Switch Zelda: tears of the Kingdom

Thought I'd get a thread on this started. Here's what we've seen so far.




Looks like links arm augmentation as shown in creating a champion is definitely a thing as shown in the new sneak peak. Wild theories will be abound for the next 12 months or so till the game releases, here's mine:

I'm betting on actual time travel, traveling back to a time that's not too long after skyward sword (in terms of Zelda chronology anyway, makes some sense to the HD release) where the islands above hyrule have descended to where they're not that far above it anymore. That's why you "couldn't see them" in botw, because they had completely fallen and were part of the landscape of hyrule by then.

 

Not necessarily, if you've played a Zelda before you get the gist of it. Although a "sequel", how much of it is a direct continuation of that story remains to be seen. Breath of the Wild was VERY different from any of it's predecessors in general gameplay mechanics however, so definitely worth a playthrough. It's an open world sandbox game, so imagine a ubisoft open world sandbox game (assassin's creed, division, far cry) map full of mission flags, go here do this thing, then this, you can't do that yet etc., then imagine the complete opposite of that. That's BotW. You can start the game and pretty much immediately go to the endgame boss fight (current wr is 25min and that's without the OOT style glitching to skip huge sections of the game), or spend a few hundred hours exploring every nook and cranny before going to fight the boss.

 

I liked to throw rocks at the little goits.

Totally forgot to add in my hypothesis that as a time travelling episode it will add a divergence point for the timeline. Possibly convergence for the 3 timelines too.

 

pondering this the other day when some theory video was going on about the 3 timelines being brought back to a single timeline, that really would be an impossibility. While they could converge and each of the 3 could eventually reach the same events far into the future, that doesn't mean they're the same timeline, they are still 3 different realities that exist outside of each other.

 

Yeh i found the end underwhelming. I can't really remember it greatly as was a couple of years since i played it and the switch has gone back to my brother so i can't even replay it, but the boss itself was like a 5 years olds drawing. seeing as it's all just faceless malice, i didn't feel anything towards it. as everything was all in the memory cutscenes, it hadn't really done anything to "me" or anyone that i'd interacted with while playing. It's like if a friend has a relative die that you had never met, you feel sad for your friend but have no feelings towards the actual person that died.

 

holy cow, it's really been nearly 2 years since the reveal trailer?

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Stores have the physical copies already, so that's not surprising in the least. The switch emulator has apparently got a lot better/faster now too. I'm a mild Nintendo fanboy (the only console I've not owned is the wiiU) so I don't mind paying. Pretty much game entirely on my switch now anyway.

 

Got confirmation mine is being delivered tomorrow. The unfortunate thing is I live quite near to the DPD depot, so probably get it before 10 and have to wait all day to play.