What Tears of the Kingdom Still Needs to Be a BIG WINNER

[@ArloStuff]

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[@TheNova51]

No

[@hendrianfajar]

no arlo, 😂

[@scittthewiz6893]

HA THIRD REPLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@n1nj4l1nk]

Big no to limiting how much food we can carry. Instead I suggest a fullness meter so you can only eat so much in one go then you have to wait for a cooldown. Also, Tingle.

[@fishygobrrrrr]

How in the world did you pin this 3 days ago. It released an hour ago! Arlo hacks KZbin!?!?

[@Novikous]

What this game needs to be is in my, hands right now.

[@netweed09]

Best comment lol. 🤲👌

[@DaughterOfYahweh-]

That comma, makes me uncomfortable.

[@Hiperoloix]

This is the way.

[@NovaMaster375]

​@@DaughterOfYahweh- Does, this one?

[@jasonthomas9729]

lmfao

[@helmi5045]

The funny thing is that Skyward Sword actually had real time healing AND an inventory system that prevented you from having an unlimited amount of potions. Edit: I'm not saying that Skyward Sword is a better game. This argument also only really makes sense in Hero Mode since Normal Mode has hearts. All I'm saying is that the Zelda team has tried the idea of limiting your healing ability before and it worked great (in Hero Mode) so I don't think it's unlikely that we'll see a return of this mechanic.

[@leargamma4912]

And people shit on that game. Huh. It's as if it is A GOOD GAME PEOPLE

[@amandaslough125]

And had a system for repairing your shield. And offered a late game permanent option. And a set up that could've been expanded to fully customize one's playstyle.

[@luisoncpp]

Most Zelda games had something like that, not just SS. BotW was the exception, I guess the reason is that being more open ended makes the designers more uncertain of when something may be too difficult, so they added ways to allow the player to make things easier for them.

[@leargamma4912]

@luisoncpp i mean botw had no item buttons, so I guess they didn't want to do that to begin with

[@Rin_ku]

@@luisoncpp most Zelda games literally didn’t??? Since oot up until SS the potions would result in their own cutscenes and checking your inventory (bar WW and TPs HD remasters) would result in a pause. Not sure what games you were playing bro.

[@ShadowNexis]

To me, the Divine Beasts in BotW felt like 4 parts of the same dungeon. They were definitely fun, but each one felt short and ended with very similar looking bosses.

[@RacingSnails64]

Very true... They all had the same gross boring brown texture. I think their length was decent for what they were, but there's nothing quite like being stuck in an underground dungeon for who knows how long 😊 Not to mention the Ganon Blights. Jeez, the only one of those that was engaging is the lightning one due to how fast it dashes at you.

[@RubyGalaxyYT]

I disagree that the DB's being one dungeon, all of them feature a different alter feature and are spectical pieces not on the inside but just to get to them, the game takes the time to get to them and in the story gives them weight to the problems that they cause making them more daunting to get inside them from a feeling stand point. While they are shorter than most dungeons the designers probably did that on purpose to not over do them and the shrine challenges more than make up for the lack of length and were more for the puzzle fans, and from a world design perspective I think it was to make sure that they didn't do a 'bigger on the inside' reality warping as that wasn't what they wanted and if they increased the size of the DB's it might have tanked or caused performance problems so they went with the size and made a dungeon around and inside it.

[@netweed09]

@@RacingSnails64 ​ Yet I believe it got a Perfect score from him. I mean ,, eh?!! How can a game have such (literally) trash 'bosses' and be given a Perfect score. In this regard - I'm glad he dropped Ratings now from his review. I dunno _what_ Puppet Powder he was smoking lol.

[@winterlogical]

@@RubyGalaxyYT the problem with the whole "shrine challenges more than mak[ing] up for the lack of length and were more for the puzzle fans" is that the Shrines aren't actually that interesting, in my opinion. They suffer from repetitive visuals, repetitive music, and repetitive (sometimes tedious) motions/solutions. There's what feels like a billion tests of strength, a few inconvenient motion control apparatus puzzles, and most of the rest of them are forgettable puzzles that just use one or two of the runes; after awhile they all just sort of blend in together. That's my opinion of course, but this is why traditional dungeons are much more interesting - varied and unique environments, enemy variety, etc.

[@StonetheDestroyer42]

I found the Divine Beasts incredibly satisfying to play in a way traditional dungeons weren't. You could see exactly how each step you took in solving the overarching puzzle affected the whole Beast in real time. It felt less like a black box in that respect, and really tickled the mechanical side of my brain. (That isn't to say I dislike traditional dungeons. I do like them, possibly even more, but they don't scratch this specific itch for me.l

[@Zombiewizard]

Meaningful side quests would be a great addition imo. Some of the coolest moments for me in past Zelda games have been the little side quests to get extra gear like the biggoron sword. Having meaningful side quest with actually good rewards would be a blast

[@ethanparr8955]

Kinda like Tarrey Town, it was one of the few side quests in BOTW that I felt like had an amazing reward, your own little village

[@Zombiewizard]

@@ethanparr8955 Yeah Tarrey Town and the quests to get the sand boots and snow boots are really the only side quests that really stick out to me

[@alifishies]

I mean, who doesn't like the toilet side quest in Skyward swords

[@Zombiewizard]

@@alifishies didn't Majora's mask also have a toilet thing

[@Tubular_dude_20y_ago]

​@@Zombiewizard the oracle games too

[@Prengle]

I really want more interiors. Whether its a big open collosieum, or labrynth-esque winding halls, I want more Hyrule Castle sorta places

[@CanadianYeti69]

Absolutely agree. When I finally got to Hyrule Castle I was like "Ohhhh, THIS is what I've been missing."

[@derekgardner1861]

Botw was really innovative 8 years ago but compared to games like elden ring it needs to step up its side quests and overall npc interactions. I hope they put in a difficult setting right off the bat and not making you but the dlc or beat the game to have acess to it

[@skooch5769]

I can easily rely on nintendo to deliver a quality zelda game. See: the past 35 years.

[@skooch5769]

I mean, "a shadow of their reputation?" Breath of the wild is the best selling zelda game of all time.

[@skooch5769]

I'm sorry, but your comment is more ridiculous the more I read it. The switch is arguably the best Nintendo console of all time.

[@SantiagoTheEnjoyer]

Honestly, you know what this game really REALLY NEEDS? *_MULTIPLE. SAVE FILES. PLEASE._*

[@SnowDemonAkuma]

You can just make a new profile on your Switch.

[@lordsandwich1850]

I'm pretty sure the game's too big for that

[@erueka6]

​@@lordsandwich1850 you do know what multiple and partitioned data means right?

[@James-gj8rn]

and New Game+

[@zacharywoloszynski4258]

just make a new profile. It's super easy

[@scoleosis3569]

Definitely takes place after BOTW. in the final trailer, you see link working with characters that he met in BOTW, some of which weren't born yet before link took his nap.

[@HalcyonSunset]

I was like "why does he think it's in the past? Everything points to this being in the future.."

[@solace2005]

I mean obviously but the series loves their dumb time traveling shenanigans so we may be going back in time a lot throughout the game like almost every other 3D Zelda game

[@Lawaleeth]

Ever since the initial reveal link is shown wearing the champions tunic, which he got from the events of BotW. It taking place in the future has been knowledge from the very reveal. Also he got the Master sword in the events of BotW, and we also saw him with the sword in TotK, so theres more proof from the reveal. But yes, characters who weren't even born before BotW are present in later trailers so yeah.

[@angelmendez-rivera351]

@@solace2005 There may be time travel, but the game still takes place _after_ Breath of the Wild. Unless you want to ignore *all* of the evidence, of course, which you *are* free to do.

[@netweed09]

@@HalcyonSunset I mean, it's him lol. Him & his ''hOt taKeS!1''

[@tasbard8545]

I want to be able to retake and build up Akala Citadel like we did Terry Town.

[@AlexDimouArt]

oh my, is that bobby hill?

[@tasbard8545]

@@AlexDimouArt The lad, himself. In the flesh.

[@ravenebony2267]

That and Castle town and other cities and ...new cities? Gimme any of that.

[@theabuellemator1159]

Rebuild every city???

[@shawnamiller191]

There seems to be several places you can do that but idk

[@shadypirate5098]

I mostly just want more interesting places/things to discover. Like the spirit horse, giant maze, or all the outfits to find.

[@derekhandson351]

I really hope there's unique locations like the huge statues

[@rfalconator7896]

Maybve in the next Zelda in 2030

[@Rexuhnt]

The apple logo on the HUD is the same logo they use in BotW for the materials, I'm almost certain pressing up on the D Pad will open a materials menu for the fusion ability like it showed when he attaches the Keese eye to the arrow

[@Margar02]

I want to fuse a seafood mueniere to my shield! Monster cake arrow!

[@Angie-ji7be]

I thought the same thing at first, but then I noticed that the L button is the actual dedicated button to your Zonai arm abilities. It looks like when it comes to fusion, you only use the D pad for fusing items to your arrows in particular. Although, it might still have other functions related to items to warrant a dedicated button. Hopefully, it's not just for switching Zonai arm abilities, since that did use to be the dedicated button for switching runes in BOTW.

[@nevets2371]

But perhaps if you don't have your weapons or shield out it will act like grabbing things in the menu like if you want to cook something, which would probably be quite convenient.

[@veggiesnake4430]

@@Margar02 Unfortunately, there's a distinct difference between materials/ingredients and cooked meals. I doubt you'll be able to put your dubious food on a spear and poison your enemies with it... alhtough that does sound amazing.

[@schantzee5733]

I think Tears of the Kingdom really needs a lot more Tingle. Oh and good dungeons too.

[@netweed09]

? Wait, what?? Did you even watch the Trailer?! 🤨 We saw at least 2 if not _three_ Dungeons! Just from the _one_ rolling clip, they looked _incredible_ - vast and grandiose.

[@halosaft]

​@@netweed09 OP said good dungeons. And we can't know the dungeons in TotK are good until we get to play them. For all we know all the dungeons in TotK could be on the same level as the Divine Beasts, only better looking, but still super easy and only taking like 20min to finish.

[@jada8047]

Can't expect big dungeons in a big open world.

[@crunchproductions2276]

@@jada8047 laughs in elden ring

[@jada8047]

@Crunch Productions never played but was there a lot of Elden Ring dungeons an was the world large like Botw

[@FishyFace]

Am I the only one hoping for underwater areas?

[@crustyhotdog7940]

I'm with you, but i just don't see it happening. MAYBE an undersea themed cave.

[@fortnitefanningfunnymomets7613]

could be fun

[@doodell8218]

I just hope they fix up swimming

[@brad.g]

I wasn't before I read this

[@JcrafterGames]

We saw those floating water bubbles where you could swim inside them. So that gives me hope that we’d be able to dive into lake hylia and other water areas as well. Maybe even the ocean between Eventide island

[@GreparsYT]

11:22 I'm pretty sure we can fuse enemy drops, specifically their horns, to melee weapons, not only just rocks or physics based objects. We saw this in the new trailer.

[@innerecho9468]

If we can do mushrooms then probably drops too

[@zacharynovak2180]

Yeah, Link has weapons combined with different enemy horns (cobble crusher with moblin horn, regular sword with zonai horn)

[@theoaremevano3227]

It's already been shown with some cases of enemy drops. Link standing with the group of defenders has a dropped item from a construct fused to his weapon.

[@BigRheno]

Oh no, that’s a definite. You’ll likely be able to make swords and spears from the horn drops being fused with sticks

[@hododod246]

Killing a bokoblin with his brothers horn will be so sick.

[@jh4336]

I CANNOT wait for Arlo's massive 3 hour review of Tears of the Kingdom. I've legit put on the BOTW review in the background so many times whenever I have a bad day.

[@milesgarrity]

Me too, I probably account for 10,000 of the views on that video

[@kaitourobin840]

Is it good? I was not watching KZbin back then.

[@777Rowen]

Yes, it’s very good. Definitely check it out.

[@jwr6796]

I always appreciate your deep analyses and criticism, Arlo. Looking forward to your 4-hour TOTK review in 2025!

[@PhDMario]

Imagine if Tingle has the last tear, and part of the main quest is to convince him to give it to Link.

[@epochthekid]

A quest that even the hero of the wild couldnt complete

[@danielturner1891]

Can I convince him with my sword

[@ansemthetrueseekerofdarkne2730]

You would have to gather every female in the game for him because that is his singular motivation.

[@michaelgillespie8097]

The rupee cost would be truly astronomical.

[@PhDMario]

@@danielturner1891 We don't know if the Tear will give him powers. He may be too powerful.

[@R2bball]

Wasn’t it already confirmed that the Apple symbol was for fusing materials from your inventory? I agree, real time healing would make it more fun and seamless instead of pausing

[@leargamma4912]

Yes

[@musicaldoodles9615]

Not confirmed because it could very well have a different use when the bow is not drawn.

[@nickdanen4740]

Honestly meal item slots could probably be worked into the korrok inventory upgrade system fairly easily.

[@JohnGuyJohn]

Good idea, especially if there’s a trade-off involved. More food slots mean fewer material slots or some such.

[@renudof.7941]

Pretty good idea

[@ExaltedUriel]

Controversial opinion: instead of imposing a stricter inventory limit on food, they should actually steal a mechanic from Genshin Impact, a game clearly inspired by Breath of the Wild; a fullness meter. After eating food in a short amount of time, Link will become "full" and you can't heal anymore until the meter depletes. You can still stockpile all you want, but it would solve the "pausing in the middle of a fight and healing to full 20 times" issue.

[@amandaslough125]

@@ExaltedUriel Zelda as a series always had a proper inventory cap requiring resourcefulness of item management. But for BotW's system, Genshin Impact does so many things better and actually balances it. They didn't just add a fullness meter. They also put a cooldown on other food buffs and stuff that are incredibly easy to abuse otherwise. And that's on top of an elemental system and balancing the numbers so you can actually use your environment strategically in battle throughout the late game.

[@igormachado2194]

For the love of God, no. It is a good things fans are not developers, cause that is the worst idea ever.

[@ClassicPopble]

I'd love more enemy variety, there's a pitifully small pool of enemy types in BotW

[@RacingSnails64]

Definitely agree. However, the fact enemies can wield fused weapons alone will add A LOT to encounters. If they get the double spears or fans? Or unique arrows??? It'll do a lot to make even basic bokoblin camps more dynamic every time.

[@strawdeath263]

Thankfully we've already seen at least 6 new unique enemies, plus new variations (potential malice enemies, bokos wearing backpacks, and different Construct ranks), as well as 2 new minibosses and the Talus camps. That plus enemies sometimes having fused weapons is going to add a *lot* more variety to enemy encounters.

[@gollygosh]

@@strawdeath263 There's also the fat bokoblin and the redead

[@strawdeath263]

@@gollygosh I meant new to this version of Hyrule, so the 6 includes the big bokos and redeads.

[@RadTony]

Darknuts would be amazing to fight!

[@maryam.m]

I'm a casual gamer and BotW main appeal for me was the fact that I could freely explore and complete puzzles without fearing combat sequences. I personally love having an "immunity buffet" available just to give me the confidence to take on enemies - even if I don't dip into it during the encounters. Dying doesn't even set you back much, which encourages experimentation. I think Nintendo actually did the right thing by lowering the bar for us entry-level players. For more experienced players who want to make the game more challenging, they should just have a self-imposed rule not to eat meals during combat. That's just my two cents, but you're free to disagree and argue that there's a more balanced approach that can be adopted by TotK.

[@Gblo6927]

I played BOTW as my first ever Zelda game last summer. I thought my video game experiences in life had peaked… until now. This summer’s going to be even better than the last.

[@-Titania]

I can't wait for this game

[@NatToppolino]

This was my second Zelda game, the first being Ocarina of Time, and overall that BOTW was better

[@jimmulator3902]

@@NatToppolino nah, no way lol

[@Eternal_Tr]

Naw bro oot is way better

[@MatthiasW97]

@@NatToppolino comparing the first real 3D Adventure from 25years+ ago which introduced so many new mechanics that survived to even this date with a game from 2017.

[@ghostsyynx]

My personal favorite balance between food vs potions as healing items in games is to make food a long lasting but slow heal over time while potions are fast or instant healing.

[@MegaFlame57]

An idea would be to make it so food doesnt instantly heal, but different foods give different healing over time amounts (and buffs). E.g. mushroom stew could give one heart per minute

[@YT1300MF]

Yep, like Witcher 3. Food was basically useless in combat, but if you avoided fights for a bit food will eventually heal you.

[@Safteypython091]

@@YT1300MF not fighting sounds less fun than being able to instant heal

[@amysteriousviewer3772]

No, that would still result in infinite healing. We should be limited to a certain number of food/healing slots during combat that we can assign beforehand but not during the fight.

[@Subject_Keter]

I hate games that limit your heals, Feels lile you are held back cuz they couldnt make it "Work" I would make it so you can eat most twice, if you do the full animation it would do the full heal and some more or a quick nom to heal for half and if you spam it, Link gets abit sick. And if you eat in the menu, it just takes abit longer.

[@kylehathaway332]

I’m pretty confident that the apple icon is for opening up your materials menu to fuse materials to your current weapon. The same icon is used in the pause menu for BotW where all your materials are kept, not just food. Then we see Aonuma use up on the d pad to equip materials to his arrows. I’d love to have healing limited but I don’t think that’s what the shortcut is for, and I do think healing will work the same as in BotW since we see that opening that menu for arrows does pause the game just like swapping weapons and runes did. We’ll see

[@JMGauthier]

Just don't prepare 100 meals and healing items. Cater the mechanics to your own gameplay. Limit your own use.

[@Thrones.j]

weird that they used an apple icon for it though plus the other arrows are used for the weapon and shield slot too, but I guess we will just have to wait and see

[@the_dofus]

​@@Thrones.j not really. The apple icon was the materials part of the inventory, and that's what you're using to fuse items to your arrows; materials.

[@MasonOfLife]

I hope not, I hope it works like a dark souls estus flask, would make the game so much more engaging to nerf the healing from Botw Ever in danger? Just pause and everything stops and you can easily refill all your hearts with no consequences

[@pigaboyAKAthecoolestguyonearth]

We still have to see what it does when the bow is not being used though, it's always opaque which means you can always use it, if it was only for arrows then they could have made it take the place of the elemental arrows in the d pad.

[@Barquevious_Jackson]

4:13 - Sure not every player is not intrinsically motivated, but can't that same be said about extrinsic motivation? I personally don't like it when the game puts some guy in my way demanding I grind honey combs for a hour just so he can play the drums and unlock a fairy fountain after I become a journalist and find his band and fix his wagon and awaken the first fairy and make a boat and cross the river and all so I can make some decent armor.

[@vernontk]

In BotW, I stopped eating in battle to add some extra challenge. It made combat more fun and suspenseful to me. But leaving the option to eat in battle allows people who are less capable or willing to engage with the battle system to push through. You can even set a heart limit for yourself to up the challenge more. We don't need to restrict people who prefer a lighter combat challenge.

[@yurplethepurple2064]

Yeah personally I prefer to eat often during battle, I like to save my true combat challenges for my competitive pvp games. What I enjoy about botw/totk is the exploration, discovery, and creativity, not the tricky head-on combat

[@Hadeks_Marow]

Here's my hot take: Exploring Hyrule Castle felt more like a dungeon than any of the 4 divine beasts. You had lots of enemies, you had good loot, some puzzles, and even a boss at the end that gives you a dungeon item (the hylian shield).

[@genmaicha.lapsang]

Agreed but the labyrinths did feel like dungeons to me.

[@Hadeks_Marow]

@@genmaicha.lapsang Disagree HEAVILLY. No enemies, no puzzles (other than gooie-eyes), not much loot, kinda barren. The labyrinths felt more like the zones you go through right BEFORE you get to the dungeon. Like you remember when you had to sneak into the castle to meet with loli zelda in OoT? It felt like that.

[@harguund4139]

I feel like Hyrule Castle was more of a Dark Souls style dungeons than a Legend of Zelda styled dungeon.

[@dpackerman4203]

There were no true “Zelda” dungeons in Botw, which is a “Zelda” game. Those type of dungeons NEED to return in Totk.

[@netweed09]

@@Hadeks_Marow On here, you'll find his fans always saying the total opposite of what the Majority say. TOTK will smash BotW, no doubt. I mean, Dungeons returning & an actual cool plot are you kidding me? Hyrule _has_ visibly changed on close up and looks really mystical too - riddled with caves. 1st, the Initial sales, then GOTY and overall sales.

[@ArtemisWasHere]

In the third trailer, we see at one point link holds a sword made from a construct horn, so I don’t think we’ll be limited to arrows to use inventory materials

[@TheKeybladeKeeper]

Definitely not the case - in the third trailer Link has a Cobble Crusher with a moblin horn attached

[@TheJcris87]

We see a shield attached to a greatsword too, and a rock on a shield. Also the ability to possibly fuse the rock to an already fused log-on-a-stick

[@ArtemisWasHere]

@@TheKeybladeKeeper exactly

[@Odyssey_Central]

Honestly I think there’s a really good chance everything you said is going to happen, at least in some way, based on the trailers. Only iffy one is food IMO, but the new food menus shows they’re clearly updating in someway, so who knows!

[@michaellane5381]

One of the earlier rumor/leaks that had most of the content confirmed by later trailers indeed had food limitations... But that particular part was somewhat vague, I think it just said that eating might be disabled mid-combat.

[@nonoxnana6672]

the food mechanic seems similar to that of age of calamity, which is an in-between of botw and things like skyward sword. i suppose it's an improvement...? it would be time-limited, which is nice.

[@peterkorman77]

As someone who sucks at games and wants to have a not-horrible time, I’m glad the “buffet of immortality” is still here. If pausing the game to heal ruins your immersion, you could just… not?

[@Leavce]

Honestly there are times where I just dont choose to heal especially if I took minimal damage during a fight, and I just wait for a shrine or smth to heal up instead, saves resources too.

[@paperhatinc5641]

It could be really interesting if there was an Item you needed from the end of dungeons to complete the main story- but lets say you only needed three of them. But there are more dungeons than that to find, at least five, maybe up to seven. Players could choose which dungeons they want to tackle for the main story quest and how, and then have a extra non story reward for people who hit them all

[@MegaFlame57]

If you ever played Skyrim, your post reminded me a bit about it. Instead of dungeons, there are something like 7-8 "cities" (big villages, with architecture instead of only random houses) and each city and villages have something like 2-10 secundary quests, related to the geography, mythology, etc around them. There are villages being haunted by ghosts, threatened by bandits, with long and deep caverns occupied by monsters, ruins from an ancient civilization (and lore), etc. If they did the same to the open world of Zelda, that would be awesome. Actually having villages having their own problems, ethical issues, bandits, monsters, divine corruption, temples being occupied by monsters or corrupted by ganon would be awesome. And would muddy the waters on the usual story differences between a western game and a nintendo game (nintendo game stories are very simple and dumb, the so called "family-friendly"). We need more mature stories. Also rewards as you said.

[@evilmandrake]

Actually, for the first time ever, I think Tingle would be a good addition. Let me sell the idea. Some time ago, a rather odd boy stumbled upon one of the fountains of the Great Fairies. The Fairy sensed in him a desire to explore, and gifted him a magic balloon that he could use to survey the land. From that moment on, he became obsessed with finding them again, though he never was able to again. Fast forward to the time of TotK. The sky island appear however they do, and now Tingle can use his balloon to travel up to them, and even sell maps of the sky islands. (At least that's the story he's going to tell Link. Is it true?)

[@zacharynovak2180]

Tingle is ALWAYS a good addition, what are you talking about? He even has two of his own games! No other zelda character besides link can claim that!

[@David-dz1cb]

I'd love this!

[@Redpoppy80]

SOLD!!!

[@leopardbunny]

I actually kinda agree. Just maybe tone down his... Tingle-ness.

[@tvirusgetz]

The food menu is most likely similar to the weapon and shield menu. And as such, I imagine it means you'll be limited in how much food you can carry at once, and can upgrade that cap as you go through the game

[@GingerFish1290]

I think it’s the quick inventory menu in Fuse but I could be wrong?

[@gatst7680]

@@GingerFish1290 could be both?

[@GingerFish1290]

@@gatst7680 Yeah! A quick inventory like that in general would be really cool

[@CelloGamerMatt]

Think it might be a quick swap menu for materials in general, like the the arrow fuse menu

[@KidBowsur]

I really fucking hope they don't do the upgrades the way they did in the last game. Idc what anyone says it wasn't fun it was just tedious

[@BoojieD]

Even on my first playthrough, I had a house rule that I wasn’t allowed to eat anything during combat. Elixirs were fine, just like in other Zelda games. It balanced the difficulty remarkably well.

[@XanderVJ]

Elixirs are just as broken as food is...

[@alfiehicks1]

I've been playing with the rule that I can't use spirit orbs to get heart containers - so unlimited food is still on the table, but it doesn't make Link unkillable. It also makes 'hearty' foods a lot less broken. Also I don't use elixirs because potions are for NERDS 🤓

[@RacingSnails64]

Damn why didn't I think of that. I just do limited hearts and inventory upgrades. That alone has helped make fights more engaging.

[@Margar02]

​​@@XanderVJ "realistically," it is faster to drink an elixir and its magical buffs take effect immediately. Unlike food, which takes time to chew and swallow and digest. Yes you can still stack and drink multiple elixirs, so it's still broken, but it makes slightly more sense than eating 8 raw chickens in the middle of a lynel fight 😂

[@NoahStavish]

"the vast majority of players will complete the dungeons" This isn't necessarily true. On average only about 20% of players actually beat games. Only about 80-85% usually complete the tutorial. As hardcore gamers and dedicated fans this is a really weird thing to learn about games. I'm also a completionist, so not beating a game at least to the credits is a weird concept for me a lot. But as a game dev, I find it's important to take a step back and realize that not all players are going to engage with certain content, especially in open world titles.

[@d5dizzler962]

ONLY 20%?! That’s insane. Do you have a source for that? I’m not necessarily saying you’re lying but that seems a little unbelievable, I would think at least 40 or 50%

[@andrewmurphy2093]

@@d5dizzler962 You can actually see yourself if you check the achievement stats. Achievement stats are the way most devs track how much of their games the players finish. Check what percentage of players get the ending achievements in some of your favorite games, it's lower than I ever expect. For example, on steam only 23.8% of players finished the Witcher 3, and that game was the "biggest" game for a long time.

[@alexcardiel5433]

I'm sorry alro but after botw any zelda game that requires me to beat any part of the game before going to the boss will do nothing but anger me.

[@HenrikoMagnifico]

I just want meaningful sidequests with actually useful rewards, man

[@dpackerman4203]

Yes. Botw had some cool shrine quests but most of the side quests were just “collect 10 of this item and you’ll get 50 rupees to add to your 100,000 rupee stash.” We need longer, more unique side quests that give you better rewards.

[@MatthiasW97]

We need Heartpieces back! Those were meaningful rewards for side activities

[@TheGeladoo]

​@@MatthiasW97 And Empty Bottles. That might be a good way to limit potion consumption as well.

[@LegendofJess1]

I’d love if sidequests could reward you with stuff you can keep for fusing to your gear or some kind of part for ultrahand, like a propeller or tire

[@Terranigma23]

Sidequests who impact the world and the people around them please.

[@Garbear0119]

It needs Arlo to cameo

[@child8669]

fr

[@blusterkong1996]

Arlo should open up a Cameo

[@jsan2548]

I’d settle for Jaggy.

[@starvedrock314]

Arlo Blight Ganon

[@mayasimunek]

Arlo as a navi-esque companion

[@superdajoka]

Tears of the kingdom could really learn from twilight princess's dungeons, those were so good!

[@dpackerman4203]

Best dungeons in the franchise, no question.

[@leargamma4912]

​@dpackerman4203 I personally think Majora's Mask had the "best" dungeons, but TP had some fantastic ones too. They felt like real locations.

[@Vereid]

@@leargamma4912 Yeah MM may have only had 4 but man they were all good. That being said I loved TP’s as well. I just think there is a dip in quality (which is probably expected given it has over twice as many). Temple of Time and Goron Mines aren’t that great, but Lakebed Temple (which I literally just completed again last night), Forest Temple, Arbiters Grounds, City in the Sky and Snowpeak are all awesome. Majora has 3 of my fav dungeons in the series though. Woodfall, Great Bay and especially Stone Tower are just incredible. *Finished gushing*

[@GamerBen87]

@@dpackerman4203 I think SS had the best dungeons. Ancient Cistern, Sandship, Lanayru Mining Facility, and Sky Keep are all top notch dungeons.

[@dpackerman4203]

@@leargamma4912 If MM had more than 4 dungeons, I would consider it. Stone Tower temple is an all-time great dungeon, and I love Great Bay Temple (even though everyone else hates it).

[@quintonconoly]

I really hope we can all look back on this video later with relief that the game turned out great

[@RacingSnails64]

I'd be shocked if it turns out bad. If at the very least it's just BOTW 2.0, that'll still be great.

[@CanadianYeti69]

​@@RacingSnails64 Except BotW had a bunch of issues that alienated a big chunk of the zelda community. Honestly, they just need to beef up the story, add more dungeons or dungeon-like experiences and I think that'll be enough for most people.

[@iangarcia1585]

​@TheEvanManz also don't forget about the game running 30fps consistently (which for me is one of my main complaints on botw)

[@sexyprincesswriter2362]

@@CanadianYeti69 The Zelda community doesn't matter, the game is the best selling Zelda ever, so who cares if it allienated people? They didn't matter.

[@CanadianYeti69]

@@sexyprincesswriter2362 In what capacity do they not matter? Sales? Is that the only metric that matters?

[@abhilashkp6864]

The apple symbol being on dpad up suggests that it might be the menu for fusing items in you hand with those in your inventory (like in the trailer where they fused an arrow with a keese eyeball or ice chuchu jelly). Especially since in botw, dpad up were assigned to sheika slate abilities.

[@Hadeks_Marow]

Hate to break this for you arlo but the food button on the up arrow is a "resources" button for your fuse ability. It's how you saw them change arrow heads on the fly. A quick-access "crafting" binding.

[@LegendofJess1]

I think it’s possible it’s only for that when you have the bow out, and otherwise it’s a quick menu for materials

[@Hadeks_Marow]

@@LegendofJess1 Nah, you can fuse resources with any weapon. Remember, link equipped a mushroom food item to his shield.

[@LegendofJess1]

@@Hadeks_Marow Of course but fusing to melee weapons isn’t related to the up arrow material button. It’s from hitting L like the other hand abilities

[@Hadeks_Marow]

@@LegendofJess1 L is for when you are looking at something in the environment, not from your inventory.

[@LegendofJess1]

@@Hadeks_Marow L is all the hand abilities. Recall, fuse, ultrahand, and ascend. You can see their icons by the L icon whenever he’s using those abilities in the showcase

[@bluethan806]

I don't actually mind pausing the game for healing at all, I'm perfectly content with that level of comfort, though I think having so many status effect changes cluttered it up a lot and required much more room in the inventory that's necessary. Though to address this would need to consult a lot more of the game's design

[@dpackerman4203]

It’s just too OP. That’s the problem.

[@joeycrunch]

I also don’t super understand the critique because it’s really easy to remedy - just **stop eating meals and potions** if you think they are too easy and break your immersion… 🤔 Personally I didn’t care and, despite cooking a bunch to have convenient backups, I mostly just used fairies here and there, and let the Spirit Orb cut scenes heal me 😹

[@TheGeladoo]

I wish there were other types of collectibles that were a bit rare but very rewarding to find. I miss the heart pieces and empty bottles. Instead it's all Korok puzzles now.

[@GIRGHGH]

I thought there were rare things to find though??? What are you talking about?

[@TheGeladoo]

@@GIRGHGH Am I missing something? What are you thinking of?

[@emjay_blng]

@@GIRGHGH you can find every item again and again. There is no limit.. what are the rare items you’re talking about?

[@Archius9]

I think the final trailer definitely hints at proper dungeons. There’s some puzzle looking things, some weird sequences that would be really weird to be just out in the open

[@jamesn3122]

I think the "Dungeons" will mostly be similar to Hyrule Castle in Botw, seemless portions of the open world that are thematic and have puzzles ect. They'll feel Integrated into the world in a way that a traditional dungeon doesn't, but I think they'll be great. Really, all they need is distinct aesthetic and music.

[@kaitourobin840]

​@@jamesn3122 I thought the Castle was fantastic. The number 1 thing I wanted was more dungeon like it. I still surprised people keep saying BoW didn't have a dungeon, like didn't they explore the Castle. The Castle even had lock room mini boss fight. And puzzles you need to do to progress through it. It was a traditional dungeon with multiple entrance way and pathway. And I want more of it.

[@stefanlynch3210]

​@@kaitourobin840 nah. People want linear dungeons with an item.

[@kaitourobin840]

@@stefanlynch3210 They have dozens of those. I want an expansion and more refined of the castle style, with different themes, more hidden rooms, more mini-boss trapped room, and a special boss battle in the deepest sections. Like you deep diving into a real-life dungeon, not a video game level.

[@KaningLamigin]

Personally I think optional dungeons are a genius idea but they need to make it so there's more incentive for the player to complete them and consequently make it more penalizing to skip them. It'll add more variety in during replays like it did with the previous game.

[@TadGomer]

The apple icon is definitely so you can fuse items to weapons

[@mrworld1645]

Yeah, I was about to comment that.

[@leif4698]

Um, no? The gameplay reveal literally shows you that the Hand abilities are mapped to L, with Fuse having its own icon and everything

[@TadGomer]

@@leif4698 The L button is probably just for fusing outside materials to weapons, bows and sheilds. Like with a boulder or a raft. And the Up button, the apple icon, is for fusing weapons, bows and sheilds with materials in your inventory, that's just what makes sense to me personally. Maybe if you don't have your weapon or sheild pulled out or your bow isn't about to fire, then maybe it's a healing menu but idk

[@TheForNoReason]

What a Link wants, What a Link needs, whatever makes him happy and sets him free and I'm thanking Arlo, for making it happen.

[@Concise_Parakeet]

​@@axeSyntax Morbidly obese Redditor moment. 🤓🫵

[@timg2727]

Goddammit, take my upvote.

[@cajunking5987]

What the hell does this comment mean

[@cajunking5987]

@@axeSyntax k I don’t care about your superiority explain the damn thing

[@sdbszz706]

Just imagine jumping into a lake, and the trailer simply shows off a Dive feature, and the entirety of submerged Zonai statues, cities, treasures, hiding deep down, including Zora’s secret army, flourishes into existence 😩

[@sunbeamsami]

My biggest hope is getting the chance to rebuild Hyrule! I know I’m not alone here when I say that the Tarrytown quest was one of my absolute favorites, and I’d love a chance to rebuild Castle Town and all the other ruins scattered throughout Hyrule.

[@triggeredtiger9773]

From what we see in the final trailer, it does seem that we'll be able to do that. ( Maybe by using the ultrahand mechanic?)

[@jahredharrison4069]

Literally who got super upset that you didn't technically have to do the dungeons if you _really_ wanted to skip them and demanded that Nintendo put a "you can't pass until you get the 4 medals of gizzump" barrier around the castle?

[@kalelrodriguez5685]

I think that apple symbol might be the menu for fusing things with arrows like we saw in the gameplay demonstration. It had a layout like choosing swords and shields from BotW there

[@blooky102]

I personally like how dungeons are option as it doesn't burden me so i don't stop playing the game making me feel hopeless for not being able to finish the puzzles and leave the game unfinished.

[@Antasma1]

That last trailer gave me a lot of confidence for how much a change of pace this new game will be. I would certainly want some activity variety instead of searching for treasure, koroks, and camps 300 hours straight. I’ve also always wanted items like the hookshot to return in some form

[@TheRelicOfOwls]

I don't think key items will come back as individual items. I think they'll come in the form of arm abilities that use the gold icons with kanji-like symbols in them. It looks like Links zonai arm has some sort of slot on the back of the hand, which has made me think that the gold abilities will be earned item-like abilities that are all coins with different symbols that distinguish themselves from the abilities you probably get through the tutorial like ultra-hand, ascend, and fuse which all use the green energy and have very different icons on the UI.

[@RacingSnails64]

Hookshot would be dope as hell.

[@Antasma1]

@@TheRelicOfOwls I figured it could return as a disposable weapon. The thought of enemies using them is awesome

[@TheRelicOfOwls]

@@Antasma1 I guess that's a possiblity, or maybe as a resource that you can fuse. Maybe a lizalfos tongue that you can attach to shield or something that has the ability to pull?

[@AkuTenshiiZero]

The thing about Zelda is that I really, _really_ love the feeling of progression via gaining a new item or ability. There is something intensely satisfying about seeing a puzzle you can't interact with yet, and then getting the missing piece later, nothing quite hits that same excitement of "I remember that thing from earlier that I can do now." But I don't necessarily want this new style of Zelda to change, what I want is a parallel _traditional_ Zelda to come along. I want both kinds of games, and with this 2nd game in the BotW series my fears that we are never going to get a traditional Zelda again are growing.

[@StonetheDestroyer42]

I will say of the eating issue, it's a great way to provide a pretty natural difficulty scaling option for players. When I play, I don't eat during combat. That's a self-imposed restriction to change the difficulty for me. But my girlfriend struggles even with infinite healing items, so the game would be completely impossible for her without that option. She's having fun because she has a chance, and she doesn't even have to go into a menu to change a difficulty setting or something. She gets to make the game easier for herself while still feeling like she is accomplishing it as it was designed. And that's a good thing to me.

[@lunaredelvour2972]

I think it'd be nice if meals could only be had out of combat, and if you want to heal mid-fight, you have to use one of your elixirs. Have some assigned to quick slots like in older games, and heal in real-time. It gives elixirs an actual purpose and a reason why you might use an elixir in place of a meal

[@Safteypython091]

i get you but in phoenix rising(a game like botw but has elixirs that need to be crafted and used real time) if healing mid fight takes you away from the game then having to go craft elixirs after every fight really takes from exploring and makes you avoid fights

[@Jewellsensei]

The food/healing In botw never bothered me and for it to appeal to the highest amount of people I think it's done okay. There's plenty of people who aren't good at combat in botw or are new to it completely so having a good amount of heals helps with that. Plus imo I just think the idea of link stuffing his face with all sorts of deserts while a lynals going full pelt at him I'd funny.

[@FrothyRemorse]

I feel like I’m the only person in the world who hates souls type games. Having a “souls” combat mechanic would ruin, seriously ruin, Zelda for me.

[@igormachado2194]

The pet peeve with the meal slots in the item inventory is so ridiculous. If you want combat to be more challenging, maybe just not... use it? You're not forced to make meals. Hell, throughout all of my gameplay, I must have cooked 5 times, and one of them was part of a quest to open up a shrine. After a while I stoped collecting food items altogether, just because I didn't feel it was necessary. The whole point of Breath of the Wild is that you're able to play the way you want to. If you want to stack with 100 meals and never risk actually dying because you suck at combat, have at it. If you wish for the game to be more challenging, all you have to do is literally not sit down and cook unless you absolutely need to. But don't try to change the game to cater to your specific wants when it already lets you do that. There are different types of players and they all get to have their fun with the game.

[@hyun-shik7327]

The simple fact that Zelda as a franchise has reached the point where not being in the running for "Best Game of All Time" would be considered a disappointment just goes to show how good the track record is.

[@goldmemberpb]

For the healing en masse, I think the dark souls approach would work best. Maybe you have a set number of item slots dedicated to recipe food. You can still heal as much as you want outside of battle, but in active combat, you are restricted to whatever food item is in that food slot. This way, you are encouraged to make recipe instead of guzzling dozen of apples and banana.

[@trizzynahhh5736]

"What tears of the kingdom still needs to be a big winner" umm Arlo...respectfully..shut up. It's already going to be a big winner

[@jaelli101010]

Would love see flying Beedle return! As he pedals around the air peddling wares from sky island to sky island. And maybe a rare pegasus mount.

[@StickmanMook]

YES! Beedle always had some sort of vehicular store. A hot air balloon, a boat, even a pedal powered contraption in SS. But in BOTW he just lugs around a backpack.

[@lost_in_manga2935]

Definitely agree we need more traditional dungeons.. as long as traditional does not mean linear. It would really suck to be running around a big open world only to be forced into linear dungeons. Big open expansive dungeons with unique themes and puzzles tho? Yes!

[@jumponeverything]

Exactly this, going back to linear dungeons would go against the whole design of the rest of the game

[@alexfreeman2883]

Hot take? I don't think they need to change how food/healing works.

[@SBlazeable]

Honestly I really did enjoy the divine beasts, it felt like an exciting new challenge you got to see for the first time ever & you don’t get very many of those moments, they come and they go. Additionally the divine beasts all had a quiet inner sanctum central to their puzzle where you could just take a second and think about the monolith puzzle before you and just revel in the calmness when the rest of game up until that point was full of adventure, swords clashing, going point a to point b, the divine beasts really felt like you came into something much bigger than yourself, something sacred, ancient, yet living & breathing and it felt very grounding to feel small as you tried to figure out it’s gimmicks not that you were trying to defeat it but rather, to tame it, to understand it as a majestic beast, almost like befriending a real beast.

[@omensoffate]

Challenge ? Where ?

[@jeffthegamerboy3476]

What challenge? Maybe vah naboris is slightly challenging, but rest are too simple, especially vah rudania.

[@CanadianYeti69]

There are definetly good things about the divine beasts, however they do not even come close to a replacement for regular zelda dungeons. They need to be longer, more challenging, have more unique bosses and lastly, be more numerous.

[@neonswift]

As with many people I've seen, they've conflated the lack of Crafting with there apparently not being enough uses for ingredients in botw. But they were used for potions, elixirs, dying, upgrading armour, selling for rupees, solving side quests AND fundamentally used as part of the emergent gameplay (a small example melting ice with fire Chu Jelly).

[@Hadeks_Marow]

And even WITH all that, all your resources still took up multiple pages at any given point, even after you did every single one of the things you mentioned back-to-back.

[@neonswift]

@@Hadeks_Marow you're right but I think I mistyped 'not enough uses" when I meant just people claim they have less use than they do. I saw people complain about not having enough arrows for example but if you sell your ingredients you can get a bunch of items. Even I forgot to mention how those ingredients are also used to craft ancient gear and the weird shit the balloon guy sells you. I think more uses would be good. But I personally had less pages for ingredients because I used many, sold many, or didn't keep picking them up when I had enough. I guess Fallout 4 had trainede that you don't need to pickup every coffee cup so by the time botw released I was more reserved on picking up items. You have a lot to bring with when you don't know there uses but after a while you learn what they do any can hold back. It's not like I pick up every flower I find in Witcher for example. Too many people need a game to drive their habits (positively or negatively) but people turn also complain about the breaking weapons not acknowledging how that fundamentally changes how many different items players end up using as a result. The fuse mechanic isn't going to result in less pages for people.. If anything they'll pick up more ingredients because they're going to be using them constantly. I think many improvements can be made to botw systems, but I find it bizarre how many people are willfully ignorant about how or why those mechanics work, or even if they exist at all (hence people claiming ingredients are used for like 2 things).

[@Hadeks_Marow]

@@neonswift I think you are conflating 2 arguements into one. Too much stuff in your inventory to where you don't have enough to do with the stuff you have. That's not the same as saying you can't use them for many things. You can have many things to do with them, but not with your entire inventory as a whole. Sure you can use 5 campfires and 5 flint to make a camp fire, but you have 30 of each. You can craft an anchient sword or 2, but you still will have the issue of having too much. It's an economic problem. All the stuff you can use it for is too cheap. Even selling stuff gets you more rupees than you will ever need. I agree with you in that the economy as a whole needs a complete rebalancing. . . but nintendo has never been good with balancing currency and such in their games. Atleast not lately anyways. The bottom line is you earn more resources than the rate you do spending them. Meaning it's always a net positive graph, arrow goes up. . . which is bad. Making every item a consumable that you use frequency will definitely make spending rate go up thus helping to make the spending to earning ratio be atleast a little bit closer.

[@woafie]

Arlo, i think it’s the right time to thank you for helping me get through my seasonal depression. Always look forward to your videos :) edit: also thanks for the spoiler free content!

[@omensoffate]

Seasonal 😂

[@starbutter2730]

@@omensoffate Yeah i think thats a real thing, its called Manic Depression or something?

[@Skyewardbound]

Yeah, the wintertime can hit pretty hard

[@starbutter2730]

Yeah i can understand that

[@woafie]

@@starbutter2730 thank you

[@bbarrett726]

I agree with everything except for one point: I think players should be allowed to go straight to the final boss if they choose. Let's be real here. How many players are actually going to do that on their first playthrough?

[@ADreamingTraveler]

Making specific parts of the game unskippable completely destroys what made Botw so special, groundbreaking and so influential to all the games of the past 6 years. Botw did what no other open world game did and letting you have true freedom. It was refreshing and it was shocking to see a company like Nintendo, let alone other open world developers, give you that freedom. You chose the way you wanted to play the game and I loved that

[@jonasb7211]

Agreed. People would complain if some parts/dungeons were alwyas needed to progress. It's part of the appeal of botw to have total freedom.

[@jumponeverything]

I've never seen anyone complain that the divine beasts were optional it's such a weird thing for him to bring up

[@thomasw9286]

Plus there is no reason why they can't make meaningful main side quests, that aren't required

[@117mcrfan]

Zelda was always about exploration. I don't see anything wrong with this new format

[@dpackerman4203]

Zelda was also always about dungeons. Not having them is something seriously wrong with this format.

[@smallgator]

I know it won't happen, but I really want a side quest with the happy mask salesman. In the end, you get the fierce deity sword or something.

[@WarningStrangerDanger]

I would love to see Zelda include transformations again.

[@theoaremevano3227]

@@WarningStrangerDanger : Not sure if we'll see the form changes, but we do see a Goron in the newest trailer performing Darmani's legendary burning goron roll. I hope we see more of the races demonstrating the unique abilities Majora's Mask showed off. Wonder if Sidon can chuck his fins as boomerangs or generate a magic field around him. :D

[@WarningStrangerDanger]

@@theoaremevano3227 The transformation in Twilight Princess was also useful. Our Zonai vs Hylian Link may be all we get.

[@Duelkitten]

I know it's such a small thing but i would love to see redeads come back. I missed them.

[@zacharynovak2180]

Spoiler for trailer 2: They are back! In trailer 2 you can briefly see one in the shot with all the enemies when ganondorf is talking.

[@dpackerman4203]

Redeads, skulltalas, deku babas, so many iconic enemies that were absent in Botw. If they came back that would be sweet.

[@supermariohack3218]

​@@zacharynovak2180 Yeah, you can even see one in this video at 9:44

[@innerecho9468]

@@zacharynovak2180 absolutely not a spoiler

[@Eternal_Tr]

Redeads are back

[@rhodie9338]

Honestly, limiting how many meals you could hold would ruin the cooking system for me. Why would I ever craft something new with a niche effect like heat resist or sneak up if it's taking a slot away from something with 20 yellow hearts of overheal? LImited slots would just take an interesting system for experimentation and turn it into something you have to min-max.

[@Resvrgam]

Honestly, if Tears of the Kingdom listens to feedback requesting it to be less like BotW and more like other Zelda games, I’m out. There are a few very minor gripes I had with BotW but - it’s the ONLY Zelda game I completed (and replayed multiple times). The Shrines were the perfect size. The freeform exploration & discovery were amazing. I don’t want lengthy dungeons that feel like a chore to complete. I don’t want a “classic Zelda design” that regiments pacing into a defined path. Skyward Sword is an awful game. The story was decent but the actual game was terrible. Twilight Princess? It had its moments but it droned on and on and on. It also had a lot of issues with pacing. Windwaker was great but I found BotW to be a vastly more enjoyable gaming experience. There has been a LOT of vocal criticisms about BotW that I greatly disagree with. I DON’T want the game to force feed a story. The great thing about BotW was that the story was told by ME. Tarry Town? Discovering how to shield surf? Finding a weird labyrinth by following something I saw by chance in the distance? Encountering the Mountain God? Those were MY stories. They weren’t spoon-fed like a lot of today’s “marginally interactive CG films” being passed off as games. Those memories gave enough context and painted a great world for me to pave my own way. THAT’s what made BotW so amazing. If TotK reverts back to “Classic Zelda Designs”, it’ll be a huge step back.

[@King_Kaiju32]

I would Really Love if somehow Horses are improved and more useful than the 1st game, even tho we can essentially just make vehicles now with all the fusing stuff I'd really appreciate it for immersion purposes. Love your content Arlo always looking forward to your next one, Glad to hear that you seem to be feeling 100% better in this video finally!

[@epicortonotepic8314]

They were making carts for npcs

[@remhauck1577]

It would be great if we could spawn our horse from anywhere. Having to go to a stable makes them rather useless much of the time.

[@gentlemanbronco3246]

@@remhauck1577 I think that would ruin the immersion of the game. I appreciated that aspect of the game since it really made me value travelling more.

[@theoaremevano3227]

At the very least, the whole 'defender of Hyrule' sub quest the game seems like it would give them far more valuable uses. Just using them to get around is niche at best and outright outclassed by some new additions, but being able to ride one into a battle you can apparently set up for at a preset location would be a great use for them.... I'd also love it if we COULD register other animals as well this time.

[@alfiehicks1]

​@Gentleman Bronco The Witcher III lets you summon your horse from anywhere and that game is far more immersive than BotW. Horse summoning is not immersion-breaking, it's just convenient. Having to travel to your horse makes zero sense in the context of a video game because the point of the horse is that it lets you travel faster. Not being able to summon your horse from anywhere just discourages using a horse altogether, *especially* in a game that lets you teleport basically anywhere at any time, *and* when horses are only good for travelling on perfectly flat ground. Horses suck in BotW. Summoning them from anywhere would *only* be helpful.

[@meikaishi]

The healing thing I think it's harder to happen, even if past games didn't let you carry a near infinite buffet, healing was still done via a cutscene that stopped the whole game while you drink your red potion completely safe from harm, if I'm not mistaken Skyward Sword was the only game where the potions are consumed in real time (and that's assuming you're even using potions instead of the much better fairies, which ironically enough are harder to get by in BOTW and have a set limit of how many you can carry)

[@zucumberzeez]

The game already looks incredible with the little information we have. I dont understand how you can watch all the trailers and still think its just gonna be "one new mechanic with a slightly different story." Like come on 🤦‍♂️

[@leftovernoise]

Yeah trailer 3 showed us a tiny peek at what they have in store and it looks incredible

[@thecluckster3908]

A little Metroid is now part of arlo lore

[@nationalsocialist6590]

Okay we need more than just korox seeds and shrines because each time I make a discovery it's just a shrine or korox seed. Needs more variety of mysteries to find. The "Internet Pitstop" explains my complaints pretty well.

[@markpearce520]

For the eating thing, they could actually have the same mechanics and inventory space but just make it so that instead of eating it in the menu you can hold it in your hands (the same as with ingredients in BOTW) and then you need to press a button in gameplay to eat it. And then Link can play a little eating animation and would be vulnerable at the same time. He could even walk or run while doing it like in Monster Hunter, but maybe slower than normal walking/running speed

[@machoward6297]

Really proud of Arlo for putting his spoiler preference to the side in order to produce great content for us. I love this channel so I'm really glad he decided to talk about it in depth before release

[@abombernation3254]

The apple icon is most likely a button for quick selecting materials to fuse

[@arjunadrill]

Oh man, that food and potion limit is something I 100 percent disagree with you on!! Really is no reason to limit that at this point. If you want more of a challenge you can simply not use them. No need to try to mimic those souls games with their difficulty in anyway. Zelda is very much catered for everyone of all ages. And with any luck you’ll get another challenge mode with dlc like we did with breath of the wild. I’ll further say I’d rather have the option to make things easier or harder if I choose rather than having NO option of making things easier or harder

[@rkotlas]

If you think Breath of the Wild wasn't really Zelda, and that Tears of the Kingdom needs a linear structure, then you've never played The Legend of Zelda.

[@3than458]

Arlo: you have all these materials but you don’t have anything to do with them Also Arlo: I don’t like how you can have tons of meals cooked from your materials to constantly heal you in battle

[@Zenplayzgoated]

😂😂😂

[@azzy-551]

one hearty radish.

[@islandplace7235]

really disagree about the combat, the fact I am able to heal (quickly) gave me the confidence to actually fight many more enemies in the game than I would have otherwise. Had I felt there was too great a limit on the consumption of goods I don't think I would have used what I had so often. I would stockpile the best things and save it for Ganon or big bosses. I also would be cheap in how I would fight enemies. Trying to kill them from as far away as possible -therefore ruining the up close combat parts of the game.

[@Anni_ka]

100% agree. I can see why people say it makes things too easy, but personally, I still died plenty of times? Also the games where it takes fucking ages between you saying 'please heal' and the item actually healing have frustrated me so much in the past, I actually really appreciated the way it's done in BOTW 😅

[@alfiehicks1]

Breath of the Wild is not an RPG. The combat has skill to it, it's not just about having hundreds of health points so you can tank hits. The game gets easier as you get better at it, and the only way you can get better at it is by facing challenge and learning the combat.

[@islandplace7235]

@@alfiehicks1 which is awesome to do, when you are able to recover and be creative in fights without having to go eons before healing.

[@islandplace7235]

@@Anni_ka yeah, to me it made healing stress free, and simple to preform. I also died plenty too, just because I'd not plan something out, and I did run out of food at least once due to over confidence in my abilities at an earlier point in the game. To me it was perfectly balanced in that way

[@thespeedyyoshi]

I’m glad that “metroid” is now getting some love ^w^ We love his addition to the Arlo lore

[@jameslawrenson1208]

Metroid's are people too!

[@pablofmc]

I disagree with almost everything you said. I loved small sized challenges in the form of shrines and also LOVED how empty the world felt, it was the first time in a game i was feeling i was going on an adventure and not going on a set of pre-set challenges in caves where everything was perfectly placed for you to activate. The materials and food things i agree completely.

[@Ellicess]

Before everything was destroyed?! Bro Link has a ROBOT ARM

[@toonlinkunknown7667]

Spending the whole game learning the story in a different time period could be cool. Just be in the past and witness through cutscenes the differences your work makes in the future.

[@masterchaoss]

All I hope for is the same amount of freedom as botw. If I can go straight to the last boss from the beginning the game is an major step back.

[@morthemex]

I feel like the healing system needs to be more like the weapons switching system. Not real time, but you can’t just sit there forever either (14:00 ish) Edit: tingle

[@GingerFish1290]

that’s what I think the apple on the d pad is for! that would be cool!

[@morthemex]

@@GingerFish1290 im hoping so!

[@madmanwithaplan1826]

Trailer spoiler. you can defintely fuse weird things to your weapons. in the 3rd trailer theres a part where link seems to parry an enemy. hes not there is a Shield FUSED to his sword.

[@SamWickens]

I dunno, was the balance against having infinite food in BotW not just how annoying and clunky it was to make meals? Obviously I'm being facetious, but I always found myself being careful not to run out of the meals and potions I needed because the least fun thing about the game, for me, was standing near a cooking pot, individually selecting each ingredient to physically drop into the pot and having to go through the whole "throw stuff in, watch it bounce around long enough to skip and then show off the meal you've cooked" cutscene, and having to do that over and over just to not be screwed next time you meet a Lynel or something.

[@ShyGuyXXL]

It needs Tingle. I'm not even being ironic about that because you made the joke.. I genuinely wanna see him in this game. If Kilton can be a character, then so can Tingle. Make it happen!

[@takeawombo1791]

It seems like you made this video before the final trailer

[@Bri32675]

Yea, most of his questions were answered (or at least hinted at) in the final trailer lol

[@PlyrMava.]

I wanna see Ganondorf be a brutal conqueror during the story, see him crush villages and cutscenes where he's badass. It's been so long without him

[@Pimpgamer101]

“Hey Nintendo, here’s how you make your game. Don’t make it how you want.”