With info on the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as uncommon as Coccu’s enamel, each snippet or trailer is pored over, torn aside, and minutely inspected by avid followers, like conspiracists decoding the newest Q-drop. Listed here are a few of our favourite fan-theories from yesterday’s new trailer, together with the identify reveal, Tears of the Kingdom.
Typically, folks’s theories of discoveries hidden throughout the meager particulars Nintendo launch are based mostly on wishful pondering, vivid imagining, or outright silliness. However it’s all the time fascinating to look over them, hoping to identify the nugget of fact, and the odd few with eagle eyes. Right here’s the trailer, completely filled with little particulars, glyphs and different fan-baiting detritus, so that you can forensically dissect.
My favorites are all the time the jpgs coated in pink circles and features, which appear like they’re going to conclude with proof of a shooter on the grassy knoll. (Think about your individual Charlie in At all times Sunny gif right here.) Right here’s a mighty advantageous one from Reddit person WhatWasThatHowl, which purports to show a number of crossovers with Twilight Princess, particularly the existence of Twilis and their Twilight Realm.
Lots of people are assuming the title says “Tears” as in crying, however what if it’s “Tears” as in rips in actuality? It’s price figuring out that the primary Breath of the Wild closely featured ruins from a prehistoric tribe known as the Zonai, although the sport by no means actually defined any of it. And in an earlier Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Zelda suggests the timelines are being mixed. So, the poster above speculates that since this new trailer is now exhibiting off the identical historic ruins and connecting them to the Twili from Twilight Princess, then it follows that the Zonai are descended from them. The place’s my pink string?
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In fact, when you begin digging into Zelda timelines, a migraine is rarely distant. We all know there are three separate ones extant at this level, every having cut up from Ocarina of Time; the so-called “Grownup Timeline,” “Little one Timeline,” and contradiction-restoring “Fallen Hero Timeline.” Or, as I prefer to put it, “They only began random tales with the identical characters, after which tried to retrospectively drive it into some sort of sense.” Anyway, none of this issues an excessive amount of, provided that the official The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Making a Champion e-book states that, in response to the Zelda Fandom web site, “every thing earlier than the Breath of the Wild backstory has light into delusion.”
Reddit person Lentoron managed to search out the situation of a scene from TofK’s trailer within the authentic BotW, confirming the sport is ready at the least partially on the identical map.
However after all we additionally know that the sequel will function quite a lot of sky-based antics, with floating islands and Hyperlink with the ability to glide about between them, Inexperienced Goblin-style.
Isac Morandin on Twitter scoured the background particulars of the trailer particularly rigorously, and noticed this unusual inexperienced swirly-whirly patterns poking up from the bottom in varied locations.
My principle: these will likely be launch pads, that when stepped into will fling Hyperlink up into the air, for him to them paraglide to the brand new areas above. We in reality noticed one thing related in 2021’s trailer, the place Hyperlink turns right into a droplet and floats upward (seemingly in reverse?).
You’ve additionally acquired lots of people recognizing the brand new machine on Hyperlink’s hip:
The preferred principle on-line is that that is to include these tears, the dominion ones. Which might after all moderately put the kibosh on that “rip/tears” principle. (Which by no means labored anyway, because the Japanese title makes use of 淚, that means crying tears.) In the course of the trailer you see the identical object, however solely half-full.
And speaking of tears, kudos to IntentStudios on Reddit for this “Oh yeah!” second:
In additional wishful pondering territory are varied theories that try and match obscure shapes or twisty patterns with absolutely anything from the historical past of the franchise. At this level it’s principally a Rorschach check that claims extra in regards to the poster than the self-esteem. Right here, as an illustration, is the determined hope {that a} barely seen blur (that’s most probably one of many platforms Hyperlink surfs elsewhere within the trailer) is likely to be one of many scrapped ideas for a Divine Beast from BotW.
Others recommend a dragon, however, y’know, it’s in all probability only a platform.
Now, this one I’m down for. The final word crossover. I’m sure that is proper:
And to complete, this isn’t a principle, however it’s too stunning to not sneak in. Twitter person and pixel artist Kaimatten one way or the other generated this murals, based mostly on the sport’s cowl artwork, just some hours later:
Be certain to press play, as a result of as beautiful as it’s nonetheless, it’s one thing else when animated.
We’re nonetheless additionally making an attempt to determine out if maybe we’ll get to play as dry daddy Ganon or if we’ll lastly run round as Zelda, however I’m positive you could have your individual cockamamy theories to share. Stick ‘em within the feedback under.
