The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

A friend of mine bought a Switch maybe a year ago, and I'm pretty sure I convinced him to buy Breath of the Wild right off the bat. He finally got around to starting it today, and gave me a call with his mind blown. Of course he was overwhelmed, so I told him to doof around for many hours and then when he hits a wall do a quick Google to get over the hump. Compared to impenetrable stuff like Dark Souls or lots of Metroidvanias, it's actually not that bad, considering doing nothing is one of the most important things you can do in Zelda.

The gentle learning curb is one of the best parts.

the idea of someone buying a switch without getting that game is weird but i guess it can happen now that theres 6 years worth of other games and not 1 or 2

i wonder where ultrahand tech will be in a few years

perpetual motion machines

artificial black holes

real milkshakes you can drink in the real world

https://www.destructoid.com/psa-looks-like-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-has-leaked-online/

hmm maybe they should just release it today then

yeah i was briefly perplexed to see it on the anime torrent site earlier when i was looking for something else. zelda is anime confirmed

i preordered a physical copy so i'm half-expecting that i won't be able to play it on release day

all the big online retailers have always managed to ship me switch games on day 1 but this one is probably a busier release than any of the ones i preordered

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/04/us/zelda-nintendo-history.html

i am ready to play the game

ive have purchased the game and it is downloading to my device

i lied i will not be playing this quite yet i have other games to finish

wait it's downloading already? waiting for shipping on mine

its downloading

Is it possible to buy and download remotely or can it only be done via the shop on the Switch?

Shocking amount of goatse in the early going

i'm picking up my preorder tomorrow!

xp nintendo website has a shop but i'm not sure if it can send it straight to your switch or if it gives you a code

Downloading. I’m not ready.

I had a friend cancel dinner plans but now TOTK is downloading so who needs FRIENDS

Kid already found a 20 hour playthrough video on YouTube and I made him swear not to spoil things for me.

He’ll be at school all day tomorrow and my wife has a bunch of meetings but my grades are submitted and I have no obligations other than this

I went to buy a digital copy off the eshop but IT IS FIFTEEN DOLLARS MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE FUCKING HARD COPY WTF

You cannot play this software yet.

its unfair to let us download but not play

Blessings of being an Australian.

I’m already liking more than BOTW. Seems like a pretty straight upgrade

gaming from the future

It’s only for the most committed of us.

Was meant to bring my switch to work to play in my lunch break (don’t judge, it’s an isolated job) but left it at home damnit.

If you were all real gamers, you would have moved to Australia by now. Bunch of posers

damn its true tho

i cant game tonight anyway because of important basketball and tomorrow morning i have to work but starting in the afternoon i will be traveling to the mythical kingdom of hyrule bigtime baby

BF came home with a copy for me from EBGames, what a legend. I shall crack it out this evening!
...or more likely tomorrow, its the feller's birthday tonight and thre's burritos, lemon cheesecake and booze to be had.

Hell yeah more Aussie gamers. Enjoy your night and tomorrow

Zelda Tears of the Kingdom is more than double the size of the original game. It has long, engaging side missions that feed into the main story. I mainlined the story in 60 hours and I’m not even close to half finishing it.

This will take up my 2023. https://t.co/69KVaTXsMP

— Gene Park (@GenePark) May 11, 2023

120+ hours? Penciling this game in for ... 2025.

“A historic moment” - my 10 year old
(Personally I prefer the manageability of the OG game, where there like 8 items and not 800 to manage…)

Ugh Zelda can we just fight some instead of all this Archeology stuff.

i bet the story is 40 hours like every long game that people say is 100+ hours

doesn’t really matter how long the story is. i prob logged 200+ hours on botw, wouldn’t know how to determine how much was story and how much was exploration or just goofing around

i spent an hour hopping from treetop to treetop in the thundra plateau

Starting now, p excited

i bet the story is 40 hours like every long game that people say is 100+ hours

The WaPo guy in that tweet claimed to have cruised straight through the main story, and *that* is what took him 60 hours.

I lent my Switch to a friend and I’m glad I did! I will play this in the winter

the beginning of summer in Montreal is the absolute worst time for this to come out

lol Chicago's situation is not that different.

gonna try to keep my game time to week nights, we’ll see how that goes

just picked up my preorder :)

I will likely never play this but I'm looking forward to all the crazy contraption clips.

played it for about 5 hours so far still in the starting area and feel like i missed a bunch of shit AMA

hiding vague negativity behind spoilers and maybe just wait a year for the shine to wear off but something annoying happened that showed me my main hangup with BOTW (utterly busted cost/reward balance) is probably not really addressed at all and might be worse, and i'm already sour about it... shouldn't have played BOTW right before this cause all my complaints are still fresh

you can make link smoke blunts though lol

https://i.postimg.cc/FH85WCgb/2023051203025000-CC47-F0-DEC75-C1-FD3-B1-F95-FA9-F9-D57667.jpg

played for a few hours on the plane. it’s just as mesmerizing as breath but i feel a little intimidated by the sheer amount of possibilities lol