New Video! Why The Depths Are Tears of the Kingdom's Best New Feature (ad-free!) (Patreon)

Hey everyone!

Just letting you know that the new video is now available for patrons, ad-free of course! It'll be going up for the public tomorrow!

Anyway, onto the video! It's another analysis piece on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, this time focusing specifically on what I believe to be its best feature - The Depths - despite this restrictive, hostile environment seeming to go against the airy sense of freedom that so characterises the game otherwise. Through discussion of the mechanics of these dank, dark caves (as well as looking into what makes caves so compelling in real life), I'll lay out why I think that The Depths make moment-to-moment exploration meaningful in a way that the world above can't match—turning every step taken into a game of tense decision making, leading to some of the most exciting emergent storytelling moments I've had across Tears of the Kingdom.

Once again, a fun one to make! This was really a deliberate exercise in cutting my script down to its purest form—original script was about three times the length. Hard to convey through video alone, but sometimes it takes way more effort to make a shorter thing than a longer one. I enjoy the challenge!

If you're not into Zelda, don't worry, this is the last video I'll be doing on the game for a good while at least. Got a bunch more videos coming up on various different games soon too, like that System Shock remake, Metal Wolf Chaos, Sleeping Dogs, Tony Hawk, Mad Max, The Last of Us, Like a Dragon Ishin... the works!

It's your support that allows all these ideas I have to materialise, and for me to explore them in a sustainable way. I will never not be grateful for that. You are all the best and I hope you're excited for this video, as well as for what's to come!

Thanks again,

Hamish

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