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Discussion Predict Tears of the Kindom Metacritic Score!

What will ToTK's final metacritc score be?

  • 98-100

  • 95-97

  • 91-94

  • 85-90

  • under 84

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I hope people predicting 97-98 won't be disappointed if the game scores a 93-95. Still absolutely amazing no matter what - Metroid Dread scored an 88 and that's probably in my top 10 games of all time. We just have to remember that the insanely difficult task of achieving what BotW and Mario Odyssey did in 2017 is going to be even harder now.
 
Maybe Metacritic doesn’t know, because I have a hard time believing the embargo is as late as Thursday morning

Plus normally they specify the time so maybe they don’t
 
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I don't think the game scoring 92-94 would be anything catastrophic. It doesn't define the game and doesn't direct compare it to BotW because the context in which they were released was/is vastly different.

Bayonetta 3 scored 6 points lower than 2, and that's a hell of a good game, most criticized thing was technical stuff and a lot of aging hardware and Switch 2 arguments were thrown. I don't expect the same to happen to TotK because it's one of the best looking games in the system, but it's inevitable it'll be thrown around too.

Metroid Dread is one of the best games of all time and it's got an 88. I think we can agree each 2D Metroid game is a step up from the previous and Dread is the culmination of everything of best in the series, and realized with masterful controls and visuals. It didn't automatically made it get a 90+.

I'd be very surprised if this game got 94- or 97+, but it can happen. And I'm sorry of it comes off as pessimism but I think a 93 is more likely than a 98.

I still think it's gonna be like 95 and I hope it gets the 97, it really deserves this.
 
Marce-chan said:
I don't think the game scoring 92-94 would be anything catastrophic. It doesn't define the game and doesn't direct compare it to BotW because the context in which they were released was/is vastly different.

Bayonetta 3 scored 6 points lower than 2, and that's a hell of a good game, most criticized thing was technical stuff and a lot of aging hardware and Switch 2 arguments were thrown. I don't expect the same to happen to TotK because it's one of the best looking games in the system, but it's inevitable it'll be thrown around too.

Metroid Dread is one of the best games of all time and it's got an 88. I think we can agree each 2D Metroid game is a step up from the previous and Dread is the culmination of everything of best in the series, and realized with masterful controls and visuals. It didn't automatically made it get a 90+.

I'd be very surprised if this game got 94- or 97+, but it can happen. And I'm sorry of it comes off as pessimism but I think a 93 is more likely than a 98.

I still think it's gonna be like 95 and I hope it gets the 97, it really deserves this.
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I don't really think this is why some think it would be "catastrophic." Um we kinda just mean how people will overreact lmao.
 
I'm hoping 95.

But probably around 90? People will say that it's either too similar or too different from BOTW and they didn't like it.
 
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Going by the leaks, I think 96-97. This game is basically Zelda's Galaxy 2 and I'm all for it.

I also wanna remind people that prior to Breath of the Wild most Nintendo games scored between the high 70s and low 80s (hell, Star Fox Zero is on the 60s lol).
 
I could see it getting 97 again. It's really crazy how ridiculously high every mainline Zelda has fared critically.


Enpsty said:
There's no way it scores lower than 96. Ppl keep saying that the review landscape is different now which I don't see it at all. Didn't Gow Ragnarok scored 95 by being the safest sequel ever?
Based on the impressions so far Totk is not a Bote sequel, it's a landmark in video games that will evolve sandbox gaming in a higher degree.
This is locked 96 and I can see going up to 98. It all depends how many 5/10 clickbait contrarians will metacritic take in account. For example I can see Kotaku giving it 7/10 just to spite Nintendo for blacklisting them.
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You know it's possible for someone to give an honest low score. I would have given BotW a 5 or 6 personally. No game is going to please everyone, and it's healthy to get a variety of perspectives. If they can explain their reasoning well then it's every bit as valid as any other review.
 
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Enpsty said:
There's no way it scores lower than 96. Ppl keep saying that the review landscape is different now which I don't see it at all. Didn't Gow Ragnarok scored 95 by being the safest sequel ever?
Based on the impressions so far Totk is not a Bote sequel, it's a landmark in video games that will evolve sandbox gaming in a higher degree.
This is locked 96 and I can see going up to 98. It all depends how many 5/10 clickbait contrarians will metacritic take in account. For example I can see Kotaku giving it 7/10 just to spite Nintendo for blacklisting them.
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Just regarding this topic, we have a new set of review thread guidelines, we’ll be using them for the TotK review thread next week.

We aren’t interested in people making up reasons to have a go at reviewers just based on review scores and aggregate sites rather than actually reading and challenging the points made in the review, and we may threadban members that derail discussion with such. Just because an opinion piece isn’t unbridled praise doesn’t mean it’s somehow a conspiracy. If the points laid out in the review are ridiculous or debatable that’s obviously fair game for discussion just as much as positive commentary is, but we ask members to challenge those points specifically, not just throw vague shade and accusations at the reviewer over a number stripped of context.

 
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i can already tell some of yall are gonna get the review thread "temp lock while we go thru reports" if anyone gives it a score below 9
 
mazi said:
i can already tell some of yall are gonna get the review thread "temp lock while we go thru reports" if anyone gives it a score below 9
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The Four Horsemen of the Famiboards Apocalypse:

  • TotK having a Metacritic score lower than 96.
  • Nintendo not talking about next gen at all this year.
  • No 2D Mario in 2023.
  • No General Direct in the summer.
 
Nexmark said:
95, got 0 doubts lol, reviews will be a bit harsh about perfomance/playing on old hardware, plus although totk will be the better game, it will not impact as much as botw for obvious reasons
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Most likely. But then again, if it's really big and creative and full of wow-moments, I can see a 97.
 
It doesn't even have co-op like Redfall and that game has a 59 MC. Nintendo keeps dropping the ball, I'm telling you.
 
The amount of 10s you need to score a 97 is absurd. You really can't take that for granted. Even if the game is incredible (which I fully expect it to be), you only need to get a bunch of people going from a 10 for BotW to a 9 for TotK because it doesn't feel as new and all of a sudden you're looking at a 94/95. Wouldn't mean the game is worse, in fact I'm sure the consensus will be the opposite.

Anything higher than 90 is fine by me. I don't even need reviews for this game anyway.
 
It will be between 95 and 97. 96 seems like a safe bet. It scoring higher than 97 or lower than 95 seems impossible to me.
 
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Izanagi89 said:
It’s gonna be interesting to see if it manages to recapture that magic of BoTW. I’m skeptical but it’s certainly the most hyped game of the year by most metrics
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shinobi602 said:
No doubt there. From reviewers I've spoken with, it sounds like it runs circles around BotW.
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Not been very active on the forum lately, but need to be here for the review thread. Wishing the mods best of luck.

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emi_taiko said:
Going by the leaks, I think 96-97. This game is basically Zelda's Galaxy 2 and I'm all for it.

I also wanna remind people that prior to Breath of the Wild most Nintendo games scored between the high 70s and low 80s (hell, Star Fox Zero is on the 60s lol).
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BOTW was a launch title for a brand new Nintendo console that shed the Wii U's toxic image baggage and had a hell of a Gee Whiz factor with being "Holy Shit! A Massive Open World HD Zelda Game On A Handheld!" going for it.

You can't exactly compare the Wii U era games directly with the Switch era because of that. Likewise, TOTK is going to have the aging Switch hardware narrative as a drag factor that will influence its review scores.

Review scores are just as much a reflection of the zeitgeist surrounding a game as a reflection of the game's quality itself; if not even moreso. Perhaps the best example of this is comparing the review scores of Soul Calibur 1 to Soul Calibur 2. SC2 is widely considered to be the better game (and is usually considered the best game in the series by fans), but the review scores aren't even close to what SC1 got because the wow factor of "Better Than The Arcade!" was lost on people during the PS2/GCN/Xbox era and didn't resonate the same way as it did with the Dreamcast.
 
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By this logic super mario galaxy should have gotten points docked for being on the wii right? This logic makes no sense
 
Dcubed said:
BOTW was a launch title for a brand new Nintendo console that shed the Wii U's toxic image baggage and had a hell of a Gee Whiz factor with being "Holy Shit! A Massive Open World HD Zelda Game On A Handheld!" going for it.

You can't exactly compare the Wii U era games directly with the Switch era because of that. Likewise, TOTK is going to have the aging Switch hardware narrative as a drag factor that will influence its review scores.

Review scores are just as much a reflection of the zeitgeist surrounding a game as a reflection of the game's quality itself; if not even moreso. Perhaps the best example of this is comparing the review scores of Soul Calibur 1 to Soul Calibur 2. SC2 is widely considered to be the better game (and is usually considered the best game in the series by fans), but the review scores aren't even close to what SC1 got because the wow factor of "Better Than The Arcade!" was lost on people during the PS2/GCN/Xbox era and didn't resonate the same way as it did with the Dreamcast.
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I'm not convinced about that. While it has much less reviews, the Wii U version still has a 96, and honestly, the performance it's pretty much the same.

Like other people are saying, I think this game is gonna be praised because of how well it runs despite being such an ambitious title, if anything.
 
I've seen the leaks. It's not going anywhere lower than 97 imo. Crazy ass stuff awaits us, game is real special.
 
I can't see it getting that high as BOTW. If it does, it wii crush any imaginable 1month sales ever.
I see it getting something like 92-94. People are really bitter because this game doesn't accompany a Switch 2. It must be something really out of this world to some people see beyond the void of prejudice.

I actually expect Nintendo to release a new switch by the end of the year with a deluxe version of zelda. If this happen, many will review their criticism and we will be like... what?
 
Dragoncaine said:
I hope people predicting 97-98 won't be disappointed if the game scores a 93-95. Still absolutely amazing no matter what - Metroid Dread scored an 88 and that's probably in my top 10 games of all time. We just have to remember that the insanely difficult task of achieving what BotW and Mario Odyssey did in 2017 is going to be even harder now.
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I am going to be very upset. Then I'm going to go on twitter and all the message boards and make hate threads on the reviewers who gave it less than a 90. This game, although I have not played a minute of it, is OBVIOUSLY a 97. Anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot.

/s

Marce-chan said:
GTA IV is a bad game and got 98, TotK has to get 99.

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Well....GTA 4 is a bad game lol. First and only game I ever bought and then returned like a couple days later. I never return games but that was an atrocity of a game.
 
Hocot8 said:
I am going to be very upset. Then I'm going to go on twitter and all the message boards and make hate threads on the reviewers who gave it less than a 90. This game, although I have not played a minute of it, is OBVIOUSLY a 97. Anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot.

/s


Well....GTA 4 is a bad game lol. First and only game I ever bought and then returned like a couple days later. I never return games but that was an atrocity of a game.
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Hell yeah, the /s was on TotK being bad if it doesn't outscore it, not of GTA IV being bad lol.
Also puts perspective on how much MC changed and how getting scores that high has become increasingly harder.
I also would argue that the GTA bias is more real than the Belda argument tbh. Hell, I would bet a game like GTA IV not named GTA IV releasing in 2023 would get 70s at most.
 
Tears of the kingdom will also benefit because although BotW was a magical experience it left many areas to be easily improved like enemy variety and dungeons. I think the games shear scale and improvements over BotW will convince lots of reviewers to score higher or the same. May be a few outlets that dock for covering a lot of the same ground but this will be few.
 
Lugia667 said:
By this logic super mario galaxy should have gotten points docked for being on the wii right? This logic makes no sesense
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Mario galaxy is a less technically demanding game relatively, we've seen through previews that totk suffers from performance issues while mario galaxy was at least a stable 30fps. Also, it's been 15 years since then, standards change
 
From everything I have heard the thsi game will have a lot more impact than botw, im thinking it matches it or goes higher
 
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Notsowise said:
I can't see it getting that high as BOTW. If it does, it wii crush any imaginable 1month sales ever.
I see it getting something like 92-94. People are really bitter because this game doesn't accompany a Switch 2. It must be something really out of this world to some people see beyond the void of prejudice.

I actually expect Nintendo to release a new switch by the end of the year with a deluxe version of zelda. If this happen, many will review their criticism and we will be like... what?
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Zeal543 said:
Mario galaxy is a less technically demanding game relatively, we've seen through previews that totk suffers from performance issues while mario galaxy was at least a stable 30fps. Also, it's been 15 years since then, standards change
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By recent reports of the most recent patch for TotK that seems to have added FSR, the performance is pretty solid now

At the very least it's likely a lot better than anything that would get it points docked in reviews (which again only happens for extreme cases in my experience)
 
I’ll go with 95-97 MC. I think Nintendo purposely hiding a lot from it is going to work out well for reviews and fans alike. I personally can’t wait, irrespective of the MC score!
 
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oracion said:
I don't want to link to the purple forum, so I'll just quote the text.
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Shinobi is very reliable when it concerns review scores for those who don't know. Most recently he said similar statements about Elden Ring and GoW Ragnarok
 
emi_taiko said:
I'm not convinced about that. While it has much less reviews, the Wii U version still has a 96, and honestly, the performance it's pretty much the same.

Like other people are saying, I think this game is gonna be praised because of how well it runs despite being such an ambitious title, if anything.
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If the game was released as a Wii U exclusive and in this timeline was released exactly as it is now? It wouldn’t have reviewed nearly as well for sure.

A big part of the game’s hype came from as much from it being a big exciting launch title and a technical showstopper for a handheld game, as it was from it being a landmark game in its own right. And review scores are a direct reflection of the marketing hype itself that the reviewers themselves drink in.
 
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I think some still try to dismiss BotW physics’ mechanics but with stuff like Fuse and Ultrahand in this new one people just can’t ignore it anymore, this clearly isn’t a typical scripted action-adventure game

I’m curious about what people saw but I’m avoiding leaks 👀 90s seem doable for what they’ve officially shown though
 
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Soralink91 said:
Tears of the kingdom will also benefit because although BotW was a magical experience it left many areas to be easily improved like enemy variety and dungeons. I think the games shear scale and improvements over BotW will convince lots of reviewers to score higher or the same. May be a few outlets that dock for covering a lot of the same ground but this will be few.
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Yeah, that's one of the reasons I was surprised by how high BotW scored. There were so many things that had obvious room for improvement. Much moreso than Odyssey, which had the same score.

But reviewing games isn't an exact science, and everyone reviews differently. So it is what is.
 
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