{"id":657,"date":"2025-07-09T10:55:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T10:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:09:17","slug":"the-nintendo-switch-2-shows-how-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-should-be-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/the-nintendo-switch-2-shows-how-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-should-be-played\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nintendo Switch 2 shows how Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom should be played"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d be lying if I said that playing<strong> The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on Nintendo Switch 2<\/strong> wasn\u2019t the reason I pre-ordered one. I rather shamefully never finished it on the original Switch, partly due to how it performed. But I\u2019m pleased to report that this version is good. Really good, to be honest, and it\u2019s made me wonder how I played it on the original Switch.<\/p>\n<p>While Breath of the Wild also looks stunning, it came out eight years ago and was made with the original Switch (and Wii U) in mind. It did have some small issues, and obviously does run better on Switch 2, but we\u2019re here to talk TOTK. Were you expecting a joke about the Switch 2 breathing new life into the first game? Well, there you go.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sometimes harder to write content on something that\u2019s only positive, with no negatives to go off about &#8211; and that\u2019s the problem I\u2019m facing here. What else do I say? It\u2019s just a stunning game that runs excellently, and I very much appreciate the upgrades the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/nintendo-switch-2\">Nintendo Switch 2<\/a> can offer. If Tears of the Kingdom wasn\u2019t one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/best-zelda-games\">best Zelda games<\/a> already, it certainly is now.<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\tContinue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/the-legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom\/switch-2-performance\">The Nintendo Switch 2 shows how Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom should be played<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\tMORE FROM POCKET TACTICS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom\/review\">Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom review<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom\/fusion\">Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom fusion<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom\/enemies\">Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom enemies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d be lying if I said that playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on Nintendo Switch 2 wasn\u2019t the reason I pre-ordered one. I rather shamefully never finished it on the original Switch, partly due to how it performed. But I\u2019m pleased to report that this version is good. Really good, to be honest, and it\u2019s made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}