It can be very difficult to get significant discounts on first-party Nintendo Switch games, especially flagship titles like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. That trend appears to be changing with Black Friday, however, as last year's Game of the Year contender is down to just $30 ($40 off) at Walmart for a limited time, surpassing its previous low by $10.
Nintendo's action-adventure RPG features a familiar premise: you're ultimately chasing the malevolent Ganon in hopes of saving Princess Zelda and protecting the kingdom of Hyrule. But wait, didn't we do that in the last game and many before? How could she probably fall into that situation once again? I'll let you figure out the details, but let's just say there are enough changes to the timeline to make Doctor Strange blush.
You will also have a lot to do around the kingdom in search of its safety. There are plenty of enigmatic shrines to complete, weapons to collect, and open regions to explore, including floating islands and harrowing underground caverns. It's a familiar ride on the surface, but there are enough twists and secrets to keep it fresh if you've played the equally impressive The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
What you can't find in nature, you can probably create using an imaginative system that allows you to take advantage of anything you can keep in your inventory. Link also has a few new tricks up his sleeve to aid in combat and traversal, including teleportation and the ability to alchemically pass through walls and objects. If you could have just one game to hold you over until Nintendo releases the much-rumored Switch 2, Tears of the Kingdom it is.
