Why i HATE The Legend of Zelda： Tears of the Kingdom

Hello and welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,

and as an avid fan of the Zelda games, I

just wanted to make a review of this game

so far from my own experience. So because

this game is basically a copy and paste

clone of Breath of the Wild, a lot of my

complaints and criticisms are going to be

the same as in my review of Breath of the

Wild. I am still baffled at how a game

company can make a sequel to a game and

there's barely anything different in the

sequel. Same combat mechanics, same

cooking mechanics, same annoying climbing

and weather climate mechanics. Even the

map is basically the same. You've got

Hyrule Kingdom, the grasslands, the

fields, and then you've got the other

territories like Gerudo Valley, the cold

snobby place with the bird-like human

people. It's just so disappointing how

there's barely anything new about this

game. The main new features of the game

would have to be the special abilities

like Ascend, which lets you go upwards

through a solid platform that's above you

and then re-emerge above it. And there's

Fuse, which lets you combine different

weapons together, so you can stick a sword

onto the end of a spear, or a spear onto

the end of a spear, or basically any

random objects onto the end of weapons.

And there's also this kind of grab

mechanic, which is basically the same as

the telekinesis magnetic ability in Breath

of the Wild, but this time you can attach

objects to each other and make things like

a little makeshift cart or a makeshift

raft. You can also rewind time, so objects

that are in motion swinging from one side

to another can be rewound. So you can

rewind the motion so they go back from

where they came and then use that to reach

areas inside of the temples and solve

puzzles. So you'll be using these new

abilities to solve all of the puzzles

inside of the shrines or the temples and

solve other little minigames and puzzles

within the game. And most of the time

you'll be going to these little temples

and shrines and solving the silly little

puzzles, which I find very frustrating and

annoying to have to solve. They're not

really difficult, but you do have to think

a little bit to figure how to solve the

puzzle. And the annoying thing is I found

the puzzles to be basically the same as

the kind of puzzles we expected and found

in Breath of the Wild, such as the— you

have to move a massive metal ball and then

get it over to one side of this platform

and then use your abilities and magic

stuff to manipulate objects so you can get

the ball over to where the hole is and

then open the gate. I don't really enjoy

solving these puzzles or having to do the

temples, but you kind of have to because

it unlocks a quick travel point, a

teleportation point, and also you get a

little thing which enables you to increase

the number of hearts you have. So they're

pretty important places that you can't

really get away without solving or going

into. As you might remember from the other

Zelda game on Switch, Breath of the Wild,

the climates and temperature things have

made a return in this game too, and

they're still really annoying. So you've

got to the north the very cold area, to

the south you've got a very hot area, and

you kind of need to prepare clothing and

food so you can survive in these extreme

temperatures, but it's just kind of

frustrating because sometimes you get

caught out without any of your potions

left and you're just constantly dying over

and over again. I accidentally went into

the cold area early on in the game when I

wasn't really fully prepared to be there,

and I decided since I'm here already—

basically, by the way, it took me a very

long time to get to this area because the

map in this game is pretty big and you

don't get the horse or the mount or any

way to travel very quickly in the

beginning of the game. You have to run

there, so it took me a very long time to

get to the cold place, and I decided that

while I'm here, I might as well try to get

to where I'm supposed to be getting to.

So I get to the top of the mountain where

I'm supposed to go, but I've run out of

food, and there's no way I can survive the

cold unless I keep making fires and using

my weapon as like a torch. But then I run

out of flint, I can't make the fire

anymore, and I feel like I'm kind of stuck

at the top of this mountain, and I keep

dying from the cold. And what happens is

you die, and then you press continue, and

it reloads your last save. But when when

you reload your last save, it refills your

hearts back to 3 out of 4 hearts. So,

so I kept running back down to the base of

the mountain and then saving it just

before I died, and then respawning,

pressing continue, respawning with 3

hearts, and then running back down to the

base of the mountain, and then before I

die, save it. And then I had to keep doing

this over and over again. It was so

frustrating. I have no idea why they think

that anyone enjoys these climate

temperature game mechanics, because it

just makes the game so frustrating.

You're trying to make progress and do

things that your own pace, but then you

take one of those meals that you've made

that gives you 8 minutes resistance to

cold or heat, and then you've got like an

8-minute timer ticking down, which means

you can't just slowly explore and do

little minigames because your stupid timer

thing's clicking down. And if you run out

of food or you run out of protection,

then you start dying from the heat or the

cold. It's also really annoying when it

starts raining. For example, it started

raining and I needed to get up to this

camp which is on a tiny hill. And I— yeah,

okay, I could go around the hill and then

enter through the entrance, but I wanted

to be lazy and climb up the surface of the

cliff face and then jump over the wall.

But I couldn't do that because it's

raining, and every time you try and climb,

it just makes you slip down to the bottom.

And even though the mountain was so tiny,

I could have easily climbed it if it

wasn't raining. I had to run around the

entire thing to get to the front entrance.

It was just so frustrating, these stupid

little mechanics. So the combat in the

game is basically the same as Breath of

the Wild. You've got your camera targeting

system, you can jump backwards, do a

sidestep, do a parry, and you've got loads

of different weapons. Like, you can do

one-handed weapon with a shield or

two-handed weapon, and you can fuse these

weapons with different things. And also

you can fuse them with items, which can be

quite fun to experiment with different

combinations of items. But the combat is

kind of boring. You're just going to be

spamming the same button over and over

again, or you can hold it down to charge

up for a more powerful attack. It's still

just really frustrating because the

weapons— I find that the weapons break

really quickly, and I use the weapons

maybe for a few fights and then it's

broken, then I have to find a new weapon.

And it just makes it feel like the

excitement of getting a cool new weapon

disappears quickly when you realize you're

only going to be using this weapon for

probably the next 20 minutes because it's

just gonna break really quickly. It's just

really bizarre because it's like the game

developers of this game made a really cool

game that looks nice, plays well. It is

quite, quite fun for most of the time,

but then they had a meeting, sat around a

table, and they all discussed, how can we

make this game as annoying as possible for

the player? I know, let's add this cold

temperature and hot temperature, and let's

make everything break as soon as you use

it. I don't know why they seem to hate us

players or us gamers who play their game,

but it's like they made the game to kind

of spit in our face. I swear, 80% of the

time when I'm playing this, I just feel

annoyed and frustrated. So it's been a

very long time since I last played Breath

of the Wild, and I don't really remember

exactly what that game was like, but I

have a fuzzy memory, and I swear this game

is really nothing different or new

compared to Breath of the Wild apart from

a few new extra abilities. It just seems

like this is more like DLC or an add-on

instead of a sequel. I am still enjoying

the game and I feel kind of hooked, so I

guess the magic of the Breath of the Wild

game still exists in this game too. But it

would have been nice if they made a

drastic or a very obvious change from the

last game instead of just making a copy

and paste clone of the last game. As of

right now, I think I'd have to give it a

6.2 out of 10, and for this price point,

I don't know if I can recommend the game.

Maybe later, if ever it goes on sale, it

could be a good purchase. But you know

what Switch games are like, they very

rarely go on sale, especially if it's like

one of the AAA Switch games.