 Alright, let me get lazy for a handful of videos and just do some voiceover gameplay. I've had so many recordings of this video and like two others I wanted to do that fell through. It's kind of BS. I don't know what's going on with my computer is they can't edit anything that has my face on it. Maybe my face broke the camera. It's official. My face breaks cameras. But we're gonna talk about Breath of the Wild. So we got an update for the Breath of the Wild sequel. Believe it or not, we actually got an update about Breath of the Wild 2 today. Before I get into it, I want to remind you of both of our giveaways. So we have two giveaways going on. The first one is for a Switch Lite. And then two second-place winners will get a game of choice for Nintendo Switch. To enter that giveaway, all you have to do is go down in the description. 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Big news, right? Big, big, big news. News to be excited about because Age of Calamity is an official prequel. It is part of the Zelda timeline. It is an official prequel for Breath of the Wild. We finally get to see what happened 100 years ago. So right before the Calamity occurred, we finally get to see all the stuff that happened. We saw some cutscenes and some sparing moments and some references to it, but we haven't actually seen it. And I always wondered if we were going to visit that time period. I've also wondered if we were ever going to visit the time period before Skyward Sword. That hasn't happened, but it is what it is. We get an update about it today and this actually comes from the beginning of the video and it's important. We've got to pay close attention here. So here's what Agee Anuma said before he started talking about Age of Calamity. He says, we mentioned in June 2019, the Nintendo Direct presentation, he's talking about E3, that we had started development on the sequel to the Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild. Many people around the world are still playing Breath of the Wild. So I'd like to thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Everyone, thank you so much. Regarding the sequel, in order to make the vast world you've enjoyed exploring in the original game even more impressive. The team is working hard on its development, so you'll have to wait a bit longer before we can provide more updates. Now the key line in there is in order to make the vast world you've enjoyed exploring in the original game even more impressive. That's the key line here that gives us a development update on the game. For starters, this to me sounds like the game's coming next year. That's one thing. You can basically mark down 2021 as we're getting Breath of the Wild, the sequel Breath of the Wild 2 then. But there's some interesting information in here. For starters, did you guys know this is the first direct sequel to a Zelda game to happen within a reasonable development time that takes place in the exact same world? I have to say reasonable development time because technically A Link Between Worlds is a sequel to A Link to the Past and does take place in the same world, but there's like a 20 year gap in between the development of those games that almost felt like a remake at that point even though it's unique story, unique twist, all that jazz. But a lot of people kind of consider a spiritual remake even though it's part of the timeline. This is the first time like within a three to five year span like a normal video game development time that Nintendo has released a direct sequel for Zelda that takes place in the exact same world. Don't believe me? Put some perspective on this. So there's the Legend of Zelda followed directly by the Adventure of Link. The problem is even if it's the same Hyrule, which you can argue it is, maybe it even officially is, the presentation is so different in the Adventure of Link that the world feels completely different, right? It doesn't really line up. The direct sequel to Ocarina of Time. What happened with that one? Takes place in Termina, an entirely different place than Hyrule. Okay, what about the Wind Waker? That is a direct sequel in Phantom Hourglass. Yes, it takes place out in the sea just like the Wind Waker, but in a completely different part of the sea that has none of the same islands from the Wind Waker. So you don't revisit anything from the Wind Waker. It's a completely new area. Spirit Tracks followed that up in a completely new Hyrule. There you go. Totally separate kind of things. Obviously, we talked about the Link to the Past and the Link between Worlds kind of thing. You can bring up Triforce Heroes as well, which again takes place in a different land than the Link to the Past and the Link between Worlds, even though it's the same Link in terms of the timeline. Yada, yada, yada. There is an interesting conundrum with Oracle of Agents and Oracle of Seasons. Are they sequels to each other? I don't know. Are the games that take place at the same time? I'm not really sure how you want to do it. In the timeline, they're listed right next to each other, so I feel like they take place at the same time. But I don't know. That's kind of the one that's out there that like, they Pokemon Zelda for that. So thank you Capcom for doing that. The Minish Cap takes place in a different Hyrule. So yeah, it's very interesting to see that this is the first direct sequel Zelda game that actually does take place in the exact same world. So to do that, to make it more interesting, because it could be a little boring, re-exploring the same Hyrule, as awesome as that Hyrule is the Breath of the Wild. We've been exploring it for three years, right? We found almost everything there is to find. Every reference there is to reference, all that jazz, although, you know, Age of Calamity is going to add a spin to that because we get to see the world before it was ruined, and that's going to be really, really cool. Like seriously, even if you're not into Musso or Warrior style games, just seeing the world of Breath of the Wild before it was destroyed is worth it to me. I mean, that Hyrule Castle looks pristine. Anyways, so getting into the other part here, to talk about how they want to make it even more impressive. So I don't know what that means. Does that mean, you know, they originally were going to reuse shrines and decided, hey, we're not we're going to dump the shrines, or if we're going to add more shrines to the world, or are the shrines we have going to be the same, going to be completely different, like in the same locations, but completely different? What are we going to do with the visuals? You know, how can they be more visually impressive? And again, Age of Calamity might give us a better idea of that because the Breath of the Wild team directly worked on that game, or at least worked side by side with Koei Tecmo in the game to give story feedback and story details. And yes, they worked on the graphics as well. So they helped the game really feel like it's part of the Breath of the Wild universe. So I'm really interested to see what did they do to make it more impressive. What are they doing that when you boot up this game and you're running around Hyrule, you know this is Breath of the Wild 2 and not the original Breath of the Wild? What's the difference going to be? I have no idea. I mean, you can already climb anywhere. You know, I don't honestly know what they could do to make it feel different or make it feel more impressive. But that's not my job. That's Nintendo's job to sort out, hey, we're going to use the same world, but how can we make this world feel fresh again? It'll be interesting to find out. Obviously, one way to make it feel fresh again is to do a prequel. That's one reason why I thought maybe for part of the sequel you would revisit the past because that would be really, really interesting to revisit the past and see Hyrule before it was destroyed. Because again, then that is a world that's like almost freshly exploring it because we get to see what everything looked like before. But that's happening in Age of Calamity and they claimed that Age of Calamity is the only game that's going to be visiting the past. So that means the sequel is not going to be doing that. So I don't really know what they can do. Obviously, we think Hyrule Castle is either sinking into the ground or potentially you could argue it's rising up if there's like, I don't know, jets or something. It felt like an earthquake, like it was going to sink. But I don't know. There's going to be changes to the overworld that are going to be very, very interesting. Obviously, if you've seen the quote unquote true ending, there's two endings to Breath of the Wild, one of them that's considered the true ending, the 100% ending. And when you get to that ending, you realize there's more going on. Breath of the Wild doesn't end. There is something else to do after the game. They clearly built this game planning for the sequel. So that's one thing to consider when talking about making the world impressive and using the same world as Nintendo planned for this. So they planned for this before Breath of the Wild even came out. So it's going to be interesting to see what any of this means. Anyways, that's kind of it for the development update. I might have another video on this game coming tomorrow, potentially, because I have another interesting tidbit that I need to do some more research into to kind of see if it's worth talking about. And if it is, later this week is going to be really exciting. But yeah, for now, let's focus on Age of Calamity, which will probably be a game that we give away in the future. All right, folks, thank you so much for tuning in, and I'll catch you in the next video.