There's no denying that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a game that had an absurd amount of hype built in the years leading up to its release. Honestly, the dev team had a task so difficult after the revolutionary Breath of the Wild that I'm relieved I'm not one of them, and they did it, I'm impressed, the game is very good overall. Nevertheless, this is my personal opinion and I didn't have that amazing, perfect experience I saw many other people talking about. Firstly, the game strongly advises you to go towards a certain dungeon at the beginning of the game, and this dungeon is one of the worst in Zelda history, seriously, I was deeply underwelmed by most of the dungeons and that's something I expected to be improved since they weren't so hot on the previous game either. And I really dig the whole "Divine Beast" aesthetic that BotW had, which is completely missing here. The sky is interesting but that's another let down for me, there are only a few islands and you do basically the same thing in all of them, even the ocean islands in Wind Waker were more varied than this. Sure, the new abilities, Ultra Hand, Ascend, Recall and Fuse are fantastic and better than any of those in the previous game, however I was not impressed at all by the way the game utilizes them and they get old fast, especially in the game's Shrines. And speaking of Shrines, let's talk about them, they are also worse than those in BotW, and most of them are something like: use Ascend once, over. Use Recall once, over. Bring this crystal here, over. It got boring very fast for me, and in the end I was just doing it for the thrill of exploring and finding the Shrines than for the puzzles inside them. And now the building mechanic: It's cool but I'm not very into free building games, and most of the time I built the same plane or car over and over without any hints of variety from the game itself, maybe the problem is me. And this is just something that happened with me, but it affected my experience playing the game and it's worth mentioning here: I did kind of a sequence break that skipped a whole interesting section of the game and I had to look up in the internet how to do that because the game just told me to go ahead and I hated that I had no guidance from the game, is it open, linear or what? Identity crisis. Before talking about what I liked I want to say that I felt like Tears of the Kingdom threw enemies a lot at me, more than usual, and the combat isn't stellar and some enemies don't have an interesting set of attacks and just repeat the same two or three. I didn't hate weapon durability in BotW but it bugged me here, but that's the least of the problems, I also hated when I was exploring and I found the exact pieces of armor that were in BotW, I didn't feel rewarded enough. Let's talk about what I like so that this review doesn't sound so negative. The caves and the Depths are awesome to explore, I loved lighting up the Depths and figuring out its connection to the surface geography. The story is better told and the memories are more interesting to find now. The Gleeoks aren't as cool as Guadians were in my opinion, but they fill the "menacing enemy" role very well, the battles with them are very good. The artstyle of the game is still beautiful, I love to just take in the landscapes! And I liked to see some of those characters again, Riju's new design rocks and Sidon is so likeable! Shoutout to Penn too, he's very nice! And let's talk about the ending, that's so much better than BotW's and it really impressed me, it's very special! And let's all admire how great Ganondorf is this game please? Ocarina of time is still my favorite Zelda game and I loved all the references with sages, Ganondorf and et cetera. To conclude, the game plays very well and it's extremely well made and polished, I don't want to sound too negative about the game, I was still very addicted and played for hundreds of hours. I just think Breath of the Wild is more remarkable and rounds up better than this one. Thank you if you read all my rambling until here!