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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom[b] is an upcoming 2023 action-adventure game developed by Nintendo EPD and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. A sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017), Tears of the Kingdom retains many aspects of its predecessor, including the open-worldenvironment of Hyrule, which has been expanded to allow for more vertical exploration. Link, the protagonist of Tears of the Kingdom, is joined by Zelda and is opposed by a malevolent force that seeks to destroy Hyrule.
Following the completion of Breath of the Wild's development in 2017, a sequel was conceived after the game's downloadable content (DLC) was unable to contain all ideas put forth by the development team. Breath of the Wild director Hidemaro Fujibayashi and producer Eiji Aonuma reprise their roles in Tears of the Kingdom. A teaser trailer for Tears of the Kingdom was aired at E3 2019 with a full reveal at E3 2021. Tears of the Kingdom was initially planned for release in 2022 before being delayed to May 2023.
Development
Development started in 2017 after The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was completed.[1] The game was announced at E3 2019 as a sequel to Breath of the Wild.[2][3] At E3 2021, Nintendo debuted a trailer revealing gameplay, story elements and a 2022 release window,[4] but Nintendo later changed the release window to Q2 2023.[5][6] More information was revealed in the Nintendo Direct presentation held in September 2022, including the title Tears of the Kingdom and a release date of May 12, 2023,[7][8] and another Nintendo Direct in February 2023 teased more gameplay elements.[9]
Breath of the Wild director Hidemaro Fujibayashi and Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma are reprising their roles.[10]The game was conceived after the team was unable to use every idea planned for Breath of the Wild'sdownloadable content.[11] New elements include floating islands above Hyrule, with players able to soar between them in a style similar to The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (2011).[12][13][14]
In an interview with IGN, Aonuma stated that the open world games Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim inspired members of the development team.[15][16][17]
On March 28, 2023, Eiji Aonuma announced that development was complete. He demonstrated the new Recall ability, which can reverse time for an object, the Fuse ability, with which the player may combine multiple materials to form new weapons, the Ultrahand ability, which sticks objects together, and the Ascend ability, which allows the player to travel through ceilings.[18][19][20] The final pre-launch trailer was released on April 13.[21][22][23]
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Does it beat the 2017 one, to become the best game trailer ever? Does it even matter? Now we've got both! These unplayable things that aren't Zelda, but are somehow of it - collapsed and compressed. Music and movement and magic, and themselves now part of the legend: The internet went wild.
I love this - hype as a form of hope. Hype as a form of celebration and appreciation. Of Thanks for all the Zelda, and now there's soon to be one more. A gaming legend nearly back in our orbit, bringing new things to see and do and sometimes to feel.
Guys, it's new Zelda season. Let's. Fucking. Go.
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Just one week to go for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom! What is your hype for this game, SW? I'm going to say, 10/10 from GS, 95 from MC.
UPDATE: 10/10 GS!!
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