Fans have been waiting for it for six years and the least we can say is that some are tremendously impatient. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom It doesn’t officially come out until May 12, but the smart little ones managed to get their hands on the new work almost two weeks before and didn’t stop making it known.
While some were content to play quietly at home after buying the game from the store too soon, others gloated when they began streaming full footage of Link’s new adventures on Twitch, revealing information Nintendo had wanted to keep secret.
Discord sued
But that probably wasn’t what gave the Japanese giant the most cold sweats, which promptly suspended broadcasts. Quickly, the game files surfaced on the forums, allowing players to fully download the future flagship game for Nintendo Switch to play before its release. On the Reddit and Discord servers, screenshots have been shared, along with cut scenes and gameplay sequences, including the opening ones with the first regions of Tears of the Kingdom. Something to spoil any suspense or surprise if you come across it.
There is no doubt that Big N’s reaction will be proportional to the financial and moral damage suffered, as the culture of secrecy within the company is intense. At the beginning of April, the leak of some images of an artbook that was to accompany the game had led Nintendo to sue Discord to obtain the contact details of the culprit. The penalties could be much higher this time.
37 years of successful walks in Hyrule
To understand the excitement, even the madness surrounding the arrival of the next episode of The legend of Zelda, we have to go back to 1986 when Shigeru Miyamoto had the idea of giving life to Link, a character at the crossroads between Peter Pan and an elf, in landscapes that remind him of his childhood in the Kyoto countryside. His hero must fight against his eternal enemy, Ganondorf, and free the kingdom of Hyrule as well as the famous Princess Zelda (whose name is a tribute to the wife of novelist Francis Scott Fitgerald known for her great beauty). . Inside Tears of the Kingdom, Link would once again have to face Ganondorf himself or his bestial form, Ganon. But Nintendo had gone to great lengths to keep its true scenario a secret, giving only snippets of information about its announcement videos.
From the first homonymous title and before the arrival of the next work, the saga The legend of Zelda it has 19 episodes in the true line, with additional spin-off episodes and remakes. In total, almost 100 million games have been sold in 37 years. After the success of breath of the wild Released in 2017 with Nintendo Switch and revolutionized the series with an open world and more versatility, Tears of the Kingdom should go a long way toward increasing this total. Record sales are expected and more than enough to drive the counters crazy.
While the game doesn’t seem all that innovative in form and graphics, Nintendo has already hinted that its hero’s enhanced abilities (which seems to be able to transform into water to cut through stones and other surfaces), the arrival of new game mechanics, will help make it in a pivotal episode, much darker too.
Source: BFM TV
