The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

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  1. Suzki
    May 17, 2023
    10
    It's a well performing game considering what it's running on and what you're able to do in it. Sure it's obviously a sequel to BotW, but the experience feels brand new. There are new enemies, places to explore, characters to meet... If you loved BotW you will love this one as well.
  2. Aliasing
    May 17, 2023
    10
    Un juego que aprovecha las mecánicas del juego anterior a la perfección y mejora aspectos faltantes del título anterior, las mecánicas nuevas ofrecen un aire fresco a la saga además de ser toda una travesía el explorar el nuevo hyrule, sin duda un juego increíble
  3. BoskoAcid
    May 17, 2023
    10
    Un des meilleurs jeux auxquels j'ai pû jouer.
    Etant un grand fan de Zelda depuis Ocarina Of Time j'en attendais beaucoup de cet opus.
    Je remercie nintendo d'avoir écouté ses fans et d'avoir enfin créé le Zelda ultime avec une liberté extraordinaire et une logique de jeu très intéressante avec un doux mélange entre la totalité des zelda selon moi.

    Merci pour ce jeu fabuleux ! 10/10
  4. Uranio
    May 17, 2023
    10
    Si bien se dice que las segundas partes nunca serán mejores que las primeras, este juego rompe con esa regla totalmente
  5. Lunacat
    May 18, 2023
    10
    This game is so much fun I can hardly put it down. I feel like a hero everywhere I go in the game whether it's spelunking, launching into the sky, or just exploring the very familiar but in a lot of ways different map of Hyrule. It's Breath of the Wild but so much better, it's insanely creative and the physics of how everything works is amazing. Nintendo created a game that is the veryThis game is so much fun I can hardly put it down. I feel like a hero everywhere I go in the game whether it's spelunking, launching into the sky, or just exploring the very familiar but in a lot of ways different map of Hyrule. It's Breath of the Wild but so much better, it's insanely creative and the physics of how everything works is amazing. Nintendo created a game that is the very definition of F around and find out and I am living for it 10/10 my goty.… Expand
  6. Frobot
    May 18, 2023
    10
    Best game I've ever played, improved every way from BOTW which i didn't think was possible!
  7. Esdapox
    May 18, 2023
    10
    This game…… Is PERFECTO! Sure its called “the botw sequel” and “worse botw” but i dont care! I have played this game for 5 days and i love it! New fusion ideas and korok torture makes this game fun! 3 maps to explore sky, earth and underground with so many features! Seariusly what are you waiting for get the game! And for the people who want to torture koroks! Dont forget to play dorime onThis game…… Is PERFECTO! Sure its called “the botw sequel” and “worse botw” but i dont care! I have played this game for 5 days and i love it! New fusion ideas and korok torture makes this game fun! 3 maps to explore sky, earth and underground with so many features! Seariusly what are you waiting for get the game! And for the people who want to torture koroks! Dont forget to play dorime on loop!… Expand
  8. kskawa
    May 18, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The perfect game, loads of mechanics and incredible creativity Definitely the game of the year.… Expand
  9. The_legend72
    May 18, 2023
    10
    Gameplay 10/10
    Story10/10
    Map10/10
    Graphics10/10
    Character10/10
    Skill10/10
    Ability10/10
  10. Alakath
    May 18, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is the best game I have ever played. Totk takes everything that made botw great and further improves on it. *SPOILER WARNING*
    (this game is played best without knowing too much. Don't read too many spoilers and thank me later)



    An open world map? how about three. Also the characters are way more involved with the plot and story than they were in botw. This makes the world feel much more alive. Even the little side characters are interesting. I especially love this random farm lady who wants your help getting back a bottle from a lake. I thought this was just a normal fetchquest for some rupees, so i got her the bottle. Inside it was a recipe for.. cheese. Things happened and now her farm turned into a cheese shop. She sells cheese now. CHEESE! By the way, you can fuse any objects together. its really fun. And as you can probably already tell: I am the proud owner of the cheese sword now.

    Oh and for everyone who hates fun: don't worry, the game can go from completely silly to eldritch horror real fast. There is a whole underworld to explore and it scares the **** out of me. I am completely blown away by this game and the amount of things it has to offer and how huge the world is. I've put maybe 50 hours into it by now and only explored maybe a quarter of the map.    … Expand
  11. Yoytu
    May 18, 2023
    10
    Esta to guapo puedes hacer un muñeco que saque fuego por el pene simplemente épico esto si es cine
  12. Azy1e
    May 19, 2023
    10
    While it might not have the same impact BotW did, TotK is a better game is basically every way and a game that really lets players be as creative and free as they want for the most part. The bottom line is the game is fun to play and explore through and was clearly up to the challenge of surpassing the incredibly high bar BotW left it. We live in a good time-line where we get these gamesWhile it might not have the same impact BotW did, TotK is a better game is basically every way and a game that really lets players be as creative and free as they want for the most part. The bottom line is the game is fun to play and explore through and was clearly up to the challenge of surpassing the incredibly high bar BotW left it. We live in a good time-line where we get these games and others like Elden Ring.… Expand
  13. wallacq
    May 19, 2023
    10
    As much as they say it's a copy of BOTW, I completely disagree.
    A new game, new dynamics, new skills and despite being the same map, the locations and structures have changed a lot.
    I am particularly delighted, playing TOTK has been very pleasurable and I have enjoyed every second of the game.
  14. CrazyCam88
    May 19, 2023
    10
    Awesome! Game is so much fun and brings everything from BOTW and adds way more. Feels like a Zelda game and highly recommend!
  15. Nellwyn
    May 25, 2023
    10
    Excellent Sequel, it does everything BOTW did but better.
    The world feels more alive than any other Hyrule.
  16. Hyrule-plaz
    May 22, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Awesome Creativity!!They added the all new depths and the sky. My personal favorite is the rocket shield. 10/10… Expand
  17. Lilbabs
    May 24, 2023
    10
    The game was perfect for me, they improved in the boss fight by a ton the parallel was so good and perfect. 100% recommend
  18. Kihonachi
    May 24, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Das Game ist meiner Meinung das beste Zelda Game,
    die Kreativität und der Spielspaß ist unendlich.
    Das erste Game wofür ich gerne 70€ gezahlt habe     … Expand
  19. Silko
    May 25, 2023
    10
    In fact it's the best Zelda game.
    It's so nice to play it. A big map,new mobs, everything. It's perfect
  20. Ghoonem
    May 31, 2023
    7
    I've played the game for 180 hours and really enjoyed it, but I have some gripes with it. I know this review is going to sound overly negative, but it's only because I can't really elaborate much on the positive parts.

    Overall gameplay 9/10 Really well-designed overall package. Combat 9/10 Objective improvement over botw. You can get really creative with it. Very satisfying. Only    I've played the game for 180 hours and really enjoyed it, but I have some gripes with it. I know this review is going to sound overly negative, but it's only because I can't really elaborate much on the positive parts.

    Overall gameplay 9/10
    Really well-designed overall package.

    Combat 9/10
    Objective improvement over botw. You can get really creative with it. Very satisfying. Only things holding it back are the durability system which the devs have done nothing to fix from the botw system, and the performance. I understand that the durability system is there to encourage the player to explore and find new equipment, but they could've made the equipment last at least 4x as long and it would've still been effective. They should have also made it so you need way less koroks to upgrade your inventory, as it is right now, it takes way too many. The performance issues makes the combat and controls feel very sluggish and unresponsive. Trying to time parries/dodges when the game is dropping frames can be inconsistent. The game often eats your inputs as it drops frames. Trying to use the quick menus can be difficult sometimes too due to those issues.

    Zonaite Devices/Building 9/10
    Really impressive and surprisingly has fewer limitations than you'd expect.
    Although it does has some limitations due to performance:
    -You can't attach more than 21 devices at once.
    -Devices stop working when you're a certain distance away from them, and that distance is very small.
    -Devices despawn when you're a certain distance away from them too.
    -Some devices cause really bad frame drops.

    Exploration 10/10
    Objective improvement over botw. So much more to do and see in this game.

    Story 0/10
    Terrible. Embarrassing.

    Cutscenes 2/10
    Terrible. There are only 2 cutscenes that I liked, and neither of them had a single word spoken. The less dialogue they put in, the better.

    Dialogue 0/10
    Terrible.

    Voice acting (English) 0/10
    Terrible.

    Main Story Characters 1/10
    Annoying. Unbearable.

    Side Characters 7/10
    A lot of them are pretty good. Their dialogue is somewhat repetitive though, as most of them talk about the same 2 things on repeat.

    Main Quests 3/10
    Tedious for the most part. Very boring with little substance.

    Side Quests 8/10
    Much better than the main quests and a lot of them were very enjoyable

    Dungeons 3/10
    Mild improvement over botw's dungeons. Still bad.

    Shrines 7/10
    Decent. Nothing memorable.

    Ending 0/10
    I'm not gonna spoil any of the details but they did the same thing as in botw. After beating the final boss and watching the final cutscene the game kicks you back to your last save before the fight as if nothing happened. All the NPC's act like you still haven't fought him and still have the same dialogue as before. Deeply unsatisfying and a waste of time. Performance 0/10 The game is supposed to run at 30fps which in of itself is unacceptable for a game released in 2023, but what's worse is that it almost never runs at 30fps. It's usually in the 20's. On top of that, the game has a lot of input lag. Can't wait to play it on an emulator on actual modern hardware. Sages 0/10 They don't listen. Hard to work with. Annoying. Worthless. Never used them outside the main quests. And especially that 5th sage, that sage has to be the worst designed mechanic I've ever seen. It would've been a cool concept if the execution wasn't so bad. Soundtrack 10/10 Major improvement over botw, which was already really good. Not much more to say, it's just really good.    … Expand
  21. altlime
    Jun 1, 2023
    5
    This game is fun but suffers from some core problems that suck the fun out of it.

    - the classic Zelda experience of gradually unlocking new tools that give you access to new areas is replaced with getting everything in the first hour of playtime and then being shoved out into an open world. there is no sense of being on an epic quest, it's just a sandbox. - wherever you go in this vast    This game is fun but suffers from some core problems that suck the fun out of it.

    - the classic Zelda experience of gradually unlocking new tools that give you access to new areas is replaced with getting everything in the first hour of playtime and then being shoved out into an open world. there is no sense of being on an epic quest, it's just a sandbox.

    - wherever you go in this vast landscape, whether it's a tropical beach, dense jungle, or snowy mountain top, you'll find the same enemies. it's always a goblin, a bat, a big goblin, etc. there is no sense of place.

    - the grind is annoying - everything breaks and resources are relatively scarce, so in in some ways it is an exercise in barely breaking even. need zonaite for your contraption? you'll break weapons and lose health and ingredients to the point where you're going to have to grind for those things.

    - Nintendo games in general just make you wait 5 seconds over and over and over.

    - the story is interesting and the characters are shallow.

    - my biggest gripe: it just feels empty. there are MASSIVE areas all over the map with just about nothing in them. there are plenty of little scavenger hunt things like korok seeds, but between the slog of collecting resources, cooking, etc, I start to ask myself why. Why am I doing this.

    - in some ways it resembles elden ring in art and themes which just reminds me how much more depth, atmosphere, and spark elden ring has compared to this.

    I love Zelda games but this just feels empty.


    pros - building stuff is kinda cool, although it feels limited
    - good art
    - some fun puzzles
    - flying is fun    … Expand
  22. Kiornet
    Jul 13, 2023
    10
    Sin duda el mejor juego en mucho tiempo, lo estoy disfrutando demasiado, tanto que sin opasar su historia tengo 100 hras de juego y aun me falta un monton, sin llegarme aburrir o querer dejarlo, el juego del año
  23. Hoshino
    Jul 16, 2023
    10
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  24. zziggarot
    Aug 11, 2023
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I knocked off a couple points because the game Auto updated on me despite constantly canceling the download. I was holding back on doing the update because Nintendo made rupees super scarce in this game and duping glitches offset that and make the game more fun for my play style. Any fun that I've derived out of this game comes from it being a carbon copy of Breath of the Wild. I dislike the new building mechanics and feel like the fusion mechanic stresses the already strained inventory system to the point of it being unfun. Overall the game just feels clunky and unfinished. Early on you'll probably build the best vehicle in the game which is a basic hoverbike, there's no reason to make any modifications after you get the perfect one because any added items will either make you slower or drain your battery faster and any modifications will increase the zonite ore you need to build it. This vehicle basically breaks the game allowing you to sidestep any dungeon puzzles or inconvenience. They didn't want to spend extra development time to make exit routes out of the many caves so they just added ascend so they didn't have to worry about it. They reversed the topography and lowered the brightness and boom you have the depths. All of the sky islands just sit there in the sky static. It's a very lazy product. There's a scene right after you get Auto-build where Master kohga says "you stole it, I wanted that ability," THEN HE USES AUTOBUILD IN THE BOSS FIGHT

    The temples are just glorified shrines that are pretty much the same as the Divine beasts: find and activate terminals then return to the boss fight area. A lot of the time you'll end up reaching the temple and terminals before the sage does and so you'll have to backtrack to find an arbitrary cutscene event before they'll join your party and help you.

    The shrines aren't as memorable as the ways that you have to cheese a lot of the puzzles to get them to work properly. Many times I've had to shoot a pressure switch with a bomb arrow because I couldn't get the ball to bounce in the right way. Many people say that the game should be commended because it lets you solve puzzles in multiple ways but to me that just says poor game design because the intended way to solve the puzzle is usually either obtuse or just difficult because of the clunky controls. The multiple ways of solving a puzzle pretty much comes down to: do you spend half an hour combing a shrine for a stepping stool to reach a shrine chest or do you just use a bomb or rocket shield? Gone are the gyro shrines and the tests of strength and they were replaced by... well they kind of forgot to add a third of the shrines because they're all blessing shrines, which for the most part is fine because a lot of those shrines getting to the shrine is the challenge in puzzle, it just feels like maybe if you have more than a quarter of your shrines just be gimmes you either need less shrines or perhaps give the light orbs out in a different way. Shrine's kind of all fall into the same category where it's just: build the thing, at least in botw when you needed a different shika rune the whole shrine had a different feel to it, before you had cryo-puzzles, stasis puzzles, magnesis puzzles, and bomb puzzles, now they're all just building puzzles. Ascend and rewind just feel like debug mode abilities. We never see Rauru coming up through the floor so it's really weird to consider that a zonai ability. It feels like Nintendo was trying to debug the game and realized how crappy and frustrating their game was so they left some debug tools in to make the game playable. That's probably why some of the rewind shrines are clever and well put together: because they were added late in the production. Also why the game doesn't let you leave the great sky Island until you get all the abilities: because the game is UNPLAYABLE without ascend, you'll fall into a well or a hole or a cave and WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CLIMB OUT unless you use ascend. When your game's playability is dependent on a single debug ability maybe thats bad game design? IDK it annoyed the heck out of me.

    I was excited to pick the game up because I wanted to see what they did with the Ganondorf character and it was hugely disappointed when he's only in four cutscenes and the final boss fight. HUGE missed potential, the game didn't give him any clear motivations, he's just being evil for the sake of being evil AGAIN. It's also never really addressed how the Gerudo way of life has been changed and it just feels like Nintendo really drop the ball on world building.

    Basically, you're fine playing this game if you're just expecting BOTW 2. I'm mostly giving this game a low score because I feel that the game was MASSIVELY overhyped with people saying that the game has endless content. After I'd been playing the game for a month I already had the game half finished, the game is FAR from endless.    … Expand
  25. SomberMitsuki
    Jun 2, 2023
    5
    It's...ok. The story ok, the combat ok, well, cept they kept the terrible weapon degradation system and somehow made it worse.
    Unfortunately, like breath of the wild I found myself bored by the the constant need to replace my weapon, the grind for supplies to cook and keep myself buffed and deal with weather effects,
    It's further marred by performance issues being what finally killed my    It's...ok. The story ok, the combat ok, well, cept they kept the terrible weapon degradation system and somehow made it worse.
    Unfortunately, like breath of the wild I found myself bored by the the constant need to replace my weapon, the grind for supplies to cook and keep myself buffed and deal with weather effects,
    It's further marred by performance issues being what finally killed my want to paly the game.

    If you like BOTW, you'll enjoy it, it's basically more of the same, if you found it meh you'll find this meh as well.    … Expand
  26. NorwayGamer
    Jun 19, 2023
    7
    I count Breath of the wild among my favorite games of all time, and have actually finished it 3 times! That being said, I was very sceptical when I saw the trailers for this, as it looked too similiar to the previous game, and unfortunately I was right.

    From the start of the tutorial area, to the overworld, story and gameplay, you really do feel like you're playing the exact same game,    I count Breath of the wild among my favorite games of all time, and have actually finished it 3 times! That being said, I was very sceptical when I saw the trailers for this, as it looked too similiar to the previous game, and unfortunately I was right.

    From the start of the tutorial area, to the overworld, story and gameplay, you really do feel like you're playing the exact same game, with a few tweaks and new gimmicks.

    It took Nintendo 6(!) years to develop this game, which you should really count as DLC, and not a new game in it's own.

    I lost interest about 2/3 into it, because the magic I felt playing Botw in 2017, just isn't present here anymore. I genuinely hope others can find more enjoyment with it than I, but for me it feels like a chore unfortunately..    … Expand
  27. IamXeon
    May 14, 2023
    10
    One of the best games ever made if not the best and most low reviews are of people who either never played the game or of people who aren't a fan of open world adventure games
  28. Xplocion
    Jun 2, 2023
    7
    The Good: Direct sequel to Breath of the Wild. Much to explore. Different layers (Air/sky, Earth and underworld). Crazy crafting abilities (mechas, tanks, speeders, cars, floating platforms, creatures... . Lots of temples

    The bad: It looks like a Zelda game stuck to two other games (one very similar to Skyward Sword and the other very similar to Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts). Very    The Good: Direct sequel to Breath of the Wild. Much to explore. Different layers (Air/sky, Earth and underworld). Crazy crafting abilities (mechas, tanks, speeders, cars, floating platforms, creatures... . Lots of temples

    The bad: It looks like a Zelda game stuck to two other games (one very similar to Skyward Sword and the other very similar to Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts). Very continuous at the graphics level, at the air level it makes it look horrible (compared to other Zeldas in the air like Skyward Sword). The music only has a couple of new songs. The legendary beasts return. There are many temples but you can't randomly face them or skip it like in the previous game. The world is open to explore but by force you must follow the story and if they give you freedom already passing a certain combination of temples and missions. Crazy crafting breaks progress, difficulty and makes enemies just spectators

    The meh!: we had already seen the crazy crafting of vehicles in Banjo-Kazooie Nuts and Bolts from 2008-2009 and I didn't see such a stir, what's more, everyone was against this mechanic. We have seen the sky theme in Skyward Sword as an area to explore, it is here but poorly implemented, it is not the core of the game and visiting it is even boring. If the game is called The Legend of Zelda but it's more of a "I want to be Mario Bross" or "I want to be Nuts and Bolt" or "I want to be Henshin Impact" insert things and mechanics just to insert even if they don't make sense and break the lore    … Expand
  29. mohmdmarafi
    May 14, 2023
    10
    I cannot explain how I love this game. It’s just beyond my expectations. I was really not sure how they will give us something that is better than BOTW, but they actually did! If you don’t play this game, you are missing a lot!!
  30. M4N0R4F43L
    May 14, 2023
    10
    Incrível a capacidade da Nintendo reinventar suas franquias e com Zelda não foi diferente. Tears Of The Kingdom entra uma experiência única, gratificante a cada momento de exploração e combate, história está mais imersiva, novas mecânicas que torna tudo muito mais dinâmico e com possibilidades quase que infinitas. Estou amando explorar Hyrule novamente. Sem dúvidas que o game é o melhorIncrível a capacidade da Nintendo reinventar suas franquias e com Zelda não foi diferente. Tears Of The Kingdom entra uma experiência única, gratificante a cada momento de exploração e combate, história está mais imersiva, novas mecânicas que torna tudo muito mais dinâmico e com possibilidades quase que infinitas. Estou amando explorar Hyrule novamente. Sem dúvidas que o game é o melhor jogo de todos os tempo… Expand
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Universal acclaim - based on 150 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 145 out of 150
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 150
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  1. Nintendo Force Magazine
    Mar 18, 2024
    100
    I wasn't sure how Nintendo would find a way to top their work in Breath of the Wild back when it came out, but I feel they have here – with years of more polish applied and refined exploration. [Issue #66 – July/August 2023, p. 71]
  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 22, 2024
    100
    The good thing is that, thanks to the limited possibilities, the creators couldn't go crazy and swing for hundreds of game miles. Instead, they created what could be called Elden Ring in a travel pack. [Issue#328]
  3. Shacknews
    Dec 28, 2023
    100
    The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has lived up to the high expectations created by the success of Breath of the Wild with its exquisitely intertwined gameplay systems, outstanding music, and a legendary story culminating in a magnificent denouement. It's not every day that such a special video game like this comes around. Truly the stuff of legend.
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