Tears of the Kingdom review scores are in, and the impressions are so positive that it has the highest rating ever on OpenCritic. The open-world Zelda game is currently sitting at 97 on OpenCritic, with 61 reviews and 100 percent of critics recommending it.
Its closest competition is Super Mario Odyssey, which also ended up with an aggregate score of 97, though of 157 reviewers, 98 percent recommended it. It’s a tiny difference, and it might change as more publications log their reviews after Tears of the Kingdom launches.
Breath of the Wild and Red Dead Redemption 2 take the third and fourth spots, each with an aggregate score of 96, while Elden Ring is at number five with a 95 score. Both versions of Persona 5, God of War, The Last of Us, and Hades round off the top 10 with 94s.
The story is a bit different on Metacritic. Tears of the Kingdom is sitting at 96 there, which puts it one point lower than Breath of the Wild in the 28th position on the site’s best games of all time list. Metacritic scores also go back to 2000, so the site includes several more games, such as Tony Hawk, which seems to have been a big hit with critics in the early naughties, and even the original Soul Caliber on Sega Dreamcast.
Both aggregate sites also pull reviews from different publications, hence the difference in scores, however minor. It’s just another reminder to look at more than the number when you’re trying to figure out if a game is for you.
Some fans already decided Tears of the Kingdom is for them before reviews went live, though, and decided to camp out in New York City to get their hands on it as soon as possible.
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Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
