Game developers are blown away by Tears of the Kingdom

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curl-6 said:

The Zelda killer title seems to stem from the lead up and launch of BOTW and Zero Dawn happening side by side; fans inevitably compared the two as ammo in the perpetual console wars, and at the time Sony seemed unstoppable with PS4 dominating the market and the Wii U failing miserably.

I can't find it now but we had an infamous thread here where someone predicted that Horizon would beat Zelda in both sales and reviews.

Of course, once the two games actually released, BOTW ended up being widely considered one of the best games ever made, while Horizon was considered merely a good game.

Horizone is 89 on metracritic and a 8.4 user score. It looks like many thought it was a great game but as always that's subjective. I haven't played though. One of my friends always raves about it but he's a casual gamer.