![]() It doesn’t help much with bus service (you’d have to be taking a pretty short trip) but it’s handy for using Trax light rail to explore Main Street if you’re already downtown. Here’s what to know about traveling without a car in Utah.Ī “free-fare zone” exists around Salt Lake City’s urban core, bordered by Salt Lake Central Station to the west, the Utah State Capitol to the north, the Main Library to the east and the Matheson Courthouse to the south. No, at minimum we’re at Square 2, maybe even Square 3. Luckily, we’re not starting from Square 1. That worked OK for a long time-assuming you could afford to buy a car and perpetually fill it with gasoline-but population growth, climate change, cost of living and Utah’s horrendous air quality have put enough pressure on the roads that even car-brained state leaders are beginning to acknowledge that, just maybe, “mistakes were made.” Utah, like much of the American West, is car country. Note: The following article was originally published in City Weekly's 2023 City Guide. A Trax light rail train passes through Downtown Salt Lake City.Enjoy the ride, and maybe we'll share notes. I'd say I'll see you there, but this is a solo journey. I mean, there's still Pikmin 4, but I'm ready for this to be the top of the Switch gaming mountain.įor the next hundred hours of my gaming life, I'll be living here in Hyrule. We may be looking at the hardware's swan song, as an inevitable Switch 2 arrives sometime in the next couple of years. ![]() But I feel like this is the best the current Switch can get. It runs better than some of the most recent Pokemon games. Tears of the Kingdom shows how great Switch games can still look, how epic they can be. Maybe Tears of the Kingdom wouldn't be that strikingly different on an upgraded Switch 2 after all.ĭon't regret. Breath of the Wild was also a Wii U game. Twilight Princess was released on the GameCube and the Wii. Then again, many of Nintendo's Zelda games debuted right across generational leaps. A true Switch 2 would make a new Zelda game something amazing. Would I like to see Hyrule in even more detail, something that could maybe rival Elden Ring's graphics? Sure. Strange shrines, a little different this time around. Or jumping and moving with better Joy-Con buttons and controls. That's absolutely fine by me, but I dream of a Switch with better analog triggers that thump with haptics when Link stretches his bow, like the PlayStation 5 controller can do. Tears of the Kingdom feels like a new game built on Breath of the Wild's engine and interface, not a whole new graphical leap. That's standard Nintendo, by the way: Mario Kart 8, one of the Switch's biggest games, was a port of a Wii U game. ![]() You'll come to Tears of the Kingdom for the gameplay and the brilliant ideas, not for the massive graphics upgrade. It feels as fluid and well-optimized for the Switch as Breath of the Wild did. I played in handheld mode a lot, but a game like this is made to enjoy on a big screen, too.ĭoes the Switch show its age? Yes, quite a bit, but Tears of the Kingdom hides these weaknesses extremely well. Zelda looks fantastic, but its details and large amount of text really shine on the vivid OLED Switch's 7-inch screen, slightly larger than the original Switch's. Nintendo/Screenshot by CNET Which Switch to play on? OLED, if you can I feel like I've been granted an infinite ticket to Nintendo's Everlasting Gaming Gobstopper Part 2. Nintendo now has a real-life theme park in Super Nintendo World, but here is a tremendous, living, breathing, meticulously crafted world waiting to reveal its hidden stories and secrets. Tears of the Kingdom is an amazing reminder of Nintendo's excellence in immersive design. ![]() It all feels like Zelda, or classic Hayao Miyazaki movies, or even at times my life during the pandemic. And of course, you're looking for Zelda again. A new type of post-apocalypse vibe is everywhere, something recent as opposed to the long-gone feeling of rebuild that Breath of the Wild had. And, Link has an infected hand that can also power his new abilities. Parts of bizarre artifacts have fallen everywhere. This time, a weird miasma is everywhere that can injure people. And whatever you thought you knew about Hyrule last time can basically be turned upside down here, story and map-wise. It's a second great game in one console generation, which doesn't always happen with Nintendo. This is like Super Mario Galaxy 2 after Super Mario Galaxy, or Majora's Mask after Ocarina of Time. Tears of the Kingdom is clearly built on Breath of the Wild's bones this is as direct a Zelda sequel as maybe we've ever had.īut a slightly less surprising game is not necessarily a bad thing. Zelda games have a tradition of zagging when you expect a zig: many follow-up games are vastly different even in concept than games directly before. Nintendo/Screenshot by CNET Familiar, but different The views are amazing, but the map and territory have shifted.
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