We Already Have Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom At Home

This Friday, The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom will be released. According to many people it is the most amazing game. You can get the same game in multiple different versions for free. That’s right, you can enjoy all of Tears of the Kingdom’s signature mechanics – Ultrahand, Fuse, Ascend, and Recall – without dropping $70 bucks (or its future sale price of $68.75). All you have to do is dig up a few games, kick your imagination into overdrive, and ignore everyone talking about how great Zelda is to enjoy an approximation of the Link’s latest adventure. 

Who Needs Ultrahand When You Have Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts

As cool as Tears of the Kingdom’s Ultrahand mechanic looks, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts let players slap together random parts to make vehicles before it was cool. Carts, airplanes and anything in between can be built to solve challenges using similar inventiveness. You can also bolt guns on everything in order to fix problems faster.

If you don’t believe me, you can watch us prove you wrong in our ongoing Super Replay of the entire game. 

Dead Island 2: No Need for Fuse

Dead Island 2 Dambuster Studios Deep Silver

A plethora of video games let you combine anything that isn’t bolted to the ground to make custom weapons, but Dead Island 2 towers above the rest for being the most recent one. Sure, you have to visit a workbench and can’t craft weapons on the fly like in Tears of the Kingdom, but I’m pretty sure Link can’t tie batteries to adhesives to make sick electric Wolverine claws. Probably. 

Why Recall when you have Singularity?

Remember Singularity? What about that underrated shooter in which you could use an awesome time manipulation glove? The game deserved a lot more attention for its many fun features, including the ability to rewind or fast forward objects in time. Okay, you got me. It’s really just an appreciation of Singularity. Activision, please give us another sequel. 

Who Needs Ascend When You Have… Dark Void?

Ascend, although it’s hard to compare to other games in the genre, is basically about propelling yourself vertically. That’s, like, Dark Void’s whole deal. Although protagonist “Nathan Drake With A Jetpack” probably couldn’t phase through ceilings and mountains unless the game self-destructed, he can indeed fly upwards around those things, which, unlike Link, means he’s not in danger of getting trapped inside of a rock or something. Dark Void. 

What’s the need for a huge open-world adventure in Hyrule? Immortals Fenyx Rise 

You would cheat if I told you just to play Breath of the Wild, so I picked the next-best option. Rip-off thing. Ubisoft’s Greek-flavored facsimile of BOTW hits a lot of the same notes, from letting you climb nearly everything to its similar take on physics-based puzzle-solving to gliding all over the place. The only downside is that characters speak much, much more often, but there’s a magical button on your remote that solves this problem. 

As a bonus, all of these games sans Singularity are playable on Xbox Series X/S, which is key because you’ll need to quickly swap between them using the Quick Resume feature. Do this fast enough, and these five games eventually blur into a budget-friendly hodgepodge resembling the year’s hottest release. Singularity is another great game. Enjoy yourself!

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