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

[ze_]

This image people are sharing of "Demise" is Ganondorf as depicted on the Zonai mural seen at the end of the trailer.

Look at the shape of the top figure's nose, and his horn. I'm guessing this is what becomes of Ganondorf when he becomes fully engulfed in malice.

Given the connections between Ganondorf's malice and continued resurrection to Demise ("My hate... never perishes."), it does make sense that Ganondorf may resemble him if he takes in more of that energy.

 

[MisterSpo]

Snip snap vanished into the night due to a potential breach of Thread Spoiler Rules

 

[Awesomegames23]

EDIT: didn't occur to me to check threadmarks until after I made the post, my bad!

Holy shit

Edit: it is technically a leak so yeah, leak thread is where this should go for now, but we will probably be discussing it here in a week or so lol

 

[Edengamer23]

Trailer didnt show too much of the overworld changes(dont want to spoil much!) though what they did show was really cool, especially those "arbiters grounds".

What really got me hyped from the trailer so far was the massive underground shots, further confirming exploration there. Also in some other shots there are more cave entrances seen and the malice holes are shown yet again. Also they are maybe hiding some other big sky islands as they showed the big tutorial one again quite a bit.

 

[quelseydilla]

Holy shit

Edit: it is technically a leak so yeah, leak thread is where this should go for now, but we will probably be discussing it here in a week or so lol

That's what I get for not being on here much lately - lack of foresight and critical thinking lol

 

[MondoMega]

The pessimistic scenario for me is that she's only recovered from the past by completing the game, and therefore, like BotW, she's actively in the game for only the opening and closing segments.

Well the Zelda series hasn't really done much to make me expect much better than this, lol. The best case scenario I can imagine with their history is that she will be a companion character for the final dungeon, or even just final boss. So not too disimiliar from her role in games like OoT (well, a lesser role given no Sheik) and... BotW.

 

[Jencks]

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[LiC]

This image people are sharing of "Demise" is Ganondorf as depicted on the Zonai mural seen at the end of the trailer.

Look at the shape of the top figure's nose, and his horn. I'm guessing this is what becomes of Ganondorf when he becomes fully engulfed in malice.

Given the connections between Ganondorf's malice and continued resurrection to Demise ("My hate... never perishes."), it does make sense that Ganondorf may resemble him if he takes in more of that energy.

Plus you can see his messed up arm which he's hiding under the big robe sleeve in his "normal" form, despite being otherwise bare-torso'd.

 

[Kevin]

What makes this new trailer even more crazy is the realization that most of the artbook content was still not shown.

This game is about to blow minds!

 

[Edengamer23]

What makes this new trailer even more crazy is the realization that most of the artbook content was still not shown.

This game is about to blow minds!

True, tbh the artbook is still what has got me hyped the most so far. And yeah they dont want to give away too much yet

 

[quelseydilla]

Snip snap vanished into the night due to a potential breach of Thread Spoiler Rules

Yeah my bad, reposted in spoiler thread. Next time I'll be more careful and read the threadmarks too, to be safe lol

 

[Kevin]

I just realized they built some level of swimming mechanics/traversal for when Link is swimming inside that ball of water. Makes me wonder if underwater swimming could still be a thing. Just a thought lol.

 

[Dmax3901]

I need to know more about this ships.

Triumphant return of the Ooccoo...

 

[Deleted member 3433]

 

[switchum]

I wonder if this game will get an official guide. I loved BotW’s Piggyback guide, it was so well made. Both FuturePress and Piggyback make outstanding guides that make great collector’s items, even if the concept of physical guides are out of style these days.

I’m glad I’m not the only one. I absolutely love collecting guidebooks and it’d be a real shame not to have a TotK one to add to my collection. Yeah, for the average player, physical guides are mostly worthless because of the Internet, but it’s still so nice to have an awesome new book to collect.

 

[Truno]

edit

 

[Dmax3901]

Yes, these two could be the ones in the tapestry. We see the character to the right with red tentacle fire hair in the trailer as well (looked like an enemy but I am not so sure).

I've always thought it was odd how the ancient hero in this tapestry was so specifically red. What if.... mummy Ganondorf is actually the ancient hero/Link? And is also the tall mfer putting their hand on Zelda's shoulder?

 

[Subrosian Link]

Edit: just seen that this should go to the other thread

 

[Nickle]

 

[quelseydilla]

Was this shared already?

I shared it in the spoiler thread after initially posting it here, didn't realize this was a spoiler free thread right away

 

[Awesomegames23]

Edited

Yeah, it's in the leak thread. Technically it's a leak so it belongs there for now. Once Nintendo shows it officially, it can go in this thread.

 

[Truno]

I shared it in the spoiler thread after initially posting it here, didn't realize this was a spoiler free thread right away

Yeah, it's in the leak thread. Technically it's a leak so it belongs there for now. Once Nintendo shows it officially, it can go in this thread.

Gotcha, removed

 

[HockeyBird]

But seriously, when's Nintendo gonna start marketing this game? It's been like 9 whole hours since the last trailer.

 

[Awesomegames23]

Every time I think about this trailer my socks just keep getting blown off again so I'm staying barefoot

 

[mariodk18]

I wonder if the two dragons in the logo represent the sun and the moon. An ouroboros is a single dragon/snake consuming itself, representing 'eternal cyclic renewal' or one of life, death, and rebirth. But I was trying to think of things in the real world that rely on two different, opposing, yet similar, interconnected entities that are part of a cycle. Like ying and yang. Only the sun and the moon came to mind, especially with the focus on the blood moon in this title.

Sun on the right and moon on the left?

 

[damondamon]

It wasn't shown explicitly, but aerial combat must feel great in the game. We saw Link soaring through the sky with Tulin, the 3 headed monster having wings and being able to fly, the zero gravity platforming stuff. I wondee if it's limited to bow and arrow.

Anyone remember this?

Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 Plot Detail Seemingly Leaked By Voice Actor - IGN

A possibly major plot detail for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 has seemingly leaked from Daruk's Italian voice actor, Pietro Ubaldi.

www.ign.com

Ah, when we all still were referring to the game a BoTW 2. I kind of feel nostalgic now.

 

[Mr_No_U]

This been discussed yet? Contains some spoilers.



Where I first saw it

Spoiler: Gleeok

different elemental Gleeoks potentially confirmed

Spoiler: Underground

clever use of arrow fuse for dark areas

 

[Dark Cloud]

There was a commercial leak and this poster on era showed the mini map having the latitude, longitude and altitude, and what it means.

Spoiler

Post in thread 'The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – Official Trailer #3'
https://www.resetera.com/threads/th...om-–-official-trailer-3.708209/post-104126207

 

[Stinky Horse]

Surely the missing tutorial ability is what I'm calling 'moon parkour' at 2:27 in the footage? As well as high jumps it could lock you to narrow beams and home in on platforms.
edit: also at 1:31

 

[Selarmor]

We've seen 5 tears:
Blue - Sidon (Zora)
Green - Tulin (Rito)
Orange - Riju (Gerudo)
Red - Ganondorf (?)
Yellow - Zelda/Basket (Hylian? Zonai?)

There's no way there's not a tear associated with the Gorons, I would have expected that tear to be red, and it's weird that they're not showing Yunobo or a Goron champion in the trailer or artwork. Maybe the one Ganondorf has was stolen from them?

There's at least 7 tears (mural at the beginning of trailer #1), but there's also the mural from that same trailer with Goat and Zelda/Basket facing each other that has 2 tears. Those may be part of the 7, but may also be additional, special tears. If they're additional tears, I could see Ganondorf having an additional special one as well, for a total of 10.

I think we've got a few scenarios here:
A) 7 tears - Zora, Rito, Gerudo, Goron, Basket/Zelda, Ganondorf, Goat/Link.
B) 7 tears - Zora, Rito, Gerudo, Goron, Sheikah, Hylian, Other (Korok/Zonai/Dragon), with Ganondorf having stolen the Goron tear.
C) 10 tears - Zora, Rito, Gerudo, Goron, Sheikah, Hylian, Other (Korok?) as part of one set, and Basket/Zelda, Ganondorf, Goat/Link being a different set of 3.

 

[kimbo99]

Kaiju battle

 

[Skittzo]

We've seen 5 tears:
Blue - Sidon (Zora)
Green - Tulin (Rito)
Orange - Riju (Gerudo)
Red - Ganondorf (?)
Yellow - Zelda/Basket (Hylian? Zonai?)

There's no way there's not a tear associated with the Gorons, I would have expected that tear to be red, and it's weird that they're not showing Yunobo or a Goron champion in the trailer or artwork. Maybe the one Ganondorf has was stolen from them?

There's at least 7 tears (mural at the beginning of trailer #1), but there's also the mural from that same trailer with Rauru and Zelda/Basket facing each other that has 2 tears. Those may be part of the 7, but may also be additional, special tears. If they're additional tears, I could see Ganondorf having an additional special one as well, for a total of 10.

I think it's implied that it's 7. Goat Zonai guy (I'd put his name in spoilers if I were you) has a white one on his hand it looks like. So like you said the Gorons having one would make 7 pretty logically.

 

[Awesomegames23]

I think it's implied that it's 7. Goat Zonai guy (I'd put his name in spoilers if I were you) has a white one on his hand it looks like. So like you said the Gorons having one would make 7 pretty logically.

I'd say there's 8, mystical sky lady had 7 and Zelda had 1 mirrored one (September trailer)

 

[Skittzo]

I'd say there's 8, mystical sky lady had 7 and Zelda had 1 mirrored one (September trailer)

They both had the gold one I thought. Since they seem color coded I doubt there are two separate tears having the same color. In which case one of them will be getting it from the other

 

[Awesomegames23]

They both had the gold one I thought. Since they seem color coded I doubt there are two separate tears having the same color. In which case one of them will be getting it from the other

You might be right, I'll look at that later phone is nearly dead lol

 

[Scrawnton]

With how much about this game is leaking, I wouldn't be surprised if this game has been done since last summer and copies of the game, commercials, special edition systems, and such have just been sitting around for months on end.

I can definitely see Nintendo delaying this game and holding on to it because "Switch 2" was delayed due to last years chip shortage.

 

[Selarmor]

I think it's implied that it's 7. Goat Zonai guy (I'd put his name in spoilers if I were you) has a white one on his hand it looks like. So like you said the Gorons having one would make 7 pretty logically.

I don't think that's a tear. It's spherical and clear with a yellow, smokey energy in it. I think it's something that lets him and Zelda communicate with Link.

That would be pretty disappointing. It pretty much means 4 or 5 major "dungeons" with the same or similar champions as BotW. A Sheikah or Korok story mission where you're accompanied by Paya or Hestu would be awesome.

 

[Stinky Horse]

With how much about this game is leaking, I wouldn't be surprised if this game has been done since last summer and copies of the game, commercials, special edition systems, and such have just been sitting around for months on end.

I can definitely see Nintendo delaying this game and holding on to it because "Switch 2" was delayed due to last years chip shortage.

I suppose the book and special ed might have been booked for a potential March date originally, but that's it really.

 

[ze_]

Looked to see if Nintendo released any direct feed screenshots of the trailer. Just these five it seems.

 

[maestrogeicho]

Just gonna leave this here.

 

[Dardan Sandiego]

finally, confirmation

 

[DecoReturns]

finally, confirmation

Chrom has his day (again)

 

[ze_]

Just gonna leave this here.

Reminds me more of Wind Waker's take on Gohma. Which... happened to be the boss of the Rito dungeon. Hi, Tulin.

 

[Awesomegames23]

This trailer is just too good wtf

 

[maestrogeicho]

True, that does remind me of Gohma too. But on the topic of Gyorgs...

 

[Magic-Man]

So are we not gonna talk about the commerical orrrrrrr

 

[Skittzo]

So are we not gonna talk about the commerical orrrrrrr

Check the spoiler thread. Cause that's a leak.

 

[ZephyrPhoenix]

Ganondorf VA reveal :]

 

[Magic-Man]

Check the spoiler thread. Cause that's a leak.

Oh, it is? I thought it was official. My bad.

 

[TheCongressman]

I'm hoping health works differently this time. Like instead of relying on heart containers, there's more of a focus on the temp hearts that foods give you. After a while temp hearts became useless, food in general wasn't really well balanced imo.