Tears of the Kingdom has been a massive success in terms of both sales and critical reception. However, it wasn't created in a vacuum. TOTK is the 20th game in the mainline Zelda series and draws a lot of its core concepts from that backdrop of games. As the direct sequel to Breath of the Wild, though, it also moves away from a lot of what classic Zelda games were about—and that hasn't gone unnoticed by longtime fans of the series.
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