Episode #806 – World War 3: TOTK! Our Honest, Explosive, Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Review

Episode #806 – World War 3: TOTK! Our Honest, Explosive, Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Review

Intro: It’s Zelda night!  Gasp!!!

Savral asks- ever played a hard game from childhood?

Voicemail #1: Zelda is GOTY don’t you dare say anything bad.

Toxic positivity

10 sec. spotlight:

Michelle

John

  • Tape to Tape – rogue-like hockey game. buggy but good
  • Steamdeck battery death
  • Drinking: Athletic Brewing Freewave Hazy IPA

Guest Host:  Matto (aka, @MattoMcFly  )

  • Jedi Survivor (again)
  • “I like dressing up BD-1” – Matt
  • Playing real chess on chess.com
  • Drinking: Coke and Johnny Walker Red

Voicemail #2: xbox is not gonna die / et al. and who the F is that Tiger guy?

Roundtable: Legend of Zelda – Tears of the Kingdom

  • Setting the table – a solid gold triangle table
  • Matt’s collector pins and his ‘special’ room
  • “Side-of-the-road Bradford”
  • Michelle went digital / John got the S.E. sword from Wal-Mart
  • Personal Zelda history
  • Initial experience / the 30 fps experience
  • Dick fire, not graphics
  • Hell Island horrible introduction / the Banjo Kazooie connection
  • Clunky as shit crafting w/o mouse and keyboard
  • Tedious backtracking / no object permanence
  • Ah-ha moments / “You have a little wii”
  • “It’s not a game for me” – Michelle
  • Controls are wonky / no innovation
  • “I like all of the twists they added” – John
  • Nintendo juice sucking and dripping
  • Rotating shape preschool / divine beasts, not dungeons
  • Different perspectives. “Zelda created the fukking genre” – John
  • 3-way chaos with a Canadian bitch.
  • Meltdown
  • “I need a fukkin beer” – John
  • Rationalization
  • More scorekeeping
  • Who’s stupid? / I don’t know anything.
  • This is al least a 9

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A seven is not a bad review

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