#this post made go listen to colgeras theme again

[skyloftsword]

Gonna post my thoughts about Tears of the Kingdom here. Very, very positive I love this game, my new favorite game of all time but I have some minor issues with it. (Anyways my opinion without spoilers is: loved the story/characters, loved the music, loved running around this Hyrule again, loved the puzzles, Ultrahand is underwhelming but still fun, a few nitpicks and no DLC announced yet why Nintendo).

SPOILERS of course

I’ll start with my issues that I have with this game. Ultrahand is not as fun as I was expecting it to be. I still enjoy it of course but it does not control well at all. Also the reach is like super, super short which really just makes stuff more annoying than it needs to be. However for the most part I still really enjoyed using it. Also there’s a few things that should have been shown off/told because while I do have ideas about them and they don’t affect my experience at all, they still really should’ve been stated. These are pretty much my only notable issues with the game (also please give us dragon petting DLC Nintendo).

I love the story and characters so much. I love Rauru and Sonia’s relationship so much especially after doing the Stone Monuments side adventure. I really loved watching the memories especially since they told us what was going on instead of mostly just building up Link and Zelda’s relationship this time. The plot twist was very obvious but it still managed to hit harder than almost every other impactful moment in the franchise for me (I always make sure to give the Light Dragon a bunch of Silent Princesses and stay on her head for a while every time I play). The old sages are whatever but they served their purpose well enough. I didn’t mind the repeated cutscenes they gave because I just thought of that as them being for the new sages. Mineru was also a great character, I love her design so much. The new sages were great as well. Tulin was definitely the highlight of the bunch. Sidon and Riju were also great and I love that Sidon was still worried about losing his loved ones. The Regional Phenomena quests were also far more interesting as well because they weren’t just “shoot 5 targets and then fight a very easy (but cool) Divine Beast battle”. Not to mention the dungeons actually being the locations of folklore is great. Zelda was amazing in this game I want to have a spinoff where Link and her just goof around with no Ganondorf or evil guy (let them be happy Nintendo).

The music of this game is absolutely incredible. I cannot put into words how much I love the Colgera and Demon Dragon themes. Not to mention the main theme hits so much harder after completing the story (I cannot listen to the ending of it without shedding a tear). I love the ambience while running around Hyrule and I really do not mind that a lot of BotW tracks were reused (because they’re also good, also MM reused a number of OoT tracks as well). Though I would have really loved a jukebox feature like Odyssey and Frontiers have so I can listen to songs while roaming Hyrule.

Anyways roaming around Hyrule and seeing what changed really made me feel how I felt back on March 3rd, 2017. Back then I felt like I was never going to have this feeling ever again, but nope, this game managed to bring that feeling back once again despite even finishing a 100% playthrough of BotW a week before launch. I love running around Hyrule with the sage ghost things so much too. I will say, everyone is right about them being annoying as hell to activate.

So uh yeah, I love Tears of the Kingdom to death. I love this Hyrule, this cast, pretty much everything about it aside from a few issues. Now please Nintendo, move on from this Hyrule and cast. Let the next Zelda game be more unique.