Why I Can't Enjoy Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom

[@indiegenerate]

What is your favorite Zelda game?

[@DoktorSkipper]

Mario kart 8!

[@DCXII]

Breath of the Wild but it’s also the only one I played

[@shoepebble5]

I LOVE SPIRIT TRQCKS 🥳🥳🎉🎉😍😍

[@warman4718]

Twilight Princess is better than BOTW and OOT sue me

[@paczka695]

TOTK

[@Iffondrel]

Yeaaah i really miss more compact LoZ games. Replaying Ocarina right after beating totk made me realize how much i like having closely connected areas and connections to each place you visit.

[@indiegenerate]

didn’t say it exactly in the video, but I feel like tears definitley suffers from a giant case of quantity over quality. if we had a slightly smaller area to work with I feel like the content would have felt more fresh.

[@fabioxperuggia]

try playing "a link to the past", that's the real masterpiece.

[@maliciousbugman]

@@fabioxperuggia A Link Between Worlds is a great open-ended follow up to LttP as well, being set in the same world. It introduces a new dynamic with items and landscape-interactive world traversal, and playfully recontextualizes certain elements of LttP for familiar players while not doing so in a way that would alienate newcomers. ALBW is the anti-TotK in a good way (though I think it also helps that there was a huge buffer of time and games between LttP and ALBW, and it wasn't the very next fucking game after LttP).

[@senerio2124]

@@indiegenerate I felt I had the exact same experience with Elden Ring vs FromSoftware's other titles

[@skatepark02]

@@fabioxperuggiasuch a great game!! It took me years to finally play it. I loved every minute.

[@RoZyk007]

Biggest problem with TotK is that BotW exists

[@Rexperto6454]

Exactly. If there was no BOTW but they released TOTK around 2020 it would have been mind blowing.

[@ricxx5324]

Oh man they can't coexist for me. I am currently just 40 hrs in totk and I am slightly burned out they should have just release this as an expansion.

[@RoZyk007]

​@@ricxx5324yea DLC, ofc with less missons, would be great

[@FirebrandAL]

They’re almost too similar. Same map, same stuff - I said in another comment on this video that it feels like all the stuff I enjoyed in the first game; it irritates me now. Like the climbing, lightning strikes, all that stuff that was tedious but made you feel like you accomplished something - it just feels here like you have to do it all over again. It’s a weird because familiarity doesn’t inherently piss me off / I loved and played hours in all the Yakuza games for example. But here it just doesn’t work. Feels like one of those old Warcraft expansions. The Cataclysm one where they just sorta broke the world and then just added a bunch of stuff that just seemed like bloat and not anything that made the game feel more fun or better.

[@Pabliski577]

Yup if totk was first it would have been the masterpiece.

[@FeliPeltier]

I just can’t get into this game and I loved Breath of the Wild. Glad I’m not alone.

[@gab0773]

They really hyped this game so much and I was thinking it was gonna be the next twilight princess but no

[@PoliteTia]

I'm with you!

[@kingkrysen]

​@@gab0773same

[@richtea87]

Same here. BoTW is one of the best games I’ve ever played (190+ hrs playtime). But I’m struggling to get through ToTK.. 50 hours in but it feels like a chore to play. :/

[@cheesesteak983]

Exactly this. I went back to BotW and am having a much more fun time

[@theartshow1476]

The worst thing about this game is how many times it tricked me into thinking something exciting was finally going to happen.

[@TheBakingYeast]

The Lurien village pirate thing just being bokoblins was the most disappointing part of the game for me

[@samhescott348]

@@TheBakingYeasteven if it was bokoblins dressed as pirates it would have been acceptable. Problem is, they’re just normal fucking bokoblins

[@Pabliski577]

I'm on my 2nd playthrough having conflicting feelings that the whole game is a nothingburger, but that's the point.

[@Mystical367]

same! seeing zelda sacrifice herself as a dragon was cool, but then they fudged it up and then just revived her with "magical hand powers"

[@Mystical367]

@@Pabliski577 how did I not see this comment last time LOL

[@cole6843]

I really hate the depths. The depths suck.

[@horimotogp1031]

Nooo. It's sooo good!

[@paulapaula1491]

real

[@VikkiKitsune]

Lol I searched the comments for this one!! 😅😂 I conquer the Depths suck 😆 Also gloom spawn and phantom Ganons suck also And I keep getting killed by the weakest of enemies 😅

[@Kruegernator123]

@@horimotogp1031 The Depths were good for the first hour or so. However, once you look at the map and realize every Lightroot is located underneath a shrine, and that everything is a topographic inversion of the surface, it becomes fruitless to explore it. The Depths solely exist to mine Zonaite, collect Amiibo gear already reused from BOTW and to do two dungeons.

[@horimotogp1031]

@@Kruegernator123 eh. To each their own. I explored the depths in full before hitting all the shrines on the surface. It was a good time. Lotta bosses. Lotta poes. Kept me busy for quite a while. Plus the sound the game makes when you enter the depths 🤌🏻 not too mention random dragon sightings. Never a dull moment.

[@gundamstyle291]

It was huge mistake to make this game a direct sequel. After 3 hrs playing the game I shut it down and said "I've already played this game." Have not touched it since.

[@JoshT4life]

I'm almost where you're at. Game feels like a cheap copy paste of botw

[@kewa_design]

I finished the windtempel and that's it, was too annoying, I really hate these uptrahand shit 😂 and botw is one of my favourite games

[@johnnyknadler1157]

It’s a direct sequel yet the story is barely a direct continuation

[@netweed09]

@@johnnyknadler1157 So you basically contradicted the others' opinions yet you're all in unison in hating the game all via the same lazy "its the same!1" drag. 😄 Hate is a strong and wild animal but you keep doing yourselves.

[@johnnyknadler1157]

@@netweed09What??? When did I say “It’s the same!!”

[@TCOFFICIAL01]

I agree that it is hard to enjoy as much as the original. In my case, I just get frustrated with its problems. Nintendo had more than enough time to fix what people didn’t like about BOTW, like the lack of story or ending, and the way-too-easy final boss, but they just… didn’t fix any of that.

[@fnoigy]

I just found the combat tedious and unsatisfying. Actually, same for the building mechanics, difficulty curve, puzzles, story, world navigation... Everything

[@artagle_14]

@@fnoigyAs soon as they introduced the building mechanic my heart sank. After such a long wait since the reveal trailer I was disappointed to say the least. I had my faith with Nintendo handling the sequel to probably the best selling Zelda game. As of right now I have the game displayed on my shelf. Never played it since.

[@ramsesjfg7668]

The final boss is great this time around, tbh. Every Ganondorf battle in the past has been epic, yet still aimed at children. The story however is lackluster for sure, and should be improved with DLC. The gameplay is amazing, but it's gonna be a hit or miss depending on whether you like the building mechanics.

[@TCOFFICIAL01]

@@ramsesjfg7668 true, ganondorf was great, but demon dragon was pretty underwhelming gameplay-wise.

[@ramsesjfg7668]

@@TCOFFICIAL01 That whole moment was meant to be cinematic, but yeah they could've made it tougher. You basically won already by that point. Still, much better than Dark Beast Ganon.

[@rezarfar]

This game would have been fine if it came out in 2019 -2020. But they waited 6 years to give us what is essentially, copy and paste.

[@OddDuck64]

Wow. This video hits REALLY close to home for me. I was in 8th grade playing BOTW, and minecraft, and everything else in this video. Really the only difference is, I never moved on from BOTW. I kept coming back to breath of the wild’s hyrule every month or two. Not for the gameplay loop, just to run around. I don’t meditate, but I found playing BOTW as close to meditation as I’ve ever gotten. Which has led to how I play totk, and why I have 400 hours on the game. Every time I decide to play tears of the kingdom, all i do is spend 10 minutes walking to a place I wanna go, and then sit AFK for several hours while doing schoolwork or anything else. Just to have the sounds of my comfort world playing in the background. I played Breath of the wild to 100% completion. With Tears Of The Kingdom, I don’t think I’m going to do the same. Amazing video.

[@indiegenerate]

I’m glad you liked the video, it’s so cool to see other peoples experiences with these games.

[@Scramblefred2399]

I feel the same way about the meditative experience of BOTW

[@itsaxel8088]

I think this is the first Zelda game where things just feel tedious. The shrines, koroks and story arent anything special.

[@indiegenerate]

on god bro

[@coltonowens2742]

TOTK is one of the laziest sequels I've ever seen. BOTW although pretty basic in hindsight, had a solid foundation that could have been improved so freaking much. Instead, the majority feels copy paste with Banjo Kazooie nuts and bolts tacked on.

[@curtisdupree4430]

Absolutely. How did this take six years??

[@amandaslough125]

​​@@curtisdupree4430pandemic dropping it to like 4 years of development. Stir in probably at least one instant of a script rewrite, and the higher ups going "we should totally do this thing: scrap all what you've been doing and work on my awesome idea" with all the real dev time being put into the physics for ultrahand and fuse, and optimizing the crap out of the game so the switch can run it. Alternatively only doing half of what they should've put in the game while working on the next entry for the next system, so it's a smaller team. Either way, for full time workers working for 6 years on a game that already had half of it made... yea they dropped the ball for this one. Such a waste.

[@mightguy3118]

​@@curtisdupree4430On god. It reuses 90% of shit from botw and the games progression system is even the same yet somehow it took longer than botw

[@Jdudec367]

This isn't a lazy sequel at all. Not really, it is improved on and made better, that wasn't tacked on it was naturally integrated.

[@ramsesjfg7668]

Saying it's lazy is pretty insulting for a game like this, but story-wise it is, unfortunately.

[@DiegoGonzalez-ic3si]

For me it’s the fact that it is the same map…the exact same map, the one I have already spent hundreds of hours exploring…I feel zero incentives to come back. It was the laziest thing possible, they used the same freaking map I can’t believe it. I really hope they go back to the classic Zelda formula with a new game each time and not just rehashing as they did here.

[@mightguy3118]

I'm so sick of people pretending it's not just botw 2.0 🤦 "B-but Majora's mask 🤓"

[@DiegoGonzalez-ic3si]

@@mightguy3118 my friends say I am crazy when I call it “glorified DLC hahaha”

[@jessrene111]

They should of at least changed the map lol to make it more exciting

[@Kitsunary]

As much as the building mechanic sounds like a fun sandbox thing to do, it's not something that's can be anything more than a side activity to mess around with. When you actually need to use it for things in the game it's often better to just come up with the simplest way to get the job done and move on. At that point, it just feels annoying to use compared to using things like dungeon items in previous Zelda games.

[@jonquelstar]

I agree with you. The building mechanic is what I can’t really get into.

[@netweed09]

Well, that's a horribly naive thing to say. I'm not going to argue with you as I'm not bothered in whether you'll be convinced or not as 1st impressions are final with most rando commentators. Al I will say is that you're mis-informed and you should honestly check some ''Battling Gleeok and Hinoxes in Tears'' videos to see how it's properly done. But yeah, you do you.

[@LZMP60]

​@@netweed09My boy, those fighting machines just serve to remove gameplay from you. How boring is your game that you have machines doing the fighting for you ?

[@netweed09]

@@LZMP60 Lol, what?? So all Mech games etc are void? 😂 I see these sort of channels are the hiding homes of very long-winded 'nitpicks' and strange opinions.

[@shyguyrocks1]

​@@netweed09 People just maybe don't want to spend the time to build an intricate device that'll fight their battles for them and can't be properly transported around quickly without wasting resources just to fight an enemy they can properly engage themselves with. I understand the inherent fascination of building a crazy contraption and watching it work but it only pays off once. Every other time if you do decide to waste the zonaite to produce it you aren't engaging with the enemies anymore, not that the combat is all that anyways but I'd rather get involved in combat personally. It's just a difference in how people play I guess.

[@briom1425]

Zelda is done for me , It was my favorite. I love the old Zelda’s , good gear and kill monsters and clear dungeons . I’m not interested in tedious boring game mechanics.

[@DiegoGonzalez-ic3si]

I hope with all my heart that they go back to the old Zelda formula

[@netweed09]

😂 Such a spoiled kid's opinion. Nintendo stick to old: ''ohh but it's boring & linear crap waaaa!11 Why can't We go exploring off the beaten path??'' Nintendo take risks: ''what the heck is this janky nonsense my controller's stuck to the ceiling! rwrrrefhgasdsafsg!11''

[@fei3919]

Never enjoyed Breath of the Wild and Minecraft (TotK) either. I feel ya there mate.

[@netweed09]

@@fei3919 Such a Lazy comment. Dare I even say, 'opinion'. 🥱

[@fei3919]

@@netweed09 Your first Zelda game is Breath of the Wild, I assume 🤷🏻‍♂️. The Zelda formula has nothing to do with the two latest titles. Nintendo could learn something from FromSoft. They adapted their Soulsborn formula almost perfectly in an open world game. Sorry, but Breath of the Wild and Minecraft are just a joke that went too far. That comes from someone who has played all the Zelda games and I own a copy from every single Zelda title out there.

[@AlexCole272]

Let’s call it what it is, the game is boring. It’s an empty world with the same repetitiveness. People like it because it’s a Zelda title just like marvel movies, that can’t do no wrong.

[@TheRealNintendoKid]

Nah, if that were true, I wouldn't have hated the 20 years of Zelda prior to Breath of the Wild the way that I did. Zelda is finally back. The old formula was stale, and it was killing the series.

[@User_5tjk42gj9]

​@TheRealNintendoKid "zelda is back" bro you hate real zelda. Botw/totk are not zelda games, theyre skyrim reskins.

[@AtelierMcMuttonArt]

@@User_5tjk42gj9 Not even- saying that is an insult to Skyrim, I think I'd go as far as calling it a glorified tech demo built on the corpse of BOTW

[@itsmarshallll2600]

​@@AtelierMcMuttonArt true but the guy who said "real Zelda is back" is so wrong. The series has never been like it is now and it's sad. So sad in fact that I'm so hyped for echoes of wisdom, more than I ever was for totk. I have played it for 6-8 hours and never touched it again.

[@lemmy154]

and here we are ladies and gentlemen the hater npc

[@nillynush4899]

Not being able to simply move and swing your sword at the same time is utterly baffling to me in 2023... Twilight Princess did it over 15 years ago, AND you got the hidden skills OoT Link teaches you.

[@696Productions]

The gameplay is different. Cope

[@michaellane5381]

Honestly I think the main problem there is that some other unique items should be in the game and to change a few things: Lizal tails should become guaranteed drops, And arm&hook unique or unique pair of items should be added to te weapons slot just like the master sword, allowing fusion of a tail/rope and horn to create a hookshot, or various items for purely offensive effects, and various other unique items also should be added, as well as more powerful monsters, for example I think we should have seen elemental Battletaluses and Bokoblins, maybe an "Ionized" Talus with a Charged Iron heart that is immune to natural lightning and lives in Stormy places, there should be enemy camps with Boss Boko's and Moblins working together or for a hungry Hinox, more mixed combat in general, actual leveled flying Aerocuda with multiple hp instead of just 1 like a slower Keese.

[@daniel8181]

Why do you act like thats a technology and not a design choice? I see this with breaking weapons as well, people seem to think nintendo cant figure out how to make weapons not break.

[@ramsesjfg7668]

That's like saying Monster Hunter sucks because you can't roll away quickly after swinging a 200lb greatsword

[@netweed09]

@@696Productions ​ Exactly, right?? 👍👍 The main thing is how damn OP would that be early game if Link could swing his sword about while moving like a madman?? Plus, it would not even matter all that as the Bosses have massive health bars anyway: you have to Flurry Rush, though admittedly, picking up a Hidden Skills mechanic _would_ have been cool - but it's been done before, why copy and paste to an new sub-Series of the games?

[@Matthew-FG6]

Thanks for posting this. To me, there was so much "same-iness" between the games. I've been there. I've done that. Why am I doing it again? It made me feel burnt out. The vast majority of totk should have been spent in the sky islands and the depths. And that's where all of the zonai shrines should have been located. In the end, i don't get the decisions that were made.

[@indiegenerate]

agreed. Btw thanks for watching :)

[@RabidNemo]

I feel like they just took every scrapped idea for breath of the wild and shoehorned it into a slightly scaled up breath of the wild.

[@clockworkNate]

100% Totk should've been a 40$ dlc expansion. Anyone that disagrees is seriously in denial. Nintendo is playing ya like a chump and it will only get worse and worse unless more people snap out of it.

[@dnzlwshnktn2092]

BOTW and TOTK are the definition of "Wide as an Ocean - Deep as a puddle".

[@lost.name636brother9]

The same amount of fun, as playing in a puddle, only entertaining for a moment, then becomes dull and uninteresting deeper it goes.

[@JuanSinMiedo441]

blah blah blah

[@dnzlwshnktn2092]

"blah blah blah" = BOTW summary

[@netweed09]

Ok, for Botw. But _TOTK??_ Come off it fella, literally there are _3 Worlds_ layered on top of each other, and the underworld is literally called _The Depths_ lol!! 😂 And no, it's not 'empty' (like Breath is.) [Spoilers - here, lol??] There's literally _2 Temples_ down there.

[@LZMP60]

​@@netweed093 x 0 = 0 Nothing to do in the sky, nothing to do in the depth, nothing to do in Hyrule.

[@tactus72]

Being an old GenX gamer, I probably played and obsessed on the first couple of Zelda titles at home, then went to college during the GameBoy & N64 era, and my brother switched to Sega, PS route, then I got married right after college, and didn’t get back into Nintendo until the Game Cube era with Wind Waker. After my kids were born, I would replay the games for them, and read the dialogue from the cut scenes, and got them into it. So now that you’re “adulting”, there will be ebs and flows to your gaming life. Your priorities will change a lot. Now at 50, most the time I just watch my youngest a 10 year old play. When totk came out, it’s the only game that maybe get back into video games, besides Tetris 99 and Pac-Man 99. I got a business to run, so they don’t lose time for one game. Although, I didn’t mind the mundaneness of all the tasks and puzzles to solve, to me it’s relaxing, and a nice escape. What I actually don’t like, is that they haven’t seem to modernized the story. The Zelda character herself is the same old, damsel in distress, reluctant and struggling to realize her powers. ***SPOILERS**** I think they should have ended her character in a similar way they end the Studio Ghibli character. She should have never been able to return to her human form. It would have made the story more legendary and epic and tragic, give them more emotional gravitas to the story.

[@indiegenerate]

I agree completely about the ending bit and I'm glad you enjoyed the game. My attention span is probably a lot more ruined then yours is too, so it makes sense you have more patience for the things I find more mundane. It's so cool to see how many different people and perspectives this video has reached. I always think about getting my future kids into video games and it's so interesting to hear that it's something you've already experienced. Thanks for watching the video btw :)

[@wingzero2348]

Its a DLC 😂😂 you already played this game before. They just lied and asked for 70 dollars.

[@mightguy3118]

And Nintendo fans gave it to them then jumped on anyone who dared to call it out for being the same game 🤣

[@jwdogg_1551]

​@@mightguy3118 Big yapping here

[@itsmarshallll2600]

​@@mightguy3118I bought my cartridge, played for 6-8 hours max, found it boring and sold it next day for 70 again since it was a new release. Most boring 3D zelda by a long shot!!

[@mightguy3118]

@@itsmarshallll2600 You got lucky you both it physically. I bought it digitally and once I landed in Hyrule and ran around for a few hours I realized I wasted $70 and couldn't get a refund or anything 😭

[@itsmarshallll2600]

@@mightguy3118 that sucks. But I kind of had a feeling from what I saw in the trailer... Funny enough, it's the only switch title I bought physically since I purchased the console in 2019

[@kristoffliftoff9316]

Hey, I am 34 so quite a bit older but share some of the same experience. I didn't play botw when it first came out, but I picked up a switch during the pandemic. Everyone was home and I needed something to pass the time. I was also going through a deep depression as my dad had just died a few weeks before the lockdown (not Covid related) and botw really helped me get lost in the map. TotK- I understand that it's a good game, but it just doesn't mean as much to me as botw.

[@MarysiaKosowski]

I'm sorry for your loss. :( I'm also in my 30s and I feel similarly about these games. I loved Breath of the Wild but had criticisms. None of them were addressed in Tears of the Kingdom, so while I'm enjoying Tears for what it is, it just feels like more Breath of the Wild.

[@theisheep2676]

@@MarysiaKosowski Would you not agree that the variety and number of SIDE QUESTS was one improvement that TOTK has. I was personally quite satisfied with the side quests and haven't even completed all of them !

[@MarysiaKosowski]

@@theisheep2676 The side quests are fun. The story is great, what there is of it. I really loved all the cut scenes. Overall, though, in terms of gameplay, the game just feels like an extension of Breath of the Wild as a whole--not surprising, since Aonuma and co. were originally developing it as DLC.

[@skatepark02]

Get the switch online account and play the greats that we grew up with like ocarina and Majoras mask!

[@elnurgling]

BotW is one of my favourite Zelda games of all time (alongside the first four and Majora's Mask) but Tears of the Kingdom just doesn't click with me at all. The sky island tutorial was nowhere near as interesting as the Great Plateau, and after making it through and spending about eight hours in Hyrule I put the game down, picked it up again a month later and put it down again after ten more hours of being bored. Gave it a third go two weeks ago and my patience lasted for one Sunday morning. The entire game just feels oversaturated with tedious busywork (can't walk more than twenty steps without running into a Korok Backpacker or a Hudson signpost dude), and the Ultra Hand and Fuse gimmicks are clunky and make the game grind down to a halt way too often. The majority of the thirty or so shrines I found so far seemed to revolve around glueing random junk together and cheese my way to the exit. Felt more like abusing gameplay mechanics than actual puzzle solving, but at least it was not as bad as BotW's motion sensor shrines. One a positive note: I liked seeing Like-Likes and encountering a Gleeok in the overworld. Just wish they had spent more of that six year development time on creating Leevers, Tektites, Moldorms and clever dungeons and less on making 95% of the gameplay revolve around a tedious HyruLego gimmick.

[@creativebenzin]

I have exactaly same feeling... BOW hit me in a way that no game already hit... But Tok Just fell no point... Why make 150 shrines?... Só...It's almost like a job instead of a game...

[@YoungCatracho]

You are not alone, i quit ToTK about half way through. The feeling i had with BOTW was amazing!!! But Tears doesnt make me feel that way…

[@Me_Myself_Maly]

I’m really tired of people concluding“maybe I’m just not the same with games as I used to be” when criticizing this game as a way to avoid igniting the Zelda community. This game simply didn’t evolve! It is the EXACT SAME repetitive gameplay loop, slapped into a game where it doesn’t fit as well as it did before. And I say that as someone who played the shot out of BOTW. Yes it has some cool new stuff around it. But it’s core is vapid, mindless, and barely improved on.

[@nerdyfan21]

God yes exactly what I’ve been thinking looking through these videos lol

[@mrchard40]

My biggest question is WHY did they change the dungeons to 5 terminals?? Zelda has always been about the dungeons! And they ruined them!

[@deepmind5318]

I love Zelda so much, and even enjoyed breath of the wild, but something happened while playing tears of the kingdom. I found the build mechanic slow and tedious. The story didn't resonate with me, and exploring the same Hyrule just didn't hook me in. The game is also way wayyy too big for its own good. Exploring the underground also felt exhausting.

[@eddiedead2702]

"I had never played an open world game before" I honestly believe that has a lot more to do with the level of success that BotW received than people understand. I'm in my mid 30s and i'd played plenty of open world games before. While the chemistry engine was amazing at the end of the day there wasn't a whole lot special beyond that. Combat was simple. Weapon durability was frustrating. There wasn't much to actually get out of the world beyond the intrinsic joy of exploration and sight seeing. As someone who was an avid Zelda fan since Link to the Past, these 2 new games frustrate me for not feeling at all like they belong to the series I fell in love with and as a massive fan of open world games, these 2 games don't impress me. This Hyrule maybe be massive but it has nowhere near the level of depth that Morrowind has...and that game is old enough to drink.

[@Jdudec367]

I don't think so...they were just really good games. I mean there was, it was a beautiful mix of open world and zelda. Eh...there was, the puzzles, the content, the everything really. Eh...I disagree they do feel like they belong to that series. Nah it more then surpasses that depth.

[@eddiedead2702]

@@Jdudec367 they are good games, but if they weren't Nintendo games with "Zelda" on the box they would be judged a lot more harshly. Don't get me wrong, the chemistry and physics engine are amazing, but in terms of open world games, like, this ain't no Morrowind and there're only Zelda games in name.

[@Jdudec367]

@@eddiedead2702 I doubt it tbh....actually maybe the opposite would happen. Eh...it's better then Morrowwind really and it's Zelda game in gameplay too.

[@Jdudec367]

@@Goosewitdajuice317 No it isn't inferior from a world aspect. No it does hold what made Zelda Zelda. I got through my skull that you are dead wrong.

[@mkjjoe]

@@eddiedead2702 they're Zelda in essence when we look at everything Zelda has ever been... I understand that people pick what they prefer in previous experiences but then it should be accounted for. I also don't think it necessarily benefited from just being named Zelda, but of course the exposition of Zelda itself gave it enough visibility to be appreciated. For each player blindly favoring the game for its name, there's potentially another player who precisely despises how it changed but wouldn't badmouth it if it were in another franchise...

[@BeansLive567]

People these days should understand that not liking certain things of entertainment isnt evil or a bad thing. Not liking certain things isnt a bad thing and most CERTAINLY is not a personal attack

[@indiegenerate]

glad we can all still have healthy discussions around gaming nowadays lol thanks for watching btw :)

[@wileyjoshua6811]

no no many people are making practically the same video as this. Even bracing against the backlash and all. This game was unfun for me I demanded a refund from nintendo and they gave it to me. This game is tedious and boring. Its bloated, repetitve, the controls are just wretched, and its an anti-player game.

[@Jokerxeno1]

Me beating botw when I was 13- Greatest game of all time🐐 Me dropping totk at 19- botw is so much better Me dropping botw after trying to play again to feel that same high when I was 13- maybe I’m just getting old😭

[@smololoml]

Relatable 😭

[@charliez077]

imo a big part of it tho is that BoTW WAS a legit great game when it first released - but it is NOT a game meant to be replayed at all. and ToTK in a large part IS a replay of BoTW. plus BoTW was a gamechanger to a degree in 2017 - but it's not 2017 anymore. and except the (fun, sure) Zonai stuff it is still very much the same game from 2017, only bigger (and to some degree emptier and much grindier)

[@eanderson9599]

It’s crazy how much more I loved playing Breath of the Wild than TOTK, and I think it has nothing to do with my age or the games I like

[@indiegenerate]

huh guess enjoyment is different for everyone

[@erikwilliams8692]

@@indiegeneratehuh? U can read . The game is dull and the same base map. Elden ring also made it obsolete

[@lbozo9222]

I havent fully played TOTK, I played around 10 hours ish? But it felt kinda underwhelming. I adored the initial tutorial part with the big sky island, but as soon as I got to hyrule it felt kinda monotonous and boring. It definitely improved on BOTW, but it felt very samey like I already experienced the game once. At first I was amazed by the depths but it got tedious quickly. I kinda enjoyed it but it wasnt as amazing as experiencing BOTW and I think its largely due to the re-used map and enemies and such. The shrines kinda feel improved upon but just like the first game is repetitive and too simplistic. I think for me personally I need to wait a lil longer to play it, maybe when the switch 2 comes out and TOTK gets a next gen patch? Anyways yeah great video btw.

[@DiegoGonzalez-ic3si]

You literally pit my thoughts into words, excellent comment!!

[@matkav2638]

Zelda is best when its a more focused type game, non of this ubisoft climbing towers bullshit. Open world Zelda is boring, bring back the more linear focused type Zelda game please!

[@RKanth54]

@@matkav2638man u zelda fans r truly insufferable. nintendo will never go back to linear zeldas because they dont sell as much as open world ones, simple as that

[@PoliteTia]

You are not alone. I only play LOZ. Now, thanks to this game, I'm over it. The waste land depths and the endless scrolling to find an item to attack to an arrow 😠

[@Air-ts7cu]

BoTW is your favorite ice cream flavor ToTk is your favorite ice cream flavor for 100 meals in a row. It's just too much.

[@MeMelon]

Dare I say beautiful vid, I am a firm believer that a big chunk of ones enjoyment in a game is based off where they are in their life. Although it sucks ToTK may not be for you, it seems like its a great reminder of how much you have grown in those past years. Great vid Mr.Generate

[@indiegenerate]

nailed it right on the head, thanks brother. also UPLOAD MORE DAMN IT!!!!!

[@israelwilson4022]

Totk is a fine example of when something doesn’t grow with its audience I guess you could say

[@UltraManager]

The weapon breaking mechanics, the fact most NPCs don't remember you, the lack of Kass.. Kass was the best NPC and they just snuffed him out of the sequel? Why Nintendo? What was the excuse?

[@drawingduckk669]

nope, you're not alone.There are things that I really enjoy about the game, but I really can't deal with the same puzzles and sidequests over and over again, it's just way too repetitive. I can't but feel a slight disappointment whenever I play this game

[@indiegenerate]

glad to hear im not alone thanks for watching btw :)

[@jimjohnson6944]

TotK is honestly pretty whack. The depths literally sucks, and the sky islands are a nothingburger. Dungeons that take 10 minutes to complete. Now explore the same overworld map you already played in the last game. Wtf was that?

[@ConnorHere]

Really enjoyed this video. It was able to put to words how I've been feeling about video games as a whole recently, especially the guilt of having senseless fun. That part really hit me.

[@indiegenerate]

I’m glad you could relate to it, the goal of this video was to reach people feeling the same way. Hopefully we can all rediscover our love for dumb fun eventually.

[@696Productions]

Welcome to being an adult

[@wesmyone9562]

I ain't gon lie, I've been forcing myself to play Tears Of The Kingdom, but I'm seriously considering dropping it altogether. I'm not having any fun with it🙁

[@Christo_glenn]

I honestly really didn’t like BOTW or TOTK. I do realise that this is new direction that the series is heading in. Whilst that’s great for fans of the newer games, its sad that we probably won’t see a new game with a focused and linear experience. At this point, the best that more traditional Zelda fans can get would be a new 2d Zelda, which would be awesome.

[@GoronMerchant]

It’s a awful sequel/ Zelda game…

[@thehardshellgang8793]

This game looks an feels like DLC.

[@nemil238]

finall someone says it, totk is literally ass twilight princess darknuts are better than every boss in this game, there no new weapon type except lizal tails and the game is filled with fake content, busy work

[@danielgrezda3339]

I was about to say "what about the other 90 percent of the game don't you like?" And then you said "the core gameplay loop is seeing something cool in the distance, walking to the cool thing in the distance and not being rewarded." And then I understood why I love totk and you don't. I usually go on bike trips several times a week that can go on for 2 hours with no breaks, and I'm not rewarded for it, but I do it because I like the exploration and the difficulty of the exploration heightens the joy of it for me. So when I got botw, I loved it to bits because it made walking through the world fun for me due to the stamina system and the climbing and gliding mechanics. Totk reinforced that with ascend and zonai veichles and added more stuff to look at and go to in the main world and while the depths and sky islands are more boring in looks, they also have their own fun stuff to look at and walk to. It's not the fact that you don't enjoy this game that I find sad because nobody will enjoy every great game and that's fine, but I hope sometime in the future you can have more time to have that senseless fun.

[@indiegenerate]

this really made me understand the appeal of the game a lot more. I’ve always struggled with juggling fun and serious things, but this was a very interesting comment to read. Thank you so much for watching

[@sakuraneko2595]

@@indiegenerate for me botw and totk are games that you play when you want to relax. It becomes boring when you don't have much to do aand don't get me started on the korok seeds. I collected half of them in botw and never picked up the game for months.But I do like the runes better in botw than in totk. In botw creative was an option where as in totk you're forced to build new things .I feel like more could have been done with the dephs and the sky islands as well as the surface so it doesn't feel like a DLC.Shortly after I got tears of the kingdo, I played AOC and had more fun with that. (even though it's probably worse than botw, it was more engaging to play)

[@AlquimistEd]

I think you'll find that you're not really as alone in this as you think. The "universal" praise TotK gets is mostly from mainstream media, the general public is actually much more divided.

[@jessefrank9564]

The Master Sword having limited durability is more than enough to give the game 4/10

[@cherubin7th]

Funny, I saw similar complains about Elden Ring. But for me BOTW was way more fun than TOTK, but both can't match my love for Majora's Mask. And I played Majora's Mask after Skyward Sword on the Wii virtual console. The content of TOTK feels kind of random to me and the over world is littered like my bedroom. I liked revisiting the old locations and see how they changed.

[@kawuabonga]

36 year old here. Got really bored after wind temple, not planning to ever finish this. p.s. depths... ugh.

[@kyrenity]

I'm just starting to question if I can even consider sandbox games as "games". What I feel like a game should offer is a set experience, a challenge, with some reward at the end of it. Sandbox games don't really offer that but instead ask you to make your own fun in it,. Personally I can't get invested in a game for this reason and I have no idea why the Zelda series has adopted this area of game design. Yes, it does offer some handcrafted experiences, but if we're going by that, it's a terrible game; simplistic puzzles, terrible rewards, shallow dungeons, absolutely horrendous story with even worse writing and voice acting... it's objectively a bad (or at least deeply flawed) game, and it fails as a Zelda game. As a sandbox it's fine, but it's separate from the actual game and when its mechanics do come into play for the dungeons/p[uzzles, you're never rewarded for your creativity to think outside the box and typically break puzzles instead of solve them. This game felt like a waste of time for me, I dedicated myself to it and wasn't given anything in return. There were maybe tiny hints of fun and happiness throughout, but the vast majority of the time was pure boredom, and sometimes frustration. I can see why people do enjoy this game, especially as something to create silly things in for social media content, but this novelty won't last long and it won't be long until this game is forgotten about or replaced with something that does everything it tries to do better. Nintendo are killing Zelda by forgetting what's great about it, emphasising what isn't great about it, and then also turning it into something it's not. Hopefully an indie developer can one day bring back the magic of Zelda in a spiritual successor.

Don’t worry, the next Zelda game will be way different. We just have to wait another 6 years.

[@HarrisMerad]

This comment aged badly😂

[@mon0tony]

I have been a legend of Zelda fans since 1987, I loved breath of the wild and patiently waited 6 years, and I am disappointed. tears of the kingdom did not have its own identity, and was just more of the same. it boggles my mind that it took them longer to remix breath of the wild and add a few things then it did to create any other Zelda game. it worries me that this is the new format. I don't have time to randomly run into the same dragons and shoot them eight different times with a 10 minute reset timer on them to upgrade armor that is barely useful anyways. All this game was, was grinding. I love Zelda for the exploration and puzzle solving, I don't want to grind for 100 hours.

[@wmv8996]

"Snot nosed 6th graded who got mesmerized by breath of the wild." Man I feel old.

[@indiegenerate]

glad I’m not the only one lol

[@MattMBZ]

This was the worst Zelda game for me. It was fun, but a massive disappointment. 7 years for this?

[@coryfreake9070]

The story was the only thing I had expectations for, and that part of the game was it's weakest point.

[@Lorenzovd]

This video really put in to words exactly how I feel as well. I wasn't sure why I didn't like totk, but now I know. Great video!

[@indiegenerate]

that’s so cool to hear other people feel like I do. Thanks for watching!

[@Zockanumber1]

My experience with the New Zelda games feels like its almost the opposite. When Breath came out I had severe videogame and especially open world fatigue and the giga highly praised BOTW not being fun to me was the last nail in the coffin for me to quit gaming at that time. It was only years later in the end of 2021 when I got back into gaming. While I dont think the new Zelda games are these ultimate masterpieces a lot of people make them out to be I am having a very good time with Tears and I get now why these games are so mesmerizing to a lot of people

[@jamesorion1986]

In 2017 i was dating who would become my wife...and then later on a few years later she became my ex. During 2017 i bought a Switch and BOTW and me and my fiancee would play it together all the time, hell we did a thing where since she was better at puzzles and i was better at combat so we actually would take over for each in our respective files in those areas we were stronger at. Probably 500+ hours and i didnt even get everything but that memory of playing with her all the time has made just how similar and samey TOTK seems, and its a hard game to play when im constantly being reminded of a woman who i loved for so long and still do in a lot of ways, who no longer loves me... and that hurts...a lot...well thats my story, maybe not the worst reason to dislike a game but there are too many things in TOTK that re open old scars for me to truly enjoy it...maybe one day, but not today...😢

[@cherubin7th]

I know what you mean. Russian Orthodox liturgy is no fun anymore because of that.

[@dwiese1998]

I feel that way about certain shows.

[@Link00007]

I loved Breath of the Wild, but Tears of the kingdom kinda insults it

[@Proxidist]

This video was amazing! Also Majoras Mask will always be the king.

[@indiegenerate]

REAL AS FUCK PROXIDIST ‼️‼️

[@Truthbomb101.]

Majoras Mask the Goat. Always said it. Juuuuust infront of OOT.

[@stephenmccarthy2517]

Man I'm 26 now, and your video essay perfectly explains my relationship to pieces of media like TotK. It's a sad feeling, wanting to hold on to the nostalgia of the past and to try and relive the joyous experiences you had from before, even though you know you've already outgrown them. That's when you know it's time to move on and try something new. What I took from this is that it's sometimes better to 'let go' of something you love than to cling to to it forever. You end up expecting the same feeling from it every time, only to gradually resent that thing because it's ultimately not producing the same effects on you as it did in your first experience(s) with it.

[@Stovetopcookie]

I think ToTK is your outlet. But the feeling is there. Maturity and growth cannot come without giving up aimless happiness from the past. But time will pass whether we want it to or not. I felt this way playing OoT as adult link. I was around 8th grade at the time. The transition in Link’s story paralleled my own leaving childhood behind. I think that’s why so many ppl have deep connections to the Zelda games, regardless of which one you played during that time of life. The theme of coming of age and loss of innocence.

[@lukemorgan2594]

I've 100% BotW on Normal and almost 100% on Master mode ( i got all the Koroks and shrines just couldnt beat the last sections of the Trials) When I first played the game there was a slight sense of awe. At the time everyone was raving about it and i got it for the Wii U and played for maybe 20 hours. Then I decided to get it on Switch for less pop in and slightly better framerate. With my 20 hours of experience on hand, I breezed through the Great Plateau and zoomed around opening up Towers and completing shrines with ease as I was familiar with the controls now and I like platformers so I would use my years of jumping experience to help skip certain sections the unintended way. The problem I found with the game was once I had restarted on the Switch, the progression system I had already figured out or lack of progression that is cost/worth effecient. Everything you do in BoTW even though it takes barely any time at all when you actually think about it, doesn't reward you with anything meaningful or comparable to the time spent. Hearts, in my opinion, in every Zelda game don't help with progression moving forward. They just allow the player to make more mistakes. The hearts dont make Links attacks stronger just make you take more hits. I know BotW and TotK arent RPGs but Hearts being tied to strength could have helped with the weapon durability issue. As you got more hearts, you would get "physically stronger" meaning your Soup Ladle can actually pack a punch. It would still break in a few hits but you could do more damage in that time. Korok seeds being tied to Inventory space is also just crazy. While collecting a Korok seed takes mere seconds when you actually think about it, you need multipe to upgrade a slot and it only upgrades one type of equipment (sword or shield not both). While I appreciatethat you dont need ALL 999 Korok seeds its something like half that number to fully upgrade your slots. AND THEN coolecting the other half doesnt reward you with anything meaningful for your efforts. Not having to complete the dungeons to beat the game sounds fun on paper but then it also highlights the fact that you DONT need to beat the dungeons to beat the game. Obviously the Powers you get from the dungeons are permament upgrades which is great and what should be expected from a Zelda Game but as stated earlier you dont need them to beat the game, they are utility abilities. After spending hundreds of hours doing the same thing twice in BotW and at the end of it all even on Master Mode I wasnt rewarded with anything that felt meaningful other than the experience of playing the game. To know that TotK is more of the same is such a shame and I've proven to myself that I dont enjoy the time spent versus the reward gained. I'm not saying these are bad games. A bad game is ET for the Atari. What I'm saying is that Zelda has always had this sense of awe, exploration and reward both in finding out how to get that item on the ledge or from permanent upgrades. The Awe disappears very quickly once you figure out the controls and reliance on stamina for movement. The Exploration loses it charm when you realise you are just micro managing stamina to climb up different hills or sprint across distances. The Reward for exploring and finding unique items is gone and you already know what to expect when you explore, breakable weapons, sellable ores, edibles/resources and Koroks. If you read all this, thanks for taking time out of your life to read some random person on YT comments. After choosing to spend time with BotW, I'm not going to waste it again playing TotK just like if you find my comment a waste if time then thats ok. Safety and peace be with you all.

[@B-ot2xx]

“Video games aren’t fun anymore” Odd1sOut edition.

[@BiscuitSenpaiiii]

"went full on bad piggies mode" had me dying

[@indiegenerate]

LOL glad I’m not the only one who remembers that game

[@vyse1776]

I'll probably get hate for this but i haven't even finished the tutorial portion yet and i'm already bored with it. I played and beat botw, but i can't bring myself to do another 150 shrines dumb fetch quests and crap rewards for tedious work. I like solid story telling, compelling dungeons and fun gameplay, for me totk only has fun gameplay with the fusion stuff which simultaneously feels like a chore at times. Sorry zelda community this isn't the one for me but glad most people still enjoy it.

[@Skyjumperkid]

I just miss the old 3D games they was batter in my eyes

[@realamericannegro977]

Games pretty much peaked in the 6th Gen and the 7th generation was the start of the fall off.

[@ZeranZeran]

I'm glad I ignored every sidequest and just beat the game, because the rest of this looks like torture. BoTW was dramatically better, better designed, better story, No random Furries (That was just weird af, Hyrulians are not Fox People, and never were) ToTK was a half-assed crap game. BoTW is something I actually enjoy replaying. ToTK is a zelda game fentanyl. Dulled, worse, dumb, 0 thought put into the lore beyond "OMG FOX PEOPLE" I thought BOTW's story was bad, Totk made it even worse, dramatically. I'd rather play Twilight Princess over both.

[@infinitefretboard]

I've been a Zelda fan since 1999 and I would say this game is boring and depressing. I'm a big fan of Breath of the Wild. Can't complain about that game. But this one. It's bad enough that they reuse the overworld. Seriously, for the most part it feels like the same game. With BotW, the overworld WAS the game. So if you're gonna give us that, of course people will call it glorified DLC. The first few hours were epic. But after a while it gets very tedious. You have to upgrade your gear so you have to go somewhere you already went in BotW. Except the enemies are arbitrarily stronger. All that sky stuff is a pretty small part of the game. And most of the time, if you use the rewind ability, you can't even find a rock to take you back there. The sidequests are mostly mundane. The depths are awesome at first but very boring after a few hours. So much work just going around and farming to upgrade your batteries so you can use your equipment for longer. Feels like a job that doesn't have the payoff. Not much incentive to do anything.

[@poyo__]

Dude this video's incredibly well made. I believe in your abilities as a creator. Keep it up, this was stellar

[@indiegenerate]

means a lot man, thank you :)

[@davecross4493]

I understand why you might feel like growing up and being busier played a role in not enjoying Tears of the Kingdom as much, but I think there’s more to it. I’m nearly 40, with a packed life - I work full-time, have family responsibilities, and juggle hobbies like writing, hiking, and music. Despite that, I played Breath of the Wild for the first time recently and absolutely loved it. To me, the difference with Tears of the Kingdom isn’t about you growing up - it’s about the game itself. Nintendo reused the same world and mechanics, and while there were some new features, it didn’t feel as fresh or groundbreaking as Breath of the Wild did back in 2017. I think part of the reason it didn’t grab you is that you’d already experienced much of what made Breath of the Wild special. It’s not so much about your life changing but about the game not evolving enough to reignite that spark

[@TheMelonFarmers123]

Honestly I kind of agree. Botw came out for me when I was in my mid 20s, I was in a 5 year relationship that was close to ending and I just couldn’t see that. The last real fun thing we did was play botw together. I don’t think I would have beaten it if I didn’t have a partner to play it with. For pretty much the same reasons you mentioned in losing interest in totk. She more or less enjoyed the things I didn’t about the game and Vice versa. Fast forward to today, I’m in my 30s in a totally different job field, totally different living situation, have a house to take care of, I’m playing music out a lot more, I’m trying to be there for my family and parents cuz I really know how precious time is. And I just…I just can’t invest myself like I used to. I think the game is fine even though I hate the fuse mechanic and really don’t love the building mechanic (was never into Minecraft or halo forge kind of stuff), but honestly the rest seems cool. The games I play now are pretty casual. Like Mario kart 8, cod mobile, pokemmo (best mod ever), I try every new resident evil and only beat about every other one. Those games you can kind of jump in and jump out, and tears requires just a little more investment than im willing to give. And even though I’ve been thinking about this game on and off for years, I just…idk it just doesn’t click.

[@GoronMerchant]

4 months later, we’re still not allowed to dislike/ critic this game….. What a shame, nobody can have a opinion on this game, unless you say it’s perfect.

[@mightguy3118]

Its really wild to me. 6 years, a delay, $70 just to get the same game in the same map and people still defend it and give it 10/10 😂

[@edwardgonzalez3302]

well see the problem is you are not prioritizing what really matters. Stick to one town, drop your girlfriend, quit college, now you have plenty of time to 100% the game.

[@indiegenerate]

best comment i’ve seen on this vid

[@cwazyblue357]

So glad I found this video. I've been feeling like the odd one out whenever I hear people talk about Totk. It really did not hit me at all. The best part was the intro and then after that it was like wow...this isn't fun. The plot wasn't even interesting enough to keep me invested. I played Botw on the wii U in 6th grade and came from a long interest in the series overall. Going from Botw to Totk was just disappointing. I'll stop my rambling and say great vid man, loved the editing and all the points you made. Keep up the great work dude!

[@ZeranZeran]

I put in a solid 10 hours into this game, and ended up hating it. BoTW is dramatically better, even with its faults. Nintendo has stopped paying attention to their customers, and it shows. The next Zelda game will be even worse.

[@darksaezuru]

I felt the same way when they released the Zelda HD collection on GameCube. I was like “man when I was a kid a played the shit out of ocarina of time, I can’t do it again… ah shit I can’t do majoras mask either… it’s the same.” Fast forward to tears of the kingdom and its new Zelda players that were my age when I played the new style Zelda’s. And I keep seeing y’all say the same thing I did yearrrrrrrs ago. I feel it. I truly do. Sucks but yeah, zelda does this often to people lol.

[@indiegenerate]

i own that collection on my gamecube as well. Interesting to see how people who grew up on those games feel about it now. Thanks for watching btw :)

[@DiegoGonzalez-ic3si]

Brooo i grew up with those hames and when they released that HD collection was like Christmas for me hahaha I really loved it

[@Buttington_Headerson]

Other than using the same engine and assets, Majora’s Mask is very very different from Ocarina of Time. I think you are lacking somewhere.

[@tomtinakiyama9949]

Totk could have been a really good game. nintendo could have fix the main problems in bot but didn't. miss a big opportunity with Underground and gloom. The Underground could had different levels the deeper you go the higher the gloom level is. and you have to bring a weapon that have gloom level resistance to that underground level. And the only way to get weapons and food is from the over world and sky world.

[@APsGTG]

You’re putting it way too much on yourself. The game was simply trash lol

[@mdiaz013184]

Crazy im just seeing this and you showed the movie Parasite and I just found out yesterday the one actor from it commited suicide...crazy...also great video you need more subs especially showing gravity falls

[@jamiemoet9091]

Finally someone who speaks or see's where I'm fucking coming from! Give me links awakening all Day every day over this! Apologies to 99% of the population but NO! sorry NOT sorry 😅

[@james441]

Glad I’m not the only one

[@humblerationalist]

sorry, 2 mins in the Video and I have to quit watching. This is gonna be a 11 min long : "IM SOOO GROWN UP and Im sooo ADULTED and I am sooo high above everything else. NOTHING is worth MY adult, grown up time." Video. Lol how annoying. Don't take yourself so serious dude.

[@ellagage1256]

Hit the nail on the head

[@user-rv9ds8iw6g]

Same feelings here, BOTW is just better idk what it is with Tears.

[@Yixdy]

Oh my God you were in the SIXTH grade around botw's launch? This might just be you hitting the "oh no, in old now and video games aren't REAL LIFE" feeling. Edit: you sorta started leaning into that subject right after i posted this lol Edit edit: ye you basically completely touched on this at the end lmao

[@thephalange8630]

Well, never looked at it that way, but you have a very valid point. I'm a mom now, I do not have the time to invest 100s of hours into a game, therefore I only played the maingame and that was a huge let down. I would have much preferred a traditional Zelda, and just make the world smaller and more compact, fill it with side quests, but first and foremost concentrate on a good, engaging main quest. And that's it. Not this nonsensical running around for hours being interrupted every few steps eith something else. I tell you, I got so dizzy and nauseous playing the game, after having already spent soooo much time.in this exact hyrule in botw, i couldn't do it anymore.

[@Reaper_Editz45]

Botw is my fav game ever and totk is just isnt that

[@citizenofhyrule]

there is the possibility you wont be thinking of ''how much is this game worth my time'' forever and just vibe with a game in the future. i think having this phase that youre going through right now is actually pretty important in helping you mature. its okay to waste time once in awhile. life isnt about constantly optimizing. but if this is your path now, nice also totk kinda bad. i hate how it somehow found a way to have even more features that requires more menus. the entire game feels even more like a slog to go through. it added more content without streamlining the process into accessing any of it. tedious. so for me its not even that i dont have freetime, i have loads of it. its just that with each passing month i hate how a traditional 3d zelda puzzlebox game is taken from me since aonuma and his team is too busy making his sandboxes. i also genuinely thought totk wouldve just added everything i wanted in a zelda game, it didnt. and it took even longer to make than breath of the wild. i did enjoy the moment to moments, but the fact it was even longer to beat than breath of the wild with nothing ''really'' cool happening stings.

[@DoktorSkipper]

This video saved my summer!

[@indiegenerate]

that’s very kind skipper thank you

[@jakehubyt]

best video on youtube😢

[@rickyruffle]

Slogging through TOTK. 10% is really fun. 90% feels like a part time job that I'm not getting paid for.

[@gothicboulder]

>6th grader >Botw Huh?

[@Spider-Man-257]

My biggest problem with the game, is that it acts like the first game didn't exist at times, mainly being the fact that the Champion abilities, and the Shieka Slate are removed in replacement the Sages and Arm. While the arm has some really cool stuff to mess around it, I can't help but miss the Slate, and the sages are worser than the Champions. I wish the Sages weren't considered a replacement for the Champions.

[@MYuee]

I played 60 hours of totk and then I just .... stopped. I was just bored. The monster types were getting so tedious and repetitive, and the rewards were mediocre. All I was getting were boring food items or crappy weapons and sometimes armor I didn't even like. And then I was simply overwhelmed by those "find all xyz" type quests (like the well one). Exploration didn't feel as rewarding anymore after botw.

[@wert556]

I put 485 hours on TOTK for 6 months compare to Breathe of the wild that took 475 hours with over 5 to 6 years As an age of 20 TOTK was absolutely amazing omg. I still can't stop playing it. Plus Link's new Arcahic look is fireeeee

[@zorororonoraroro]

I loved BOTW and I can even play it now. I only spent like 150 hours in it. beat it... probably hasnt even discovered everything yet... but TOKT creation system just feels like a chore, I spent so much time to beat a puzzle where in BOTW its much faster as you dont need to spend so much time building bullshit or looking for tools for building that bullshit... TOTK feels like going to work it aint fun at all