After about 160 hours, I've finally completed The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom! I'm sure there are a couple side quests I'm still going to go back for, but I have completely explored all three maps, fully upgraded both my Hero of Time/Aspect of the Hero armors.

Exploring this map was really like no other game before. Ultrahand, Ascend and Fuse provide a dramatic expansion to the already liberating Open-Hyrule from BoTW. Tears of the Kingdom is in a league of it's own when it comes to exploration and world density.

feel like I can truly say this is my favorite game of all time, finally dethroning Half-Life: Alyx, which ironically enough was the game that dethroned Breath of the Wild as my favorite game back then. 11/10, a true masterclass in open world design.

Aside from the open world being so excellent, all of the puzzles within the Shrines and Dungeons were fantastic and some of the Dungeons were phenomenal. Bringing this game closer to classic Zelda while still having open-ended dungeon design to suit the new era of Zelda.

While the story doesn't do anything spectacularly ground breaking, it's generally very fun to watch and engaging enough. It's also helped by pretty frequently beautiful cinematography accompanied by a powerful score. Overall this isn't the best story in a Zelda, but it's up there