The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

This is a good game - because it's essentially Breath of the Wild which was also a good game. This is more like a very full expansion pack than it is a full sequel. The world map is the same. There's now an underworld too but it's basically completely barren and pitch black. There's a sky section too which consists of a handful of islands. They copy pasted the map from breath of the wild and tweaked it a bit. There's nothing really new here. The building system is neat I guess. But it's not AMAZING. The shrines are OK. They were the meat of the last game. They seem shorter here. 1 room puzzles mainly and combat challenges as opposed to mini dungeons. There's no cool "desert island" section from the first game. Not that I've seen anyway. But there are some shrines that steal this idea. Still just 4 main dungeons which was my main complaint from the last game. There's a few odd things too, like the powers. You get helper powers again. This time they follow around and also (slightly) attack enemies which is great. But you can't use their powers without chasing them down and activating them. You can't just press a button to use their powers. It's a VERY good game. I know I'm being kind of rough on it but only because everyone else is overhyping it. It's a great game. But I'm noticing a lot of the game is: go here. Now go here. Now go here. And you're not really doing much other than just arriving at places. Particularly in the depths. Walk (or fly) a great distance, activate 1 of the 120 (or so) light roots. And then do it over. And over. And over. There's SO MUCH repetition in this game. Help the same guy hold a sign up 75 times. Find over 100 light roots. Find 100 wells. Mine for crystals to power up. Literally just digging through rocks for extended periods of time in the pitch black of what is essentially "hell". Real fun. Breath of the wild was exciting exploring a huge world and going anywhere you want. Tears has you exploring the same world - less fun. The enemy variety is better than the last game so that's good. But EVERYTHING should be better and it's just not. Nintendo sold us the same game twice and this time it was $20 more than it was previously. Not worth it. $50 and under? OK. But not $70.