Tears of the Kingdom, Part Three

[rynling]

The scripted parts of Tears of the Kingdom - the story and the shrine puzzles - could be better, but I'm having a great time with the open-world exploration.

I love the caves beyond measure. Each of them has its own little gimmick, many of which are humorous. There's one in the hills above Kakariko Village that's so silly and adorable that I almost choked on my tea laughing.

I also really like the wells. Fairly early on, you meet a character who is obsessed with exploring every well in Hyrule. She says there are 58 of them, and she invites you to join her on her quest. I imagine many players will roll their eyes, but I was ecstatic with joy. 58 wells? For me to find and explore??? Oh happy day!!

If there had been just caves and wells, that would have been enough, but Tears of the Kingdom also has an underworld that spans the entire map of the game. I'm going to be honest and admit that what I've seen of the underworld so far is extremely scary. What I'm therefore doing is checking off shrines (to gain more health) and upgrading my armor in preparation to dive even deeper underground.

Comments

[runicmagitek]

Damn, you and me both. I know I should be looking for Zelda and finding a way to end this gloomy business, but it's just Such A Delight to wander around and reacquaint myself with this world and help Koroks reunite with their friends and poke through wells without somehow turning into Like Like food or get murdered by a sentient tree I didn't notice was creeping up behind me for the 20th time.

Also did you know you can fuse a minecart to your shield and upgrade shield surfing to shield skateboard? 10/10 would ignore the plot again 🥲

[lassarina]

This sounds like a delight to experience.