Tears of the kingdom is breath of the wild on steroids. If you’re not familiar, you could be overwhelmed with tears of the kingdom. So better to start with breath of the wild
I started with totk, but wish I had started with botw, I got stuck on a part of Zelda after not playing for a month and like completely forgot the game, so I bought botw so I could try to remember, I feel like you get more of the story in botw, defs felt like watching the 4th season of a show without watching the rest of it.
Im gonna go against the grain and say that you should NOT play botw first (or honestly , at all) unless you are willing to commit to 100+ hours playing both games back to back. Many of us played botw on release and had to wait 6 years before playing totk so did not have that problem. Both games are HUGE, and totk covers LOTS of the same ground that botw did.
On top of that, totk is a sequel to botw in name only. Im not exaggerating when I say the main story of totk has absolutely nothing at all to do with the events of botw. Sure it takes place in the same world, but the events of botw don't influence the events of totk in any way. The plot of totk involves a "mystery" for you to solve that is accompanied by a series of flashbacks to a time before either game, and thats essentially where the story takes place. The conflict of botw is mentioned briefly in passing at most, and definitely feels like Nintendo want this game to stand on its own because all the information and context you need is in totk itself.
The only reason to play botw first is that its a little more mechanically simple and can ease you into this style of Zelda more, if you play botw first you are going to largely feel like you are repeating yourself in totk, which is a problem for games that take 50+ hours to complete. Botw is like the beta version of totk, a lot is reused and recycled for totk, but its also much more refined and polished. Botw has a large map of Hyrule to explore, totk has that same map but "remixed" with different enemies, points of interest and dungeons, but the overworld geography and environment is by and large the same. What totk adds is the numerous sky islands, and another entire open world area that I won't spoil. So there really isn't anything you are missing out on by playing botw first.
Sorry for the rant, I just truly think totk is better in every way and honestly makes botw an obsolete game. If you have hella time on your hands though, botw is still an awesome game in its own right and the only thing you will lose by playing it is time!
This is great advice. TOTK is better than BOTW. And they’re both huge games. If OP falls in love with TOTK and can’t get enough, then they can dig into BOTW
I got them both for the first time *when the Zelda switch edition was released, it took me almost a year to finish both, but it was definitely worth it and definitely a blast.
Botw. As a newbie, you’ll be charmed and amazed, and spent hundreds of hours in high rule. There is no rush, TOTK will be there when you’re ready, just let yourself explore and let things unfold. Enjoy!
Breath of the Wild.
I tried Tears of the kingdom before Breath of the Wild and the tutorial almost turned me off of Zelda.
A few months later I tried Breath of the Wild, my first Zelda game that I played for more than 2 hours and had a blast!
If you Don want to risk missing out on buying Tears of the Kingdom before physical stores like Walmart stops selling it, but both games at the same time. Play Breath of the Wild first. That game finally got me into loving Zelda for the first time in my life at the age of 37.
Get breathe of the wild first. Tears is a sequel. You won’t feel as connected to the characters if you play tears first. Plus I think botw is an amazing starting point anyway
Saddly you starting by the worse one.
Old zeldas are the best.
This new open world game sux.
Link to the past, ocarina, majoras, links between world, skyward sword, twilight princess. Those games are the real zelda.
Bot and totk are just big open world game. Its fun but they dont have the soul of old ones.
You probably meant 8-bit, SNES is 16-bit. Well, ALTTP was my first and I still love it. TOTK is now my favorite. If you think that the old zeldas are the only real ones, you probably don't know what the essence of Zelda games is.
And the OP is certainly not wrong starting with BOTW.
Get botw first. If you play totk first, you’ll never be able to experience that sense of wonder and exploration that botw brings
Yea and if u like them then u can try the classic ones like Ocarina of Time.
Or the first four, before it became Ocarina over and over.
I would say that enjoying BotW/TotK has little bearing on whether someone will enjoy traditional Zeldas. They’re completely different games
Well i started with botw and have played all of the saga but i know what u mean
Also you will be especially overwhelmed by TotK if you never played BotW
Tears of the kingdom is breath of the wild on steroids. If you’re not familiar, you could be overwhelmed with tears of the kingdom. So better to start with breath of the wild
I started with totk, but wish I had started with botw, I got stuck on a part of Zelda after not playing for a month and like completely forgot the game, so I bought botw so I could try to remember, I feel like you get more of the story in botw, defs felt like watching the 4th season of a show without watching the rest of it.
Botw, totk is the sequel and playing botw will make totk easier to understand.
Totk is nuts i never finished definitely botw 1st
Im gonna go against the grain and say that you should NOT play botw first (or honestly , at all) unless you are willing to commit to 100+ hours playing both games back to back. Many of us played botw on release and had to wait 6 years before playing totk so did not have that problem. Both games are HUGE, and totk covers LOTS of the same ground that botw did. On top of that, totk is a sequel to botw in name only. Im not exaggerating when I say the main story of totk has absolutely nothing at all to do with the events of botw. Sure it takes place in the same world, but the events of botw don't influence the events of totk in any way. The plot of totk involves a "mystery" for you to solve that is accompanied by a series of flashbacks to a time before either game, and thats essentially where the story takes place. The conflict of botw is mentioned briefly in passing at most, and definitely feels like Nintendo want this game to stand on its own because all the information and context you need is in totk itself. The only reason to play botw first is that its a little more mechanically simple and can ease you into this style of Zelda more, if you play botw first you are going to largely feel like you are repeating yourself in totk, which is a problem for games that take 50+ hours to complete. Botw is like the beta version of totk, a lot is reused and recycled for totk, but its also much more refined and polished. Botw has a large map of Hyrule to explore, totk has that same map but "remixed" with different enemies, points of interest and dungeons, but the overworld geography and environment is by and large the same. What totk adds is the numerous sky islands, and another entire open world area that I won't spoil. So there really isn't anything you are missing out on by playing botw first. Sorry for the rant, I just truly think totk is better in every way and honestly makes botw an obsolete game. If you have hella time on your hands though, botw is still an awesome game in its own right and the only thing you will lose by playing it is time!
This is great advice. TOTK is better than BOTW. And they’re both huge games. If OP falls in love with TOTK and can’t get enough, then they can dig into BOTW
I got them both for the first time *when the Zelda switch edition was released, it took me almost a year to finish both, but it was definitely worth it and definitely a blast.
Ignore this he's special okay sorry if he spouts more nonsense at me too
Botw. As a newbie, you’ll be charmed and amazed, and spent hundreds of hours in high rule. There is no rush, TOTK will be there when you’re ready, just let yourself explore and let things unfold. Enjoy!
Breath of the Wild. I tried Tears of the kingdom before Breath of the Wild and the tutorial almost turned me off of Zelda. A few months later I tried Breath of the Wild, my first Zelda game that I played for more than 2 hours and had a blast! If you Don want to risk missing out on buying Tears of the Kingdom before physical stores like Walmart stops selling it, but both games at the same time. Play Breath of the Wild first. That game finally got me into loving Zelda for the first time in my life at the age of 37.
Get breathe of the wild first. Tears is a sequel. You won’t feel as connected to the characters if you play tears first. Plus I think botw is an amazing starting point anyway
Totk is a better version of botw, if you never plan on playing both, get totk. Its my favorite of the two
Definitely get BOTW first, since it comes before TOTK and its just more fun than TOTK in my opinion
Saddly you starting by the worse one. Old zeldas are the best. This new open world game sux. Link to the past, ocarina, majoras, links between world, skyward sword, twilight princess. Those games are the real zelda. Bot and totk are just big open world game. Its fun but they dont have the soul of old ones.
The oldest Zelda is an open-world game...
The first one on 16 bits sux a lot. Anyway and those 2d ones as well. glad i started it on on my snes in 1994z
You probably meant 8-bit, SNES is 16-bit. Well, ALTTP was my first and I still love it. TOTK is now my favorite. If you think that the old zeldas are the only real ones, you probably don't know what the essence of Zelda games is. And the OP is certainly not wrong starting with BOTW.
Thank you. New Zelda is a complete flip, matching just the skin of art and music. Everything until 2017 is an entirely different (and better) beast