Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's user reviews go from one extreme to the other

Metacritic has finally opened The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom open to user reviews, and over three hundred players have left mixed or negative feedback.

Although The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is now the highest-rated game of the year thus far on Metacritic – and the highest-rated game of all time on OpenCritic – and industry analysts are opining that Nintendo’s all-new adventure will impact the charts not just for the next few months, but “years”, some fans are making their disappointment more than clear, and whilst the critic score sits at a lofty 96, the user score aggregated from over 1600 reviewers is 8.5.

Yes, admittedly, some people are devastated that you cannot pet the dog, but that doesn’t account for the hundreds of reviews that cite the sequel hasn’t address the purported issues of its predecessor, calls the gameplay “boring”, or reports ongoing performance issues.