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Let's actually get into the brux of this video. I put timestamps. I hope you guys skipped around to the areas that you want to get to, including this one. And I am really frustrated. You know, player essence made a video earlier today talking about how Horizon fans are upset about Tears of the Kingdom, right? And honestly, he just referenced one fan. It's a fan I quote, tweeted myself in this fan over on Twitter again. I don't want to show his name or give him too much attention. But it's basically he said, Horizon Forbidden West is a better game than Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom. But you all don't want to have this conversation. And then obviously I said I'd like to have this conversation and player essence said the same thing. And the guy did actually respond to player essence and said Horizon Forbidden West is better in every way imaginable. Zelda's gameplay is nothing special unless you like your weapons breaking after three attacks. Also, I haven't seen a soul mention the narrative when talking on this game. And as I dove down the rabbit hole on Reddit and Twitter and other forums, it started to be obvious to me that there is a growing distaste for Tears of the Kingdom coming from an audience that I guess we should expect it to come from. But one that's just, I don't know why it exists. It's not like Zelda fans are going out of their way to attack Horizon Forbidden West or Spider-Man or Final Fantasy 16 or God of War. I mean, these games don't even cross our lips. We just don't talk about them at least in a general sense. I'm sure there are some Nintendo fans out there that maybe go out of their way to try to flame the fires. But it's weird because we don't go typically from what I can tell and I'm pretty heavily invested in the Nintendo community. We don't go out of our way to go after the other platforms. We just let them do their thing. Hey, if Xbox wants to have their games and buy Activision Blizzard, cool. Sony's got good stuff with Forbidden West, God of War. I've enjoyed a number of games on PlayStation 5, cool. And then, hey, we have our own thing going on over here with Nintendo Switch. We don't really go out of our way to put down other games to prop up ours unless we are poked and prodded like this person did on Twitter, poking and prodding player essence myself and many other Nintendo fans. And it's very interesting to me, thinking about how this consistently happens every time, specifically a new Zelda game drops. This happened back with Breath of the Wild in comparison to Horizon Zero Dawn at the time. Obviously Forbidden West came out last year. I look at how these fans attack Zelda and I think the one thing that keeps coming to my mind is jealousy. Jealous of the success of an IP that isn't on their platform. And maybe they think the IP would be significantly better on their platform. And if we're honest, yeah, tears of the kingdom would be 60 FPS and 4K on PlayStation 5. No doubt, especially with that development team behind it. But setting that aside, I think there's just an inherent jealousy. Like when you hear things like, oh, the weapon breaks after three attacks, sure, when you first pick up a stick, but they fixed it by adding fuse. And once you get that ability, it ain't no three attacks for any weapon to break. So I just kind of look at this from a flabbergasted point of view that I don't want to attack other games to make tears of the kingdom sound better, right? I don't wanna put down Horizon Forbidden West to prop up tears of the kingdom because I think tears of the kingdom can stand on its own. I don't think it needs to put other games down to justify how good it is. Because they are different games in different worlds with different narratives and different goals. Different visual styles, different development studios. Look, I don't think it's fair to directly compare because they're not attempting to do the same things. I just feel that it gets old watching the fan wars. That's really what this is, right? It's fan wars. Making this video is probably exactly what people like this person on Twitter and other places want me to do. They want me to make a big deal out of this. And it's really not. In the grand scheme, 10 plus million, 10.3 million or so people are playing tears of the kingdom or more, maybe 11, 12 million by now. We don't know, obviously, the current sales beyond launch weekend. But for most of us, none of this impacts our gameplay experience and it certainly doesn't impact mine. In fact, while I'm recording this video, Yulia is upstairs playing tears of the kingdom, discovering things and texting me, all these cool things she's finding that I haven't found yet. And I'm like, what? Are you serious? That's cool. And I'm sitting here like, yeah, but these guys talking on social media, I just can't get them out of my head. And that is a me problem. So what I want to note here to round out this video is one, maybe don't let these people on social media get to you. I shouldn't let them get to me. And two, I think it's just kind of sad that this is the reality of the world where we, some of us anyways, feel that in order to justify the things that we enjoy, we have to put down the things we maybe don't enjoy or the things other people enjoy to help justify our purchasing decisions. The only person you need to justify your purchase to is yourself. And if you're happy with your purchase, then it doesn't matter what anyone else says. Unfortunately, other people want to put you down for that decision because you don't agree with their opinions. It's all subjective anyways. Look, if you like Forbidden West better than tears of the kingdom, more power to you. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I disagree, but hey, you can disagree with me. Let me know your thoughts on this down in the comments below and I'll catch you in the next video.