The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

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8.1

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  1. sdversion
    May 20, 2023
    9
    The best game so far. Crafting is so natural and fun. Game has such great controls. Fun adventure.
  2. Mole123
    May 20, 2023
    10
    Me gusta mucho el trabajo del juego Zelda las cosas dé la mecánicas del juego
  3. 486eHyMy
    May 20, 2023
    10
    The best open world game I’ve ever played! Fantastic! Real masterpiece and essential!
  4. chocoway
    May 20, 2023
    10
    some people say its the same feel as breath of the wild. Well, it's sequel guys. Im a new player of zelda.. and im really a picky player. When i got bored in a game i don't usually finish the game. if i like the game i wont held my controller for another game until i finish that game. After finishing botw just few weeks ago and now playing totk, yes it has same feel as botw, the graphicssome people say its the same feel as breath of the wild. Well, it's sequel guys. Im a new player of zelda.. and im really a picky player. When i got bored in a game i don't usually finish the game. if i like the game i wont held my controller for another game until i finish that game. After finishing botw just few weeks ago and now playing totk, yes it has same feel as botw, the graphics and some mechanics of it. But when you are playing the game discovering new things that had happened after the calamity ganon it really amazed me. and i just wanna savor and enjoy every moment i play this game… Expand
  5. 07jcallaghan
    May 20, 2023
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This has very easily taken its place as my favourite Zelda game. The improvements from Breath of the Wild, and the use of characters and evelopment of them further has got to be one of my favourite things. And the final fight was absolutely incredible. I just wish we could have seen more development of Ganondorf, and seen more of what drove him to want more power. But this has taken the spot from Twilight Princess as my favourite Zelda game. I loved the new mechanics, especially being able to fuse weapons and build structures. It added a layer of complexity that I truly enjoyed. I experienced a few framedrops here and there, but they were barely noticable, and for a game with as complex as this one, i'm truly amazed at how incredibly well it runs… Expand
  6. yagamikusanagi
    May 20, 2023
    10
    A truly amazing masterpiece. Certainly the game of the year. Can't express all the wonders I experienced myself.
  7. Hrollod
    May 20, 2023
    10
    Without any doubt, we are facing the best video game of all time. A mature and compelling story, well-developed characters, and a beautifully detailed world. It is simply amazing to see the kingdom of Hyrule from the clouds, the most realistic physics ever seen in a video game. You always find some detail that makes you want to know more about the world, the characters, go deeper, want toWithout any doubt, we are facing the best video game of all time. A mature and compelling story, well-developed characters, and a beautifully detailed world. It is simply amazing to see the kingdom of Hyrule from the clouds, the most realistic physics ever seen in a video game. You always find some detail that makes you want to know more about the world, the characters, go deeper, want to keep playing. Well developed missions that don't get repetitive and tons of content. Any qualifier falls short for this masterpiece.… Expand
  8. Haymitsh
    May 20, 2023
    10
    A great game! Although many people say it’s the same as botw, I would disagree on that one. Sure it’s the same for the “normal world” but you get way more than that in this game, although I’m not a really big fan of the underworld. But the potential in this game through the new mechanics are great and a perfect way to give the game a new twist. Graphics of course are a point of conflict,A great game! Although many people say it’s the same as botw, I would disagree on that one. Sure it’s the same for the “normal world” but you get way more than that in this game, although I’m not a really big fan of the underworld. But the potential in this game through the new mechanics are great and a perfect way to give the game a new twist. Graphics of course are a point of conflict, but without a new Nintendo console it’s hard to blame the game about it in my opinion. But overall I’m really enjoying this game with about 35+ hours so far and I can recommend it to everybody except the people who disliked botw.… Expand
  9. Poki281
    May 20, 2023
    10
    From the gameplay to the story, this game is nearly perfect and the game I was waiting for since the announcement in 2019!!!
  10. Fazepepinito24
    May 20, 2023
    10
    Havent finish it yet, thought i think its one of the best games i played, im looking forward to discover all his secrets
  11. JudicialYear
    May 20, 2023
    9
    As someone who rarely enjoys games with sandbox elements, TOTK utilizes them in such a beautiful way that the gameplay rarely ever becomes tiring. The only criticisms I have are that certain cutscenes can be quite repetitive to see again and again and that the game suffers graphically from operating on an aged console. Neither of these severely diminish my desire to continue playingAs someone who rarely enjoys games with sandbox elements, TOTK utilizes them in such a beautiful way that the gameplay rarely ever becomes tiring. The only criticisms I have are that certain cutscenes can be quite repetitive to see again and again and that the game suffers graphically from operating on an aged console. Neither of these severely diminish my desire to continue playing though, and I look forward to continuing to explore the massive world even after completing the main quest line.… Expand
  12. ThisDragonfly25
    May 20, 2023
    7
    I enjoyed BOTW but this feels too similar in all the worst ways. Often find it tedious and frustrating. But it is clearly well-made.
  13. MashyMash
    May 16, 2023
    10
    Two reasons for this review:
    1. The game is amazing and you can tell that a lot of time, hard work, and care went into crafting this fun, beautiful entry to this series. Nintendo really doesn't cut corners with their second-most important child, The Legend Of Zelda.
    2. To counteract the bu**hurt review-bombers who can't just let other people like things. I suspect these are people who    Two reasons for this review:
    1. The game is amazing and you can tell that a lot of time, hard work, and care went into crafting this fun, beautiful entry to this series. Nintendo really doesn't cut corners with their second-most important child, The Legend Of Zelda.

    2. To counteract the bu**hurt review-bombers who can't just let other people like things. I suspect these are people who play nothing but FPS games and gacha games and don't understand that if something isn't for them, that doesn't mean it's bad.    … Expand
  14. dmtk
    May 20, 2023
    10
    Absolutely amazing!
    I've been wondering if Nintendo will be able to recreate this feeling of joy and discovery after 6 years, but they delivered flawlessly.

    Performance is mostly fine, squeezing the maximum from the old hardware. I'm already excited about BotW and TotK remasters on the upcoming systems.
  15. TheBigBosss
    May 20, 2023
    10
    Es un muy buen juego en especial por que lleva el juego anterior a su máximo no se como se pueda superar pero si alguna compañía de juegos se propone lo logra como ponerle amor a un juego ejemplo The Legend of Zelda Tear of the kingdom.
  16. avaliadorbr
    May 20, 2023
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. (I will re-edit this comment when I finish the game I already completed two dungeons the one by gerudo and zora and im on the dungeons of the gorons) I thought the game was very good but the map is very similar to the old game in some parts and in very different ones, for example, gerudo has changed a lot I wasn't recognizing gerudo I got lost knowing where everything is in the last game but the land of lanayaru (zora) is identical to the one in the last game I knew where everything was I didn't get lost once and the dungeon and the boss are very easy i got there and finished it in 1 day but other than that i really liked hudson's quests and items i built an amazing house and i wasted a whole day just decorating haha and i had a lot of fun making koltin's scenery and it inspired me to complete the monsters album but one thing that I didn't really like was the map that with so much movement it was easy to go through it all and I liked the little ghosts of the people who helped you in the dungeons following you around the map better than the powers from the past game… Expand
  17. gl00ck
    May 20, 2023
    10
    This game is a great example that the modern graphics and all these stuff like ray tracing is nothing. So many game studios are wasting years making a so called high end graphics but their games so often are boring, faulty, stupidly designed, makes no sense and doesn't worth the time and money. Faulty releases of modern games is a mainstream now and most of the games are released in a veryThis game is a great example that the modern graphics and all these stuff like ray tracing is nothing. So many game studios are wasting years making a so called high end graphics but their games so often are boring, faulty, stupidly designed, makes no sense and doesn't worth the time and money. Faulty releases of modern games is a mainstream now and most of the games are released in a very bad technical condition, even no point to say about other aspects...

    Fortunately at least some game makers still can make a good quality game and it is not only about the graphics but overall. In my opinion "The Tears of The Kingdom" is a great sequel of a great game, the quality of the game is very good and I love attention to details , this is rare thing in modern games.

    The rest of the game makers should take Zelda BOTW/TOTK as an example and finally understand that the gameplay is the most important thing in a game, just a cool picture is not enough, it should be interesting to play first of all and a game must work well on release!

    To be honest, I don't understand the outrage of people who say that this game has old graphics. Did you expect that Switch will magically get an additional graphics card with the release of the new Zelda?
    Considering the size of this game, the developers have done an incredible work to make make it so well.

    I agree that not everything is absolutely perfect in this game but I'll put the highest score as some little issues doesn't make any troubles and most likely will be fixed soon.

    This game is not a DLC, there is a plenty of a new interesting content, new features and ideas, it is huge and awesome. Don't listen anyone who is moaning that it is a full price DLC, it is not true, If you are the BOTW fan you will love this game!    … Expand
  18. joeumadd17
    May 20, 2023
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Amazing game held back solely by the platform it is limited to is the the best way to sum up TOTK. Somehow the developers managed to take what made BOTW so good and expanded upon it even more, pushing an already outdated system beyond what most expected. The new sandbox of things to do with Link's new abilities as well as increased enemy variety makes the game stand out enough from BOTW but still keeping the same identity. Also despite being in the same Hyrule as before enough has changed both with the existing BOTW map to make the world feel fresh. On top of changes to locales 2 entirely new levels of the world have been added that offer new challenges to exploration and act as puzzles of their own to try and solve in order to uncover everything that they offer. Going to the story of the game, even though I have not personally completed the main story what I have seen from the story quests and memories akin system in the game it is a step up from what BOTW did although it won't blow you away. The biggest selling point the game offers is the new abilities and each and every ability massively changes the way you approach the game compared to BOTW. The freedom the game allows for is unprecedented in almost any title not in the sandbox genre and that alone could carry this game even if none of the new big areas were added.

    TLDR: Amazing sandbox, lots of freedom in both puzzle solving and world exploration, new areas added on top of changes to the BOTW map, slight story upgrade, held back by hardware. 9/10    … Expand
  19. dsims9t
    May 20, 2023
    0
    I wasn't a huge fan of BOTW. It was ok, but overall underwhelming and it didn't feel like a Zelda game. TOTK doesn't feel like Zelda either. The storyline is convoluted and it doesn't mention the Triforce once. I found the quests to be pretty boring especially all the gliding and climbing. Leveling up by completing shrines and side quests seems more like a chore than fun. The dungeons wereI wasn't a huge fan of BOTW. It was ok, but overall underwhelming and it didn't feel like a Zelda game. TOTK doesn't feel like Zelda either. The storyline is convoluted and it doesn't mention the Triforce once. I found the quests to be pretty boring especially all the gliding and climbing. Leveling up by completing shrines and side quests seems more like a chore than fun. The dungeons were better than BOTW, but still really lack what previous Zelda dungeons had. The final boss was also ridiculously hard. This is the first Zelda I didn't beat because I didn't want to waste a ton of time leveling up just to beat the final boss. Nintendo needs to return to their roots and scrap this disaster of a game. Enough boring open world games!… Expand
  20. SeeingCrimson
    May 20, 2023
    0
    So what I’m getting from these “perfect” reviews is that we no longer want Zelda games. We want Skyrim knock-offs with some Minecraft building mixed in. TOTK introduces more Skyrim elements than BOTW and suddenly it’s a perfect game and a travesty to rate below a 10. And no, I’m not pulling that out of a hat: the creators of BOTW have admitted they wanted to make a game like Skyrim in theSo what I’m getting from these “perfect” reviews is that we no longer want Zelda games. We want Skyrim knock-offs with some Minecraft building mixed in. TOTK introduces more Skyrim elements than BOTW and suddenly it’s a perfect game and a travesty to rate below a 10. And no, I’m not pulling that out of a hat: the creators of BOTW have admitted they wanted to make a game like Skyrim in the Zelda universe.

    Look, it’s fun at times, but why play TOTK instead of Skyrim or Minecraft (both of which are on the Switch and regularly go on sale—which TOTK will certainly not do for the next several years)? They do it better, take less time, and they’re 1/3 of TOTK’s asking price. For me to try Zelda again, it’s gotta do something different. Otherwise Elder Scrolls 6 is getting my money—I can already safely project it’ll be a game that will look better than all of the BOTW successors of the next two decades AND it will be more immersive AND it will cost the same. Plus, I’ll get a head start on how Zelda’s gonna play for the next 15 years ;) From these reviews, I get the sense that fans want Zelda to go stand in the Elder Scroll’s shadow for the rest of time. It’s one thing to like a game, it’s another thing to naively claim something revolutionized the gaming world (aka “this is a masterpiece!”) when it most definitely did not. TOTK’s changes were solely influenced by a) Skyrim and b) Minecraft and c) what it did in BOTW. Those are the masterpieces. The games that other games try to replicate for sales. And not one of those three are “perfect” or “without flaw”.

    And then, for those who want to read it, the *optional* review rant :)

    I don’t want blind enthusiasm to give a false impression of where the series should go ie convince somebody who is unsure whether or not they will like the game to buy it. Hard for me to take the “perfect” game score seriously when reviewers are clearly turning a blind eye to the game’s flaws. I’m glad you like it, but a false GOTY forecast masterpiece of perfection is misleading. The consequence of convincing people on the fence to buy the game gives Nintendo, who needs little coaxing in this regard, reason to just sit on an imperfect formula. Small improvements on a formula are still based on an original game design. There’s a lot of “not fun” parts about this game I don’t want to see again. Many of those existed in BOTW and I was devastated when they returned. If it’s a direction you’re happy with the series taking, and want to actively push for it, then you should be able to acknowledge the good, the bad, and the ugly and still say it’s your favorite game and help people feel comfortable trying it, without making them feel bad if they don’t. Sure, it really can be flawless and perfect, but that’s for your own personal experience, not the experience of the person who’s trying to decide whether or not the game is a good fit for them. I wish I could believe in a perfect game—but there is no perfect game in my book (there’s nothing wrong with rating a 10; my issue is with all of the reviews I have read belligerently insisting that TOTK is flawless and that nobody should dare dislike the game). Not even close. But I digress.    … Expand
  21. alejovargas
    May 20, 2023
    10
    Si bien Zelda BOTW siendo todo un juegazo a pesar de alguna que otra carencia por su mundo abierto, con Zelda TOTK no sólo cambiaron un par de cosas sino que mejoraron la experiencia, con nuevas rutas, crafteo, enemigos y demás. Juego imprescindible de disfrutar.
  22. Yokaii_
    May 20, 2023
    10
    The best Zelda game yet, and climbed up to be my favorite game of all time.

    Only con is the occasional frame drop, especially when using Ultrahand.
  23. ElSmasher
    May 20, 2023
    9
    Tears of the Kingdom continues in the wake of its iconic predecessor that revolutionized the genre. Without going through 4 paths, the sequel of Breath of the Wild is a total success and is better than its prequel in almost any point. Some may blame him for not adding his own stone to the building in the world of video games, and the artistic direction is even more muddled than before toTears of the Kingdom continues in the wake of its iconic predecessor that revolutionized the genre. Without going through 4 paths, the sequel of Breath of the Wild is a total success and is better than its prequel in almost any point. Some may blame him for not adding his own stone to the building in the world of video games, and the artistic direction is even more muddled than before to hide the technical aspects that struggle to make the game wonderful to play. But let’s be honest, the game is 3 times more interesting and has 3 times more lifespan and a narrative more than well done so that it is not his MUST-PLAY.… Expand
  24. DavideScalella
    May 20, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Only created, just now, an account to "review" this game.
    Have you ever bought a painting that resembles EXACTLY the same one that you may have bought 6 years prior? With just a different set of colours? Well, apparently, far too many people did it this year.
    Same story, same setting, same gameplay. Try to compare the 1st minute of gameplay of BOTW and TOTK starting from the *spoilers* Room of Awakening.
    Simply put, payed for nothing. The tiny little issues that were present in the prequel, evolved into stupidity, without being too honest. And on top of that, there is of course new stupidity, once more, without being too honest.
    Where exactly are these so-called "dungeons"? You really want me to believe that you actually lied?
    So in the end, don't ever again listen to "critic" reviews, just don't.
    Such an outstanding, planet-size massive disappointment, what a waste of money, time, everything really.    … Expand
  25. PauloAQ
    May 20, 2023
    10
    Una aventura qué supera cualquier cosa que haya jugado antes, es revolucionario, casi perfecto. Me estoy divirtiendo por horas, como solo lo había hecho con Zelda Botw y Elden Ring.
  26. Abel69
    May 20, 2023
    10
    Cada segundo del juego era para mí una belleza, ayer me pasé el juego después de una semana que salió el juego y hay un montón de cosas que hacer todavía. A todo esto me refiero que este juego tiene calidad y muchas cosas aparte de la historia principal, sin lugar a dudas un juego que marcan un antes y un después en la industria de los videojuegos.
  27. kosmosterrl
    May 20, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Man, even though this game still technically uses the same map it still some how feels different couple that with the sky islands and the caves and the depths it's amazingly awesome. It still sucks how Nintendo didn't put in some kind of multi select for selling things but that's a minor gripe. It's and awesome game and it's easy to recommend even with that new $70 price tag.… Expand
  28. Napior
    May 20, 2023
    8
    An excellent game overall. However, it is frustrating to be sent back to the final boss after beating it (NO NG+)!?
  29. Jerry_pro
    May 20, 2023
    10
    ToTK sets a standard which will have to be met by every game that follows it and wants to be taken seriously.
  30. vmartin
    May 14, 2023
    8
    Amazing game! Although i prefer BOTW, this one feels like a dlc with steroids
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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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