The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Metacritic Score Revealed

The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Metacritic Score Revealed

The Legend of Zelda is back on top!

The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom releases for Nintendo Switch on May 12. After many long years of waiting, the sequel to the mega-popular Breath of the Wild is just around the corner, and today, on May 11, the first press reviews arrived. Let’s see how Tears of the Kingdom was rated by several media who had the opportunity to play the game early by checking out its score review score aggregator, Metacritic.

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The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Metacritic Score Revealed

The current rating on Metacritic is 97, and the game received Metacritic’s Must Play badge. So far, there are 60 reviews, and all of them are positive.

The current Metascore is 97!

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In the Tweet below, you can see some of the most relevant media ratings and how The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom is also ranked on OpenCritic.

These strong ratings and extremely good impressions already put Tears of the Kingdom alongside Breath of the Wild. We will continue to monitor the rating situation as it develops!

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Are you excited about Tears of the Kingdom? The wait is coming to an end soon. See you in Hyrule soon!

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