Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Gameplay trailer....holy shit..

I attached 2 shitty boxes with the korok on the bottom and dragged it with my horse lol. I bet you can attach rockets and shit and send em to space

Still playing jedi survivor in my free time. Does Tears live up to the hype?

Absolutely. If you like creativity, it's insane what you can build or fuse if you put your mind to it. Even if you don't like creativity, it's still a wide open game with even more to explore than BOTW. It feels like the main map has shrunk a little bit (maybe that's just me) and it is definitely not the same Hyrule, then you get the Sky Islands and the underground chasms to explore.

I have like 15 hours of gameplay into it and I haven't even begun to progress through the main storyline other than getting the main quests started and getting through the new shrines.

The dungeon i did was pretty good, not quite a classic zelda dungeon but sort of a mix between a divine beast and a regular dungeon.  The boss was fucking awesome though.  Story seems more substantial and more involved as well which is a welcome change.

I do think the shrines are lacking in the same way BOTW shrines did.  Only a few genuinely hard to figure out, too many tutorial dungeons, a lot of repeats like bring the crystal to the thing, and a lot of shrines with just 2 or 3 rooms.  In a way when the game puts you in a box with limited materials it takes away the best part of the game.  You can still be creative and cheese basically every shrine by making your own fun but its more limited in shrines.  I want some genuinely hard to figure out stuff that doesnt end after 2 minutes ya know?  Make me combine my powers in a way that blows my mind.

The shrines are not the meat though, the open worlds and the exploration is the meat.  I wouldnt say there are no complaints.  Shrines, too much menuing, no changes or tweaks to the battle animations (same 3 animations for the same 3 weapon types), no unique weapons with different move sets, and no classic items.

They did improve on pretty much everything except maybe the shrines but i do miss Stasis.  I wish we still had that power lol.  It is still missing a lot of Zelda-ness i look for but its still gonna be one of the best games ever.

Yea, that's an underrated loss right there. Having to go underground or find bomb flowers on the surface is a pain.

theres definitely too many rock walls that take waaaay too many hits lol.  Ive been using the zonai time bombs to blow them up since i dont want to use the bomb flowers or take 8 million years breaking rock fused weapons against them.