it seems that the longer tears of the kingdom has been out, the less praise it has been getting. people are getting pretty critical of it now, myself included.

i can imagine that a year from now, it will be pretty low on most zelda fans' rankings. then, ten years from now, some 3 hour long video essay called "tears of the kingdom is a misunderstood masterpiece" will come out and change everyone's minds about the game except none of them will actually ever replay it and just think it was actually good.

that's the major test to determine whether a game was good or bad. if you can go back and play it ten years later and it's still just as good as everyone says it was, or you thought it was, if not better. games like ocarina of time, star fox 64, and mario 64 get better with age for me. games like silent hill that i never played until 15-20 years after their original release were just as good as people said they were. i can't imagine breath of the wild or tears of the kingdom falling into that same category, to be honest.

@Arkana i actually never got far into the botw dlc because i felt like there was nothing for me to do anymore. i had already completed the game 100%. i imagine that, unless the totk dlc brings some REALLY compelling story stuff to the table, i won't play it.

with botw i at least did go 100% (minus all 900 korok seeds, fuck that), but with totk i haven't even beaten the game yet. there's just way too much game there and i'm not hooked into the story enough. i'm right at the end, too, haven't touched it in a month. i got burnt out.