Video: What Would A 'Master Mode' In Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Be Like?

The Sky need more enemy, Dragon flyng around, Phantom Ganon appear 3,4 single time, More Lynel around each enemy base , More suprise Trap , All item getting expensive, inside cave more enemy.

Only one heart and death completely wipes your save file, Korok count included.

It's funny, I don't think I beat one Lynel in Breath of the Wild, but in Tears I've been harvesting them for bows and completed the floating coliseum last night with nary a scratch.

Took a long time to be in this position though, and I still don't feel overpowered/invincible like late game Assassin's Creed Odyssey or Cyberpunk for example.

And still can't flurry rush to save my life.

Probably just like BOTW did master mode.

TotK feels very fair to me so I doubt I would play a Master Mode. I feel like the depths would be full of gloom hands every two seconds. The depths has enough stuff that wants Link dead in it as is.

@SearchingS Items getting MORE expensive? No thanks.

Its already quite challenging in a chore-like kind of way. They more than doubled down on breakable weapons, crafting obviously (though I like some of the new changes, ultrahand, etc.), and the clothes thing... and very difficult enemies, more slippery than ever brutally timed rain storms, if you ask me. I prefer exploring and a less chore-feeling and if they keep on this route, I am out on the next one moving forward. I think it could be more fun and playful vs dreadful at times.

A master mode would be good for those that like Souls games... but never ever would be played by me.

I dunno to what extent they intend to add DLC to TOTK compared to BOTW; but I do believe that no matter what, a Master Mode being added into TOTK is inevitable and will happen, even if they have no other DLC intentions this time.

I want a horde mode. Like when the blood moon occurs, endless enemies spawn until morning of the next day. Link must fight or flee. Villages are the only safe areas.

The weather does affect the Sky Islands, though. At least I remember it being cold over Hebra.
@Axecon
That would be a great idea, but makes me wonder how it would affect to the performance.

@Ploppy ya i think is too over for that

Make it so that any other person within your sight will run up to you and start prattling on endlessly, telling you that you still haven't defeated the pirates at Lurelin Village, and asking you if you think their relatives are alright. The difficulty level will be how much A-Button mashing your right joycon can take before it explodes.

I don't know, frankly.

The original Zelda's Master Mode set an unrealistic precedent for what a Master Mode should be, significantly shaking up the game, the layout of the dungeons, the location of items, etc. Ocarina of Time enjoyed the same treatment, though I haven't played that yet. (Would make a nice NSO treat, Nintendo...)

But Breath of the Wild's Master Mode, to be honest, kind of sucked. Battles in these new Zelda games can already get tedious and protracted enough unless you're playing at a very high level or, in Tears, building flying fortresses of doom. So adding regenerating enemy health and higher enemy tiers with even spongier HP counts is... not ideal.

I have no idea, it's already hard as it is for me but I still haven't done much more of the main storyline so I know the rest of the abilities will make it easier.

Oh, but I find games harder than top players and some other players usually. But the depths is at a higher difficulty than I thought Nintendo would do already. (In a positive way I think. For myself anyway).

I'm expecting a Hard Mode to come though.

you know wat would be scary for master mode they bring back dead hand from ocarina of time and has gloom hands attach to it and it flys.

I really want a master mode, TOTK is my favorite game, but its just not hard enough after you beat it.

Soulslike Tears please.

I really enjoyed Master Mode in the first game but I don't know if I'd be down for playing it in this one. TotK is quite a bit more difficult than BotW already, at least from my perspective, so I think added difficulty on top of that would be overkill for me. Although, I will say, I do miss the golden enemies.

One change I'd make is that light roots don't fully illuminate the Depths, so they're still mostly dark even late-game.

The whole game should be slightly altered- changing major item locations like in Ocarina of Time and significantly increase the difficulty and damage.

I feel like I got very overpowered around mid-game in TOTK but I was also collecting everything and doing every shrine I came across. I dird a couple times in the beginning but after 100 more hours I never died again. A master mode would really need to rework some stuff.

@Beaucine I did play OOT Master Mode and it was awful. It just felt unnecessarily complicated to the point where the game did not flow. There would be things like shootable eyes or switches hidden in very weird places and even bizarre things like cow switches (like a cow literally stuck through a wall that worked like a shootable switch).

Botw master mode was cool, I did enjoy the difficulty ramp except for the trials of the master sword which just became too geeky for me (they required very specific weapon and action combinations in order to beat).

Other master modes like TP, skyward sword and Link between worlds felt like good master modes (harder enemies and no spawning hearts).

With TOTK, I really enjoyed the game, but I've put so many hours into it that idk if I would do it again.

BOTW's DLC was literally like Nintendo read my mind on what the game needed. For TOTK, I'm really not sure, all I can think of is bringing Guardians back, or making it feel like the depths aren't just giant wastelands of boredom. As for a Master Quest, I honestly don't care. TOTK already feels a little more tedious than BOTW. I would hate for the enemies to become damage sponges.

Not a big fan of BOTW's master mode turning some of the enemies into HP sponges. I would prefer other ways to improve difficulty, like more enemies or tougher AI aggressiveness. I love survival modes where enemies only take a few hits to kill, but so do you. No room for error, every moment could be deadly if not taken seriously. Always outnumbered.

On the flip side, I would appreciate a postgame Light Mode, set after you've beaten the game and wiped away all the enemies. No enemies in sight, just a pleasant world of Hyrule to explore at your leisure, taking photos, solving puzzles, chatting with villagers, taking Zelda or any other NPC along with you just like the story quest mechanic, etc.

Master mode should come in the same DLC as Sheikah tech if they bring it back.

Guardians should be in the depths and enemies could be gloom covered when not in sunlight(night time and caves would get a decent difficulty boost)

Zonai enemies should have more advanced weapons such as ones with elemental effects right from the start. Maybe even a new discharge that acts as an elemental explosion if you’re too close when they are defeated at the end of their death animation.

Trial of the sword located at the zonai temple of time would be awesome if it unlocked after getting every sage. Then it could have a boss at the end of every 20 rooms

No regenerating enemy HP, please. I'm already annoyed at armored Lynels. Adding regenerating HP to that would just be overkill.

I’ll play the game after Master Mode comes out. Super-challenging was Breath of the Wild at its best.

Waiting for master mode to start on Tears, since I'm sure you'll have to start a new file like in BotW. Not a kid any more, I've got one playthrough in me for such a huge game. Probably at least 4 years from a new zelda anyway so no rush.

TotK is a much better balanced game than BotW. I mean that's one of the areas where it really objectively crushes its predecessor. So I don't think it really needs a hero mode. I'd rather get new harder quests for the main game. Plus I hated the regenerated lifebars in TotK.

I loved botw's mastermode and would like to see totk with similar changes such as golden enemies and some kind of improved version of the floating enemy platforms. They could put either a gleeok or a gloom spawn in the starting area

As some of you might have heard. There isn't going to be any dlc for TotK. This really upsets me since Master Mode is the only way to get a second save file for these games. And I really want to replay the game at a higher difficulty without having to sacrifice my main save file. How do we get Nintendo's attention about this. How do we make this happen? It's such a staple of the series.