The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Review 

Its bugs are part of the game just like in the first one 😂

Sony does kid

@@michaelmyersplays4992 sony does fun intractable movies

@@michaelmyersplays4992 What Sony does well is story heavy single player adventures. Botw and Totk are both sandbox open worlds with immergent gameplay, Sony never made a single game of this genre in their entire existance. Even their open world stuff is still story heavy adventure, any open world elements of it are just Ubisoft formula 1.5. Thats not a dig at their games, its just that its not the main focus of these games. So tldr: entirely not comparable.

don't compare it with western developers

very true

I dont think they are getting enough credit for how polished this game is. The fact that they created an entire system based around physics and did not end up with a buggy mess of a game is amazing.

Nintendo has patented many of these systems I believe so it can be hard to copy it legally. Then again, most developers wouldn't even be able to code something like this, so I'm sure this will be a once in a lifetime experience.

They already did.... 6 years ago

@@xmxh9596they delayed the game for over a year just to polish it!! More studios need to look at Nintendo as an example of how to really run a game dev cycle

Yes, it should be tagged with CONTAIN SPOILERS

I've beaten the game. And this really is not spoiling very much, to be honest. I mean compared to the other reviews I saw this shows more but the game is quite big. trust

Yes, I don't need a review to tell me half the story and surprises before I play the game.

Yeah, I stopped watching at the 8:30 mark because it was getting into major spoilers for the intro to the game.

Ha yeah I also stopped watching halfway 😮 Spoilers spoil the fun! I want to be surprised as much as possible while playing! Tomorrow…..

thank you so much dude

Thank you friend, your sacrifice will not be forgotten.

You earned yourself a cookie, my friend.

Gold star for you ⭐️

They sure do 😑

Can i go to your house and play 😅

Dont buy its soo bad

@@wesleyvl8572 tf are you on

@@wesleyvl8572 Haha bad how

And i cant wait to die 5 second after i wake up in the tutorial section lol

@@Spectwal He's in an echo chamber

Because the fandom wills it. The game looks terrible performance wise and visually it’s like having glaucoma.

Mario and Zelda are still benchmarks for videogame quality after all this time, it's honestly incredible. It's a shame the Pokemon games can't be this good despite being the most profitable IP ever.

"Others" want a piece of the audience, that's all.

Almost as if they just all blanket get 10s regardless.

​@@Xeno-Zip1 Despite of the severe performance limits of the hardware TOTK probably transcends that and still actually deserves a 10. I'll play it on Yuzu for 1440p 60fps though.

What a good moment to be alive .. Zelda sat on his throne at one side and Miyazaki from Elden Ring sat on the other throne .. Love them both ..

@@ramidp Elden Ring is just a rip-off of Breath of the Wild.

​@Lone Wolf BOTW is Skyrims son

On throne for Nintendo games yes... 20-30 fps 💩🤡

@@zyllergaming cope

20 years homeboy.

True. A less-than-perfect review from GameSpot is like a canary in a coal mine.

Dude everyone I've seen except Game Informer gave it a 10 for some reason GameInformer gave it 9.75 like is the .25 that you felt was missing?

​@@renereyes2648Ive read on some game sites that they sometimes take bribes for their reviews. Maybe that? 😂

​@First Name Last Name nah it's like everyone agrees its a 9 or a 10/10 game

They wouldn't dare give it anything less and risk having nintendrones with pitchforks in their comments. You're not allowed to criticize these games.

Exactly

or they could just stop holding themselves back and make a PS5 or PC game

Yeah but Nintendo will always favour gameplay and innovation over graphical fidelity. Don't need to waste millions on polygons when your games play this perfectly

Though unfortunately, Nintendo is always a generation (or TWO!) behind in console power. My old a$$ computer (which lacks a dedicated graphics card, mind you) should NOT be able to run a current generation console game, yet I've been playing Switch games on it, umm, recently...

they've never focus on performance when it comes to making these games, they will favor the experience, story and mechanics/gameplay over the looks no matter how strong the system is. WindWaker was on a System that was stronger than the competition at the time and could've make something that looked entirely different yet they went for simple Cell shaded and added a lot of charisma to its presentation with hundreds of different characters that each had their own look and personality without any feeling generic. you never know what the team will do but we can always expect something incredible from the team.

Link beats Ganon

Lol I see they haven't changed after all these years. This is why I either skip to the end of their reviews for the summary or pass entirely.

Who cares about story in a game like this?

Cry more.

@@NineTails87 me…

that s not a spoiler given that you ll know all of that in 30 minutes into the game . if u haven t played the game yet , there is a looooot more to the story and plot twists than you d ever imagine :p

Still is a spoiler. I was very disappointed in the things this review let out that others didn’t

Yeah agree - they showed and said way too much. Had to stop watching. Their reviews are usually good, but this was way off.

In insight, this is disgusting to watch.. even showed stuff he didn't need to.

It's the best Zelda story ever.

@@zemocon2868 I completely disagree.. Wind Waker is very comparable to it, and that one is equally scarce and more filled with gameplay.

@@Big_Dai did you type that after finishing the story?

It's the sacrifice he's talking about. The protect them all.

Keep the DND comparisons coming. Similar to wizards cough of the coast Nintendo also loves sending lawyers after their fans

@@ZombiZohm depends what the “fans” have been doing I guess 🤷‍♀️

Nintendo is a great company. One thing that never ceases to amaze me is how they can make even simple gameplay seem revolutionary, because of how much they focus on the experience itself and all the little details.

My favorite games of all time can fit on a tiny 12mb cartridge. Games are about gameplay first and always.

graphics quality does not equal price tag, this is even more true now that Unreal Engine 5 is out

Less Nintendo bias and more just Zelda bias. Even Nintendo fans are starting to be against Nintendo itself.

@@stuff3862 Yes, but performance is a part of the experience. All Nintendo fans and Nintendo game reviewers throw that out the window specifically for Nintendo games alone (except when it comes to Pokémon because that was broken). Like I said, giving TOTK a 10 means that it can’t be improved, which is false because it can in terms of graphics and performance. I’m not saying the game isn’t great because it is (just like Legends Arceus was), but it’s not perfect. At least half a point should be taken off for that alone. The game would be 10/10 on better hardware tho, like people who are emulating the game on computers would say

@@Blueybeak You fail to realize that fps does affect a game, especially an action one. You might disagree with the visuals, but any performance dip affects the experience, and even consistent 30 fps is embarrassing for 2023. Again, I blame Nintendo, not the developers, for this. Just imagine how playing Zelda with a better frame rate would be.

Fused baril bomb shield to slow mo bowshot ?? Yes pleeease !

I lost it lol

not with locks/keys but with more puzzles and themes. Which is all we need.

Having beaten the game, no they didn't get corrected. Not even close.

This game is even wors

​@@rob4750 there were an abundance of puzzles in Breath of the Wild.

@@tetermc ‘beaten the game’. Lies

Objective!? How is a 10/10 objective?

They always do this. This is why I always upvote ign reviews but not gamespot’s.

@@xorrior4438 but if you know this, why do you keep going to this site

@@ryancbarrett96 Just checking to see how many 10 out of 10’s Zelda is getting.

@@xorrior4438 pretty good across the board. Still gonna wait for an emulation.

I want that too but its so unlikely

i see the the review in ign and it has the zombies from oot and some nightmer fuel like mm

Zelda game sales were actually declining because too many of the games were like Ocarina of Time. Too predictable and too much of the same.

There’s no way they go back, it’s not in there best interest, botw style Zelda has gained them massive amounts of players and people they didn’t play Zelda. OoT style Zelda is over, an age past. I love OoT and Majoras mask but you gotta know when your time is up. The real question is how long can they keep cranking out botw Type Zelda games before it gets stale.

@@Neodante15 I think the only way they can innovate further than they did with Botw is if they go towards realism

Nintendo fan not criticising Sony challenge (impossible)

It’s exactly like BotW.

@@bobbrossify that’s what I wanted to hear xD thank you xD

It does not.. specially when this review is spoiler ridden, and the game doesn't deserve a perfect mark

Lucky! 👍👍

These “dungeons” ain’t like the OG ones. They still feel like botw “dungeons”

@@smileyuwu_ ​ No one expected a 1:1 match with say, the Wind Waker - how would that even work lol, people would breeze through them with the Abilities and Climbing powers Link now has so how have you not considered that? All We wanted were *Unique end Bosses* which are here. I just can't agree to your opinion when I've _seen_ 2 on a stream in detail and they are lush, vastly themed and very atmospheric. They remind me of nothing like Breath's old & bland empty shells.

@@smileyuwu_ how do you know this?

@@netweed09 its basically the same concept as divine beasts with activate 4 or 5 terminals and then you can fight the boss. But like you said the theme in these temples are so much better, each temple has a unique feel and I actually liked every boss from the "main" 4 temples

@@Iusta-ny7mq ​ I mean, it's a _really_ inaccurate opinion at best. 🤷‍♂ He totally forgets the Divine Beasts were walking, mobile automatons. As such, you could 'see everything' with one field of view - and indeed they were very limited and simple by design and structure. The new Dungeons in Tears are nothing like that lol. Sure, they don't have maybe 20+ rooms like a Wind Waker dungeon - but they are _actual_ multi-roomed buildings or structures that are _Vast_ and heavily themed. Ie: Dungeons.

i mean you could always check the % on your map

You know, it's possible to like more than one franchise fangirl.

They released a dlc while ago

They kinda did tho 😂

No online features like FromSoftware Soulsborne games, no jolly co-op, messaging, pvp, or multiplayer community, but otherwise it's actually on par and deserving of a 10.

Yes, masters at taking people's money (even more this time around) by making sure to reuse ample resources and leaving systems untouched, and not listening to any of the critiques.

​@@Big_Dai Eh it's free if you just play with Yuzu emulator :D

@@JFinnsyou don’t need any of that

@@Big_Daiyou’re just saying this cause you can’t afford to buy this masterpiece

When will people realize that just because the traditional format was traditional doesn't mean it's always good?

Yeah. Weapons actually break faster now, but fuse makes it more manageable imo. Plus enemies drop weapon parts now, meaning there’s a good chance you can get a good stack of great fuseable parts if you beat up enough of em

@@avocadeous Weapons do not break faster. It's about the same rate as in BotW. Obviously you're supposed to fuse to the decayed weapons to increase the durability to its normal level and make the weapon do more damage.

Most of the problems BotW had are still present.. After 6 years Nintendo simply decided that they were perfect the first time and changed nothing. How was your time with the game, miss Rachel?

@@Big_Dai I’ve been having fun playing it but I agree with you. It still feels empty and even though I appreciate there are more side quests, they still feel pretty pointless when all you get is a dish you could have easily made yourself or a muddlebud or something. Or when you find a treasure chest in a secret place and it just has a mediocre weapon that will break immediately, regardless if you fuse it or not. It’s still enjoyable to play but I wish that the characters and world were more complex and immersive. It’s a huge world but rather one-dimensional in that when you’ve discovered something in one place, you’ve discovered it everywhere.

@@sayhirachel If anything, I'm glad you are enjoying. God knows it's hard to truly be able to properly enjoy something. I did too! The beginning and acclimation to the new Systems, as well as the discovery of all Zonai devices were the best part. The start and conclusion of the story fekt much better this time around, though it all feels like Nintendo was making some sort of amends .. or grievances they had with BotW? Makes me wonder if having to release it for both the Wii U and Switch had a negative effect. But since most systems are pretty much the same, the drop in excitement is pretty steep and rather soon. I didn't like combat the first time around, and didn't this time. And the map has all the landmarks of a land I spent 400+ hours in, robbing it from the magic this time. And you put it very eloquently : "by making a discovery somewhere, you discover it everywhere". Thank you for sharing. I appreciate your opinion.

you should get botw first and totk later on

No need to play BotW now, you're gonna get burned out afterwards

The temples are god awful by the way. They’re just divine beasts dressed up like temples

Underground is VERY lacking, and Temples are definitely NOT back

Lies

@@AR_112 fan boy detected.....he is telling the truth

@@true_gamer39 hater detected. He’s telling lies

@@true_gamer39 That's funny because you only think he's telling the truth because he agrees with you.

@@LineOfThy um no...he is telling the truth ....6 years of development there should be more .....and like he said odds are if u had issues with botw u will have the same issues here.....the shirnes are seriously repetitive and there are only 4 dungeons and no items....Nintendo could release a game of link sitting on the toilet and it would get 10s across the board

Played it, beat it, and it pretty much is. People are fooling themselves. A few new mechanics and a couple caves with no point to explore aren't nearly enough for 6 years of development.

@@tetermc glorified DLC TBH

I agree. Link hasn’t uttered a single word in 35 years. I’m sure he has plenty to talk about besides his gasps while swinging the sword.

They try their best to make everyone hate Nintendo as much as they do.

@@Drstrange3000 yet they’re here soon as the reviews drop. I’ve always found that so weird lol. Oh well, can’t rain on my parade, I’m ready for the game. Hope you are too!

xbox gamers with no exclusives

@@brandonchambers963 I'm beyond ready! Let us enjoy 😁