Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Before You Buy

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo Switch) is the follow up to Breath of the Wild with tons of new systems and experiences. How is it? Let's talk first impressions.

Video by Jake Baldino



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[marz-barz]

The best part about these shrines is that there’s always a intended way to complete it, but they let you be creative and complete it anyway you want

[docmars]

MILD BUT NECESSARY SPOILER:

If you hate building things manually and think it feels like a laborious process, go down to the first chasm into the Depths just South of Lookout Landing, follow the large statues in the directions they are pointing until you find a structure with 2 Hylian people trying to figure something out. You will thank yourself later getting this thing earlier!

WHAT WILL I FIND THERE?:

When you get there, you will get your last Ultrahand ability called Auto-Build, which lets you make templates out of anything you build, so you can quickly build anything you've built in the past, or save favorites, built instantly using Zonaite or any parts sitting around.

[sasquatch_]

This game is amazing. I played it from 7 in the morning to 11 that night. One of the better experiences with gaming as of late

[ElZibda]

You have no idea how much I love spoiler free reviews . Thanks guys 🙏🏻

[AcaciaApparition]

Before you buy is consistently the best game reviews on YouTube thank you Jake we appreciate everything you do

[queenpurple]

The building is kind of weird at first, but what I like is that it doesn’t really force you to do it too often. You can kinda do it however much you want but the game still makes sure to show you just about all the possibilities at least once

[crazyjplays]

One of the best features I've found thus far is that the stables carry over any horses you had in BOTW! So awesome to get back on Epona and not have to run/walk everywhere! Update: there is currently a bug with stables carrying over horses from BOTW to TOtK, it's affecting many players, but the Devs are working to fix it; I was lucky and early on got my horses to transfer over before the bug started affecting players.

[IcyB-xgxs]

I spent a lot of time on the initial sky island as well. It was such an amazing tutorial area. Much better than the great plateau, which is really saying something.

[jordanmcintosh]

I love that there's three entire maps to this game the depths are super creepy the over world is even better than the last game and the sky islands are amazing

[Zeeboklown]

The most impressive thing about this game in my opinion is the fact that Nintendo was able to make such a beast of a game to run on essentially an outdated tablet.

[bald_man]

I spent 7 hrs on sky Island and i loved every minute of it.

[sudstahgaming]

Best before you buy / kind of review on youtube, you sell the human emotion within your videos and say exactly how we would feel if it was us first playing.

[GingerBradMan]

I agree, the beginning doesn't set it up for success but as you keep going it gets better and better and its actually really hard at points, I love it

[Thes]

What I like most is that while Nintendo did patch a lot of the movement exploits, they still allow you to use the built in mechanics to move around the map quite fast.

[aricaice]

I got really exhausted with open world games as most are empty places. When I played BOTW, I was a kid in awe of all the places I'm discovering. When TOTK dropped, I never thought Nintendo can capture that feeling but they did. Absolutely amazing. Im also not the best in building stuff but damn, doing a hover bike easily helps exploration better.

[skimmyguy]

this game was everything i wanted it to be. like jake im not the most creative person but im on the opposite end and found it really interesting and engaging with the building mechanics. my only complaint so far is occasionally mounts like horses will randomly get stuck on tiny rocks.

[zachnstuff]

“Where there’s a will there is a way” is pretty much what I’ve been experiencing in this game so far, and thats what has kept me glued to the tv for hours

[shenloken]

I’ll be honest; I never finished Breath of the Wild. I feel I should finish that before starting Tears of the Kingdom. Your overall review justifies this!
I do look forward to playing this someday though.

[DRossGaming]

I am absolutely loving exploring and the new areas and enemy types. It's super cool that they let you transfer over ALL your horses from botw. Love it so much dude.

[alekibanez]

The first 10 or so hours felt like botw but reskinned. Same concept just different place and enemies/NPC. But once you get deeper in… oh my. So much going on ❤