The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Review Update

I’m heavy into my Switch 2 review, and with Mario Kart World and Welcome Tour being the lone 2 first-party exclusives, a large portion of that process has been looking backmost astatine the upgrades existing games got. We’ve already taken a look astatine Breath of the Wild, but I spent the play revisiting the stunning sequel I reviewed backmost successful 2023. And not lone does The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom inactive clasp up arsenic a crippled I can’t hold to suffer a fewer twelve much hours in, the updates and additions made to the Switch 2 Edition marque it consciousness similar this is the mode it was ever meant to beryllium played.

Before we dive to the depths below, lets look backmost astatine what I said astir Tears of the Kingdom successful my archetypal review:

That’s conscionable arsenic existent contiguous arsenic it was then, and I wouldn’t 2nd conjecture the 10 I slapped connected it successful 2023 for a second. Tears of the Kingdom whitethorn not person been the wholly table-flipping revelation its predecessor was, but the mode it expanded some that look and the satellite was genuinely staggering. There’s a ridiculous magnitude of worldly here, and astir nary of it is little than amazing. But what astir the changes successful the Switch 2 Edition specifically?

HDR is an implicit crippled changer successful the Depths

Perhaps the astir jaw-dropping happening that is portion of this update is the Switch 2’s quality to instrumentality vantage of HDR displays. The accrued framerate and solution are bully capable connected their own, but exploring the acheronian of the Depths with the payment of HDR is, forgive the pun, a night-and-day difference. Uncharted areas are inactive transportation achromatic until illuminated, truthful it’s not similar exploration determination has been made wholly trivial, but areas with debased airy are abruptly truthful overmuch clearer than they utilized to be. It takes retired immoderate of the vexation of stumbling astir successful the acheronian without removing the tension.

Tears of the Kingdom doesn’t lag anyplace anymore

Alongside those ocular improvements comes improved performance. Tears of the Kingdom was ne'er unspeakable successful this regard, but it did dilatory down oregon commencement to hitch successful engaged moments from clip to clip connected Switch, and that’s wholly gone connected Switch 2. Similarly, diving from the entity consecutive into the Depths could occasionally intermission for a speedy 2nd to fto the satellite load, but I ne'er erstwhile saw that hap connected Switch 2.

Building is yet buttery creaseless arsenic well, arsenic utilizing your Zonai abilities was different 1 of the moments you could perchance spot things commencement to chug. Once again, that’s each slick and cleanable here. These aren’t the astir monumental of improvements for an update upgrade that does outgo wealth (if you don’t person the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pass), but they marque Tears of the Kingdom consciousness similar it has yet reached its last signifier – and they are adjuvant capable that I americium earnestly considering playing a batch much of this crippled than I initially thought I would person erstwhile I decided to revisit it.

Load times are ace accelerated now

Speaking of performance, a peculiar shoutout should spell to the load times specifically. They are present ridiculously fast. The loading surface has ever had this small animation wherever your icon blips retired connected the map, which past scrolls implicit to your caller location, and past you yet blip backmost in. The Switch 2 Edition load times are truthful accelerated you hardly adjacent person clip to ticker the icon vanish earlier you are backmost into the action. It rocks.

It shares a batch of its biggest updates with Breath of the Wild

Both Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom were capable to payment from the Switch 2’s beefed-up hardware to marque these method upgrades, but the 2 games besides stock a batch of caller integration with the Nintendo telephone app. The summation of audio logs that you tin find astatine definite locations and perceive to connected your telephone is simply a neat touch, arsenic is being capable to store and stock items successful a mode that is efficaciously a monolithic summation to your inventory size.

Tears gets 1 unsocial ability, though: you tin prevention your builds arsenic QR codes and past stock them betwixt friends truthful you tin rapidly reconstruct each other’s stuff. That’s a chill idea, but I was a small disappointed that it lacks immoderate benignant of built-in sharing oregon find tools to spell with it. If you privation to spot what different radical person made, you beauteous overmuch person to question codes retired connected forums oregon societal media, and I deliberation much apt I conscionable won’t get overmuch usage retired of this relation astatine each arsenic a result.

Now is the clip to really bushed Tears of the Kingdom

Finally, portion not specifically applicable to the updated mentation of this game, a speedy PSA/desperate plea from me: delight bushed Tears of the Kingdom if you haven’t already! The ending is so good. If you bushed Breath of the Wild, its good ending mightiness marque you deliberation there’s likewise not overmuch to spot present – but the extremity of Tears is genuinely incredible. The last combat is perchance my favourite successful immoderate Zelda game, and the places its communicative goes are arsenic unexpected arsenic they are awesome. With each these improvements, there’s ne'er been a amended clip to observe what you missed if you didn’t spot it to the extremity 2 years ago.

That’s my speedy look astatine The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s Switch 2 Edition, though I’m surely excited to spot much of it aft what I played this past weekend. Once again, this truly does consciousness similar the mode this crippled was ever meant to beryllium played, and I’m thrilled by the thought of a caller procreation discovering it for the archetypal time. It’s definite to support you much than engaged until I’m backmost with my last Switch 2 reappraisal successful the adjacent week oregon so.