{"id":4629,"date":"2025-06-16T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2025-06-17T06:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T06:39:22","slug":"the-legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-nintendo-switch-2-edition-review-building-on-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/the-legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-nintendo-switch-2-edition-review-building-on-perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Nintendo Switch 2 Edition review \u2013 building on perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom \u2013 Nintendo Switch 2 Edition – a game as big as its name is long (Nintendo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nintendo\u2019s remaster of the sequel to Zelda: Breath Of The Wild has been tweaked and upgraded, with considerably better graphics and a few new tricks and options.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re very jealous of anyone who\u2019s playing the two most recent Zelda games for the first time on Switch 2<\/a>. As we\u2019ve already explored, with the Switch 2 Edition of Breath Of The Wild<\/a>, these are essentially just remasters, with no substantial new content, but given both games had issues with performance on the original Switch, enhanced versions are very much welcome.<\/p>\n

The original version of Tears Of The Kingdom<\/a> didn\u2019t have quite as infamous a problem with its frame rate as Breath Of The Wild but it was still obvious that the original Switch was only just able to run the game at a satisfactory level. On the Switch 2, everything seems a lot more effortless, and it\u2019s immediately obvious that this is by far the best way to play the game.<\/p>\n

Both are 10\/10 classics, so really the only question here is which to start with and whether they\u2019re worth the price of an upgrade, if you\u2019ve already played them. One thing to note is that Tears Of The Kingdom is an even bigger game than its predecessor, so the chances are you probably haven\u2019t 100%-ed it, and so the new Zelda Notes mobile app will come in extra handy here.<\/p>\n

As with the Switch 2 Edition of Breath Of The Wild, we\u2019re not going to pretend we\u2019ve completed the whole game again from scratch. It\u2019s far too long for that (at least 60 hours if you ignore every possible diversion – which no one ever does) but we\u2019ve explored the game again in all its glory by using both a new save file and our old one from the Switch 1.<\/p>\n

Our original review covers everything in detail but, in short, Tears Of The Kingdom is a direct sequel to Breath Of The Wild – a real rarity for any Zelda game. It uses the same map as Breath Of The Wild but altered to account for the passage of time and with the addition of a gloomy underworld and a series of islands in the skies. It\u2019s not quite three times as big as before, but it\u2019s not far off.<\/p>\n

One of the few criticisms of the original version of Tears Of The Kingdom is that while the visual storytelling is clear, in terms of showing a world recovering from the calamity of the previous game, the narrative barely acknowledges the fact, with many returning characters not even seeming to recognise Link.<\/p>\n

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