The Legend of Zelda is a highly successful franchise that has spawned about 4 decades of games at this point. It is no surprise that when they decided to come out with a sequel (for lack of better words) to Breath of the Wild that the game would be highly, highly popular among the Nintendo and Zelda fanbases. What came of it was The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. This game set massive markers in terms of copies sold, money and popularity all within the first month of release. I was someone who bought this game on its release date. What do I think it did well and what do I think it needed to do better on? All that and more below!
Positives:
1. Different Abilities- To be able to ascend, build and other things makes this really a neat game overall with these things to do. It's a very solid addition to the game. I don't think I need to say much on the ascending, but the building is awesome. To get the full experience on that, please YouTube something on Tears of the Kingdom and building things. You have anything from cars, actual boats or even Beyblades.
2. The Depths- If I am honest, I was very skeptical about this part in the game for starters. I didn't think it would go well at all and I was actually quite wrong. The Depths were absolutely well done. You had to evade enemies, while dealing with the Gloom, while figuring out where you are, and on top of that, knowing if you are near a light root at all. All of it was fantastic and I appreciated exploring the depths as much as possible.
3. Two of the final fights- I appreciated two of the final fights as they seemed very end game like. They also brought the flair and the dramatics of it being a final fight to the forefront. I loved the challenge of it and it was absolutely terrific to go through with. Overall, two of them were great (I'll cover one other in a moment, but I don't want to spoil it.)
4. Graphics/Sound- I don't think it needs to warrant much mentioning but yes the graphics and soundtrack are fantastic.
5. Gleeoks- Yeah these dragon things are on here. I actually made the mistake of running and getting smoked by them a few times. But another time I beat a couple and felt awesome about it. It's one of those optional things that you don't go too far out of the way for but when you do, it's neat to get done. It's one of the cooler side missions Zelda has done over the course of their games.
6. Story- I like the story overall. We already know the main crux of what to do but to get there was pretty neat and to get through to talk to everyone you need to for the game, that was pretty cool. Overall, not sure what else they could have done to elongate the story without it being fluff at that point but they did very well overall with it.
Negatives:
1. The Sky Level- Yeah for as much as I enjoyed the depths, I found the Sky very much lacking for depth and really.. anything minus one shrine temple. They focused so much on it in promotion but it just fell flat in my honest opinion. I didn't really get much out of it.
2. Too Breath of the Wild Feel- There are a lot of components that are different to this game from Breath of the Wild but it feels map-wise, physics-wise and gameplay wise like Breath of the Wild and I feel that is a tad unfortunate. I feel if the game still had the same map as BOTW or similar to it that's one thing and that's fine. However, when a lot of the same mechanics of the previous game just go along with it, that's an issue that should have been addressed overall I felt.
3. Normal Enemy Difficulty- Okay.. it has to be said. What's with the regular enemies being insanely difficult most of the time in this game? Just regular bokoblins, Talus' and more are just insanely more difficult in this game even with good weapons. That.. just never made sense to me.
4. One of the Final Fights- I'm not going to say which one, but one of them just feels far too easy and at this point dragging the end out a bit too much. It feels like two phases of it was good, three was just a bit too much to this end game.
Overall Rating:
Despite some of the negatives, Tears of the Kingdom is well worth the play and deserving of the awards it got in 2023. I feel their positives well outweigh the negatives. Therefore, I honestly will rate Tears of the Kingdom an 8.5 out of 10.
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