The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

As a huge Zelda fan, I wish they have stuck to the graphics in Twilight Princess. Breaking weapons & cooking was already a bad idea in BotW. Starting off in the sky, looks like a cheap Skyward Sword copy and this weird engineering construction stuff doesn't belong in a Zelda game. The clothes are weird, the plot is cheap, the music has changed for the bad. The game lacks all the exciting stuff from the N64 and WiiU era. Too much RPG at the cost of the adventure part, was the worst decision.

vast improvement over botw

Gud game aber nostalgie und so

Fantastic game but those anime-style main characters and cutscenes are absolutely not my cup of tea.

Massive disappointment compared to the first one. Aside from the rehashed stuff, it ruins a lot of the beautiful environments and the atmosphere of solitude in the first game. Too much crap all over the place, copy pasted caves, too much focus on a lame story rather than letting the player craft their own entirely, fused items looks absurd and ugly, and having to fuse elemental arrows each time rather than having them ready to go is a major PITA.

Did it actually improve upon Breath of the Wild? I daresay it did. Huge open world, lots of lore and story, and it's just very fun to play.

I wanna be the next TotK cast member, and here's why I should be a contender. Hi Shigeru, I'm Morshu, and of course you've been feeling the heat because your game got delayed to 2023. I know you got rope and bombs but I feel I oughta be selling it, when it comes to shopkeeps you have to give me credit.

It kinda solves some of my gripes with BOTW - lack of an underworld (although the Depths are boring once you've lit up the roots) - and weapon durability through the fuse mechanic, which is fun. Although improving on some aspects of BOTW, I wouldn't say TOTK is better, because the temples & new environments (sky islands & Depths) are still lacking + BOTW's superior atmosphere. Needed a Shadow temple and some more enemies like those gloom hands (encountering those for the 1st time was amazing).

I have officially completed TotK to the standard I’m happy with (didn’t do every side quest or cave or collect everything, but I did every shrine, all main quest line, charted the depths, most side adventures, killed King Gleeok, etc). And yeah it’s indeed excellent. Exploring the sky was a blast, shrine puzzles fun, physics engine great, fighting enjoyable, finale epic. I only notch it down from my top score because in my heart classic Ocarina-style Zelda dungeons will always reign supreme.

Packed full of so many things to do, but not all of them interest me. Building/crafting as a mechanic in general doesn't appeal to me, so while there were moments of intense satisfaction from me using these mechanics in a way I thought of as clever, I found myself only using the bare minimum required most of the time. The narrative beats were interesting enough, with one that I found particularly great. I wasn't too keen on the final stages of the game, so my epic experience fizzled out, sadly.