{"id":133692,"date":"2023-05-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-149376"},"modified":"2023-05-13T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T07:00:00","slug":"zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-is-now-the-highest-rated-game-of-all-time-on-opencritic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/13\/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-is-now-the-highest-rated-game-of-all-time-on-opencritic\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Is Now The &#8220;Highest Rated Game Of All Time&#8221; On OpenCritic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/23e7834e8a398\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/23e7834e8a398\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/23e7834e8a398\/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/23e7834e8a398\/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo Life \/ Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_tears_of_the_kingdom\">The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom<\/a> is already breaking records, with review aggregate website OpenCritic revealing the long-awaited Switch exclusive is currently its &#8220;#1 highest rated game of all time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the site&#8217;s rankings, Tears of the Kingdom sits just ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\">Super Mario Odyssey<\/a>, with an average score of 97.223 out of 100 compared to Mario&#8217;s 96.811. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a> is in third place with a score of 95.905.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full list of &#8220;all time&#8221; highest-scoring games in the top 10 on OpenCritic:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>1. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom<br \/>2. Super Mario Odyssey<br \/>3. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<br \/>4. Red Dead Redemption 2 (96)<br \/>5. Elden Ring (95)<br \/>6. God of War (94)<br \/>7. The Last of Us Remastered (94)<br \/>8. Persona 5 Royal (94)<br \/>9. Persona 5 (94)<br \/>10.Hades (94)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/open_critic\/statuses\/1656632162681233408 @ 2023-05-14T00:49:12+01:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is currently the #1 highest rated game of all time on OpenCritic<\/p>\n<p>Reviews here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/19NTuljHc0\">https:\/\/t.co\/19NTuljHc0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5xI2DFNehe\">pic.twitter.com\/5xI2DFNehe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 OpenCritic (@Open_Critic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Open_Critic\/status\/1656632162681233408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Meanwhile, over on Metacritic, Tears of the Kingdom has already become the review aggregate website&#8217;s highest-rated game of the year &#8211; with a critic score of 96 out of 100. User reviews have not gone live yet.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of Metacritic&#8217;s all-time highest scores, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/legend_of_zelda_ocarina_of_time\">The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina<\/a> for N64 is still out in front with a score of 99. As for Breath of the Wild on this platform, it&#8217;s got a average critic score of 97 out of 100, and user reviews are 8.7 out of 10.<\/p>\n<p>In our own review of Tears of the Kingdom here on Nintendo Life, we gave Link&#8217;s new adventure an &#8220;outstanding&#8221; 10 out of 10, calling it a glorious and triumphant sequel to the original entry.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/zelda\/related-articles:148637,149290 @ 2023-05-14T08:03:17+01:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>How has your own experience been with Tears of the Kingdom so far? Comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Life \/ Nintendo The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is already breaking records, with review aggregate website OpenCritic revealing the long-awaited Switch exclusive is currently its &#8220;#1 highest rated game of all time&#8221;. According to the site&#8217;s rankings, Tears of the Kingdom sits just ahead of Super Mario Odyssey, with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}