

Tears of the Kingdom invites players to explore a fantasy kingdom, Hyrule, as elven hero Link, letting them chart their own path through the world and uncover its many secrets. It is the connoisseur’s choice, a game whose puzzles and battles involve your intellect as much as your reflexes. If Mario is gaming’s most recognisable face, the medium’s equivalent of Mickey Mouse, Zelda is more like Indiana Jones – clever, swashbuckling and much imitated. That makes it a game worth taking a day off work to play – or maybe even a week.


On review aggregation site Metacritic, it currently has an average score of 97/100, putting it comfortably in video games’ top echelon.
