Two of the biggest games in recent years have been massive open-world titles, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has already been drawing a lot of comparisons to last year's Game of the Year winner Elden Ring. Both titles have been hailed as huge leaps forward for the genre and set the standard for future open-world games to follow. However, while there are a lot of similarities between the two, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom takes one aspect of Elden Ring and runs in the opposite direction with it.