The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Review: Moe Gives It a 10 / 10
Breath of the Wild asked you to explore Hyrule. This one asks what you'll build in it. A ten.
The Good
- Ultrahand and Fuse turn players into inventors
- Sky, surface, and Depths: three maps, one adventure
- The closing hour is Nintendo's strongest ever
The Rough Edges
- The story is told in out-of-order memories again
- The Depths repeat themselves in the back half
Tears of the Kingdom took the best open world ever made and handed players a glue gun and a physics engine. Ultrahand lets you build cars, planes, war machines, and war crimes against Koroks, and the game just shrugs and says sure. Breath of the Wild asked you to explore Hyrule. This one asks what you'll build in it.
The Depths double the map underground, dark and mean, and the sky islands float above it all. The Fuse system turns every stick into a weapon experiment. And the final stretch of this game, the dive, the dragon, the last fight, is the strongest closing hour Nintendo has ever shipped. I do not say that lightly.
A glue gun, a physics engine, and a game that shrugs and says sure.
Complaints? The story is told in memories again, out of order again, and the underground could use more variety in its second half. That's me searching for dents in a ten.
Two perfect scores on my list and this is one of them. A generation of kids will measure games against the day they glued two fans to a board and flew.
Breath of the Wild asked you to explore Hyrule. This one asks what you'll build in it. A ten.
The Good
- Ultrahand and Fuse turn players into inventors
- Sky, surface, and Depths: three maps, one adventure
- The closing hour is Nintendo's strongest ever
The Rough Edges
- The story is told in out-of-order memories again
- The Depths repeat themselves in the back half
Quick Answers
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom review score: what did Moe Train give it?
Moe Train scored The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom a 10 out of 10. Breath of the Wild asked you to explore Hyrule. This one asks what you'll build in it. A ten.
Is The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on Nintendo Switch?
Yes. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a Nintendo Switch game, out now.
Is The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom worth playing?
Breath of the Wild asked you to explore Hyrule. This one asks what you'll build in it. A ten. Read the full The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom review above for the breakdown.
