Imagine Arin doing a sequalitis on Skyward Sword vs Breath Of The Wild, he would lose his shit

Wow. This made me realize that Arin was truly begging for Breath of the Wild before it was even a thing. No wonder it’s his favorite Zelda game now.

Almost 9 years later and now you can finally explore a dungeon with your Goron friend.

I can’t believe this was made seven years ago. I remember being so excited when it showed up on my feed, because I’d been waiting years for another sequelitis.

30:35 "You can hit that subscribe button right there, and that'll let you know when new sequelitises are coming out" 😞

"You can subscribe to know when new Sequilitis episodes come out!" *4 years later*

13:03 I love how that "OOPS" became a sound bite now

I still have hope that one day Arin makes another one of these. His humor just shines in this kind of format

I wonder how angry and/or insane Arin can get if he did a sequelitis on Sonic the Hedgehog.

This guy reminds me alot of Arin from Game Grumps. What are the chances we could get him on the show?

The funny thing is years later Arin starts playing Majoras mask and tries to follow the formula that ocarina of time gave even though the game was mainly sidequest heavy and doesn't want you to play it like you would ocarina of time.

Still waiting on that sonic sequilitis….or any sequilitis…

I think he doesn't like skyward sword .

Came here from the Grumps playing OoT and now I have to rewatch it.

In a perfect world Arin would make a new Zelda Sequelitis comparing Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.

30:34 so glad I subscribed 8 years ago and got notified of all the new Sequelitis episodes!

"None of these enemies are difficult to fight" ...How about those clams

I like how Dan references this video all the time and is a genuine fan of his buddy's work. I want a friend like Dan.

I miss these Sequelitis videos, I really wish Arin would go make more of these videos from time to time

"There's no challenge jumping over things, no trouble! I just need to press up! I can close my eyes and do this!" Later, Arin has a mental breakdown over just "pressing up" in Majora's Mask.

I just noticed, after all these years, Arin named his Link in Skyward Sword “Ugghhhhhh”

“That’ll let you know when New Sequelitises are coming out” Funny, Arin, real funny.

21:19 Movie Dialogue: There were all sorts of bad things going on but wait This HERO guy showed up and now things are great! It's really quite fortunate for us that this HERO decided to save everyone. Man, what a great guy, that HERO character. I remember when the HERO first arrived to save our sorry butts. the antagonist was all like, "Grr." but the HERO was like, "Not so fast." and the day was saved! We will forever be in that HERO's debt, whatever his name was. Thank you HERO! We love you forever! This one time the HERO was like, "You got any change?" And I was like, "If course my man! You're the HERO!" He never paid me back, but that's okay. I'm sure he didn't mean anything by it.

Coming back to Egoraptor's old flash videos armed with the knowledge that he's incapable of learning game mechanics really clarifies everything.

“I S E E Y O U T H E R E L O O M I N” That kills me every time

Wait, Arin just said attacking a clam isn't hard. I'VE WATCHED HIM GET KILLED BY THEM REPEATEDLY

arin accidentally produced about a decade of memes from this video alone

Listen, I can't be the only person who appreciated Arin's dinosaur joke. I looked through the comments. I CAN'T BE THE ONLY ONE.

Still one of my favorite thing's Egoraptor has ever said... "what am I doing with my life, I am harshly criticizing Ocarina of Time on the Internet. I'M GONNA GET CRUCIFIED!" this was the last we heard of him, no one knows if he was crucified or is in hiding. Sources say Arin Hanson of Game Grumps may know his whereabouts. Edit: this gem is at 17:25... Egoraptor still has not been found to this day, and Arin Hanson of Game Grumps refuses any comments on the matter of his whereabouts, 8 years after this video was made, and 2 since my comment was. Journalists still trying to dig for the truth.

OH FUCK YES!!!!!!!!

Maybe a controversial take, but Zelda isn't really about exploring and hasn't been since the NES games. It's become about exploring again with BOTW and TOTK, but for most of its run, the main gameplay of the series has not revolved around exploring. It's mainly about going to specific locations and solving puzzles there, and completing some levels. I don't even think OoT pretends to be about exploration, it's pretty blatantly guiding you from one dungeon to the next. The fact that people love the game in spite of that tells me that you probably shouldn't judge it as an exploration type game. It should be reviewed on its own merits.

Anybody else notice he was still wearing the hover boots when he didn’t need to in the footage?

I literally just rewatched this for the part where he goes "OoPs"

There is so much...god damn waiting for an egoraptor upload

It’s almost comforting to know that Arin has never changed.

"Wait... attack... wait... attack... IS NOT SO HARD!" And years later... we got Arin Hanson flippin his shit over a god damn clam. lol

Egoraptor: **complains about Zelda being hand-holdy and slow** Nintendo, about to make BotW: a’aight

I don't care what year it is, I'll still be here.

I love sequilitis. Just the way he presents everything and the pacing and the Arin jokes, it's so good it makes me feel so good. I am constantly in a conflict to where I would LOVE more sequilitis but I am also aware that if he was just forced to make more it would be phoned in and it would not be merely as emotional or passionate as these episodes are....so instead I just watch these over and over again. I would love to make a series in honor of sequilitis. It's so good. It's probably my favorite work of arins

I feel like most of Arin's issues with Ocarina of Time tend to boil down to skill issues, a lot of the waiting CAN be skipped through if you know different shortcuts to different enemies, like the wolves dying in one hit if your strike their tail, or the stalfos being pathetic against deku nuts.

Arin During Sequelitis: "Ah yes, The amazing Controls are easy to learn and use." Arin During Gameplay: "HOW DO I FUCKING DO THIS SHIT!"

10:07 20:42 22:50 27:16 28:29 29:41 And yet people accuse him of presenting his opinions as "facts".

By making fun of the Spinner, you have officially provoked a gang war

“It’s not very hard to do and it’s difficult to mess up”, says the guy with less than three hearts in every clip.

A Link to the Past changed my life as a kid. When I heard a 3D Zelda was on the way for the N64, my 12-year-old imagination exploded into images of mind-blowing cave exploration in an open world. Arin hit on some important topics in this video, and whether you agree with him or not, he did a fantastic job of analyzing what makes Zelda fun and what possibly takes away from a great experience. Exploring the ideas behind what makes games fun can lead to new ideas, which might just inspire some awesome new games!

"You can click that subscribe button right there, and that'll let you know when a new sequilitis is coming out" The wait has been long, but our vigil holds: we must be ready should the signal come. I am sure it will be any day now...

the editing is top notch in these jeez

Back here after TOTK. Gotta say, they did what Arin wanted in BOTW and only expanded on them now. Cave exploration, it’s own take on the dark world/future world, and they made our dungeon companions super useful. When the Sages in Ocarina gave us their seals, they said we got their power… but no we did not. Now the Sages have unique abilities and fight along side you. This Sequelitis criticisms were fixed and exceeded imho. Edit: Oh and like BOTW they have actual puzzles that army whacking a diamond or shooting an eyeball. And they’re FUN! I hate when I find a “Rauru’s Gift” shrine where all I did was find it in a cave. That’s not hard. At least have me carry the crystal thru the cave. Other than that, they’re all fun!

I still don't know if he liked bomb bowling.

Still waiting on that new episode of Sequelitis

I just beat OoT for the first time and rewatched this video and holy moly I can't relate to any of these points. I can't even figure out Arin's logic half the time. It's like delirious rambling from point to point with no coherence. At one point he complains that... you come across locked doors and need to explore to find a key. At other points, he claims there's no exploration in the game, which leads me to think he doesn't know what exploration means or that games with linear sequences of events can still have it. It's honestly shocking how well OoT holds up. The pacing and world design are picture-perfect, and the rest of the series can't really touch it in those regards.

Regardless of Arin's opinions, I love the comedy of this

Oh Arin's gonna love Breath of the Wild

I've been thinking a lot about this video since I first saw it, because it is a fantastic example of Arin's duality. On the one hand, he can make fantastic, intelligent arguments. On the other hand, he is incapable of separating his arguments from his own bias at times. Arin's most consistent failing as a critic of game design, I think, is that he builds entire critiques on the foundation that games which place an emphasis on player discovery and more free-form gameplay are inherently better than more guided experiences. Except, they're not inherently better. It's simply his preference. There's something to be said for experiencing an artist's exact vision, the same way we do with film and literature. It is still art, and you still have the freedom to interpret it in your own way whether or not the pixels on the screen have the same freedom as in other games. Again, I get it. It's not Arin's thing, and that's fine. How many times have we heard Danny chide him for never, ever reading? How many times has Danny been surprised at the movies Arin hasn't seen? He'd probably scoff at me comparing games and books to each other because he wants to experience his entertainment in a way where he has full control to create his own story. He really, really doesn't want a story told to him, or an experience meticulously designed for him to go through in a specific manner. Doesn't matter how good it is. Again, that's fine because everybody has their preferences. It's not a solid foundation to critique anything, though. Essentially, Arin makes the mistake that separates good critics from bad ones. He Judges a game based on what it is vs what he wants it to be, rather than how well it achieved what it was actually trying to do. He criticizes Ocarina for being less open than the previous games, and for telling you where to go, completely dismissing the fantastic art, music, deeper combat, and dungeon/puzzle design. The combat makes him wait a little bit, so it's worse even though it's better (what?). The puzzle elements don't all fit in your eyeballs at once, so the puzzles are worse. Does he lack object permanence? The disparate puzzle elements and vertical, layered dungeons of Ocarina are precisely why those puzzles are more satisfying to me. You had to actually remember shit as you went along, trying to keep everything that you knew did something in mind while you saw new things that, might, have a connection with it. Most importantly, it doesn't let him wander around an over-world forever, trying to find the next dungeon and discovering secrets that rely on sheer luck to find, so it's not as good as the the first game, or even LTTP. To him, player discovery and agency trumps everything. Which is totally fine, as long as he knows it's a preference and not an objective quality upon which to critique a game, which...he doesn't always seem to. Certainly not in this video.

so ocarina of time is why im more patient then my siblings

every now and then i come back to this video and mini series

9:11 Arin fighting the clam: “it’s not very hard to do!” Me: OH IS IT NOT, ARIN????

"GUESS GOOFY'S WEIGHT. WIN A PRIZE!' "120 lbs?" "No. *'s too low."*

So many years later, still watch this from time to time.

12:57 You SEE that shit. OOOOOOPS

I love Ocarina of Time as much as the next guy, but every piece of criticism Arin gives is absolutely correct. It doesn't mean it's any less of a good game. Every game has flaws. Appreciate Arin for having the balls to point it out. This was an extremely interesting and informative video.

Okay, I've often called Ocarina of Time one of my favorite games of all-time, BUT there were a LOT of very valid points made in this video. I'm not going to defend them, but the thing is, any film professor will tell you, "You can't take a film out of its time." And to a certain extent, the same can be said about a lot of video games. Not all of them, but a lot. 1998 was still during a shift in the spectrum, companies were still learning how to go about the new world, like 3D movies were a little while ago. Companies weren't sure how to go about things, so a lot of design choices were borrowed from actual film (see Twilight Princess). And it was the first one. But my fondest memory of Ocarina of Time, was fighting Ganon. As a child, the scale of everything was so epic, and it wasn't clear what to do right away, as there was no clear "dunegeon item" to use. There was every item you collected throughout the game and had to figure out how to do it. THEN, the ONE THING that was always constant was taken away: your sword. You had to get creative and really think about how to win. That is why Ocarina of Time stood out. It was the lasting impression I was left with. I wasn't thinking about the water temple and all that bullshit after beating Ganon. I just knew, I beat Ganon, it was an awesome fight and I had a huge sense of fulfillment for doing it. Yes, it's about time to break down OoT critically, because Nintendo fell into a slump of getting very formulaic since then. But since A Link Between Worlds, it makes me think Zelda could be headed back in the right direction again. But as I started, you can't take some things out of its time and looking at what Ocarina of Time did in its own time, it was a huge achievement. Ocarina of Time isn't perfect, far from it as pointed out here, but it is definitely one of the most memorable experiences I had playing a game as a child.

My favorite part of Game Grumps was when Arin died repeated to a Shell Blade in the water temple and ragequit Majora's Mask cuz he couldn't beat Gomess. :)

All I ever got out of this is that Arin has ADD and doesn't know that deku nuts are a thing.

I may have just stood up and applauded that rant about Skyward Sword.

Every Zelda fan ever: (including me) "THE FIRST ZELDA I PLAYED WHEN I WAS 12 YEARS OLD IS THE BEST!" "NO, THE FIRST ZELDA I PLAYED WHEN *I* WAS 12 YEARS OLD IS THE BEST!" So I have accepted the fact that all Zelda games are outstanding in their own right. The person who says the best Zelda game is ____ and is better than ___ means absolutely nothing and is going to change nobody's opinion anymore.

If there’s a hazard moving in a defined circular pattern and it hits while you’re not paying attention to your surroundings that’s the game’s fault.

GUESS GOOFY’S WEIGHT. WINAPRIZE!

soooooo basically dark souls

Isn't it funny that Arin divided this video from the others in the series by grouping the other three in a playlist called season 1? That means he wanted this to be the start of another season! There might of been more!

the best "oops" sound effect I've ever heard

Hello, I come from the year 2020, it's 13:40 PM, Monday 1, February, And Egoraptor has finally uploaded a new sequelitis.

Oh God please make reviews on Demon's Souls, Dark Souls and Bloodborne. Fucking PLEASE.

I wonder how much of this he still stands behind

Arin they added a goron that helps you fight

Man, it has been 5 years since the last Sequelitis. The one he's working on now must be crazy if it's been 5 years in the making!

"there is SO MUCH... goddamn WAITING... in Ocarina" But Arin, deku nuts.

I see now why this is the last sequelitis. Way to drop the ball here.

love this video! cant wait for you to make another one

i really wanna see him do another one of these about BoTW now

"You should never, ever, ever, ever, ever reach that point where you're like ah I'll check that room later----IN A GAME ABOUT CHECKING ROOMS"

I first played ocarina of time when i was 14. I've been gaming since i was 7 and i can confidently say, besides Minecraft for the memories i have with it, Ocarina of Time is my favourite game and has been for years. Ive since played TP and SS, and currently playing ALTTP, but OOT i still replay to this day with randomizers and such, its so much fun! And has a great story and soundtrack.

i love this so much this is the 4th or 5th time ive watched it but everytime it just gets me hooked

While a lot of Arin's observations about game design make sense......you just know that if he WASN'T given those specific instructions and locations on the map he'd be going "WHICH WAY DO I GOOOO? WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DOOOO?"

" buttface, you have fully matured as an adult." 20:44 HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!

Man, wish he could make more of these...

19:06 well, would you look at that Arin. Tears of the Kingdom made it real 🎉

"That'll let you know when new Sequilitises are coming out" best joke of the video.

If this is truly his opinion, he is going to love Breath of the Wild

"You can click that subscribe button, and that'll let you know when mote Sequelitises are coming out." [Last online: 7 years ago]

I just realized that the Test of Strength shrines are kind of like the Iron Knuckle fights

How Breath of the Wild is fixed 4:52-Breath of the Wild let’s you take full advantage of the 3D space, allowing you to climb almost surface or glide practically everywhere. Also link can jump for the first time in 3D Zelda. 7:02-Now you can change the camera angle freely. 7:14-You can either actively search out enemies to fight to get the treasures in their camps, or they serve as obstacles to your exploration. 8:20-Enemies can now do a lot of the these Link can do, like using the same weapons, jumping, dodging, using shields, and shooting arrows, which creates a balance between the environment and the player. And you can see how much health they have left, so you know how long the battle will take, and you don’t even have to finish the battle to progress most of the time. 9:53-You can now use your surroundings to your advantage. You shoot down lanterns to set off explosive barrels, drop down boulders from above, find strategic cover, swing around metal objects as weapons, or knock enemies off of cliffs. 11:30- The shrines in Breath of the Wild are all about puzzle solving, and similar to what Egoraptor was talking about in his Megaman Sequelitis, they teach you how to solve them and teach you the mechanics of the game without anyone having to tell you. 13:10-Traversing obstacles feels way more realistic and perilous now with Breath of the Wild’s real physics and 100% open-worldness. 14:05-You now have an infinite amount of bombs, and you can choose when they go off, and whether they should roll around or stay in one place. 14:50-Chests are now opened immediately with no build up. The only build up is whenever you get a new rune, and that’s only ever going to happen a total of 4 times in the first couple hours, and then never again. 16:46-Even if there is long cutscenes, there are hours of pure gameplay in between. 18:00-The bosses in Breath of the Wild are a bit more along the lines of games like Dark Souls, but the item you use can help the battle be easier instead of it being required. So you can kill them in any way you want. 19:05-Holes in the ground are replaced by the shrines, which are all unique mini-dungeons that teach you the mechanics of the games and give you worthwhile treasure, and are fun to search for and find. 20:00-The story is VERY present in Breath of the Wild, and it’s fantastic. BUT, more importantly, it doesn’t restrict your gameplay in any way other than being confined to the first area. But that first area is already bigger than literally the entirety of Ocarina of Time. 21:40-The game and story are paced so that by the time you want to go start exploring the next area, it’s already what you’re supposed to do anyway, and even if can’t go there yet, there’s still plenty for you to do in the areas you CAN enter. 22:18-Link can now climb practically any natural or textured surface. 22:34-After a couple of hours, you can actually go straight to the final boss if you wished. Anything involving in the main quest after that point is more of a suggestion, meaning that no one is forcing you to follow the game the way it’s meant to be followed. 23:23-The ability to explore is triggered by exploring. 24:21-Nintendo has gone on record several times saying that Breath of the Wild is all about revisiting the roots of Zelda. And that’s exactly what they’ve done. 25:09-Nintendo has gone through a lot of effort to keep us in the dark about a lot of things in Breath of the Wild, and going into as soon as it launched, practically no one knew what was going to happen right from the get go. 27:52- The runes in Breath of the Wild replace items and can be used to manipulate the environment to fight enemies, and all weapons have other uses like starting fires or cutting down trees. In Conclusion, Breath of the Wild is probably the best game Nintendo has made so far, and undoubtedly the Game of the Year. P.S- Hyrule Warriors is really fucking fun

as I rewatch this today, I wonder how blissful and liberating Egoraptor might have felt when playing Breath of the Wild - it basically responds to all of his critiques about Ocarina of Time's 'open' world

I am a big fan of Arin Hanson whoever there is something that must be said of this video. This is just Arin being biased. He obviously likes a link to the past better since by his own words he hates being told what to do in game. A link to the past is arguably worse since they straight up tell you which one to go next while on ocarina of time its just the first 3 that get the railroady treatment. By his own critique of the game the original Legend of Zelda is the best game since you could go anywhere yet he keeps comparing it to a link to the past. Not to mention that he is obviously playing the game wrong. The closest I would compare it to is to trying to play a Souls game with a shield, its doable but it will increase the waiting time longer since that time could've been used to advance the state of whatever fight you are currently doing. Sad thing is he will never read this since he has gone on record that he doesnt read comments anymore, but it had to be said. Thanks to whoever took the time to read this hope you had a nice day.

30:35 - This is my favorite joke in the video.

I have a feeling Arin is going to love Breath of the Wind

It's like Nintendo watch this whole entire analysis and taking their notes down. Then create Breath of the Wild.

I remember watching these late at night in middle school and high school simple times

Arin really sugested an escort mission as a way to improve OOT 😂

> Says each enemy is easy to battle > Is mostly/always near death in each scene