what if link simply got smaller in the shrine of ressurection so now everything seems bigger lol

#1 thing that they DIDN'T change between the two games: _DEATH FRIGGIN' MOUNTAIN_

It wasn’t until I played age of calamity then replayed botw that I realised how apocalyptic botw is...

“I have a strangely specific fascination with seeing the same location in separate games” Sonic fans must hate you then

the only possible explanation is that Hyrule, like the universe itself, expands over time

The map isn't scaled larger in Age of Calamity, Link is just out of shape after sleeping for 100 years.

I love this format and seeing how things have changed. Just one suggestion: you do some shots of the bridge at 7:37 and it's clear what you're comparing, but then you go on a horse ride in BotW for over a minute with no clear reason, only to slide back into another comparison. Maybe you could cut in places like that in the future or make it more clear why you're showing the travel?

It feels like two Links trying to coordinate from across time.

I'm fully opened to non-vg myths stuff

The reason I think that the distance is smaller between the two is because the devs just wanted a fun size breath of the wild, and that was one of the sacrifices they made to do it.

Loading a new map on Age of Calamity and saying “Oh, I remember this place!” was one of my favorite parts of the game

13:37 those weird rock formations are actially *really* weird trees! In botw if you go to thundra plains and find one of the smaller ones, you can actually cut it down and itll drop wood. Dont blame you for not knowing tho, i only found out by accident on my second or third playthru

Farore’s symbol in botw is the only one that’s cracked after link was put into the shrine.

I feel like the main criticism I have is that there is a lot of empty space when showing clips that could be trimmed. Other than that it was good

Man, it’s so cool seeing the contrasts between the games’s visual styles. Age of Calamity is much more fluorescent and saturated, while BotW is really muted and weathered

Wow, you don't soothe your horse after using a speed boost?! Shameful...

There’s a very special feeling of clicking a like button and watching the numbers change from 6.2k to 6.3k

a good day when game champ uploads

I really like the calmer pacing in this video. It’s a nice change of pace.

The cutscenes look better in age of clamity, but the world looks better in breathe of the wild

I’m down for more of these. VG myths are great, but these are also really good. Nice one Gamechamp!

A Turtle has swam across many oceans. A Turtle has traversed many dangerous paths. A Turtle has encountered many deadly sea creatures. A Turtle has put its own life in danger just for the sole reason of being able to certify this video with a Turtle Badge Of Approval.

Love this! Bit of constructive criticism, maybe you could quicken the pace? Like, instead of showing you getting to the landmark, maybe you could just show yourself near the landmark and show where you are on a zoomed-in map. IDK, just a thought.

You've really graduated into one of those content creators that I'll follow regardless of what you produce. It's all interesting.

Next time, we'll be comparing Hyrule from Ocarina of Time and Ocarina of Time 3D

I really enjoyed this! One thing I might recommend is focusing more on the landmarks that are more one-to-one in Breath Of The Wild, like buildings, and ruins, and distinctive landmarks, and less on the kinda sorta close land formations.

When the clamity struck everything got reeeeeeally big

I like this idea, but in future episodes, could you show the corresponding location on the map in breath of the wild for each of the landmarks? Might help with getting a sense of how the scale has changed

Now this is what I like to see! A real in-depth look at the nitty-gritty details and the inconsistencies between these 2 different versions of the same Hyrule.

Gamechamp: Looks like Ganon's been doing some maintenance That one kid who's trying to prove this game isn't canon: Proof! All the proof I'll ever need!

My head canon about all the changes in this game is that it is literally a completely different universe, not just mr. egg coming along to mess everything up, link didn’t have the master sword yet in aoc(said in botw that he’s had the sword since he got it when he was little) geography changes, and also I refuse to believe master kohga live 100 years to botw when he looks 50 in aoc, unless ganon, the little rascle, gave him a spurt spurt of the LIVE FOREVER SPRAY! I WILL ARGUE ABOUT THIS TO MY GRAVE! Edit: I do know it is an alternate timeline, what I’m saying is that it seems this alternate things happening unrelated to the coming of terrako, like as I said, link got the master sword right before the calamity in aoc, but in the botw timeline, i think in a memory Zelda said he got the sword when he was really young

Yesss this is what I've been waiting for, I really dig the idea of you doing more than just VGMyths on this channel and this is a really cool idea!

Great video, this is literally the first thing I wanted to watch videos about when AoC was announced! Please keep making these comparisons for the rest of the stages!

Love it! I really like how you took the time to cover *all* of the interesting changes, instead of just one or two major landmarks that most other similar - but far less thorough - videos did. There were one or two points where the gameplay footage felt a bit too long (some combat and walking, for instance, could have been removed to more quickly show the actual comparison). But, as a whole, I am really enjoying it!

Obviously I was expecting a lot of changes and down scaling, but honestly I'm more surprised of how much the tried to keep the same in some form

This is so nerdy I'm in love. I've watched some other comparison videos but they're just so silent and lack any commentary. You're commentary was full of life and super interesting. Great job!

I'm sure these types of videos take a lot of time and work to put together, but I do hope you're still planning on doing more of this series. I really loved this first episode and can't wait for more of them to come out.

Listening to game champ geek out about crazy obscure stuff like this is lowkey hella satisfying

I enjoyed the video a lot. I like the side by side comparison and the smaller details like the door or the crack on the wall. It must take a lot of time to find and record so many details, but they are highly appreciated

This is insanely impressive from the devs of Age of Calamity. Keeping so much consistent while making a fun game must've been challenging. And a lot of things that changed are fairly easy to justify given the 100 year gap between games.

THIS VIDEO IS SOOO SO NITPICKY IT'S EXACLTY WHAT I NEED! I was trying to make my own version of this literally just out of fascination with where attention to detail meets practical gameplay compromise. But with how in detail and thorough you are with this it's perfectly covering all of what I was lookling for! I'm sure some people have criticisms and such, I'm 100% loving this.

Watching Link travel through Hyrule on his horse is kind of peaceful...

Oh hell yeah! I love Gamechamp, I love exhaustive analysis of minute details in video games, and I love Breath of the Wild and Age of Calamity, so I'm really excited for this series! Little suggestion: maybe give a clear sign on what footage is from where, especially when you're doing the splitscreen.

i check on your channel thinking "i hope she uploads soon" and bam. upload.

Hey um, thank you for being such a good content creator, I’m nb and it’s a awsome to see someone who is also nb

I'm sad that the longest chess game in history hasn't continued in this video :/

Thank you for this video! This was literally the first thing i thought while playing AoC; i was like "i wonder where this is in Botw's map". Also, i recognized a lot of landmarks and that makes me happy, looks like a bite-size Hyrule and they managed to keep it very recognizable. As well as i got a liitle sad when i played again botw, i'd never realized how destroyed is post-calamity Hyrule. Again, thank you so so much for this video. It's exactly what i wanted, as i just rushed through the missions (bcz time limits, and my allies being hurt xD) and didn't have time to appreciate it (even if i wanted to u.u).

This is amazing! I'm looking forward to your future video comparisons! Especially Akkala Fortress! 👍

There are some plausible changes. For example, partially buried structures can be because of sediments (100 years is more than enough for that), and the same happens with the "small puddle" that becomes Batrea Lake; 100 years is more than enough for a puddle to become a lake if weather conditions change over time.

While playing the game, THIS was the one thing I knew I wanted to see, and here we are.

This is awesome. Ive been taking mental notes as I've been going through AoC, but having everything is so much detail here is awesome.

I really liked the video and can't wait to watch the whole series. I really appreciate the attention to detail and all of the clear explanations (for a goof like me that's spent 200 hours in botw, but doesn't remember a thing about its areas), and my only suggestion would be to shorten some of the showcases (the one with the lake is definitely the best and most extreme example), as I think telling the viewer about some of the changes without completely showing them for more than a minute wouldn't be a conceptually worse way of showcasing the differences. Still a great video, can't wait for chapter 2! Also, a side note, I would love it if, after making all of the chapters, you would combine them all in one video, as listening to you talk about all this stuff would actually be pretty relaxing for a few hours while doing something else.

Ohhhhhhhh, new SERIESSSS

i love seeing the quiet atmosphere and more emptiness of breath of the wild contrasted with the louder music and brighter environments in age of calamity, very good video 👍

I've been waiting for someone to do an in-depth look at the differences in the world between these two games! Great video!

Great video! It's really cool to see these comparisons. The side by side views are awesome! Having a title bar at the top when you're comparing specific sub areas (like the split path at [14:22]) would be helpful to keep track of showing one game followed by the next. Looking forward to the next one!

I have wanted this SO BADLY since first seeing Age of Calamity

Holy shit you have a good eye for this stuff, really impressed both with your eye for detail and some of the two games' intentional similarities

Love this idea, I hope you do this with other series with reoccurring locations as well!

Was really fascinated by the comparisons while I was playing AOC. This video was awesome. Good job!

gamechamp is so good her vids are an instant watch

1:16 Actually if you don't pick up the silent princess, it can be found In Zelda's study in the rubble on top of the floor

I love this series! I’ve always wanted to do something like this myself, but I don’t really have the memory skills to do it, nor the technological resources to do so. Amazing work here! I love how much detail you put in, noticing little background objects and trinkets. Can’t wait to see more! But I do know that the next chapters in AoC will be messy to slow down and see details. I will say one thing I’ve noticed from my own playing of AoC. In the mission “Like Grains of Sand” in the Gerudo region, you can freely explore Gerudo town (at least after clearing out some moblins and bokoblins inside the town). There’s no time limit, no outposts to defend. There’s quite a few areas you can explore. Riju’s room, the noble canteen, the spa (from a back entrance), the area where Patricia is in BotW (to the side of the throne room), there’s an open room in a patch of sand right inside the main town entrance (there’s sand seals in the patch in BotW). I’m not sure if there are other missions that allow you to freely explore areas like that, but if I find something of note, I’ll edit this message or reply to it or something. This comment has probably turned into mad rambling as I’ve written it, but I really love this video and I like to pretend that I can help somehow.

VG Myths is fun, but I love it when you dive in to weirder topics. It’s always cool to have videos like this, like that review of the Japan only ape escape sequel you covered months ago

I was actually interested in how accurate AoC replicated Hyrule. It makes sense that AoC (a game about fast paced close quarters hoard battles) would have smaller distances between areas that BotW (a game famously about exploration). I kind of hope to see more videos like this in the future, perhaps with BotW 2?

Hey Gamechamp. This is a very minor editing thing, but when you're in moments of silence it might serve you well to use an audio clip of your mic's background noise to keep the audio consistent even when you're not speaking. You can audibly hear the audio clip end when you're giving comparisons more time to see. This is a minor thing, but it helps a lot with the flow of the video. Thanks!

This is really a brilliant start. Thanks for you effort.

Thanks for putting all this together! It’s funny how opposite the gameplay is for the two games, in BoTW I was just soaking in the scenery while in AoC I was laser focused on the mission so I missed a lot of this. I also love that you did progressive spoilers so people can watch up to the point they’re at in the game.

This is a great idea for a video, it might be extremely hard or frustrating but an idea for an age of calamity challenge run would be beating it killing as few enemies as possible (make AI kill big enemies and then avoid all the small enemies)

This game is so well done, they really went for that breath of the wild feeling

I enjoy these kinds of comparison videos. Just walking around the world and looking at all the artistry put everywhere.

The great plateau staircase had me stunned, to see it underwater was crazy when being able to see it in proper condition.

Love your vids. Your awesome

Yeah, I can definitely enjoy a video like this.

Awesome video! I have been looking for this exact thing and can't wait to see the other areas compared!

This video was super cool and interesting! Thanks a lot for the comparison, i’m hyped for the next part :D

As someone who hasn’t played AoC, this is really cool

I was so surprised how great AoC actually was. I really didn't care that much of it but changed my mind after playing the game

Ayyyy a new video. Honestly this is exciting because I love this channel so I'm glad to see a new one

I have this exact same very specific fascination of seeing the same places at different points in time/development, or in different games. Thanks for making this

Noice always good content

the egg guardian changed the future in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, so in the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild the box is not open beacuse there is a different future where Terrako didn't help and the calamity wasn't stopped

Im so excited for this series!! Im playing through age of calamity still but ahhhh i have the same fascination with seeing places and just, ahhhhhh i love your stuff and am so excited ^^

I was waiting for someone to make a very detailed video like this, thanks!

If Verisimilitude is “the appearance of being true or real.” What is the word for a fictional place looking convincingly enough like another fictional place?

Idea: can you beat Mike Tyson’s punchout without getting hit

Dang this video is so well done, can't wait for the next one

This was a really fun video! One of my favorite things about Age of Calamity is seeing what Hyrule was like in the past, so it's nice seeing a direct comparison. Maybe a faster pace during comparisons? That's the only advice I can think of. Looking forward to the next one!

I'll take a potato chip...and EAT it! Good job, here's $5.

"I'll take a potato chip........and EAT IT" "good job, here's $5" She did so well voicing that line. we should pay her more

Loved this!! Would love to see more!

Good video! I liked it and could tell it was fairly thorough. I would appreciate something during the direct video comparison portions so I'm not left alone with my thoughts. Love your stuff!

So is this gonna be a new series or just a one-off thing?

age of calamity is not entirely canon since it's a divergence to the time-line where the calamity was prevented

Great vid I have been waiting for someone to do this

Every Patreon reading is a treat. Also, the pauses in dialogue to cut to gameplay footage are quite awkward. I think explaining the changes or describing the areas on the fly, whenever possible, might fill out that white space. But, beyond that, I cannot think of much to help improve it.

and she’s back at it again, now with breath of the wild instead of yu-gi-oh

my god link is an enby icon and i love them

you are truly a dedicated person. I love this ! Keep going on !

I really appreciate the detail compared to other comparison videos which were released just days after the game.