What are your guyses thoughts about how Surface to Sky travel will work in Tears of the Kingdom? Let me know, I think there's a lot of amazing theories out there!!

I think that rather than “original position” objects will be able to be brought back to the last location where they were motionless. This makes things a lot easier from a development standpoint, and I think is much more likely from a gameplay standpoint as well.

So excited for Totk

Loved this analysis and I really liked the concept of seeing the chunks of rock falling from the sky!

I really hope this game gets as much hype as botw, there was absolutely nothing like it!

Let's hope they actually include the trailer song in the game this time

GUYS, HEAR ME OUT How about go to all the DIVINE BEASTS, find some of the CHAMPION'S remaining body parts and bring them back to life using REVERSE TIME ABILITY also turn GANON into baby using this ability and put rope on his neck? You know..killing thanos strategy in avenger endgame ? Yeah that ..

YAY my fav zelda channel covering TOTK

This is so cool

This is a really neat look! It's nice to see the mechanics analyzed like this. I recall it seeming like a lot of people didn't like how the newest trailer didn't show much gameplay, but I think this shows that with some thought, we can determine a good amount. (Even if it's still not fully satisfying for many.) Thanks for uploading!

I'm so excited for this game, I'm looking forward to discovering new things. I loved that in botw

uscing tears of the kingdom music for the intro i thank is better then before! great vid botw im a long time fan! BIG HYPE for totk!

I loved the Totk prequel.

love all the effort you put into these breakdowns

well, I think there is a lot of puzzle potential with the sky rocks. I also think a good chunk of the sky islands are going to work like the shiekah shrines in botw. each island is a little mini-dungeon you need to solve to get a reward. that's possibly what we saw in the trailer where link pulled out the master sword and collected that glowing gold thing. who knows maybe that glowing thing was a tear that could be used to upgrade something kind of like the orbs the monks gave us. I think quite a few of these islands are going to be entered by stumbling upon the rubble. and maybe you might have to use the sky rock on the ground, to solve some of the puzzles on the sky islands above or vice versa you could knock down a chunk of the sky island to fall on the ground to solve a puzzle down there maybe breaking a hole into a cracked part of the ground giving you access to a cave of sorts and then that same rock could be used as your way back up so we wouldn't just use them as a form of transportation but as a tool. maybe there could be a side quest where we turn a group of small sky islands into one big sky island attaching a bunch of sky rocks on the ground to the islands above.

I didn’t even notice the tail!! This is so cool I’m hyped :D

This might be somewhat random, but you are a really nice guy, and one of my favorite Zelda KZfaqrs! I love listening to your informed and detailed videos. Thanks for your effort and enthusiasm!

So insightful!!!

Do you think the time reversal rune will have a meter? Like with stamina. And as you progress more in the game, that meter wheel for time reversal becomes greater so you can get to "higher" (for example) areas?

Time reversal is my favorite gimmick in games. Like those timeshift stone in skyward sword

I'm curious about that large rune glowing on a rock outcropping at 6:42 When I saw that in the teaser trailer, I thought it was a possible landing point for the 'bird' Link summons

How do people manage to make such good totk videos so fast???

I’m so ready for your content on Totk

What my brain has been thinking is the green viles that link carries. I really do believe that will be used for the time mechanic. The more viles link has filled, the higher he can go on certain islands and the farther you can reverse objects. I can also see puzzles being used with this feature. We'll even see puzzles that we won't be able to complete since link would need more of the green viles filled up than what he has at the moment.

That stone chunk being perfectly between those four pillars tells me that it fell long, long ago, and that the Zonai built those pillars around it after it fell.

that's an interesting thought about the rock chunk from the sky, maybe they'll be an acces point to new sky island. or maybe they'll be shortcut for island you've already visited but you have to manually break a chunk of rock to create that shortcut( much like the tree trunk in SS)

Maybe the chunks are the new collectible like korok seeds. You have to find the missing pieces of islands and send them back up, similar to goddess cubes in Skyward Sword. Perhaps, once they are up they stay there, and the drop/phasing mechanic is how you reuse spots that you already found. When the piece returns to the sky it leave behind that little puddle that seems required to use the upward phasing power.

croton your are my favorite youtuber and i have a idea for your next theme run, you should do a goron run and a korok run.

Croton, I think around 5:35 you hinted at what maybe there could be so you DON'T have to see the piece fall from the sky, but simply a puzzle that, once you solve, it is clear the piece you need to reverse is right in front of you. Yet as we see in the trailer, some pieces, which are not in the same place in BOTW, are seemingly right out in the open, so not sure if there would be a puzzle or challenge to get to them and use them.

I can’t wait for TotK to come outttt 😃

I love the idea of things falling out of the sky for us to use, rather than random chunks that COULD be reveresed

cant wait

Skyward sword vibes :D

Another idea I thought about is.. what if when you’re traveling on one of those stones back up to the sky you are actually traveling back in time to when it fell. What if it fell a long time ago, and reversing the time you go back to when it was in its original place. It does look like there is an ancient link, and modern one. Maybe that is a way to travel through time. like pulling the master sword in oot. Idk just an interesting thought. Maybe that mechanic could have two uses, one like I’ve heard discuss where you can freeze and object and reverse it like we saw in the second trailer, then with objects that are fallen from the sky you can reverse the fall and go back to the time period with the object.

Stats of the Kingdom incoming

I think,to power the time reversal link's using the greenish-blue bottles on his hip that you can see at the 49th second in the latest trailer of tears of the kingdom so it's like the stamina bar of the time reversal power

What I am hoping to see in Tears of the Kingdom is the return of the Successors of Hyrule’s Champions(Sidon, Yunobo, Teba and Riju). Instead being sidelined, they should be fighting along side Link as each have build confidence & strength to defend Hyrule from the very threat each shared. Maybe on a side quest perhaps since Death Mountain is infested with Ganondorf’s malice. Also, the sequel of Breath of the Wild needs to confirm whether if they remember their victories from the Age of Calamity timeline since each are pulled to this reality to save this version of the Champions, Link and Zelda. Just like Ocarina of Time, changing the past can create two or three diverted timelines. It is complicated but time travel has always been a part of the Legend of Zelda lore.

this is fun to watch after the game has come out

Its time for the nerd outbreak! Really excited for this though and these are some interesting assumptions for these unique mechanics!

Just to think of some game mechanics for this, when fighting a talus, when they throw their arms at you you could send them back at them! Or if any enemy shoots a bomb arrow at you you could maybe shoot it back if your fast enough

Maybe Objekts that the time reversal can be used on look different than normal ones just like metal objects in botw

At this point I am honestly less interested in WHAT we are able to do and more interested to know if you get pretty much EVERYTHING during the tutorial as I was not a fan of BotW doing exactly that.

I am curious what exactly will be the trigger that makes the 'elevator' activate. I noticed that for the reversed time on the metal ball example we clearly see link raise his right hand and trigger it, however for the example of the 'elevator' all will see is that it starts to rise shortly before Link hops on it. There is not enough time before hand to see if it is Link that started it in the same way. I would expect a normal player to first get on the 'elevator' than activate it, which is not what we see. I am curious what your thoughts are on how that will work.

Funnily enough the falling rock parts are kinda implemented in XB3 right now where you can focus on the event happening by pressing ZR. And we know monolithsoft is helping with TotK right now so it's definitely a very good guess.

I’m glad they’re taking their time. I swear, if they had rushed, totk would never be as good as botw. I’m hoping it’s good !!

This is a great idea, I personally think the rocks will already be on the surface and then when Link uses the time reversal power it goes up to the island, Link will then have to climb to the island and because the rock isn't connected to the island it falls again after a set amount of time.

the music in the game is gunna bang S O H A R D

Due to watching this reverse stasis clip over and over again, I just realized something. The bokoblin on the right has a different horn. It looks taller, like it grew out more than the bokos we saw in BoTw

It should go without saying the time reversal will likely only apply to select objects or materials - reducing the amount of stuff he game has to keep track of the paths. And for how long does it remember the path? I doubt stuff will actively fall from the sky. But I do enjoy the notion going around that Link might have to repair the islands for some main quest.

what if the dragons that you get the scale from, you might have a chance to see it like how at the end croton pointed out a dragon tail

I am simply overwhelmed by this 'game'. It's so much more.

Hey I got an idea for a run you can do. “Only stable gear” Pretty self-explanatory. You can only use gear that you acquire from stables and you can only buy things from people at Stables HOWEVER. If you get a side quest that’s at a stable and the reward you get for it is somewhere else. (Ex. The treasure hunt quest at dulling peaks stable) Then you are allowed to use that gear. It may seem tough, But I have actually done it myself. I got to say I have a more profound understanding of every stable in the game now. It’s really cool and I would love if you did a video on it.

I kinda wish Zelda: TOTK would be like Genshin Impact where Nintendo would release new content/update every year continously. I don't mind paying for each yearly dlc if it means we don't need to wait 5+ years just for a new Zelda game. I just want the game to last long and have something to come back to every year. If they could add in an official Multiplayer mode like other games will be awesome as well. That way, I can play and explore the world with my friends like my childhood days.

I cant wait for Totk

4:42 or maybe there will be shrines and/or travel gates between all the sky islands

I wonder if we will have something like the Sheikah sensor where you can just be told if you are close to a piece of fallen island. Maybe your gauntlet twitches.... "Stop that!" -Link, lol

Yyaaaayyyyy I made it to the last stream!whoo

Oh this could work with the fragment/ ruins we saw in the e3 2021 trailer

I relized a few days ago that the person floating over the malice in the carvings might be ganon form the first trailer in the cave insted of zelda bc they are in simular poses.

i cant wait for tears of the kingdom

I’m so excited for TOTK if it’s not good I’ll probably continue playing the original botw and age of calamity

Hey Croton! I was wondering if you could do a soldier/knight only run in botw!

I got and played the DLCs 3 years ago and still have them, yet TOTALLY forgot about the falling armor. I just tend to get the masks and armor I know about near the beginning of the game and don't even bother with the DLCS quests. I was even like, "What??? FALLING ARMOR????" and then I watched some videos and barely remember doing those quests.

I'll show those developers...I just windbomb or BLSS to each island cluster! Bwhahahahaha! Oh wait, not only will there not be such glitches, I bet they will even put invisible barriers until you can fly between them later, as you said. Wind Waker barrier skip glitch finders, unite! lol

Perhaps you will be the cause of some of these blocks being dropped to the ground while you are "up there." While this would only allow you to islands you were already on, I'm sure there could be ways to knock blocks down from islands you cannot reach physically (bomb arrows?)

I noticed something in the logo, it's an oroboros, maby we were right and this game will be about link, Zelda, and possibly Gannon trying to break demis's curse

Did you see the big winged creature fly by when Link grabs onto the time-reversal object? It's a lot clearer than the fin by the island. It could be a dragon, or another mythical creature.

i like how in the real game these falling ruin rubbles are just everywhere and are in no way at all special.

The idea that the surface and sky islands would act a bit like a navigational puzzle sounds really interesting! How do you think they’re going to change the overworld though?

one way this could be used is towers falling down and you hop onto the rubble? reverse the gliders? use it to make enemys run away? what other ways can it be used in combat?

i tbh want to get with ist, hpe and that kinda stuff in botw done before totk comes out xd

This is such a good job, I'm marveled by the accuracy you relate mechanics and over world relations. Maravilloso trabajo

What if the sky islands are the islands found in the realm of twilight in twilight princess some how brought back to hyrule.

gahh the want to play through the game myself 100% blind (minus trailer info ofc) vs wanting to watch you play it to get some insight are fighting!!

Croton = smart

I hope they fix some of the mechanics like the gimpy master sword and bring back more of the old school mechanics

Bro The loftwing amiibo Might play a big role in this game?? Summon a mecha bird to fly on, idk

Desperately hope you get to ride the dragons in this one. Always wanted to tbh.

Butb how wil de champins powers work

The map will probably work with two. One being the sky and the other being the earth

Hey croton make a soldiers gear only run please

This has to be how we get up to certaib islands or dungeons

Hey croton ,what is that thing on link's hip

I haven’t been this excited since elden ring 🤧🤧

Hey croton make a soldiers gear only run please I’ve Been wanting to ask u this for a wiel but I was only able to watch KZfaq on a tv and could not chat I hope you read this comment I've been watching your channel for 4 years. I just got a phone because my birthday was 2 days ago. I love your videos keep it up.

Greetings from the BIG SKY. Tears of the Kingdom now faces an old man (73) that played the 1st zelda game. I guess my heart is weaker than it was 20 years ago.

No one talking about how the bokoblins have horns

theme run idea: beating Botw with only guardian weapons. aka ancient battle axe and its upgrades. guardian sword with upgrades. and guardian spear with upgrades. ik its similar to the ancient run but the guardian weapons break extremely quick but then again u can farm them via test of strengths and blood moons.

I don’t think something will fall in front of players. It may have some sheikah sensor thing going on. If you go close or in direction of fallen things we will get sound/ visual indications.

I think you might be over complicating it when it comes to the ascending rocks. I feel like whenever the islands float up at the beginning of the game, it will show a bunch of them fall during a cut scene, similar to all the towers going up at the beginning of the first game. As you pass through the world, you would just turn on whatever the new stasis skill is in order to see what rocks can bring you up to the sky. I think you'll just find them out in the world and not necessarily see them falling constantly.

Zelda Theories I would say it is tears, as in teardrops, not tearing/ripping because of how they drop "Tears of the Kingdom" when dropping the title name; it just sounded like a falling tear. I also believe that there will be at LEAST 8 MAIN dungeons. Why? Each tear will need to be collected from its respective dungeons, and the 8th one is the final boss, so no tear collecting is necessary. I also believe the tears will act as a magic meter. Time reversal length will depend on how many tears you have collected, a perfect way to restrict areas in an open-world game. AND… could tears mean what has the Kingdom of Hyrule done themselves to preserve the peace in the past before the very first calamity? Seeing how Ganondorf was preserved to ensure he won't be reincarnated is pretty morbid, but if you want peace, is it justified? What other questionable actions have they done before that? I cannot wait to find out.

While I do think there will likely be rock falling from the sky events to witness to prompt or lead the player, it is far more likely that reversible items can simply be detected, with a yellow overlay, just like items that Link could use stasis on in BotW. So one need not witness an event to have a chance to find a time reversible item.

Who says the flying bird-shaped object is going to be a general means of traversal for Link? We always lack context when we watch trailers before a game comes out, and this could just be a magical platform that pops out to move Link along a pre-defined path as part of a scripted event. I always thought, it looked rather strange for a vehicle, as it lacks any steering or safety features, and as we now know, we will be able to glue together our own flying vehicles from individual parts, so I suspect that this bird-shaped object is not going to become one of Link's regular tools.

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The Stasis in BotW had two phases: "point" (when you activate it) and "click" (when you catch the object and "freeze" it). I think that the "Time Reverse" rune could work in a similar fashion, with the rewind timespan being the time between "pointing" and "clicking".

Do a hyrule only run

@croton Soldiers only run pleaseeeeee

Woah cool and first!

V cool

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