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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  2. Mixed: 734 out of 9840
  3. Negative: 1,592 out of 9840
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  1. Felipe_030
    May 13, 2023
    10
    Brutal, goty!!! Es un juego con identidad, nada de copia y pega del anterior.
  2. blk_mamba
    May 14, 2023
    10
    Can’t put the game down. I thought I would like it but it won’t be as good as Breath of the Wild but it ended up being better in some ways. Game of the year contender for sure.
  3. drunksh1t
    May 16, 2023
    10
    Not a perfect game performance-wise and has a "been there done that" feel at times, but the creativity injected into the original formula makes this a CLASSIC. The fact that you can combine and manipulate most items and objects in the environment now means this is even educational for children. The puzzles and early fights require a lot of creativity and problem solving. This is a mustNot a perfect game performance-wise and has a "been there done that" feel at times, but the creativity injected into the original formula makes this a CLASSIC. The fact that you can combine and manipulate most items and objects in the environment now means this is even educational for children. The puzzles and early fights require a lot of creativity and problem solving. This is a must play, brain-teaser filled masterpiece.… Expand
  4. LinkArthur
    May 21, 2023
    10
    Uno de los mejores juegos de los últimos 20 años, el tema de las físicas te vuela la cabeza, todo lo que imagines que puede funcionar por lo general podrás hacerlo funcionar, es un juego que además de divertido y profundo tiene montones de contenido además de personalidad y total libertad, es decir juegazo
  5. ruben-isma
    Jun 2, 2023
    10
    Breath of wild was already a masterpice. This game improves it in every departmen (story, world exploration, secrets to discover,...)
  6. Andres-Arambula
    May 15, 2023
    10
    Espectacular en todo el sentido de la palabra! Nintendo siempre sorprende con su jugabilidad, historia y es increíble que este juego corra en la Switch!! Bien hecho
  7. WillHuizar
    May 16, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Forget what you learned, there are tons of new Mechanics, you'll be thinking how to solve it, the difficult level was increase, they also improved map.… Expand
  8. DeVito8704
    May 15, 2023
    10
    Absolutely incredible game! I never thought they'd even come close to BOTY, but I was wrong. I highly recommend this masterpiece!
  9. pedrolopes317
    Jul 25, 2023
    10
    Not much to add. Bought a Switch just for this and it was an experience I hadn’t had in a long time of gaming. Loved it. Easy 10.
  10. Dave1980
    May 13, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Great game, Great game, great game, great game, The best game ever,10/10 perfect… Expand
  11. Cystsus
    May 14, 2023
    10
    No game will come close to how complex and big TotK is, Nintendo stepped up BotW by a thousand.
    The reuse of the map with changes is great, there are caves now to explore, new locations with people living in them, new shrines, and more. There’s too the sky with the islands that contain puzzles to obtain rewards and tests to unlock shrines. And the underground, which was something many fans    No game will come close to how complex and big TotK is, Nintendo stepped up BotW by a thousand.
    The reuse of the map with changes is great, there are caves now to explore, new locations with people living in them, new shrines, and more. There’s too the sky with the islands that contain puzzles to obtain rewards and tests to unlock shrines. And the underground, which was something many fans were asking for, it is spooky and has dangerous enemies, and many ways to traverse it. They gave us traditional Zelda dungeons, a proper hooking story, new characters, new abilities, new materials, new ways to do whatever you want to accomplish.
    It’s clear that Nintendo listened to the fan’s critics about BotW and demands for the sequel.
    There’s one thing many can dislike, which is the graphics and performance. It’s running on a Switch, you can’t ask them to magically make it more capable of better graphics. There are some fps drops using the abilities, when you are fighting enemies or making big fires, but it not that it is unplayable. Personally to me it looks great, the art style helps the game to not look that bad considering the resolution it runs at. Most realistic-looking old games age really bad compared to the current ones with similar style, that won’t happen to TotK, just like it didn’t happen to Wind Waker and Skyward Sword. With a file size of only 16 gigabytes, they managed to make a better game than the ones that are a hundred gigabytes. For those points that I mentioned, and more (being a Zelda fan makes it more special to me), The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom deserve a perfect score of 10/10.    … Expand
  12. soraofmemories
    May 13, 2023
    10
    This game, along with its predecessor BOTW, as well as RDR2, GTA V and The Witcher 3 are the proof games are the best form of entertainment.
    This is simply the best game ever made. Period.
  13. kuiriz1
    May 15, 2023
    10
    Es un gran juego me gusta que una secuela supere al original, hay tantas formas creativas de resolver los puzlez que wow, es genial me encantó, se esforzaron y lograron una digna secuela, juego que también es para coleccionar
  14. uliags
    May 15, 2023
    10
    Superaron con creces lo que parece casi imposible, una aventura unica llena de sorpresas, con las nuevas mecanicas incorporadas para surcar los cielos y el subsuelo, llevo mas de 30 horas jugando y sigo sintiendo un mundo vivo y abrumador, donde las posibilidades son casi infinitas.
    NINTENDO LO VOLVIO A HACER.
  15. Pantaloon
    May 23, 2023
    10
    Not just GOTY, it’s the best game ever made. All these negative reviews are ridiculous especially the 0 out of 10 reviews.
  16. dnising2
    May 14, 2023
    10
    Botw‘s worthy successor is finally out. At first I was afraid that, after 100+ hours with Botw, I would find this one boring, but was surprised when I was a few hours in and noticed that it was quite the contrary: a bigger, more diverse world divided intro three realms, new weapons, new enemies, new locations and amazing new gadgets that leave nothing to your imagination. A masterpiece.
  17. KidScottyJ
    May 26, 2023
    10
    Just finishing it after 140 hours.
    Damn thas was something!
    I was not a fan of Botw, for me it was lack of something, it was a prototype, but now WE have the Real game! And what a game OMG, exploration + creativity + Zelda feels = perfection
    The story of legend of Zelda is revisited inspiring of all the greatest Zelda
  18. zachtgray
    May 14, 2023
    10
    No game has ever been more deserving of a 10 out of 10. Hats off to the devs
  19. Lucasrob
    May 15, 2023
    10
    One of the best games ever! The negative scores are from haters. You need to put in at least 10/20 hours into this game to be able to provide an unbiased review - most of the haters have not even played the game or only played it for a few hours. Nintendo did it once again, what a fantastic team of developers.
  20. snowcubee
    Jun 21, 2023
    10
    I was a bit skeptical at first, was worried about how it would run on the switch but from the moment I started playing I was hooked, this game delivered in ways I wasn't expecting. The exploration in this game is amazing and the side quests are also as fu as the main quest. This has become my game of the year.
  21. Azlex2334
    May 18, 2023
    10
    Just amazing. The game retains all the good stuff from Breath of the Wild, whilst also adding multiple layers with brand new mechanics that can be used in so many different ways. On top of this, there’s a more present storyline with far more challenging boss encounters. Just Fantastic
  22. LEEPH
    Jun 7, 2023
    10
    If I don't give this game a perfect score, I think the good games I've been playing so far should be a good 7 point game.
  23. alexegiyan
    May 15, 2023
    10
    Best game ever made, great abilities, incredible traversal system and an overwhelming amount of things to do.
  24. Nathan1190
    May 14, 2023
    10
    Este juego me ha fascinado un monton, expande todo lo visto en Breath of The Wild, siento que cada parte de Hyrule esta mas completo, cada lugar tiene algo nuevo, algo oculto, o alguna interaccion secreta, aunque su estructura de historia no cambia mucho con la anterior, realmente me ha conmovido, despues de tanto tiempo esperando, no me ha defraudado para nada, sus fisicas en general sonEste juego me ha fascinado un monton, expande todo lo visto en Breath of The Wild, siento que cada parte de Hyrule esta mas completo, cada lugar tiene algo nuevo, algo oculto, o alguna interaccion secreta, aunque su estructura de historia no cambia mucho con la anterior, realmente me ha conmovido, despues de tanto tiempo esperando, no me ha defraudado para nada, sus fisicas en general son las mejores que he visto, y al ser tu el que interactua con estas cosas te hace explotar la cabeza de tantas cosas por muy pequeñas que sean ahi estan es maravilloso, los mejores 70$ dolares que he gastado en mucho tiempo… Expand
  25. Ginopino
    May 14, 2023
    10
    Just one of the best game i have ever had the pleasure to try. And the best open world with rdr2
  26. Arturos
    May 14, 2023
    10
    If you liked the first one then TOTK is for you, it's even better real Nintendo players don't care about the graphics,the game is just beautiful and fun.
  27. Deank1006
    Jun 9, 2023
    10
    Just completed the game at around 130 hours. I have not done everything, but have done most things. Improved upon botw in nearly every way. The story was solid, and the final boss battle was GOW level in how epic it was. I’m happy to complete the game, and it was one of the most enjoyable games I’ve played for a long time.
  28. JERAMCR
    May 16, 2023
    10
    Another legendary aventure with amazing puzzles! This game is revolutionary!
  29. Hatmann
    May 15, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I want to first address the ppl giving low scores or Average scores as well as negative reviews (7 or below). I read about 10-15 of them. I would say 12 of them didn't like the first game or at least saw BOTW as a 7 (based from there review). If u loved the first, you will love this one MORE.

    Now regarding the comments stating that the map is reused- the map IS brought back, however, it is revamped as well as the shrines are in different places and shrines themselves are completely Different puzzles and brand NEW. If anyone here has played Bloodborne - the old hunter DLC took an already played area but COMPLETLY revamped it- basically making it feel like a new area and fresh and almost unrecognizable. It's the same here in this game. You go to a familiar place and your not like "oh this is the same old place" - its more like "Oh i didint even know this was that place from b4".

    I want to say this as my final thoughts. Zelda BOTW was my first Zelda game ever and when i bought it i had no expectations and didint know what to expect, and was blown away which lead to be replaying it 4x over the years. When i got this game I told myself im sure this is the same thing as b4 there's no way they can change it up, AND for the first few hours i was like "yea this is just more BOTW" BUT when I continued i realized that i was so wrong and much better and more then BOTW2.    … Expand
  30. itmind
    May 19, 2023
    10
    One of the best game ever created! Big open world with so much to do… +200 hours easy for completing!
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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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