20 hours after returning to Hyrule, “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” refreshed my understanding of the game benchmark

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This article contains the plot introduction of “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild”, but there will be no content other than the official demo of “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom”, please rest assured to read.

How many people, when Link left the original sky island and jumped off, the words “Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” appeared along with the background music, their hearts beat faster like mine?

TGA 2022’s most anticipated game and media average score of 97, “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” responded to the expectations of players around the world with its undoubted debut performance.

everywhere the same everywhere different

The warrior wakes up and loses all his strength. Under the guidance of the princess, he regains his abilities, defeats powerful enemies, and finally defeats the devil and saves the world.

It’s the story of Breath of the Wild, it’s the story of Tears of the Kingdom, and if you stretch the limits a bit, it’s the story of every Zelda.

The sequel on the console of the same generation makes “Tears of the Kingdom” and “Breath of the Wild” have many similarities: the same continent of Hyrule, the same timeline, and the same characters.

X key to accelerate, A key to interact, Y key to weapon, B key to jump, the operation of “Tears of the Kingdom” is exactly the same as the previous one.

So what’s different about Tears of the Kingdom?

Nintendo is smart, it knows that even today, “Breath of the Wild” is still a leader in the open world: a huge, explorable world, an exquisite physical and chemical engine, plus a wealth of weapons, medicines, equipment and even Fruit of Kroger. Let “Breath of the Wild” have the confidence to give players all the abilities at the beginning of the game-Link, who left the initial platform, has the strength to fight against Ganon.

​So “Tears of the Kingdom” hardly changed any settings of “Breath of the Wild”, just adjusted Link’s skills.

Still getting full marks.

​In my opinion, the changes in “Tears of the Kingdom” can be summed up in eight words: focus on one point and reach the peak.

Like Breath of the Wild, Link gets almost all of his abilities within the first 3 hours of the game (less if you don’t wander around), before the game tells the player the ultimate goal.

It was this experience of less than 3 hours that completely rewrote the gameplay of “Breath of the Wild”.

In “Breath of the Wild”, the four abilities of the Shika Stone, including Time Stop, Time Bomb, Magnet, Ice Maker, have been played out by players.

In “Tears of the Kingdom”, the four abilities have become the ultimate hand (moving and bonding), leftover construction (splicing equipment), reversing the universe (reversing time) and reaching the sky (crossing the ceiling).

Question: How to climb a slippery cliff?

Players of “Breath of the Wild”: Stop a stone, tap the accumulated kinetic energy, grab the stone and fly up.

Players of “Tears of the Kingdom”: Find three or five tree trunks, and use the ultimate hand to assemble a ladder to climb up.

Question: How to climb to the top of the waterfall?

“Breath of the Wild” players: Use an ice maker to make a ladder and walk up step by step.

Players of “Tears of the Kingdom”: use the ultimate hand to take down the stone slab on the top of the waterfall, and stand on the slate to turn the world upside down.

Question: What should I do if the weapon is about to break down?

“Breath of the Wild” players: Throw weapons, deal critical damage, and switch to the next weapon to fight.

Players of “Tears of the Kingdom”: Find nearby stones, boxes, mushrooms… Use leftover materials to build weapons to give them new life.

Question: How to get to the top of the mountain quickly?

“Breath of the Wild” players: wait for the rain to stop or fly up with the blessing of the hero.

“Tears of the Kingdom” player: Drill the cave and use the spell to reach the top of the mountain.

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All the problems and challenges encountered in “Breath of the Wild” have a new solution in “Tears of the Kingdom”. Even if it is still this continent, it is still full of unknowns and possibilities.

Of course, the world of “Tears of the Kingdom” is not completely unchanged. The sky island provides a new space for exploration, and the emergence of depth also makes it much easier to explore the running map in the early stage-except for walking and riding, gliding from the sky to the target Location is also a good choice.

In “Breath of the Wild”, the skills from the five great beasts to the map tower, temple, and Link all come from the Shika clan, and the “technical guidance” of “Tears of the Kingdom” has become Zonau, in “The Wilderness” “Breath of Breath” North of Ferronita, there are ruins from Zonau.

However, both the game itself and the official setting set mention this race briefly, only saying that it is a “mysterious ancient tribe”. Judging from the game, they seem to be good at building.

Maybe you have seen many videos of players in social media, so I won’t go into details here.

In short, in the game, you will get wheels, boards and other items very conveniently. As long as you have enough imagination, it is no problem to turn “Legend of Zelda” into “Legend of Saigon”.

In addition to construction, weapon bonding also brings a lot of innovative gameplay to “Tears of the Kingdom”. For some reason, the weapons in “Breath of the Wild” have been damaged to varying degrees, so you need to build them from leftovers to bring them back to life.

What surprises me the most is the transformation of bows and arrows. The once useless Qiuqiu rubber has become popular, and the ice arrow rockets are all made of it; the bat eye, which is almost only used for selling money, has also become a hot commodity, and the tracking arrow guns exploded. Head, bird hunting is no longer the exclusive skill of game masters.

“Tears of the Kingdom” also seems to encourage the use of more arrows to attack. Since the beginning of the game, I have hardly shot 100 spare arrows, but the bat eyes are really not enough.

Oh by the way, Bateye arrows can’t follow Yahaha’s balloons.

Although my game time is less than 20 hours, I have already felt the sincerity of the development team:

Have you explored Hyrule for too long? The new work not only adds sky islands and underground mines, but also changes some landforms;

Tired of playing with the weapon system? Then use old weapons to glue everything in the world to make the battle more varied;

Just exploring isn’t enough? The planks and wheels are all for you, and there is only one online battle platform away from “Made in Zelda”.

The emergence of “Breath of the Wild” made players laugh that “The Legend of Zelda” does not need a 10 points to prove its value, but the game media needs to use 10 points to prove their professionalism. Today, “Tears of the Kingdom” has gone a step further on the basis of the original work, telling the world how to maintain or even surpass the excellent performance of a top game in the world.

“Tears of the Kingdom” is Nintendo’s gift to players, and it is also its wealth to the game world.

From “Breath of the Wild”, the touch of being remembered

On the title page of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: The Master Book, there are three words: “Wake up…”. This is where the dreams of countless players began.

Waking up in a strange world, a hundred years have passed, you who have lost your memory do not remember the world, and the world has forgotten you.

The best friends who fought side by side in the past are old, and only the long-lived Zora and the isolated Kroger remember you. In this world, you are a hero, a descendant of a hero, a guard knight, and a brave man, but to most people, you are just a traveler.

When playing “Breath of the Wild”, it took me a long time to go to Kakarit Village, and it took a long time to liberate the beast and go to the final battlefield. The world that forgot me was also forgotten by me.

But after I went through a long battle, defeated Ganon and saved the world with the help of heroes, something seemed different.

At the beginning of “Tears of the Kingdom”, after returning to Hyrule mainland from Sky Island, I rushed to Kakarit Village immediately. I wanted to know if the old Impa was safe, and then went to Harnott Village , I am worried that something will happen to my fellow countrymen.

I will carefully read every piece of station news along the way, and plan the next place to go-I am a brave man, even if I have lost all my strength, I am still a brave man who protects this world.

Of course, as I remember the world, the world responds to me. After returning to the mainland of Hyrule, every villager who met me would ask about my safety, and every friend who saw me wanted to help me solve the problem.

When I went to Lite Village and saw Teba’s child Qiuli, the little guy recognized me immediately. The child who longed for Link in “Breath of the Wild” became a comrade in arms in “Tears of the Kingdom”. As Link, we have witnessed the changes of an era through two works.

Perhaps because of the precipitation of “Breath of the Wild”, the plot of “Tears of the Kingdom” is fuller and more tense. Link is not alone, but the whole world is moving. Everyone works together to deal with this disaster. Link is just one of them.

I don’t want to expand too much about the plot, everyone can get different emotions from it, I only have one suggestion: try to talk to every NPC, you will find many small Easter eggs in “Breath of the Wild”.

The masterpiece of “Legend of Zelda” is every work

Nintendo has three major IPs.

Mario is a social butterfly, he can create happiness in different worlds, such as side-scrolling, 3D adventure, and racing tennis.

Pokémon is an upstart. From the first generation to today’s “Pokémon: Vermilion/Purple”, it has been making increments around a game core. No matter how the players and the media scold it, it still sells tens of millions of dollars a day for decades .

Most games are the same as the Pokémon series, with a core gameplay, adding some new elements, and enhancing the graphics is the sequel. But the “Legend of Zelda” series is different. You can never guess what the next work will look like. Every time a new work is released, it will arouse wide recognition in the industry.

Open the well-known scoring website Metacritic, and you will find that except for the remake, every work in the “Legend of Zelda” series has a high score of more than 90, and even “Ocarina of Time” has a score of 99, ranking M from 1998 to the present. The monster standing at the top of the list.

Take “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time” as an example. It is the first full score in the history of a series of game media such as Famitsu, Gamespot, and IGN. Widely considered the “best game of all time”.

Its contribution to the entire game industry is also a milestone. The perspective locking system provides the most reasonable solution to the perspective conversion problem that has plagued 3D games for many years, and it is still in use today.

Although many domestic players understand the “Legend of Zelda” series because of the Switch’s out-of-the-box and the excellent quality of “Breath of the Wild”.

However, fresh game technologies and settings such as game archives, non-linear game processes, target locking, dynamic weather, and parallel time and space are all brought to the game field by the “Legend of Zelda” series.

Every work can be called the “Legend of Zelda”, which not only moves players, but also leads the development of the game industry.

New players don’t have to worry too much. If you haven’t played “Breath of the Wild”, it won’t affect your entry into “Tears of the Kingdom”. “Breath of the Wild” re-experience “Tears of the Kingdom” is naturally more immersive.

If you have already been moved by the world depicted in “Breath of the Wild”, there is nothing to say, “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” is the most worthwhile game for you this year.

At a press conference last week, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said that Nintendo has been actively promoting console development, but the annual plan for the 2023-2024 fiscal year does not include any new hardware or hardware upgrades. At the same time, the sales volume of Switch exceeded 150 million, becoming the third historical sales volume after PS2 and NDS.

But I still have to say, old Ren, it’s time to update the console. The performance of some scenes with less than 20 frames is really sorry for the excellent gameplay of “Tears of the Kingdom”.

May the adventure never stop

I want to say to those players who think they know the game well, I support you to reopen the game and try more, maybe you can find new surprises.

After the development of “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” ended, series supervisor Fujibayashi Hidemo said so. It sounds arrogant, but he’s the director of Breath of the Wild, so it’s fine.

At the end of 2020, some players discovered the Morse code for help in the soundtrack near the beast in “Breath of the Wild”. The distress signal from the heroes has echoed in the Hyrule continent for a hundred years. When the players discovered it, it had been 3 years since the game was released.

After seeing almost all the media to get started, I thought I knew the game well (at least at the beginning), the first time I opened “Tears of the Kingdom”, I was still attracted by this world, and I was amazed by the exquisite decryption ideas. 2023 has just arrived in May, and “Tears of the Kingdom” has already booked a candidate for the best game of the year.

On the basis of the story of “Breath of the Wild”, “Tears of the Kingdom” rewrites the laws of the entire Hyrule continent with innovative gameplay and brand-new stories. Every place you used to be familiar with has a new look, and every reunion of old people can bring you a different touch.

“Tears of the Kingdom” is not a large-scale DLC of “Breath of the Wild”, but a brand new story under the same world view.

Maybe 3 years later, you will find an easter egg similar to “SOS for Yingjie”. Hopefully then you will recall the words of Eiji Aonuma, producer of The Legend of Zelda series:

Video games—and not just limited to the Zelda series—can go one step further, one big step!

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