Rarely are you ever forced to figure out a single solution to a problem in Tears of the Kingdom.

Or scout around and find another way around the river entirely. Or you can chop down a bunch of trees and make a bridge. See a fast-flowing river up high on a mountain that freezes Link dead seconds after diving into it? Stick together a bunch of logs, strap a fan machine to the back, and you’ve got a raft that will get you to the other bank. Meanwhile, the ability to “fuse” items together allows you to create intricate tools, and use them to access even more resources and treasures. The much-lauded ability to “stick” things together to build structures allows you an enormous range of creative options that allow you to drive, float, or fly across the gigantic expanse. Link has plenty of options up his sleeve to navigate around or through them, however. It is filled with roadblocks and traps that beg you to figure out a creative solution to. The entire world of Tears of the Kingdom is, effectively, a giant puzzle. Read it here.Īt its core, this game is still about exploring the world on your own terms, and coming up with some crazy, clever solutions to the problems that it presents to you. Related reading: Of course we did review Breath of the Wild too, back when it launched. It’s not my favourite game in the long-running series (that will forever be Ocarina of Time) and the open world format aggravates me (in general, not just with this game), but I can now see why people are so enamoured with Breath of the Wild, and those people will get a lot out of what Nintendo has built on top of it for this outing. Tears of the Kingdom opens with a chapter that closely mirrors the structure of Breath of the Wild, though I’m glad I pushed through it this time. I joke frequently about how I’ve never made it off the tutorial plateau of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, so it’s just as well that you don’t need to have played that game to get stuck into Tears of the Kingdom (though I’m sure it helps).

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