Tears of the Kingdom was never a sequel

Tears of the Kingdom gobbled up my life this past year. Not just from being an incredible follow-up to Breath of the Wild, but by constantly reminding me of the game Nintendo has been trying to perfect for over a decade.
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Music:
Mii Maker (Wii U Gamepad)
Last Catch - Tears of the Kingdom
Title Screen - Ocarina of Time
Ballad of the Goddess - Skyward Sword
Observatory - Majora's Mask
Ordon Village - Twilight Princess
Breath of the Wild Theme
Mount Hylia - Breath of the Wild
Prince Ralis is Saved - Twilight Princess
Staff Roll - Skyward Sword
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Zelda Tears of the Kingdom and Skyward Sword Cutscenes:
from BeardBear
Trailers and Nintendo Direct Footage:
from Nintendo (obviously)
Other footage featured:
-Unbox Therapy
-Juampe Martínez S.
-Prizzaa Gaming Channel

[@RePeteCoyote]

Nice, Nick! "Still got it!" I almost fell out of my chair when you pointed out it's only been four months since Tears released.

[@nikgrgrio]

Thanks for being here! I had that same reaction when I realized Skyward Sword came out 12 years ago 🫨

[@dommitchell4319]

Legit just yesterday i was like "i wonder what happened to the guy that made that cool video about the 3ds haven't seen him upload in a while" keen to watch this vid

[@nikgrgrio]

I would’ve made another video earlier but I was looping the credits song to Skyward Sword for 5 months before I started filming this video. Thanks for still giving the 3DS guy some thought :)

[@zyterl7203]

holy crap. that ending gave me severe goosebumps

[@nikgrgrio]

That’s the side effect of listening to the Skyward Sword credits song, I get those too 🤓

[@Jessedr]

This dude's gonna be big someday

[@nikgrgrio]

“Professional Skyward Sword Speedrunners before they were famous: Nicholas Gregorio” Thanks so much for thinking so, Jared!

[@KurtIndovina]

BEAUTIFULLY SAID. It’s also so lovely to get another video from you.

[@nikgrgrio]

It's always lovely to have YOU here! And thank you :)

[@SirNxgroUnChained]

Keep up the great work Nick, & keep creating! 🤝 Appreciate the call back to Zelda on the wii. Some of the original ocarina of time songs/melodies are still stuck in my head. In particular, “Zelda’s Lullaby”, “Lost Woods”, & Ocarina of time’s “title theme”

[@nikgrgrio]

I appreciate you so much for saying that 😄 and zelda melodies are the whole excuse behind making this video. I really just wanted to drink coffee and blurt out words to Zelda tunes

[@kameonmarberry13]

Love your videos man this one was great I love the way you made this video you inspired me to make videos on things that I love I just love your channel it’s so entertaining and encouraging.

[@nikgrgrio]

Thank you for thinking so much of my channel! And please please please make videos on the things you love 🤓

[@BudTheDM]

I waited until I beat the game to watch this video. What you said at 8:41 genuinely made me tear up a little. Absolutely love your content.

[@nikgrgrio]

Honored you even thought to come back to this video after you beat TOTK 🥲 happy you were able to finally complete that wild ride of a game

[@tanchan5321]

One of my fav KZbinr finally posted, love ur content man 👍👍

[@nikgrgrio]

You’re the best 🤓 glad to see you still tuning in

[@Vexiner120]

I honestly couldn’t agree less. These are literally my exact thoughts and feels for SS, BotW and TotK. Great work dude.

[@nikgrgrio]

I don't know if this is a typo, but I get what you mean (?) But thank you so much :)

[@bnjxh787l]

super happy to see a new upload from u man

[@nikgrgrio]

I'm even more happy to see you still here :)

[@bubliibee]

This video popped up randomly on my home page, but the quality of this content was shocking. A very calming and heartwarming watch, absolutely love this

[@nikgrgrio]

Thank you so much for thinking so, and I'm glad to have you here :)

[@nishquikpops]

Wow a fellow Skyward Sword enjoyer I didn't know our kind actually exists 😂 Great video btw!

[@nikgrgrio]

Appreciate you so much, Nishquik! Glad to see another Skyward Sword Sympathizer as well :)

[@silvermoonch.9286]

I love hearing about your thoughts on TotK, but to me its great to hear about it from someone else who seems to really enjoy Skyward Sword as much as i do

[@nikgrgrio]

It's strange because I love Skyward Sword but I never want to play through it again in its entirety- but I also have never stopped thinking about it(?) Either way, I love having you here, silvermoonch

[@EstaminaLite]

WHY ARE YOU SO PURRRRRFECT? Great vid

[@nikgrgrio]

WHY ARE YOU SO MEOWVELOUS?

[@glitch265]

You are an amazing creator I almost cried at the end of the video as someone who has played every Zelda game and loved all of them this is awesome to to people like me who still love all the games as mush as I do. The point you made about BOTW being more of a test or beta really puts into perspective of why TOTK feels so much more realized and gives an explanation for why some people feel disappointed with TOTK when you view it as the finished product it makes sense. After beating BOTW several times I started feeling empty But TOTK came out and now that I've Beaten it and since gone back and replay BOTW its really does feel like That. sry for long message.~ TL;DR Game good and so are you

[@nikgrgrio]

Please leave as many long messages as you want! You are amazing! And it means so much that you said that because I spent hours trying to figure out how to make something that other people who have played the entire franchise could resonate with and so it means a lot that this evoked any kind of reaction from you. You rock :)

[@gabe5918]

I dunno. TotK started off as dlc and cause it got so big, they just made it into its own game. I see what you’re saying (also a massive fan of Skyward Sword btw) but if that was the case, then they probably shouldn’t have marketed it as “the direct sequel to BotW”. Especially since that’s what everyone was expecting this to be. When my bro and I got the game after waiting for so many years, it just felt like a slap to the face with Nintendo redoing most of the same exact things again and making it seem like they wanted us to forget BotW even happened so that THIS version is the one to play.

[@minecrafter3448]

This was fantastic

[@nikgrgrio]

You are also fantastic (and thank you!)

[@fluidstatus1524]

my sole objection to the whole no dlc for totk thing is KASS! WHERE TF IS MY DUDE??!!!!??!? I need in game closure.

[@nikgrgrio]

I too need my Kass accordion fix but sometimes we have to give up the things we love the most

[@BigDogT]

Yo i agree with your view. I remember feeling like playing botw was like a beta. Then tears came and i felt like damn that really was a beta. Tear’s basically redid the story and added more while basically being a loose sequel. Half the time it felt like the calamity didn’t happen. Botw was a cup, tears the water that fills it.

[@nikgrgrio]

I love that way of putting it, "Tears the water that fills it". Yeah, in many ways, it felt like BOTW didn't even need to happen. But in many other ways, I'm still so glad it did ;)

[@californiafamous]

15% of this video is just him making/drinking coffee

[@nikgrgrio]

Dude it took years to bring it down from 100%

[@wingsofahoneybee]

your girlfriend almost broke my computer watching this video. WTF!