What's Going on with the Great Plateau? HYRULE COMPARISONS

□ Did I leave out anything cool?

The royal claymore at King Rhoam’s grave is likely a reference to Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. His default weapon in that game is the Royal Claymore.

If the king can give you a paraglider, chop trees, and bake apples, I'm 99% sure he can hold a pen.

If you complete a side adventure called potential princess sightings. A yiga disguised as zelda is where you first meet Rhoam after exiting the shrine of resurrection. The yiga would mock link acting like Zelda has lost her memory similar to how link lost his.

The Korok puzzle at 10:48 is one where you have to ascend up through it

Seeing that the Yiga took over the place where Link starts BotW in TotK was like seeing that the Ballas took over Grove Street in GTA5

For whatever reason I was so obsessed with the front gate filled with water in BOTW, and thought about how cool it would be to drain it and walk through the gate at the bottom of the plateau. I was so happy to go back in TOTK and see that I could blow open the entrance way. It did not disappoint.

One thing I personally immediately noticed when entering the Temple of Time in TotK is that its unique music track from BotW was no longer there and had been replaced by the generic BotW ruins theme. I thought that was very odd.

I think the lack of monster presence is due to the Yiga clan. There's a diary in one of the depths bases that mentions that the monsters should be avoided due to their hostile nature, so I'm assuming that in their takeover of the Great Plateau (perhaps to look for clues in regard to the mine in the deoths right below it, or perhaps to prevent Link/ anyone fighting for Hyrule from being able to use the shrine of resurrection again) they basically just did a sweep of the entire plateau and eradicated all the monsters they could find. Kinda ironic how both the yiga clan and monster forces serve the same master and strive for similar goals of defeating the hero/ reviving the demon king but are still at odds with each other

another notable difference is that there's now a Gloom Spawn boss on the Plateau in Tears. Its just a little off from the Battle Talus and the Zonai Shrine putting it somewhere in the middle, which was definitely a jumpscare for me when I triggered it the first time.

I always got a weird feeling revisiting the great plateau in TotK, mostly of nostalgia, but something else feels off about it…

Also, at 12:30 boulder blocking the water, you can see the TOTK maps changing after you drained the water. Originally, the map had water, making it into a pond/lake, but once you drained it, the map was updated to show walkable land. :)

You know how those Ancient Shiekah Monks just disintegrate after Link completes their shrine in BotW? I have a theory that after Link completed all the Sheikah Shrines AND defeated Calamity/Dark Beast Ganon, then almost all the Sheikah tech, Divine Beasts, and shrines also disintegrated because their sole purpose was to help kill Calamity Ganon. I don't think the Ancient Sheikah (monks), who were the same ones that made the tapestry in BotW, actually knew of the real Ganondorf that's been sealed far beneath Hyrule Castle. They must've thought that only Calamity Ganon was the only big threat. So they made their entire plans and strategy around getting rid of Calamity Ganon and NOT Ganondorf. And in their plans, they probably included plans to disintegrate all their Sheikah technology once Calamity Ganon was gone as future proofing (or maybe as a failsafe). This theory would also explain why the Sheikah Slate from BotW is also gone (because it's an Ancient Sheikah tech) and why Purah Pad (a modern invention) replaces it in TotK.

The rusty sword on the Great Plateau is still there, is in the water, for me, it is a great detail

It's incredible how the Sheikah built the shrine of resurrection right below where Ganondorf murdered Sonia and transformed into the Demon King, it gives a lot of symbolism to the fight they had against the Great Calamity.

"You can't hold a pencil or a writing stick of any kind for the last 100 years." But like, man was cooking apples, hunting boars, giving away a warm doublet and the paraglider.

Interestingly, the shrines of light in the distant past (as seen in one of the tears) seem to be in the exact same spots as the Sheikah shrines from BotW

The jumpscare trying to go into the Forest of Spirits from the Riogok shrine... the gloom hands waiting

this is actually really cool to see botw and totk side by side, brings back memories

In general, BoTW and ToTK seem to focus on different set pieces of the world. Locations that had more importance in BoTW are different from the locations that ToTK emphasize.