We need a few business days to collect ourselves or recover. We’re honestly not sure yet, as we’re still shocked!
So if you’re familiar with our previous articles about Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, you know that we’re honestly surprised by the lack of marketing around the game. Not much was known even before the surprise drop for their final trailer. Even the series producer Eiji Aonuma’s ten-minute gameplay didn’t really tell us anything.
Now for us, that’s fine. We’re a big fan of the previous game, Breath of the Wild. The secrecy is fine. In fact, we’d probably buy it even without this bombastic trailer. Any excuse to re-explore a new version of Hyrule and spend hundreds of hours into it is just good for us!
Well, Nintendo said we’ll show them one last thing, just like how the Nintendo Directs end, and dropped a mixture of plot and gameplay cinematic showcasing a lot of aspects of the game. From new characters to the Ganondorf reveal (as in the actual Ganondorf is now in the game and not that weird creature you fight at the end of Breath of the Wild), to lasers, to even fighting a big rock monster with a tank made of big slabs of rock– the trailer was insane.
The seamless sky filled with different islands and trinkets, as well as the open world below seems to look like an utter delight to explore. Even though the developers reused the old map, you can tell that a lot of things are different. We’re certainly excited to pick this up on the release date, which is on the 12th of May!
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