Does Zelda Die in Tears of the Kingdom?
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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It's been a pleasure working together with the master! Thanks for having me on ^^
It's interesting to see creators collaborate.
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I love when you and Zeltik work together on projects.
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“I am not sure you will be able to stop him” sounds an awful lot like a conversation between the two after ganondorf’s resurrection?
REALLY good point. That all but confirms that she'll be a part of the game, but unfortunately that doesn't tell us whether she's just a disembodied voice or not.
@@fruityoo and when she asks the deity (most likely Hylia) to lend Link power. I'm certain after Zelda falls she's transported to Hylia's residence.
@@fruityoo She could also be talking to him through telepathy similar to A Link to the Past and Breath of the Wild. As Link awakens with the green arm fused to his body Zelda sends him a message delivering exposition as to what happened to her and what Ganondorf has been doing since he awoke from his seal.
@@mishoniwanniman8321 ¿Why would it be Hylia when no other Zelda has ever needed their ancestors's direcr intervention to defeat an incarnation of Ganondorf? It's far more likely that she's talking to the "mural being" who's green arm fused with Link in order to save his life and help him counter Ganondorf's Malice. Knowing Hylia she would never wait for one of her ancestors's pleas to assist an incarnation of the Hero should they ever need it.
@@javiervasquez625 Due to all the symbolism in the murals pointing to Zelda and the deity being parallels in some way, I thought the being with the green arm was Hylia. It might be a misdirect though
If she's alive, for the entirety of Tears of the Kingdom she won't be Princess Zelda. She'll be Queen Zelda.
Assuming she's had her coronation. I can't help but think that with how short a time jump we got, that probably never happened, due to the focus on reconstruction.
The Zelda from Twilight Princess was the sole regent of Hyrule for an extended period of time according to one of the NPCs and yet she was still called "Princess Zelda" regardless. Like Princess Peach in the Mario games Zelda might need to marry a husband in order to fully inherit the title of queen.
@@kaitoudark1 I think she automatically becomes Queen, the coronation is merely a ceremonial thing.
@@javiervasquez625 It is also weird that Midna is known as "The Twilight Princess" despite being seemingly the ruler of the Twilight Realm. Nintendo is weird about using the term Queen I guess.
Oml- it’s like watching a child grow up
You mentioned the shrine of Resurrection and for some reason I have a feeling that the reason we see Ganondorf's Malice erupting out of the Great Plateau is that he will use the Shrine of Resurrection to restore his body.
This. That occurred to me as a possibility all the way back when the first trailer came out. I don’t think it will happen, because I think the castle will be his home base, but it would be so cool if it did.
his voice in the latest trailer didn't seem to come out of a decaying skeleton mummy thing, maybe that's why
Hoooooo boy, that would be awesome
In the latest trailer, we also hear Zelda speak after Ganondorf wakes up (saying she is not sure Link will be able to stop him).
So if she died right when he woke up that would not really be possible...
Unless she speaks to him as a spirit. We already saw her speak telepathically to him when she and Calamity Ganon were locked in the castle
I think the shot where Zelda falls into the dark pit and disappears is probably from links nightmare in the beginning of the game and then when Zelda makes link take her to explore underground and when they find ganondorf and when Zelda starts falling link remembers what happened in his nightmare and catches her this time like what we see in the newest trailer. That’s probably why there’s two different shots of the same events in all of the trailers.
Interesting idea I hadn't considered that! It would also make sense to start the game with Link sleeping as is tradition
Counterpoint though is that the original trailer was in early development of the game, the new shots are probably the "final" versions.
I personally don't think this is the case, though it wouldn't shock me too much if the opening location where Ganondorf is acts as a tutorial dungeon of sorts before you get full freedom.
However, what I'm seeing is this:
1. Link and Zelda find Ganondorf
2. Ganondorf awakens and corrupts Link's arm and the Master Sword
3. Zelda falls into the pit
4. Link jumps out to grab Zelda while dropping the Master Sword
5. Zelda prays to Goddess Hylia to rescue Link
6. The Goddess Hylia (which is also the green hand holding down Ganondorf) grabs Link and brings him to the sky
7. Zelda still falls into the pit because the hand grabbed Link before he could grab her
8. Zelda either escapes on her own (likely in a sequence where we're playing as her) or one of Link's objectives is to rescue Zelda
I think its fairly likely we'll play Zelda in short bursts in the underground as she's trying to find a way out, and that can also be used as a way to help Link above by activating certain things.
If time travel has a hand in this game, maybe on the start of the game is where Zelda falls truly and dies. Ganondorf fully awakens and wrecks havoc in the upper world with no way of getting sealed because Zelda's gone. So Link must master his new magical hand to find a way to reverse time to before Zelda's death. And you go around Hyrule and the lands above and below to get those vials or "tears" to completely upgrade the hand. And once you get those, you could fully turn back time and rescue Zelda before her death and they both reseal/kill Ganondorf before his full awakening.
@@JaidynReiman I was thinking maybe after Link completes a major dungeon and collects the reward, it cuts to Zelda trying to find her way through the underground.
@6:32, in that wall carving, that Zelda is not falling, but more like being levitated above the malice. When you're falling, your hair would be facing upwards. Not downwards. It almost looks like Zelda is being sacrificed in this carving. Of course, I could be wrong since we still don't have all the info about this story behind the wall carvings until we play the game.
I went from hoping Zelda would be playable, to hoping she stuck around to help with the journey and now just hoping she survives. If she dies I will not be ok
Yes based on Breath of the Wild with no consistent interaction with Zelda in the present, I think it would be bad for Nintendo to do that again. We want some back and forth.
You have the same reaction as me. When I discovered Zelda in 2020 with BotW being my first game, I saw a lot of admirable qualities in Zelda (and also bits of myself in a way so I’m clearly biased) and she became my favourite character. I think I’ll lose it and stop playing for a while if she dies.
@@Ana36377 , yes, I also wouldn't want her to die either, it would hurt me a lot and I would feel very dissapointed and discouraged, but we're talking about Zelda here, you can't just kill Zelda, it's Zelda after all, her death wouldn't make any sense, it's "The legend of Zelda", and you need her as well as you need Link, the world can not be saved without this two, and besides the sentence "But Link, I am not sure you'll be able to stop him" clearly has to be said after that great disgrace that happens at the castle and after Ganondorf awakes and after the fall of Zelda because of what the sentence itself is saying, it wouldn't make sense otherwise, it's clearly after everything goes to hell so Zelda has to be alive, so or it is Zelda speaking face to face with Link or it is Zelda in his head.
Besides it's not like Zelda hasn't endured tragedies and near death experiences in other games, it's just that here it is shown to us in a trailer and left in a kind of cliffhanger without revealing to us what happens next and what happens in general with Zelda, so our minds run wild with theories and all kind of speculations and possibilities without even having any kind of real information, so don't worry, I really find it highly unlike as you can see, it makes no sense and based on what we have seen, on the sentence, it hints at another thing, that she is alive
Guys don’t worry Zelda will be fine even if she dies I’m sure Nintendo will find a way to make sure we have a chance to bring her back
Why not both? 🤷🏼♂️
Im sorry but if she dies, I'm going to lose my freaking mind. She needs to spend more time with Link especially since he put so much work into saving her in BotW. Just the thought of Link without her hurts :(
Ngl zelda should be playable.
She shouldn’t die
Indeed. I hate these theories about Zelda dying. It nearly ruined "Skyward Sword" for me, not wanting to find out if she died.
I hope she dies. It would be more dramatic
We don't know that for sure....he could be spending time with paya-
Edit: a joke cuz ppl don't seem to get that. And there's love triangles in this game.....so- I'm just curious about what would happen in the game. Like if we have Zelink moments....or paya x link....or if riju and everyone is okay. Many things thinking about for the game honestly.
New Sheikah Slate has a Lens of Truth-like-camera on it... Could it be that it's used to SEE the spirits hanging out on the right side of the underground "mushroom forest" clip? The closest thing to these spirits, the forms people take in TP when Hyrule is in twilight, required Wolf Link to use his Senses to see and interact with them. If Zelda does have her own side of the story, maybe one use of the new Sheikah Slate is literally as a fancy Lens of Truth, revealing things that you can't normally see - like the true forms of spirits.
Plus, if it is Hyrule's underworld, where the dead roam... Zelda would have a lot to overcome, not just against Ganondorf, but against the people that she failed to save from the Calamity 100+ years ago.
Yeah. There would be a lot of people to meet. The champions would tell her she did her best, King Rhoam would tell her he was sorry for pushing her this much, and there would be people who would blame her for the calamity.
I doubt the dead people of Hyrule would downright BLAME her for their deads at Ganondorf's hands when her inability to use her Sealing Power was clearly beyond her control and the real person they should and would direct their hatred to is the same man who's currently leading his armies across the kingdom with plans to kill everyone alive in the surface. Zelda will probably be far more interested in healing the collective sorrow of all those lingering spirits stranded in the Underworld Majora's Mask style rather than feeling any guilt for not doing something which was beyond her own decision to control.
@@mariustan9275 No one would blame her specifically rather they would all be depressed and remorseful at the fact they died and are unnable to pass on into the Afterlife motivating Zelda to do something about it in order to undoe all of Ganondorf's actions 100 years ago.
I could see Zelda dying but eventually coming back to life with the Tears of the Kingdom. I also see that once Zelda is resurrected she is the one that repairs The Master Sword. Also my last theory is that the Wisps in the cavern is Zelda's body/spirit.
But will she come back as a person afterwards? I wanted Zelda to live her life to the fullest and become a scholar. Not ended in a wildly depressing way.
@@a.jthomas6132 I mean maybe or she becomes a goddess.
@@Iruleyoufail That would mean Zelda is dead and the Goddess Hylia lives
Im hoping the game takes inspiration from castle in the sky and Zelda gently floats to a subsurface realm to begin her own journey. I also hope there is a gorgeous island in the center of that vortex thingy
4:03
"But with Zelda meeting a terrible fate right at the start..."
Very obscure reference, I love it. Clever.
(I have no idea if its just a coincidence or not but its still very cool)
I think that pale figure touching the hand of what looks like BOTW Link is really the Link and Zelda of 10,000 years ago or even before that...Maybe that Link was a member of the Zonai tribe... perhaps he stayed underground with Ganondorf to keep him there while Zelda and everyone prepared for his eventual return.
Great Video as always, points out a lot of keys elements and story pacing that I haven't thought about.
Already saw MM's part of the collab, love you guys:)
I was thinking that the game could open similarly to how Banjo-Tooie opened, with text on the screen explaining that the exact same amount of time had passed in the game's world as had in between the release of the two games in real life.
so, there would be a six year gap
@@allenking6268 five year
Based on the promotional art of Zelda holding the new Sheikah Slate, I’ve pondered if Zelda might be “playable” as a secondary character. Player 2, using their own Switch and game cartridge/download, would manipulate the environment as if Zelda were a spirit or a deity. It would be similar to Mario Galaxy, using the Wii controller, or Super Mario World, using the WiiU game pad. It wouldn’t be the first time Nintendo implemented asymmetric gameplay.
It really would be interesting if there was a part to play as Zelda…
To be honest, I don’t like when people complain about “Not being able to chose” since the focus is on Link saving Zelda, but TotK seems to be s league of its own… It does feel like you could have a part that you play as Zelda… and we do see online functionality on the case. Truly is interesting, to say the least.
13:55
Visual: ToK's underground.
Music: Elden Ring's underground.
My brain: "It reminds me of Skyrim's underground."
Such an amazing collaboration and video once again!
I am curious, though… a lot of people seem to think TOTK will loop back to SS… but then how can the Zelda team explain the origin story (the three golden goddesses, the creation of the planet, the triforce, etc)? I’ve had such a hard time wrapping my head around this, and maybe I’m just missing the answer… but it’s going to drive me NUTS if this is a song of storms situation 😂
Yeah the "timeloop theory" doesn't add up once you realize the incosistency surrounding the Creation of the Zelda World and the Golden Goddesses's direct pressence in the world for such a tragic fate to befall the many denizens of the Zelda world forever cursed to relive the same experiences for eternity. I'm sure such a "twist" is completely detached from what Nintendo intends to do with the game's narrative.
@@javiervasquez625 Yeah. Nintendo tries to be more family-friendly and likes their happy endings.
Personally I think killing her off would just be a lazy excuse by Nintendo to put her out of the picture. And I think it would be a damn shame if they did this, considering botw Zelda is arguably one of the most interesting and empathetic versions of Zelda by far.
When it finally hits you the ridges on the logo that make up the back of the two dragons are tire treads...
i see the carving of Zelda "falling" looks more like her floating, like when Ghirahim is using her to awaken demise in skyward sword. her feet are pointed down, making her look like she's floating, not falling
Somehow I don't believe that it starts with them already underground. I believe they start in Hyrule castle or went to the Great Plateau and discovered that there is an area hinted in BotW and then venture to the underground. I also think after she falls into the river of malice she becomes corrupted but the power she no longer felt reawakens.
Tears of the Kingdom seems like it has a lot of references to Skyward Sword. I’m getting chills just from watching this video, and I’m sure I’ll cry when the game gets released.😄
I think the reason why they choose to cut Zelda's hair short is because long hair would be difficult to animate as a player character! Can't wait to see
I mean they animated it in Hyrule Warriors.
I worked a bunch with archeologists and let me tell you most women there either have short cut hair or braided/bun. Reason being simple. If you're expected to climb around in a dusty, dirty place hair gets in the way.
I think Zelda cutting her hair short makes perfect sense. Especially since whatever exploration she's doing is way more active then the example I gave above. Having long wavy hair would be a massive hindrance.
@@mariustan9275 Yeah but she had like 3 outfits. Short hair is easier to work with for making outfits because long hair usually causes clipping issues and short hair is easier to design around.
Yes!! This is exactly what I've been thinking! Her super long hair would probably result in clipping, unless they fixed it for this sequel. We can hope!
@@SpiritHunterDSG K makes sense. Plus there the model was smaller on screen.
My theory is that link has to use his "reverse time" ability to safe Zelda from falling down, which would explain why her hand is soaring up to Links right arm. Yet it wouldn't make sense because this arm hasn't absorbed the green energy yet, but I think they changed this detail of the cutscene since then, just how they changed the Bokoblins horns.
I really hope all the horns arnt made of weapons but maybe will be able to craft certain weapons using the parts on there heads
Every time i see the carving of the woman hung over the malice it reminds me of when Ghirahim was sacrificing Skyward Sword Zelda to revive Demise
She falls down into Termina. The game is darker than Majora's Mask and more confusing if our protagonist is dead or not.
Imagine this was a loop with all the timelines and BOTW is the merging of all the timelines. Then after tears of the kingdom, the next Zelda game is called A link between time. Explaining how all the timelines came together all within Hylia’s plan with a LINK in common to tie the worlds. Explaining why there are things from all the timelines in BOTW.
plot twist: when zelda falls thats where zeldas adventure takes place in timeline
Stop that
Huh
The designs of the Woman/Zelda/Hylia's jewelry is, from the top: An owl, a Boar, and a Dragon; each separated by a horizontal line of white beads. The tear drop shapes are the Boar's tusks. The dragon has horns and the whiskers of eastern dragons.
This is a very interesting theory and I'm really curious about Zeldas story in TotK. Regarding the survey, I got it as well and it was indeed from Nintendo themselves. Anyways, I like the idea of Zelda having her own journey to reconnect with Hylia and I really hope Nintendo won't just give her a little bit of lore and then show her at the end of the game like in BotW. I would prefer if she had an active role in the story this time around and we get to witness her point of view. Can't wait to play the game and I'm really hyped to know what story we will get.
While reconnecting with Hylia is interesting thing to see, my only concern is Zelda. I mean, she has been through alot for the past 100 years and she dreams of being a scholar. I do not want that part of her character be removed.
@@a.jthomas6132 True I agree. I loved that this Zelda had dreams and plans of her own and wasn't just 'the princess with magic' and nothing else. She actually had a complex character and I would love to explore that side of her more.
i wanna add something to the split gameplay theory: Link doesnt have the sheikah slate, and his magnesis has seemingly been replaced by the vehicle building mechanic that we see in the latest trailer. Zelda however has the (upgraded) sheikah slate now, and we see metal boxes scattered around the boulder in the "underworld" shot... now ofc those metal boxes could just be reused assets, without the ability of being used with magnesis anymore, but it would make a lot of sense for them to be there so that zelda's sheikah slate has something to interact with while shes down in the underworld🤔🤔🤔
the eye of truth is also a really good catch, perhaps using the camera function would allow her to see the true form of those spirit flames floating around down there!
I was watching a comparison video between BotW and TotK. During the scene where the malice is firing out of the giant blood moon the section of the plateau is not only a different climate (in BotW it's snowy), the walls are also undamaged! Whether this is restoration, a flashback or even time travel who knows, but figured it was a curious detail you'd be interested in!
Personally my guess is that its a recollection of the first time Calamity Ganon attacked, possibly its a cutscene near the beginning of the game to show us the origin of Calamity Ganon, forming from the malice coming from Ganondorf's body? That's speculation but who knows!
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I feel Zelda will have more of a role than in any previous Zelda game. The picture of her with her own Sheikha slate, it gives me the feeling she will be low-level involved lol. My husband thinks she'll possibly be involved in some puzzle solving with he slate, or something where she's not playable, but she can help you in tasks? But I'd love her to be playable. My daughter would too. But we'll see.
Hmmmm…. Zelda’s Lullaby has been passed on from generation to generation, only to the royal family, yeah?
It’s a melody which can literally channel the powers of the Goddess’ (key example being Parting the Zora’s River waterfall, or calling upon literal lightning from the sky in order to bust a headstone in a cemetery).
I personally would love to hear the melody somehow mentioned, or even used in a soundtrack in the game.
personally, i don't think zelda is dead, but it would be a great twist in the series that i certainly wouldn't be opposed to. it'd be different, but different isn't always a bad thing! nonetheless, i'm very excited and curious, to find out when totk releases. so many questions and theories waiting to be answered. :)
There can be many twists but Zelda dying wouldn't precisely be good, we're talking about Zelda here, so yes, I would be opposed to this one, it's Zelda after all, you can't just kill Zelda, her death wouldn't make any sense, it's "The legend of Zelda", and you need her as well as you need Link, the world can not be saved without this two, and besides the sentence "But Link, I am not sure you'll be able to stop him" clearly has to be said after that great disgrace that happens at the castle and after Ganondorf awakes and after the fall of Zelda because of what the sentence itself is saying, it wouldn't make sense otherwise, it's clearly after everything goes to hell so Zelda has to be alive, so or it is Zelda speaking face to face with Link or it is Zelda in his head.
Besides it's not like Zelda hasn't endured tragedies and near death experiences in other games, it's just that here it is shown to us in a trailer and left in a kind of cliffhanger without revealing to us what happens next and what happens in general with Zelda, so our minds run wild with theories and all kind of speculations and possibilities without even having any kind of real information
@@doloresgronenberg5882 People need to remember that Zelda's death will greatly depend on what Ganondorf would gain from killing her on the spot instead of keeping her alive "somewhere" to fulfill his plans. Just because we see her falling that does not suddenly mean she'll hit rock bottom and die on impact when she literally has magic powers to soften her fall and save herself from fatal injuries. As long as Ganondorf NEEDS her to fuel his plans she'll be safe from any lasting harm.
I have a theory of my own after watching this video. What if the oroborus at 5:42 represents duality or symbiosis? While Link is busy exploring the sky, Zelda is busy exploring the underground at the same time, to their mutual benefit.
Yeah I'm thinking that's super likely at this point in time, actually.
@@JaidynReiman The double Ouroborous could also refer to the mysterious 2 hand gesture that the "Mural Figure" and the Zelda looking woman are doing at the end of the of the fourth teaser. One dragon represents the Mural Figure while the other represents either Hylia or maybe even the Zelda from 10.000 years ago.
“Lend him your power”- could even be hylia speaking to zelda
Personally, I think after Ganondorf's awoken and Zelda falls, Link will connect with the green hand and travel through the green swirl that's emanating from it to the tutorial sky island. There'll probably be a time gap, judging by his hair length.
Or it could be something else entirely, who knows.
Also, a playable Zelda would be super cool.
I swear to god if the under world is like the silent realm... I'm have a heart attack again
Tears of the Kingdom could mean that the kingdom in the sky is falling apart piece by piece like tears as we see in the trailers.
Using the Great Underground River soundtrack from Elden Ring during the "underground/underworld" regions is clever 😁
12:18 "can you record this on something other than a peice of asparagus?"
I have a theory that at (6:27) the figure isn't Zelda, it's Ganon, and the same is true with the hands at (6:42).
looking back on it, one of them was correct!
LoZ has two loves: music, and time travel. If Zelda dies, either of those two themes can fix it.
It would be an interesting plot twist if Zelda dies early but returns later in the game as Goddess Hylia. Since Zelda is generally Goddess Hylia reincarnated, we get to see the Goddess in person and she helps link throughout the game with the game ending with Hylia helping you take out Ganondorf.
What if tears of the kingdom is 2 player link and Zelda together
So here is a theory: What if it's an Orpheus and Euridice situation?
Zelda either falls down to the underworld or just straight up dies, and stays the whole game there, be it as a playable character or as a plot point, and in the end Link has to decent to the hades equivalent to get her/ her soul back from Demise (who is a more likely candidate than Ganondorf for being the ruler of the underworld) or the figure in the mural (who in this case would be the godsess of death) in some kind of trade or battle.
This would probably mean that we also get a playable instrument, as in the original myth Orpheus plays a song to get his lover back. Since musical instruments are a staple of the zelda series and we didn't get one in botw, lots of fans (myself included) would love to get a story significant instrument.
The only other evidence I have is that the zelda series often takes inspiration from myths (the series is called the LEGEND of Zelda after all) from all over the world, and even if I don't recall any examples of a Greek myth being used for plot related things, we did see a monster that looked a lot like Gleeok, a dragon similar to the Greek monster the Hydra, on the newest trailer.
Also even though they seem to be leaning heavily in Aztec and mezzo American culture with all that Zonai stuff and containing the Japanese and South-East Asia themes from botw, there is nothing to say they can't add even more cultural inspirations into the mix.
I left a similar comment under Monster Maze's video, don't worry I'm not stealing someone's idea, I just left two almost identical comments
The mix between twilight princess music and Elden ring music in this video has me FED!!!!!!!!!!!
Why hasn't anyone noticed that part of the mural is depicting Ganondorf having control over Zeldas body. 6:28
You can clearly see his robe/skirt at the right and his hand a few inches over Zelda.
She's not falling, she's being held in the air by some "Force" like power from Ganon.
Do we know if the figure in the mural is Ganondorf...? Nothing particularly distinctive of the figure's clothes suggest it's him so i can't confidently say the mural is showing a past/future Zelda being somehow controlled by Ganondorf. The mural could always just be showing a past Zelda who was once exposed to Malice around the same time Ganondorf lead his minions to attack the kingdom.
@@javiervasquez625 I mean is a tall human like figure with a really big hand that's inflicting somehow of a threatening thing to the princess, were malice is present, connect the dots, and it can possibly be ganon. Note: Never pointed out a time frame for the event.
Pd. I can't confidently say it's ganon, that's why they are hiding him lol
Just a theory that no one that I've seen has tried to make sense of other that she's falling (and by gravity if shes falling her extremities should be upward due to being lighter than the body)
WHAT IF given the moving backwards in time motifs in both the music and the ability link has -- AND given the fact that there's undead charcaters and even an "underworld", is it possible the story starts with Zelda dying because Link fails to save her, and the game is his mission to reverse that or return to the underworld to save her? Maybe we play Link in the overworld -- Zelda in the underworld?
If the game opens up with Zelda’s death then this game will automatically cement itself to be darker than Majora’s Mask.
Just imagining Zelda’s corpse lying deep in the cave is pretty unsettling. It sounds like it came out of a Zelda creepypasta or something.
I find that theory weirdly possible, but my biggest worry is how and why we'd play Zelda.
Firstly I don't think we will be able to switch from Link to Zelda on the simple press of a button or like in the inventory menu for the simple reason that the game will need to load the underground for Zelda/overworld for Link. So maybe it'll be at certain points in the game?
Secondly I also really hope it'll be well done and in line with the BOTW/TOTK design philosophy. If Zelda is just a mandatory post-dungeon one-hour quest of going from point A to point B with very limited gameplay, it would absolutely destroy the game's pacing, which would be extremely disappointing, and I'd prefer it wouldn't be in the game.
I can't really imagine how it'll play out, but *if* it happens, I really hope it'll flow well with the "Link" part of the game and will add more variety to the game without it feeling disjointed.
I've been guessing she's dying for the longest. I believe her death will result in Link's journey to save Zelda by reincarnating her into the Goddess Hylia.
anyone: exists. theorists: are you dead?
I think King Rhoam is an absolute monarch
I went back to breath of the wild after playing it back in 2017 realizing that the kids who played it on release that were 11 they will be 17 for Tears of the Kingdom, I also realized I'm one of those kids
I was 6 when The Legend of Zelda was released on NES. I'll let you figure out the rest from that 🤣
I wonder... if she's down there with Ganondorf, he might need her divine power to revive himself just like what the imprisoned Demise did with Skyward Sword Zelda.
I'm not sure HOW they would manage to split the gameplay between Zelda and Link if it remained a completely open adventure with no required story markers (when would the gameplay switch? what would be the trigger?) but I want it a LOT. I'm hoping that they will try and keep the path as open as possible but definitely gate some options so they can actually weave a proper story in the present time. Being able to play as Zelda and see her story unfold (even if it ends up being a DLC episode) would be phenominal.
I think the best game to understand this switch mechanic would be Ocarina of Time. In Ocarina of Time, you are free to explore Hyrule as either Child Link or Adult Link. But if you want switch between the two, you head to the Temple of Time and put/pull the Master Sword.
All the player needs to switch from Link to Zelda is a communication link between the two. Like say, Sheikah Slate.
Something I just realized. This game is going to be one of three true sequel Zelda games, and the only one that isn't a side story like majora's mask or phantom hourglass. :0
I pray to Hylia that Zelda does not die! Because I would throw myself off the bridge if that happens. Let alone devastates Link not because of his feelings for her nor his duty to safeguard the Princess of Hyrule as her appointed knight. But because the promise he made to Urbosa to look after her “little bird” on the deceased Champion’s behalf. Plus, Zelda hoped that she can be scholar like her mother despite her complex relationship with her father King Rhoam in Breath of the Wild. All I am saying is the Princess of Hyrule is much more relatable than fans complaint about. She had hopes and dreams. And I feel she deserves better.
I have 2 guesses. One, maybe Zelda falls and would have died but Hylia saves her? Thus the glowing form after when Hylia has intervened. Second, we know that time travel is part of the game with Link’s rewind ability in his arm. So perhaps Zelda does fall originally but later Link tries to fix it? Going back in time to be at the spot where he can help her up like the second hand shot suggests?
In addition to that shot likely being Link helping her clime, look at his arm - it looks normal and is gloved, but in the shot of him diving to grab her, his right arm is burnt all the way to the shoulder and the clothing there looks to be incinerated. Unless they redid that scene between the two trailers, there’s no way the diving scene and the grabbing scene are the same scene.
Maybe as Link was grabbing her Ganondorf attacked with his Malice leading to a brief scene where Zelda holds onto something else while Link is attacked by the Malice before leading to the cutscene of them falling down right before the arm grabs Link and saves him from the fall.
Great theory! But I’m eagerly waiting for your theory/response to the latest leak of the TotK art book… hiyagh!
I'm also starting to think that Zelda might be indeed playable in the new game. As soon as i saw the artwork of her holding a sheikah slate i already was like "Huh? Why?"
Let's not forget that she also used the sheikah slate in Age of Calamity. That could very much mean that she's having similar skills if playable. What makes this theory even more legit is that the fans wished for a playable Zelda in a mainline game for quite long. Maybe they finally granted their wish because Nintendo listens to their fans from time to time.
The reason why the slate looks different could be that her version is indeed a modified version. Maybe some time passed between the events of Botw and Totk so they had more than enough time modifying stuff and rebuilding hyrule (at least a bit?)
But i kinda doubt Nintendo would go that far letting Zelda actually die. But if, we definitely get to resurrect her in some way.
My theory is that the game might have time travel again.
I have also noticed something: TOTK's logo's font is identical, except it misses the silent pincess on th "Z" of Zelda, compared to BOTW's logo. Maybe she actually dies, or maybe it means nothing.
Reminds me of skyward sword when Zelda gets sucked into the tornado and you have to find her
i personally would LOVE if zelda plays like breath of the wild link, using the slate and perhaps being a little weaker in close combat cuz well she isnt the fighter type
but having the original powers
and then link gets an entirely new kit of abilities
this would be easily done
you can just take old link from botw change the model a bit
and boom
done
easiest second character ever
if she IS underground then perhaps she can swap with link by resting at a campfire
and she can get the original champion perks by saving their souls
imagine zelda wielding their powers again just old link
There was twins! And one Zelda was taken to the spirit realm to be raised which is why the Zelda we know had a hard time tapping into her powers. Or something like that
I JUST WANT LINK TO HAVE A HOMIE FOR ONE GAME PLEASE
Link has a homie in almost every game
I don’t want to wait anymore, I can’t take it! lol
Ya know it makes a lot of sense that Nintendo would look to focus on improving/deepening the story of Zelda. Sure there will be gameplay innovations no doubt but one area that Zelda has never excelled in is deep/compelling story telling, at least in the traditional sense.
In any case really interesting video. Let’s see what happens!
14:00 what song is this? it felt like Elden Ring, and the mining underground made me think about it more :P It could also be a Zelda song I'm forgetting. The vocals become nostalgically Zelda later in the song
I was real interested in this video but then you brought back the time loop theory.
The mysterious figure on the mural has long claw like nails just like the green hand that was holding down Ganondorf. It's not Hylia. It's the owner of the green hand, who spent whatever amount of the time Ganondorf was being held down, being the green hand who was holding Ganondorf down. Also the Sky islands are ruins of an ancient civilization, and clearly already in the sky by the time ToTK starts, meanwhile Hylia actively raised the chunk of land that became Skyloft, these are completely incompatible with one another, making the idea that ToTK could lead into SS basically already impossible. Even moreso tho, Skyward Sword is the only incarnation of Zelda that is Hylia, when Skyward Sword Zelda died Hylia likely returned to the heavens, but still exists, as we can see by the statues of Hylia being able to talk to Link in BOTW. Thus how does a living breathing person, BOTW Zelda, reincarnate into a spirit that is very much still alive and kicking? That literally makes no sense.
Ok heres a random theory on how the game starts:
So it would be a bit wierd if the opening of the game would be a 6 Minute long cutscenes right?
So heres my idea what if Link wakes up in the sky Islands and slowly gety little clips of him and zelda finding Ganon
Honestly, either Link or Zelda dies in Tears of the Kingdom. It’s likely the hand that fuses with Link will likely kill him. Kind of like Emiya Shirou in Heaven’s Feel when he uses Archer’s arm more, the more it kills him.
Co op is also a possibility. Zelda falling in single player but catching in co op
Wouldn't it be cool to explore the underworld as Zelda, surviving after her fall, while exploring the sky world with Link, then teaming up to kick Ganon butt!
Zelda's fall into the underworld and subsequent return would mirror a significant common goddess legend shared across almost all human cultures, where some goddess is taken down there, usually against her will, and then sometimes returns; other times, stays and becomes the new goddess of the dead. Even if she doesn't literally die and these are purely physical locations, her journey would still mirror that.
Did anyone mention how links arm gets essentially cooked before it absorbs the energy?
I do not think this mysterious woman is the current BOTW Zelda being the Goddess herself. She is more into becoming a scholar like her mother. I believed this new figure in the white robe could potentially be Hylia or a Zelda from the distant. If that person is indeed the Princess who sealed off the first Calamity along with the ancient hero, the guardians and the divine beasts 10,000 years ago (based on Impa's Tale), then it can be crucial that elements of time travel is needed for Link to go back in time and learn how to defeat Ganondorf.
Or we could simply have playable *flashbacks* involving the Hero from 10.000 years like dozens of videogames have done over the last 15 years... cough cough Assassin's Creed cough cough.
Well, imo it's obvious she doesn't die. In the latest trailer we hear her tell Link "I'm not sure you can stop him" in regards to Ganondorf. Presumably she says so, to Link, after Ganondorf has awoken, so it must be after she has fallen.
She also says "Lend him your power" to some unknown character, which also must take place after the cave ordeal.
We do not know if that could be her spirit watching events from afar, but it does make the outright dying hypothesis feel less likely to me. Which is fine by me, I hope they have something more complicated than that in store.
I literally got an ad for TotK halfway through this video
hey, i know thats nothing in this video but i can swear, i can see majoras mask in the new trailer at 0.40 seconds in the bloodmoon on the left side where the more black part is
The writer in me thinks it would definitely be more poetic... But the fanboy in me just wants Zelda and Link to be together and happy. They certainly deserve it. These incarnations have suffered enough. ;-;
Zelda gameplay, but the underworld and new redeads make it feel like Fatal Frame because of her shieka slate.
i am always hearing TONS of connections between TotK (the game furthest along in the timeline) and skyward sword (the earliest game in the timeline) i really think that at the end of this game the timeline will make a full circle and will begin again with skyward sword. ever since i heard this theory i cant get it out of my head
Unfortunately, I saw the leaks from the book. I'm not a spoiler, but I can only say and confirm that the character holding Link's hand is not Zelda and not a character seen before in the Zelda series. So is the figure in the engraving on the stone that joined hands with what appears to be "Zelda".
I just noticed the woman on the mural (Zelda?) Has an inverted ninja
It was said TotK would be the darkest Zelda game yet. So I think it’s very possible that she’ll die.
Maybe Zelda really dies but connects to hylia in the spirit realm somehow and fuses together with hylia and comes back to life even stronger
Despite the fact that Zelda is only shown in the underground scenes of the trailers and nowhere else, I still don't believe that she dies from that fall. I don't see any reason to believe that she wouldn't have a paraglider of her own that she can deploy at any moment to break the fall.
While I don't believe the fall itself kills her, it's entierly possible that whatever is at the bottom does.
Also, love the Majora's Mask reference at 4:02
i have a theory of my own, could the mysterious hand actually be the hand of fi, the spirit of the master sword?
I swear if we went through all that trouble to save her just for her to die in the sequel
Of Zelda does reincarnate as Hylia. I could see this being the end of the Ganon/Ganondorf timelines. I could see her, as the Goddess of Time, re-converged the split and rifted timeless, and putting and end to THIS incarnation of Demise for good. As Ganondorf has gotten to powerful having lived from pure malice for so many centuries. And starting the Demise incarnation anew. Just my theory.
I wonder if Ganondorf is also in the Age of Calamity alternate timeline.
If so then will the events of this reality be much different than Tears of the Kingdom?
Most definetly a DLC will be added later to have playable Ganondorf in the game.
That said the game's *non canon* so it won't matter in the long road.
bro the Sheikah Slate she's holding looks like a Nintendo Switch
I think that underground where are the Malice bokoblins and lizalfos it's wheres the deku tree was and the blue little light are the kologs, because Malice "kills the deku tree roots" "and the kologs are spirirts now" it's what i believe.