Warning: spoilers. This post assumes you have already 100% completed the game or don't care about spoilers.
I enjoyed this game but am not a big fan of it. My biggest gripe is it takes too long to get stuff done.
The overworld in Breath of the Wild was already too big and largely contained empty space and filler content. Tears of the Kingdom takes a more is more approach by recycling the same world, adding another world below it and some floating islands above it. On one hand it's cool to see how Hyrule has changed since Breath of the Wild but going around the same giant map to reach towers and shrines again just takes too long. The depths are not fun as they're dark and repetitive. I threw brightbloom seeds around jumping from lightroot to lightroot to brighten the place up. Flying around on a place was a nice idea and it works but the game despawns the plane after just a few minutes forcing you to find another one, spend one from your inventory or spend and farm more zonite (assuming you have unlocked Autobuild). There are some nice rewards in the depths like schemas, Autobuild, intact weapons and some story content but it's not worth the hassle of going around this massive dark place. The sky is better but there's just not enough up there and it suffers from the same issue as on the overworld where you have to spend time going to a tower then gliding to where you want to go.
Grinding is my next gripe. I didn't use any item duplication glitches or cheats. After every blood moon I went to certain places to gather apples, bananas and weapons and fought Silver Bokoblins and Battle Talus' to upgrade my Hylian Gear to level four. I didn't bother with other armour sets because it would have taken way too long.
The dungeons and bosses are an improvement over Breath of the Wild but they're still not as good as those in the games based on the Ocarina of Time formula.
I have other issues too like weapon durability, Ultrahand being too fiddly and getting multiple main quests which can lead to unlocking certain features too late for them to be useful (like how I didn't get my first Traveller's Medallion) but these are minor annoyances I can deal with.
I am biased because I'm not a fan of open world games and I played through Breath of the Wild twice at a time in my life where I had far more free time than I do now. Tears of the Kingdom does improve upon its predecessor but I enjoyed it less. If I play this game again it will be with cheats enabled. Being able to fly around on super fast planes without the need to constantly grind for them will be so much better.
You can argue that I fucked up. I avoided the depths until near the endgame so I upgraded my maximum energy cells and got Autobuild when they were too late to be useful. I didn't build much until near the endgame either and forgot how to use Zonai dispensers. A gameplay demo I watched after finishing the game indicates that planes only despawn if they are constructed with Autobuild (I haven't tested this myself yet).
My advice to players is to play around in the initial area on the sky island until you feel you've had enough and skip the rest of the game.
So what do you think? Do you think it's a great game, good but not great, or not very good?
I enjoyed this game but am not a big fan of it. My biggest gripe is it takes too long to get stuff done.
The overworld in Breath of the Wild was already too big and largely contained empty space and filler content. Tears of the Kingdom takes a more is more approach by recycling the same world, adding another world below it and some floating islands above it. On one hand it's cool to see how Hyrule has changed since Breath of the Wild but going around the same giant map to reach towers and shrines again just takes too long. The depths are not fun as they're dark and repetitive. I threw brightbloom seeds around jumping from lightroot to lightroot to brighten the place up. Flying around on a place was a nice idea and it works but the game despawns the plane after just a few minutes forcing you to find another one, spend one from your inventory or spend and farm more zonite (assuming you have unlocked Autobuild). There are some nice rewards in the depths like schemas, Autobuild, intact weapons and some story content but it's not worth the hassle of going around this massive dark place. The sky is better but there's just not enough up there and it suffers from the same issue as on the overworld where you have to spend time going to a tower then gliding to where you want to go.
Grinding is my next gripe. I didn't use any item duplication glitches or cheats. After every blood moon I went to certain places to gather apples, bananas and weapons and fought Silver Bokoblins and Battle Talus' to upgrade my Hylian Gear to level four. I didn't bother with other armour sets because it would have taken way too long.
The dungeons and bosses are an improvement over Breath of the Wild but they're still not as good as those in the games based on the Ocarina of Time formula.
I have other issues too like weapon durability, Ultrahand being too fiddly and getting multiple main quests which can lead to unlocking certain features too late for them to be useful (like how I didn't get my first Traveller's Medallion) but these are minor annoyances I can deal with.
I am biased because I'm not a fan of open world games and I played through Breath of the Wild twice at a time in my life where I had far more free time than I do now. Tears of the Kingdom does improve upon its predecessor but I enjoyed it less. If I play this game again it will be with cheats enabled. Being able to fly around on super fast planes without the need to constantly grind for them will be so much better.
You can argue that I fucked up. I avoided the depths until near the endgame so I upgraded my maximum energy cells and got Autobuild when they were too late to be useful. I didn't build much until near the endgame either and forgot how to use Zonai dispensers. A gameplay demo I watched after finishing the game indicates that planes only despawn if they are constructed with Autobuild (I haven't tested this myself yet).
My advice to players is to play around in the initial area on the sky island until you feel you've had enough and skip the rest of the game.
So what do you think? Do you think it's a great game, good but not great, or not very good?
