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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.
@DrRyanSkelton my two actually legitimate playthroughs of skyrim were completely different. one time i forced myself to just gun it through the main story and the second time i avoided the main story completely and just kind of stopped when i felt like my character had gone through their adventure. it's unlikely that i'll replay it again, especially because that second time was heavily modded already. it's not like i can do anything else with it at this point.
