![]() ![]() Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma, who has been working on Zelda games since the mid-90s, believes that the series’ willingness to trust the player’s intellectual curiosity is the key to their appeal. Photograph: Richard A Brooks/AFP/Getty Images People queue to buy the game after it went on sale in Tokyo. ![]() It is already being called one of the greatest video games Trusted Reviews said it was “likely to go down in history as one of the best games ever to grace a Nintendo console”, and the games media’s longstanding behemoth IGN has called it an “unfathomable follow-up, expanding a world that already felt full beyond expectation and raising the bar ever higher into the clouds”.Ĭritics have said it offers a previously unimagined level of creative freedom, letting players fabricate their own weapons and madcap contraptions, from makeshift planes to flame-throwing shields. Tears of the Kingdom invites players to explore a fantasy kingdom, Hyrule, as elven hero Link, letting them chart their own path through the world and uncover its many secrets. It is the connoisseur’s choice, a game whose puzzles and battles involve your intellect as much as your reflexes. ![]() If Mario is gaming’s most recognisable face, the medium’s equivalent of Mickey Mouse, Zelda is more like Indiana Jones – clever, swashbuckling and much imitated. ![]() That makes it a game worth taking a day off work to play – or maybe even a week. On review aggregation site Metacritic, it currently has an average score of 97/100, putting it comfortably in video games’ top echelon. ![]()
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