That’s cool, I wasn’t aware of that, I just thought you typed that sentence really quickly.
Gruntildorf.
Sounds like a bunch of mumbo jumbo to me.
I'm really glad you brought this up, because it just makes so much sense lore wise for why waiting to fight the last boss would make it harder and not easier. That is assuming they still want to go the route of being able to do that from the start.
This is a really cool idea, because it would be the opposite to BotW, but I feel Nintendo wouldn't punish more casual players for taking longer to beat the game.
Well consider that the big door Link opens in the trailer is not two snakes eating each other like the title logo, but one snake with two heads. Seems likely that the cycle is at least being altered in some way
It's not just opposite to BOTW, it's opposite to almost every game. Progression is all about becoming stronger, not weaker. Better weapons, more abilities, more health.
oh yeah. absolutely. just in the context of the discussion I thought it would be an interesting idea when we talk what path BotW took. It is just totally the opposite of common game design sense and and pretty unrealistic. Nonetheless still cool. It would be an even more punishing Majoras Mask and people would certainly hate it.
I don't think it's unrealistic. You can have something like a bell curve for the final fight, where the boss is hardest at the beginning, or the end.
I agree with this, but we’re missing one detail. If the Zonai Queen agreed to seal Ganondorf to save Hyrule, what did Zelda promise to do for the Zonai Queen? They made an agreement with each other so Zelda must have been given some responsibility.Act 1: Ganondorf and his minions attacks hyrule kingdom, kills hyrule soldiers and capture Zelda.
Act 2: Zonai Queen descends from the sky and save Zelda before Ganondorf sacrifice her.
Act 3: Zelda and Zonai Queen make an agreement to bring peace to the world.
Act 4: Zonai Queen seals Ganondorf beneath Hyrule Castle.
I can't imagine there not being a direct. This is the biggest game Nintendo has ever made, and it's the only 3D Zelda that won't have had a massive E3 blowout prior to its release. There's absolute gonna be a dedicated presentation with prerecorded video, and I don't know why they wouldn't call that a TotK Direct. It'll probably be similar to the Smash Bros Ultimate Direct, but with Aonuma/others instead of Sakurai. There may be a Treehouse live that follows the direct though.
I mean i hope this is a new character as well, but it could very well be Hylia tho. Since the 2 women are doing the ouroboros and this game seems like it is heavily time related, they could just be depicting the never ending cycle of Good vs Evil // Hylia vs Demise. Also the logo made of an ouroboros as well is on top of the two at the end. It looks like it could symbolise one replacing the other over time, and only Hylia and Zelda could explain that meaning. Once we see the full picture maybe we will be able to tell, but rn they showed only bits and seperated from eachother so it's hard to tell.
Wholly agree here with both of you. If there's anything that was scuffed about the first game, it was how easy the final boss fight was. Personally, although I felt like getting all the divine beast upgrades wasn't required for you to beat the game, I still felt compelled to complete those quests in order for me to get the full experience of the game's story and to explore the different areas or dungeons the game had to offer. People can make the argument with "well if it was so easy, why didn't you just not use the heart vessels or stamina upgrades? Just fight him without any upgrades and bam, you'll be challenged." The only issue I have with that argument is that I felt the game nudged players otherwise even if not explicitly stated: go and collect those upgrades, beat the beasts, get those Korok seeds, then defeat Ganon. Sure those decisions were made of my own volition but still when I think of my first playthrough, I never really knew just how easy it would've been with all those upgrades—and it would've been impossible to know that before I ever beat the game for the first time. I think no matter which side of the argument people are on though, both can agree that dark beast Ganon was a joke of a fight.
Its unrealistic because Nintendo would never do it. Probably no mainstream dev would do this because its abusive and punishing as hell. Personally speaking I would love it tho.
The only way for it to be Hylia is if Nintendo openly retcons the entirety of Skyward Sword. Hylia would have to go from a deity of the Hylians who lived on the surface and ceased to exist far before Ganondorf/Ganon came to be, to a deity of the Zonai who lived in a sky civilization who existed at the same time as Ganondorf.
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The logo is extremely similar to an ouroboros, but not quite one, since it depicts two dragons, not one. The meaning might differ slightly from an actual ouroboros, but I agree that for the most part it embodies an ouroboros in that it probably portrays a cyclic concept.
I think it's less that Ganondorf changed the properties of his Malice and more that the Malice directly coming from his corpse is much purer. After being sealed underground for thousands of years, it made his Malice less and less potent, until TotK where the dam busts wide open
I agree, that could be it too. It seems like Malice and this new malice has some sentience or awareness. Perhaps the only difference between the malice from 10,000 years before BOTW and the malice in BOTW, was the lack of a plan to take over the guardians and the divine beasts. It could be that the difference between this new malice and regular malice is vicinity, or that hand and structure (above Ganondorf) are converting his metal dissolving malice into the malice we know.
Changing a line of text from "Wise Men" to "Sages" is way different than completely rewriting the origin story of the whole series which was told in the most recently released Zelda game. I want TotK to continue the soft reboot of the series BotW seemed to be, but you can do that without directly and specifically contradicting past games. There's nothing to be gained from Nintendo making this figure Hylia if it contradicts everything we know about Hylia instead of it just being someone new.
I firmly believe that ToTK will not have a Direct on its own. It's not the type of game that you want to know every tiny detail before buying it, unlike others like Splatoon 2/3, Xenoblade 2/3, Animal Crossing, Mario Maker or Super Smash Bros. If you pay attention, you'll see that the majority of dedicated Directs are about games mainly focused on multiplayer or without a traditional campaign, the only exception being Xenoblade due to the complexity of its sistems.
None of those games are anywhere as big as TotK. BotW sold 30 millions copies and was the game of the decade/generation. Only Mario Odyssey comes close, and that had an E3 blowout where they built a replica New Donk City. I don't think Nintendo is just gonna throw a proper unveil trailer into their usual January/February direct and call it a day. Nintendo will want the full unveiling of this game to be an event to compensate for the lack of an E3 blowout in its marketing cycle. I wouldn't even be that surprised if they host an in-person event where they invite press.
Maybe the art on the bottom right inspired or lead to the stone eagle?Noticed something.
You know that Nintendo has been taking a lot of scrapped concepts and put them in this game? (Arm with different abilities, broken Master Sword, floating island, short hair Zelda.. and hopefully the Minish and an UFO makes it in!)
Noticed that the figure in the beginning has the same look as one of the scrapped dungeon entrances.
Minor thing maybe. Still, cool.
