With info on the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as uncommon as Coccu’s tooth, 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 title reveal, Tears of the Kingdom.
Typically, folks’s theories of discoveries hidden throughout the meager particulars Nintendo launch are primarily based 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 reality, and the odd few concocted 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 jpegs lined in crimson circles and contours, which appear like they’re going to conclude with proof of a shooter on the grassy knoll. (Think about your personal Charlie in At all times Sunny gif right here.) Right here’s a mighty advantageous one from Reddit consumer 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 value realizing that the primary Breath of the Wild closely featured ruins from a prehistoric tribe referred to 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 displaying off the identical historical ruins and connecting them to the Twili from Twilight Princess, then it follows that the Zonai are descended from them. The place’s my crimson string?
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In fact, when you begin digging into Zelda timelines, a migraine is rarely distant. We know there are three separate ones extant at this level, every having cut up from Ocarina of Time; the so-called “Grownup Timeline,” “Youngster 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 type 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 guide states that, in accordance with the Zelda Fandom web site, “the whole lot earlier than the Breath of the Wild backstory has light into fantasy.”
Reddit consumer Lentoron managed to search out the placement of a scene from TofK’s trailer within the unique BotW, confirming the sport is about not less than partly on the identical map.
However after all we additionally know that the sequel will characteristic a variety 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 fastidiously, and noticed this unusual inexperienced swirly-whirly patterns poking up from the bottom in varied locations.
My concept: these might 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 truth 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 most well-liked concept on-line is that that is to comprise these tears, the dominion ones. Which might after all quite put the kibosh on that “rip/tears” concept. (Which by no means labored anyway, for the reason that Japanese title makes use of 淚, that means crying tears.) Throughout 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 to match obscure shapes or twisty patterns with absolutely anything from the historical past of the franchise. At this level it’s mainly a Rorschach check that claims extra in regards to the poster than the vanity. Right here, as an example, is the determined hope {that a} barely seen blur (that’s almost certainly one of many platforms Hyperlink surfs elsewhere within the trailer) may 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 concept, but it surely’s too lovely to not sneak in. Twitter consumer and pixel artist Kaimatten one way or the other generated this murals, primarily based on the sport’s cowl artwork, just some hours later:
Be sure 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 personal cockamamy theories to share. Stick ‘em within the feedback beneath.
