10 Video Games That Blew Your Mind (Without You Realising)
2. The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom
Breath of the Wild made waves when it first came out thanks to its "do it yourself" approach to puzzle solving. The shrines scattered throughout Hyrule didn't care how you completed them, simply that you did so.
Tears of the Kingdom then came along and took that to 11 with the introduction of the constructs.
The constructs are the most brilliant addition ToTK makes to the BOTW formula. Going on TikTok or YouTube and typing in "Tears of the Kingdom" will see you inundated with endless clips of people cramming objects and construct parts together to make the most madcap nonsense you've ever seen. Sure it's mostly just people committing the most horrific war crimes upon the Koroks, but the point still stands.
The constructs are mind-blowing in ways only seasoned game devs could truly break down. The physics of the things alone, how they always perform exactly what task you build them for - provided you build them correctly - without any breaks in the physics engine, is insane.
Those madmen at Nintendo have changed the game all over again with Tears of the Kingdom.