‘The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’ Is a Perfect Video Game
‘The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’ Is a Perfect Video Game
by AggravatingPace2813
22 Comments
liltonk
Not a chance, it’s great but there is an abundance of quality of life improvements that would be required to make it a perfect game.
EarthDragon2189
“Perfect” is just as hyperbolic here as it was when people were using it to describe BotW six years ago.
But TotK is VERY good. And it deserves all the sales and accolades it gets.
sykotiksonik
No such thing as a perfect video game
trubb13tw1ns
It’s a great game for sure but I like to believe words have meaning, so I’m not gonna call a game “perfect” if there’s dogs and I can’t even pet them.
bossman-CT
Perfect haha, stop all development! We have peaked!
DingDongDaddio
Get back to me when it can run at 30 fps, lol.
sportspadawan13
It’s nearly perfect. Everyone getting bent out of shape over using perfect hyperbolically.
AggravatingPace2813
While i would not go so far as to call it perfect (there are some valid criticisms), the fun i had while playing 20+ hours, makes it damn near-perfect for me
Spacetrain67
Nope. It’s a good game but it’s certainly not perfect in any means.
Brutalitor
Least delusional Zelda fan wrote this one, obviously. As someone who didn’t care for BotW this insane over-hyping is just so dumb.
FruitJuice617
I’m inclined to mostly agree. This game is as close to perfect as you can get. I’ve been gaming for like 25 years and very few games have totally taken over my brain like this has.
I HATED weapon breaks in BotW. Fusing alleviates the concern while engaging my brain and forcing me to be creative.
The stuff you can do with ultrahand is just incredible. I’m seeing increasingly complex machines being made all over Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, etc. I don’t have a ton of battery for my stuff and not everything unlocked, so I’m mostly making cars and simple flying machines, BUT STILL. I’m seeing people build incredible stuff and I know it’s only uphill from where I’m at.
Exploration in BotW was fun and I always had a feeling of discovery every time I went out, and now I have that again, but it feels so much more engaging due to Ascend and Ultrahand shenanigans. You can get SO FREAKIN CREATIVE in every aspect of exploration.
The combat, music (even though it’s minimalist at times), graphics, and just… everything. Everything is SO satisfying that I’m honestly blown away. I’m just impressed all across the board.
Demoncreed27
There no such thing as a “perfect” game. Don’t get me wrong I absolutely love the game, it is incredible but there’s always something that be criticized about any game. One thing that I can criticize it about is the fps can go to the 20s if your in a wooded area or fighting a lot of enemies. If I had to give it a score it would be a 9.5/10 a tiny blemish on an incredible game
cybergatuno
I wouldn’t say “perfect”, we would get into semantics, but it is truly a masterpiece!
What can they possibly add as inevitable DLCs? Can’t wait to find out.
What can they possibly do for the next entry in 5 to 7 years? That’s gonna be a tough one.
PapaProto
I sincerely hope this doesn’t trigger a trend of fucking weapons breaking in other games, now that *both* BOTW and TOTK are successful. Fuck. That. Gimmick.
CosumedByFire
they introduced soooo much jank in this “game”
SuperToast222
Stahhhp. I can’t afford a switch and all I’m seeing is TOTK posts lol. Man I bet it’s great
PositivityPending
For all the pedants in the chat, yes, nothing in life is perfect. And obviously this site is using hyperbole to drive clicks. But this game is as close to the totally unattainable status of perfection as one flawed product, crafted by a team of flawed humans, can get. At the absolute minimum, this will be the star by which all other (good) open world games in the future chart their course. This game pushes the envelope so far in a mechanical sense, that the next big open world game that comes out _will_ feel dated by comparison. We even saw it with BoTW. Horizon came out the same year as BoTW and got absolutely overshadowed by BoTW. 6 years later BoTW learned from its critiques and shortcomings, while Guerilla released more or less Horizon-but-Bigger. Pushing the envelope in zero ways. At the very minimum they should have implemented a system where Aloy, as a hardy frontierswoman, can climb anywhere. But nah, the standard of naturalistic open world exploration was ignored in favor of those awkwardly placed, immersion-breaking yellow rungs that are used for the player to climb only to _specific_ developer-sanctioned areas. I’m using HFW as an example because it’s the most recent AAA, first party open world game to drop, with the support of a console that’s like a thousand times more powerful than the Switch. All of that power, and what is it used for? Making the limitations prettier to look at. That is current modern game design right there.
I say all of this to say that although Tears is not perfect (nothing is — ppl’s personal tastes clash with things all the time), BoTW set a standard for open world games that other studios have no choice but to follow, and still haven’t caught up to. The closest we got was Elden Ring and it is amazing beautiful piece of art for that. Tears takes those standards and pushes them so obscenely far ahead that, as of right now, this will be _the_ video game for a quite some time. To dethrone Ocarina, which also set a template to which almost every other third person action game made since adheres, will be a monumental achievement. If any game can accomplish that, it will be this one. At this point it isn’t even a question of quality, it’s a question of preference and personal taste. Do you like Tears or not? To put it simply, this game may not be the literal definition of perfect, but uhhh, it’s definitely in a league of its own. Incomparable to any game on the market.
ProgrammerSince1980
There’s no such thing as a perfect video game.
daddygirl_industries
Genuinely curious – do people think the graphics / graphical design is “perfect”? I know it’s a Switch game but I can’t help feeling like the design of things is somewhat… plain / standard. Would have loved to have seen some innovation here.
I know the mechanics are fantastic and graphics aren’t everything but if you’re calling a game “perfect”, I’d expect it to be in all aspects.
a-cloud-castle
It’s a very good game, but c’mon now.
ScrantonDangler
So why was today’s update for the game necessary?
acewing905
The perfection when a fused weapon clips through the ground is amazing I must say
22 Comments
Not a chance, it’s great but there is an abundance of quality of life improvements that would be required to make it a perfect game.
“Perfect” is just as hyperbolic here as it was when people were using it to describe BotW six years ago.
But TotK is VERY good. And it deserves all the sales and accolades it gets.
No such thing as a perfect video game
It’s a great game for sure but I like to believe words have meaning, so I’m not gonna call a game “perfect” if there’s dogs and I can’t even pet them.
Perfect haha, stop all development! We have peaked!
Get back to me when it can run at 30 fps, lol.
It’s nearly perfect. Everyone getting bent out of shape over using perfect hyperbolically.
While i would not go so far as to call it perfect (there are some valid criticisms), the fun i had while playing 20+ hours, makes it damn near-perfect for me
Nope. It’s a good game but it’s certainly not perfect in any means.
Least delusional Zelda fan wrote this one, obviously. As someone who didn’t care for BotW this insane over-hyping is just so dumb.
I’m inclined to mostly agree. This game is as close to perfect as you can get. I’ve been gaming for like 25 years and very few games have totally taken over my brain like this has.
I HATED weapon breaks in BotW. Fusing alleviates the concern while engaging my brain and forcing me to be creative.
The stuff you can do with ultrahand is just incredible. I’m seeing increasingly complex machines being made all over Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, etc. I don’t have a ton of battery for my stuff and not everything unlocked, so I’m mostly making cars and simple flying machines, BUT STILL. I’m seeing people build incredible stuff and I know it’s only uphill from where I’m at.
Exploration in BotW was fun and I always had a feeling of discovery every time I went out, and now I have that again, but it feels so much more engaging due to Ascend and Ultrahand shenanigans. You can get SO FREAKIN CREATIVE in every aspect of exploration.
The combat, music (even though it’s minimalist at times), graphics, and just… everything. Everything is SO satisfying that I’m honestly blown away. I’m just impressed all across the board.
There no such thing as a “perfect” game. Don’t get me wrong I absolutely love the game, it is incredible but there’s always something that be criticized about any game. One thing that I can criticize it about is the fps can go to the 20s if your in a wooded area or fighting a lot of enemies. If I had to give it a score it would be a 9.5/10 a tiny blemish on an incredible game
I wouldn’t say “perfect”, we would get into semantics, but it is truly a masterpiece!
What can they possibly add as inevitable DLCs? Can’t wait to find out.
What can they possibly do for the next entry in 5 to 7 years? That’s gonna be a tough one.
I sincerely hope this doesn’t trigger a trend of fucking weapons breaking in other games, now that *both* BOTW and TOTK are successful. Fuck. That. Gimmick.
they introduced soooo much jank in this “game”
Stahhhp. I can’t afford a switch and all I’m seeing is TOTK posts lol. Man I bet it’s great
For all the pedants in the chat, yes, nothing in life is perfect. And obviously this site is using hyperbole to drive clicks. But this game is as close to the totally unattainable status of perfection as one flawed product, crafted by a team of flawed humans, can get. At the absolute minimum, this will be the star by which all other (good) open world games in the future chart their course. This game pushes the envelope so far in a mechanical sense, that the next big open world game that comes out _will_ feel dated by comparison. We even saw it with BoTW. Horizon came out the same year as BoTW and got absolutely overshadowed by BoTW. 6 years later BoTW learned from its critiques and shortcomings, while Guerilla released more or less Horizon-but-Bigger. Pushing the envelope in zero ways. At the very minimum they should have implemented a system where Aloy, as a hardy frontierswoman, can climb anywhere. But nah, the standard of naturalistic open world exploration was ignored in favor of those awkwardly placed, immersion-breaking yellow rungs that are used for the player to climb only to _specific_ developer-sanctioned areas. I’m using HFW as an example because it’s the most recent AAA, first party open world game to drop, with the support of a console that’s like a thousand times more powerful than the Switch. All of that power, and what is it used for? Making the limitations prettier to look at. That is current modern game design right there.
I say all of this to say that although Tears is not perfect (nothing is — ppl’s personal tastes clash with things all the time), BoTW set a standard for open world games that other studios have no choice but to follow, and still haven’t caught up to. The closest we got was Elden Ring and it is amazing beautiful piece of art for that. Tears takes those standards and pushes them so obscenely far ahead that, as of right now, this will be _the_ video game for a quite some time. To dethrone Ocarina, which also set a template to which almost every other third person action game made since adheres, will be a monumental achievement. If any game can accomplish that, it will be this one. At this point it isn’t even a question of quality, it’s a question of preference and personal taste. Do you like Tears or not? To put it simply, this game may not be the literal definition of perfect, but uhhh, it’s definitely in a league of its own. Incomparable to any game on the market.
There’s no such thing as a perfect video game.
Genuinely curious – do people think the graphics / graphical design is “perfect”? I know it’s a Switch game but I can’t help feeling like the design of things is somewhat… plain / standard. Would have loved to have seen some innovation here.
I know the mechanics are fantastic and graphics aren’t everything but if you’re calling a game “perfect”, I’d expect it to be in all aspects.
It’s a very good game, but c’mon now.
So why was today’s update for the game necessary?
The perfection when a fused weapon clips through the ground is amazing I must say