The Nintendo Switch 2 versions of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom are currently the two highest reviewed games of the year on Metacritic. We awarded both games an extremely impressive 10/10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is No.1 with a 95 Metascore and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has a 94 Metascore. It will be interesting to see whether anything released later this year and knock them from the top spots on Metacritic.
Nintendo Switch 2 Zelda games are top 2 Games of the Year on Metacritic
They’re both outstanding games that have gone up a level with the updates. I didn’t think I could love or appreciate TOTK more than I already did but somehow they managed it. Fantastic
Counting these as separate games from their original Switch releases are like saying New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, Donkey Kong Country Returns HD and similar games brought to the Original Switch are all new entries. They are still on Switch 1 Cartridges, and the meat of the upgrade that isn’t much is only available on a smart phone app and not in game. Breath of The Wild doesn’t even come with it’s original DLC. If Breath of the Wild and Tears of The Kingdom were truly remastered for the Switch 2 they’d look much better. Is what I would say but Nintendo Remasters and Remakes are a Mixed Bag, sometimes you get Metroid Prime Remaster and Thousand Year Door that look like completely new and modern games and then you get Donkey Kong Country Returns HD.
While that is a fair take to have, i would say that the performance drops both games suffered was a big deal for a lot of people.
Even objectively its fair, cuz a game’s performance very much matters for immersion and friction levels and absolutely detracts from the experience for a lot of people a la scarlet and violet. If the gap is large enough it absolutely deserves a separate review IMO
My kid had access to the BotW DLC when I downloaded the Switch 2 upgrades for Breath & Tears onto his Switch 2 that his mom & stepdad bought him for his birthday, so I’m assuming if you already own that DLC on the Switch version, the NS2 upgrade gets it automatically.
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Talk about being disingenuous, the meat of the upgrade is 4K/60FPS gameplay and a performance boost that both games were in desperate need of. No one is playing these games on Switch 2 for the mobile features.
Make something that scores 100. I fear OoT will be beaten one day.
I feel the switch Versions only chugged in Lost Woods. I could be remembering wrong., I know there were slight frame drops here and there but never effected me. Also to play Devil’s advocate I think those phone reasons are why the upgrades probably cost money. Mario Party, and Kirby also bring additional content. Games that just have performance boosts have been free to update. So they are putting it for those games behind a pay wall. Also the Cartridges when you buy them physically are still Switch 1 cartridges.I’m not sure what they could have done upgrade wise more without changing the game too much, they were also not trying to spend much time on these. Actual ray tracing would have been nice but then they’d have to spend time making sure it’s not broken anywhere you’d have a Wind waker HD situation where many didn’t like the new lighting. Still, technically Breath and Tears are both $90 on Switch 2 for the whole experience. That doesn’t even include Amiibo for Breath.
Yeah, the Korok Forest area is where the framerate struggled the most in the original version. Anyway who says otherwise is simply lying. There would be occasional small drops here and there, but it was hardly ever an issue and was a rarity.
That being said, the S2 versions are definitely superior in every way. Having 60fps and a higher resolution is really nice.
That’s incredibly stupid and I think your brain done broke. They are updates not a new release.