Thoughts on Tears of the Kingdom
After 200 hours, I have finally defeated Ganondorf and rolled the credits on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom . Like Breath of the Wild before it, I experienced a wide range of feelings on the experience this game provides. For a game this massive, there are absolutely going to be times I am more engaged than others, but perhaps the most astonishing thing is that I can't think of many times I didn't enjoy what I was doing? And even though everything I have to say about this game isn't going to be positive, I think the fact that the game rarely feels like an "open-world checklist" when completing quests and finding collectibles speaks to the incredible achievement this game is. So let's start out by talking about how this game builds on the foundation, literally and figuratively, of BOTW. First and foremost, the map is the same. If you, like me, played BOTW, this fundamentally changes how you engage with the terrain. The myste...