Tears of the Kingdom: Fans react to Zelda sequel launch

Nintendo has released Tears of the Kingdom - its latest crippled successful the long-running Legend of Zelda franchise.

The action-adventure bid sees players pb leader Link crossed Hyrule's open-world to find Princess Zelda.

Fans person waited six years for a sequel to the deed Zelda crippled launched with Nintendo's Switch console, Breath of the Wild.

Tears of the Kingdom reviews person seen it summation "universal acclaim" with critics, per aggregator Metacritic.

The tract is encouraging radical to walk much clip playing the crippled earlier leaving a reappraisal - telling them to "come backmost to reappraisal it" time evening (13 May).

In the meantime, fans person been sharing their archetypal takes, surface captures, delights and woes with the game, connected societal media.

Zelda instrumentality and streamer @RachaelCamui said connected Twitter the opening series of the game, and its music, had made her cry: "I emotion Zelda truthful much; it's virtually wherefore I'm a gamer."

Another Twitter idiosyncratic called the crippled "an implicit enactment of art".

Despite immoderate concerns that the sheer size of the crippled mightiness overwhelm newcomers, the enlargement of Hyrule to see much environments and possibilities seems to beryllium delighting fans.

"I person been playing the caller Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for implicit 5 hours and I'm inactive conscionable successful the beginning!" Twitter idiosyncratic @daveymilkshakes1 said.

"You tin scope maine again successful astir a fortnight," another joked.

"I consciousness arsenic if I volition ne'er decorativeness this game," Keza MacDonald, video games exertion astatine The Guardian, wrote successful her five-star reappraisal of the game. "Every clip I deliberation I've got a grip connected it, it reveals a caller expanse."

Meanwhile, speedrunners - who effort to blitz done games astatine grounds speeds - person already completed Tears of the Kingdom successful little than 2 hours, according to Video Games Chronicle.

Many queued astatine video crippled stores crossed the satellite to drawback their transcript of Tears of the Kingdom erstwhile it deed shelves astatine midnight.

And Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser made an quality to merchantability a instrumentality the archetypal transcript successful Nintendo's New York store.

Breath of the Wild has a people of 97/100 based connected professional reviews, and a idiosyncratic people of 8.7 retired of 10 based connected astir 20,000 reviews connected Metacritic.

It has won respective awards and is recognised by immoderate arsenic 1 of the champion games of each time.

Legend of Zelda bid shaper Eiji Aonuma and the game's manager Hidemaro Fujibayashi told fans successful a video message connected Friday they wanted to marque Tears of the Kingdom accessible for caller players, arsenic good arsenic enjoyable for Breath of the Wild gamers.

BBC's gaming analogous Steffan Powell said arsenic "a free-roaming roleplaying acquisition with a monolithic canvas for story-telling", the crippled is more than conscionable a sequel to its predecessor.

He said to navigate Hyrule "you're encouraged to usage your imaginativeness to lick puzzles, trade weapons and conflict to support the onshore from Ganondorf - tribal main and villain".

The Washington Post's games newsman Gene Park called it "the fullest Zelda communicative to date".