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Pre-Release The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Pre-Release Discussion Thread

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I’m thinking “change the game world“ supports the theory that we will indeed be able to move some of the sky islands to different locations. At the very least it’s probably referring to being able to return the pieces that have fallen to the ground back up into the sky.
 
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Why I don't think there will be any TotK news this upcoming week:

There is a public Holiday in Japan on Tuesday, March 21st. So they cannot announce anything on Monday for Tuesday and they cannot announce anything on Tuesday too since that's the actual holiday date. Yes, they can announce something on Wednesday, March 22nd and let it happen on Thursday but that's PAX day start and am sure Nintendo will want people to not talk about anything else. The week after that always made bigger sense to me. Can't wait when this ends up in some random YT video again.
 
I honestly don't think we're getting anything substantial until the week of April 10-14. I think next week will be pretty dry on news overall, and the week after that will be mostly Mario movie stuff. Can imagine they announce something on the Tuesday (April 11th) for either that Wednesday or Thursday.
 
JoRu said:
I honestly don't think we're getting anything substantial until the week of April 10-14. I think next week will be pretty dry on news overall, and the week after that will be mostly Mario movie stuff. Can imagine they announce something on the Tuesday (April 11th) for either that Wednesday or Thursday.
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I still think the earliest is the final week of March, but I can also easily see a clean one month prior to release to intensify the hype with the OLED model and any other bonuses they may have.

Oh...the fiscal year ends in 13 days too.
 
JoRu said:
I honestly don't think we're getting anything substantial until the week of April 10-14. I think next week will be pretty dry on news overall, and the week after that will be mostly Mario movie stuff. Can imagine they announce something on the Tuesday (April 11th) for either that Wednesday or Thursday.
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I don't think they are waiting that long. It's the last week of March if anything.
 
Erimgard said:
I've been saying since BOTW launched I would kill for a WW successor with a dozen or so Great Plateau-sized islands, each with unique climates and inhabitants.
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Hm yeah that's a good idea, what if you put the islands somewhere non oceanic though, like maybe the Sk-

Oh wait

(Obviously it's not the same since we don't really have any indication of living inhabitants of the sky yet but I've been thinking of the Sky as a Wind Waker analogue since we got confirmation of air vehicles)
 
I suspect (and hope) that the creative aspect of building vehicles extends a bit further. Perhaps using those same green goo mechanics, they let us re-build some outposts that were recently destroyed, and those lights we’ve seen are a protective beacon from the work we do?
 
Maybe we can land flying vehicles on the Zonai towers to recharge them or something, that's maybe why they have search lights around them, they're basically like a landing pad.

And maybe the locations with green swirls are like garages.
 
NabiscoFelt said:
Hm yeah that's a good idea, what if you put the islands somewhere non oceanic though, like maybe the Sk-

Oh wait

(Obviously it's not the same since we don't really have any indication of living inhabitants of the sky yet but I've been thinking of the Sky as a Wind Waker analogue since we got confirmation of air vehicles)
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Yeah, it's an okay substitute, but from what we've seen so far, the islands are pretty similar in style and most of them aren't massive. But hell, what do I know, there could be plenty up there we haven't seen
 
Erimgard said:
Yeah, it's an okay substitute, but from what we've seen so far, the islands are pretty similar in style and most of them aren't massive. But hell, what do I know, there could be plenty up there we haven't seen
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I mean, we haven't actually seen the surface of too many islands (honestly I wouldn't be surprised if most of what we've seen is from one or two clusters), and we've seen some pretty huge ones as well (though it's hard to judge exact sizes due to distance)

Plus yeah it's hard to get a grasp of what's actually there, especially since iirc islands have shown up in some trailers where there weren't any in others
 
Phendrift said:
“Change the game world” 👀👀👀
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That's what really stands out to me. Not just changing the game world, but using your imagination to change it too. That's different I think than just choosing to do things in a different order or merely interacting with the world itself.

Our imagination is what dictates these changes. Could we be seeing something truly bizzare like the ability to dig into terrain? We've seen a large emphasis on mining in the last trailer, with enemies doing it and also there being large ore deposits that didn't exist in BoTW.

If the world is going to be truly seamless between the surface and the underworld, just like the surface and the sky, perhaps we will be dictating our own way down?

I dunno though. I also don't think Nintendo wants the sequel to Breath of the Wild to be about creating lots of holes in the ground and tearing down elements of nature in industrial fashion.
 
Dark Cloud said:
Imaging TOTK is like a big puzzle where you can move pieces of the world around to open new areas.
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POV: you begin playing the game on an island above Hyrule and are greeted with:

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Mango said:
I think we'll be able to rebuild areas of Hyrule and choose how we want them to look and what we want them to feature.
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That'd be cool, I hope we get that level of customization for the overworld, but I'm not expecting it. If they show us anything to that extent for overworld customization though, this thread will be a hype train until the game comes out.
 
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Neves said:
I haven't really paid attention - does Nintendo often do stuff at the end of March / the fiscal year?
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LukasManak22 said:
Even if TotK is not at PAX I still believe they will show it after Bayo and before March ends. Why?

The first delay of Zelda U was announced on March 27th 2015.

The delay of TotK was announced on March 29th 2022.

Of course the game will not be delayed but Nintendo always wants to have info before the fiscal year ends (March 31st). I know, there's a difference between "our major game will be delayed" that is definitely something you want to apply before the fiscal year ends for investors but I think this also applies to more information about the game, you want to share at least something from the game before fiscal year ends to boost your confidence in it. Late March is always a time when the stars allign for a Zelda fans (well not in a good way in the last few years).
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At least for Zelda. Yes there's a difference between new info and delays but it's still the last possible week otherwise they have to wait after Mario Movie releases which will make it really tigh.
 
Awesomegames23 said:
The ToTK website was updated an hour ago, this could just be something incredibly minor but if someone sees something new that’s neat share! https://www.zelda.com/tears-of-the-kingdom/
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this is off topic, but your post inspired me to revisit the Breath of the Wild website and it really feels like I travelled back in time to January 2017. the use of the very early Switch era stock photos with them advertising the whole 'at home or on the go' thing really makes you realise how much of a different time it was way back when this game came out: https://www.zelda.com/breath-of-the-wild/
 
got banned from ERA again so im back on here this next week more often sup yall

I think Aonuma's comment may be suggesting what I've been speculating about this game: they are really doubling down on the Minecraft esque player-driven experience this time.
 
These features for breath of the wild on the japanese homepage where they introduce each region reminded me of the video that made me the most hyped for BotW (next to the 2017 trailer).

This time-lapse video Nintendo put out:


I loved the vibes. It had this Ghibli melancholy and the game delivered on it.
I adored the sound design (wind, grass moving, rain, animal noises) and warm light when the sun is coming out after the storm, fire still burning from lightening strikes. And I liked that there was no music. I love the music in the game but there have to be these calm moments where you just hear the nature.
Perfect.
 
with all this talk about potential new info in March I have to ask if that's really at all likely? Nintendo has a track record of premiering new trailers in April, and hosting game-specific Directs around a month before launch - we saw this last year with Splatoon and Xenoblade 3 in both cases, so a new trailer around mid-April makes more sense to me



slightly unrelated but this was an amazing trailer for Xenoblade 3 imo
 
Horror Kid said:
These features for breath of the wild on the japanese homepage where they introduce each region reminded me of the video that made me the most hyped for BotW (next to the 2017 trailer).

This time-lapse video Nintendo put out:


I loved the vibes. It had this Ghibli melancholy and the game delivered on it.
I adored the sound design (wind, grass moving, rain, animal noises) and warm light when the sun is coming out after the storm, fire still burning from lightening strikes. And I liked that there was no music. I love the music in the game but there have to be these calm moments where you just hear the nature.
Perfect.
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Oh hey look, it's what should've been the title screen for BotW
 
Anyone remember how before BOTW launch they were posting some screenshots for the game and even some concept arts for stuff? It was great and even it was exclusive to Facebook Zelda page, these images were always posted just there and not anywhere else like on Twitter.

Some of these are listed here in this Twitter thread. Would be cool if they did it again on Twitter closer to release (which am sure they will).

 
LukasManak22 said:
Anyone remember how before BOTW launch they were posting some screenshots for the game and even some concept arts for stuff? It was great and even it was exclusive to Facebook Zelda page, these images were always posted just there and not anywhere else like on Twitter.

Some of these are listed here in this Twitter thread. Would be cool if they did it again on Twitter closer to release (which am sure they will).

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Nintendo sharing new pictures of Tears of the Kingdom? Huh...As if :(
 
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Cevan said:
with all this talk about potential new info in March I have to ask if that's really at all likely? Nintendo has a track record of premiering new trailers in April, and hosting game-specific Directs around a month before launch - we saw this last year with Splatoon and Xenoblade 3 in both cases, so a new trailer around mid-April makes more sense to me



slightly unrelated but this was an amazing trailer for Xenoblade 3 imo
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We knew a lot more about those games by this point. TOTK still has a LOT of marketing to do.
 
If I had a wishlist of features for this game, a good title screen would probably be last position. But then again, I’m the kinda person that switched to “dark theme” on the Switch UI day 1 and thought “this is great I don’t need anything else”.

It’s a screen where you press A and boot up a game. Keep that shit simple and I’m happy.
 
Kongo B said:
If I had a wishlist of features for this game, a good title screen would probably be last position. But then again, I’m the kinda person that switched to “dark theme” on the Switch UI day 1 and thought “this is great I don’t need anything else”.

It’s a screen where you press A and boot up a game. Keep that shit simple and I’m happy.
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It's also last on my list, but it's not exactly a huge ask to just make it a bit more interesting. It can still be simple without being.... nothing?
 
We have so little footage of this game that basically all the analysis of pre-release version will be very short because it will mostly be just cutscenes minor changes or other minor things. We will not get comparisons as big as BOTW TGA gameplay reveal with map and how the place looked 2 years after in BOTW.
 
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