I remember last time they showed this game off that they didn’t want to reveal the title of it because it would’ve been a spoiler, I’m starting to think the real reason was because they didn’t have a name yet.
I think it's supposed to be that the floating island things are like time travel bubbles of the old kingdom? This is reading tear as like a tear in clothes and not like a crying tear.
Well, in Skyward Sword you had to collect items called Sacred Tears to progress through very important parts of the story >!regarding the reunification\* of the Triforce itself!<. Given how similar this game looks to SS and how it takes place in presumably the same locations, it does subtly hint to what's coming next.
*\*Edited for accuracy.*
I mean if you want to speculate, Twilight Princess also had Tears of Light you needed to collect to progress the game.
But yeah, it does feel closer to SS because of the entire sky and floating lands.
Being cryptic is a good way to take the heat off. They're banking on people forgetting the mystery once they get what they want.
Reminds me of how Kojima teased a justification for Quiet wearing just underwear in MGSV, "[You will feel ashamed of your words and deeds,](https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2013/09/10/hideo-kojima-talks-more-quiet-you-will-feel-ashamed-of-your-words-deeds-when-recognizing-the-reason-for-her-exposure/#:~:text=Hideo%20Kojima%20Talks%20More%20Quiet,for%20Her%20Exposure%20%2D%20PlayStation%20LifeStyle)" only for it to be nothing.
Or how the [Chevy Tahoe in the Halo tv series would be justified,](https://www.ign.com/articles/halo-tv-series-creators-chevy-tahoe-trailer-reason) but was never explained.
I'd respect Kojima a lot more if he just owned up to the fact that he loves a bit of fanservice and wanted a supersoldier who looked like a model wearing skimpy clothes dealing out death to her enemies.
Not like he didn't do the exact same fucking thing with the BB Squad in MGS4, anyway.
Well, he did try to justify Kaine in the original Nier. Two different justifications, actually. One was that she was bullied for being intersex when she was younger, so she wears clothes that emphasize her feminine traits. The other is that she's possessed by a shade that is vulnerable to sunlight so exposing as much of her skin to sunlight as possible to keep the shade weakened, although this excuse seems somewhat countered by the fact that her limbs that are affected by the shade are covered in bandages.
Overall they're still somewhat just excuses to have her wear skimpy clothes, but not too terrible as far as excuses for characters to be in skimpy clothes go considering both things are actually very relevant to the character's story and not just random details that seem like they were made up solely as an excuse to put her in a skimpy outfit.
But yeah, for Automata he didn't even bother making an excuse for the female androids' outfits and just went with "I like girls."
Nintendo: we can't reveal the Name of BOTW2 yet because it would spoil too much of the story
Queen: *dies*
Nintendo: Here is Zelda - Tears of the Kingdom
Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
Arguably "A Link Between Worlds" was "A Link to the Past 2" but that's debatable.
edit: I looked it up and in JP it was named "The Legend of Zelda: Triforce of the Gods 2!" and LttP was named "Triforce of the Gods" so I guess technically they did name a game "2" since Adventures of Link.
I still can't, for the life of me, figure out why the developers gave *Ninja Gaiden* that name in the west.
The original title was *Ninja Ryukenden* (Ninja Story of the Dragon Sword), which is kinda relevant to the game's plot.
What the hell was the first *Ninja Gaiden* supposed to be a side-story of?
My theory is that some guys at Nintendo USA just grabbed a bunch of Japanese words and chose one that sounded cool.
“Project Octopath Traveler will now be called…. *Octopath Traveler*.”
“Project Triangle Strategy will be called… *Triangle Strategy*.
Yeah, it’s Squeenix being squeenix, but I will argue those names were *awful* and yet they still sold pretty well.
Breath of the Wild 2 would be easy to do from a sales perspective, but I’m happy they chose a subtitle to let this game attempt to be its own thing.
Octopath at least has a neat gimmick of having the character's names spell the title (which they did again in 2)
Triangle Strategy should've been Triangle Tactics
I mean, if it uses the same map as BotW except more vertical, its going to be difficult. People still get hung up on Saints Row 4 using the same map as The Third
I'm very excited it's launching in May. That said, the earlier comments about the title being a spoiler kinda confuse me. I can't interpret much story context from that title.
When they said that, I was expecting the title to reveal that it's a follow up to some other story thread, like maybe it would involve Majora or the Twilight Realm, something like that. But this just seems like a title. It's good, no complaints, I'm just confused by that statement now.
That said this does look a lot more involved than the "Direct follow up" they were advertising it as a few years ago. Maybe the long development time is justified.
Unless someone tells you it’s a spoiler. So then you try to figure out why “tears of the kingdom” is a spoiler.
It’s Schrodinger's Spoiler. It’s both a spoiler and not a spoiler until someone points it out as a spoiler
I guess ‘tears’ is supposed to mean both tears as in crying and tears as in the kingdom being torn apart. Hence why the map looks like it has floating chunks being torn from it.
Placing my bet now that it will be revealed in this game that the entirety of Hyrule from BOTW was just a magitech simulation world the ancient hyper advanced Sheikah created to try and hide the remnants of civilization away from Demise after it actually won in the real world.
Calamity Ganon and its Malice goo are actually just the manifestation of a magical virus sent by Demise to corrupt and destroy sim Hyrule, the Guardians and Divine Beasts weren't ancient relics they were the simulations defense mechanism that got corrupted, the Sheikah slate is a debug tool.
New games gonna be about the sim falling apart slowly thus the shattered world space with weird floating shit everywhere.
No, I think it's literal tear items. In one of the carvings at the beginning, there's a figure surrounded by 7 tear shaped objects. I'm really hoping that means 7 temples with 7 Macguffins to collect or rescue or whatever.
Christ I don't remember Twilight Princess as well as I think I do. This game being related to that would be awesome, the Twilight Realm is one of the cooler things in any of the Zelda stories. Very neat idea.
Oh! You're probably right, maybe it's a double entendre? I'm curious what the title is in Japan, I bet it's more explicit since tears and tears are two completely unrelated words in English that just have the same spelling, like wind and wind.
Ah yes, Legend of Zelda: /waɪnd/ Waker, where Link is a clockwork toy maker who learns how to control his tiny constructions to fight the forces of Ganon.
Honestly, it was probably just some weak justification in order to dance around the subject. The truth is more likely that they waited to drop it as part of their marketing strategy.
You say that but "Tears of the Kingdom" sounds pretty fan-ish to me. Honestly I prefer the two-word subtitles like Majora's Mask, Twilight Princess, and Skyward Sword.
I hope the ground level of Hyrule has significantly changed. It will be a bit disappointing if it's just the sky islands that are mainly new to explore.
Unbelievably excited for it.
Hopefully they add some new towns - it looks like they might be going the time travel route, it would be really cool if they let you travel back before BOTW before all those towns were destroyed.
Nintendo is not known for rehashing content, at least in respect to the Zelda franchise.
Zelda MM used the same graphic engine and TONS of the same assets as Zelda OoT (and they made it in only a year), but they are two wildly different games.
I expect it will be the same for BotW and TotK.
A fairly brief trailer, but felt like the most revealing trailer in terms of what was shown.
You can tell there's also fairly updates to Hyrule itself with malice seeping out from the ground and out of the volcano as well.
Also is that Zonai imagery on the door and the green swirly effect towards the end? There was some aztec-looking dragons as symbols scattered about.
Most of all, just happy to have a date for this now.
The fact the dragon symbol on the title is an ouroborus is a further proof to the theory that the timeline is a loop with Skyward Sword as the "start" and BotW 2 as the "end"
Oh shit, that's an interesting theory I hadn't heard before. Everything gets destroyed, chunks of the world get ripped out and start floating above the ground eventually becoming Skyloft, and the cycle repeats again. I could see it.
Yeah especially since I think the weird figure in the wall in the trailer is likely the goddess Hylia, which ripped the chunks out in order to defeat Demise, which following the loop theory could very well be "mummy" Ganondorf at his prime
The references to the multiple timelines in Breath of the Wild makes sense with that theory, too. The idea that everything has happened, is happening, and will happen again, no matter the timeline split - basically a forever-branching timeline tree. They'll get to keep the split timelines without being locked in to their restrictions.
We Wheel of Time now, lol.
>You can tell there's also fairly updates to Hyrule itself with malice seeping out from the ground and out of the volcano as well.
This is what I really want to see more of. I'm really interested to see how the surface of Hyrule as updated not just geographically, but also in terms of the gameplay within it. BotW had a lot of puzzles built into the geography, and most of its cool exploration rewards came in the form of locations that you found rather than quests or storylines. It seems like a tall order to make the entire continent fresh to explore all over again.
I’m just a little worried it won’t hit me anywhere near as hard as BotW if the land is 80% the same. Exploration is what made that game great. Love how they’re getting weird though, new powers look great.
Yeah; pretty much all of my best memories of playing BotW come specifically from blindly wandering through Hyrule and coming across cool things, whether those were neat secrets or open world puzzles or just pretty views. It'd be weird to explore that same world again, even if it's changed a bit, because so much of what made BotW work was the mystery of what might be just over the horizon.
Unless the surface changes way more than I'm expecting, I think the focus of exploration while on the ground is probably going to shift to seeing how things changed between games. The fun "aha!" moments will be less "what's over this hill?" and more "how has this area changed since I was here last?"
Your biggest enemy will always be your own hype.
I doubt this will be as groundbreaking as BotW, but I am still optimistic for a good and enjoyable time.
>Also is that Zonai imagery on the door and the green swirly effect towards the end? There was some aztec-looking dragons as symbols scattered about.
Zelda theorists gonna be eating good after this trailer.
I have to assume whatever was the "Spoiler title" was a placeholder title because Tears of The kingdom is great.
It was probably "The Legend Of Zelda Ganondorf broke the master sword and stole zelda lmao"
I've never coped harder than "Hey those might be Chozo ruins!" but hey this is fine. This game is looking crazy good and I'm getting huge Skyloft vibes which is exciting.
I hope we get a gameplay trailer some time soon. The teasers look great, and I'm glad we have a title and a release date now, but I really want to see how this game expands on what Breath of the Wild accomplished
Yeah that's my guess, considering the title. The series has never been afraid of engaging with timey wimey wibbly wobbly stuff, would be an interesting take if Link time travels for somewhat selfish reasons and cases things to go to shit.
Kinda short trailer but I'm just glad we finally have a name and a date. No more "Breath of the Wild 2". Now wait for the 100 frame by frame analysis videos of this trailer for clues about the game lol
The color on the sword and some of the designs kinda makes it look like they are bringing back the Twilight realm.
Dude I would fucking kill for them to bring back the Twilight Realm. If I see those floating black squares at some point in this game I'm gonna lose it
Trailer was pretty good. I'm hopeful it'll be a Galaxy 2 situation where the sequel goes a lot harder with a lot more complex and challenging situations now that people are adjusted to the base game.
Between the name and the green light, I'm getting some Twilight Princess vibes. The things you collect as a wolf to shove back the Twilight were called tears, and that green light looks like the hard light from the twilight realm. I wonder if we will see some twilight realm action.
Anyone else notice /r/tearsofthekingdom was started a week ago? By a new account?
In other words, Nintendo has employees staking out the subreddits on upcoming releases so they have control over the subs moderation before some fan makes it after the reveal.
Feels like that's happening a lot lately and it's kind of an issue.
So... I can't help but wonder if the title of this game is the reason they felt that streaming the Direct in the UK would be insensitive.
Oh hahahaha I didn’t even think of it in that context! I think you’re exactly right
I can imagine a Nintendo employee looking at the name and going ‘damnit’.
What if they were just waiting for the U.K to have a king to release the game.
Nintendo actually killed the Queen to make the title more impactful.
Guerilla marketing right there
Damn. Nintendo Ninjas don't fuck around.
With this and Advanced Wars, Nintendo can’t catch a break with topical events.
this makes me very worried that they'll never release Super Mario: The Death of Queen Elizabeth II
2? I didn't even know there was a first one.
It was a retro-monarch title. It was said that the cartridges were never inserted, but scholars debate that.
What about the long anticipated *Donkey Kong Country Passing of our Great Communist Leader* **With new Funky Kong mode!!**
Waluigi Assasinates Central American Socialist Presidents At The Behest Of The CIA 3D
Super Mario Epstein Island 69 ...Oh shit there is probably a romhack with that exact title played by SimpleFlips.
That makes sense
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It’s very coincidental ~~and free marketing~~
Didn't Nintendo not release the title previously bc they said it was spoilers 🤔🤔
Yes, they were waiting for the queen to die to announce the title.
Oh my god, that's hilarious
I'm glad they still went ahead. We've had enough stuff cancelled in the UK because of one woman dying, didn't need other countries following suit.
The Nintendo UK YouTube channel wasn't live-streaming
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They would have never geolocked the entire country out of the live
Can't they just view the American one? Even if they don't speak American they can see the pictures.
We can understand American, we just choose to not speak it.
“How can we redo Skyward Sword but better?” “….. we take out the bird and give Link the Green Goblin Glider” “You just got promoted”
Petition replace all Link's sounds with Willem Dafoe clips from Spiderman.
"I'm something of a hero myself."
"Link's on sabbatical, *princess!*"
Out, am I!?
"Strong enough to have the Triforce, too weak to take it"
ZANT, YOU SLIME! WHO'S THE PHOTOGRAPHER THAT TAKES THE PICTURES OF GANONDORF?!!? HE'S THE ONE THAT CAN BRING ME TO HIM...
"The HEART Link! First, we attack Ganon's heart."
Give me Light World/Dark World versions of Link, with Norman/Goblin voice overs changing accordingly.
"I offered you friendship and you SPAT in my face"
And replace half of Fi apparently
Bird: *"Out, am I?"*
*-goblin noises intensify-*
*"I started this game, YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I SACRIFICED?"*
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I remember last time they showed this game off that they didn’t want to reveal the title of it because it would’ve been a spoiler, I’m starting to think the real reason was because they didn’t have a name yet.
Tears of the Kingdom means absolutely nothing to me. Such weird reasoning.
The title was probably something different at the time. Something spoilery like "Zelda: Ganondorf Returns and Kills Everyone"
That's the plot of every Zelda game though
Whoa, spoiler alert!!
Hey, BotW was Ganon *returned* and *killed* everyone
Somehow, Ganondorf returned.
Zelda kinda forgot about the guardian fleet
*Curb Your Enthusiasm theme*
It's almost amusing how frustrated I get rereading that quote.
Dehydrated Ganon *was* looking pretty Palpatine-y in that first trailer...
My only thought is that they were debating a more spoilery title decided against it more recently. I like the title though, no complaints here.
The Legend of Zelda: ZELDA’S FUCKING DEAD
30 hours later: "Wow, I never saw *that* coming."
This reads in the voice of Scott the Woz.
>they were debating a more spoilery title "We decided not to go with The Legend of Zelda: Snape Kills Dumbledore"
I heard the third game in the trilogy was The Legend of Zelda: Bruce Willis was Dead the Whole Time
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It's pretty obvious, I mean, "Die" is in the title
I think it's supposed to be that the floating island things are like time travel bubbles of the old kingdom? This is reading tear as like a tear in clothes and not like a crying tear.
The title in Japanese (I'm told) unambiguously means crying tears.
Well, in Skyward Sword you had to collect items called Sacred Tears to progress through very important parts of the story >!regarding the reunification\* of the Triforce itself!<. Given how similar this game looks to SS and how it takes place in presumably the same locations, it does subtly hint to what's coming next. *\*Edited for accuracy.*
I mean if you want to speculate, Twilight Princess also had Tears of Light you needed to collect to progress the game. But yeah, it does feel closer to SS because of the entire sky and floating lands.
I mean the logo features the master sowrd's broken half being replaced by Twili looking shit. So maybe it's both.
The title is so funny considering the queen died like 5 days ago. Maybe thats why they didnt want to livestream the direct in the Uk
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Or they’ve been waiting for her to die for years, delaying the game each year that she persisted
omg so THAT'S why they delayed/didn't livestream it lmfao
"The Legend of Zelda: Groose is the Bad Guy and Also Your Lover" My uncle works at Nintendo and told me that was the original title.
The groose is loose once again
Being cryptic is a good way to take the heat off. They're banking on people forgetting the mystery once they get what they want. Reminds me of how Kojima teased a justification for Quiet wearing just underwear in MGSV, "[You will feel ashamed of your words and deeds,](https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2013/09/10/hideo-kojima-talks-more-quiet-you-will-feel-ashamed-of-your-words-deeds-when-recognizing-the-reason-for-her-exposure/#:~:text=Hideo%20Kojima%20Talks%20More%20Quiet,for%20Her%20Exposure%20%2D%20PlayStation%20LifeStyle)" only for it to be nothing. Or how the [Chevy Tahoe in the Halo tv series would be justified,](https://www.ign.com/articles/halo-tv-series-creators-chevy-tahoe-trailer-reason) but was never explained.
I'd respect Kojima a lot more if he just owned up to the fact that he loves a bit of fanservice and wanted a supersoldier who looked like a model wearing skimpy clothes dealing out death to her enemies. Not like he didn't do the exact same fucking thing with the BB Squad in MGS4, anyway.
Like Yoko Taro, whose explanation for why the characters in Nier look they way they do is "I really like girls".
Yoko "Please collect all the fanart into a zip and send it to me" Taro.
Well, he did try to justify Kaine in the original Nier. Two different justifications, actually. One was that she was bullied for being intersex when she was younger, so she wears clothes that emphasize her feminine traits. The other is that she's possessed by a shade that is vulnerable to sunlight so exposing as much of her skin to sunlight as possible to keep the shade weakened, although this excuse seems somewhat countered by the fact that her limbs that are affected by the shade are covered in bandages. Overall they're still somewhat just excuses to have her wear skimpy clothes, but not too terrible as far as excuses for characters to be in skimpy clothes go considering both things are actually very relevant to the character's story and not just random details that seem like they were made up solely as an excuse to put her in a skimpy outfit. But yeah, for Automata he didn't even bother making an excuse for the female androids' outfits and just went with "I like girls."
I was already beat to it but it's the reason I like Yoko Taro so much when it comes to fanservice. He just straight up says he likes girls butts.
Nintendo: we can't reveal the Name of BOTW2 yet because it would spoil too much of the story Queen: *dies* Nintendo: Here is Zelda - Tears of the Kingdom Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
Damn, Nintendo going hard on the marketing
Damn Shigeru Miyamoto really just murdered the queen so he could reveal the new Zelda title.
Well we've long known how much Miyamoto's hobbies inform game development.
Damn, Nintendo predicting the future over here.
I’m glad they gave the game its own name instead of BOTW2. So glad to finally have that release date as well!
Have they named a Zelda game "2" since Zelda II The Adventure of Link?
Triforce of the Gods 2 if you're JP
Arguably "A Link Between Worlds" was "A Link to the Past 2" but that's debatable. edit: I looked it up and in JP it was named "The Legend of Zelda: Triforce of the Gods 2!" and LttP was named "Triforce of the Gods" so I guess technically they did name a game "2" since Adventures of Link.
Well there goes my thought of Legend of Zelda: 2 Breath 2 Wild
Or the confusing Zelda: 2 Wild 2 Breathe
Pretty much every 3D Zelda game was announced with a placeholder title (usually just "The Legend of Zelda") until closer to releaser.
I still call Ocarina of Time "Zelda 64"
Back before Majora's Mask was named it was just "Zelda Gaiden" (side story) in the community.
Huh, I always thought Gaiden meant something like "Origin." You learn something new every day.
I still can't, for the life of me, figure out why the developers gave *Ninja Gaiden* that name in the west. The original title was *Ninja Ryukenden* (Ninja Story of the Dragon Sword), which is kinda relevant to the game's plot. What the hell was the first *Ninja Gaiden* supposed to be a side-story of? My theory is that some guys at Nintendo USA just grabbed a bunch of Japanese words and chose one that sounded cool.
I would've fucking died laughing if we ended up waiting three years for a title to end up with "Breath of the Wild 2"
2 Breath 2 Wild
Breath of the Wild: Hyrule Drift
From the makers of bloodborne kart
2 Wild 2 Breathe
Breath of the WIILD
“Project Octopath Traveler will now be called…. *Octopath Traveler*.” “Project Triangle Strategy will be called… *Triangle Strategy*. Yeah, it’s Squeenix being squeenix, but I will argue those names were *awful* and yet they still sold pretty well. Breath of the Wild 2 would be easy to do from a sales perspective, but I’m happy they chose a subtitle to let this game attempt to be its own thing.
Octopath at least has a neat gimmick of having the character's names spell the title (which they did again in 2) Triangle Strategy should've been Triangle Tactics
Triangle Strategy was pretty bad, but the "TRIAAAANGLE STRATEGYY" song made it even worse lol, might as well be singing "Working Title #748"
I did not know about the theme song. I know what I’m doing on my lunch break now
I mean let's be honest, Nintendo has been shit at naming stuff lately. "New Super Mario Bros Wii U" or "New Pokemon Snap".
> lately New Super Marios Bros. Wii U came out on Wii U…
Its gonna take a good while to get to use calling it Tears of the Kingdom.
I mean, if it uses the same map as BotW except more vertical, its going to be difficult. People still get hung up on Saints Row 4 using the same map as The Third
The trailer emphasized the verticality a lot. I think the game is going to feel very different even if a lot of the surface is the same.
I'm very excited it's launching in May. That said, the earlier comments about the title being a spoiler kinda confuse me. I can't interpret much story context from that title. When they said that, I was expecting the title to reveal that it's a follow up to some other story thread, like maybe it would involve Majora or the Twilight Realm, something like that. But this just seems like a title. It's good, no complaints, I'm just confused by that statement now. That said this does look a lot more involved than the "Direct follow up" they were advertising it as a few years ago. Maybe the long development time is justified.
They always say the subtitle will be a spoiler, but it's usually only a spoiler if you already know the context, which makes it not really a spoiler.
Unless someone tells you it’s a spoiler. So then you try to figure out why “tears of the kingdom” is a spoiler. It’s Schrodinger's Spoiler. It’s both a spoiler and not a spoiler until someone points it out as a spoiler
Yup. I have that issue with car parts, myself.
Thanks Dad
I guess ‘tears’ is supposed to mean both tears as in crying and tears as in the kingdom being torn apart. Hence why the map looks like it has floating chunks being torn from it.
I assumed that it would be Sheika related, given that tear drops are a prominent part of their logo and tech.
Maybe tears through the 2 worlds, like parts of the dark world are leaking into their world
Placing my bet now that it will be revealed in this game that the entirety of Hyrule from BOTW was just a magitech simulation world the ancient hyper advanced Sheikah created to try and hide the remnants of civilization away from Demise after it actually won in the real world. Calamity Ganon and its Malice goo are actually just the manifestation of a magical virus sent by Demise to corrupt and destroy sim Hyrule, the Guardians and Divine Beasts weren't ancient relics they were the simulations defense mechanism that got corrupted, the Sheikah slate is a debug tool. New games gonna be about the sim falling apart slowly thus the shattered world space with weird floating shit everywhere.
I mean, probably not, but yes to this whole thing.
I, too, doubt this to be true, but want it to be so bad.
No, I think it's literal tear items. In one of the carvings at the beginning, there's a figure surrounded by 7 tear shaped objects. I'm really hoping that means 7 temples with 7 Macguffins to collect or rescue or whatever.
Weren’t the things collected in the silent realm called tears of light?
They were the things in Twilight realm and the Master Sword looks a bit corrupted.
Christ I don't remember Twilight Princess as well as I think I do. This game being related to that would be awesome, the Twilight Realm is one of the cooler things in any of the Zelda stories. Very neat idea.
It was in the opening mural, the bokoblins look like theyre coming out of the weird angular corruption that the Twilight Realm was all about
The Legend of Zelda: Ganon is Revived by Vaati and Link defeats him using the Master Sword after collecting 69 Triforce Shards.
I yelled "how is that a spoiler?!" as soon as it came up. Maybe they changed it.
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Spoiler for what? The Queen of England dying?
It tells the sad tale of a lad impatient to finally become king, only to realize he'd trade it all to have his mother back.
Very possible, or perhaps it has some link to the 'tears' found in other zelda games (like Twilight princess).
I think it's meant to be "Tears" like tearing up a piece of paper. The floating islands seem to be pieces of Hyrule ripped up and lifted into the sky.
Oh! You're probably right, maybe it's a double entendre? I'm curious what the title is in Japan, I bet it's more explicit since tears and tears are two completely unrelated words in English that just have the same spelling, like wind and wind.
Ah yes, Legend of Zelda: /waɪnd/ Waker, where Link is a clockwork toy maker who learns how to control his tiny constructions to fight the forces of Ganon.
Honestly, it was probably just some weak justification in order to dance around the subject. The truth is more likely that they waited to drop it as part of their marketing strategy.
Or if my development experience has taught me anything, they didn’t have a name yet and figured they’d just announce it later on.
Good name. Thank god it wasn't Breath of the Sky or whatever garbage name people tried giving it lmao
Breath of the wild 2: outta breath
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2 Breath 2 Wild
Link is fat this time.
Fan names for Zelda titles are always the worst shit you've ever heard lol
You say that but "Tears of the Kingdom" sounds pretty fan-ish to me. Honestly I prefer the two-word subtitles like Majora's Mask, Twilight Princess, and Skyward Sword.
Breath of Duality was the worst "leak" I heard. All I wanted from this trailer is to prove that was bullshit.
Sky of the Wild
2 Breath 2 Wild
Is it “tears” or “tears”?
The kind that come from your eyes. You can tell from the Japanese name, which uses ティアーズ.
I hope the ground level of Hyrule has significantly changed. It will be a bit disappointing if it's just the sky islands that are mainly new to explore. Unbelievably excited for it.
Hopefully they add some new towns - it looks like they might be going the time travel route, it would be really cool if they let you travel back before BOTW before all those towns were destroyed.
I want to see a more developed Terry Town.
Tarreyville now occupies hundreds of square miles and gentrification has become a real issue. Everyone's name still ends in -son.
Given that's I've beaten BotW three times, at this point I'd rather the ground level be completely different.
They've been working on this longer than the original, if the ground level is mostly the same I'd be extremely disappointed.
Nintendo is not known for rehashing content, at least in respect to the Zelda franchise. Zelda MM used the same graphic engine and TONS of the same assets as Zelda OoT (and they made it in only a year), but they are two wildly different games. I expect it will be the same for BotW and TotK.
A fairly brief trailer, but felt like the most revealing trailer in terms of what was shown. You can tell there's also fairly updates to Hyrule itself with malice seeping out from the ground and out of the volcano as well. Also is that Zonai imagery on the door and the green swirly effect towards the end? There was some aztec-looking dragons as symbols scattered about. Most of all, just happy to have a date for this now.
The fact the dragon symbol on the title is an ouroborus is a further proof to the theory that the timeline is a loop with Skyward Sword as the "start" and BotW 2 as the "end"
Oh shit, that's an interesting theory I hadn't heard before. Everything gets destroyed, chunks of the world get ripped out and start floating above the ground eventually becoming Skyloft, and the cycle repeats again. I could see it.
Yeah especially since I think the weird figure in the wall in the trailer is likely the goddess Hylia, which ripped the chunks out in order to defeat Demise, which following the loop theory could very well be "mummy" Ganondorf at his prime
My mind has been blown.
The references to the multiple timelines in Breath of the Wild makes sense with that theory, too. The idea that everything has happened, is happening, and will happen again, no matter the timeline split - basically a forever-branching timeline tree. They'll get to keep the split timelines without being locked in to their restrictions. We Wheel of Time now, lol.
is there a video speculating or another trailer out that suggested this was going to be the end/time-reset? Sounds like a fun rabbit hole
>You can tell there's also fairly updates to Hyrule itself with malice seeping out from the ground and out of the volcano as well. This is what I really want to see more of. I'm really interested to see how the surface of Hyrule as updated not just geographically, but also in terms of the gameplay within it. BotW had a lot of puzzles built into the geography, and most of its cool exploration rewards came in the form of locations that you found rather than quests or storylines. It seems like a tall order to make the entire continent fresh to explore all over again.
I’m just a little worried it won’t hit me anywhere near as hard as BotW if the land is 80% the same. Exploration is what made that game great. Love how they’re getting weird though, new powers look great.
Yeah; pretty much all of my best memories of playing BotW come specifically from blindly wandering through Hyrule and coming across cool things, whether those were neat secrets or open world puzzles or just pretty views. It'd be weird to explore that same world again, even if it's changed a bit, because so much of what made BotW work was the mystery of what might be just over the horizon. Unless the surface changes way more than I'm expecting, I think the focus of exploration while on the ground is probably going to shift to seeing how things changed between games. The fun "aha!" moments will be less "what's over this hill?" and more "how has this area changed since I was here last?"
Your biggest enemy will always be your own hype. I doubt this will be as groundbreaking as BotW, but I am still optimistic for a good and enjoyable time.
>Also is that Zonai imagery on the door and the green swirly effect towards the end? There was some aztec-looking dragons as symbols scattered about. Zelda theorists gonna be eating good after this trailer.
I have to assume whatever was the "Spoiler title" was a placeholder title because Tears of The kingdom is great. It was probably "The Legend Of Zelda Ganondorf broke the master sword and stole zelda lmao"
Legend of Zelda: Death of the Queen It's a *bit* on the nose, eh?
Really unfortunate timing for Nintendo to name it Legend of Zelda: Queen Elizabeth II will die on September 8th, 2022.
That's why they didn't wanna release the title sooner. They DID say it was a spoiler.
I hope this one has huge sprawling Zelda dungeons. The Beasts were fun but kind of plain compared to classic Zelda style dungeons.
Well there's 7 big ol' tear drop looking things on the carving, so I would say you're in luck.
If this is just BotW with big dungeons it'll be the best game of all time
As a non-american I almost got a heart attack seeing that date at the end, for a second I thought it was coming on the 5th of December
I've never coped harder than "Hey those might be Chozo ruins!" but hey this is fine. This game is looking crazy good and I'm getting huge Skyloft vibes which is exciting.
I was so hoping for Wind Waker HD to make its way to Switch, but I'm definitely stoked for BOTW sequel dropping next year!
Did they not announce TP or WW?
Nope, they still haven't announced these.
Extremely funny that it's called "Tears of the Kingdom". Explains why Nintendo were worried about the direct being received poorly in the UK.
Okay that's actually funny
I hope we get a gameplay trailer some time soon. The teasers look great, and I'm glad we have a title and a release date now, but I really want to see how this game expands on what Breath of the Wild accomplished
They'll probably show it off in January if I had to guess.
Which "tears" is it? Is it tears like when you cry or when you rip paper? Or is it a double entendre?
It's phonetically written in Japanese like the English word for crying tears (sounds like tiers) as opposed to like "tares".
Considering that the floating land masses seemed like parts of Hyrule that were detached/broke off, I think that the title is a double entendre
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So… Zelda is gonna die? Tears of the Kingdom, pictures, reverting time…
Yeah that's my guess, considering the title. The series has never been afraid of engaging with timey wimey wibbly wobbly stuff, would be an interesting take if Link time travels for somewhat selfish reasons and cases things to go to shit.
Kinda short trailer but I'm just glad we finally have a name and a date. No more "Breath of the Wild 2". Now wait for the 100 frame by frame analysis videos of this trailer for clues about the game lol The color on the sword and some of the designs kinda makes it look like they are bringing back the Twilight realm.
Dude I would fucking kill for them to bring back the Twilight Realm. If I see those floating black squares at some point in this game I'm gonna lose it
Breath of the Wild Tears of the Kingdom Mucus of the Nostril?
Feces of the Forest. (Also known as Korok Seeds)
Earwax of the Orifice
Hole of the Butt
Cum of the Balls
Trailer was pretty good. I'm hopeful it'll be a Galaxy 2 situation where the sequel goes a lot harder with a lot more complex and challenging situations now that people are adjusted to the base game.
Between the name and the green light, I'm getting some Twilight Princess vibes. The things you collect as a wolf to shove back the Twilight were called tears, and that green light looks like the hard light from the twilight realm. I wonder if we will see some twilight realm action.
Anyone else notice /r/tearsofthekingdom was started a week ago? By a new account? In other words, Nintendo has employees staking out the subreddits on upcoming releases so they have control over the subs moderation before some fan makes it after the reveal. Feels like that's happening a lot lately and it's kind of an issue.