The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Explore Hyrule's land, sky and depths as Link, joining objects into bridges and vehicles and combining materials with equipment to shape your own approach to travel and battle.
- AI score · out of 10
- 9.6 / 10
About this game
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom puts Link's abilities at the centre of exploring Hyrule. Choose a route across the land, sky islands and depths, then use the objects around you to continue your journey. Ultrahand moves, rotates and joins objects, letting you build a bridge or assemble a vehicle. Fuse attaches materials to weapons, shields and arrows to alter their properties. Other abilities change how you move through the landscape: Ascend carries Link upward through overhead surfaces, while Recall reverses an object's movement. Traversal, construction and equipment combinations give you different ways to approach the places you choose to explore.
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Collected in series
The Legend of Zelda is Nintendo’s action-adventure series, which began in 1986. Link’s journeys often bring him together with Princess Zelda and into conflict with Ganon in the land of Hyrule. Exploration, puzzles and combat lie at its heart, with a curious detour often leading to a new discovery.
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AI review
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A strong design match for explorers who enjoy inventing a route and the tools to follow it.
Building a crossing and changing equipment properties can make travel and combat feel like related experiments. That freedom is likely to matter most to players who enjoy setting their own immediate goals.
Strengths
- Object construction can turn a travel obstacle into an opportunity to test an idea.
- Equipment combinations provide another outlet for experimenting beyond traversal.
Weaknesses
- Choosing your own route may feel unfocused if you prefer a firmly assigned next destination.
Who it is for: Players who enjoy open exploration, improvised constructions and testing how abilities interact with the landscape.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Choosing a path across land, sky and depths leaves the immediate direction of exploration in the player's hands, which may suit self-directed play. | Reviewed | 9.4 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Construction and equipment fusion should reward players who enjoy asking what they can make from the objects available. | Reviewed | 9.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Exploring above and below Hyrule may give discoveries a sense of spatial connection for players who enjoy understanding a landscape. | Reviewed | 9.6 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension TV, tabletop and handheld support gives players who use different viewing setups a choice of play mode. | Reviewed | 9.1 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Release date
- May 12, 2023
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- www.nintendo.com
- Offline minimum players
- 1
- Offline maximum players
- 1
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Adventure · Primary genreAction
- Tags
- Open WorldExplorationPuzzle SolvingThird PersonEquipment-driven ProgressionConstruction
- Supported game languages
- DutchTraditional ChineseSimplified ChineseLatin American SpanishRussianSpanishEuropean SpanishFrenchKoreanJapaneseItalianGermanBrazilian PortugueseEnglish
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- ESRB: E10+
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- Third person
Release editions
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwideMay 12, 2023
- Nintendo Switch 2WorldwideJun 5, 2025
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Sources
- www.nintendo.comSource revision: 1
- www.nintendo.com