This is the first ever 11/10. Sorry, video games. And our base-10 number system. You are now both obsolete.
One day maybe I'll come to grips with the fact that Nintendo dropped one of the best games of all time, went radio silent for 6 years, and then dropped an even better sequel. When I played Breath of the Wild, I called it a 10, so I'm going to leave it at that, but frankly Tears of the Kingdom improves every single aspect of Breath of the Wild so much I don't think I could ever bring myself to play the first game again.
I think Eiji Aonuma has earned a long, happy retirement after this, and he's obviously trained Hidemaro Fujibayashi to adequately take his place in the future. Zelda is at its best when it has reinvented itself, it always has been. Tears of the Kingdom is a reinvention of a reinvention. It's hard to believe video games will ever get better than this, but that's what I said 6 years ago - and how delighted I am to be proved wrong.
One day maybe I'll come to grips with the fact that Nintendo dropped one of the best games of all time, went radio silent for 6 years, and then dropped an even better sequel. When I played Breath of the Wild, I called it a 10, so I'm going to leave it at that, but frankly Tears of the Kingdom improves every single aspect of Breath of the Wild so much I don't think I could ever bring myself to play the first game again.
I think Eiji Aonuma has earned a long, happy retirement after this, and he's obviously trained Hidemaro Fujibayashi to adequately take his place in the future. Zelda is at its best when it has reinvented itself, it always has been. Tears of the Kingdom is a reinvention of a reinvention. It's hard to believe video games will ever get better than this, but that's what I said 6 years ago - and how delighted I am to be proved wrong.
thealexmott
9 months ago