Customer Ratings & Reviews

After completing the game in 100 hours, I ended up feeling rather disappointed in the overall game after waiting for 4 years since the game's announcement. While many ideas are present to make this game new and interesting, none of them seem to coalesce into an experience that properly expands on the ideas of the previous entry. For example, new mechanics like building and fusing materials are present, but the game also puts a heavy focus on new locations such as the sky islands in the trailer. However, the building mechanics and the locations rarely connect together in meaningful ways that do not feel forced and obvious. Aside from a few occasions, one's building abilities are not challenged in this game and creative thinking is not necessary to solve the puzzles presented. Instead, building breaks many puzzles and allows them to be solved without a clear understanding of the mechanics of the problem. The inclusion of these abilities without integration into locations or puzzles seems strange and a missed opportunity. Along with the new locations, old locations also have changes to make them different. But these changes often result to clutter being added on top of existing locations rather than meaningful alterations. New rocks and decorations may be added, or some new location may be put on the side. These locations do not enhance the experience of exploration, but rather create busy and confusing scenes. These changed locations also do not incorporate the new building mechanics well, leading to the abilities to continue to feel underused. Finally, the game does little to address concerns from the previous game that people hoped to see fixed in this title. Story and dungeons in the last game felt underbaked, and with this entry reusing the same world and mechanics it felt like a great opportunity to create more elaborate narratives and levels. While it appears that Nintendo attempted to create more in these spaces, they ended up making something that feels either of the same quality or worse. All dungeons follow the same structure and can quickly be completed, and the story adds detail and complexity around it without actually constructing a plot in the center. Nor does this plot have relation to any of the new mechanics introduced. It is a shame that these weakest aspects of the previous game do not appear to be any more finished in this one. Overall, while the building and fusing in this game, along with the new locations, may appeal to some and be impressive in a technical sense, the ideas are not properly implemented in a way that makes it feel whole. For a series built on strong direction, this game feels shockingly directionless and unsure of where to go. It would be interesting to learn how the pandemic and development troubles had altered the game's development, and whether there were any major changes that resulted from it.

Hands down the game of the year. The story, the versatility of the skills, and the exploration are perfect.

Has everything you love about Breath of the Wild, but builds and expands on it. Adding new elements, bigger map to explore and so much more! Must have!

Excellent game with a ton of content in it, its very enjoyable and unique, there's not another game like it

Tears of the Kingdom is outstanding in every way. The attention to detail is amazing, the story is compelling, and the new features are complete game-changers (literally). I would have loved a completely new map for this game, as at times it felt like a bit of a rehash of the original, but that was a minor qualm in light of how perfect the game was in every other way. This is probably the Switch's last AAA release, but what a great way to go out.

Excellent Game! Plenty to explore! If you loved Breath of the Wild, then you'll love Tears of the Kingdom!

I’ve enjoyed the opening hours a great deal. I liked BOTW but this feels far more enjoyable. Still wish weapon degradation wasn’t a thing, but the new ways you can get around puzzles and combat scenarios helps a lot. Overall this is a fantastic second entry in the newer Zelda style games. The prologue (or opening section) was one of the best I’ve ever played in any video game… ever. Highly recommended (even if you didn’t love BOTW like me).

Probably one of the greatest games of all time. Improves on all areas of deficiency in Breath of the Wild.

I was there for the very first Zelda game...and I think this is my favorite. Masterpiece, for sure.

Game is sure to be awesome but dont ever preorder a video game from BB and get it shipped... apparently even though game released today mine wont arrive until Sat. So much for having fun on launch day.

Fantastic game with innovative gameplay, a compelling story and characters, and beautiful environments!

Amazing. Tons to do. Too much to do. A boat load of content. amazing improvements on prior game.

I play it off and on when I have the time or my nieces and nephew play. Wished it had more for people who played BotW

7 years into the life of the nintendo switch and a game like Totk comes along to prove that shiny 4k graphics and 100 Gb file sizes aren’t necessary to make a game great. Nintendo really hit all of the marks making an open world game that you could put 100’s of hours into if you wanted to. Mechanics are similar enough to BotW while offering quality of life updates that make the game feel like an evolution of one of Nintendo’s best.

A simply beautiful and perfect game with clever choices and hundreds of hours of open world amazingness.

This game is terrific in every way. Lots of exploring. Lots of creativity. Lots of solutions.

Super fun game. If you like the first one you will like this one.

Amazing game with cool graphics and a fun story. Gameplay is absolutely perfect and so much fun.

Amazing game, it's been hard putting the game down since I bought it. There are plenty of things to do.

A great addition to Breath of the Wild. The story is good and the graphics are amazing