By William Smith – Entertainment Editor

“The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” came out on May 13. The game is an action-adventure game for the Nintendo Switch. The game won the most anticipated game of the year last year. It is also the first Nintendo game to be priced at $70. 

Tears of the Kingdom takes place a couple of years after the event of the previous game Breath of the Wild. When starting the game Link (you) and Princess Zelda go below the depths of Hyrule castle to investigate the source of the gloom that is plaguing Hyrule. While investigating the gloom the place the source is coming from is filled with Zonai ruins. The Zonai are an ancient race of people who lived during the creation of the kingdom. When they finally find the source of the gloom it’s an old and rotten corpse with a glowing magic hand on his chest, and when they try to investigate further the hand disappears and the corpse wakes up. The corpse wakes up and attacks you causing you to lose all of your abilities and the master sword while also causing Zelda to fall off a ledge Link goes to catcher but fails and she falls but before she falls she glows and is transported somewhere while Link is caught by the glowing hand that was sealing the corpse. It cuts to black then Link is transported to the great sky island where he gains new abilities and recovers his strength. After he completes his recovery he is free to leave the sky island and find Zelda.

Some positives about the game are that there are so many things to do it’s easy to get distracted from discovering a new cave, doing the lucky clover gazette quest line and just exploring the old but changed Hyrule. There is so much to do. The game also fixed everything that was bad from the last game, so now every mainline dungeon and every shrine are way harder than they were in Breath of the Wild, they made it so side quests would give relevant rewards like armor or food instead of just currency, they also made the story slightly more linear unlike that last game but you can still go straight to the final game boss just it’s less hinted at in this game on where it is and what to do but you still can go do it just like Breath of the Wild.

There really isn’t anything negative to say about the game besides that the game was priced at $70 when normally all other mainline Nintendo games are priced at $60. Another negative is the game can get very laggy when the game is in a dense area.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars