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I've heard some whisperings about this game behind the scenes, but I am never really comfortable with the sources quote-unquote I have to come forward with things because I like to get verified from multiple places, and the things I'm hearing are just coming from like single sources in different places, no one's corroborating anything. So I just kind of let it go unless I hear something else. And what happened is over the weekend, my good friend Game Over Jesse came out with an interesting video and essentially confirmed a bunch of things that I've been hearing. And today, we're going to be talking about how there's a new mode in Breath of the Wild 2, the sequel. There's a change to weapon durability, those are like the two big things we're going to touch on, and potentially a new enemy being added to the game, a new enemy type, of course there's going to be new enemies in the game, it's a new game, they're going to put new enemies in, but this one kind of back in, you know, goes back to Ocarina of Time. So let's get into it. So as I explained my game over Jesse, and he has sources directly connected to Nintendo, like literally one of them is a Nintendo employee. That's all I can really say on that front, he's not revealing much more than that. It's that Breath of the Wild 2 is going to have a new mode. And that new mode is going to be an easy mode. Now in the past we've seen master modes and hero modes and all of these more difficult modes, some of them added with amiibo, like the Ganondorf amiibo and like Twilight Princess HD, all the way to master mode in Breath of the Wild. Obviously we've had modes in the past on Twilight Princess HD, the Windbreaker HD, etc. There's been, you know, even even Skyward Sword, you know, I have one built built in. Obviously the last time we had to pay for it, this next time we don't, etc. So there's been a lot of different hard modes added and chances are I would assume there's going to be a hard slash master slash hero mode or something added to this game. But that wouldn't be a new feature. And wouldn't be worth talking about unless it's something that, hey, you could you could play that right away from the start or something, you don't have to beat it in normal mode or whatever. But we don't have any information on that front. Again, that mode is likely to exist. But this is a different mode than that. This is what's being called an easy mode. Now it's not going to be called an easy, you know, easy mode in the final version of the game or anything that or when it's even unveiled to us. But what it is, is it adds one major difference. And I'm actually surprised they don't just make this a toggle in the items menu, you know, or in the items menu in the menu of the game, the options menu, you know, it makes more sense as a toggle than a whole mode. But I guess this is to address a lot of complaints in Breath of the Wild. Now there's been numerous complaints about Breath of the Wild over the years, the game's massively popular, of course, there's going to be people finding things they don't like about it. And one of the major criticisms really dating all the way back to the E3 2016 demo is item durability. No, the durability system isn't going away for those that were hoping it might maybe let us vanish because it's a core component to how the open world works and how combat works in Breath of the Wild. But what easy mode does do is make all of the items more durable. I believe something around twice the durability, however, the exact amount is more durable isn't fully known because it hasn't been fully tested. But the idea is that items are much more durable and much harder to break. Now there are certain things like wooden shields and stuff like that, you know, if they get lit on fire, they're still gonna, you know, burn and go away just like they always have in Zelda games. But in general, you know, if you're whacking someone with a stick, that stick's gonna last twice as long. And the idea behind this is to keep your favorite weapons around even longer and lower the barrier of entry for new players. Now, honestly, it's funny that to talk about this as a lowering the barrier of entry for new players because I don't think the durability system is about new players. I think it's just people that don't like or think that the durability of the items are, you know, aren't as strong as they should be, you know, that a steel sword should last a little longer than it does in this game. So the idea then is to offer this easy mode that makes things more durable and it does not affect enemy damage to you. It does not affect your damage to other enemies. It doesn't affect the game in any other way. It's just a mode that enables you to have better weapon durability. So this might become the default favorite mode for a lot of people who really, really detest the current weapon durability system in Breath of the Wild. Now again, this is just for Breath of Wild to the sequel. It's not being added to the original game, but it is a change nonetheless. Now, it doesn't mean there can't be other changes in the game, of course. And this part gets into a little bit of speculation, but you guys remember like the champions weapons, how they like can break and then be reforged or repaired. It's possible that that could be done in this game too. Again, more speculation than anything else. But if they're obviously looking at weapon durability and trying to improve that for the people who are complaining about it, while normal mode is going to keep weapon durability the same as it always was, it's possible they're also looking at ways for certain items to not be breakable, or if they are breakable, that they're able to be reforged or repaired. I think earnestly a reforging system is the real answer to weapon durability because there's people that have their favorite weapons and they break and it's hard to get that weapon again. Maybe the ability to reforge it could be something that they could look into like they did do with the champions weapons. But just something for Nintendo to maybe consider in the future now. The other part of all of this is a rumor that's supposedly going up today and I'm calling these rumors for my sake because I can't verify this information, but where it's coming from in game over Jesse, I inherently trust him wholeheartedly. He has been spot on with a lot of his leaks, a lot of his things like you know he said there'd be three different Zelda games talked about at E3, this last E3 and there were cadence of Hyrule, Link's Awakening, Breath of the Wild 2. He knew about that before it happened and that's because he has connections. He has literally had all the major voice actors from Breath of the Wild on his podcast. He has interviewed people from Nintendo. He has connections believe it or not and because of that I fully trust him. He is someone I've worked with directly in the past both as a YouTuber. He's been in our podcast. I've worked with him at other Zelda sites in the past. Zelda Informer and Zelda Dungeon and Universe, those were the trifecta, the triforce of Zelda sites out there. I literally trust this guy with anything that comes to Zelda info because he does not put out things without having verifiable sources and well I can't verify these sources. I trust him in who he says these sources are. Now this next one about an enemy, this one is not as set in stone. He's only had one source on this so if he does put out a video on it today he's going to note that he's going to call this one a straight up rumor because he's not talking about the easy mode and the durability stuff is a rumor because he fully believes it and the people he's heard it from he's got multiple sources on it. This one he only has one so far so he's only going to kind of just mention that he knows about this but it might not be true and that is a new enemy type that comes from Ocarina of Time. Now at this point in time I could take some guesses he kind of hinted at it towards the end of his video but I'm not exactly sure what enemy it is. I don't know if we're talking about BMO so if we're talking about you know whatever because he kind of just shows the laser being shot from you know the in Breath of the Wild from those enemies and we don't know what that means and the other other enemies I can think of laser shooting from our BMOs so maybe that means BMOs are coming back or something. I don't know that'd be kind of cool I wouldn't be shocked or surprised at it it's just something that is to pay attention today so make sure you check our game over Jesse's channel later today as I'm sure he'll be dropping a video on it at some point and yeah I mean that that's really all I got for you besides just in general being hyped for Breath of the Wild too. Again we have a rumor of a direct coming this week from last week you guys remember my last Prime News episode there was a talk about a direct coming this week based on updates to the Nintendo Direct playlist in Japan there's been other rumors out there that Breath of the Wild 2 will be in this direct Breath of the Wild 2 will end up coming out this year that that's kind of floating out there it was also a rumor from about a month ago that Breath of the Wild 2 has been delayed until 2021 of course officially there's no delay because we don't have a release date it's still TBA in the financial reports but there's just a lot going on out there and the more and more I'm starting to hear much more trusted information about Breath of the Wild 2 the more and more I'm starting to believe yeah it really could come this year because if we're hearing this information now and they're talking about different modes in the game clearly the game needs to be at a state where it's coming close to completion coming close to going gold and that means a likely release date of this year so that's something to consider as well again you know that's speculative but I do believe when you hear about these kind of rumors and uh these rumors are from someone that I really trust this isn't Emily Rodgers this is someone I know I've met in real life I know this guy I know Jesse so I know that this isn't just BS he just throws out there and knowing this and trusting him and trusting this information makes me believe that 2020 is happening Breath of the Wild 2 is coming this year so um stay tuned because we're going to be talking about a lot of the Breath of the Wild sequel this year Breath of the Wild is my favorite game of all time I'm a Zelda guy you guys seem to really like talking about this Zelda stuff whether it's speculative or rumors or whatever um maybe I need to talk more Zelda at this channel it kind of gets back to my grassroots as a Zelda fan site owner and runner um it's a lot of fun I actually used to have a series called Zelda inquiries if you guys remember way back in the day shout out to anyone who remembers that uh but anyways you guys let me know what you think about this uh and if you want me talking about Zelda maybe once a week here so because man I do I love not just the news I just love talking Zelda I love talking future Zelda games uh so let me know what you think down in the comments below I am Nathaniel Robojans from Nintendo Prime I want to thank you so much for tuning in uh if you're wondering if there's going to be a prime news episode today the answer is unfortunately no um I had a scheduling conflict come up but there will be a new prime news episode dropping tomorrow I'm starting a regular schedule for it uh but once that schedule starts I'm sticking to it it hasn't officially started yet that's why I haven't announced anything uh but there should be a prime news episode tomorrow starting at a regular time uh more on that later be sure to enter our animal crossing new horizons give away about liking subscribing uh commenting and hitting that bell icon otherwise folks I'll catch all of you guys in the next video