The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Nintendo Switch (US Version)

Perfect sequel to Zelda Breath of The Wild. Link has several new abilities (will list later) to play around withWorld is more expansive: There’s the Great Plateau (old Breath of the Wild map) with slightly altered environments due to gloom infection, the sky city, and the depths (huge underground cave network below hyrule). Smoke and highlighted light pillars shows points of interest in the overworld without having to look at the mapWeapon durability is back. I know some people don’t like breakable items/weapons, but it teaches kids to be more adaptable rather than have constant/sustainable gains all the time. Also helps them be more creative in the fusing items together. Items are less scarce this time around giving you more opportunities to experiment with new combinationsStill have freedom to be creative and do what you want. Can think of creative ways to cheat the puzzle with new abilities instead of the intended way of doing it, making the experience your own. Gives you the ‘I don’t think we are supposed to do that, but it worked!’ momentsTemples return. Each one have a companion character which grants you special abilities for that temple/dungeon. Bosses at end of temples are really powerful and not just simple advanced moving puzzles-Menu/UI is more streamline.Inventory tabs can be changed via L1 R1 trigger instead of thumbstick. No need to go through multiple pages to get to the next tab. Instead you scroll down if you have a lot of itemsSettings is at the end of inventory tab instead of a separate pageAble to view recipes on sub menu for each item-Story/Plot:Link and Zelda is exploring a unknown area under hyrule castle. They accidentally awaken an mummy and he uses gloom ability to attack them. Link arm and master sword gets infected during initial battle, and the mummy released gloom infecting hyrule. There’s a huge quake and Link both get separated during the scuffle. You wake up and go on a quest to find Zelda, re-forge the master sword and save hyrule.Story is the most expansive than any other Zelda title focusing a lot of character developmentLike Breath of the Wild; there’s limited voice acting and not fully voiced. But that doesn’t detract from the experience--- Abilities1. Ultra HandUse this to lift large heavy object and fuse them together. Can use it to solve puzzles lifting heavy objects to build bridges, ramps, ladders, etc) but also use as a vehicle creator for traversal. It’s very similar to Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts vehicle creator. Vehicles you create use fuel/battery to operate, collecting/using zonai charges refuels your vehicle giving you the ability to travel longer distances especially when creating gliders. You can also upgrade maximum battery as you progress through he game. Note that our creation despawns if you’re too far away from it, so best not abandon it2. Merge itemsFuse any two items together in inventory. Mainly use to create weapons with different properties (higher attack, range, elemental damage etc) and increase durability. Seeing weapon durability is back gives players ways to experiment and be resourceful with what they have in their inventoryDuring combat you’re able to able to throw individual items3. AsendAble to teleport to above flat platform when directly under it. Some areas are restricted if it’s too high. The cursor on your screen when using ability turns green to indicate if it’s possible to ascend or not4. RecallRewind time for a brief second. Great for puzzle solving like climbing up a rock that fell off the cliff and rewind time to ride it up5. Auto buildAble to re-create previous creations you made with ultra-hand. Just have all items in one spot and use ability to re-create it instead of starting from scratch6. AmiiboSimilar to last game, you can in amiibo daily and items will fall in front of you. Amiibo give armor skins, fabrics, and other common items. No exclusive content from Amiibos this time. Able to obtain them via quests. Scanning amiibos just give you them early and more items daily. Disappointed the wolf link amiibo doesn’t give you wolf companion like the last game7. CameraBasically an ability to take pictures to fill out the hyrule compendiumOverall extremely fun game giving you freedom to explore and be creative. Best Legend of Zelda game to date.

This game is a must play a 100% I didn't think they'd be able to surprise me after breath of the wild but somehow Nintendo managed to do just that!I will say that the story does follow the exact same structure of breath of the wild (big catastrophic event happened in the past and you have to collect memories and save sages etc..) and it's a Nintendo game so don't expect a complicated story. But even so this game is absolutely amazing.

I am really enjoying this game but it is intimidatingly large quite often. At the time of writing of this review I've clocked over 200 hours on it, have been playing it on and off for close to a year, and am not even halfway through the storyline. That being said, I've completed several optional objectives and side quests. I've also strove to be patient with the game.The game is definitely a successor to Breath of the Wild and it take everything that game did and improves on it. There's a lot of similarities between the game worlds yet there's also a lot of difference. Clearly the sky islands and the depths weren't a part of BotW which adds a lot of additional exploration. Personally, I like to think of the depths as BotW's "dark world" but I guess I'm old school like that.Be ready for a serious investment of time here and I would be hard-pressed to think that even the most die hard of gaming completist will be able to do everything that TotK has to offer start to finish and in one go. This game demands a special level of patience and reverence unlike anything I've ever played before.

I loved breath of the wild, so I was exciting to grab this one. Great gameplay so far-havent started too far in on the main missions because the side quests and shrines have been my focus. The only thing i dont like is that the durians arent available in this game. Overall, be prepared to lose a few hours to this game :)

gift for my son. especially when we go on a trip