Video: Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom And Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Side-By-Side Comparison

I was playing Botw and my girlfriend mentioned how Skyward sword that she recently watched me play through looked more colorful than Botw. Anyone else notice that?

Anyway it looks like tears of the kingdom is one amazing looking game considering the switch hardware by now is getting pretty outdated.

I would love to see the next-gen Zelda in 4K resolution and 60 fps!

@Truegamer79 Skyward Sword is definitely more colorful, but BotW’s dull colors were an intentional choice to show fallen dystopian Hyrule. SS and BotW are different games and BotW shouldn’t be as colorful as SS.

@Belatarr I was kinda getting that vibe with the arm too! That movie is goat!

Am I the only one who feels like BotW was a tech demo for TotK??

All other game developers moving to 4k and Nintendo still hasn't managed to embrace full HD in 2023.
It looks like the screen has been smeared with a layer of vaseline, you can't even make out the shopkeepers feature when stood right next to him.

It's cool these two games have their fans and can be enjoyed; I just don't like any of it. The graphics are smeary, like an HD N64 game. Tears of the Kingdom seems like one step forward in areas then three steps back in others.

I personally am I fan of crisp, colorful visuals so Wind Waker and Skyward Sword are the two "recent" mainline Zelda games I can tolerate. The remake for Link's Awakening is my ideal though in both gameplay and style.

Looking past the graphics and gameplay though, having sub 30FPS is inexcusable. Even if I liked this style of game I would not be able to enjoy it and would most likely stop playing. Anything under 30FPS now makes me nauseous and gives me a headache.

I find it hilarious too that the note for the dips in frame rate say something like "when a lot of junk is going on screen and you are using powers". Oh, so you mean when you're actually playing the game and need that frame rate to be rock steady?

@Slowdive it's hard to move on when pretty much every article on NL is talking about it, they asked what we thought about the visual comparison so I simply added my thoughts.
It looks like a last gen game if you were playing it through cataracts.

That's a ridiculously long intro for a site called "Instant Gaming". Not so instant after all.

It's annoying how some people keep on parroting about fps. Here's some news: F Zero X for N64 was running 60 fps. I played WoW in 2007 with 120 fps. When I played BotW in 2017 I didn't complain it's "just" 30 fps. It's more like a standard for games like that.

Bottom line: it's not like 60 fps was some kind of new standard. Actually even most movies run at 24 fps. They have made some movies running 60 fps but it makes them look somehow cheap, like a TV movies.

The best games I've ever played have ran at 30 fps. It doesn't make a game any better to just add fps after fps. Stuff like this only matters if there are constant, severe dips. Minor dips don't even matter. Slowdown could at times look even cool.

I hope this stupid conversation about fps would just end.

@Cia THIS! THIS IS WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT!!!
People keep acting like 30 FPS is unplayable yet the games still run perfectly fine. Thank you so much.

@Cia 60 is quite visible and feels much better than 30 and 120 feels better than 60. It is very noticeable and consoles and games should be striving for at least 60 these days. Speaking of the video, the amount of jaggies is quite horrible. Can't wait to see videos of people playing this in emulators at 4k with legit anti-aliasing to see what it could really be like if Nintendo have good hardware.

I too used to only care about graphics, that's why I stopped buying Nintendo and moved to the more powerful stuff. Then I realized that FUN games are more important than FPS and graphical details in many cases. Sure it's great if both can be present at once, but I also enjoy not having to charge my Switch every 30 seconds. For me, BOTW and TOTK are a testament to how much fun games can be even if they're not perfect from a technical standpoint. But I can see how people who obsess over only the greatest technical specs could be annoyed by these.

I think I may be in the minority here but so far I actually prefer BOTW visuals.

While the new draw distances and some other aspects are impressive, to my non expert eye I found some parts of the new game quite jarring and way over sharpened especially on a very large TV.

I actually had to turn the brightness down.

Maybe it's just nostalgia and the fact that I'm used to BOTW.

@PeteW was link's banana hair too bright to handle? because i can see that happening

@Chaotic_Neutral Best reviewed game of the year and people can't stop talking about less than 48 hours after launch. What a shocker.

Can you explain how Nintendo is supposed to get 4k out of this console?

@Cia I'm totally with you but movies at 24 fps always had "motion blur", the frames contained the image and the blur of the movement. 60 fps in movies is jarring, but that doesn't really apply to games so much. A third person game at 30 fps is absolutely fine, depending on how fast the camera moves.

@Iconoclysm That's the limitation of the console, Nintendo can't even get full HD out of so there's no chance they could manage 4k, they can't even let you fuse more than 2 items together at once 🤣

@MrMichaelJames
I did watch videos of BotW with 4k resolution and 60fps. To me it looked almost the same. Besides, you can always use that argument. Wow, I wonder how God of War would look when played with a proper PC, 12k and 250 fps!

I'm just playing Majora's Mask. I think it runs at 25 fps and the graphics are N64 level... and hell, I like it more than the 3ds version which remade the graphics. It simply has better visuals. A good example is the expression of the moon which was ruined in the remake.

Therefore, I no longer talk about graphics at all. I talk about visuals. I think BotW and TotK has the best visuals of this generation, ps5 and xboxwhatever games included.

Another good example is Xenoblade 3. The visuals are just awesome. Some things just look so vast and all...

I say this now and here. Stop being ridiculous, people. Graphics are nothing but tools to create visuals. So, from now on everyone who is in his right mind should start talking about visuals when referring to the look of a finished game.

Oh, and not all development studios are Nintendo- level at making visuals. Even if they have better graphical tools to work with for a better hardware, the end result may not look as good visually compared to TotK for example. It's all about how various graphical elements compliment each other in a finished product. That's why the fan- made "realistic 4k" version of BotW looked like crap compared to the original.