The Switch 2 upgrades for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are something I've been testing out – god knows my Switch 2 isn't good for much else until Nintendo remembers to release more games for it – and boy, those are pretty games. And fun to play too! Hardly a new observation, but it bears repeating, especially with Nintendo seemingly unwilling to do a proper sequel, implying that we'll be moving to something substantively different on the next entry in the Zelda series.
And when it comes to comparisons between the two, with time to reflect I can't deny that Tears of the Kingdom is the bigger, more nuanced, more artisanal experience. It's a natural enhancement of the ideas that Breath of the Wild began back in 2017, an elevation of the concepts and systems that BOTW began. Tears of the Kingdom is more detailed, grander in scope, smarter in its construction. Which makes it really weird that Breath of the Wild is, to my mind, clearly the better game of the two.
