By all appearances The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom looks like it has every chance to be the standout phenomenon of this year. Launched a couple days ago, the game has had fans lining up for its release, forums ablaze with discussion, and a range of legacy media focusing their coverage on it.
The sequel to the critically acclaimed Breath of the Wild, which was recently crowned as the greatest game of all time in a GQ poll of experts, Tears of the Kingdom has been hailed as an even better experience, not least in our own review. Meanwhile, in a technical appraisal it's been praised as highly polished too, with very few bugs and glitches. This level of shine has fans aglow, but for fans of a certain other series it's sort of rubbed salt in the wound. Yep, we're looking at you Pokemon.
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Pokemon Scarlet and Violet was one of last year's best selling games and is considered one of the finest entries yet, in terms of its story and writing, but in certain other aspects it ran afoul. These aspects have dogged recent Pokemon entries and the technical performance of Scarlet & Violet tested the patience of critics and had fans in heated debate. A recent thread highlighted just how different the level of polish is between the Pokemon games and Zelda.
Is playing the new Zelda making anyone else real salty over the state of recent Pokemon games?
by u/daniel-mca in pokemon
Over on the Pokemon subreddit a recently upvoted thread asked, "Is playing the new Zelda making anyone else real salty over the state of recent Pokemon games?" The OP pointed out that some had defended Pokemon Scarlet & Violet by suggesting it was running up against the
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