Tears of the Kingdom Has a PROBLEM

[@DefinitelyAPotato]

Hey while I don't 100% agree with your points but your video was very well made and your channel needs attention.

[@Nic_Davidson]

Thanks man i appreciate the honesty

[@lennylennordson6135]

On God Bro this guy needs more subs

[@lucascastillo9391]

I actually did miss the minekart section in death mountain because of the flying machine, I was thinking if I was missing something but after all it was just faster and easier to use the hover bike

[@Nic_Davidson]

Glad I wasn’t the only one who had that experience

[@NightOwl307]

i actually didn't use the minecart section or the flying machine. i thought the intended way was to climb up it so that's what i did. i still had a lot of fun trying to figure out how to traverse the mountain though.

[@hoggo3789]

These two games made me realize that I don't click with openworld/sandbox games. Happy for those that like this new direction for zelda though

[@roxlife8173]

dude you are most respectful guy to ever say this.

[@TheSoupguy1]

4:55 i literally Play this game for 160 hours and Didn't realize I was missing an abilty

[@smallcupofmilk4839]

This is really good. Editing is amazing. Bro is inspiring. Also totally agree with this take

[@Nic_Davidson]

Really appreciate it bro!

[@jimnfl7134]

@@Nic_Davidson 1 problem. OMG! There are plenty with: *Shrines, Korok Seeds, 1 LYNEL, i need to continure? LOL!! Find Some Nintendo Videos by Jim NFL 7!*

[@twodragonsmessingaround]

Banger vid man, keep it up! Solid editing and sound, great job. Definitely agree with your point - I think the new towers in this game are cool, but they add to the same issues, where you end up teleporting to a nearby tower and then paragliding out from there instead of wandering to all the nearby locales you wanted to see. Definitely had more fun limiting the amount of time I used them for travel and went on foot instead.

[@Nic_Davidson]

Thanks man, I definitely felt like I had to do a balancing act with what’s easy and what’s fun

[@MattTOB618]

Yeah, I've gotten a lot fewer Korok Seeds because I never really walk anywhere unless I'm in the Depths. I'm currently doing a personal challenge on a second account where I'm fast traveling as little as possible (I'm only allowed to leave the Depths with it, and even then, I have to go to the nearest Shrine to where I entered the Depths). It's been fun so far.

[@itsgabibelle]

this video is amazing dude keep it up!! i straight up went 70ish hours without the auto build ability cuz i had no idea what i was missing 💀

[@Nic_Davidson]

Dude ngl, I’ve been subbed to your channel for like 7 months and I love your videos. You were definitely one of my inspirations. Really appreciate the comment Gabi🙏😁

[@strxwberrypuff]

Hi Gabi!! I’m really happy to see you supporting small KZbinrs

[@DJBatcat]

Can't believe you only have 56 subscribers, great stuff man!

[@Nic_Davidson]

Thanks man!

[@Jablowski]

I disagree as most players won’t even have access to flying tools such as the op hover bike until they grind out batteries and zonaite like 30 hours into the game

[@kjul.]

You'll definitely blow up if you keep creating content like this, great job dude

[@bflgames]

Great points, sums up my biggest complaints. Fortunately for me most of these feelings didn't start bothering me until I was over 100hrs into the game. Still probably my favorite video game but not one without flaw. Your video is very high quality btw, you def deserve more support!

[@Nic_Davidson]

Thanks, really appreciate it

[@dimitrinicomanis]

Great video, its something ive been talking to my friends about too. Two of my mates loved, loved, loved BOTW but havent got into TOTK and have moved on. I think partly because the of the reasons you mentioned but also the tone of both games is very different. BOTW celebrates isolation and wilderness, wheras TOTK's Hyrule feels alive and full and rather than being your own, it always feels like someone is just around the corner. I personally love both but its interesting hearing other peoples takes! Keep up the great work, liked and subscribed!

[@Nic_Davidson]

Thanks man

[@anthonydacomedian8649]

also the map is good but its not "great". It feels too empty. I found myself feeling like i was looking at the same field of grass with either snow or rain on it to make it different. To me there wasnt enough to fill every space. Thats also the unfortunate part about open world games. Elden Ring is by no means my favorite game but what i find it does well is populate every inch of the map with something to look at or do. In Zelda i find myself wanting to explore but too often i feel like even though im on the opposite side of the world it looks the exact same.

[@christinugh]

I got really frustrated trying to make a hover bike and make it not drift so I gave up and I'm glad I did because I didn't miss out on so many things!

[@1bethnal]

Me too!

[@sarorowling]

WHAT how does your channel only have 200 subs??? Your production quality, editing and overall enthusiasm made me feel like I was watching channel with a million subs! Keep up the great content!!!

[@Nic_Davidson]

Appreciate it!

[@OmnitroidMusic]

Bruh only 75 subs?! I'm subbin, this channel is mad underrated! Keep up the good work bro!!

[@Nic_Davidson]

Appreciate you dude

[@catatafish22]

Cool analysis. I remember thinking the same thing - the added mobility will be gamebreaking... no more getting stuck behind giant mountains, not more having to travel through a gauntlet to reach a city (like following the path to the zora city in botw for instance). Now I can just fly there, or I can launch myself out of a skytower and glide there. The thing is. this new creation is a double edged sword. The building mechanics and the sky islands are awesome additions... but both inevitably invite gamebreaking mechanics. If you want people to explore sky islands, you need to give them a way of launching in to the sky. If you want players to experiment with building using ancient technology, you give them a free pass to just travel anywhere with no restrictions. It's a double edged sword. My conclusion was I was happy either way, because the added difficulty of exploring the depths and the hidden skill system which spawns harder enemies as you gain exp makes up for the methods of 'cheating' we've been given. I still feel adequately challenged despite all of these new mechanics which make the game easier. I'm happy with a game so long as I feel challenged and engaged... and thats how I feel with totk. So it's all good

[@Nic_Davidson]

I agree, still love the game and happy that those mechanics are here. I definitely wouldn’t want to see them go.

[@netweed09]

Respectfully, I _totally_ disagree with the notion that after the experience of Tears, I'd even consider the thought that Botw even existed anymore. Breath was a _hugely_ crushing disappointment for me; but I'm in that mold that Tears came along with it's _Wonderful_ Ultrahand - and stuck all the broken pieces of emptiness I felt in Breath together - but along with a fresh meaty Plot and _proper_ Dungeons! Then added 2 more _delicious_ layers of lovely Sky _and_ Depths filling to my new Legendary Lasagne!

[@Nic_Davidson]

I respect it dude, I think at the end of the day Tears is still the better game

[@jmk8525]

damn i watched this whole thing thinking it was by a channel with like 100k subs this is criminal

[@Nic_Davidson]

Thanks man appreciate the compliment

[@tomdekler9280]

I feel your biggest issue with TotK is that someone showed you a picture of a hoverbike and it wormed into your brain. Understandable, RIP to you, glad I kept away from the internet in my first few days of playing.

[@Nic_Davidson]

Honestly I felt the same way where I wish I hadn’t seen it. But even if I hadn’t it’s not a stretch to still take a flying machine with 4 fans to accomplish all the same tasks.

[@skotabig]

I did not like TOTK at first. I played it a little then got frustrated with it and put it down for two weeks. When I started playing it again, it grabbed me harder than one of the big hands in Elden Ring! That was three weeks ago, and I haven't played anything since. Once I figured out the mechanics and started exploring the depths, I was hooked!! BUT then I found my very first lynel! Been fighting them ever since! I like it better than BOTW I think.

[@Nic_Davidson]

Ya the game is pretty great

[@obits3]

I’ve thought about this a lot with open world games and superior tools. I recently started replaying Pokémon Scarlet and decided to explore the entire world without upgrades to the ride Pokémon. I was able to get to all of the fast travel points, but it was honestly a challenge. I could tell where the developers had added paths I never used for travel which I suddenly had use. This was great for world building because not everyone has a super ride that can jump and climb things. Even once you get all the upgrades, your fly distance is heavily limited (it is basically a glider) to prevent flying from dominating the game. Personally, I would have buffed flying as part of the post game, but I at least understand why they limited it for the main game. Bringing this back to Zelda TOTK, I think the developers might have underestimated the creativity of the player base. For example, they clearly intended flying machines to be more limited (look at how fast the wing despawns). I wonder if anyone actually anticipated the two fan steering stick bike otherwise known as the hover bike. There are some no wing flying builds in the world for you, but no hover bikes. Usually, they either use the balloons, rockets, or have four fans and batteries. They certainly didn’t anticipate people breaking off part of elevator to make a low gravity flyer or the use of unconnected fans to violate physics. On top of that, they probably thought people would be less efficient at gathering resources. Until you unlock Autobuild, things are much harder. The intended path likely concentrates on the regional problems first, exploring the land and sky. From there, you go to the depths with the fifth sage. That’s not to say that they didn’t expect you to explore the depths earlier. Instead, it is that they likely didn’t expect people would be able to fully exploit the power of the depths so fast.

[@levkrinitskych1]

Dude this video was awesome, the editing was really good, the voice the text. I think you deserve more than 40 subscribers. I'm gonna subscribe. Keep it on

[@Nic_Davidson]

Really appreciate it dude😁

[@aviciitothamax]

Good points, trying to rescue players from optimizing the fun out of their experience is an eternal game design problem that only gets harder the more tools the player has. I would have liked to see a few systems that reward creative builds. (Deliver an NPC a flying machine using at least these 3 (heavy) parts.) I found myself endlessly repeating a few contraptions that solved my open world problems. One to go up, one to go far, etc. Or alternatively, an NPC that tracks how far you've travelled using each player verb and rewards you for milestones. (Walk 5km / ride a horse 5km / glide with paraglider 5km / shield surf 2km / swim 2km / etc) Or even challenges that limit how far you can travel with a certain verb (reach this korok / shrine only on horseback / shield surfing) kind of like the koroks that didn't let you touch the floor.

[@Nic_Davidson]

Didn’t think about it that way, I think those are good ideas.

[@zz-ej2ki]

very well articulated! I was surpised to see you don't have more subscribers already :)

[@Nic_Davidson]

Thanks man

[@thatBMWill]

Dude how do you have 32 subs. This was great

[@Nic_Davidson]

Thank you so much

[@captainpotatochips1367]

I'm realizing his subs doubled within 20 hours, bro just suddenly dropped a banger

[@TheHanch]

Man I was having a really hard day but this video saved me. I am now one of your loyal followers. Keep on killing it.

[@Nic_Davidson]

Hope today is a good day😁

[@michaellane5381]

I used to think this, but the more I thought about the game the more convinced I am it needs MORE Symmetry in sky and depths, that is, we need more sky caves and caverns on top of the depths map, not as particular content rich locations, but maybe for example as stops on the dragon routes with features of interest like new side bosses like a large Aerokuda or rare elemental battle Talus with Elemental Bokoblin riders, Mucktorocks, challenge gauntlets with unusual enemy formations, etc. Then in the sky we need more caves in general.

[@aliceporter7148]

Good video. Great summary of the game. I played about 50 hours before I discovered the quick build function. After that it was hover board all the way

[@Nic_Davidson]

Thanks man😁

[@highdefinition450]

I do play Zelda games for the story :( dungeons as well so rip

[@zaneon_]

Damn, everything about this is great but I’m super impressed with your music/sound/sound mixing choices lol

[@Nic_Davidson]

Appreciate it dude

[@Wolfdragon24999]

bro how do you only have 93 subs this vid has 3k views WTF???

[@Wolfdragon24999]

like how man!!!???

[@Nic_Davidson]

Appreciate it dude, took me some time to make the video im glad people like it.

[@Wolfdragon24999]

@@Nic_Davidsonthe vid superb man gg! and totk is THE best game imo!

[@Wolfdragon24999]

(in my opion)

[@anthonydacomedian8649]

"got bored at the tutorial" i feel personally attacked

[@jonasdraiman988]

BotW and TotK are definetly in my best zelda games list, they were a experience that made me speechless, that said, that was a great vid, and i agree with it, and the funny thing is.. u know the desert sandstorm puzzle ? it didnt hit me that i could build a flying machine to go over it, i assumed it wouldnt let me, it would have some invisible wall or something like that, didnt even tried, then i saw this video and i was like: oh.. yeah.. i could've have done that, why didnt i think about that ? thats such a easy and obvious way to ''solve'' the puzzle, but for me it wasnt, i think thats what the devs could have intended by some degree in the game, different people have different ideas about how to deal with a situation or problem and how they will find a solution, and the freedom that TotK gives to us to solve those problems are the beauty of the game in my view. :D

[@Ky1es]

Not really, as you dont get the proper amount of batteries or autobuild or parts without grinding or looking up vids of it, hence ruining your own experience of the discovery. Don't pretend like you knew how to build that hoverbike without looking it up or seeing it on social media. Then when you naturally come across those parts and have enough zonite, and figured out all the building yourself, you are 3/4 through the game, that was the intention.

[@Akrob55555]

I'm glad I didn't find out about the hover bike until after I beat the game.

[@dogeman6746]

I’m just disappointed at the sky islands. I thought that we would spend lots of time there but we didn’t. Another thing is that they copy and paste everything all over Hyrule. Look at the monster bases and the depths + sky islands

[@YankeeMav]

haha I'm gonna 🗑-can the Leo D/Titanic ref. I was trying to work in...something about asking if you were from WI or had a g-g-grandpa or uncle on the Titanic...and just say nice video. The heights and depths of totk took me to that place it sounds like botw, which I ended up playing over a cpl years, first brought you. Keep it up man 👍.

[@JustinGarfield1]

If thwy made the islands, depths and caves more intergative with way more detail it would be a mind blowing game.

[@casserole9184]

Production quality and subscriber count do not match at all, and i mean that in the best way. Great job brother!

[@Nic_Davidson]

Thanks brother!

[@carriejohnson4922]

Great video. This game is definitely amazing. And your entitled to your own opinion, and that’s not right or not, but I don’t think any of what you mentioned is the games fault, that’s the way the game was designed, that being said it’s the players choice to “take the easy way out(when something is taking too long) or choose to take their time with the game and really enjoy it for what it’s all about. I think that’s the problem today. People don’t want to put time into anything and want to just go go go, get it done as quick as possible and even in real life when you do that and you don’t “take time to smell the roses” you could potentially miss out on some really cool things and moments. It just depends on how much you really want to “experience” the game or just “play” the game. This is my opinion of course. Thanks for the video

[@ogdenwernstom4085]

Too much focus on the ability to make funny things to show off on youtube, not enough focus on a decent narrative or characters. As somebody that loved BOTW, I enjoyed TOTK, but mostly found myself being disappointed. I'm really surprised you mention you loved exploring the depths/sky islands, because those were two of the areas I felt the most let down by. The depth is a gigantic single biome - 90% of it just being filled with the same enemies as the overworld (I think there was one unique enemy type in the depths), and the reward for exploring mostly being collectible armor that isn't actually useful (if you're lucky - sometimes it's just a big battery). I remember being so hyped about the evil statue side quest, and then you complete it and the statue just becomes a merchant... The sky islands were the same islands copy-pasted repeatedly and the same boring "bring the crystal to the shrine door" puzzle, with a few "jump down through the rings" mini games. Anyhow, I could continue to write about a lot of other stuff that really bothered me about the game but this post is negative enough already. This was a really well-put together video and I hope you get a lot more subs, bc the effort you put into it is apparent. Subbed!

[@rong4541]

Great video. Keep it up!

[@Nic_Davidson]

Thanks will do!

[@wonderwhatchannel]

Nice bro. This is good content

[@Nic_Davidson]

Thanks bro

[@tysonmyaskc7626]

video is so well made i thought you hd like 500k+ subs

[@Nic_Davidson]

Thank you😁

[@CoolBean]

This video was simply amazing!! You got a bright future ahead of you if you keep up like this :)

[@Nic_Davidson]

Thanks dude

[@TheOnlyBlancy]

b there i commented. $100 says you wont pin this. in all seriousness though, keep up the great work!

[@Nic_Davidson]

Appreciate it dude

[@themitheophotography3978]

Great video, gonna go viral

[@Nic_Davidson]

Thanks

[@Officer_duh]

3:28 moments before disaster… (If you know you know)

[@darkshadowfoxgaming4736]

so all u dont like is the skip ability of the whole game understandable

[@intotheuniversemothernatur4960]

All of the contents creators have a problem, and we who grew up playing Zelda doesn’t have any we just enjoy and played the game.

[@Jeg_dret_i_buskene]

How does bro only have 192 subscribers? (193 now)

[@Nic_Davidson]

Appreciate the support man😁

[@Oli-Chan]

Wait, you *don't* change your play style wherever you go and play the game the way it was intended? I didn't know half of these machines were even an option!

[@deborahmasterson3737]

If you like open world you need to play Morrowind. The awesome game that started it all!

[@H.N.I.C_Hennessy]

There should be more stuff in the world imo i wouldve like more actual dungeons or like old settlements of the zonai idk man

[@anticlaws4105]

Pov you have to wait for Christmas to play this game: 😐

[@cherryblossom789]

Nice review :)

[@bigeez9432]

Only 400 bro? I spent way more then that

[@CazDaCaz]

He need at least 100k subs

[@painuchiha2694]

100% agree the hover bike really breaks this game but I still vastly prefer totk over botw although I agree that botw was better designed around overcoming hyrule in it’s different environments. But I think totk is way more fun despite how broken it is,there’s just an infinite possibilities of creating weapons or builds and the abilities work very well together Way better than having bombs or a block of ice as an ability for specific scenarios Botw can become quickly boring because of how balanced it is. People like to break games although I think the next Zelda could use more limitations around flying

[@shannonhill3356]

In the desert you used a wind bomb to move fast. In Hyrule field you used a wind bomb to go fast In eldin you used a wind bomb to go fast… Lol

[@Nic_Davidson]

I wasn’t good enough at the game to wind bomb😂

[@shannonhill3356]

@@Nic_Davidson lol I put like 800 hrs in and could never get consistent with it. Speed runners are insane. Great video though. I’m loving TotK, but all I wanted out of the sequel was more BotW, and that’s mostly what I got. Nearing 320hrs in TotK. Useless Korok seeds and all.

[@shawnclapper6581]

Sometimes its fun just starting over lol

[@dhildie22]

bro, I've played over 500 hours of BOTW and I've completed like 25% of the game🤣🤣

[@Nic_Davidson]

Take your time😂

[@Bannandorf]

They could have solved the flying machine problem by making flying builds story locked, or making some places very dangerous to fly in.

[@FEEESH1]

So Games are supposed to have a path, and you just getting bored and building a flying machine sounds like a lack of patience, and making things go faster yeah but it’s a dungeon even when it doesn’t feel like it. It supposed to HAVE a puzzles. But, your video was quite cool and some parts I agree with, so, g’day

[@lyrioussze5135]

Great

[@Jesus-with-gun]

“He’s out of line but he’s right” - some dude (probably from The Office)