyyygive it to me por favor 🤑

[@Josuh]

@@ThisGuyDannyyy Trending depends on your country but i hope at least one country gets it

[@ThisGuyDannyyy]

@@Josuh it’s #7 on Trending but I want it #1 so he can shave his head

[@legofarm13]

The fuse UI is actually insane, I don’t know how it met Nintendo’s standards when they were doing play testing for game feel. I like that you have to craft things in real-time, but a real-time crafting menu that you had to navigate during gameplay would have accomplished the same goals, and would have made it infinitely quicker and more efficient to make weapons and shields. And arrows, my god, this was the dumbest implementation they could have thought of. Why can’t I just craft arrows in anticipation of a fight like I do with my weapons and shields? Maybe then you could have a limited number of different fused-arrow slots that you could upgrade using Korok seeds. Or hell, just the ability to pin five or six materials instead of having to have it be sorted by “Most Used” would have made me feel way more in control of my experience. I love the idea of the fuse mechanic, but it’s implementation is just needlessly cumbersome.

[@darcidious99]

I like fuse but honestly yeah, a simple crafting system would have gone a lot further.

[@GoreShift]

The greatest addition to this game is Hylian tomatoes

[@darcidious99]

Unironically, I fully agree they're the best food in the game with how easy you get them, and how many hearts they heal in dishes compared to apples/other easy fruits.

[@SirSaizo]

Scott should start a channel called something along the lines of "Scott hates Tears of the Kingdom." that would be pretty unique and original

[@geepsxtreme]

saizo w

[@ArshadZahid_nohandleideas]

Your Soul Matrix stinks

[@Josuh]

common saizo w

[@oof5992]

Rare Mid Hackers 2 W

[@kirklinguinihoodinithecubo8525]

My major complaint about Tears of the Kingdom is how 99% of all NPCs you've encountered in Breath of the Wild don't even remember Link, or Link doesn't even remember details that he already learned.

[@Vyz3r]

It's been 5-7 years since BOTW, nobody's going to remember a face they've only seen once lol

[@kirklinguinihoodinithecubo8525]

@@Vyz3r But Link should at least know what a voe is.

[@Lion-dg5zn]

@@Vyz3rI feel like you’d remember the hero that saved the kingdom you live in tho.

[@Vyz3r]

@@kirklinguinihoodinithecubo8525 How do you know he doesn't when he never talked or showed any reason that didn't?

[@Vyz3r]

@@Lion-dg5zn And many NPCs do. You're forgetting, the people of Hyrule don't have internet or cameras to remember faces. If you were given a $300 tip by a customer as a waiter in a restaurant, would you remember their face after 5-7 years?

[@bandicootsauce4569]

"It's fine. It's fine. It's NOT fine... but it's fine." My thoughts on this game summed up perfectly in ten words.

[@gerardolourdes6501]

That was my exact reaction, every “this is awesome” moment was a second away from a “this sucks” or “this AGAIN?!” Moment.

[@vinegar3617]

I'm glad the honeymoon phase for ToTK was a lot shorter than BotW was. I see a lot more people being openly critical now of this game's flaws, which is nice to see. My personal hope for this game was having more varied interiors and traditional dungeons to just find when exploring the overworld instead of shrines, and my wish was sort of half granted with the inclusion of caves and actual temples, but I can't tell you how disappointed I was when I got to Akkala Citadel and all I saw to explore was a piddly little cave.

[@TealTheDropster]

the reason why the depths feel autogenerated is because it's literally the inverted topography of the main map. The heights are lows and lows are heights. But it's still cool to explore it every once in a while

[@charliez077]

that's the reason indeed - but not an excuse. lierally only like 10% Depths max is truly worth exploring, 90% is boring, repetitive, one-note grindfest. they should have trimmed SO much fat in this game and Depths are a prime example.

[@sigmatheta9399]

The depths were a cool idea but I wish they did flush it out with more cool ideas like more insects down there or different fuse items. Hell theres a ton of spirits down there as well, could easily make side quests or whatnot to let them rest in piece

[@TealTheDropster]

@@charliez077 fair. As someone who lit the entire depths I relate

[@woody5476]

It's pretty useful for stocking up on bombs.

[@xXCrimsonArkXx]

Problem is, I feel like people look to the Depths as if it’s supposed to be seen as an entirely secondary map equivalent to Hyrule. It’s not. It’s like cave systems in a game like Terraria or Sundew Valley, used to collect resources and the like that you use top side. It also incentivizes you to use Zonai vehicles and inventions more to navigate than is necessary topside.

[@Jeb.07]

I thought Ganondorf entirely removing your hearts instead of cracking them was awesome, i was so terrified thinking it might somehow be permanent and i'd have to recollect them

[@tsukinoakuma]

Yeah, by the time you're ready for the final boss, gloom damage means very little because you can cook stuff to replenish it. Removing hearts entirely brings back that sense of dread right in the face of the BBEG.

[@luigiboi4244]

And it's during the phase which is introduced with Ganondorf demonstrating his power by EXTENDING HIS HEALTH BAR TO A HILARIOUS DEGREE. It was a blast watching some of my favorite KZbinrs have a double-take and realize that they're Ralph Wiggum "haha, i'm in danger" when you fight Matt Mercer, the Demon King of Darkness.

[@sigmatheta9399]

THE TENSION IT ADDED GOD IT REALLY ADDED SO MUCH FEAR AND MAKES YOU NOT WANT TO EITHER STAY OUT AND LEARN HIS MOVESET NOR GET TOO GREEDY AND LOOSE HEARTS

[@paulthebukkit]

Nintendo really shot themselves in the foot by reusing the same overworld from its predecessor… in a game series about ADVENTURE and EXPLORATION. BotW was a magical experience for a lot of people because of that constant sense of discovery, but TotK left me feeling empty.

[@thefilmdirector1]

yeah thats my biggest issue. once you go sniff out the few things that changed or are new, its just the same map again, and not as magical because an entire game before it exists.

[@Enigma75614]

I feel like the game only works if you like making contraptions. It’s more of a sandbox than an actual Zelda game.

[@samwatkin5975]

They really should have had the sages have prompts like the bird guy when you’re gliding e.g. shield up you can press the button to trigger the water shield, aiming with bow you can press a button for the lightning girls ability

[@nicocchi]

This just in: "Scott is publicly crucified by rabid Zelda fans, moderate and reasonable Zelda fans saw it coming from a mile away anyways but simply stood to admire the show"

[@ShaunRF]

FYI, you don't need to open the main menu to fuse items, you can do it from quick menus just like with arrows. It doesn't fix your item rolling away issue though, since it still drops the item on the ground.

[@bigPauliee]

WHAT I CANT BELIEVE I DIDNT KNOW THIS

[@Daluna13]

29:15 I love how the only one that seemed to insult him was the one that insult another person as well

[@williamwallace5931]

TOTk may not be a perfect sequel but this video is

[@MacenW]

Amen

[@Melky_Man]

You haven't even had enough time to watch a minute of it

[@jeremylinfanboy8908]

The glazing is crazy you haven’t even finished it yet

[@Personthatexists]

didnt watch the video

[@TyphonFX]

Dawggg it just came out how did you watch all 30 min of it in 3 min???

[@kadabraguy9846]

Great video Scott, but it could have been enhanced by saying "Demon King? Secret Stone?" at least four times

[@proughboy]

The fact that they are called “secret stones” is one of my biggest annoyances with this game. What a stupid and generic name for something so powerful I love TOTK but I’m glad Scott put the story on blast. I heard so many people saying it was an improvement on BOTW’s story which baffles me. BOTW’s story was shallow and slightly “been there done that” but at least had some cool lore reveals and felt cohesive. TOTK’s story felt like a bad anime

[@erkantiryaki5542]

​@@proughboy wow that is a hot take if i ever saw one.

[@himeistrying]

2nd floor basement? Metal gear?

[@screebgaming8454]

Not excusing the bad name, but apparently it’s a direct translation from the japanese version. I do think a cooler-sounding localized name would have done wonders.

[@orb9760]

Second floor basement? Psycho Mantis?

[@fatgods2921]

Totally agree with Scott's take on the story of Tears of the Kingdom. There's a painfully apparent drop in the writing quality between 2017 and 2023. When people say that the story in Tears of the Kingdom is better than in Breath of the Wild, it makes me skeptical of everything else they say about the game because I begin to assume recency bias is swaying their opinion.

[@internettraveler8666]

Tears of the Kingdom was marketed as if it was gonna fold the old Zelda timeline into the switch era games. It actually decanonized most of them and even contradicted botw.

[@blackchickiedee7]

I was really hoping that the story would keep me coming back for more in TotK but honestly it was just as frustrating as the rest of the game was for me. Not only does it seem shallow and has a lackadaisical plot but Zelda kinda just let everything happen. She went down deep in the chasms of Hyrule castle, saw murals of the past, took pictures, physically saw the mummified corpse who even mentioned Rauru's name, and when she gets transported back to the past and she doesn't say anything to the people who hold a resemblance to said murals? She can't put two and two together that Ganondorf is responsible for the Calamity? Especially when she sealed Calamity GANON for 100 years! I was so mad that when Sonia got killed then she wanted to warn Rauru? Umm too late for that pointdexter. I just... it blows my mind and I'm even more astonished that people are like not even aware of this and still claim the story is better in TotK. I'm not a huge fan of BotW's story but, at least it tried to make sense of what happened and the theme of moving forward and be open to change, accepting your failures yada yada. I don't know what TotK was trying to do...

[@napoleonfeanor]

I think the side quest chains make the world feel more lived in

[@theclassyguy4665]

I like totks story better and zelda is kinda dumb but even if she warned them what was gonna happen things could've gone different Example ganodorf fials to kill soina then finds out about the other 4 stones could you imagine Ganondorf with 4 stones there's no stopping him Also sage abilities are hard to use but the are pretty funny when you and the sages are beating the rap out of 1 enemy Also zelda kind of made up for stripey by essentially committing suicide by doing dragconifaction BTW botw and totk are my top two games Botw 2 And Totk 1 I like totks mechanics better than breath of the wild s and the armor sets are cooler in my opinion oh and the Cillian is cool as heck but to be fair the game does not have a motorcycle so botw will always have that over totk oh forgot to mention cogara may be a easy boss but the muiscic fire and I think that's a universally agreed opinion I just can't stop finding things in totk to do hell I didn't even start to upgrade my armor until 430ish hours in Also I kinda agree about the great Plato being a better starting area especially in master mode where there's a lynel botw does do alot better but in .y opinion totk is better overall and your completely allowed to disagree

[@shyguyrocks1]

Typically from what I've seen, it's a good amount of Zelink lshippers who are very overtly emotional at the sight of Zelda and Link actually interacting so much. I've not seen a single person who doesn't ship them that thinks this story was great and "emotional"

[@AbruptAvalanche]

The "climbing in the rain" situation is undeniably improved in TotK. The additions of the froggy armor and slip resistance elixirs are great. The trick is to leap right before you think you're going to slip. You're not going to want to climb huge cliffs this way, but it's at least something. The upgraded froggy set even gives full slip immunity, though that's a late game thing. And of course, you don't even need to climb as much as in BotW. There are so many alternative ways of getting elevation: ascend, recalling a fallen rock, rocket shields, hot air balloons, and any other flying vehicles.

[@SteveJobs_]

Yes so the froggy armor is in fact almost useless..

[@AbruptAvalanche]

@@SteveJobs_I disagree. Even with one or two pieces on, I could get up walls that I wouldn't normally be able to. The trick is to not leap so much (ironic for a "frog" armor, I know).

[@huehuehue27]

31:50 to be fair about the meal prepping for the final fight, you can use the portable zonai cooking pots to get meals to prepare right before you fight ganondorf

[@TheLronGiant]

I think the bigger issue is having played 100+ hours and not being aware of gloom resistant meals or armor or other buffs by that point. Like he said he learned about them after trying Ganondorf. Like the game throws this info in your face constantly, lines your pockets with sundelions, characters constantly talk about sundelions curing gloom, there are quests for it, random people in the world that give you rewards for helping cure them, people at lookout landing won’t stop talking about it, that one really rewarding side quest in kakariko. Enormous skill issue on that complaint.

[@lucalamanna-vg2bz]

that's actually what I did, I felt really smart doing it

[@Gzilla313]

I dropped a warp point close to the boss fight so I could fast travel past all the enemies after fully prepared

[@Moegivesmelife]

@@TheLronGiantAgreed. Also, even the Sundelion description itself tells you about the gloom resistance! And that text box is going to be directly in your face the first time you find the material! It begs the question if Scott read even half of the stuff in the game or if he just has a terrible memory despite the constant reminders. 😅

[@huehuehue27]

@@Moegivesmelife yea i just cooked loads of sundelions before the ganon fight

[@jacobmonks3722]

I think my biggest problem with the story in TOTK is how the story already happened, and there's very little that Link himself actually does in it despite Zelda saying he is the one who will save everyone. All Link does in Totk is talk to people, kill a few monsters, and then take out Ganon, and it doesn't feel like he actually had an impact on the world. In Skyward Sword, Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess, Majora's Mask, and Wind Waker, Link has more responsibility and actually affects the course of the story and the lives of the people in the world. I think MM and TP did that part the best. In Botw, the fact that the story happened in the past was actually pretty cool because you could see the results of the Calamity on Hyrule. Many places are decimated, and you see the people slowly picking up the pieces and moving on, which helped drive home one of Botw's main themes: Moving forward and creating something new. The world in Totk doesn't have that same satisfying demonstration of cause-and-effect. Outside of the 4 major quests, the world feels more or less indifferent about what has happened, if they are even aware in the first place.

[@lucalamanna-vg2bz]

Have you...played BOTW? The story is literally 90% done by the time you get to play

[@jacobmonks3722]

@@lucalamanna-vg2bz Did you... finish reading my comment? I addressed why I think it works in Botw and not Totk.

[@Thequotequotequoteq]

This, but for ganondorf. Quite possibly his coolest design is wasted as he does literally nothing until the final battle. You get to see him in visions doing extremely devastating shit to the world with the tear that he still possesses as he sits underground, but open story and non linearity has been prioritized once again in a story where it didn’t even really belong this time.

[@armzngunz]

@@Thequotequotequoteq Imagine if what Ganondorf does in the memories instead happened in the present, when going up against Link? How amazing would the story of Totk be if there was zero time travel, if some variation of it all happened as you progressed through the game? What we got was: Ganondorf fucks off at the beginning of the game and you don't see him again until the end of the game. The meat of the story happens in the past, with no influence on the world except "exposition dump"

[@Deletetarek]

I’m sorry but the world being indifferent to the upheaval and Link’s actions is entirely wrong and you must simply be misremembering the game. Ofc there are the obvious main 4 quests but outside of that the great fairies are disturbed and you have to rebuild a musical troupe in order to bring them back out. The korok forest is entirely zombified all the way down into the depths which you help heal. Pirates have taken over eventide and lurelin, the latter which you help physically rebuild which is rewarded with the villagers gratitude and special treatment. You help a group of warriors led by Hoz to take out large monster camps to bring peace to hyrule. All of the stable quests involve helping the locals and finding clues about Zelda’s whereabouts and actions, and it’s a nice mix up of the misdoings of puppet Zelda and the kind acts of the real Zelda aiding the people. You help with local town politics, the school, and the garden in Hateno village. You help Mattison and her parents during the buildup to her departure to Gerudo town which leads to one of the most heartfelt moments in the series. This is all off the top of my head there were plenty more like it throughout the game. Plenty of things to dislike ToTK for but I don’t think the world being indifferent is one of those reasons, it’s arguably one of the game’s best aspects.

[@hootenannyskeleton]

my biggest complaint is how they just completely erased the shekiah technology. no trace of it at all

[@highdefinition450]

that's your biggest complaint? god, i wish i was like you lol i'm so disappointed smh man

[@darcidious99]

Worst part is there's a guardian corpse on the hateno lab... So yeah this literally makes 0 fucking sense🤣

[@planescaped]

I like how videos from people saying Tears of the Kingdom was mediocre not long after it came out got trashed by the frenzied Zelda hordes, while videos saying ToTK was mid a few months later has everyone quietly nodding in assent. The sky islands are neat but inconsequential, the depths are a great idea but suck in practice, and the hyrule in-between is way to recycled from BoTW with no where near enough changes having been made to keep it interesting. It is honestly kind of embarrassing that this is all they did after all that development time and with such a head start from reusing BoTW's map... In my playthrough I'd gotten all the memories and the master sword after doing 2 regions, and it really broke the story. Whereas getting all the memories and the master sword in BoTW after even 1 region works fine.

[@CasepbX]

I never even got all the memories in BOTW LOL

[@derf213]

My biggest criticism of the story comes from me finding all the tears before completing a single dungeon. That one action completely and entire killed the stakes for me. Your telling me that im supposed to go off to find Zelda? I already know where she is. Why does nobody acknowledge that link knows EXACTLY what happened to zelda. Even if they had it so if you completed the memories the focus shifted to gathering the difrent tribes to tey and save zeld, but no. Where is Zelda? Shes not herself anymore

[@evdestroy5304]

I did the same thing

[@EthelonYT]

Extremely poor bit of writing, can't believe they didn't consider how jarring it would be

[@nevermind3476]

you don't even have to find all the tears. just happening to get a few of the right ones early spoils all the plot twists, but you still have to sit through all the nonsense because link just refuses to tell anyone anything. getting the one that shows the fake zelda as my second tear and still having to listen to every npc go "why is zelda evil now!?!?!?" was absolutely madenning.

[@iTouchin]

True dat, I guess that's what comes with the cost of freedom in deciding where to explore and what you want to do in a non-linear manner. Still, writing some alternative texts to at least acknowledge some events would keep some immersion to the story.

[@ZekeTrailblazer]

The thing is though, is even though you have those memories, there still is another 'Zelda' that you physically see wandering modern hyrule. Maybe Link is just as confused and trying to figure out what is going on, and finding this 'modern' Zelda is the key. Telling everyone else she died to become a giant dragon would just cause chaos in the kingdom.

[@eXimiusMax]

20:59 This was one of my biggest gripes in the game and I’m so glad someone is finally bringing it up! Link is the main character, but he doesn’t have any character this time and just sits back as everyone else has the spotlight and I really don’t like it. The fact that this is the only game where he’s meant to explicitly be his own character to the point you can’t even name him this time, but then has less personality than almost all the other 3D Links that came before is mind-boggling! I was hoping we’d get to see more about him in this game since BotW didn’t deliver, but I guess not.

[@hotdog8109]

It’s so strange since AoC *did* give him a lot of character.

[@PlayingWithIssues]

He has plenty of character but they're in the dialogue options with the NPCs who also treat him differently when he speaks to them naked or on an elevated surface like a table indoors. Cutscene wise no, I think he's meant to be as much of a self insert as possible

[@jakedematteo2172]

Completely incorrect

[@natecgames4612]

Reminds me of how I obtained all of the memories before fighting the phantom ganon in Hyrule Castle specifically because it's set up like it's the end of the game. So I knew Zelda was fake, had to deal with the fact that I was following a fake zelda, and watching the characters realize it when link doesn't say a damn thing about how zelda can "time travel."

[@jakedematteo2172]

@@natecgames4612 link didn’t know that

[@tuvillo]

It hits exactly the same bullet points as BotW but fucks up every step of the way. - The cutscenes related to the old Champions were replaced with the same cutscene 5 times. This leads to not a single character having any significant screentime, except maybe Sidon. - The memories don't nearly work as well fragmented as the memories in BotW - Spoiling elements of the story by finding and doing stuff in specific unintended orders is a much bigger problem than in BotW

[@brendy3665]

I hate how nobody is talking about where the actual hell the divine beasts went, this game doesnt recall them once besides the exclusive amiibo helms but besides that this game feels like the last games story never existed besides defeating ganon

[@TimeBucks]

This made my blood pressure rise

[@nazkhan3506]

👍

[@nadeemasif5640]

Nice

[@vennilamahavlogs1924]

Good

[@dipchandbaraily9025]

👍

[@Riaz977]

Good 👍

[@the8bitbuilder_486]

24:01 Omg is that Schaffarillis?

[@froakachu8077]

Indeed it is

[@themchannel853]

Scott's a unique breed that can speak for half an hour about things he doesn't like about a game and conclude it with the game being one of his favorites of all time 😅

[@2Scribble]

He *IS* a Nintendo Fan xD

[@NestorEspitia-rl5xo]

​@@2Scribble And Totk IS a great game.

[@anonymous_5016]

​@@NestorEspitia-rl5xo What parts of it do you consider great?

[@ts7844]

I like many people played through the story and then dropped it like a stone and I can’t tell you how big of a Zelda fan I am. I just wasn’t interested in exploring the same land again.

[@firesd7306]

I genuinely hate how little there is to do in the sky islands. When the name "sky archipelago" was revealed my mouth hit the floor thinking theres gonna be so much up there its gonna be little pockets of world in the sky! Theyre just shrines but elevated 2000 feet. Same with the depths. We had absolutely no idea the depths were even a thing before release, so an entirely new map to explore? Yes please! I can count on one hand the interesting things there are in the depths.

[@enemystand2981]

It feels like the devs saw those subpar subterranean areas in Elden ring and decided to add it late in development tbh

[@lilaclunablossom]

@@enemystand2981 Hating the depths is one thing, but ER's underground sub-par??

[@lilaclunablossom]

I get you might be using hyperbole, but if that's true, you just didn't explore the depths that much or you have a bad memory

[@enemystand2981]

@@lilaclunablossom nah I did, I just thought it was incredibly monotonous and relatively shallow. Astel and the deer were really badass though

[@Xanthony1k]

@@enemystand2981The malice bosses, the dungeon boss re-fights? Koga hideouts? 3 Entire dungeons? Pretty damn cool geographical locations and structures? All the easter eggs with the past weapons and armors? Good resources to stock up on? I wouldn’t necessarily call it shallow to be honest, but I can see where you’re coming from

[@Wraiven22]

Scott is actually starting to look like an adult and it's scaring me

[@JCDR68]

Hmmmmmm

[@paledrake]

He looks the same for me.

[@Josuh]

Nah that's just whenever he cuts his hair short, his age corresponds to how long his hair is, the longer, the younger

[@zukratzandljoe]

@@Josuh so that means he looks like a chewbaca when he was 1 years old

[@chiquita683]

*Chris Hansen enters the chat*

[@geminisfl]

My main gripe is: TOO MUCH POWER. You see.... There really is something special about that first playthrough of BOTW that I don't quite think TOTK managed to match. And I think it's because BOTW with all the freedom it gave to you, also restricted you in a way that every achievement felt very satisfying. It made you proud every time you climbed a mountain. I remember reaching the top of Dueling Peaks and feeling like the best thing I've ever done in a videogame. But then you pick TOTK, you build a motorbike with two fans and ... ¡BOOM! You're on top of Hyrule Castle in two minutes. I felt too overpowered in TOTK to feel proud of my achievements... that's why I keep BOTW a little bit closer to my heart than TOTK.

[@nintendomhour]

But i think thats kinda what makes it cool tho? like, hey we climbed onto this mountain in botw already, so hey: lets just completely break the game and fly over it

[@geminisfl]

@@nintendomhour that's a very valid point, but it doesn't change the fact that for me (and that's absolutely personal oppinion) Link was too overpowered in regards of travelling the world. But I really do like your reasoning behind it.

[@jedimasterpickle3]

...I didn't know you couldn't leave the approach to Ganondorf, but I should have realized this. I noticed that I wasn't able to put down a travel medallion. Luckily I was over-prepared, but still. My main complaint about TOTK honestly is how useless the sages are in both gameplay and story. They were great in their respective temples, but outside of that? Maybe if their abilities were on the rune wheel, but it just wasn't worth it for me to walk to up most of them to do a small attack. Tulin is the main exception as he's a fantastic mobility tool. Sidon is a special case in that he's useful for the Zora spear, and...that's it. If I want explosions, I have bomb flowers. If I want a lightning blast, I have shock fruit and yellow chu chu jelly. If I want to slowly walk around and use Zonai devices? I don't, but I could fuse them to my shield. And then the sages' powers are just...unavailable during the finale at all. Their avatars disappear, and while they do show up to help take out some trash mobs and distract the temple bosses...that's basically it? First phase Ganondorf they're not there, second phase they're only there for part of it and then they get knocked the fuck out for the rest of the finale. So....what did they do? Why did Link need their help?

[@jedimasterpickle3]

@@jNabe OK, not useless. Niche, then.

[@nintendomhour]

WAIT YOU CAN USE SIDON FOR HEAT RESISTANCE??@@jNabe

[@JunohProductions]

It felt like the sky islands needed more connections to one another. Maybe have a system of rails that go between most of them. Anything to keep us in the air for longer than it takes to boil relish.

[@DanielMazahreh]

That’s a YOU problem. Clearly, you do not know how to plan ahead and build vehicles to reach from island to island.

[@bobzillathebabykicker2981]

yeah, they're "islands" in the "sky" they're supposed to be isolated. it's an abandoned kingdom, that's why it's empty. They're all design choices. The very zonai devices u find littering the sky are used to traverse it.

[@vadoslink446]

After playing Sonic Frontiers…no…no rails in the sky please

[@JunohProductions]

@@vadoslink446 I haven't played that yet so it still sounds like a good idea to me.

[@vadoslink446]

@@JunohProductions It isn't. It makes the world look like absolute garbage

[@BugsyFoga]

Still kind of hard to mentally process the fact that breath of the wild is over half a decade old.

[@kirin1230]

...holy

[@STICKOMEDIA]

Time flies...

[@Kooptj]

And that mario 3d world is almost a decade old

[@Jcktmn]

If you think that's crazy gta 5 has been out for a decade, across three different console generations.

[@morganlehman123]

why would you say that

[@stevencurtis7157]

I genuinely expected Ganondorf to proactively _do something_ after gathering all the sages, because after playing BotW several times I'd gotten quite good at the game and cleared out the four temples rather quickly. I expected the second half of the game to open up and for the depths and sky to become significant, since they each had one major point of interest. Instead, much like this post, it was just suddenly over.

[@caulkchopper]

You can tell a game isn’t perfect if your die hard Nintendo fan friend couldn’t even push himself to get off the starting island

[@Sir_Adam]

No joke, one of my biggest disappointments was that the Akkala Citadel interior wasn't explorable. Just a generic. cave.

[@MacenW]

TOTK moment right here

[@planescaped]

One of my biggest disappointments is that the entire world is full of nothing but ruins and shanty towns still despite nearly 10 years having passed since BoTW. Reminded me of Fallout 3 again and people living with skeletons and 200 year old trash.

[@Sir_Adam]

@@planescaped yeah sadly another thing I wished they improved.

[@hooligan740]

25:28 made me laugh a lot harder than it should have

[@jameslawrenson1208]

IT'S MISSING!!!

[@SeanFerree]

Same 😆😆😆😆

[@technofreak319]

Future meme template 😂😂

[@fish.967]

that "OH NO" was agonising

[@TheCreepypro]

if we can't critique the things we love than we don't really love them

[@DesTr069]

Scott, you forgot there’s portable cooking pots you could have used before the final fight 😅

[@DieselD7101]

I love the running gag of Scott using the Thomas the Tank Engine theme in his videos. I don’t know why, it’s just really amusing how much he uses it.

[@nhbons783]

When?

[@leandru7]

@@nhbons783 He uses it when he throws up text on the screen saying something like "3 minutes later" as a transition. Like, you know how Spongebob does that and the French narrator reads it? Scott does it with the Thomas the Tank Engine theme instead.

[@jordonlu2872]

@@nhbons783gag just before endcard

[@foreverfizz8]

Biggest gripe is 100% the spirit companions. Like why is it all the same button? They were the jankiest thing in the game imo. A lot of the other complaints were fine for me because I found ways around them, but the spirits were so sad in practice.

[@gerardolourdes6501]

I’d rather have a shorter game and smaller world for the sake of a great story and memorable locations *takes cover*

[@aceofspadez131]

It's nice to know I'm not the only person that started this game and said, "Wait a minute ... I beat this game afew years ago..." 😅.

[@mafuletrekkie]

I describe this feeling to my friends thusly: If you told me I had to play Tears of the Kingdom I'm sure I would enjoy the game again. If you told me I had to play Breath of the Wild I would be excited.

[@stammesbruder]

Absolutely. BotW just tied everything together way better while also keeping pretty much everything optional. TotK makes a big deal out of everything but barely makes these things satisfying as there is most of the time an underwhelming or annoying element to it.

[@sumnahlennon5449]

​​@@stammesbruderWhere were you guys when TOTK fans attacked anyone that dare say anything negative about it? That dare say it isn't 10/10

[@TheKpa11]

If I had a dime every time I heard a reviewer say “it’s not perfect” and or “Is it perfect? No” I’d be on the run by the government

[@King_Luigi]

Same for when reviews say "It's a step in the right direction.", typically for multiple games in a row.

[@YungLilBoii]

Played this game for like 10 hours. 4 months later and i haven't even thought about picking it up again. Don't know why, but I really dislike it.

[@the_legendary_fire]

Some games aren't for everyone just play what you legitimately enjoy

[@steelbear2063]

You might just not be in the mood. For me it's totally normal to have huge breaks between playing a game. Hell recently I got every achievement in a game I haven't played for almost 2 years. So don't get any bad ideas

[@Sush]

Have you

[@YungLilBoii]

@Sush still haven't picked it up since. I put in like 200 hrs of BotW. TotK isn't interesting.

[@umbreeunix]

Okay, I just realized the reason they probably don't let players give Link a custom name, and I don't think it has anything to do with storytelling or immersion, it's because of the VOICE ACTING. Locking him to one name, 'Link', was their only option if they didn't want to remove every utterance of his name and/or give him a bunch of nicknames. (which isn't an issue in the previous text based games, where voice acting was mainly for sound effects)

[@extra4542]

You really hit the nail on the head on how similarly structured this game is to BOTW. It’s especially crazy to me that no one else critiques how the 4 sage story cutscenes are the exact same, why did it need to be this way?? People only accept it bc it’s Zelda

[@ElliotKeaton]

Lots of people complained about that though?

[@amandaslough125]

​@@ElliotKeatonMore meming with secret stone? Demon king? Not enough actually discussing what could've been done for the cutscenes instead.

[@ElliotKeaton]

@@amandaslough125 The idea that people accepted it because it was Zelda is still wrong though. It was dumb and they thought it was dumb. They should've just changed their dialogue based on the order you see those cutscenes in if they wanted to make it so that they could be done in any order without missing anything.

[@foodpls]

Watch Nerrel’s review

[@netweed09]

@@foodpls Lol, he gave me a headache how clueless he was! He literally shows clips in-game of him being needlessly incompetent and waffling. Baseless bias at it's finest.

[@Idyllicinnocence]

in both botw and totk the first thing I did was collect the memories because I'm a sucker for narrative... issue with doing this in totk though... you spend the rest of the game being constantly asked what happened to Zelda.. when you know exactly what happened and you were even just with her, but nothing is ever said and that quest doesn't complete till the end of the game. drove me absolutely nuts....

[@mrshmuga9]

What I found annoying is that the tear number doesn’t coincide with the cutscene number. So tear #2 could be cutscene #6. And even when you _do_ follow the path the game pushes you towards (I think Wind > Fire > Lightning > Water dungeons), the tears along that trek still are random. You’d have to find a guide that actually tells you which tear is which cutscene to figure out what order it is to unlock them chronologically. But you’re not gonna do that on your first time and risk spoiling the story or other aspects, so you just experience a mess. I didn’t find cutscene #1 until over 200 hours in. I thought it was done that way because it was some huge revelation to the story. Not really. You’re told you can both repair the Master Sword and strengthen it further. But given Ganon broke it already, something obviously had to give to win. And it’s not like knowing this beforehand would’ve ruined the surprise of Zelda becoming a dragon. That was already foreshadowed multiple times. I mean, when it was first mentioned to Zelda she didn’t even reject it as an option, and then turn around later. She never dismissed it as an option, just other people. So in the same scene it was mentioned it her lack of negative reaction basically foreshadowed “she’s obviously going to do it later”.

[@hododod246]

Yes from Link’s perspective you saw what happened to Zelda. But again from Link’s perspective it is kinda unbelievable. You saw Zelda turning a Dragon but is it really truth. Maybe Zelda he was seeing in Hyrule were real one but memories were fake?

[@Urmom-bz7mk]

The problem too is that even if you are very story driven and go memory hunting immediately in botw, the game forces you to space it out with gameplay as you need to explore in order to find any of the landmarks in the pictures. And as exploration is the core of the game, you get a seamless and well-paced blend of story progression and game progression-explore a new area, find a new memory; it works. But with totk, instead you get these massive geoglyphs that are just impossible to ignore, you can EASILY find most of them within the first few hours. And because people are like “oh look a shiny interesting thing that stands out golly” they’ll speed through the story in the first 10% of their total playtime which just feels…clunky from a pacing perspective alone. From a story perspective, it’s just…terrible for all the reasons y’all already said.

[@GoronMerchant]

Tears of the Kingdom is a Awful Zelda game. 5 months later, nobody is allowed to talk negative about it….

[@the_legendary_fire]

This video has a lot of likes for a "controversial opinion" I loved the hell out of TOTK but I can still see flaws and I like the video for not being scared to point that out

[@PickledKong64]

​@@the_legendary_fireI Kade a review on launch and people hated on me. Now everyone is agreeing with my points

[@unclephillymya]

6:19 I almost had a stroke this shit is too funny to be allowed

[@tisftfctd]

Although the depths are not Auto-Generated, they weren't uniquely designed, all the terrain is just an inverse version of the surface. All the hills on the surface are valleys in the depths and vice versa, Even the lightroots are in the same places as the shrines from the surface. This is what gives the feeling of them being 'auto-generated'. Because the surface map was not designed with being flipped in mind, the depths feel weird to traverse and do not follow many game design principles. I personally find this harshness to fit the theming of the depths well, but I understand why they feel auto-generated.

[@AceZephyr1]

I like how this reversal of the surface is sort of how the depths works thematically. Even the Lightroot names are the reverse of their respective Shrine names

[@_fudgepop01]

..that makes SO MUCH SENSE from a data storage perspective, omg

[@katherinehackworth]

I'm not sure if it actually saves them any space for storing the world mesh because there's enough differences with weird roots going places and different structures and stuff

[@tisftfctd]

@@_fudgepop01 I know! This is kind of similar to old games reusing color pallets, it saves space and still makes sense from a thematic view as well!

[@tisftfctd]

@@katherinehackworth Even if it doesn't save much space, it definitely saves development time while still being a unique area to explore.

[@lysander-the-spearman9577]

24:07 IS THAT SHAFFIRILAS?!?!

[@justsomedude5727]

I would have liked to have almost the whole game take place on sky islands, like a windwaker/skyward sword combo

[@XxGimmeDANGERxX]

Someone told me the ending made them cry.I'm not sure I was playing the same game

[@malikoniousjoe]

Hey be more fair, they’re a Nintendo fan… It’s probably like their second game ever and they’re mentally 14.

[@donovan802]

I’m excited for Bloopers to show how many takes that pie segment and water segment took 😂

[@nathanielhart227]

If you get the full froggy outfit and upgrade it you become "slip proof." You can literally walk up walls without climbing it's fucking insane

[@Rohgamu]

Poppycock!

[@RandomDude647]

It shouldn't take that long to get rid of slipping. In fact, why is slipping even a mechanic? How does it, in any way, make the game more enjoyable?

[@ricketyanthony]

​@RandomDude647 It incentives you to use other things, like a spring, rocket, cooking potions, ascend, etc. As Ratotsker said, "If I ever have to climb for a longer period of time in TotK, I have failed at the game."

[@teenageapple3788]

Wait. Walk?

[@puffmain3276]

Ah yes, the armor that you only will get after doing basically everything in the game, how useful

[@alex.g7317]

Honestly, what I hate most about this is the talking. I’m never just allowed to get my horse out or fix a simple sign without tonnes of text first. It’s just so annoying so I try to skip it all, but that still takes a long time because I have to wait for all the text to finish loading before skipping it…

[@compassrose1466]

It’s so funny how they made it this huge thing with Zelda being around more…and then she wasn’t. Imagine them making it where you can switch between them and so Zelda sees herself destroying stuff and having to relearn what happened with the original king and queen. Like WHY would you advertise Zelda SO much….just to make her unplayable?????

[@JackMcSomeone]

32:31 "Tears of the Kingdom isn't perfect, much like every game ever made." EXACTLY!! There's no such thing as a "perfect game". No matter how good a game is, there will always be some flaws to find in it

[@OnTheRocksGamingShow]

Agreed.

[@hezzahexa1132]

The water is water

[@daniellejackson6543]

Especially considering how some aspects are considered flaws to some while not to others.

[@TheKingOfIdiots]

I actually agree with the slow intro, I was so grateful when I was able to leave the place. I also agree with the clunkiness of the new abilities.

[@TV2_Productions]

Something I noticed was that in every thumbnail, Scott is outside the blue border, meaning he is more powerful, then endless power itself

[@David-gj6dc]

For me, the biggest problem with the game was when I realized how pointless traversal was when I found out how to make a hoverbike. It completely kills the feeling I had in botw where getting from A to B felt fun and as a result made the traversal incredibly boring.

[@ValorDucky]

Thing that bothered me with the story is they emphasized turning into a dragon is irreversible. So I thought there would be some actual consequences this time. But suddenly that didn't apply to Zelda. The only half assed explanation was the light and time power channeled through Link or some sh!t, and Zelda just accepts it without any follow up question.

[@GamebustersUK]

Because nintendo are cowards and probably thought majority of people wouldn't be happy that zelda stayed a dragon

[@jamesmccloud1002]

Part of me enjoyed the "sacrifice" but deep down I knew they'd turn her back into herself.

[@ValorDucky]

@@jamesmccloud1002 I wouldn't mind if there was some good story reason why she was able to change back. But the reason here was basically, "magic, I think".

[@blackchickiedee7]

Right! Like, it would have been fine if they explained that turning her back was possible or there was a way to revert the process during cutscenes - since the story's theme is about "sacrifice" I guess, hell Link could have even sacrificed his life to bring Zelda back. Give us something Nintendo. Not this deus ex machina "friendship is magic" tomfoolery. Why would you build it up as to turning into a dragon is permanent, that's why it's forbidden, and then just have it fall flat to "oh okay the stones magic did it" what? Y'all couldn't fend off Ganondorf but you can turn dragons back into people? This story was so bad😭😭😭😭😫😫😫😫 thanks, I hate it Nintendo

[@amandaslough125]

​@@ValorDuckyIf this was an older Zelda game, you'd go around helping each tribe. You'd get the Master Sword at the midway point. Once you learn the secret, the 2nd story arc would've been to research how the heck to reverse the process (you know, this is modern day, we have access to new info that the Zonai didn't. We're willing to try stuff). Then it would've worked. But the stucture ruins any semblance of the story they have. Link doesn't even get to meet Sonia.

[@Johdanlop]

I can't believe Scott hates Breath of the Wild came back! Such a classic! ❤

[@leahluostarinen]

Hhhmmm!! I wonder why 🤔

[@Raddish-IS-Radd]

You criticism.

[@antonioortizburciaga1158]

I liked the game. But its funny how rushed this "6 years in the making-built over a previous one" game feels in some basic aspects.

[@acmiguens]

The fact that using horses is still awful bugs me

[@jelloshot]

the dragon tear visions should have just played in order regardless of what glyph you’re interacting with.

[@7Zealot]

This is probably the closest to "full agreement" I can get with my own opinions of this game. I was also happy to see Scott appreciates the functionality and overall effectiveness of BotW's story, as I often find myself explaining why I think it's so good for what it is to others. It feels good to know I'm not completely alone! Though I have to say, the death threats Scott gets are way funnier than the ones I get. That dental records one? Golden.

[@IceYetiWins]

Same for me except the part at the end, this is nowhere near greatest game of all time. Botw was amazing, probably my 2nd favorite game I've ever played, but tears was just meh. It feels like the same map, same enemies, same characters, same story structure (but done worse), with some "big" additions like the sky islands and depths that are really just empty. The abilities are one of the only redeeming factors of the game but don't make up for all the other bad stuff. I still play it for the same reason I kept playing botw, to explore the world, discover places I haven't seen before, do random quests, and this is the only time besides the beginning I've rally enjoyed it, even though I could basically do the same things in botw. This game should have been better.

[@7Zealot]

@@IceYetiWins I enjoyed BotW more too. To be clear, I do think TotK is amazing in its scope, and there's a lot to like about it. But I think the thing I agree with the most with Scott's video is the "clunk" part. In BotW, the exploration felt a lot smoother and more natural, to me at least. In TotK, the main thing is that I honestly get tired of piecing things together constantly. I get that Ultrahand is amazing, but it really feels like it slows the game down in some ways. It just isn't for me, even though it's an amazing feature.

[@charliez077]

@@IceYetiWins agreed 100%, I thought Scott's vid was generally on point but... I don't agree with the ending - I loved BoTW but ToTK is legit a bottom 5 Zelda for me. recycled and bloated as hell (with a crap story too)

[@charliez077]

@@7Zealot 'amazing in its scope' - yep, the problem is when I played the game more and more I started to realise it just doesn't manage to warrant all that scope with diverse/fun gameplay and content at all. BoTW >> ToTK any day.

[@toooydoeur]

​@@IceYetiWinsbotw was mid

[@arghpee]

Music: Coming Soon it's not coming is it scott

[@micahrobbins8353]

This is a spot on take. I had a blast with totk for a while, but it got old for me quick. I'm dissapointed that all this development time was spent on a game that's largely a less concise version of the last thing. Reusing the world was a big mistake imo

[@mughead390]

Me too, and I didn't even get to the second shrine properly! That, or I just forgot to play it the next day leading me to forget about playing it forever.

[@ingrowntoenailiv]

Truest words someone ever said, I pre-ordered the game pretty early thinking it was gonna be GOTY material, and it seems like it was for May-July for me, I finished 2 dungeons, 16 shrines, 6 hearts, 1 3/4 of a stamina wheel, it all seemed great, but after that it was getting old, and now it’s in my endless library of games I probably will never play again. I hate to say this, but its basically a 70$ DLC for BOTW. I will probably not waste 70$ blindly on a game just because it has Zelda in the title again. Despite my endless complaints I have with the game, it’s still a 7/10 for me. It’s the best waste of money I’ve had in years. BONUS COMPLAINT: I hate the fact that I was hyped af for this game during March-May. I was expecting this to be the best game I’ve ever played, but sadly, I, like many others, was wrong.

[@planescaped]

Reusing the world didn't have to be a mistake, they just fucked it up.