Did I leave out anything cool? Lemme know!

About the first fact, this is actually a separate weather type referred to in the files as 'BlueSkyRainPat,' or small rain showers under a blue sky. Each region has a different chance for this weather phenomenon to happen, so it's actually something that's intended, and not a glitch

I always thought that the Hyrule Ridge/Thunder Plateau "trees" were giant mushrooms. Mostly because they are solid on the top and have no foliage.

Fun fact: In the German version of botw, during the side quest in Zora's domain where you give frogs to a little zora, they count the frogs, do re mi fa so, referencing the singing frog choir from Majora's Mask

I don't think the Bokoblins close one eye to show they're bad with the bow (they aren't, their targeting skills are pretty accurate). I think it's because they have a head that's a foot wide with their eyes having a huge gap in between them. It's probably got something to do with how their vision cones don't overlap for a solid 8 to 10 inches in front of their faces, meaning their parallax perception at distance but makes objects closer to them, like the bow, a lot harder to properly focus on while ALSO looking at their target.

Just in case the moblin's eye placement aren't necessarily that of a prey animal, some predators, notably crocodiles and alligator, have this type of eye placement simply because it's better suited to their environment

I personally think the game looks clay like and strange without cell shading, I much prefer the art style they went with.

Wetness is probably a build-up status effect like poison in Dark Souls. Therefore, having your model only a bit in the water means you are adding to your wetness buildup while having most of it out dries you, lowering that buildup, but not as fast as if you just stepped out of the water. Like using a moss clump while in the poison swamp. You are still accruing poison, but the moss slows it down so much, that it seems like you aren’t building up poison at all.

17:29 fantastic video! Fun fact: the tentacles of evil above Ganons cocoon looks exactly like the resurrection chamber, but Sheikah blue instead. One of the designers mentions this in an interview, they were intentionally designed to look similar. This has interesting implications for TOTK.

I always thought the ‘ice’ on hebra peak was crystallised, melted rock from when a divine beast laser shot it.

The fact that Nintendo started making "useless" information/events in 3D Zelda games back in 1998 (OoT) (and was actually in 1996 in the development of OoT they decide to start making the world react more realisticly, whee signs break and float on water in a certain way), it is never useless! Just shows great game design!

every time I see a video of "useless information" about a video game I very happily settle in, because this lore isn't actually useless in the slightest... for fanfic writers. writers of all kinds end up needing the most OBSCURE information for writing things and fanfic writers are no exception. really liked that you caught the bit about revali having his red cheek spots! there is in fact one (1) confirmed adult rito who also has them, kass, but my running theory is that it's sort of a "young at heart" marking in his case. I've heard that revali is significantly smaller than the other confirmed adult rito models though, so... either he's just really short, or he very much was a kid when he died. teenager, probably, which... well, it sure does put a lot of how he acts in a different light when you look at him through that lens, doesn't it? anyway! thanks for making the video, this was really cool :D

The little giggle after recreating the shot from TOTK trailer 2! Best part of the vid by far.

29:00 Giving octoroks a "haircut" will also make them pop up- from underwater or underground- and look around.

Randomly stumbled upon this series like a week ago and didn't know you were working on another one. Especially an episode this big. These have been a great way to experience BOTW again as we wait for Tears of the Kingdom to release, thank you for making them. Good luck trying to find stuff in the next game, lol.

One small quirk about the dark beast ganon fight is that when you land the final hit, if you pause the game right before the game fades to white it will start playing the normal hyrule field theme

there it is folks, the uncanny magic of tarrey town’s weather proves that it’s the gateway toward the sky kingdoms

"not to suggest that moblins are prey animal, of course-that is, until Link shows up" LOL

one detail I wanted to add in relation to the strap he wears for weapons and such the only shirt in the game that doesn't have the weapons strap is the blue lobster shirt you can get in the dlc, probably bc it's intended as a pyjama shirt

Actually the Hebra Peak looks more like it was hit with a Divine Beast laser during the calamity, the perfect hole in the peak combined with the glassy teture on the inside are good proof of that

Here’s a fact that you reminded me about at 18:25. In King Rhoam’s little secret study in the library, there’s a torn picture frame just like these. In Creating a Champion it was revealed that this frame could have possibly held a picture of Zelda’s late mother, the queen.

The rubber helm has the same structure as the big fish in zora's domain indicating it was often used by the zora as protection against electric enemies.

After already having had played way too many hours of this game, I took a break for a pretty long while. So long, in fact, that my old switch broke and I got an OLED, yet I still had not picked botw back up because I was honestly kind of sick of it after having played it so much. It’s been SO long that I can’t even see how long I’ve played it from my switch profile! But I think this marks the moment I decide to go back. Yes, I did play Skyward sword on Wii, yes I did play Twilight Princess, I played all of the Bioshock games, and I bought Fenyx (plus expansion packs) and I have not finished the base game yet, BUT FENYX CANNOT COMPARE. I have MONTHS until TOTK comes out, and IM READY TO COME BACK HOME! So, what has caused me to break my fast? What gameplay element exites me to such an extent that I would abandon every other game that I’m still yet to complete just to feel whatever sweet somethings it might provide me with? Armor upgrading. I’m going to visit those beautiful fairies and I’m going to get those massive smooches and I’m going to hear that beautiful song that I will never be able to play on piano because you’re playing triplets on one hand and sixteenth notes on the other and that is an INSANE expectation and yet that FUCKING SONG IS SO GOOD DUDE. Ok that’s it bye

Weird fact/glitch? If you turn the camera overhead, looking down at Link while enemies(it might only be Bokoblins and Stalblins) are shooting at him, the arrows will always miss, even when he's running around. Makes a somewhat decent way of farming for arrows. One of my favorite things about this game is the temperature mechanics, and the different ways temperature resistant armors and elemental weapons affect it. It was so fun to discover I could explore Hebra with just the Warm Doublet if I just kept hold of a Fire Rod or Flame Sword. Also the Desert was the most fun in this regard with how drastically different the temperature is depending on the hour. I greatly appreciated the attention to detail. Also love the implication that this is so far in the future the entiretly of the Arbiter's Grounds complex is completely buried in sand, to the point where the only visible ruins would HAVE to be the pillars where the flags had once flown. I have a desert obsession, okay- To add on to Brigo, he is a tribute to Kevin Briggs, a retired patrol officer who has saved HUNDREDS of lives preventing people from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. There are also NPCs paying tribute to Satoru Iwata and Robin Williams; the latter loved the series so much he named his daughter after Princess Zelda and has advertised a few games.

There's a really weird animation he does when Link goes to the tutorial type shrine in Kakariko Village, if you block, then stop blocking, his lower half will still be in fighting stance, but his upper half will be in normal pose.

I used this video to fall asleep to and each time I woke up in the middle of the night I would put it back on to the last part I remembered before falling asleep. Then when I woke up for the day, I finished it off.

That skull part reminded me of the 1st time I road a stalhorse 😔I thought I could put gear on him and keep it

If you unlock a divine beast, but leave and visit the champions successors, you will get unique dialogue. Teba will even curse which I think is the only time in a Zelda game where that happens.

The trees mentioned on thundra plateau also resemble the "Dragon's blood" found exclusively on an Island in yemen, very cool!!

This guy will always instantly analyze any new Zelda game the millisecond it comes out and then upload a 20 minute video about the game. Nice job dude

Fun fact. You will get different dialog from Purah, if you go to the lab after you activated it

I don't have a video of it, but a funny thing happened yesterday while climbing a waterfall with cryonis blocks. When standing on one, and with another right above my head, I jumped upwards and kink just kind of froze in place mid-jump with his head partwar in the upper block. I could look around and shoot my bow but couldn't attack or move until I destroyed the ice block with an ancient arrow.

Hyrule Castle actually has a ton of rooms that are rendered inaccessible by piles of rubble, especially near the center on the lower floors of the castle. For example, it's sort of implied that the armory, shortcut to the courtyard, and observation deck are all connected to a central room dug out below the road to the sanctum.

revali may also have the red marks around his eyes and on his cheeks because he's supposed to be modeled on a pheasant, which have red markings on their head around the eyes

Your speedrun tutorial series was insanely helpful, so when I saw this video pop up, I thought I just check it out for a few minutes, but ended up watching the entire thing. It's really addicting, and I'm looking forward to more!

I loved this series, and it all came from one great idea. Amazing work! (P.S your speedrun tutorial was really helpful too)

2023 and we’re STILL learning new things about this game

Maybe not hot take, but I think the without the cell shading thing literally just looks like an old 2000s unpolished game, like the environment doesn’t affect its shading it just looks so weird and just straight out of the modelling software (which ig is kinda what it is I don’t know much about blender and stuff.) I love how botw just looks like a painting ish, it looks like nature. It’s what I love about the game without it I don’t think it would be on my top three games list, but I’m a mayor environmental person like I love the sound design and visual design of games

POV the local ancient revived hero walked into your shop dripping all over the carpet, starts a conversation with you, and then just silently stares at you, eternally moist

It is currently 20 minutes in the morning and I'm up looking at lava formations that look like smily faces

Your any% speedrunning guide helped me a lot. I'm currently at sub 32 (no amiibo) and I try to get to sub 30 minutes before TOTK releases. Keep up the good work!

In my city, sunny rain showers are totally normal. It'll be bright blue skies and then piss down for 10 minutes.

With the closing one eye to aim a bow and arrow, You see this in brave, as well. Merida's father specifically tells her to keep both eyes open.

These video's are an absolute treasure trove of random trivia. Please keep doing this! :D

So Link has killed so many moblins he affected their evolution to the point they developed prey traits

i definitely remember rain in tarrey town but i believe it was before the quest was fully complete. once tarrey town was all finished up its been clear skies since, i even made a mental note of it when i realized

20:05 I actually noticed the lava smiley face when I first got the game and I still have a picture of it in my album!

'At least not until Link shows up.' Someone boot up The Only Thing They Fear Is You.

The materials thing is a result of the game handling all materials as post-process materials, rather than assigning each and every object its own material, which in game dev is a pretty big reason for performance drops, as every time a material is loaded in, memory has to do something called a "Draw Call", which pulls that material and all of its related assets, into memory to be called onto the GPU. Breath of the Wild takes a different approach - instead of assigning each object its own material, everything just has the same standard material (except water which is rendered after everything else), and based on camera position and a bunch of camera maps like depth, world space normals, etc, the camera draws each object's materials based on a stencil layer. Most GPUs allow for around 16 stencil layers at minimum. So for example, each "material" in that list is actually how the objects are sorted into stencil layers. The GPU then takes the lighting data on each frame, per object, and draws the material shader, rather than calling it from memory - which is likely why BotW ends up not having as many performance issues as most other open-world games on the Switch which are made with more traditional material systems.

Link taking the time to make an impressive freethrow with a bomb is the exact kind of lighthearted nonsense I would like to see in a Zelda movie.

For the battle stance one without a shield it’s probably a reference to skyward sword

This is actually such interesting stuff. I'll have to try a few of these funny things out if I remember!

19:35, if you windbomb or blss fast enough to Terry Town, with any other weather than sunny, you can get different weather types for brief moments until the game recognizes that you are in Terry Town.

29:05 for some reason on one of my save files where i skipped this cutscene, instead of perpetual sunny weather, it instead turns into perpetual thunderstorms, dunno why but hey certainly one of the fun facts of all time.

the level of joy seeing this pop up in my feed brought me is frankly, potentially, definitely concerning, i guess.

BRO I LITERALLY JUST WATCHED THE ENTIRE SERIES LAST NIGHT AND THIS DROPS IN THE MORNING WHAT

I love these videos so much. Thank you for making them. In my experience, weird weather in Tarrey Town can last longer when using Cemu. I don’t know if it happens if you don’t play mods, since I always play mods when using Cemu, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the modding can have weird effects on the weather there.

when the world needed him most, he came back.

iirc, water also evaporates off of link immediately when he steps out of the hot springs in eldin.

Talking about Link's house There's another house in Hateno on the way to the lab that it's exactly the same as your house on the outside but it's bigger and different on the inside

The cannon chest opening is insane to me, idk what a cool detail

0:52 it’s something that happens between weather patterns for smooth transitions into the next hour

My best guess for the glitch at 3:19, is due to the funky collision of the low-poly Temple of Time. Looking at the mesh and textures of the TOT in this state meant that it wasn't fully loaded in it's normal poly state because of the BLSS.

The best videos to watch while procrastinating

in that last one, with the weird water abyss under the shrine of resurrection, can you swim up those waterfalls with the zora armor?

not surprised that theres cosplays for zeldas winter outfit, it looks hella comfy and i would probably wear something similar during winter/in the mountains

In addition to what the top commenter said, the rain happening with no clouds is based on a real weather phenomenon called a sunshower.

Some poor dev had to add a "hasPickedUpShield" flag that follows Link the whole game just to make the continuity better in the first 5 minutes.

I am among those that 100% appreciate this kind of stuff

The broom npc fact made me laugh way harder than it should have

AN HOUR OF KOROK CUTSCENES IS WILDDD

I can't believe I'm avoiding studying so much I've just watched an entire 30 minute video about useless information regarding BOTW.

11:15 ... the what shield? Lol just poking a bit of fun

6:50 I can't speak much for archery, but for shooting guns the correct way is absolutely to have both eyes open to stay aware of your surroundings.

16:25 that giggle got me LMAO

The lighting in the very last bit under the shrine of resurrection looks a lot like the Twilight Realm

Withoutr cell shading everything looks like clay, I love it!

9:55 those are…. trees??? I definitely thought they were some sort of fungi…

14:08 okay wait a second, WHY IS THAT MOBLIN MASSIVE? I haven't played in a bit, but i swear they weren't that big.

9:09 what I always wondered was how would one even die from jumping off that bridge, that thing's lower than public pool diving boards

I didn’t know there was a weather forecast in the game and I’ve played through it 4 times

I’ve been waiting for this!

I think that last fact is interesting simply because with Tears of the Kingdom we saw a bunch of underground caves, and they could do something with that hole. But they probably won’t.

I love these videos. I don't know why but they make me smile

So you could say she goes to "sweep" with that broom.

5:16 if you go to the gem shop in tarrey town and talk to / interact with the lil goron at the stand he exclaims "Get down from there!"

The Julian shield you purchase from Grante isn’t actually an indistinguishable replica, because that one doesn’t have modifiers whereas the one in hyre castle can. Granted you need a lot of xp (watch croton) to get a modifier, but it is possible and you can get I think over 1000 durability with that if you’re lucky I thought there were two triggers to allow the day night cycle, the cutscene at the SoR and the cutscene at the first tower?

Glitch that happened to me: One time, around my fourth playthrough, I got to the yiga hideout. Being the coward I was, I tried to use revali's game (up the ladder, next to the banana room) and got stuck in the roof. I couldn't move, or do anything. It was basically like camera mode, except bad. I'm not sure if I could trigger it again, but I don't really want to.

That’s cool I didn’t notice that part about the weapon strap being permanent after getting a weapon.

19:27 i think this is supposed to be a skyward sword thing, because in the game there are many parts where you have to “raise the sword skyward” and that pose looks exactly like it

20:01 Terry town has a weather trigger when it's complete. i've had rain a few times going there.. mostly because i haven't completed terry town this run.. i'll see if i can get some short video some time.

5:49 You can do this to get armor and other such things in the game world when that normally shouldn't happen

The fact ive been playing this for almost 2 years and im still learning new stuff

16:28 the animation starts off as the regular dive animation, of course, but the one it transitions to seems to be the shield surf animation for some reason, I can't imagine why...

Sometimes if you’re right in between two weather zones the weather indicator will tell you the wrong forecast

300 or so hours, both consoles, few play throughs, and I have never once seen the sign or the cliff dive.

Can't wait for tears of the kingdom to come out then get a 90 minute useless video

The Sword photo pose is a reference to every time link pulls the master sword out of its pedestal

The raining is called a sun shower. Its still sunny so thats why the sheika slate says its sunny even in the rain.

“It seems Burger couldn’t hear you”