[2023-05-16] i was SO Wrong about The Legend of Zelda - Tears of the Kingdom [LC8FQUBkGUw]

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So as

some of you may know, I recently made a

fairly harsh video on the new Legend of

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom video game,

and I am getting a lot of hate. So I felt

like I needed to make this video to

address a few things. So first of all, I

need to own up to the fact that I was

wrong about quite a lot of things in my

initial review video. And the thing is,

when you're in the gaming industry, the

gaming journalism industry, and you're

competing against giants such as IGN and

GameSpot and all these other massive

gaming channels who millions of

subscribers and have early access to game

codes, you have to be quick with your

reviews and releasing them. There's a

saying that goes, the fastest bird catches

the quickest worm. And if you're lacking

punching power, then all you really have

is speed, and you have to use and

prioritize your speed over accuracy to

snatch up a few grains of rice before they

get scooped up by the big fish. I like to

think that deep down inside, I take my job

as a gaming journalist very seriously,

and I understand that lots and lots of

people are relying on me to provide them

with the best information on the latest

video games. So when I mess up on this

scale, I really do feel pain deep down in

my chest, and I must offer a sincere

apology. So I've been playing Legend of

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for a total of

4 or maybe 5 days now, and I have to say

that my opinion on the game has changed,

and maybe I was kind of wrong about a few

things in my initial assessment of the

game. So first of all, I need to address

one of the biggest points people are

pointing out in the comments section about

the fact that I hadn't even left the

tutorial stage of game before making my

review, and I didn't notice that I was

still in the tutorial stage of the game.

I thought that was actually the main meat

of the game. I thought most of the game is

going to be played in these floating

islands. I didn't realize that these

floating islands in the beginning of the

game were just some kind of practice area

where you can practice the basics of the

game and also unlock the basic abilities

in the game in a few of the initial

temples. I didn't realize that after you

finish unlocking the basic abilities,

abilities like Ultrahand and the time

slowing thing and Ascend, then you can

leave these islands and descend down to

Hyrule Kingdom, and that's when the actual

game begins. So my apologies for that

mistake. I also stupidly said that the

enemy types were all robots and mechanical

things, and they were very boring to

fight, and I wanted to fight living

creatures. Well, I was wrong again,

because when you leave the floating

islands, which are mostly inhabited by the

robots, you then go down to Hyrule

Kingdom, which is then full of living

enemies like the goblin pig-faced troll

things that were found in Breath of the

Wild. And there's loads of other kind of

monsters and lizards and weird creatures

that actually bleed blood and live and

breathe air and oxygen and are not

mechanical. There's still the mechanical

constructs, as they are called, in some of

the areas. So it's not like there's zero

robots down below and there's zero

creatures, because you'll find a mixture

of both mechanical enemies and living

organisms to fight. I also said in my

initial assessments that the gameplay loop

was boring. Now I can't really stand by

that statement anymore because I've been

playing the game for 5 days straight, and

if it was truly boring, then I don't think

I'd be able to play it for 5 days

straight. I actually have a very hard time

putting the game down and having a break

and doing some other things because I feel

so hooked. There's something very hooking

about the game. The ability to attach

things together and move them around using

the Ultrahand ability is actually way more

intricate and complex than I initially

thought. Initially I thought it's just

like moving things around to solve simple

puzzles, but Actually, it can get very

complex depending on what kind of items

you attach together. So you've got

different mechanical things like fans and

wheels that move when you hit them, and

jet engines and rocket stuff. And you can

make some pretty cool stuff. I've seen

someone on Twitter make a kind of engine

using a motor wheel that spins around when

you hit it, attached to a pole— 2 poles

that are attached to a smaller wheel— and

when you hit the motor wheel, it spins

around and creates this kind of piston

engine thing. And on the other end of

that, you can attach things like spears

and weapons, which can create kind of like

an automated attacking thing that you can

use against the enemies in the game. And

that's just one example. You can create

all kinds of weird things in the game.

And really your limit is your imagination.

I saw one guy create this hot air balloon

that has like a fire lifting it up in the

air and also a fan on the back with a

control mechanism so you can steer it.

And he created this flying machine in the

game that I didn't even know was possible.

So I kind of feel like I missed the point

of the game completely. In my mind, I

thought it was like very linear adventure

game with fantasy RPG elements where

you're just going through the story and

doing the dungeons and fighting people

with swords and shields, when actually

that's not really the main focus of the

game, although it can be if that's what

you want. The main focus of the game, I

feel, is it's actually like a massive

sandbox game in this big open world which

is full of these objects which you can

manipulate and bond together and create

stuff and basically just experiment and

mess around in the world with all these

things and tools that are at your disposal

to come up with unique and interesting

ideas to, to solve some of the challenges

in the game that you're presented with. I

wanted to share an interesting anecdote I

had in my gameplay session from yesterday,

and this is one of the moments in the game

where I felt like, wow, I'm really hooked

on this game now. It was when I was

fighting one of these bosses called Queen

Gibdo. It's like this big flying beetle

bug thing that spits sand at you and

causes these sand hurricanes. And it took

me like 4 hours to defeat this boss. I

spent all afternoon trying to take it

down, and when I finally took it down, it

felt so great inside. And it kind of

reminded me of the feelings I felt when I

played Elden Ring. Admittedly, I ran down

to the south area, the Gerudo area, way

too early before I actually unlocked or

gained any of the powerful good weapons,

and I was completely unprepared. But

somehow I made it to the temple, and I

made it to do this boss, and I was just

getting destroyed by it. It was one-shot

killing me. I was really running out of

arrows. I had no food or potions or

anything, and I felt like I could take

down this boss even without having

anything prepared. And after 3 hours of

banging my head against a wall, I finally

gave up and decided to teleport out of the

area and this time get prepared. So I got

some arrows, bought like 50 arrows,

bought some new armor. I bought some new

weapons— well, I found the weapons— and I

also created some recipes and potions and

stuff like that to myself. And this time

when I went back, I completely destroyed

the boss and I perfected the routine of

what you had to do to take this boss down.

And it felt really good actually. I felt

like this game actually has some depth and

challenge to it. So what I'm saying is

that even though the game seems like a

simple and basic kids game that wouldn't

really be able to hold the interest and

stimulate an advanced mature gamer like

myself, I was kind of wrong because the

game Even though deceptively looks like a

kids game, it actually is complex and

challenging enough to entertain an adult

mature gamer such as myself. One of my

other complaints about the game in my

initial review was that Tears of the

Kingdom is basically a copy and paste

clone of Breath of the Wild. And although

it still remains true that the game is

very similar to Breath of the Wild, I

don't really see why that's a bad thing.

Because why would you complain about

having a good thing not only once but

twice? That's kind of like having a really

hot girlfriend and then for some reason

you break up or she dumps you. And then

you just get another new hot girlfriend.

That's like having 2 hot girlfriends for

the price of one. I think you know what

I'm saying. Finally, I would like to

change my review score that I gave it in

my first review video. So I think I gave

it a 6.2 out of 10, which I don't really

believe is fair anymore. I'm going to give

it now a 7.2 out of 10, and I'm

going to say that I do actually recommend

the game. Although it is still a bit

pricey, I think if you can justify the

price, you will be able to have a lot of

fun with this game, and it should

entertain you for at least 100 hours,