Tears Of The Kingdom Fans Discuss How Its Menus Can Be Improved

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There are so many things that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom gets right. Everything in the works works as you'd expect it to, especially the physics. Of course, you'll have to turn a blind eye towards Link's reality-bending abilities, but everything else is spot on. However, every game has something it can improve on, even one as highly regarded as Tears of the Kingdom.

Let me paint you a scenario – you're in the midst of a tense battle against a horde of Bokoblins and you see a nearby exploding barrel. Unfortunately, your bow broke after the last shot. You open the quick-menu, but the melee weapons pop up; so you exit, switch to ranged and open up the menu again. Then all you have to do is take aim, choose the Fire Fruit from your massive inventory and shoot.

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Most players will agree that Tears of the Kingdom could have done with a more streamlined menu UI than the previous game – especially since creating and fusing items is a core tenet. It's instances such as the above that has caused players to wonder how the current menu UI of the game could be improved to better fit Link's new abilities.

One of the most common answers is the ability to select items as 'favourites' so they're always the first in line. "This simple feature would honestly fix so much. I feel like I spend a large chunk of my time in the game just looking through items. Having a scroll like ten seconds in the middle of combat is not fun. Even worse when you scroll past it without realizing, then you gotta scroll back," says Phoenix_Drop.

"I mean, outside of arrows, I've started to go into the actual materials menu to drop stuff because it's faster with the grid menu," suggested