Zelda Pro Plays Tears of the Kingdom for the First Time

[@PointCrow]

subscribe for more tears of the kingdom!

[@ajthegreat1826]

Ok

[@therin0379]

W

[@slowmaz]

Hi

[@Snowypeppermint]

We shall point crow

[@Henrich1209]

👍🏼

[@ninjalex9791]

Imagine facing near death, twice, and both times you wake a dead king sends you to collect power from four different shrines.

[@SpikyEaredPichu96]

Link, probably: "If I had a blue rupee for every time I woke up in an unfamiliar place with a mysterious voice talking to me, I would have two blue rupees. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice."

[@Spectral_Thief10]

Link's Awakening

[@ToxicRisu]

Every Zelda game

[@deiuch]

...and the second one being a cheapskate and didn't even give a paraglider!

[@ZorotheGallade]

@@deiuch "Okay hope there's a convenient lake to break your fall or we basically lost, toodles"

[@Patterrz]

The story of Fredrick the longest stick is tragic. Used to commit animal murder, chopped in half by it's creator and then tossed off the highest point in the world to it's doom below :(

[@Aerovael]

Very tragic

[@Crystal_galaxy99]

Very tragic indeed

[@Shallot3745]

Yes very Tragic

[@l1nken813]

Incredibly tragic

[@NovaJR9]

PATTERZ

[@Ultranger]

Oh my goodness I love “did they patch fall damage cancels?” Followed by Link just diving headfirst into the ground

[@takimicha7291]

i was laughing at that for two whole minutes, then said silently "Does that answer your question?" then kept giggling

[@grrrmlin]

I love how nerdy and excited zelda gets looking at the murals and ruins

[@pkmntrainermark8881]

Same.

[@myarmsrgone]

We stan nerdy zelda

[@najwawaheed8365]

Why did I think you say sturdy and excited 😂😂😂

[@Vivigreeny25]

She was NOT alone too lmao. Was so hyped for the Lore. (Was also dissapointed by it but semantics.)

[@Vivigreeny25]

@@icinnalatte It’s? It’s okay? It’s got some really cool moments and plot lines. It’s more it fails as a sequel to BotW and as the most recent entry to the Zelda franchise.

[@Conformist138]

One of my favorite early-game bits of dialog is when we watch Zelda ascend into the sky and become light itself, and the guy with us is just like, "But why didn't she say hello?" Yeah, dude, that was the weird part.

[@Zappy_C]

Can you imagine what some poor Hylian is thinking when Frederick fell in front of them? Just like 20 logs superglued together falling from the sky.

[@thebaku818]

I'd take that as a sign from the gods

[@W01fy_DB]

💀

[@Sombodydumb]

Top 1 saddest deaths 23:05 Press f to pay respects to Fredrick

[@Babydoll3133]

The Gods Must Be Crazy.

[@iampierce7474]

@@Babydoll3133 Eyyy, good reference

[@LordVeznan]

If y'all don't remember, Hoz was the soldier guy patrolling East Akkala Stable in botw who first told you about Kilton. I remembered him the first time his name was mentioned by Purah in totk, but nobody else seems to remember who he is, so I thought I'd alert you if you didn't know! I love that they kept certain characters from botw and gave them new roles to fit into, and sometimes more important roles too, like Hoz, who seems to be pretty important so far! It's a little nod to the people who played botw, and it's great!

[@aedaniammx7559]

I love how you can recognize certain NPCs in the game when they come up again here. I remember encountering the twin treasure hunters from Dueling Peaks Stable somewhere else in the world, that felt so cool

[@LordVeznan]

@AςeDaniaMMX yeah there's SO many people from botw that I recognize, it's an amazing feeling

[@LD-hs9iv]

I've also noticed Sasan and Finley are still besties at Zora's domain

[@ferretgazette8355]

omg i KNEW that i heard his name somewhere!!

[@Varelyn]

No wonder he seemed familiar!

[@honeyappletoast]

I love how the eerie music gets more intense as you get closer to the mummy. It makes everything feel so much creepier!

[@JasmineRachelle22]

Me, almost 30, turning my volume down a little bit as I get closer LOL

[@SeaScutes]

Mummy?

[@honeyappletoast]

@@SeaScutes yeah, the dried, preserved body can be considered a mummy of sorts in my opinion

[@SeaScutes]

@@honeyappletoast I was confused I realised you where talking about ganondorf

[@veryyes8561]

1:29:18 Another cool detail is that the spirit version thingy of Tulin has the Great Eagle Bow in gameplay since Tulin gets it from Teba, but in this cutscene, Tulin doesn’t have it yet, so the spirit has the same bow

[@cynicalnightmare1108]

Purah hitting you with that "I expected nothing less" after you dive bombed straight into her roof had me rolling 😂

[@shiningdaraen]

Nintendo: *creates sophisticated puzzles to introduce you to the new mechanics Eric: "Long stick"

[@feuerling]

Long stick: It worked for the cavemen, it works even today. The ultimate technology.

[@TheCollectiveHexagon]

actually the game was specifically INTENDED to give you the utmost freedom to solve puzzles your way, theres no 1 way to do so

[@crowwithashortcake]

@@TheCollectiveHexagon is that why ultrahand has the most pathetic range and why you cant take out capsules in shrines and also why your zonai devices peace out from existence if you take them too far?

[@Zaque-TV]

@@TheCollectiveHexagon yeah he was just memeing

[@Penguin-gm1fd]

@@crowwithashortcake they’ve gotta have SOME limitations, can’t just have you fly on top of all the shrines

[@WonderingTree]

From what I remember from BOTW the 10,000 year ago war was fought by a knight and a princess. So Rauru’s era was so much earlier than that and that’s so crazy to me.

[@haraberu]

At the earliest point in Skyward Sword, when you travel to "the distant past" (relative to the rest of the game, which is the first in the timeline) there is already "the Imprisoned" so I'd guess the imprisoning war is at least another 1,000 to 10,000 years before *that*. Zelda lore operates at an insane timescale.

[@gentlemancharmander4411]

His era is the 10,000 year ago war

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

​@@haraberu No, This game retcons Skyward sword, BOTW and this are their own thing The imprisoning war here is Raru and the Sages vs Ganondorf, The war in Skyward sword is Hylia vs Demise

[@soul6733]

​@@jesusramirezromo2037 Well, not retcon. Skyward Sword and Botw/TotK just happen many, many thousands of years apart. And we know Hyrule got destroyed and reconstructed more than once.

[@brstew_]

​​@@soul6733 having played totk its a separate thing. There are so many things that contradict ither zelda games

[@myself7758]

The best part about the Colgera fight is that you don't really need to use your weapon, you can just dive through its weakness while it's doing the spike attack

[@wolferngames8024]

Headbutt the weakpoint

[@luzhoothoot2808]

I am pretty sure it is only possible to attack the normal way because people would be to Stupid to get it

[@milkman4407]

@@luzhoothoot2808 or if you don’t have arrows

[@luzhoothoot2808]

@@milkman4407 I mean that Using arrows is the stupid way

[@shmubob]

I saw PC not checking out jumping on all the ice ponds in rito village and whilst climbing the sky islands, and that's when I twigged he's going to make a mess of Colgera!

[@TheHumanSkidmark]

40:15 “that’s such a pretty dragon” breaks my heart, if you know you know

[@Arkios64]

Going back to this intro is such a great experience after Knowing, there are so many small details that are such obvious foreshadowing, and make perfect sense simply for how their meaning connects... like the entire Temple of Time cutscene.

[@muffinrimuru1212]

🫡

[@_zurr]

34:38 The giggle here is wonderful and the epitome of what this entire game feels like whenever you figure some new goofy combination of items and abilities out.

[@ghostpuppolter3207]

I love how both games have you being led by a former king of Hyrule, also its interesting that in BOTW you are led on the Great Plateau by the last King of Hyrule and in Tears of the Kingdom you are led on the Great Sky Island by the first king of Hyrule.

[@peach23786]

Wow I just noticed that now 😅

[@theacorn7240]

cant wait for the next game where you are led by the middlest king of hyrule

[@illuzion7950]

​@@theacorn7240 on the Great Hill

[@Varelyn]

Cant wait for Zelda: Joy of the village with the middle king guiding us in the great depths

[@jacobs5546]

Next game we'll be in the Great Cave with the Middle King of Hyrule.

[@mrdunklestein]

Two things I learned about Totk in this video: a: If you fuse a monster’s horn to your weapon, it replaces the blade of the weapon. b: Zelda Geoguessr exists.

[@Buckle-Bucky]

​@@Master_Chef but one of them Is literally a reaper scythe !

[@eldritchcupcakes3195]

A weird amount of Zelda parents are ok with their kids going off on random adventures to save the world. Like tulin’s dad really just went “ok you can fight the demon king just be back by 10”

[@Mikey04251]

@@eldritchcupcakes3195when its the end of the world sometimes you just gotta roll with it tbh

[@jacob-mv7rr]

what if you did ''a'' with the broken master-sword and a bokoblin horn

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

@@jacob-mv7rr you can’t, I tried

[@upstreamruben8011]

Big applause to the editors that made this video so damn quickly, from 10 hours of footage, good work!!

[@rosebud7573]

for real!! 🫶🏻

[@sav7736]

Was thinking the same thing!!!

[@starbot9828]

50:02 it’s so funny to me that there’s just an alternate universe where Link dies on the first tower test and Ganon just immediately wins.

[@Whole_Note]

When I first completed the journey to the Wind Temple, I danm near cried because I'd never get to experience that for the first time ever again. BotW had a pretty grand scale, but this was downright mythical.

[@kateturner8169]

I felt that similarly. The feeling that this is so incredible, and I'll only get to enjoy it this once. With the rising music as you went through the temple too.

[@kirantrivedi5831]

If anyone’s wondering, meat arrows lure enemies to a specific location.

[@derpiderpi6761]

All arrows do that

[@honeyappletoast]

@@derpiderpi6761meat arrows distract them more because they stop to pick up the meat and eat it. this is actually how i tamed my first horse bc I couldn’t sneak up on it for the life of me😭 I attached an apple to the arrow and shot it in front of the horse, then got on it while it was distracted eating

[@cavy9797]

@@honeyappletoast OMG YOU CAN DO THAT???? IM GONNA CU-

[@honeyappletoast]

@@cavy9797 yeah but I guess I didn’t even need to tame a horse since my horses from botw transferred over😭 I didn’t even know they did until I went to take my horse out and was surprised by all my old horses in the stable still

[@cavy9797]

@@honeyappletoast same lmaoo I spent so long trying to tame another horse in TOTK and then when I tried to register it in a stable turns out my FERRARI that I also spent a lots of time trying to tame in BOTW was literally just sitting there waiting for me :)))))))))))

[@rexwrecks5227]

Honestly, Tears of the Kingdom could easily be called *_The Legend of Getting Sidetracked at Every Turn_*

[@eshaantubegaming5811]

That’s also breath of the wild 😂

[@bmobmo6438]

Hey, What's That: The Game

[@aedaniammx7559]

*2*

[@jordangeer8964]

It’s truly an ADHD person’s worst nightmare

[@midnights2631]

Don't call me out like this

[@sonymicronin]

The way the Lightroot are linked to shrines on the surface is just genius design Imo

[@AegisGaming99]

the lightroots are the shrine names backwards

[@sweetieswifey627]

I didn't know either of these things, and it's actually really cool

[@ludwigamadeushaydn706]

Yo what

[@50zezima]

So can you use ascend to get up to each shrine this way? Thats insane

[@sonymicronin]

@@50zezima not necessarily, the ceilings in the depths are way to high and if you use ascend on the light root it never takes you to the top just on another portion of the root

[@comfytimes8049]

I love the collective pain literally everyone feels with their first korok…

[@aerisr4451]

same, i love your profile pic btw!

[@comfytimes8049]

@@aerisr4451 aw thx!

[@champcee7]

@@comfytimes8049very comfy

[@Lumberjack_king]

19:45 the beginning of Frederick 20:11 naming of Fredrick 21:13 Fredrick cut 😢 21:18 Fredrick made longer 21:44 his ultimate form 23:02 death of Fredrick 29:27 return of Fredrick? 55:04 Fredricks revenge

[@not.famous218]

YOU HAVE 5 MINUTES TO CHANGE UR USER TO FREDDY > GREGORY OR ELSE

[@Lumberjack_king]

@@not.famous218 uh what?!

[@not.famous218]

@@Lumberjack_king SIGH* THEY NEVER LEARn

[@Lumberjack_king]

@@not.famous218ok. edge lord

[@dog-kc5sj]

​@@not.famous218GREGORY > FREDDY?

[@Going4Broke2528]

I love the enemy redesigns, because they had to give them a bunch of different horn shapes for fusing purposes

[@orngjce223]

I'm surprised you didn’t include your running off in the middle of the bossfight to find some extra arrows because you ran out, that part was so funny

[@cheese1745]

He did what he had to do!

[@Tired_moose]

Bro I’ve been failing miserably to dodge spoilers for this god tier game

[@gozinator_btw]

Fr I am like I don't want spoilers but I still watch this vids

[@nacitalatincirli793]

@Christopher Bohan you could also do an epic backflip for swiping spoilers, and you could even parry especially strong spoilers, or you could just sprint away and nullify spoilers

[@cewla3348]

@Christopher Bohan Don't forget to be on guard, else you will just jump away not side-hop!

[@thealchemist1789]

@Christopher Bohan If you time it right, you might be able to strike back at the spoilers and hopefully forget them with time

[@glutentag5853]

how could it be god tier if you can't pet dogs???

[@silly_goofs]

this game just does such a good job at being welcoming to newcomers but still manage to reward those who played the first game

[@Bfjdbfhjdsbjhc]

i love how the rito give the fate of their entire village into the tiny wings of an 8 year old *genius* Edit: nvm, they gave the fate of the *entire world* to him

[@imatreebelieveme6094]

he can do a fun party trick with his wind though, so he MUST be the chosen one

[@eyesack6845]

he's 8?

[@kallinemartins]

@@eyesack6845 I think Tulin is more of a 12 year old than 8, considering other characters in the game.

[@Random_Colors]

Givin that tulin is onw of if not the best sage (bro the headshots are insane)

[@jacobs5546]

​​@@eyesack6845 He's definitely older than 8. If we go with my Assumption that TOTK takes Place 6 years after BOTW and Tulin was 6 in BOTW, he'd be 12. He also seems to have hit puberty, which is a stronger case of him being 12.

[@team4star1]

You know I never thought about it until this moment, but ganon being sealed here means darkbeast/calamity ganon is just a residual essence, a shadow of his true self.

[@unknownboi2447]

And this essentially means in age of calamity 2 might be a thing

[@AmazingJuniorBros]

@@unknownboi2447Dude imagine we get aoc 2 like we play as zelda or something and shes back in time fighting with the first sages of hyrule, rauru and sonia against ganon, that’d be so sick Or even something different like what an actual dark beast ganon might be like instead of the shadow of ganons former self (calamity ganon and the other ganons) So much possibilities for aoc 2 or totk dlc

[@Isey_T]

You can always count on Pointcrow to break a game just after it’s released.

[@Kupari9]

Yep

[@tamsi6768]

Wich Minute?

[@Xp366]

*megalovania starts playing*

[@_Jnerd_]

Nice pfp

[@Isey_T]

@@_Jnerd_ You Too! :)

[@ChipipoydotcomdotPH]

The long log stick bridge thing is just the most brilliant and cursed thing a nintendo develooper could witness

[@emm._.]

Bridges are the solution to all Zelda’s Problems

[@TainoMoya]

The way you reacted and invested yourself into that beginning cutscene and lore Made me have shivers. Absolutely great

[@mad_son32]

when a game gives you anxiety at the beginning, that's how you know it's gonna be a good game

[@birdiexoxo]

It took me playing through a few hours and watching this playthrough to understand that everyone is saying gloom zaps your health and if you get hurt by gloom you lose max hearts to connect that with why Link only has three hearts now 🤦‍♀️ so when you gain hearts back from Goddess statues, really she’s just expelling gloom from you and you’re getting them back!

[@ImaginationzKey]

It's the same with stamina. Link had a full three stamina wheels at the beginning (I ran around really quick and discovered that little tidbit). So Gloom also sapped stamina since he's back down to one wheel after he wakes.

[@gamingreader2440]

Whenever you get a new heart or stamina vessel you can also see gloom leaving your body

[@thewolface2339]

​@@gamingreader2440 also in the description for the heart containers and stamina vessels, it said that you reclaimed some of the power you "lost to the gloom."

[@portiac6097]

So why can’t sunnny food cure it and being in the sun

[@birdiexoxo]

@@portiac6097 that’s where the shrines come in! Rauru explains that they made them specifically to expel darkness/provide light (or something like that) and that’s why the gloom rises off the arm after you complete a shrine and you get an orb which can be exchanged for your health/stamina back. Edit: I’m pretty sure the reason it sapped us completely is the same reason mummy dude was able to break the master sword (and every other weapon apparently). Mummy is way stronger than anything else we encounter in the deep, so that stuff is just temporary (if you have the right stuff) whereas his affects are more permanent.

[@smoregasbord]

I love how at one moment he just leaves the camera because you can't pet the dog, and then pony points and frog armor make him cry tears of joy

[@aerisr4451]

at least one of the devs must have watched his videos....

[@suffering9481]

Pointcrow is making "Tears of the kingdom" become "Tears of the developers"

[@ANDORRA195]

122 likes but no reply’s, I gotta change that. Great comment much laugh much enjoy

[@frawog]

@@ANDORRA195 No brain must reply, i cannot change that. Great comment much laugh much enjoy

[@eebydeebyz]

LOL AHAHA 😂

[@sodiumfluoridel]

got a chuckle

[@TheAbsolute-863]

​@@ANDORRA195No brain must divide it by 4 and give the half to the next person

[@syrusgrove8682]

I like how most of the new abilities are kinda inproved versions of the Breath Of the Wild abilities like how Ultra Hand is a stronger Magnesis alllowing you to move almost anything and also combine stuff.

[@Jenna_Talia]

47:20 "Now all of Hyrule knows you are here." 48:48 Most expressive Link has ever been in these two games.

[@trecydreamz0930]

the love you have for this game even after what nintendo has put you through just shows how passionate you are about the game

[@eroraf8637]

You mean the unauthorized modification and sale of Nintendo IP, i.e. commissioning a mod in exchange for monetary compensation, in direct violation of Nintendo’s TOS and EULA? Whether it’s “right” or not, Eric was objectively on the wrong side of the law. Moon Channel has a good video breaking down the legal side of this whole kerfuffle.

[@idothed9588]

@@eroraf8637 To be fair, they went a little further than was neccessary to tell pointcrow that he shouldn't have done that. They ended up copyright striking EVERYTHING he had that was BOTW, even the vanilla playthrough if i remember right. They could've done a lot less damage to his channel and still gotten the point across. I'm not saying he was in the right, i'm just saying nintendo went wayyyy overboard with their response personally.

[@kastadel5569]

My favorite line from Pointcrow "Touch grass, chat. Just touch grass"

[@Backfisch5927]

Rauru has so much power in just his right arm, imagine what he could do with his entire body.

[@scrunkore]

😳

[@cardboardking577]

Wait

[@stevemajors3152]

Just ask Sonia about Rawr-u 😏

[@glutentag5853]

nahhhhh what

[@orchishgrunt7888]

This is how kingdoms are made!

[@billythekid1158]

The best thing about this game is: everybody has another experience. My daughter and i are playing the game and we are at totally different places after playing the same time.

[@Immanueldrackman-cd5je]

It took me 20 hours to figure out that the light roots and shrines were connected... AND THIS MAN SAW IT IN NO TIME AT ALL!!!!! I'm crying rn

[@TheBlueBagger]

Can’t wait for pointcrow to treat the starting cut-scenes as botw’s KING BOSPHORAMUS HYRULE!

[@ardianhesa4340]

The first few hours were always the same, we fool around willy nilly, getting confused at the master sword scene and realized what actually happened to zelda in the first tears, and simultaneously getting a weird ptsd

[@neevchilkuri1361]

i love how pointcrow left out the part where he ran out of arrows during the colgera boss fight, it was so funny

[@duanegowton]

I did the same exact thing in my first play through. Lmao😂

[@greatestbud750]

@@duanegowtonI didn’t even use arrows. The game had taught me to land on top of the ice, so I landed (slammed) into the ice

[@irlquicksilver]

Imagine being a Hylian civilian just trying to survive the day after the Upheaval and the princess and her knight going missing, only to leave your house just as a bunch of logs stuck together with sticky glue falls onto your front yard

[@TheCrustleGuy]

"If I had a nickel every time I was left in a near-death state, woken up to find a former king of hyrule, and told to go find princess zelda, I'd have 2 nickles; which isn't alot but it's weird that it happened more than once." If you read it in the voice you have to like.

[@IIIColinIII]

Fun fact about the Boss! You can just dive through it when it starts shooting the spikes. You can figure this out on the way up to the dungeon by diving through the various ice patches to get to some of the ship sails/trampolines! Doing it this way was such an awesome way to beat the boss. I didn't have to fire a single arrow and just got to dive full speed through the spikes it was shooting to pierce the weak points with Link himself. Such an awesome experience!

[@Brianna-qg1iz]

that's how I did it too! One of my fav boss battles ever. Such a fun mechanic

[@CeelarCatStudios]

that’s also what i did! i didn’t even know you could use arrows lol

[@glassygamer5116]

I figured it out because I just straight up ran out of arrows lol, then just started diving at the boss, and even rising up from under it, though that was way harder

[@DocTheDoctornt]

I didn’t even know you could do that, I just used bombs lol

[@susanphoen1x50]

I got stuck under it and was able to shoot the ice from underneath

[@Non-binaryCup]

I am trying to watch this gradually as I play too cause I don’t want spoilers and somehow I have still avoided them, but so far one of my favourite games ever

[@RealBradMiller]

Hestu kills Dumbledore!!!

[@aniekvanbennekom6242]

​@@RealBradMiller And you have to throw the master sword into mount doom, otherwise Darth Vader will take over the world!!!

[@RealBradMiller]

@@aniekvanbennekom6242 Haven't gotten that far!! My my how the turns have tabled. 😂😂

[@MBZ901]

ya'll Magda is actually Ganondorf

[@thecelestialstarship]

Frederick is actually the final boss

[@TheFool-s9f]

damn, that stone Zelda picked up when the hand fell looked a lot like the one Ganon was trying to steal in the war written in stone. Same with the one on his head

[@aelechdeepestflame4347]

Yep. It’s a titular “Tear of the Kingdom.”

[@ParodyIncTheWeirdets]

ive been avoiding the internet for like a week now while i binge play totk cuz i dont want spoilers, you're the first person im seeing playing this and im like so giddy just from seeing you excited and happy about the game. the euphoria of taking the first steps in a game youve been anticipating is insane

[@Octy_in_Boots]

Fun Fact: when you first descend to the surface, you can land on a lily pad without damage. Link also does a cool 3-point landing!

[@desmondleguay1969]

Tip for anyone playing this, you can shield grind on rails (The ones youre supposed to use the hooks on) and if you combine a shield with a minecart you can not only shield surf like its a skateboard but you can also grind on the mine rails. youre welcome

[@porgz4694]

I'm like 4 hours or so into the game with like 0 things done and Pointcrow is out here already finding ways to break the game

[@ShadowFlame-xb5df]

Imma be honest I hoped for an hour long video and my expectations were exceeded, cheers and props to the editing team and keep up the good work 👍

[@byrontheusurper6505]

Dude, the moment I figured out who the dragon was that cried those tears it hit me like a ton of bricks, what a reveal!

[@jackdettmer179]

Once you do the wind temple and Rito village returns to normal, theres a few songs that play. two of which are the regular version, and a "new" version of dragon roost island from Wind Waker!! love that they finally connected the too since Wind Waker was the first to introduce the Rito if my memory serves correctly.

[@animalmace]

Was there during the stream, absolutely sick

[@Juan_Star]

animalmace?!?!!??? The KZbin shorts guy?!?!?!!!?!?!?

[@FintjeBS]

@@Juan_Star yuh

[@therainbowgamer5126]

I find this a little interesting and great attention to detail. At 13:33 the master sword through the logo is the decayed version and the rest is filled in by Zonai colors.

[@r-3-g502]

Huge shout out to the editors for creating these video WHILE PointCrow is streaming!!!!!! Thank you for your work :))))

[@bean2201]

Fun story from my play through, when I was doing the gerudo temple I lost a lot of hearts and couldn’t load back far enough to get out and heal, I was stuck in the temple for three days

[@TheEmraldz]

Why not just teleport out?

[@Randomness823]

"This is gonna be a good playthrough, chat!!!" My sentiments exactly when I first started. The entire opening sequence up until the water landing had me completely enthralled on my playthrough. So glad to see it hit similarly with someone else. Even rewatching it was so fucking good. The music swelling during the wide "heres the world" pan had me smacking my desk in delight. God fucking damn.

[@devonm042690]

I hope Aonuma himself will one day bear witness to Pointcrow's mastery of bridge-building. Completely bypassing all Ultrahand construction tutorials.

[@_Argonarc]

i love how his reaction to everything is "WOW THAT'S SOO COOOOL"

[@Dreyaaaaaa]

I didn’t even think of using arrows for Colgera. I just nosedived straight into the weak points 😅 I love how you can play the same game multiple different ways!!

[@Aria_Dragonneel]

That is a crazy move. You are a _legend_ for doing that.

[@cadence_2463]

I ran out of arrows, so my plan was to land on the weak points and smash them with a club or something. When I just went straight through, the plan changed.

[@PhazonSpear]

I love the fact that you can just pick up the little Talus and put them down and they just explode.

[@gearzracing]

I love how this game is more about your creative ways of getting through puzzles and challenges rather than discovering the "correct" way to get through the puzzles. So genius! Also, future speedrunning tactic discovered at 19:52

[@Jj_Jameson]

Editors did amazing, turning a 10 hour stream to just an hour. Major respect, BUT I wish they put in the part where crow says “slay” about the skirt

[@azuquirtle]

Lmfao I love watching him be all shocked in the intro like he hasn't seen this exact scene in the trailers

[@TOMMYDiG1TAL]

shit was still so hype though dont cap 😂

[@unfortunatedisgrace246]

didn't he avoid the trailers as well?

[@RobinHisgen]

@@unfortunatedisgrace246 Nah, he watched (and thorougly examined) them. He did watch the final trailer like 2 weeks later though.

[@anthonybarbee5136]

Exact scene? Not necessarily

[@swellsauceFourNumbers]

If you don’t accelerate whilst diving for the first time the music will actually sync up with link’s landing!

[@drewvanzee6433]

dragon at 13:05 is such a tease that I totally didn't notice on my first play, iykyk

[@pokko9059]

legit just found out what the dragon really was through my playthrough and decided to watch pointcrows experience and i completely forgot about it popping up at the start and now the heartstrings are being pulled again :,)

[@The_NSeven]

I have already spent over 150 hours in this game and just watched this now, yet it's so entertaining. I'm both sitting here with goosebumps and the biggest smile. Can't wait to quadruple my hours!

[@claymcgranahan]

Great job to the editors for condensing a 10 hour stream into an hour

[@reed3863]

Man, they really outdid themselves on this one. Looks amazing, several layers of exploration maps too.

[@josephjoestar9394]

I haven’t played it yet but it really doesn’t seem any different to breath of the wild. Which I guess isn’t a bad thing cos botw is a great game but still it seems a bit lazy

[@zeppozu3097]

​@@josephjoestar9394 play the game first, then judge

[@dertpert]

​@@josephjoestar9394UNDERGROUND

[@mrthanos2404]

@@josephjoestar9394 This map is like 2.5x of botw.

[@crimsonxero5924]

​@@zeppozu3097Ikr? Why are people judging it when they haven't even played it?

[@klapekzagady2078]

I love how Link with full confidence smashes his face into the ground when falling from great heights

[@procode2]

This game is worth every penny I spent on it. It's crazy how much work and game design was put into this. Truly deserves it's title as game of the year

[@horizonbumpy2828]

zelda: ''these tunnels go deeper than i thought, what could be down there?'' Link: HYAH!

[@PindaPeeler]

1:22:08. And THIS is why I love these games. You can solve the puzzles in so many ways, I attached a rock to the spinning thing and spun it around with ultra hand, then to go through the gate i rewound the stone so it spun again.

[@steveashworth4615]

omg i didn’t even think to use gust i just used ultra hand to wind it around until it opened and shut real quick, then used rewind on the fused slap/contraption so i could run through while it was briefly open lmaoooo

[@prestonandtom9337]

Same, rewind is broken.

[@squaredsquee7814]

I can see it now: “I beat Tears of the Kingdom only using Meat Arrows.”

[@NonisLuck]

1:04:48 Rito village focus, then suddenly there's a giant hole in the ground with smoke coming out of it and a guy playing tuba inside C'mon 😂

[@themathiasP]

It's absolutly impressive how good the game looks and how complex the mechanics are. Thinking of how it runs on a piece of hardware from 6 years ago, insane.

[@anonanonymous9670]

Switch's hardware is actually from 2015 ;)

[@i8biscuits2]

This is such a good game! Can't wait for your whole playthrough, then the challenge runs

[@musicalglaceon2245]

i loved seeing you geek out the entire time genuinely warmed my heart to see you so passionate about it

[@Barb0nius]

I can always count on chat to bark whenever Purah is on screen

[@trybunal1]

His energy about first hearing Hudson brings me so much joy.

[@georgianichols4584]

this is the best playthrough i've seen so far. just seeing someone so into something brings joy to everyone, even someone who hasn't played or really gotten into either games.

[@sgsuperkiddan]

I played it blind before I started watching this video. Absolutely EPIC GAME. So many surprises and call-backs.

[@ED-gw9rg]

1:24:03 That is just a perfectly timed scream, and the fact that the game LETS you get hit by that is amazing

[@hydraslasher3474]

Fun fact about Colgera. If you dont have arrows or have issues with the drop of arrows for hitting him. If you paraglide above him he will shoot the spikes off his back at you revealing the weak spot and you can jump attack through him to deal damage.

[@u.s.senterprise3499]

Or just dive

[@HeyItsKora]

I'm watching this back 3 weeks post launch, man we've come so far in the last few weeks as a community, but coming back to this day 1 content and watching the reaction live, watching the chat go absolutely apeshit over everything, and then the first time Link jumps off the island and the game feints the Breath of the Wild music with those piano notes but then it instantly builds into this HUGE orchestral soundtrack, I could literally cry man. We're all a part of something so huge and we're journeying together, the years of Zonai theories beforehand, the endless months of hype and anticipation over the release, and finally the date drops... May the 12th 2023... Now here we are, idk about y'all but TOTK Hyrule already feels like it has anchored a place deep, deep in my heart. This game is so, so much more than a game, it's a story, it's a cultural explosion, it's an adventure, and all under the umbrella of one of the greatest ever communities/fandoms, the Zelda community. I freaking love all you guys, I freaking love this game and this franchise, I feel so damn lucky to have grown up with Zelda and to be a young adult today, to be able to enjoy TOTK in the best way possible. Now I gotta fly over to Hateno to meet Robbie, he boutta give my Purah Pad the shrine sensor lesgooooo (aye I'm a slow player haha, y'all probably already done all 4 regions, I just got done with my first hahah, taking my time just like with BOTW!) Let's do this again in another 6 years in anticipation of the next Zelda **drumroll** ON NEW HARDWARE!! I can only dream man...

[@Dannykm]

I appreciate you blurring out some spoilers in the chat. This game is so cool!

[@AbbyBagel]

I went through the cut with the editors to blur em, so Eric hasn't been spoiled either 💕

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

​@@AbbyBagel your services are profoundly appreciated 🫡

[@lunar9342]

Zelda is adorable at the beginning of this game, lol. Her little geek-out brought me joy!

[@bookmaster_vp]

His reaction to seeing the backpack korok at 31:38 has me CRYING

[@joystickatlas2853]

13:25 dragon he says not knowing it’s zelda

[@67giblets11]

gosh the constructs are such cute and well designed enemies imo. theyre like if the little guardians were guys

[@mistymane52]

I am loving how into it PointCrow is getting!!! Makes me love the game all the more!