The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023)

Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 3

Nintendo Switch

4.55 from 1981 ratings · #18 top rated on Grouvee

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How long? Main story 70h · with extras 120h · 100% 210h (from 133 logged playthroughs)

An epic adventure across the land and skies of Hyrule awaits in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for Nintendo Switch. The adventure is yours to create in a world fueled by your imagination. In this sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you'll decide your own path through the sprawling landscapes of Hyrule and … Read more
An epic adventure across the land and skies of Hyrule awaits in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for Nintendo Switch. The adventure is yours to create in a world fueled by your imagination. In this sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you'll decide your own path through the sprawling landscapes of Hyrule and the mysterious islands floating in the vast skies above. Can you harness the power of Link's new abilities to fight back against the malevolent forces that threaten the kingdom? Read less
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thevioletcow

Review thevioletcow 3/5 · Jun 28, 2025

Lacking Luster

I simply can't get over the fact that so much of the map of this game was reused from the previous one. Tears of the Kingdom is a great experience in a lot of ways, and certainly it improves on Breath of the Wild, but exploring most of the map wasn't all that compelling. The sky islands were cool I …

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I simply can't get over the fact that so much of the map of this game was reused from the previous one. Tears of the Kingdom is a great experience in a lot of ways, and certainly it improves on Breath of the Wild, but exploring most of the map wasn't all that compelling. The sky islands were cool I suppose.

Anyways, it's still a very good game, but ultimately it wasn't a great experience after having already beaten Breath of the Wild.

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Warnburglar

Review Warnburglar 3/5 · Jul 31, 2023

Not as good as I’d hoped, recycled world

I’m a huge Zelda fan but sadly I couldn’t enjoy this game as much as Breath of the Wild. As someone who takes immense pleasure in exploring and immersing myself in new worlds, the fact that they reused the world from BoTW was disappointing. Sure, there’s the sky and the underground, but they’re not as richly developed as the main …

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I’m a huge Zelda fan but sadly I couldn’t enjoy this game as much as Breath of the Wild. As someone who takes immense pleasure in exploring and immersing myself in new worlds, the fact that they reused the world from BoTW was disappointing. Sure, there’s the sky and the underground, but they’re not as richly developed as the main floor. At first I enjoyed the new fuse abilities and had a lot of fun with the puzzles, but eventually I’ve just lost interest in the story and the world in general. I actually enjoyed the shrines a lot in both games, I love the puzzle aspect, but after hundreds of shrines I’m ready for a new puzzle mechanic. I’m surprised by the comments that the story is better than BOTW, it didn’t really captivate me at all. I guess this is just not for me….I hope they come out with a new and completely unique Zelda game like how they did with Majoras Mask back in the day.

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guileffb

Review guileffb 4/5 · Jul 6, 2023

Breath of Tears of the Wild Kingdom

Nintendo did it again. Sort of.

To save you some time, if you liked Breath of the Wild, you'll like Tears of the Kingdom as well. If you didn't, nothing will change your mind.

It's all here. Engaging exploration, cute visuals, lots of surprises, crazy breakable weapons, shrines, great OST, koroks, creepy enemies, cool towers, funny writing, a nice story …

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Nintendo did it again. Sort of.

To save you some time, if you liked Breath of the Wild, you'll like Tears of the Kingdom as well. If you didn't, nothing will change your mind.

It's all here. Engaging exploration, cute visuals, lots of surprises, crazy breakable weapons, shrines, great OST, koroks, creepy enemies, cool towers, funny writing, a nice story and endless gameplay possibilities.

Only now you have some pretty new and impressive things to keep things fresh. Ascend is probably one of my favorite mechanics ever in a game, ultrahand is godsend, endlessly attaching things to your items never gets old and rewinding is pretty useful and creative. I'm not a "puzzle" guy and I thought these new things weren't going to stick the landing with me, but I was definitely wrong. It all works very well.

There are also two new maps. The sky islands and the depths. I absolutely loved everything in the sky, especially how well they were implemented to the story. It's astonishing. The depths were pretty fun and ominous at first, but became annoying and repetitive after a while.

TOTK is definitely remarkable, with plenty of things to catch you off guard, from the story to gameplay. The ending nearly brought me to tears, with some of the best "cinematic" moments and battles I've experienced in this franchise. It is, without a doubt, a good sequel to BOTW. A good one, with few flaws to point at.

Yet, one major feeling slowly crawled inside me on my 180h playthrough.

The sense of novelty kinda vanishes. Don't get me wrong, a game isn't supposed to throw new and shocking things at you at all times! But that overwhelming feeling I had when I played BOTW faded after 80h in. I felt like I was pretty much done with it after experiencing nearly everything new that the game had to offer. But there were MANY other things to do and explore. Felt like I was playing BOTW again and, although I LOVE that game, its replay factor might be its weakest aspect. The story is very shallow as well. Not that the first one was amazing, but it worked. Now it just...doesn't. It hardly even mentions the previous one.

That's really the only thing I have to complain about it. Or the biggest thing, in a way. A few problems from the previous entry are still here (like how they handle the "memories" and the infinite shrine hunting) or how the new "friend abilities" don't hold a candle to the likes of Revali's Gale or Mipha's Grace.

Tears of the Kingdom is a great game and there's A LOT to talk about it. But, for now, I'll just repeat what I said before: if you're like me, and you loved BOTW, pick this one up now. If you didn't, it will not change your mind.

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BadBoyBule

Review BadBoyBule 4/5 · Jul 2, 2023

Tolkuttoman laaja seikkailu

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kindom (eli sormiasäästävämmin TotK) on jatko-osa kenties kaikkien aikojen arvostetuimmalle pelille, Breath of the Wildille (aka BotW). Täytettävät saappaat ovat siis järkyttävän isot, mutta TotK täyttää nämä... ehkä vähän liiankin hyvin.

Pääosin TotK on hyvin samaa tavaraa kuin BotW: paljolti sama maailma, samoja vihuja, aseita ja esineitä sekä monia samoja hahmojakin. Pelissä edelleen …

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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kindom (eli sormiasäästävämmin TotK) on jatko-osa kenties kaikkien aikojen arvostetuimmalle pelille, Breath of the Wildille (aka BotW). Täytettävät saappaat ovat siis järkyttävän isot, mutta TotK täyttää nämä... ehkä vähän liiankin hyvin.

Pääosin TotK on hyvin samaa tavaraa kuin BotW: paljolti sama maailma, samoja vihuja, aseita ja esineitä sekä monia samoja hahmojakin. Pelissä edelleen kuljetaan läpi laajan Hyrulen maan, etsitään pyhättöpuzzleja ja kolutaan isompia teemoitettuja dunkkuja päätarinan avaamiseksi. Merkittävintä TotK:ssä on kuitenkin se, mikä on uutta. TotK sukeltaa täysin jo BotW:n herättämään sandbox-fiilikseen, mutta tuuttaa tämän päälle vielä älyttömästi luovuutta ja pelityylin vapautta antavia mekaniikkoja. Kaksi tärkeintä näistä on Fuse, jolla voi läntätä aseisiin tai kilpiin ties mitä romua eri efektien aikaansaamiseksi, sekä Ultrahand, jonka avulla voi puolestaan kasata ja rakennella lukuisista eri palasista haluamiaan kojeita. Mahdollisuuksia on hervoton määrä, ja kehitystiimi ansaitsee kaiken kiitoksen mekaniikan toteutuksesta. Myös Ascend-kyky, eli minkä tahansa katon läpi "sukeltaminen", on kenttäsuunnittelun kannalta niin hullu idea, että on vakuuttavaa nähdä, miten peli on saatu pysymään täysin kasassa myös tämän kyvyn kanssa.

Uutta on myös seikkailu taivaalla ja maan alla. BotW:ssä pysyttiin tyystin maan kamaralla, mutta TotK:ssä taivaalle on viskaistu oma saaristonsa ja maan alle puolestaan lätkäisty iso, synkkä ja kolkko Depths. Tutkittavaa pinta-alaa pelissä on siis paljon. Aina ei kuitenkaan aivan tunnu, että pinta-ala olisi täysin perusteltua. Esimerkiksi Depths on hyvin toisteista maastoa kauttaaltaan. Muutenkin, montaa pelissä olevaa aktiviteettiä (Korokkien roudaus, mainoskylttien pystytys, shrine-puzzlet) tulee pelin aikana tehtyä niin paljon, että niihin alkaa loppumatkalla kyllästyä. Onneksi kyseessä on paljolti vapaaehtoinen näpräys.

Hieman samaa voi sanoa taisteluista: vapaaehtoista mutta pidemmän päälle puuduttavaa näpräystä. Pelissä on vihollisia ihan joka nurkalla, mutta näiden kurmottaminen ei usein palkitse niin paljoa, että lahtaamisen vaivan jaksaisi nähdä. Helpompi on paeta. Etenkin, kun vihollisten vaikeammat variantit tekevät tolkutonta lämää sinulle mutta loppupelin aseillakin ottavat monen monta osumaa kuollakseen. Poikkeuksen tähän muodostavat bossit, joiden olettaisi olevan vielä sitkeämpiä ja tankkimaisempia, mutta tekevätkin vain vähän vahinkoa ja kaatuvat sutjakkaan. Pientä epäsuhtaa siis.

Tarinan ja tunnelman puolesta TotK ottaa isompaa vaihdetta kuin BotW. Musiikki on eläväisempää ja mieleenpainuvampaa, ja omaan makuuni se istuu myös paljon paremmin kuin BotW:n seesteisempi ote. Välivideoita ja puhuttua dialogia on enemmän, joskin näiden toteutus on välillä heiman pökkelöä. Pelin tarina ylipäätään tuodaan vahvemmin pelaajan nähtäväksi tällä kertaa. Kriittiset tarinan osaset kerrotaan cutsceneillä niin monta kertaa ja niin painottaen, ettei mitään jätetä lopulta pelaajan mielikuvituksen varaan. Hyrulen maastosta löytyvissä "muistoissa" on ihan hyvää tavaraa, mutta näissäkin usein tulee nähneeksi jo muualta implikoitua tai arvattua tavaraa. Onneksi tarina on kuitenkin ihan mielenkiintoinen ja vaiheikkaampi kuin BotW:n vastaava. Ja pelin kliimaksi on erittäin hauskaa katsottavaa ja pelattavaa.

Grafiikkojen ja suorituskyvyn puolesta liikutaan melko samoilla vesillä kuin aiemminkin. Cel shading -graffatyyli istuu peliin moitteettomasti ja peli on kieltämättä kaunis. On hieno nähdä Switchin tuuttaavan tämän laajuusluokan avointa maailmaa vaatimattomilla tehoillaan. Suorituskyvyssä tosin on parannettavaa: framedroppeja tulee pelissä vähän väliä. Pelin laajuudella ja hyvin monipuolisella fysiikkamoottorilla on siis hintansa.

En ole läheskään ainoa, jonka ajatukset ja arviot TotK:stä lähinnä pyörivät sen ympärillä, miten se tekee asioita verrattuna BotW:hen. Pelit ovat loppujenviimeksi niin lähellä toisiaan, niin laadun kuin sisällön puolesta, että vertailematta on vaikea olla. Omat ajatukseni pyörivät tällä hetkellä siinä johtopäätöksessä, että tykkäsin BotW:stä enemmän. Se oli tiiviimpi ja maanläheisempi kokonaisuus sekä tietenkin uutuusarvoltaan paljon päräyttävämpi. TotK on puolestaan vähän kuin buffet, jossa ei voi olla syömättä itseään ähkyyn. Ei tosin käy kieltäminen, etteikö TotK tekisi monia asioita paljon paremmin kuin edeltäjänsä. Ja jos se olisi tullut ensimmäisenä, olisi se hyvin todennäköisesti ykköspallilla.

Joka tapauksessa, Zelda-fanit syövät taas kerran erittäin hyvin ja ravitsevasti.

Muokkaus: Aiemmin väitin, että pelissä on pakko tehdä paljonkin asioita ennen vikaa lopparia. Näin ei ole, vaan homma toimii samaan tyyliin kuin BotW:ssä. Häpeän valtavaa virhettäni ja olen poistanu ristiriitaisen osan arvostelua maailmasta.

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lingsdook

Status lingsdook May 14, 2023

Thoughts after finishing my first dungeon… Just finished the Wind Temple and its related quest. I think the sequence leading up to the temple was really well done and makes BOTW’s equivalent questline look soooo insignificant in comparison. The dungeon itself was really cool thematically but I’m a bit disappointed it still follows the Divine Beasts’ “find 5 things” …

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Thoughts after finishing my first dungeon… Just finished the Wind Temple and its related quest. I think the sequence leading up to the temple was really well done and makes BOTW’s equivalent questline look soooo insignificant in comparison. The dungeon itself was really cool thematically but I’m a bit disappointed it still follows the Divine Beasts’ “find 5 things” roadmap. If anything, it was a little LESS interesting than a Divine Beast because it didn’t have the big meta puzzle involving adjusting the body/position of the environment. The boss was a big visual spectacle, which was cool, definitely a huge improvement on that front, and story wise I loved it. A little mixed overall on first impression, though.

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cakeatjobs

Status cakeatjobs May 13, 2023

I have to imagine this is what Elden Ring people felt like. I just spent my last 3 bomb flowers on a series of walls that led to absolutely nothing and then found an underground sewer where a gerudo woman had been sending out dozens of message-in-a-bottles saying "you! The voe reading this! We were destined to be together it's …

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I have to imagine this is what Elden Ring people felt like. I just spent my last 3 bomb flowers on a series of walls that led to absolutely nothing and then found an underground sewer where a gerudo woman had been sending out dozens of message-in-a-bottles saying "you! The voe reading this! We were destined to be together it's fate that you've found my note". This game rules.

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Ovinnik

Status Ovinnik May 13, 2023

Got through the opening cutscene, but have had a very busy weekend and I haven't been able to do much past the first 20 minutes of the game. I'm really looking forward to settling down with this once things slow down and I can give it my full attention.

epeternally

Status epeternally May 12, 2023

I'm enjoying this so far, but it's definitely inferior to its predecessor. Sticking objects together has already worn out its welcome and I'm not even out of the tutorial area. The controls do not have that Nintendo level of polish, and I'm really disappointed to see such unapologetic jank - although I'm loving the immersive sim vibes. Surprised, and not …

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I'm enjoying this so far, but it's definitely inferior to its predecessor. Sticking objects together has already worn out its welcome and I'm not even out of the tutorial area. The controls do not have that Nintendo level of polish, and I'm really disappointed to see such unapologetic jank - although I'm loving the immersive sim vibes. Surprised, and not pleasantly, that they didn't tone done weapon degradation. I'd forgotten just how much of a slog it was to fight with garbage weapons that break after half a dozen swings.

Doesn't help that the combat is frankly subpar by 2023 standards. Fighting in Breath of the Wild was never good to begin with, but it's a much more glaring problem here. Other developers have gotten drastically better at melee action over the last half decade, and it really feels like Nintendo have been left in the dust by modernity. The gamefeel isn't quite there, hits don't feel weighty or responsive. Not awful to play, but definitely a relic of a different era.

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kingbk83

Status kingbk83 May 12, 2023

I'm having so much fun with this game. Video games really can take you to another world when the developers put some TLC into the product, and nobody does that better than Nintendo. They truly are the Disney of the video game industry.

lingsdook

Status lingsdook May 12, 2023

Thoughts from playing the game all day:

  • I loved how lore heavy the game’s opening bits were. Great contrast to how Breath of the Wild started.
  • The game’s visuals are really beautiful, it’s obviously very similar to BOTW, but the new sky environments are truly gorgeous.
  • It was a nice touch that your horses carry over from your BOTW …
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Thoughts from playing the game all day:

  • I loved how lore heavy the game’s opening bits were. Great contrast to how Breath of the Wild started.
  • The game’s visuals are really beautiful, it’s obviously very similar to BOTW, but the new sky environments are truly gorgeous.
  • It was a nice touch that your horses carry over from your BOTW save file.
  • I’ve been so completely distracted by exploring the Depths that I haven’t even thought about touching the main quest yet.
  • I really like the changes to the weapon system and what Fuse adds to the table, but I don’t think it will change the minds of anyone who disliked how equipment worked in BOTW.
  • Where the heck is Hetsu? I need more inventory space!! Finding them is my #1 mission right now.
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WerqKween

Status WerqKween May 12, 2023

Oh man, when I'm at work and I haven't played a Zelda game in twenty years, and then my partner played BotW and stopped like 3/4 of the way through for some reason, so I don't even know what's happening. And this looks a lot like the first game anyways, shouldn't Link be some impressively powered demigod …

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Oh man, when I'm at work and I haven't played a Zelda game in twenty years, and then my partner played BotW and stopped like 3/4 of the way through for some reason, so I don't even know what's happening. And this looks a lot like the first game anyways, shouldn't Link be some impressively powered demigod by now? So yeah, Zelda game everyone but me is playing. Back to my budget indie "metroidvania." lol

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BMO

Status BMO May 12, 2023

Lol, a construct threw a stone at me and I happened to be swinging a two handed stick (bat) at the construct and my bat connected with the stick for a home run! I love this game.

falithes

Status falithes May 12, 2023

About to start playing this. While I think Breath of the Wild was a great game I thought it was heavily flawed. The dungeons were disappointing, the story was asinine and most of the shrines were pretty trivial. Still I would consider it greater than the sum of its parts and am very excited to see if they addressed any …

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About to start playing this. While I think Breath of the Wild was a great game I thought it was heavily flawed. The dungeons were disappointing, the story was asinine and most of the shrines were pretty trivial. Still I would consider it greater than the sum of its parts and am very excited to see if they addressed any of these flaws in this entry. TBD!

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