The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

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8.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 9840 Ratings

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  1. Drax40
    May 17, 2023
    9
    it would be really interesting to be able to adjust the size of the text, especially in portable mode
  2. ZackH25
    Jun 1, 2023
    10
    So this game generally improves on breath of the wild in every way. The combat is much better especially due to the Fuse system, the dungeons feel a lot more like dungeons in TOTK compared to BOTW divine beasts and the story is a lot more interesting. The open world was somewhat recycled but the additions of the sky islands and depths were very fun to explore (some areas were also verySo this game generally improves on breath of the wild in every way. The combat is much better especially due to the Fuse system, the dungeons feel a lot more like dungeons in TOTK compared to BOTW divine beasts and the story is a lot more interesting. The open world was somewhat recycled but the additions of the sky islands and depths were very fun to explore (some areas were also very challenging). The bosses in the game were amazing especially since they weren't all the same variant of each other like in BOTW. The physics, building and cooking system are amazing in this game especially since it gives you so many ways to solve a problem. Abilities are also very fun in this game especially the ascend, which is so OP at times. Generally there are not many flaws in this game besides that it reuses some assets from BOTW and although the dungeons are solid, they are not as great as some other 3d Zelda. There are also so many exciting side quests in this game as well such as the mazes and the Yiga Clan- most importantly there is so much to do in this open world and so many different environments to explore. Overall an excellent game that is pretty much a masterpiece especially if you enjoyed BOTW.… Expand
  3. henrygostoso
    Sep 8, 2023
    0
    Jogo parece uma dlc, e tem gente que paga pal pra um jogo desse e paga caro ainda
  4. abears
    Jun 4, 2023
    10
    too good for school i love botw i 100 percented it and somehow even with the same base map i cant wait to 100 percent totk
  5. Dagshola
    May 30, 2023
    7
    I really like the game. A big world to explore with a lot of things to do, but ...
    The Switch is pretty old now, Nintendo did a great job in getting this up and running, but the graphics are sometimes not as sharp as they should be.
    Breaking weapons are the worst feature ever, i hated it on BotW and it's even worse on TotK. Some story links to BotW are nice (like in Gerudo town), other    I really like the game. A big world to explore with a lot of things to do, but ...
    The Switch is pretty old now, Nintendo did a great job in getting this up and running, but the graphics are sometimes not as sharp as they should be.
    Breaking weapons are the worst feature ever, i hated it on BotW and it's even worse on TotK. Some story links to BotW are nice (like in Gerudo town), other are completly missing. The story misses a lot of its potential. Trying to get money for armor sets is a lot of stupid farming and grinding.
    All in all a good, solid game which could be even better.    … Expand
  6. Confusedeius
    May 21, 2023
    10
    It definitley builds on breath of the wild, but with a HUGE amount of added fun stuff to do.
    Game of the year?
  7. gabynuozzi
    May 18, 2023
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Me parece un buen juego, gráficos que quedaron en el tiempo. Agrandaron su mapa a comparación del anterior, pero realmente todo lo principal se encuentra en el mapa viejo. Los campamentos de enemigos están buenos para medirte pero las recompensas son la nada misma. Ya es hora de que peguen el siguiente salto.… Expand
  8. Linkus2345
    May 17, 2023
    10
    Amazing game,story,character design,music and enemies.There is also some nostalgia from breath of the wild.
  9. rebquaker
    May 14, 2023
    10
    Absolutamente fantástico! Melhor jogo de 2023!
    Simplesmente apaixonado por essa obra prima.
  10. Bestx
    Jun 29, 2023
    10
    Best game ever made, an evolution of one of the best game ever made. The openworld feels fresh and massive, you will be blown away by its beauty. Masterpiece
  11. TheDxniels10
    May 14, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Juego totalmente inmersivo en la experiencia, totalmente un GOTY 2023, que desde luego, no será superado.… Expand
  12. Pey2ien
    May 18, 2023
    10
    This Game is a masterpiece and whoever says that it's just a dlc should never rate a game ever again.
  13. BrandonOdyssey
    May 15, 2023
    10
    I am absolutely stunned by how much fun I have had so far. The world is enormous, engrossing, densely packed, and exceedingly innovative in ways never seen in video gaming before. IMO Tear of the Kingdom is the best game ever made.
  14. Cjac2844
    May 18, 2023
    10
    Going into this game, I had my expectations very high. Breath of the Wild, its prequal, is my favorite game of all time. Now Breath of the Wild had some issues such as a weak, flimsy story and the bosses being very lackluster. Those things had to be fixed.

    Tears of the Kingdom shattered every expectation I had. But first I'll discuss the two flaws and how TOTK fixed it. The story in    Going into this game, I had my expectations very high. Breath of the Wild, its prequal, is my favorite game of all time. Now Breath of the Wild had some issues such as a weak, flimsy story and the bosses being very lackluster. Those things had to be fixed.

    Tears of the Kingdom shattered every expectation I had. But first I'll discuss the two flaws and how TOTK fixed it.

    The story in Breath of the Wild as I said, is pretty lackluster. For example, I didn't feel there was enough character development and the overall plot is pretty simplistic. Tears of the Kingdom's story is extremely well done and much improved. There was actual character development. I won't go into details to keep it spoiler free.

    The second major gripe I had with Breath of the Wild was the bosses. Waterblight Ganon, Windblight Ganon and Fireblight Ganon were too easy and too similar to one another. Thunderblight Ganon while more difficult still lacked distinction. Kohga was Kohga. Calamity Ganon was lazy and Dark Beast Ganon was very anti-climatic. Tears of the Kingdom fixes that with actual distinct and unique bosses. And the final fight against Ganondorf was phenomenal and actually DIFFICULT.

    In addition, so much more exploration was added. Not only is there the sky, but now there's the underground area.

    Overall without going into so much detail so that way it can be spoiler free, it's an absolute 10/10 game and it deserves Game of the Year!    … Expand
  15. Misteriusghost
    May 15, 2023
    10
    Un juegazo con todas sus letras, el increible Hyrule de Zelda BOTW multiplicado por 3 literalmente, el sentido de exploracion por todas partes ademas de unas hermosas mecanicas y fisicas con las cuales hacer el explorar mas entretenido de lo que ya es, una historia con una narracion sin precedentes, mucho mas inmersiva y compleja que la de Botw, quisas en lo unico que carece es enUn juegazo con todas sus letras, el increible Hyrule de Zelda BOTW multiplicado por 3 literalmente, el sentido de exploracion por todas partes ademas de unas hermosas mecanicas y fisicas con las cuales hacer el explorar mas entretenido de lo que ya es, una historia con una narracion sin precedentes, mucho mas inmersiva y compleja que la de Botw, quisas en lo unico que carece es en potencia, pero eso no es culpa del juego si no de su despositivo la switch consola hibrida, pequeña de 2017, que aun asi corre semejantes maravillas… Expand
  16. PublicEnemy1
    May 15, 2023
    10
    New greatest game of all time. Zelda team does it again. Took the already goat video game and massively improved it adding so much creativity and gameplay that a sequel is justified and blows past expectations. No notes.
  17. Mitsukeni
    May 25, 2023
    8
    As a game, Tears of the Kingdom is an unfathomably stellar experience. It's Breath of the Wild but bigger, how could that not be perfect?

    However, as a product and more importantly as a sequel, TotK ultimately fails to innovate beyond the formula BotW modernized 6 years ago. Ultrahand and Zonai Devices are wholly redundant mechanics that do little to expand on BotW's problematic lack of    As a game, Tears of the Kingdom is an unfathomably stellar experience. It's Breath of the Wild but bigger, how could that not be perfect?

    However, as a product and more importantly as a sequel, TotK ultimately fails to innovate beyond the formula BotW modernized 6 years ago. Ultrahand and Zonai Devices are wholly redundant mechanics that do little to expand on BotW's problematic lack of extrinsic motivation. They aren't inherently fun to use, if anything they're frustrating. The satisfaction comes from seeing the validation of your own ingenuity and experimentation, not the action of using the tool itself. Because of this, the system quickly becomes redundant as you'll naturally gravitate towards the most efficient solutions that spend the least time using the frustrating Ultrahand mechanic. Rockets solve virtually every traversal obstacle. The weapons do no damage and are simply used to distract enemies. The few tools that have specific uses for bosses or quests gain nothing from the novelty of being freely movable and attachable together. They act like old fashioned Zelda items, their mere existence is the solution to the puzzle. So how does this new system expand the game? Much like the Ultrahand itself, attaching an engineering sandbox onto a pre-existing world and formula doesn't create anything new. The synergy you achieve is sourced by the creator's ingenuity, that is to say the player is the one creating something new, not the developer. I think the new sandbox is phenomenal and a technical marvel, but it exists in isolation from the formula and doesn't innovate beyond where it was 6 years ago.

    But wait, there are two new entire maps! The sky islands barely add 1/20th to the existing playable area. The way you reach them is uninteresting, the falling pieces are mostly scripted so your ventures into the sky are highly regulated by the developers' intentions. Besides that you can just balloon and rocket your way to whatever island you want, so immersive! The depths are a vast wasteland littered with nothing but rocks and copy pasted enemies. The only thing you can do down there is hunt for reused armor pieces from the last game and mine Zoanite for the new energy system. Hit rocks for 2 hours to make your car drive for 20 seconds longer, 10/10 game of the year. There are a plethora of new mechanics, interactions, and enemies, but it's all contained within the same world and game-play loop. I lost all intrigue after the first 3-4 hours when I realized just how little new content there was beyond the main questline. Oh they added new side quests... to unlock reused content. What's in this new area? Copy pasted enemies and loot. It feels like this game is catered to players who played BotW for 50 hours in 2017 and not the die hard fans who played for 100s of hours over the years like myself. Don't get me wrong, I love the game and plan to play it for years just like BotW. But it's 2021 $60 DLC good, not 2023 $100 flagship good.    … Expand
  18. DKCAMARGO
    May 16, 2023
    10
    beautiful game, great mechanics, great changes, great combat system, good open world, great game
  19. Joefshr
    May 17, 2023
    10
    Tears of the kingdom is an amazing sequel to botw, every quality of life change that I wanted has been changed and the endless amount of content is overwhelming (in a positive way). Any worries about using the same map we’re squashed when continually getting lost in the world that I was previously so familiar with.

    Without getting into spoilers the depths are thrilling and are extremely    Tears of the kingdom is an amazing sequel to botw, every quality of life change that I wanted has been changed and the endless amount of content is overwhelming (in a positive way). Any worries about using the same map we’re squashed when continually getting lost in the world that I was previously so familiar with.

    Without getting into spoilers the depths are thrilling and are extremely fun to explore. I wasn’t sure how Nintendo could top the masterpiece that was botw but they somehow did    … Expand
  20. Yuyuke793
    May 17, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Lo compré el primer día y no lo he soltado ni para dormirno me hecho no la primera misión principal pero ya he andado medio mapa y el subterráneo con un bug uniendo tres alas en forma de triángulo se puede bajar, tengo hasta la espada maestra este juego es perfecto… Expand
  21. DrMarley
    May 17, 2023
    8
    Pros:
    - It's the best 8/10 game ever made. It is very fun to play with the new abilities.
    Cons: - Weapon durability is boring, engaging with enemies leaves me with fewer resources than I started with. - Many Koroks are tedious. - 4 Shrines should be combined into bigger puzzles which award either a heart container or a stamina seed at the end. - The systems of the game allow you to    Pros:
    - It's the best 8/10 game ever made. It is very fun to play with the new abilities.

    Cons:
    - Weapon durability is boring, engaging with enemies leaves me with fewer resources than I started with.
    - Many Koroks are tedious.
    - 4 Shrines should be combined into bigger puzzles which award either a heart container or a stamina seed at the end.
    - The systems of the game allow you to not engage with the platforming and puzzle challenges.
    - The sky islands (after the tutorial) feel almost the same as each other.
    - The world is less interesting to explore as I already explored it in Breath of the Wild.
    - The voice acting is very odd. People don't talk like that.
    - The game runs terribly on the Switch. Every time I use Ultrahand it drops to 20 FPS which is unpleasant as you have to use it all the time.
    - The menus are tedious to navigate. Attaching arrow heads manually with every shot is frustrating and having to drop an item to fuse it to a weapon is irritating.
    - The controls are not generally re-mappable and are often frustrating.
    - The combat is very flat, the weapon variety is largely limited to appearance and damage numbers. Yes, I can attach an object to a weapon, but most of the objects just change the knock-back and whether it does more blunt or sharp damage, the animations don't change.
    - Flurry rush has a very strange activation window which doesn't really reward dodging out of danger at the last moment, just dodging at a specific time.
    - Observing most of the story as flashbacks is boring.    … Expand
  22. alvaromoralyzz
    May 17, 2023
    10
    Best game I've seen in 20 years, I can't even comprehend the amount of things you can do as a player here
  23. SoyJoms
    May 17, 2023
    10
    GOTY 2023
    nothing more to say
    I'm not a fan of Zelda, but this game makes me want to play it.
    I played it at a friend's house and loved it, now that I bought it vI played it at a friend's house and loved it, now that I bought it
  24. Marckx
    May 17, 2023
    9
    very nice game, compared to its prequel there are many new features and different upgrades that completely change the gameplay and game strategies, the only flaw is every tanyo the game lagga, and sometimes the shadows get wet, but apart from these two technical defects , the game itself is wonderful
  25. MKTMKK
    May 17, 2023
    10
    The fact that this low-budget rehased garbage got a 96 proves there are double standards and hypocrisy among these critics. Let's all be honest with ourselves. Forget the PS5/XSX and $70 price tag, If this were just a PS4/X1 game for $60 without the Legend of Zelda title, the narrative would've been so different. There is no way it would've scored higher than a 75 average. This game wouldThe fact that this low-budget rehased garbage got a 96 proves there are double standards and hypocrisy among these critics. Let's all be honest with ourselves. Forget the PS5/XSX and $70 price tag, If this were just a PS4/X1 game for $60 without the Legend of Zelda title, the narrative would've been so different. There is no way it would've scored higher than a 75 average. This game would be crucified by critics for low-budget graphics, poor draw distance, bad lip syncing, low unstable FPS and lack of innovation. Gamers would be roasting it by calling it a PS2 game. And then these game journalists have the audacity to rant and virtue signal over studios crunching, even though they are the main reason why crunch even exists in the first place, because every studio has to work at least 100 times harder than Nintendo to get a 90 overall Metacritic score. Playstation Studios had to crunch hard to become a critic darling with those graphics and over-produced cutscenes, but Zelda devs can make copy/paste shovelware and get treated like the Messiahs of gaming. I don't even want to hear about the Switch being underpowered. They are charging a premium next-gen price of $70, so I expect the same level of quality as PS5 and XSX. Not my fault these greedy cheapskates at Nintendo refuse to release next-gen hardware. There are hundreds, or maybe even thousands of indie games with higher quality than this trash for a cheaper price, yet get much lower scores from critics.

    There is no multiplayer. So once you beat the story, there is literally not a reason to touch this game again. Charging $70 for a game with no replay value is a cash grab. Nintendo, you can make all the indie quality games you want. But when I get a $70 game with no guaranteed online multiplayer, that is where I absolutely draw the line. How dare you give me half of the game for $70. I might've actually had fun if it had online. That's the least they could do after increasing the price for this low budget game. It's funny when Zelda fans make fun of COD for being the same game every year. At least there are new maps and graphics every year, while Zelda is the same map and graphics in 6 years. It's mind boggling that this game gets universal acclaim for indie quality at $70, when others work much harder and get panned by critics and gamers. I don't recommend this game at all, unless you want to support laziness    … Expand
  26. AbbieBetterThnU
    May 17, 2023
    10
    No spoilers ahead, but if you are one of the absolute retards who review bombed this, guess what, you’re a retard! You just are, don’t you dare deny it. This will always be the best and my favorite franchise in gaming, disagree, whatever, you’re wrong and have a low value as a human being in my eyes, everything in this game is amazing regardless of any problems you douche’s might have I amNo spoilers ahead, but if you are one of the absolute retards who review bombed this, guess what, you’re a retard! You just are, don’t you dare deny it. This will always be the best and my favorite franchise in gaming, disagree, whatever, you’re wrong and have a low value as a human being in my eyes, everything in this game is amazing regardless of any problems you douche’s might have I am right you are wrong shut up and get off the internet you moron.… Expand
  27. RichKillerMan
    May 17, 2023
    10
    Absolutely Phenomenal!! I'm calling it Game of The Year right now due to how insanely massive the world became, but also how incredibly full it is as well. The story is breathtaking and I just can't get enough of it. There's soooo much detail added into this entry from the previous, it makes you stop and just enjoy the magnificent views around every corner. By far the greatest entry intoAbsolutely Phenomenal!! I'm calling it Game of The Year right now due to how insanely massive the world became, but also how incredibly full it is as well. The story is breathtaking and I just can't get enough of it. There's soooo much detail added into this entry from the previous, it makes you stop and just enjoy the magnificent views around every corner. By far the greatest entry into the Zelda Universe to date and I'm beyond excited to see what the future of Zelda will look like!… Expand
  28. PapaMaster
    May 17, 2023
    10
    Es una increíble obra maestra. Los únicos que le dan una calificación baja son los que dicen "30 fps", "gráficos pedorros", "no cambio nada de breath of the wild" o "si no te gusto el primero no te gustará este", Bruh, las páginas de críticos expertos ni tocan esos temas y le sacan por encima de 90 puntos, y todavía hay un rarito que dice "es mejor genshin, hace eso y gratis". 20 sobre 10Es una increíble obra maestra. Los únicos que le dan una calificación baja son los que dicen "30 fps", "gráficos pedorros", "no cambio nada de breath of the wild" o "si no te gusto el primero no te gustará este", Bruh, las páginas de críticos expertos ni tocan esos temas y le sacan por encima de 90 puntos, y todavía hay un rarito que dice "es mejor genshin, hace eso y gratis". 20 sobre 10 y GOOD.… Expand
  29. EricDG08
    May 18, 2023
    10
    Just a beautiful game. Usually sequals aren't that great, but this one. wow. 10/10 go play it
  30. ClaudioP89
    May 18, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Best Zelda Game ever. Every bad Critics on BOTW has Nintendo fixed! Dungeon, Story and Endgame are very nice… 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
  3. Negative: 0 out of 150
  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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