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. Norick92
    Sep 11, 2023
    10
    The game it's really awesome I already finish it but I create a new account just to started again, you can played again and every time is incredible amazing
  2. Enrikenarga01
    Sep 11, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Um game impressionante de tirar o fôlego com essas novas mecânicas criativas e inovadora, nunca tinhae divertido tanto com um game.… Expand
  3. Shadowslayer64
    Sep 11, 2023
    10
    Excellent game by Nintendo. Ultrahand is potentially the best item in a video-game ever, with endless creative possibilities, mixed with the puzzle-solving; it's super brilliant. Over 220 hours put into this game, which is crazy for a single-player game. World feels alive this time and not empty.
  4. Arngrim560
    Jun 24, 2023
    5
    Sorry but cant say i enjoy this like a new brand game, constructions at first stage feels new but when u play like 40h+ are just another secondary thing.
    The sidequest are awful with stupid rewards (100 rupee, mushrooms with rice etc), the combat system keeps being old and easy while you have food in the saddlebag you are unbeatable making all bosses a pile of trash including Ganon, the    Sorry but cant say i enjoy this like a new brand game, constructions at first stage feels new but when u play like 40h+ are just another secondary thing.
    The sidequest are awful with stupid rewards (100 rupee, mushrooms with rice etc), the combat system keeps being old and easy while you have food in the saddlebag you are unbeatable making all bosses a pile of trash including Ganon, the poor Gerudo dies as fast as you press 1 button, his 3rd phase is like ... Ok QTE escene would be work better than this.
    The armors are just a collectible you wont use more than 3 or 4 and are from bow literaly the rest still there for nothing cause the bonus they give are another trash.
    Music is impressive, the rest is plenty of flaws.
    Feels strange that in the scenes link keeps being a mr bean and another characters asks and answers by themselves, even the master-sword talks more lol.
    Definitely not perfect, being fanboy dont make any favor to the franchise, needs a big update on the combat, side-quest, Link and even in the main history, and make sure the rewards are worth, not just a farm of masked collectibles    … Expand
  5. Randon98
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    La perfecta ejecucion de mecanicas, historia y diversion, un juego que junto con zelda botw marca un antes y un despues en como desarrollar juego de mundo abierto.
  6. starwarsgrim
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    Incredible................................................................................
  7. Falcon612
    Sep 10, 2023
    2
    This game was a nightmare to experience. The English voice actors were so irritating I had to turn the voice acting into a different language. The camera controls were awful no matter how I set them. And the tutorial level is slow, and full of obtuse puzzle obstacles which don't make you feel clever for solving them, just frustrated. There was one place in the tutorial level where youThis game was a nightmare to experience. The English voice actors were so irritating I had to turn the voice acting into a different language. The camera controls were awful no matter how I set them. And the tutorial level is slow, and full of obtuse puzzle obstacles which don't make you feel clever for solving them, just frustrated. There was one place in the tutorial level where you can get stuck if you happen to fall off the icy ledge before getting the Ascend ability, WHICH could have been easily remedied if they enabled warping in the tutorial level. Two hours of non-stop frustration.… Expand
  8. N3M3Z1Zz
    Sep 10, 2023
    9
    Absolute masterpiece, best open world OAT, mind-blowing abilities, dozens of enemies, weapons and equipment. PERFECT
  9. Dunge
    Sep 10, 2023
    7
    I completed the game last week after playing for 3 weeks nonstop, got all shrines and sidequests complete (but not seeds/armors upgrades/photos), just like I did with BOTW.

    I'm a huge Zelda fan and completed all games in the series, I had the same opinion as I often read about BOTW, it's an amazing open world game filled with content, but a very poor Zelda game. I hate how people praised    I completed the game last week after playing for 3 weeks nonstop, got all shrines and sidequests complete (but not seeds/armors upgrades/photos), just like I did with BOTW.

    I'm a huge Zelda fan and completed all games in the series, I had the same opinion as I often read about BOTW, it's an amazing open world game filled with content, but a very poor Zelda game. I hate how people praised the "you can do anything in any order" part, that's exactly what makes it stray away from the formula. You are supposed to unlock unique items in a specific order to gain abilities and unlock harder sections of the map, that's what makes a Zelda game a Zelda game. I also hated like most the weapon destruction, and the stamina/climbing that while it helped with locomotion, it was painfully slow and long and padded the playtime with annoying moments doing nothing but waiting. Nevertheless, I enjoyed pretty much everything else.

    Come TOTK, I initially got a bad first impression when they showcased it with a construction aspect. I hate construction games, if I wanted to do so I would play Sim Cities or Minecraft or online survival games, not a single player Action RPG. But fortunately, it ended up being not bad at all. The fact that pieces are limited and break after a while restrict it to smaller sets and mostly to get past a simple puzzle, so I actually liked it.

    The new paragliding mechanic is great for faster locomotion too, but completely rendered the horses useless (never used one in the whole game except for quests). It also brings the same negative aspect as climbing that half of the gameplay time is spent teleporting to a tower, launching up and gliding toward the objective point, which get long and repetitively annoying with nothing happening.

    As far as the rest of gameplay elements go, there's absolutely nothing else, it's a complete copy/paste of the same game with no redeeming qualities that can explain the long development time, same engine, same graphics, same combats, same quest structure. I think they trolled us by making the weapons "decayed" and even easier to break. Instead of making longer more complex shrines, they just added even more!

    The depths seemed cool at first, and I loved the Yoga questline in there, but after it was done I realized it was just an empty mess. It's 10x bigger than it should have been and there's absolutely no reward for lighting it up, it seems like a big afterthought they didn't complete. "Just make the players run along in the dark for hours with no goal".

    But the part that disappointed me the most are the side quests. In every previous Zelda games, including BOTW, they were at least interesting to complete, always with some funny or clever aspects. In TOTK, they are just fillers, they are boring collectible or just going back and forth to places. I feel like they forced themselves to place references to every character of other games, even if it didn't fit in the story and the world, they put them there as an afterthought to fill in a checklist of references.

    That said, I still loved my time playing it, but I absolutely cannot agree with people saying it's the game of the year, it's just a downgrade to this marvelous series. I seriously hope Nintendo scraps the concept and reboots anew again for the next title.    … Expand
  10. bifefed7
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    Que nintendo haya sido capaz de que este juego funcione en la switch es pura brujería, con la libertad que te da y posibilidad de hacer todo como a ti te de la gana supera al anterior en todo.
  11. johnnysv21
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    Gioco unico nel suo genere.
    Come dire, Zelda ha marcato un passato e continua a marcare un presente. Pensavo che non c'era più da innovare invece mi sbagliavo. Questo gioco è pieno d'innovazione, design e creatività.
  12. Elvistete
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    Zelda e zelda nunca dececiona maravilha de game as desenvolver
    Rãs de jogos vão ter que correr atrás de porque ela estás anos na frente
  13. Lillasillen
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    This game takes BOTW, a GOTY winner, and expands and improves on it massively with map expansion and a change in abilities, an AMAZING SEQUEL, and Is my personal GOTY 2023.
  14. LeoMorgan
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    Incredible freedom on gampleay mechanics and content, beautiful exciting game and i guess the story is aight
  15. N1CKPROGAMER
    Sep 10, 2023
    0
    Gioco scadente, fatto per bambini senza mani, grafica da ps1, musica noiosa, storia banalissima e scontata, gameplay ridicolo, personaggi inutili, frame rate scadente, se questo è il goty 2023 io sono Cicciolina
  16. Tadlad
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    This game did what a sequel is supposed to do by building upon BOTW's mechanics and by adding upgraded features. The two main things I enjoyed most from this game is the insane amount of exploration and the fun building mechanics. The music and art design were both fantastic just like BOTW. I was happy to play this game because I enjoyed BOTW, so no matter what, I was going to like thisThis game did what a sequel is supposed to do by building upon BOTW's mechanics and by adding upgraded features. The two main things I enjoyed most from this game is the insane amount of exploration and the fun building mechanics. The music and art design were both fantastic just like BOTW. I was happy to play this game because I enjoyed BOTW, so no matter what, I was going to like this game to some extent. Yet, all of the new features I discovered while playing shocked me and made me love this game even more. Overall, Tears of the Kingdom brought back a similar experience with several new mechanics and better gameplay from BOTW.… Expand
  17. manooo93
    Sep 9, 2023
    6
    I was extremely exited about TOTKD. And to be fair, I have avoided all trailers about the game. I knew Breath Of The Wild very well, so for me the first two weeks of playing were so frustrating, because everywhere i went, I dindt have this satisfying feeling of discovering something new. Everything felt recycled and in my personal experience, the game was average at best. But I understand,I was extremely exited about TOTKD. And to be fair, I have avoided all trailers about the game. I knew Breath Of The Wild very well, so for me the first two weeks of playing were so frustrating, because everywhere i went, I dindt have this satisfying feeling of discovering something new. Everything felt recycled and in my personal experience, the game was average at best. But I understand, that everyone who watched some trailers was aware what they were in for.… Expand
  18. he4rtless
    Sep 9, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Sencillamente una obra maestra, no hay otra manera de llamarlo, este juego hace maravillas y es capaz de mantenerme horas y horas entretenido… Expand
  19. comikeh4
    Sep 9, 2023
    10
    el juego es una maravilla, mejora en todos los aspectos al anterior zelda y hace sentir que breath of the wild fue una beta a comparación
  20. MauroPeixoto23
    Sep 9, 2023
    0
    Tirando a gameplay, o resto parou a três gerações atrás, péssimos gráficos, performance ruim e o principal sem legendas em PTBR.
  21. Rakavot
    Sep 9, 2023
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Tears of the Kingdom brings so many fun mechanics to the already great foundation that Breath of the Wild created. The depths added hours of fun exploration and although there are not too many sky islands, the rewards I found up there were always a joy to obtain. The dungeons are a huge improvement over its predecessor but once again the shrines can start to feel a little repetitive and tedious after some time.

    Being able to visit this version of Hyrule one more time and experience the changes to the overworld and characters left me constantly smiling. The only reason this score is an 8 for me instead of higher is parts of the game do feel very similar to BOTW which in this case is both a positive and a negative.    … Expand
  22. Flame0510
    Sep 9, 2023
    10
    Awesome game! The freedom, the main and secondary quests and the number of things to do make the game very long, but still always something to discover even when you think nothing is left in certain areas. The possibility of building customizable machines further increases the hours of play and allows you to do as you wish.
  23. Goose12345
    Sep 9, 2023
    5
    I had a pretty well thought out review prepared for TotK to justify giving it such a middling score, but through the power of the internet and Error 403, that review has, much like my hopes for this game, been cast into the pits of despair, consigned to endless oblivion.

    In short, as I've already wasted enough time talking about a game I can't seem to get myself to enjoy: -Ultrahand    I had a pretty well thought out review prepared for TotK to justify giving it such a middling score, but through the power of the internet and Error 403, that review has, much like my hopes for this game, been cast into the pits of despair, consigned to endless oblivion.

    In short, as I've already wasted enough time talking about a game I can't seem to get myself to enjoy:

    -Ultrahand is a novelty that quickly becomes tedious and jerks me out of any immersion I may have felt regarding the exploration and story elements.

    -The same can be said for weapon durabilty and the new "feature" of using Link's power of "Gorilla Glue" to attach random bits and bobs to a stick, turning it into a new-and-improved stick. I didn't have a problem with this in BotW, though it was annoying at times; the new mechanic just means I'm forced to spend hours of my finite existence attaching things to other things; it's like I'm trapped in a nightmare where I'm forced to make children's crafts and then go out into the wide-open (and sort of boring, to be honest) world and beat something to death with them.

    -I can't comment on the story, as I haven't been able to force myself to endure the water-boarding that is the new "Super Zelda Maker" building mechanic long enough to get to anything approaching an interesting story hook. Notwithstanding this, I've received mixed signals on the story from other reviews: some swear it's the best thing since sliced bread; others say it's boring and full of contrivances and retconning of lore from other games. I sincerely hope the latter isn't true, but given i've already been spoiled on a few major plot points and was pretty unimpressed with them, I don't have high hopes.

    All in all, this game might be acceptable if it didn't have the Legend of Zelda or Breath of the Wild names attached to it, with all of the expectations that entails. But as a Zelda game, it's not at all what I expected, and sets a precedent for the series that I have no interest in. Here's hoping this is an anomaly and not a guidepost for how the games are going to be moving forward. The saying goes that a bad craftsman blames his tools. But I came here to go on an adventure and save a princess, not build 500 rafts and bridges.    … Expand
  24. Fugitivo
    Sep 9, 2023
    5
    Ótimo jogo mas péssima empresa (de games), uma vergonha um jogo AAA vim sem opção em português em pleno 2023, vergonha maior ainda saber que quem tem o console desbloqueado (pirata) tem acesso a tradução feita por fãs poucos meses depois do lançamento, enquanto uma super empresa igual a Nintendo vem com desculpinha que não consegue traduzir o jogo. Minha nota ruim vai por isso, fora oÓtimo jogo mas péssima empresa (de games), uma vergonha um jogo AAA vim sem opção em português em pleno 2023, vergonha maior ainda saber que quem tem o console desbloqueado (pirata) tem acesso a tradução feita por fãs poucos meses depois do lançamento, enquanto uma super empresa igual a Nintendo vem com desculpinha que não consegue traduzir o jogo. Minha nota ruim vai por isso, fora o preço super salgado do jogo, ridículo não ter nosso idioma.… Expand
  25. ecoPT
    Sep 9, 2023
    10
    The only thing wrong in this game was the marketing that made it look like the sky area was where most of the new content was, when in reality it was the depths but it still deserves a 10/10 this is what any game dev should look up to (also ending made me cry in a game for the first time).
  26. Lemagex
    Sep 9, 2023
    8
    This improves on the concepts brought to the series in BOTW but also further adds a building mode (I never knew I wanted this)
  27. Cooperthewoopr
    Sep 9, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's botw but bigger better abilitys better bosses new quests who cares if it's too similar to botw, botw Is one of the best games ever made.… Expand
  28. DieRumtreiber
    Sep 9, 2023
    10
    Macht sehr viel Spaß hat ein coole Story mit guten Nebenquests und guten schreinräzzeln und es giebt viel zu erkunden
  29. jinnbapho
    Sep 8, 2023
    10
    As epic as they come… at times it was a little too similar to BOTW, but even still this is a top game of all time.
  30. Pedrogael24
    Sep 8, 2023
    10
    Sin duda el mejor juego que he jugado hasta ahora, tiene muy buenos puzzles y es algo que se le agradece que mejoraran desde la entrega pasada. Sus físicas son inigualables permitiéndonos crear hasta un péndulo con lo bien hechas que están, y pasando a otra cosa La creación de vehículos es bastante más intuitiva de lo que aparenta pudiendo montar vehículos motos o incluso vehículos aéreosSin duda el mejor juego que he jugado hasta ahora, tiene muy buenos puzzles y es algo que se le agradece que mejoraran desde la entrega pasada. Sus físicas son inigualables permitiéndonos crear hasta un péndulo con lo bien hechas que están, y pasando a otra cosa La creación de vehículos es bastante más intuitiva de lo que aparenta pudiendo montar vehículos motos o incluso vehículos aéreos sin mucho rollo. Juntando eso a la increíble movilidad con la que cuenta link nos da como resultado que podemos atravesar Hyrule a nuestro gustó. Sin más detalles la historia es 'decente' y su forma de contarla es adecuada para el tipo de juego que nos entregan. Por lo dicho anteriormente este merece el goty aun después de haber probado el baldurs' gate y el desastroso starfield. Que he de decir que el baldur's es un juego muy ñoño … 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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