What review score would you give Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom?

“What do you mean? I barely scratched the surface!”

It’s been a whole week since the launch of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and most of us have spent it in a glorious Zelda stupor, a little stunned and confused by its enormity and how – even hours into it with a good knowledge of Hyrule’s layout from Breath of the Wild — looks like there’s still so much to see and do in this new game. Every evening this week went like this for us: Okay, too

five more minutes — ooh, Korok! Cave! Sanctuary!… *Jump to three hours later*.

Not only is the game great, but it’s refreshing to see such a big release come out that doesn’t create an online beef or controversy with its launch state or some inclusion/exclusion. TOTK is a rallying point for gamer positivity and creativity, and the perfect bookend (perhaps) for the Switch’s outstanding line of software.

We drank the drops #discourse

and the minor trolling that occurs on social media, of course, which we won’t bother to get into. Yes, Nintendo’s art direction is top notch. Yes, Kakariko is a bit of a prankster. Yes, the gameplay is better than the graphicszzzzzzz….

However, the vast majority of players simply were enjoying himself the new Zelda and share their (mostly) healthy love online. It’s nice, isn’t it!? This writer took the Joy-Con off the Switch several times this week and marveled at how such a world could exist on this tiny, humble console.

So while it may be too early to deliver a final verdict for most people, many readers will spend a decent amount of time with the game, so it’s time to ask yourself: What review score would you give Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom?

We gave it an ‘outstanding’ 10/10 in our review. No game is perfect, of course (and 10/10 doesn’t mean perfection to us), but Tears of the Kingdom is certainly special, and it seems that critics agree with us about this game.

But what do you think? Feel free to vote in the poll below at your convenience and let us know. Remember, the vote below counts towards the user’s game score in our database, but it is not set in stone. If you want to give TOTK a preliminary score now and revise it later after you finish the game, you absolutely can — just go to the game’s page and change your score.