The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom review
Review information Time played: 70 hours Platform: Nintendo Switch In the sky above Hyrule, a dragon is turning in great graceful loops. Its lion-like yellow mane flutters and trails in the wind as it threads a path through clouds, drawing my eye from the green plains to the floating islands that dot the air above. I stand and watch from a distance until the creature dives groundward, and I lose sight of it; perhaps it flies low into a canyon or through one of the chasms that pockmark the landscape, acting as entrances to the dark cavernous underworld beneath the crust of the earth. I wait for a moment to see if the dragon will emerge again. When it doesn’t, I continue my long walk to Kakariko village, the next stop in my search for Princess Zelda. The dragon isn’t something to dwell on; it’s just another of the many wondrous sights in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom . Following in the footsteps of 2017’s Breath of the Wild , the open-world game that both lau...