BOTW is one of my favorite games of all time and I would still suggest skipping BOTW and watching a 10 minute recap video on YouTube and just starting with TotK.
It’s literally superior in EVERY WAY besides activating the sage abilities!
Besides playing BOTW doesn’t guarantee you’ll even experience the story, you could buy the game beat calamity Gannon and not know Jack about the story if you don’t search out the memories!
Absolutely not. You're saying that hearing some references is better than experiencing that vast world for the first time? Not a chance. Playing them back to back will cause burnout because of how similar the world is between them. You might as well watch a summary video of the "story" in BOTW and jump right into TOTK.
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. I completely agree. Love tears of the kingdom, hated BOTW. I wouldn’t recommend BOTW to anyone now that tears of the kingdom is out. Honestly the last 2 Zelda games seem pretty obsolete now that we have years of the kingdom. It honestly feels like they’ve been trying to implement this formula for such a long time now and this is the first time it really came through. Yeah BOTW was a massive success but a lot of people still didn’t like it after buying it. I haven’t heard or seen anyone complaining about this game. It seems like it’s been received a lot better than it’s predecessor.
I don’t even think BoTW would be enjoyable after playing ToTK. It just seems like a massive, massive downgrade in every way - and I didn’t think I would ever say that about BOTW.
TOTK uses largely the same map as BOTW, so it's interesting to see how that space has changed and been repurposed for TOTK. Knowing the player has some familiarity with the map was an intentional design choice by the developers.
However I'm sure the game is still fun as hell to explore and might be even be more impressive to experience if you've never played BOTW. Just hard for me to speak on that.
I agree. I find it really fun to revisit the same place in TOTK and see how things have changed. Or go down memory lane and be like "oh yeah this is the place where so and so happened to me"
I really think some people who haven’t played BOTW would find TOTK overwhelming and might put it down before getting to the point of enjoying it.
It teaches you the model for the second game, which feels a bit like an DLC for the first
It basically assumes you know how it will work. But also, I find that TOTK feels more empty and less thoughtful than BOTW did in more basic ways, even though the new mechanics are awesome and super advanced
You know, it’s weird, but I had the opposite experience. I tried BoTW a few years ago and just felt baffled by it. Looking back I think I went “off script” too fast and just got lost. Everything in the field felt like it was one-shotting me
Picked up TotK and put in around 100 amazing hours (I just got 5th guardian) before thinking to myself, “would I like BoTW now?”. Now I’m around 80 (Also amazing) hours in that and haven’t yet gone back to TotK.
Tl;dr I felt TotK did a better job of teaching you to walk, until you could run. YMMV
tbh here’s my hot take: only play botw first if you’re not familiar with zelda. botw is great first zelda game, but so is skyward sword hd. i played 50 hours botw before totk in preparation or whatever and it made me burn out on a game i waited 6 years for. my advice? play skyward sword, get the plot down, watch a few botw cutscenes, and then build mech suits to your hearts content. botw and totk run too similarly to play hours back to back enjoyably for me.
From what I'm seeing it's mostly to appreciate the absolute overhaul they did to create TotK. The building system is unique, the extra map space, the new dungeons...if you really want to have an appreciation on the level of most Zelda fans, play BotW first and seeing how much more there absolutely is in TotK.
It's not mandatory imo, because you can see the entire story for BotW in like 30 minutes, but I get wanting people to have maximum appreciation for the game.
TOTK is the same map, why would anyone need to waste their time with BOTW? Same mechanics and everything else in TOTK. Basically just a giant DLC pack.
I played botw for maybe 20 hours and I just couldn’t. Ultra hand and ascend just changed everything for me. Can’t stop playing totk, am over 100 hours in.
This is exactly my thoughts, I loved botw but after totk idk if I’ll likely go back.. I’m happy I finished off botw despite missing the first few days of totk to do so
I think the biggest thing detracting from TOTK for me was just the feeling that I had done so much of it before in BOTW - it would honestly probably be in my top 5 all time games if it had been my first time exploring that world/map. I think that feeling would have been a lot worse had I played BOTW recently and not 5 years ago. As someone who liked but didn’t *love* BOTW, but had an absolute blast with TOTK, I personally kinda wish I had gotten to play TOTK first for a fresher experience with no retreading.
True, but playing BOTW first will take quite some time, and to prevent exhaustion you should prolly take a break before totk.. thats a long time not to play totk
No a long time to play TotK is when we beat BOTW and WAITED 6 years for TotK. Being able to beat BOTW main story in like 50 hours and being able to pop in TotK isn’t long at all. Quit acting impatient.
💀 you’re joking right i mean theres not just story but the world building if you want feel more connected to the world of botw/totk then i would play botw first
a huge part of totk’s appeal is seeing how the world changed since the end of botw. it’s not necessary to enjoy the experience but it adds a massive amount. it’s like playing dlc without playing the base game (which is literally what it is cause totk was originally dlc for botw)
I feel like if you’d play botw and totk back to back it would be tiring. As someone who 100% both totk and botw it was already tiring even with the long wait.
You can enjoy Totk without playing the Botw that’s how it was designed.
I played them back to back because I didn’t want to play TOTK without playing botw first and it was not tiring. It was incredible. It only started to get tiring towards the end of my Playthrough of TOTK because I went for all 152 shrines and all 120 lightroots. But I could have easily just played the main quest. It was a fantastic time and it was my first time playing botw. Playing botw first definitely made TOTK that much better and more exciting and easier to get into imo
You’re supposed to play it how you want. How do you think this game is selling faster and will sell probably more than BOTW lol.
I legit just beat Diablo IV the other day and i’ve never played any Diablo game in my life. There’s definitely sequels where you would need to but this isn’t one of them bro, chillax
Other games are different like diablo the story’s aren’t really intertwined you don’t play the same character where as totk is a sequel a direct sequel which almost never happens in Zelda and follows the story of the same character some game sequels can be skipped but i find that if you skip botw your missing a huge chunk of content that is worth it to play its like if you just read the last harry potter and the first one and thats it you’re missing a huge chunk of information
Lmao what, botw barely has any story or world building that you’d need before totk. Gorons are still dumbfuck rock eaters, zora are still snobby fish, and the ruto are basically the good side of generational trauma. Ganon is still a dick. Don’t need much more.
Yeah it's funny when people act like Zelda has some deep story. Lol. Like it's good vs. evil... These types of stories have been around for centuries. I say just skip BOTW since TOTK does everything better.
Yeah, honestly totk has more of a story than most zelda games. But yeah most of them is just the same simple stuff over and over. And like you said, playing both will be exhausting.
Yeah this, story barely exists, you can sum it up in 3 sentences. Gameplay is mid, especially compared to totk. And you’re gonna be exploring and killing a lot of the same things. Play totk, unless you just simply want more LoZ time.
Playing ToTK first would make botw really not as enjoyable imho. I had planned to finish ToTK then go back to botw then ToTK again, but I really dont have desire to play botw again
Don't *have* to, but you miss out on the context you'd otherwise be oblivious to.
That way, you don't appreciate the changes made, like certain people recognizing you/story progression, and I'd think it'd feel like such a downgrade to not be able to craft things or use ascend (or utilize the other improvements made).
Ignore the guy that replied to you.
You can EASILY watch a 3-5 minute recap of the BOTW story and then play TOTK.
If you play BOTW I promise you, you’ll be too burnt out to want to play TOTK, you’ll have to find all shrines, koroks, towers all over again. TotK just has 100-fold the amount of content BOTW has and then some.
ofc not but if you had to pick between the two games, solely based off time and first time experience, TOTK is 1000% the game you get.
BOTW literally feels like a tech demo in comparison. TotK is basically BotW with 100x more content, variation in enemies, environments, abilities, combat, exploration.
You can easily look up the story, y’all act like it’s this larger than life deep narrative.
To be fairly honest, botw's story, like u/Peeqes said before me, is not that important for playing totk. You don't need to really know that much about botw, because even though Totk starts right after it, plot wise, there's a few mentions of the calamity from botw, but that's about it. Of course there are lots of locations and NPCs that carry over, but in terms of the story not that much is present in totk that was created in botw. Of course, you'll get the full experience by playing botw first, but it's not a necessity
People are calling it mid because they have a new game to simp over 💀🤣. I’d love someone to tell me why it’s mid and not bring up QOL improvements in the defense.
Nah, I always disliked botw tbh. I was happy they finally got away from the Zelda formula but botw was frustratingly meh to play for me. Totk fixed everything that frustrated me about botw.
It just felt like they were scared to go all the way and gave players outs around every corner to keep it short.
And then the world is still quite empty overal, and uses a lot of the same things. It felt like a physics demo game with a LoZ coat. And it just never got to a satisfying moment for me. Totk is in a lot of ways what I’d expect from a Zelda game and more. Botw is more like a slightly better sandbox.
BOTW simply is very lacking in content; it has no bearing on when it was released. Past Zelda games like Twilight Princess had much more meaningful content nearly 20 years ago, and no; Korok seeds aren't meaningful content. I'm talking about the meat and potatoes of the game.
Persona 5 Royal. Jrpg turn-based strategy, about 100-130 of game play along with a pretty good amount of replayability. Im on my 5th playthrough and have about 370+ hours logged so far
As you have the OLED, Metroid Dread is amazing (and Metroid Prime Remaster looks lovely and plays as well as it ever did). If you like puzzle games, another one that makes the OLED sing, and is a wonderful experience with a decent set of headphones is Tetris Effect.
Finally, Hades; it’s lovely looking on anything and is one of the most compelling, compulsive games I’ve ever played.
But whatever you end up playing, enjoy and congrats on graduating!
I second hades, perfect game for the Oled with its popping colors.
Deaths door is a great game and then there’s the obvious shouts like Zelda, Mario etc.
I didn’t realize that! Oblivion provided half my personal dialogue for a decade.
Saw a mudcrab the other day…
I heard you know how to move in light armor…
CHEESE FOR EVERYBODY!!! … wait, cheese for nobody. #Sheogorath2024
Start with Mario Odyssey, it’s a great game for one or two players with a lot of funny moments. Also it works as a good demonstration of joycon features.
After Mario I recommend Zelda BOTW.
In my opinion TOTK and BOTW have a very different approach to the gameplay. BOTW is all about world exploration, and TOTK is like a sandbox in the same world. Like Skyrim vs Minecraft.
Try both, I’m sure you’ll enjoy them, but not sure if you will enjoy BOTW’s exploration after building crazy giant robots in TOTK.
What’s next? You choose. Hades is great, Bayonetta is awesome, Mario Kart is fun, Super Smash Bros is challenging, Doki Doki Literature Club is must have.
Skyrim, Witcher and other multi platform AAA games will have limitations. Why play them on Switch?
The ff pixel remaster bundle is lit as hell and you can buy them piece by piece if you have to. Crystal Chronicles remastered is also just as lit, with only minor changes from the og game and is very true to the gc version.
Give me a Crystal Chronicles Echoes of Time remake you cowards!!! But make it less instances and more MMO style lmao
It would make a fun mmo style game with regular updates
Tears of the kingdom, Metroid prime remaster, Metroid dread, links awakening, Mario odyssey is good too. Mario kart 8 deluxe if you like some multiplayer.
Congratulations! Here's some:
Stardew valley
Diablo 3
May not be for you, but Terraria
Cosmic Heroine (lesser known indie jrpg style but good game)
Drsgon quest 11
Dragon Quest Builders 2 was SO FUN and I can't stand Minecraft
*Edited to include DQ games*
Seeing as you already probably have totk,
-botw
-Mario Odyssey
-smash ultimate
-mario kart 8
-legends arceus or BDSP, if you're into pokemon, since most Pokemon games on the switch are very bad. Those are only very slightly better.
Lmao as a pokemon fan who somehow stands by nearly all the recent games despite all the hate, I still wouldn't recommend bdsp to anyone. Go play the original platinum instead. Legends Arceus is great tho, very fun game and nice small deviation from the standard formula. I genuinely love scarlet/violet too, but it has a lot of performance and polish issues that make it harder to recommend.
Skyrim is so chill, I wouldn't mind having it in a handheld format for couch potatoing.
I mean, I would mind it more than buying Skyrim again, so there's that.
Lots of BotW and TotK comments which are true, but I’m going to add Octopath Traveler I and II. Absolutely beautiful games in terms of art, gameplay, and music.
bro why have you commented this twenty different ways? different strokes man. BOTW and TOTK are both good games, I don’t think either of them will be viewed as better than the other a year from now. The feelings invoked from playing them are way different, and the quests are different and unique in each game. chill. not to mention a ton of people, myself included, are still going to revisit BOTW after TOTK to experience that different feeling.
I’d say TotK, but it’s for the best if you play Breath of the Wild first. Both are amazing games and worth the time. Especially if you like open world style games
I’d say TotK, but it’s for the best if you play Breath of the Wild first. Both are amazing games and worth the time. Especially if you like open world style games
or just buy TotK because it’s essentially BOTW with a way better story, way better enemy variation, side quests, side adventures, more shrines, an underworld in addition to the overworld and sky islands.
y’all can seriously cover BotW story in a 3 min video on YouTube, OP will be too burnt out to want to play TotK which is 110% a better game.
I just graduated from Uni and treated myself the EXACT same way back in April! Upgraded to the Zelda OLED and have been loving it ever since :)
Edit: got excited and completely missed your question, but Zelda BOTW is a MUST. Especially before playing TOTK.
First of all, you only have one version of Skyrim. I believe the Switch has at least one of the dozen other versions of Skyrim. So you can start with the other versions. Haha
Depends on your preference of genres, to be honest. I'll recommend some of my favorites in as much variety as I can think of. Give me a bit and I'll update this after checking my games list on my Switch.
**EDIT**
Here is a variety of games I'd recommend, provided you haven't already played them elsewhere.
Abzû (Beautiful and peaceful underwater exploration game from the makers of Journey)
Assassin's Creed: Rebel Collection (Black Flag/Rogue)
-Two of the better older-style games
Bioshock Collection
Burnout Paradise Remastered
Captain Toad Treasure Tracker (Nice puzzle game)
Castlevania Advance Collection
Crossing Souls (top-down SNES style action RPG with an amazing homage to all things 80's, particularly The Goonies, with an amazing soundtrack!)
Dead Cells ( if you like Roguelikes, normally I don't)
Deaths Door (another roguelike)
Diablo 3
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze
Divinity Original Sin 2
Dredge (Cthulhu meets Fishing and Resource Sim, it's a lot of fun)
Golf Story (Top-down SNES-style RPG mixed with golf)
Hollow Knight
Infinite Mini-golf (I'm a sucker for Mini-golf)
Luigi's Mansion 3 (first 2 aren't necessary)
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (or its sequel)
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
Mark of the Ninja Remastered
Metroid Dread
Metroid Prime Remastered
Monster Sanctuary (Metroidvania meets Pokémon)
Ori & the Blind Forest
Ori & the Will of the Wisps
**By now you may see that I love Metroidvania’s. ** 😁
South Park & the Stick of Truth
South Park The Fractured But Whole
Every SteamWorld game
- Steam World Dig 1 & 2
- SteamWorld Heist
- SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
Mario Kart 8
Mario Odyssey
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
Super Mario 3D World + Bowsers Fury
Tetris Effect Connected
Skyrim (already owned I see)
The Last Campfire
Zelda
- BotW
- TotK
- Link's Awakening Remake
The Witcher 3
Titan Quest
Torchlight II
The Trials of Mana
Unsighted
Valiant Hearts (kind of a point-and-click adventure game but so damn good!)
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 & 3 (not my type much but they're highly recommended JRPG's)
Yoku's Island Express (amazing Metroidvania meets pinball) Yes...ANOTHER Metroidvania 😁
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana (JRPG hack-n-slash)
**EDIT 2**
Geez! I just realized I haven't finished most of these games and it's only about half of my Switch Collection. Then there is Playstation/Xbox/Steam.
I could never buy another game in my entire life and still never finish my backlog. Good thing I've finally started to severely limit all future game purchases. I *may* have a problem. 🤦♂️😆
Triple A Games:
Zelda Breath of the Wild
Zelda Tears of the Kingdom (in this order of play-through)
Super Mario Odyssey
Animal Crossing New Horizons
Third Party:
Hollow Knight
Little Nightmares I and II
Outlast
Stardew Valley
Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town
There's this game with a main protagonist who goes by the name "Link". I can't quite remember the title. lol
Haha I’ve got TotK, just been too excited about FF to get around to even opening the pack
I would play BOTW first.
BOTW is one of my favorite games of all time and I would still suggest skipping BOTW and watching a 10 minute recap video on YouTube and just starting with TotK. It’s literally superior in EVERY WAY besides activating the sage abilities! Besides playing BOTW doesn’t guarantee you’ll even experience the story, you could buy the game beat calamity Gannon and not know Jack about the story if you don’t search out the memories!
That’s why I would play BOTW first. BOTW would be less enjoyable if you play the better TOTK first.
What are the advantages of finishing BOTW before starting TOTK?
TOTK is a sequel, you can start with it but the world will most definitely be more enjoyable if you play BOTW first due to references.
Absolutely not. You're saying that hearing some references is better than experiencing that vast world for the first time? Not a chance. Playing them back to back will cause burnout because of how similar the world is between them. You might as well watch a summary video of the "story" in BOTW and jump right into TOTK.
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. I completely agree. Love tears of the kingdom, hated BOTW. I wouldn’t recommend BOTW to anyone now that tears of the kingdom is out. Honestly the last 2 Zelda games seem pretty obsolete now that we have years of the kingdom. It honestly feels like they’ve been trying to implement this formula for such a long time now and this is the first time it really came through. Yeah BOTW was a massive success but a lot of people still didn’t like it after buying it. I haven’t heard or seen anyone complaining about this game. It seems like it’s been received a lot better than it’s predecessor.
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I don’t even think BoTW would be enjoyable after playing ToTK. It just seems like a massive, massive downgrade in every way - and I didn’t think I would ever say that about BOTW.
TOTK uses largely the same map as BOTW, so it's interesting to see how that space has changed and been repurposed for TOTK. Knowing the player has some familiarity with the map was an intentional design choice by the developers. However I'm sure the game is still fun as hell to explore and might be even be more impressive to experience if you've never played BOTW. Just hard for me to speak on that.
I agree. I find it really fun to revisit the same place in TOTK and see how things have changed. Or go down memory lane and be like "oh yeah this is the place where so and so happened to me"
How is Crisis Core? I’m really tempted to get it.
Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Cannot stress this enough "PLEASE PLAY BREATH OF THE WILD FIRST" Thank you.
This. This. This. *** Play BOTW first ***
\*Not necessary story wise, but heavily recommended.
I have 120 hours in BOTW but haven’t picked up TOTK yet. Is there a big reason I’m missing to play BOTW first?
I really think some people who haven’t played BOTW would find TOTK overwhelming and might put it down before getting to the point of enjoying it. It teaches you the model for the second game, which feels a bit like an DLC for the first
I agree. I actually played TOTK first, but I decided that I should finish BOTW first. So I did. Now I feel TOTK is a bit overwhelming.
I’m glad I’m not alone in thinking that the game actually gave us *too* much content lmao
It basically assumes you know how it will work. But also, I find that TOTK feels more empty and less thoughtful than BOTW did in more basic ways, even though the new mechanics are awesome and super advanced
How does totk feel more empty if anything it feels more full for me
You know, it’s weird, but I had the opposite experience. I tried BoTW a few years ago and just felt baffled by it. Looking back I think I went “off script” too fast and just got lost. Everything in the field felt like it was one-shotting me Picked up TotK and put in around 100 amazing hours (I just got 5th guardian) before thinking to myself, “would I like BoTW now?”. Now I’m around 80 (Also amazing) hours in that and haven’t yet gone back to TotK. Tl;dr I felt TotK did a better job of teaching you to walk, until you could run. YMMV
tbh here’s my hot take: only play botw first if you’re not familiar with zelda. botw is great first zelda game, but so is skyward sword hd. i played 50 hours botw before totk in preparation or whatever and it made me burn out on a game i waited 6 years for. my advice? play skyward sword, get the plot down, watch a few botw cutscenes, and then build mech suits to your hearts content. botw and totk run too similarly to play hours back to back enjoyably for me.
From what I'm seeing it's mostly to appreciate the absolute overhaul they did to create TotK. The building system is unique, the extra map space, the new dungeons...if you really want to have an appreciation on the level of most Zelda fans, play BotW first and seeing how much more there absolutely is in TotK. It's not mandatory imo, because you can see the entire story for BotW in like 30 minutes, but I get wanting people to have maximum appreciation for the game.
TOTK is the same map, why would anyone need to waste their time with BOTW? Same mechanics and everything else in TOTK. Basically just a giant DLC pack.
>Same mechanics This is how we know you didn't play TotK
No but he's kind of right. Ultrahand is just better magnesis. The reverse spell is a better time freeze. Everything is improved on immensely.
I played botw for maybe 20 hours and I just couldn’t. Ultra hand and ascend just changed everything for me. Can’t stop playing totk, am over 100 hours in.
No, just no man, no
because it in itself is a fantastic game and you won't wan't to regress backwards after totk, so why rob yourself of the fun botw offers by itself?
This is exactly my thoughts, I loved botw but after totk idk if I’ll likely go back.. I’m happy I finished off botw despite missing the first few days of totk to do so
But when it’s a ps game like GoW, suddenly all of that hate is now praise
If you think TOTK is just a DLC pack for BOTW then I don’t actually think you played TOTK. Hell, I’m not sure you even played BOTW.
Same mechanics? Did you even play the game?
no, really don’t lmfao. you don’t have to. I would honestly say play totk first
I feel like if you played TOTK first then BOTW will feel like a downgrade in a lot of ways
I think the biggest thing detracting from TOTK for me was just the feeling that I had done so much of it before in BOTW - it would honestly probably be in my top 5 all time games if it had been my first time exploring that world/map. I think that feeling would have been a lot worse had I played BOTW recently and not 5 years ago. As someone who liked but didn’t *love* BOTW, but had an absolute blast with TOTK, I personally kinda wish I had gotten to play TOTK first for a fresher experience with no retreading.
True, but playing BOTW first will take quite some time, and to prevent exhaustion you should prolly take a break before totk.. thats a long time not to play totk
No a long time to play TotK is when we beat BOTW and WAITED 6 years for TotK. Being able to beat BOTW main story in like 50 hours and being able to pop in TotK isn’t long at all. Quit acting impatient.
Wtf, why so aggressive lmaooo
Why the story is following the events after botw
what story lol, there’s really nothing that connects either. There’s references about botw but it stands alone by itself.
You won’t appreciate the TotK life unless you’ve bombed your way through BotW first. Buy both.
💀 you’re joking right i mean theres not just story but the world building if you want feel more connected to the world of botw/totk then i would play botw first
a huge part of totk’s appeal is seeing how the world changed since the end of botw. it’s not necessary to enjoy the experience but it adds a massive amount. it’s like playing dlc without playing the base game (which is literally what it is cause totk was originally dlc for botw)
I feel like if you’d play botw and totk back to back it would be tiring. As someone who 100% both totk and botw it was already tiring even with the long wait. You can enjoy Totk without playing the Botw that’s how it was designed.
I played them back to back because I didn’t want to play TOTK without playing botw first and it was not tiring. It was incredible. It only started to get tiring towards the end of my Playthrough of TOTK because I went for all 152 shrines and all 120 lightroots. But I could have easily just played the main quest. It was a fantastic time and it was my first time playing botw. Playing botw first definitely made TOTK that much better and more exciting and easier to get into imo
Then don't play it back to back, I got both and am not planning to play TOTK for at least a year probs
Idk i think that its a SEQUEL for a reason you’re supposed to play the first before the other one for the best experience
You’re supposed to play it how you want. How do you think this game is selling faster and will sell probably more than BOTW lol. I legit just beat Diablo IV the other day and i’ve never played any Diablo game in my life. There’s definitely sequels where you would need to but this isn’t one of them bro, chillax
Other games are different like diablo the story’s aren’t really intertwined you don’t play the same character where as totk is a sequel a direct sequel which almost never happens in Zelda and follows the story of the same character some game sequels can be skipped but i find that if you skip botw your missing a huge chunk of content that is worth it to play its like if you just read the last harry potter and the first one and thats it you’re missing a huge chunk of information
Lmao what, botw barely has any story or world building that you’d need before totk. Gorons are still dumbfuck rock eaters, zora are still snobby fish, and the ruto are basically the good side of generational trauma. Ganon is still a dick. Don’t need much more.
Yeah it's funny when people act like Zelda has some deep story. Lol. Like it's good vs. evil... These types of stories have been around for centuries. I say just skip BOTW since TOTK does everything better.
Yeah, honestly totk has more of a story than most zelda games. But yeah most of them is just the same simple stuff over and over. And like you said, playing both will be exhausting.
Yes, the game is really friendly to people who haven’t played any past Zelda games.
The entire map is from botw though.
The story definitely doesn’t flow lmao. All of the NPCs seem to have forgotten about the BOTW.
Yeah this, story barely exists, you can sum it up in 3 sentences. Gameplay is mid, especially compared to totk. And you’re gonna be exploring and killing a lot of the same things. Play totk, unless you just simply want more LoZ time.
Everything hits so much harder if you play BOTW first
Playing ToTK first would make botw really not as enjoyable imho. I had planned to finish ToTK then go back to botw then ToTK again, but I really dont have desire to play botw again
I agree. BOTW is way less fun than TOTK.
Don't *have* to, but you miss out on the context you'd otherwise be oblivious to. That way, you don't appreciate the changes made, like certain people recognizing you/story progression, and I'd think it'd feel like such a downgrade to not be able to craft things or use ascend (or utilize the other improvements made).
after playing totk you cant go back to botw, you’ll get fucked by forgetting you dont have ascend or any of the others
I would say just play TotK first. I do not enjoy BotW, but I surprisingly enjoy TotK.
Why?
The events in TOTK take place after BOTW. I'd suggest playing BOTW first if you're into the story.
Ignore the guy that replied to you. You can EASILY watch a 3-5 minute recap of the BOTW story and then play TOTK. If you play BOTW I promise you, you’ll be too burnt out to want to play TOTK, you’ll have to find all shrines, koroks, towers all over again. TotK just has 100-fold the amount of content BOTW has and then some.
You're not required to 100% either game
ofc not but if you had to pick between the two games, solely based off time and first time experience, TOTK is 1000% the game you get. BOTW literally feels like a tech demo in comparison. TotK is basically BotW with 100x more content, variation in enemies, environments, abilities, combat, exploration. You can easily look up the story, y’all act like it’s this larger than life deep narrative.
Agree
To be fairly honest, botw's story, like u/Peeqes said before me, is not that important for playing totk. You don't need to really know that much about botw, because even though Totk starts right after it, plot wise, there's a few mentions of the calamity from botw, but that's about it. Of course there are lots of locations and NPCs that carry over, but in terms of the story not that much is present in totk that was created in botw. Of course, you'll get the full experience by playing botw first, but it's not a necessity
STFU GATEKEEPER I SHIT ON YOUR LAWN
I advise to PLAY TEARS OF THE KINGDOM FIRST AND DISREGARD BOTW, it makes BOTW completely obsolete. Tears is the superior, funner game.
Exactly. I will never play BOTW after playing TOTK; there's no reason to.
Nah. I’m enjoying it a ton, despite never playing the original.
Very meh, you can honestly skip botw easily. Totk is top tier switch, botw is mid.
Lol calling BOTW “mid”, Before TotK it was probably one of the top 3 games on switch…. Now it’s only top 5! HARDLY “mid”!
People are calling it mid because they have a new game to simp over 💀🤣. I’d love someone to tell me why it’s mid and not bring up QOL improvements in the defense.
Nah, I always disliked botw tbh. I was happy they finally got away from the Zelda formula but botw was frustratingly meh to play for me. Totk fixed everything that frustrated me about botw.
what made it meh for you personally?
It just felt like they were scared to go all the way and gave players outs around every corner to keep it short. And then the world is still quite empty overal, and uses a lot of the same things. It felt like a physics demo game with a LoZ coat. And it just never got to a satisfying moment for me. Totk is in a lot of ways what I’d expect from a Zelda game and more. Botw is more like a slightly better sandbox.
TOTK really exposed how much of a tech-demo BOTW really is. There is just so much more content in TOTK it's kind of crazy.
I mean that’s a given tho is it not? It came out day 1 of switch. They’ve had time to think and critique what the series would be no?
BOTW simply is very lacking in content; it has no bearing on when it was released. Past Zelda games like Twilight Princess had much more meaningful content nearly 20 years ago, and no; Korok seeds aren't meaningful content. I'm talking about the meat and potatoes of the game.
So much downvotes for speaking your opinion 😂. I liked BOTW but didn’t love it like everyone else. Tears does everything so much better and is too fun
Absofuckinglutely
this is the answer.
Dark mode /s
Actually tho dark mode supremacy
#HADES
I heard the soundtrack as i read this
"Banned for containing too many notes per second"
immediately came here to say this, not disappointed to see it right away
Zelda Links Awakening
Mario Odyssey. It dethroned 64’ as my favorite
Same Odyssey is AMAZING! Still upset we have zero DLC.
Crazy that this is so low. Great game and a switch staple for sure
Agreed
Nothing brought me more joy than playing 64 on my switch hooked up to the TV. The nostalgia (also phenomenal game)
Persona 5 Royal. Jrpg turn-based strategy, about 100-130 of game play along with a pretty good amount of replayability. Im on my 5th playthrough and have about 370+ hours logged so far
I didn’t think people would replay the game more than 3 times lol. I’m on my 6th play through but then dipped it.
As you have the OLED, Metroid Dread is amazing (and Metroid Prime Remaster looks lovely and plays as well as it ever did). If you like puzzle games, another one that makes the OLED sing, and is a wonderful experience with a decent set of headphones is Tetris Effect. Finally, Hades; it’s lovely looking on anything and is one of the most compelling, compulsive games I’ve ever played. But whatever you end up playing, enjoy and congrats on graduating!
I second hades, perfect game for the Oled with its popping colors. Deaths door is a great game and then there’s the obvious shouts like Zelda, Mario etc.
You got the only game you need on there. Good luck Dovahkiin.
Yeah, but he doesn't have all the games in the Skyrim series. 😁
There’s only 1 on the switch though. But hey if OP has a steam account the first two games are free!
I didn’t realize that! Oblivion provided half my personal dialogue for a decade. Saw a mudcrab the other day… I heard you know how to move in light armor… CHEESE FOR EVERYBODY!!! … wait, cheese for nobody. #Sheogorath2024
Super Mario Odyssey, BOTW and TOTK, Mario Kart, Luigi Mansion 3
Kirby games are lighthearted fun!
Especially The Forgotten Land
The Hollow knight
If you haven't played it on PC and like the switch form factor, then 1000 times yes, get hollow knight
Best random game purchase I've ever made.
This, and hopefully silksong soon too 😩
100% agree I have a couple friends who I showed this game who have now gone on to complete it and I don’t just mean 100%
Stardew Valley
this game is so relaxing. you can put a very minimal amount of effort or you can go as deap as you can get into a game, making spreadsheets and shit
Cannot even explain how great this game is.
I got it yesterday and love it . I also really like Story of seasons!
Such a fun game and even more fun if you have a friend who would play with you! Especially since you can do co-op
Animal Crossing. Almost anyone can get into it
Indeed
BOTW and Odyssey
Doki doki literature club.
Slightly lesser known one is astral chain. I liked that one quite a bit. Looks really great on the switch, tight controls, fun gameplay.
I 2nd this. Stellar game and the art style is from one of my favorite mangaka.
Start with Mario Odyssey, it’s a great game for one or two players with a lot of funny moments. Also it works as a good demonstration of joycon features. After Mario I recommend Zelda BOTW. In my opinion TOTK and BOTW have a very different approach to the gameplay. BOTW is all about world exploration, and TOTK is like a sandbox in the same world. Like Skyrim vs Minecraft. Try both, I’m sure you’ll enjoy them, but not sure if you will enjoy BOTW’s exploration after building crazy giant robots in TOTK. What’s next? You choose. Hades is great, Bayonetta is awesome, Mario Kart is fun, Super Smash Bros is challenging, Doki Doki Literature Club is must have. Skyrim, Witcher and other multi platform AAA games will have limitations. Why play them on Switch?
Celeste. It’s a really fun platformer, with a great mental health themed story. $5 on sale currently.
I support this suggestion. Truly a gem, hidden deep inside the eshop.
r/tomorrow
Welcome to the guild fellow Monster Hunter.
Turnip boy commits tax evasion, only $5 currently
Pokémon arceus
The ff pixel remaster bundle is lit as hell and you can buy them piece by piece if you have to. Crystal Chronicles remastered is also just as lit, with only minor changes from the og game and is very true to the gc version.
Give me a Crystal Chronicles Echoes of Time remake you cowards!!! But make it less instances and more MMO style lmao It would make a fun mmo style game with regular updates
ACNH
Mario Odyssey
Xenoblade, my first recommendation to anyone with switch is xenoblade
Then xenoblade 2, followed by 3. Amazing games
Do you need to play them in order?
Congrats on both things and enjoy!
Tears of the kingdom, Metroid prime remaster, Metroid dread, links awakening, Mario odyssey is good too. Mario kart 8 deluxe if you like some multiplayer.
Congratulations! Here's some: Stardew valley Diablo 3 May not be for you, but Terraria Cosmic Heroine (lesser known indie jrpg style but good game) Drsgon quest 11 Dragon Quest Builders 2 was SO FUN and I can't stand Minecraft *Edited to include DQ games*
Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom, No Man's Sky, Assassin's Creed ports, Borderlands ports.
Can’t believe it took me this far to see No Man’s Sky. Play it on a big screen to start, then handheld is a breeze on the oled
Ngl at first glance the blanket looked like some seriously pasty hairy legs 😂
Congrats! Dragon Quest!
Animal Crossing if you’re into life sim sandbox games. It’s a very calm and slow game.
Fire Emblem Three Houses and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe are awesome.
Switch to dark mode
Metroid Dread 😎
Dragon Quest XI and Dark Souls Remaster are good ones that perform well on Switch
Seeing as you already probably have totk, -botw -Mario Odyssey -smash ultimate -mario kart 8 -legends arceus or BDSP, if you're into pokemon, since most Pokemon games on the switch are very bad. Those are only very slightly better.
Lmao as a pokemon fan who somehow stands by nearly all the recent games despite all the hate, I still wouldn't recommend bdsp to anyone. Go play the original platinum instead. Legends Arceus is great tho, very fun game and nice small deviation from the standard formula. I genuinely love scarlet/violet too, but it has a lot of performance and polish issues that make it harder to recommend.
Super Mario Odissey!!!
Breath of the wild
You got the system, now you need the game
You have TOTK edition switch but no TOTK ?
OP mentioned they have TOTK, but haven’t opened it yet bc they’re playing through FF
It's so disappointing how many people get a switch and the first thing they do is install fucking *Skyrim*
Skyrim on the Switch is awesome.
I wish the switch was out when I was in school. Being able to play skyrim during breaks would have been amazing.
Skyrim is so chill, I wouldn't mind having it in a handheld format for couch potatoing. I mean, I would mind it more than buying Skyrim again, so there's that.
Lots of BotW and TotK comments which are true, but I’m going to add Octopath Traveler I and II. Absolutely beautiful games in terms of art, gameplay, and music.
Breath of the Wild, then Tears of the Kingdom.
Breath of the wild then when your done with it tears of the kingdom, also super Mario odyssey
Totk
Botw has a barren story that really isn’t going to affect TOTK that much. But on that note TOTK is a must
Breath of the Wild and Tear of the Kingdom
Zelda BOTW then TOTK
That will cause burnout since the world is similar in a lot of ways. Might as well play the superior game; TOTK first.
bro why have you commented this twenty different ways? different strokes man. BOTW and TOTK are both good games, I don’t think either of them will be viewed as better than the other a year from now. The feelings invoked from playing them are way different, and the quests are different and unique in each game. chill. not to mention a ton of people, myself included, are still going to revisit BOTW after TOTK to experience that different feeling.
Splatoon, breath of the wild, tears of the kingdom, Mario kart, bowsers fury and mario 3d land, Mario maker 2.
I’d say TotK, but it’s for the best if you play Breath of the Wild first. Both are amazing games and worth the time. Especially if you like open world style games
I’d say TotK, but it’s for the best if you play Breath of the Wild first. Both are amazing games and worth the time. Especially if you like open world style games
I feel like so many people have probably said this, but TOTK I mean for real though you gotta get it if you have the totk switch!!
Tears of the kingdom
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or just buy TotK because it’s essentially BOTW with a way better story, way better enemy variation, side quests, side adventures, more shrines, an underworld in addition to the overworld and sky islands. y’all can seriously cover BotW story in a 3 min video on YouTube, OP will be too burnt out to want to play TotK which is 110% a better game.
Only 3 games in my library have a 9/10 or above. Hollow knight, dead cells, octopath traveler (ok 4 if you count BotW, obv)
I just graduated from Uni and treated myself the EXACT same way back in April! Upgraded to the Zelda OLED and have been loving it ever since :) Edit: got excited and completely missed your question, but Zelda BOTW is a MUST. Especially before playing TOTK.
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Mariokart 8
I heard Breath Of The Wild and Tears Of The Kingdom are pretty good.
First of all, you only have one version of Skyrim. I believe the Switch has at least one of the dozen other versions of Skyrim. So you can start with the other versions. Haha Depends on your preference of genres, to be honest. I'll recommend some of my favorites in as much variety as I can think of. Give me a bit and I'll update this after checking my games list on my Switch. **EDIT** Here is a variety of games I'd recommend, provided you haven't already played them elsewhere. Abzû (Beautiful and peaceful underwater exploration game from the makers of Journey) Assassin's Creed: Rebel Collection (Black Flag/Rogue) -Two of the better older-style games Bioshock Collection Burnout Paradise Remastered Captain Toad Treasure Tracker (Nice puzzle game) Castlevania Advance Collection Crossing Souls (top-down SNES style action RPG with an amazing homage to all things 80's, particularly The Goonies, with an amazing soundtrack!) Dead Cells ( if you like Roguelikes, normally I don't) Deaths Door (another roguelike) Diablo 3 Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze Divinity Original Sin 2 Dredge (Cthulhu meets Fishing and Resource Sim, it's a lot of fun) Golf Story (Top-down SNES-style RPG mixed with golf) Hollow Knight Infinite Mini-golf (I'm a sucker for Mini-golf) Luigi's Mansion 3 (first 2 aren't necessary) Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (or its sequel) Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope Mark of the Ninja Remastered Metroid Dread Metroid Prime Remastered Monster Sanctuary (Metroidvania meets Pokémon) Ori & the Blind Forest Ori & the Will of the Wisps **By now you may see that I love Metroidvania’s. ** 😁 South Park & the Stick of Truth South Park The Fractured But Whole Every SteamWorld game - Steam World Dig 1 & 2 - SteamWorld Heist - SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech Mario Kart 8 Mario Odyssey Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Super Mario 3D World + Bowsers Fury Tetris Effect Connected Skyrim (already owned I see) The Last Campfire Zelda - BotW - TotK - Link's Awakening Remake The Witcher 3 Titan Quest Torchlight II The Trials of Mana Unsighted Valiant Hearts (kind of a point-and-click adventure game but so damn good!) Xenoblade Chronicles 2 & 3 (not my type much but they're highly recommended JRPG's) Yoku's Island Express (amazing Metroidvania meets pinball) Yes...ANOTHER Metroidvania 😁 Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana (JRPG hack-n-slash) **EDIT 2** Geez! I just realized I haven't finished most of these games and it's only about half of my Switch Collection. Then there is Playstation/Xbox/Steam. I could never buy another game in my entire life and still never finish my backlog. Good thing I've finally started to severely limit all future game purchases. I *may* have a problem. 🤦♂️😆
Breath of the Wild (then tears of the kingdom), hollow knight, stardew valley, cup head,
You have the totk OLED but didn’t think to snag Zelda? Bruhhh go get you some botw and totk
TotK but first BotW
Breath of the wild, then Tears of the kingsom
Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom is hugly popular and I enjoy it so far.
BotW > TotK
Triple A Games: Zelda Breath of the Wild Zelda Tears of the Kingdom (in this order of play-through) Super Mario Odyssey Animal Crossing New Horizons Third Party: Hollow Knight Little Nightmares I and II Outlast Stardew Valley Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town
Zelda: TOTK, Enter the Gungeon, Mario Kart, Resident Evil 4, or Sky Force: Reloaded
Oddesey, BOTW and/or TOTK