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One of the few and easiest 10's I'll ever give to a game, it's the best game I've played on any system for a very long time and already one of my favourite ever games. The game looks great, performance is fine for the vast majority of the game and the draw distance is impressive for what's going on.

More importantly its great fun with the new mechanics offering almost endless gameplay possibilities. There's plenty to see and do no matter where you head out to and much like Skyrim it's not afraid to let you complete tasks before being told.

Compared to BOTW, the world feels much more alive, there's a lot more to do and everything is seemingly unlockable without Amiibo.

A definite 10 from me and it makes most open world games look very dated by comparison

It's not a great addition when you consider that these games are effectively already on the service. I'd much rather see games which don't already have versions already on there

@lighteningbolt79 it's definitely in the top 5 games I've ever played and I can't think of anything I've played on Switch or elsewhere over the last few years that really come close to it

Quite how Skyward Sword managed that is anyone's guess but Tears of The Kingdom is a staggering achievement in game design and execution

I managed to get that very controller but luckily mine seems to be fine, I've played at least 10 hours with it and no issues so far

As much as I felt BOTW went in the wrong direction, I have to say that Tears of The Kingdom has proven to me that Zelda does work this way. That said I would still like them to create more traditional Zelda style games, perhaps just on a smaller scale such as the Link's Awakening remake

I've played about 15 hours and can't say the performance has affected my enjoyment at all. The only time it really dips is using ultrahand, at which point you're not doing anything that needs quick responses anyway. In general gameplay it runs great and if anything makes me wonder what developers are wasting resources on with more powerful hardware, given how interactive this world is

@MrLinkTathapast its certainly the same map underneath but I'd argue it still feels new with how much has changed and that's before you consider the shrines plus the world above and below. Yakuza made an entire series out of a very small evolving city and if anything I'd say more games should reuse maps for sequels rather than throwing everything away

@DwaynesGames I've not seen any gyro ones yet and they were annoying in BOTW, especially in handheld mode. Those that I have done have taken a bit more thinking than before and one even turned into a mini game of sorts after putting it together. Even the combat shrines have been good as they teach you a technique that you may not be aware of

I've played about 10 or so hours and already I'd say its better than BOTW in almost every way, the shrines are better designed and there's a lot more thought into quality of life touches such as recipes etc. An amazing game

@SwitchForce nobody here is playing fast and loose with the definition of emulation here apart from you.

"Also Nintendo games never came on emulation"

Well if you ignore the entire Wii Virtual Console, the Wii U Virtual Console, every game on Nintendo Switch Online, the Zelda bonus disc back on the GameCube, the NES games in the original Animal Crossing, Mario 3D All Stars, Super Mario All Stars on the Wii and the Arcade Archives entries of Donkey Kong and Sky Skipper then perhaps you could be right.

"emulation has benefited no one"

I'd say the people who have played all of those games, or subscribe to PS Plus to play PS1 and PS2 classics, or bought PS1 classics on the Vita, PSP and PS3, or indeed played a PS1 or PS2 game on the PS3 hardware, or play back compat 360 and og Xbox games on the Xbox One or Series console benefit from emulation. Oh and all the people who have bought the however many retro collections we've had over the vast amount of consoles released, I could go on but I suspect you get the point.

@-wc- it just makes me laugh seeing these comments
Article - person playing game early on actual Switch
Everyone else - emulation is bad

@Kestrel You can re-use any of the parts, either those lying around or from the capsules. Just that once a capsule is opened you can't put them back in your inventory, think of it more like it gives you the ability to spawn a fan or another item anywhere in the world

@epicgamner exactly, in BOTW I ended up hoarding a lot of weapons that I never used, now I swing away happy that I can turn a stick into a deadly weapon. Without spoiling anything for anyone, this has fixed every niggling gripe that I had with BOTW and everyone is in for a treat

@SwitchForce You're conflating emulation and piracy, emulation has no part in obtaining illegal copies, it can be used to play them afterwards but that can also be done on original hardware. Playing on original hardware is often the bigger problem, think back to the PS1 or those cards for the DS and even this very article shows the game running on the Switch itself and is the biggest cause of Switch piracy

I emulate many games, either through publishers like Nintendo who sell me emulated games, or the vast amount of roms I have, almost none of which are available to buy anymore and the rest I've bought legitimately anyway

@-wc- I find it hilarious how they say this is why Nintendo hates emulation, all whilst Nintendo sells its customers a literal emulation service on Switch.

Not to mention that the post they're commenting on shows the game on an actual Switch, so emulation has absolutely nothing to do with it.

@Kestrel if anything it encourages exploration and experimentation as this allows you to use them anywhere in the world. Those fans and other things are generally only placed where you actually have to use them

OK that's just gone straight to the very top of the games I'm excited to play

@RetroGames there really isn't, most people are quite normal and don't care about such things but you keep on enjoying your odd fanboy life

@RetroGames as a Sonic and Sega fan, I can honestly say that Mario being successful makes no difference to me whatsoever. Who cares which games or films generate more money? It's not like we're getting any of it.

As for the Mario film, the trailers look pretty fun and I might take my little boy to see it and I really enjoyed the Sonic films

@-wc- I'd agree with that, Metroid Prime looked significantly better than most games that gen and was arguably the best looking, plus it was 60fps too, Star Wars Rogue Leader would be up there for me as well

@Cia the dual stick controls are a big upgrade and I really enjoy the original game, as for the doors they look better now anyway

Great review and an easy 10 for a fantastic remaster of what was already one of the best games ever made, with the only negative being worse motion controls than the Wii and that's entirely down to the hardware anyway. The new controls are great, the visuals are some of the best on Switch and the new doors look better anyway frankly

Just an absolutely brilliant game that's as visually appealing as anything I've played on PS5, which shows that tflops aren't everything

Well yeah they could, Goldeneye has been emulated far better by the community for a decade, you can play 4K60FPS, mouse and keyboard and upscaled text. All without the z fighting issues, poor music, enemies clipping through walls, slowdown, incorrect strafing speed and other issues that the Xbox and NSO versions have.

It's nice to have them but it could have been so much better

Sounds like on Project 64 without the correct RSP or plugin, hopefully they fix this

Well apart from some visual effects being missing and the sound isn't great either with some of the music sounding off, which is very noticable in the pause menu. Hopefully Nintendo fix this as it doesn't look to be a great emulation of it

Well if they're going back to a more Sonic Adventure style world then it makes sense as you wouldn't have the room to use it but it'd be nice to have it in there in some form

These days I almost always go digital, partly as I mainly play on PC and have no choice but mainly because physical is nowhere near as attractive as it used to be.

I love physical for older systems with manuals which are a big part of the experience and the ability to just put a disc or cartridge in and play the game without worrying if it's installed and how often are you actually playing the game that is on that physical media these days? On PS5 for example Ratchet and Clank doesn't even have a 60fps mode on disc, whilst HFW is a blurry mess and the less said about what's on Cyberpunks disc the better. For Xbox you probably dont even have the game on disc at all at times due to smart delivery, this is less of an issue on Switch but still very much there.

So overall I see modern physical games as an inconvenient way of accessing what is essentially a digital library anyway and it always makes me feel sad when opening the box to see no manual

I'd love to see more toon Link, Windwaker is still my favourite Zelda game and Minish Cap is brilliant too. Nintendo should make smaller scale Zelda games alongside the likes of Breath of The Wild

@HotGoomba it's amazing on PSVR, I'm hoping for a PSVR2 update for when I get that

And pretty appalling value compared to the Atari 50th collection and well anything else to be honest. This should have been one cartridge at most

@somnambulance excessive? It may well be a fun game to play but it's hard to ignore that the game looks dreadful and has performance issues

Once again proving how easily people are influenced by a brand rather than the quality of the actual product. This looks to be quite comfortably one of the worst looking major game releases we've seen on any console and whilst graphics certainly aren't everything, this game just looks very poor by any standard.

If people enjoy playing it then great but this level of polish should be unacceptable and especially for a franchise that basically swims in money

This is my favourite game on the PS4, a great game with high replay value

@somnambulance yep, it being short is a strength for me and I've already replayed it many times.

My first console was an Atari 2600 and many great times were had, with such collections there is always going to be the disappointment of missing third party/licensed games sadly. That said there are still plenty of great games on here that are still fun today, Tempest 2000 is a brilliant game in any generation whilst Asteroids, Crystal Castles, Yars Revenge and Millipede will always be fun and the reimagined stuff looks like fun.

My copy comes today and I'm really looking forward to it

How about they start by trying to catch up with the original Xbox.

It'll be a very long time before I consider subbing to NSO again, they're online functionality is truly awful, cloud saves don't work for every game and their drip feed approach to gaming libraries mean I'll probably be dead before we get anything approaching the Gamecube

First of all I've got to say the review on here is ridiculously harsh, granted I've not played the Switch port but short of it being broken I can't come close to seeing where the reviewer is coming from

For me its around an 8 at the moment, the controls are pretty good and just running around as Sonic in the open world is great fun. Some of the dialogue can be a bit dull but quite a bit of it is intriguing and I like what they've done with Robotnik here. So far I'm about half way through the second island and loving it so far

I'm about 6 hours in (on PS5) and it's the best 3D Sonic game I've played for a long time, really takes me back to those Adventure style games and is certainly the foundations upon which future titles should be built

New Leaf, Horizons has some good new features but is a bit disappointing overall and it doesn't feel like your little community matters and it leans far to heavily on its crafting

I moved on from it a long time ago, good game but one that sadly added as much as it removed. Hopefully they build upon it for the next entry and perhaps add a real story mode to it amongst other things.

Oh and remove all the nonsense around cloud saves, sharing towns and even local multiplayer

@Moonlessky so Switch is getting the free update then, that makes this review even stranger given his main positives were for content you don't need the paid upgrade for

The thing is fishing and survival mode were a free update on the other platforms, so I'm guessing that's not the case here? I mean if Switch is your only means of playing this then maybe there's some value, though that price is ludicrous. I'm playing it on PC where I can install much better mods for nothing so haven't upgraded

£60 for Skyrim with a few mods attached? What an absolute joke, get it on PC for much less and download vastly superior mods for free

I'm curious as to why it isn't that previously leaked version of Goldeneye, that looks to be much better than the version Xbox is getting now

One that's been on my wishlist on Steam for a while, as a fan of this type of game I'm really enjoying having so many of them either returning or new ones being made

Ion Fury was one of the best FPS games of recent times and this looks to be at least as good if not better, overall I'd have to say the Realms Deep showcase is the best I've seen this year, so many great games on the way

I've no problem with these games coming to Switch but they should be budget prices or compilations. There's no reason to be selling them individually at as full prices games but we know Nintendo will do that and thats why I just emulate their older titles.

For balance TLOU is even more ridiculous at £70, especially when the same game is already playable on PS5 at 4K60FPS

@Branovices yeah Switch and I'd say Playstation are the platforms where this makes the most sense, I didn't bother with the upgrade on PC as there's so much I can add anyway

Pretty sure the fishing part was part of a free update for every other platform regardless of whether they got the Anniversary edition. Speaking of which the Switch and Playstation are the only platforms where this version even makes sense as one has no mods and the other may as well have no mods.

I actually recently picked up the Special Edition on Steam and chose my own mods amd Skyrim is still better than most games I've played since it's initial release

It's great how these cheap Quake and Doom ports are getting better post launch support then most AAA games and they're still fantastic games too

About time and some great tracks too