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While it doesn’t mark the return of traditional Zelda dungeons, Tears of the Kingdom‘s puzzle temples get a touch closer to that formula than Breath of the Wild’s Divine Beasts.

There are a few additional twists on that formula that stand out, bringing some of the series’ DNA back into the mix. Everything that made Breath of the Wild an instant sensation still works here, even if it doesn’t have the same fresh factor. Players are tossed back into the same sprawling Hyrule from Link’s previous adventure and are free to climb any surface, discover towers that fill in the map, and hop between puzzle-like shrines that reward resources that upgrade health and stamina. Rather than totally reinventing the Zelda formula again, Tears of the Kingdom builds on top of Breath of the Wild’s winning exploration foundation. Video reviewĮverything that made Breath of the Wild an instant sensation still works here. It’s a design philosophy that makes for a spectacular sequel, though one that demands a lot from players who want to unravel all its mysteries. I’m truly free to make breakthrough discoveries well before I’m led to them. What makes that experience work as well as it does, though, is that there’s never a moment where limits are placed on my curiosity. I’m not just a tourist draining another beautiful open world of its resources, but an archaeologist out to unearth centuries’ worth of history buried beneath (or floating above) Hyrule. That moment is the heart of Tears of the Kingdom, the much-anticipated sequel to 2017’s Breath of the Wild. I wasn’t lost at all I was actually three steps ahead and didn’t realize it yet. Days earlier, I’d cobbled together a makeshift airship, piloted it across an impossible distance to explore a curious blip on my map, and blundered into one of the most important chambers in the game long before I was supposed to. Only when I made it to the final chain in the islands did I realize I’d somehow already been there. It took strolling back to a town I’d already visited to trigger an enormous story quest that revealed a chain of hidden sky islands holding the path forward.

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