Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom?

[jonathanalis]

The same gameplay loop of botw: go explore find something interesting, look around and other thing interesting appear and you follow it. When you see you explored a large chunk, hours have passed.
When you go back there you are guided to another path for things you havent explored. But now you have more options and just more things to do, you repeat this loop for longer.


Overall, it feels more alive. There are expeditions where you fight along with hyrule people. NPCs feels more alive, eagering to fight. I like have minions fighting with me (sages), taking care of combat while i think in stole the hordes. Beying eaten by like-likes was a nice touch.

The map is exactly what I would expect from a sequence in the same map. Feels revisiting the same place 10 years latter. You want to know what happened, the new configuration, what the reveval did to the places

I think totk integrates better the abilities. They feel like complementing each other. You move things with the ultrahand, turn them back on time, ascend on the things fuse the things in your weapon.
Finally better function to the zillion drops and items. Albeit, it kinda drops the flow in combat when having to select items to fuse with weapon or arrow in combat. But after sometime, the most used stay on the most used list and avoid this problem. You realize some are more useful than others and in practice you will use them a lot more.
All new cave system integrates so well with ascend. too fun to use in combat as well. as turning back the time. Of course, the ultrahand and the overwelm potential of creations and situations you use it.

First time entering the depths, realizing is an entire map the size of surface, all in pitch dark (and all the correspondence to the surface map) was just incredible.
(Also Nintendo managing to hide this detail in any form in trailers was bold)
This one and Dropping from sky first time and getting the Master sword in this game was one of the best memories in gaming.

I am loving and I have double the time I spend on botw. Not finished yet.
I think it should have a map layer for caves and wells. Not revealed initially, but maybe revealing the parts after finding the corresponding bubulgem. I think it was a missed opportunity.