I always love it when you go to pick up a bomb flower and Yunobo darts in front of you, launching into the bomb flower and causing it to explode in Link's face. But then when you want to smash some rocks he's nowhere to be found. 10/10, super helpful, Yunobo.

@Froggycolouring

10 ай бұрын

Or when I need him/riju to hit an enemy and they’re just in a different area code

@thehappyaipom

10 ай бұрын

@Froggycolouring or the one time Sidons shield would be useful he is missing yet another attack on the boss halfway across the arena....

@jakenewland-griffin9460

10 ай бұрын

I have a video of that happening to me bit the beat part if after watching long enough i noticed I somehow still go the bomb flower meaning it's just yunobos ability being able to damage you anyway

@Tatokat

10 ай бұрын

Or when you give Mineru cannons, and she just goes out of her way trying to murder you.

@devinhill1718

10 ай бұрын

@@TatokatI literally never use this one. The quest to get that one was mind-numbingly boring because Mineru did like zero damage to anything. I had to keep getting out to take out enemies in a reasonable time. Mineru is cool on paper, but awful in practice.

It’s such a silly gripe, but I wish that building your house with Hudson Construction was more customizable. I mean, even having more colors or a few extra rooms would have been amazing.

@zata1197

10 ай бұрын

I agree. Also why is the study 1 block wide when everything else is 2 blocks wide, I literally can't use it because I end up with a gap unless I want two studies side by side

@TheWaterSnob

10 ай бұрын

Yes! It's so easy to end up with gaps. I also sometimes get the green fusing goo over entire room openings. The worst!@@zata1197

@codmanout9861

10 ай бұрын

oh that has bee a huge thing with fans. Honestly, if nothing else, I would want a higher room count first. After that, more locations to build in, more types of room, colors, more customization. And honestly, I don't see a reason why Nintendo made it so limited, espcially with all of it's other building games, but whatever.

@defy4bees

10 ай бұрын

i dislike the sad "links" house so much. I understand they probably thought the building mechanic was fun, but I wish we would choose which village you live in/near in stead of being in such a random field in the map. and there is STILL a guy outside your house just chilling there (I am not sure you can get him to leave?) . Very strange

@playingwithstory247

10 ай бұрын

Agree! Customizing the Hateno village house would’ve been better IMO

They could have used the slot for "map" for the sage abilities instead. Where you hold "L" point to the sage ability, and then use the d pad to select

@camdenzeigler6954

10 ай бұрын

They could add a key item that does that

@codmanout9861

10 ай бұрын

That would certainly make more sense than a completely redundant and harder to use map button.

@rjgaynor8

10 ай бұрын

I agree with all but tulin and the mech. Those I think work just fine the way they are.

@Dustin_Frost

10 ай бұрын

Yeah that was weird

@danicakelly2242

10 ай бұрын

YES. I hate that xtra map button with all my heart, actually using that space to summon the sages is exactly what I was thinking would actually make sense😤

I agree. The Sages stay turned off except for Tulin. I utterly hate the fate that if, for example, I want to use Riju's lightning in a battle, I have to literally CHASE HER DOWN!! Nintendo, meant well, and tried to program the AI for the Sage copies to try and stay out of your way, but it works against you when you actually want to use them. At least in my experience. I almost died in a fight once because she kept dodging me when I was chasing her trying to activate her power. Just give us button, please.

@takodachi1239

10 ай бұрын

try to use riju lightning ability: welp she ran away. Try to use Yunobo for the boss fight: nope he running around in circle. Fighting Lynel and you want to mount? Nope here's Sidon in your way, then Riju, then Yunobo, then you accidentally pick up item.

@Spencer-wc6ew

10 ай бұрын

And they already have Tulin's set to know when you can use it and map A to it then. They have it the same for Yunobo when you are on a vehicle. When aiming with a bow, A should also activate Riju's power.

@Seabasstard22

9 ай бұрын

@@Spencer-wc6ewwell yunobos is good for making vertical lines of updrafts on the ground, so on ground with yunobo and tulin, Roku and Sidon you could just hold Y (which is only used for menu sorting),and tap a dpad directional button, summon and watch the animation and simultaneously have that sage activate their ability, this would have worked if they had just thought “what button only has one effect that is only a part of a bigger set of actions, (like Y for sorting menus) they could have had a more streamlined experience

I’m someone who keeps all the sages on, solely because I love rolling up with the squad and absolutely bullying the guts out of some baddies. It always ends with all the sages circled around stomping the last silver bokoblin while it’s on the ground

Also farming armor upgrades can be a grind. Like dragon parts for all the old DLC armor. Or farming monster parts that no longer spawn since you’re late game and only spawn in several specific locations

@SamuraiJim09

10 ай бұрын

Speaking of monster parts, the ones that you can still get late game drop too rarely, like the lizalfos tails for the cold and hot weather protection gear. Good luck getting those to max level.

@insertmetalusernamehere

9 ай бұрын

@@SamuraiJim09save your game before you kill one. If you don’t get the tail reload and try again. It may take awhile but you’ll get them.

Another one I find frustrating (maybe because my last game was Elden Ring) is the lock on mechanic sometimes struggles when you are facing larger enemies. Like I’ll see the Stone Talus about to hurl a boulder at me so I lock on and raise my shield but instead of facing the only monster in the area Link will turn the opposite direction and let himself get obliterated.

@KizMyname

10 ай бұрын

I had this happen to me too many times and for some reason I never learn.

@saniakshay12

10 ай бұрын

Honestly both games suck with lock-ons with big enemies. I don't think games have nailed David vs Goliath fights unless they're more puzzle based like SOTC or more cinematic (God of war new and old)

@mrcat3493

10 ай бұрын

Combat needs a serious overhaul.

@user-pg5oi3cl3h

9 ай бұрын

I mostly had this issue with Froxes where trying to lock on to the ore weak points would half the time lock onto the(invulnerable) eye instead

2:10 ...and THAT IS EXACTLY why I turn the partner ghosts OFF unless I actively need their abilities. The combat isn't challenging enough when you get into late game where you would need the extra hands to deal pot shots to the mobs, and the game gives you ways to deal with obstacles without relying on the partners.

@arox4133

10 ай бұрын

100% Tulin the only 1 I ever left running if I didn't need them for something specific

I played through BotW again just before starting TotK. So it was very jarring to find out most of the NPCs who I had done quests for in the previous game no longer remembered Link. And any trace of ancient tech just disappeared. Pretty odd for a direct sequel. Since Link saved the kingdom, would new players find it so odd that he was known by most NPCs?

@JohnSmith-io3ii

10 ай бұрын

I had the same experience and it left me kind of disappointed and full of questions. I mean like you said where were the divine beasts, the dlc motorcycle, or the champion's weapons on the walls at my house. It was strange to me what the game decided to remember from botw like you get most of your horses back and Zelda moved into your house but the unique horses, your saddles, and your weapon racks are gone.

@camdenzeigler6954

10 ай бұрын

The only ones who remember link are related to the main quest of botw

@camdenzeigler6954

10 ай бұрын

The only ones who remember link are related to the main quest of botw

@r061292

10 ай бұрын

@@JohnSmith-io3ii The shrine of resurrection is just a whole in the ground in TotK...

@r061292

10 ай бұрын

@@camdenzeigler6954 Yeah, they did the bare minimum with characters important to the plot. I just wonder what the point of making a direct sequel with the same map and NPCs is if you are afraid that a small mention of something that may have happened in the previous title will confuse a new player? "Hey, aren't you Link, the hero of Hyrule who recently defeated Calamity Ganon, saved Princess Zelda and went around doing odd jobs for random citizens with the aid of ancient technological powers?" It feels like being the Archmage of Winterhold again

One thing that could have fixed a fair bit of the gripes raised here would have been to go back to a Zelda staple: being able to assign different weapons/tools/actions to different buttons. Hopefully the next instalment will have this back

The sage powers are all almost useless. :/ Sidon's barrier and wave attack are definitely situational. Yunobo is ALWAYS in the way facing the wrong direction on vehicles. Lightning arrows are only used for Gibdo... Tulin is the only one who has regular, actual use.

@Simply_resharkable

10 ай бұрын

I don't think it's that they're useless, it's that they're inconvenient

@Will_Parker

10 ай бұрын

And even then Tulin always freaking blows your stuff away like an idiot

@jakebrady5531

10 ай бұрын

Mineru is dope though.

@adams0123

10 ай бұрын

Yunobo is only really good for mining

@Simply_resharkable

10 ай бұрын

@@adams0123 and he's really good at that

When this game came out my friends couldn't understand why I said that BotW and TotK have very different combat styles, but "Fuse Faff" explains it really well. I loved how in BotW I could start combat with only one or two weapons and then pick up the weapons of my defeated foes and keep swinging. Combat never slowed or stopped and large mob pulls were extremely satisfying because you would adapt fighting your enemies to the weapons they dropped for you. In TotK you now need to menu manage your weapons and you can't just keep fighting mobs after picking up their weapons because so much of the damage and durability comes from fuses. Occasionally enemies do have fused weapons, but the joy of the chaos from BotW is gone.

Probably the best way to improve the champion abilities is to make it so you press a button while doing the action they relate to like they did with Tulin (drawing a bow for riju, shielding for sidon etc)

@DrAgNZRX

10 ай бұрын

Oh, you mean like how they already solved the problem in the previous game?

@greyprincebidoof

10 ай бұрын

Yup, exactly 🙃

@ALLFSGIVEN

10 ай бұрын

I think the powers were perfect in the first game and I was always excited when they were ready and they became even better after upgrading them, I wish we got the sages but also we got the power tied to some action like you said, especially the shield and Sidon’s ability. I like the feeling of like “the gang” going across hyrule but never use the abilities

@greyprincebidoof

10 ай бұрын

@@ALLFSGIVEN I feel like the whole champion mechanic would be infinitely better if they implemented the same general idea from botw but still let us summon the lads to travel through hyrule

@ALLFSGIVEN

10 ай бұрын

@@greyprincebidoof exactly, story wise not much changes except we could actually use the abilities in the ganon fight, let the first arrow shot summon lighting, guard would activate the shield and the first strike is the water slice, we could have a rolling attack with yunobo and tulin could honestly be revail’s gale and no one would complain

One of the things i was annoyed by was when i needed to change armor and scroll through all of it to the set i wanted. Maybe if they implemented some sort of favoriting system for the armor to where you could keep what you wanted on top

@MarilynMonRover

10 ай бұрын

After all these years, LoZ still doesn't have loadouts. Like wtf... RuneScape of all games got this right like a decade ago... and Nintendo still can't manage it?

@Wheeliam_Ironside

10 ай бұрын

@@MarilynMonRover oh man loadouts wasn’t even something i’d considered…shows how abused we are in the Breath of the Kingdom community😭😭

@Matthew10950

9 ай бұрын

Oh, so this. I would pay good Canadian dollars for a system that let me add an effect to a certain armor. I found the sets ugly and some of them I am forced to wear. Flamebreaker is stupid. Voe armor is ugly. Just let me add an effect to a set of armor I like to wear. Constantly switching is just annoying.

You all need to do a "Most annoying Companions" video. I don't understand how companions can continue to be so annoying over all these years! Tears of the Kingdom and now Starfield. Why can't they stay out of my way!!??

@Kimichitsuzuku

10 ай бұрын

So many NPC companions or forced-escort quests would be improved if you could unlock a "Player two" or Co-op mode so someone else is directly controlling the danger-magnet. Or have basic default-action options that the player can select. Like "auto heal us", "wait until combat is done", "snipe from this spot" or "tank".

Something that I've found helps with the 'Wrangling of the Sages' is that if Link whistles, the sages will run to him making it easier to walk up to the one you want. It's not a great work around, but this way I don't have to chase Sidon around the battlefield asking for a shield

@Rusty84CV

10 ай бұрын

Whistling does nothing for the sages, I've tried before, and nothing happens

@jamesjwr

10 ай бұрын

@@Rusty84CV Counterpoint: when I whistle the sages run to me. It's not 100% reliable but it largely works.

@Rusty84CV

10 ай бұрын

@@jamesjwr it does nothing

@ironicdutchmoonshade1394

10 ай бұрын

@@Rusty84CV It only works when in combat

i would also add drop rates on animal parts vs number of parts you need to upgrade armor. grinding for lizalfos tails is just plain boring after a while.

What annoyed me, was if I took out one too many build pieces, I couldn't just pick it back up and into my inventory. I wish we were able to place things like found rockets or fans into our inventory. But instead we have to grind for those parts. Too much grinding for too many things.

@h00pla434

10 ай бұрын

Justin McElroy described it as doing chores to get the materials to go somewhere else and do chores to collect different materials to go somewhere else and do chores to get even more different materials and then eventually get around to the game.

@sheenachlastawa9845

10 ай бұрын

@@h00pla434 That about sums it up. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed the game a lot, but I wish we only had to grind for just one or two things, not everything.

@insertmetalusernamehere

9 ай бұрын

@@h00pla434I need to repair my swords so I can kill some keese for their eyes so I can kill a gleeok so I can get the horn for my armor. I get what you mean.

@Matthew10950

9 ай бұрын

My 11 year old described how to fix this problem: "dad, all they needed to do to fix this is create a zonai empty capsule that drops from the pachinko machines like fans or anything else. It becomes an item that you want to save when you find zonai parts laying around. "

For #2, if you attach a dragon part or star piece to your vehicle, you can wander a lot farther away from it before it despawns.

@Tom-kl9jf

10 ай бұрын

or also - shooting it with a brightbloom seed works

@skilletborne

10 ай бұрын

I appreciate that trick exists, but it shouldn't be so damn close to mandatory

26:40 The funny thing about the Ascend mechanic is that it wasn't initially intended to be a power for Link. It was a developer cheat/tool to make testing easier, and at some point someone realized it was too good to not let the players have it.

7 Things We CAN'T STAND, so we'll be SITTING...

@SonicRooncoPrime

10 ай бұрын

Found Ellen's alt account.

@TheSmart-CasualGamer

10 ай бұрын

​@@SonicRooncoPrimeMichael Lindell is an anagram of Ellen Michal Lid...

"Most of them are combat focused" - That's not what I used them for... I used Tulin for gliding further, Yunobo to remove rocks, Sidon to withstand the heat near magma and in the desert, & Mineru to cross over gloom. I guess Riju could've been useful for fishing, but I just used lemons for that...

@alexanderingraham8255

10 ай бұрын

Riju breaks rocks too

@thajocoth

10 ай бұрын

@@alexanderingraham8255 Yeah, but she costs arrows. Yunobo does it for free. If I got her before Yunobo, it'd be worth doing that I guess, but I got her after.

The way I would have suggested fixing the champions was just hold down the almost unused whistle button, to bring up a wheel with the champion abilities.

My biggest annoyed/amused moment with the Sages came in Zora's domain. Out in the field, I could never get close enough to activate Riju in combat. If I want to talk to a Zora, on the other hand, Riju is ready to fry all the fish people. Logic would dictate this would happen anytime I attempted to converse any grouping of NPCs with Riju active. Wrong. She only goes aggro when the Zora are around.

The other day I was completing the side quest where you display the sage powers at the typhlo ruins, so I had to pull out the sages to do it. I realized then that I totally forgot about them until that moment, other than tulin I haven't turned on a single one since I got them. Tulin is really the only useful one imo. Thank god they let you disable them, it would have been soooo obnoxious if I couldn't put them away

@OpposingPony

10 ай бұрын

I use mineru to traverse the depths in places that it's hard to use a hoverbike.

@Matthew10950

9 ай бұрын

I use yunobu a lot for breaking rocks, tuli is always out. The other guys I turned off immediately and haven't though about them since.

My biggest issue was how much they tried to nerf zonai devices, the material grind being soooo bad, like 2k of each gem to level up every armor piece, took me hours even with dupe glitch, and they kept patching the cool bugs

@Seisachtheia

10 ай бұрын

This right here. It feels like they intentionally nerfed drop rates or enemy variation so that you don't get materials. How is it possible for me to play 200 hours of this game and not get more than 15 fire lizalfos tails the entire time?!? Why are there so many bokoblins instead of more horriblins and moblins? I have hundreds of bokoblin horns yet bare handfuls of the others...makes the fuse system just devovle into always using bokoblin parts because I am saving everything else for the inevitable gear upgrade grind.

@MaceHuntarr

10 ай бұрын

I know, the glitch patching was annoying, I miss the fuse entanglement, the infinite bouncy shield was wonderful.

@MythicFox

10 ай бұрын

@@SeisachtheiaIn the case of Lizalfo tails, for some reason there's some upper cap where they stop dropping once you have about 15 tails total, regardless of type. (I can't recall what the number is, I could be wrong.)

@Seisachtheia

10 ай бұрын

@MythicFox ah they have a cap installed that's why....and as for why they did it the answer's in the upgrading system...elemental lizalfos tails are used to upgrade many different sets and you need A LOT per set. It's literally just a tool they did to extend the length of the game because TotK is basically just BotW 1.5 so they needed to artificially make it seem like there was more there

@shinyrayquaza9

10 ай бұрын

@@MaceHuntarr I burned myself out doomsday prepping for 1.2, the armor upgrades of course included

Lowkey obsessed with Luke's confused face when Ellen mentions building a wicker man

@typacsk

10 ай бұрын

I don't know what would be worse: if we never got to see the video that she "made it for," or if we *did* see it.

Good news is that if you attach a dragon part or star fragment to your build it will vastly increase its despawn distance because you’re meant to track those items from far away

I do wish there was one of those pop-up, time freeze UI menus to select which ability to use. Or maybe like a specific extra button you could push to active the power (like when you pull out your bow you could hit the whistle button to active riju, or when you hold the shield/target button you could active sidon, et cetera). Leave them so when you're flying A activates tulin, et cetera, but add additional controls. Maybe that could be patched/part of a DLC?

After a bit I only had all of the sages out at once if I wanted them to take out those small things in the depths by themselves. I usually just used any hot enough place in the Goron region as a frying pan and made a bunch of meat, because it stacked

I really like this format of you guys discussing games critically. First _Armored Core 6_ and now _Tears of the Kingdom,_ it really feels like you guys are good at critiquing these things informally.

The only thing that bugged me beyond all is that there's no hint for certain cave locations - they hint most of them, but not all, and I'm stuck roaming the entire map to look for that 1 cave I still haven't find. It's so frustrating and I don't get why they decided to do that.

@Matthew10950

9 ай бұрын

Let me tell about a THOUSAND korok seeds, for sweet fuck all. AGAIN. That's insulting.

A list with TWO contributors / stars is a nice change of pace

I remember talking up one of the final bosses to my buddy. For me, I went when things were still a little challenging. I actually died once before winning. Then I watched him play on his game, and it was like watching a match of Wii Tennis. He just walked up to the boss and kept swinging because he had so much health and armor after a more collectivist run. I wanted to weep.

Both BOTW and TOTK have tedious farming to upgrade armor. At least with zonaite it's easy to find and plentiful.

@MarilynMonRover

10 ай бұрын

TOTK just ramps it up to 11 for most though. BOTW had an issue with collecting star fragments, an issue which TOTK seems to handle much better, but farming dragon parts in BOTW was way less trouble since the dragons were on more of a time-of-day structure rather than a real-time limitation... it was so easy to set up a routine in BOTW where you could farm all three dragons in sequence. I would hit the fire dragon first, swoop on over to the jungle for the lightning dragon, and then had my medallion set up on the hill for ol' frosty the snowdragon. Some things in TOTK are just ridiculously rare now for no reason whatsoever except to artificially extend gameplay time and make you feel less foolish for shelling out $70 (which backfired for me, tbh)... voltfin trout used to be pretty common, now they only appear in like 2 places in schools of up to 5 if you're lucky... stealthfin trout were all over the place in the waters outside of the Korok forest, and now they're in one tiny school near the military base... hearty truffles and the similar fishes are now super rare... like wtf Nintendo, not only did you artificially inflate gameplay time in general but you also artificially inflated useful resource gathering time and in doing so artificially inflated the difficulty level. Farming Zonaite is honestly the least grindy part since yeah, it's so readily available, especially if you make it a habit of hunting Frox monsters, as there's always an outcrop of Zonaite nearby in addition to all the parts you get from taking down those things (which, imo, is the best new boss fight in the game, even if just for the horror-themed fight music)... not to mention the dozens of enemy camps where all they do is whack away at Zonaite ores. Zonaite... absolutely not a problem. Everything else....... Nintendo just hates you.

@skilletborne

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, but TotK also has poes... and bubble frogs... and I'm sure some other BS currencies There are too many resources that you have to care about and grind for

I just want to point out that I have fed all the dogs and got all the treasures at each stable, including the cave of treasure chests, and it only takes 4 apples to get them to take you to the chests. And I always have sooooo many apples, that it's never a bother.

@kstebor

10 ай бұрын

Yup, you only have to feed the dogs 4 times. I think the problem some people experience is that the counter seems to reset sometimes if you move before it eats the 4th item.

Can we add the map to this list? There aren't enough stickers to cover everything I want to mark. I also wish you could have a check mark, sort of toggled, so that you can know you've defeated an enemy without having to encounter it again and see the star next to its HP. AND A FILTER. PLEASE, A FILTER. If I'm trying to hunt Hinox and I know which sticker I gave it, why can't I just filter for those to be marked? And why can't we change the colors? It's really irritating imo. I'd also love if we could zoom the map in just one more notch. It would help when you're trying to see beyond the stickers.

@TheWaterSnob

10 ай бұрын

Oh and more efficiently upgrading armor. It takes SO long when you have multiple upgrades. Maybe more of a "shopping cart" style would help?

Ugh... I've beaten the game, but because Electric Lizalfos apparently almost never drop their tails, I still haven't upgraded any of the Rubber Armor pieces past two stars. That's my own personal farming nightmare.

Man anytime Sidon was close enough for me to use.....I accidentally used Riju.....I want Riju....oh did you mean boulder?

The amount of items that show on the "quick" menu , paired wiht only a scrolling selection method make it really sluggish. the game would benefit enormously if we were able to select, from the main inventory, which items we want to appear on the quick acess one.

Idea for a challenge if you are still doing those: Build the biggest, sloggiest horse-carriage you can and try to run across [insert expansive region here] in a time limit under certain conditions, like the Tabantha frontier, no clothes, before you die.

An easy fix to the sages is to have an ability on the wheel allow you to press A B Y X to interact with the various sages, *medium story spoilers* And Mineru wouldn’t matter, because the only interaction you can have is getting on her mech, which could be assigned to something other than the four buttons (whistle maybe?) or you just interact with her like normal. Problem solved.

The number of times I've come across a Korok, seen how far away the friend is and gone 'absolutely not''. So many stash slots that will forever remain locked because I just don't have the patience. That said, I did manage to get one almost all the way there by accidentally punting it and watching it roll down a hill.

1) You missed my biggest complaint about the Sages; that they will attack monsters even if you don't want them to. Like if you are doing a rock octorok repair run. Or trying to pull a Fire Keese down to start a grass fire so you can cook something. You always have to banish the Sages, so they don't kill the monster you need alive. 2) Less of an issue for me. The last 20 builds are stored in Autobuild and if it really matters you can favorite it. That said, there are too few favorites and I don't like that you can't name them. 3) I didn't really notice it when I was playing. But being able to quick fuse melee weapons and shields like you can arrows would be handy. That said, I usually fused my favorite items well in advance and kept repairing them, so it was also less of an issue from that respect. 4) Completely disagree here. First, building fun things to throw the monsters around was always fun and if your aim is good, water is faster than every weapon. Second, using the spectator box to farm arenas, and laser cyclone for larger enemies was still faster and easier than even a Gerudo Scimitar with a Lionel part. (and the Master Sword? It's freaking weak compared to Gerudo or Royal weapons) 5) Yes. So much yes. So tedious to have to assemble the parts individually and cook one at a time. Related, there is no point in the special meals, because a steak and a heart bonus item restores the whole health bar. Oh, an apple pie? Nah, raw meat plus hearty truffle is simpler to cook and restores more. 6) I don't mind farming. Also zoanite and zonai charges are nothing. The Lionel parts to upgrade your armor, that was the farming that bugged me. 7) The Master Sword. As noted above, it is weak. There are too many weapons that are so much stronger. Especially considering the whole story of the game. 8) All the little interaction things the game missed. Particularly with Purah. You reach a certain point in the game, and Purah 'reveals' something to you. But if you already found that, there is a reaction and she is surprised. But those events are far too few. For example, if you complete the tears quest early, you talk to Purah and the sages and they are like 'hmm, I wonder what is going on', and you already know, but the game just bypasses that. 9) Link's house. Interesting, but far too limited. I wanted to build a bigger house. I wanted more, different pieces. I wanted doors, walls, halls. I wanted to be able to customize colors. Maybe add furniture.

9:46 I WISH that the Horse Armour from the BOTW DLC was in this game. It made Horses FAR more useful.

I do take issue with their owning of surrounding mobs - because occasionally it'll be a chuchu that I want to elementally kill, and they'll just murder it before I can get to it. Dammit, Tulin, I wanted yellow jelly!

@Dubbsteppa21

10 ай бұрын

You can turn blue jellies into what ever you want by just putting them on the floor and then hitting them with the element you want

@senanthic

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, but I wanted to do it to begin with, not add an extra step. @@Dubbsteppa21

Leave it to Ellen to sacrifice a Korok in a Wickerman

About the dogs, I will say I would spend a lot more time than I’d like to admit holding the dogs and the cats in Twilight Princess lmaoo they were adorable!

I love how Tulin proceeds to walk off and avoid looking at Link like he knows he's done wrong and doesn't want to see Link's disappointment in him.

Anyone else who did the dog quest using the dog then opened all of them up anyway?

@proudcurlygirl

10 ай бұрын

I did

@vaelegoro7782

10 ай бұрын

Glad I wasn't the only one :)

Aggressive Healthy Eating sounds like an eccentric indie rock band. Also, this was great fun. Thanks as always!

Honestly my biggest gripe is how there’s barely any connection to botw. All the guardian corpses have vanished, barely anyone recognises you, there’s no sign of the Devine beasts or much mention of the champions and where is my boy Kas?? I know it’s meant to be open to new players but they really missed an opportunity to make it feel cohesive in the story and world. I read a comment once about how cool it would’ve been to come across the Devine beasts in the underworld, swallowed up by the chasms and gloom and I thought that was such a creepy and cool idea. Still love the game, just wished they’d made it more a sequel and not an AU.

Honestly, my gripes are: 1. Dungeons. I love the little shrines but by the time you’ve started to scratch the puzzle itch it’s over. The old temples of old >>> shrines. 2. Storytelling through teardrops. Part of the negatives of it being open world is that the storytelling is really inconsistent. There’s very little feeling of there being any high stakes when you’re attaching a korok to a rocket prime rib and firing them straight at a lionel.

I wish they did they did the attach item to arrow thing better, because most of the time I have to scroll for 20 seconds straight just to get to a puff shroom or something

I cannot understand how the sage abilities made it out of play testing. They spent 2 years making perfect physics but no one noticed this makes the sage abilities almost unusable? Mind boggling

For me, it kinda feels like the Depths justifies itself by being full of stuff to farm. The devs decided that it was going to be the same size as the surface, but there was no way for them to make it as content-dense. They had to do something else, which means in effect it's a big open space full of nothing and vast stretches of the same visuals over and over, but it's 'engaging' because there are lots of bomb flowers strewn around and Zonaite to mine, so you feel like you're collecting useful stuff and progressing. Weapon guys are also the only source of pristine weapons, which makes the depths the place to be if you want to stock up on weapons and/or power up. It creates a contrast to the surface, in that they sorta removed useful stuff from the surface and transplanted it into the depths instead. The surface gameplay loop will give you nothing but decayed weapons, and traversal eats into your Zonaite reserves so you eventually have to stop and "switch" to the depths. In a way, it's well-designed because you have two co-dependent back-and-forth zones to flipflop between, which keeps things interesting and changes up what you're doing (i.e. the surface and depths feel mutually distinct in the ways you engage with them) but it's also gripeworthy because you can't help but feel that the surface is where all of the fun stuff happens and the depths is where you're obligated to go when you need to stock up. Also, I have the worst video saved on my switch. I spot a bomb flower in the depths, and just as I run over to grab it Yunobo darts in front of me, then decides that it's a great idea to launch himself at it, then I blow up and die. Just painful.

The exact same thing happened to me with feeding the dog everything I had, and it just sat there. And they say there are no bad dogs.

I was apparently opposite everyone else with the horses. I deliberately made sure I kept using my horses, and even went out of the way to get the golden one and fully upgrade it. I honestly didn't really like the vehicles made with Ultrahand. Never really could get the hang of them.

I agree with most of these, but I actually kind of like that it’s difficult to fuse mid-battle, as it adds more tension to your weapons breaking. My problem with fuse is that it takes so long to scroll through all the options for arrow fusions.

The sage abilities should have been just that- abilities. Link should just be able to those things himself. Idrk how’d they’d do yunobo’s power but, it’d be hilarious to turn yourself into a cannonball

I agree with most of this but personally I wish there was like a wardrobe function so you can quickly swap outfits cause scrolling through the whole menu is a pain to me.

Flying on the hoverbike pretty much made other vehicle seem pointless for me because I would eventually come across some steep hill or cliff or something that I couldn't get my vehicle to go up,so I'd climb up the cliff wander round for a bit,go back only to find it out my build has despawned. You can pick up your builds and lift them over obstacles but that doesn't feel like a proper solution

They solved the powers problem in BotW. Having a button for them was fine. Should have stuck with that.

Love this game a lot and although I do gripe about some of the things you mention I still can't put it down and play smth else until all is done to 100%. Mages are annoying sometimes but it seems that they are intentionally harder to use as a nerf, so player doesn't become too OP. Despawning constructed objects is admittedly bad (and costly), but zonaite farming never felt ... well... farmy. In the beginning a small farming loop was necessary as one couldn't stray far but a bit later on if one drops in from all the chasm holes on the surface looking for lightroots then looting a nearby mine is a nice extra. The only problem with this game is that many of the mechanics were known from BOTW so we skipped faster to better armor and weapons leaving us less time really fighting for our lives with just 4 hearts and pants of sack cloth.

Trying to use the sage abilities is so humbug that I just treat them like pokemon. Summon them, use their HM, back into the pokeball.

I didn't have the issue you had with food status effects. I didn't really need to use them... I found clothes for everything pretty quickly, and once I had Sidon I didn't need anything but him for the Heat Resistance or Flame Guard effects since his ability basically gives you the max for both...

Bulids are saved in the auto build history. As for cooking, recipes are saved for each ingredient. So if you want a lot of healing food or potions just select one of the ingredients and then check recipes. Once you select the recipe you want all ingredients are auto gathered from your inventory.

"A little bit of a grind"? You need like 100+ Lizalfos tails and the drop rate is 20+% or so per kill. That is RIDICULOUS. BOTW's drop rate was 100% per elemental lizalfos killed. That's why I used the duplication glitches. I don't know why they dropped the rate that far, it made an already grindy game even worse in that regard.

Chasing Riju halfway around the map just to activate her sage power is my biggest pet peave ever.

@StephanieHarlow

9 ай бұрын

Yes very much this. And supposedly you can whistle to get the sages to come but I don't find that this always works. Riju is the hardest to track down for some reason.

When it comes to the builds and solving shrines, it can be hard to be creative when the simpler and most efficient way is also simply the most boring. When that happens, being creative feels like you're overcomplicating the solution, sort of sapping the fun out of either way of doing it.

One thing that helps builds disappearing is slapping Dragon parts into your builds. Builds with dragon parts have a WAY bigger despawn radius, and you can save it to any favorite build for 3 Zonite. It's tough to properly balance the hover bike but most other builds are easier. I also consider Hyrule to have been 'Goombafied' going from BotW to TotK. You just jump on everything you want from above. I much prefer the wide open spaces of BotW that I could slowly pick my way through, turning over every rock and log along the way.

for #6, I believe that cooking two different parts that have different status effects negates the effects and gives you just hearts, so that could be a good way to create more heart-only dishes.

A little tip for despawning builds, dragon horns/scales have a super big despawn radius and can be replicated with autobuild. So build a hoverbike, glue a dragon piece to it, save it as a build, take back the dragon piece, and then use autobuild. It'll create a bike that won't despawn for unless you run a whole region away.

For the combat fusing, if you fire a puffshroom it gives you enough time to get a couple weapons together while whatever is confused.

You nailed all my gripes but I also hate that when you're selecting something to fuse in the quick menu, it doesn't tell you what the damage additive will be. So when you're frantically trying to pick an item in battle to shoot or drop for your sword, the damage or defense it adds isn't shown unless you're in the full pause menu, and that really breaks the flow of the game and battles. I know you can sort by highest but sometimes I'm trying to make a "medium" sword for smaller enemies, and save all my good parts for the stockpiles of endless demand from the armor upgrade parts. Speaking of which...Lizalfos tails. I'll kill 10 and get maybe 1 tail and then i gotta wait for the next blood moon or spend hours farming up and down the canyons. I still need like 35 tails to finish what I have now and I'm sure there's armors I still haven't found that'll probably need them since everything else does. It's so frustrating because I have 250 Ice Lizalfos horns, but only like 14 tails. An exaggeration but, not that much of one. And another note on farming for your armors. Once you level up, what becomes more rare is basic monster parts. Like red bokoblins, blue lizalfos, etc. Everything is black and silver after a certain point and finding the mid range enemies becomes the real hunt. I have a surplus of Silver parts but I need the early stage enemies in bulk and there's usually only one in each group now. The hardest one was when you need Lynel parts for the barbarian set. By the time I found that suit and started upgrading, *all* the Lynel's were silver except 2 which I think only continue spawning as Blue and white maned Lynel's for this exact reason. But, it still means i'm farming the same 2 creatures every blood moon for a while. And I'm stuck on one armor because it needs parts from one of the earlier soldier constructs, but I can't find one anywhere now. Every spot I come across some they're all level IV robots and like one level 1 bot. And of course the flying Gibdo wings only spawn in a couple small areas if you finish the Garudo quest before farming them for the wingsuit. So the game became very farmy if you're a completionist. I'm *still* chipping away at it, haven't beaten the game. Lastly another reason the companions are annoying is I constantly try to use the Rock Octorok trick to repair my weapons. Let them suck up a dropped weapon, and they'll spit it back at you, completely repaired and with new enchantments/perks for those who don't know - can only be done once a blood moon for each octorok. But if you forget to turn your companions off when you find one, *woosh* an arrow flies by your head and bursts your balloon. Man, i feel like i've needed to vent about this for a while, but I also love the game so I didn't wanna poo on it. Thanks for finally opening that door.

We still can't pick stuff up while riding horses. You always need to hop off, pick stuff and then hop back on again which means if there's multiple objects that need picking up in quick succession, it turns in to this frustrating process of hopping off and on again. It got to the point where I would either not stop to pick stuff up or not use horses at all in certain areas. What makes it worse is that this was also a problem in the first game and the fact that in Elden Ring, you can pick stuff up while riding Torrent.

I've not played BOTW or TOTK so I'm not sure how they *do* map the controls, but I adore Hyrule warriors, and that *does* use the triggers to change the function of the buttons, works great there

regarding the whole zonaite farming, you really don't need to "farm". You just need to explore the map and pick up every single thing you find, which was already standard open world game procedure long before Breath of the Wild. Between the underground bosses and the Yiga, plus stopping at a zonaite forge when you encounter one, you get all the cristallized zonaite you need to upgrade your battery to the max, and it just happens organically while playing the rest of the game. It's only if you set your objective as "I need to get zonaite so I can upgrade my battery enough to use that hoverbike I saw people on internet making" that you get stuck in a farming loop ...

My biggest upset with the game was the Fire Temple. Every other temple felt so satisfying to solve the puzzles and traverse around, and the Fire Temple just felt like a slog. And almost everyone I've talked to about it was just as frustrated with it as I was and ended up just making flying machines to bypass the majority of the puzzling because it was made so poorly. Not to mention, Yunobo's powers were hard to control and point, and his repetitive dialogue made zero sense in the context of the scenario. I was so tired of hearing him yell out "you never should have come here" every time I hopped into a cart. Not to mention, I had already finished the tears questline by the point I got to that temple, so I was just rolling my eyes at every scene where he was chasing after the very obvious not-Zelda Zelda.

And the sages are never close by when you need them to be. I fought the depths marbled gohma. Yunbo was constantly underneath the boss. It was so frustrating.

Yes, very much agree. The only clothes that i upgraded to 4 stars is: ancient aspect, sheikah outfit, and all the champion helms from first game. Yes, i do have most of the other clothes in my invintory. Note - my fierce deity amiibo now can unlock my sword finally. Never could get in the first game.

I love how Tulin turns like 'what?' after he blows all the items off the sky island.

Things that tick me off, It will be basically Engineer Simulator until its suddenly not, meaning if the build is not perfect like in the real world then it either breaks or just don't work, until suddenly its not! The Hover Bike [or as I was calling it The Air Scooter] will work just fine unless you have a less then perfect controller then well its back to being Engineer Simulator because it magically don't work and the more perfect you make it the less it works hence I only use Zonai Devices only when I don't have a choice and its something that I can use Auto Build from Scema Stones for! Bear in mind that the controller Im using isn't to bad, its not completely fricked up or anything but its not 100% either and Im not going to go spend $80 bucks on a new one just for a single game!

What about have to be scrolling forever to find an items while holding the shoulder button and then you miss it and need to do it all over again because the ordering and finding of item sucks?

"Nothing you build is ever going to be as strong as Link with his sword and strong armor" Nah man, you're just not using enough laser emitters and cannons lol

For that one dog quest, I thought we had to build something to trap the dog and bring it inside. So I made like a bulldozer and trapped that poor dog in the cave. Then it still didn't work, so I looked it up and left the area.

What would fix the sage abilities a ton is tulin can’t be selected while on the ground. That would solve 90% of my issues with time.

Oh god, i was always yelling "riju, get back here! Why are you over there!?! Stop running away from me!"

You can whistle to bring the sages to you. Also, if you hide behind a rock the sages will just keep fighting enemies.

I have two story related gripes. One, they used the same script for the 4 main sages when you finally get the secret stones at the end of their respective dungeons. I know the intention was so that you could do them in any order and still get the gist of the story, but it got repetitive. I also think they should have made the dragon’s tears/geoglyph quest more linear because the story can get spoiled for you really quick if you go out of order on those.

My main two gripes for this game are: 1) I really, really wish there was the ability to brake your builds. Like, with the hoverbike literally everyone made, if you had the ability to brake and gently set it down rather than let go of the steering column and have it yeet itself (and potentially yourself) into the void, that would have been great (also, fewer wasted materials). Maybe make a separate item, or add the function to the steering column itself. 2) The "throw item" function seems really clunky. I feel like you should just be able to go into the item menu and be able to ready a throw from there, rather than having to start the whole process by lifting your WEAPON to throw that, THEN go into the item menu.

I definitely found myself not using my horse because inevitably, I'll come across a sheer cliff face (or even a slight one) that I want to climb, but doing so means I have to leave my horse behind. So I just left them at the stables

Tulin is literally the best. He headshots Lynels for you!

Having to "farm" the dragons for materials to upgrade some of the armour sets was another royal PIA. If you're not in the right place at the right time, it's a big ol' "welp, guess I'll build a campfire..."

This video feels like a bonus Show of The Weekend. 😁 Also, loving Ellen's t-shirt - 'Good Enough' is one of my favourite Evanescence songs, thought not sure if it's anything to do with it. 😛

@Matthew10950

9 ай бұрын

'Not enough' is my favorite Our Lady Peace song.

Mean if we can hold a button to throw and item and then press another button to switch to a version of a submenu for the other button we are holding then why can’t they implement a way to hold the button for attack and then interrupt a charged stamina wheel to activate with a dpad button one of the four sages, if you pick rinu it automatically draws out your bow you have equipped, if you’re holding the y button for example and then pressed a dpad button then that could have worked since Y is only used for sorting menus

What bothers me personally most about the sages is Riju, who has a ranged ability and has her scimitars, so she constantly fights next to the thing I'd like to shoot with my bow for her ability.

I miss the one button press champions. Now, I gotta chase the sages. Tulin and Mineru are dope af though. Everyone knows why for Tulin, but Mineru is a full blown mech that abuses the power of fuse in the best way! 😍👍🏻

If you want to avoid status meals, just mix together 2 incrediences with different status. So like swim speed + cold resistance. And it'll end up cancelling each other, becoming a pure heal.

2 more gripes I have that weren't mentioned in the video: Swapping armor for various occasions is tedious. It would be nice if there was some way to do it automatically, or at the very least, "Equip all of this set". The enemy damage very quickly turns the game into "Tears of the One-Shot-dom". I was even focusing health upgrades this time, but it felt like it didn't matter, one hit and I'm dead.