#bc even in japanese he sounds rather .. standard villain

[ganondoodle]

another addition, again i dont agree with every single bit but its still a good video

(like the part about the sky, i find it almost as disappointing as the underground- almost bc i love the udnerground as a concept so im even more frustrated with how underused it actually is; i also dont think the constructs are that much of a good enemy addition bc they are really like .. mechanical bokblins; i also found minerus entire "dungeon", boss and ability to be pretty boring- theres also a longer intermission with just .. a pause? but the video goes on to talk about story after that- then talks alot about the voice acting .. the english one of course bc i guess people never try any other setting- espeically when you dont like a voice performance .. why wouldnt you try one of a different language, anyway, i skip through those clips bc i just ... cant listen to them, every single one is mediocre to bad and idk why bc in so many english films its not like that..)

this next one is much longer and more like a guy narrating over their gameplay and what they thought at that time- its less well structured but found it neat to listen to anyway (the chapters on the video only go halfway for some reason so the part labeled -puzzles- isnt all about puzzles actually and stretches to the far end and talks about alot of stuff)

but theres some weird things they mention like ... ganondorf being "clearly" the one from oot ...? which isnt true at all? and more stuff thats just kinda wrong (like the garden of time is not skyloft ... or the shiekah hating the sonau bc in botw the barbarian set called them "barbaric" when the shiekah didnt even exist in that way during that time, at least in what we know of the very long ago past of totk .. which isnt much tbh, and also its a pretty clear retcon with no actual significance imo, i dont get where they got the idea from that the shiekah called them that bc im pretty sure the armor set is the only lore we really had about them and the armor descriptions arent written by the shiekah .. are they? ... anyway, theres little weird things but overall found it ok to have on in the background)

so im not sure if anyones interested, but, i went through quite a bunch of totk critiques by people who were also very disappointed with it and thought id share my favorite videos i found (granted, i only really wachted those that youtube recommened and its mostly .. white men... things like the orientalism problem are not mentioned at all for example, maybe ill update this post if i find any more diverse voices)

i dont agree with every single point and also dont know most of the channels (aside from the big zelda theory guys) so i judged solely by what they mentioned in those videos and the quality of it (like the audio .. bc i cant listen to bad audio)

in no particular order, also they talk about or use footage of the literal ending stuff so if you arent done with the game yet, better leave these for now

(the following one is a podcast thing by multiple zelda theory guys, there some stuff you can skip at the start thats just kidna random things, but the video is marked with chapters)

(theres some mention of some things not making sense, like the sonau only being two, and ithink thats kinda bc the english translation was weirdly vague about that, in the german version its much more directly said that they all died out and only rauru and mineru were left of them;

also mentions of how unfitting it is to call the enigma stones "secret"stones in english might come from a similar thing; in german they where called "Mysterienstein" which would be translated as mystic/mysterious/enigma- stone

just wanted to mention that since the vast majority are gonna play it in english only and the stuff online is also dominated by english)