Breath of the Wild is better than Tears of the Kingdom.

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Published on August 30, 2023 11:00:30 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWh4cFrM7h0

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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023)

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In today's video, RPG Ranked presents: Breath of the Wild is better than Tears of the Kingdom.

Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are both widely considered to be masterpieces and two of the greatest games of all time. However, the popular opinion is that Tears of the Kingdom is the vastly superior game—but to me? I just simply cannot agree. Its disheartening to see one of my favorite Zelda games constantly tech demo for a game I personally like less... Now it's time for me to get knee-deep in controversy in today's video... Breath of the Wild is better than Tears of the Kingdom!

Chapters:

0:00 Intro
1:40 Atmosphere
4:33 Combat
6:06 Music
7:35 Towers
11:16 Characters
17:56 World
22:25 Story
27:29 Dungeons
34:30 Abilities
39:48 Shrines
49:25 Outro

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Dungeons - 6 vs 9

This might be my most controversial opinion on this list, I thought the Divine Beasts were a bit better than the "traditional dungeons" in Tears of the Kingdom. I love elemental temples in Zelda games, but they were getting slightly stale. While Divine Beasts weren't perfect, I admire them for trying something new! Also, Tears of the Kingdom dungeons still have the Diving Beast terminal system, so they weren't exactly "traditional dungeons." While the boss fights in Tears of the Kingdom were exponentially better, they have absolutely no plot relevance, unlike the Blight Ganons. Finishing the Divine Beasts just felt so much more consequential than finishing the temples, and they felt like a very novel idea for a Zelda game. Beating the dungeons actually had an impact on defeating Calamity Ganon; beating the dungeons had very little impact on defeating Ganondorf. I'm not saying I wanted the Divine Beasts to come back, but I think Tears of the Kingdom could have done something even more unique! But even more important than all of that? Breath of the Wild had the best Hyrule Castle in the series... and Tears of the Kingdom had the worst Hyrule Castle in the series. Tears of the Kingdom's was just an enormous downgrade from Breath of the Wild's, to the point where I felt like I must've been missing something. Without the Guardians to put up a fight and without the very unique weapons scattered throughout, Tears of the Kingdom just had a very drab Hyrule Castle, which was incredibly sad. Overall, as one of the few people who loved the Divine Beasts, I give Breath of the Wild dungeons a 9 and Tears of the Kingdom's dungeons a 6.

Shrines - 6 vs 9

This is the main reason I wanted to write this article—I needed to talk about how much better I liked the shrines in Breath of the Wild over Tears of the Kingdom. The only thing that holds the Breath of the Wild shrines back from being at a ten are the awful apparatus shrines, but there aren't that many of them, so it is not a big deal! Anyway, I digress. The majority of shrine puzzles in Tears of the Kingdom are either 1) a ____ device or 2) shrines where you build not-so-interesting things with Ultrahand. I do think the proving grounds shrines are fantastic though! But they are still not as good as Trial of the Sword or Eventide Island... and also, unlike most people, I loved the Test of Strength shrines so... yeah, always looked forward to those! There were so many unique ideas with each of the runes in Breath of the Wild and in Tears of the Kingdom? It was almost always based around only Ultrahand. Also, in Breath of the Wild, we get fantastic shrine quests like riding deer, shooting arrow into the sky, sneaking around Kakariko, and best of all? Kass's quests. Tears of the Kingdom just feels so wrong without Kass. Instead of Kass? We get the abominable Sky Crystals, which are so much more boring than Breath of the Wild's shrine quests. While about 25% of the Shrine Quests in Tears of the Kingdom are still solid, the rest are pretty terrible... whereas I can't think of a single bad shrine quest in Breath of the Wild. And some may say "well, there are orbs in Breath of the Wild, why can't Tears of the Kingdom have Sky Crystals?" Well, those orbs had really cool sidequests to go along with them—I would've been totally fine with the Sky Crystals if they had cool quests with them too! Overall, I give the Tears of the Kingdom shrines a 6 and the Breath of the Wild shrines a 9.

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