Tiny Details In The Tears Of The Kingdom Trailer You Missed – TEARS OF THE KINGDOM TRAILER ANALYSIS



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30 thoughts on “Tiny Details In The Tears Of The Kingdom Trailer You Missed – TEARS OF THE KINGDOM TRAILER ANALYSIS”

  1. The unknown skeleton-like the enemy has to be a ReDead. This is super interesting as in the older Zelda games, they were always alone but in a group and considering that it's ability is a scream the freezes you utterly motionless… Could be a problem lol.

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  2. Everyone seems to think the person in the robe taking Links hand is a new character but I'm 99% sure that's just Zelda in a Zonai dress. Like she falls and gets separated from Link but is saved and guided by Zonai and the scene we are seeing in the trailer is when they reunite. Skyward Sword style.

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  3. A few things Zoe:
    -Re-deads and there doesn't need to be an alarm enemy, BotW had most enemy types able to pull out a horn and alert all enemies.

    -Those larger shacks seen in the trailer is the sheika tower location just south east of the great deku tree: training grounds

    -considering the sky colour and rock style, I would hazard to say that the shield grinding scene takes place in the south west… opposite death mountain

    -The pieces of the golem remind me of the korok magnesis block pattern puzzle's blocks, just slightly bigger.

    -I would say that the "sky arm" is giving link access to something seemingly lost to time in BotW non-goddess magic, Hylian's were noted in the series as being better with magic in general then most races and yet link had zero talent for magic in BotW, it was all using the power of artifacts directly, unlike some previous games like OoT where link was awakened to magic or ALttP where he was already capable of fueling artifacts with his own magic at the beginning of the game, which he restored with potions. This possibly means a return of the super artifacts previously seen in the series instead of the champion talents that have been probably lost if the champions moved on to the afterlife at the end of BotW.

    -The green colour has been used throughout the series to symbolize two things: courage and Link's magic power. I think the sky arm as seen in the gannondorf scenes of the trailers indicates that a previous incarnation of Link sealed Gannondorf into a magical siphon which converted Gannondorf's red into wisdom's blue which is the colour of Sheikah tech due to it's connection to the wisdom of using technology. the seal breaking would also explain why the sheikah tech seems to be mostly dormant in tears of the kingdom

    -those green containers are probably collected tears and link probably gains more magic meter with each one but are probably not the fuel for his magic. It's probably either a regeneration thing or potions. Notice that there are 7 containers and the mural shows seven tears.

    -Those pictures on the ground are reminiscent of the Nazca lines seen in Peru, one of the wonders of the world and their appearance got me thinking about the central and south american cultures which formed after the disappearance of the cloud people. In particular the aztec creation myth about the 5 suns and the nature of the earth itself. See the earth in Aztec myth was created out of the dormant remains of a lovecraftian horror that was basically a black liquid with mouths… much like the depiction of Malice in BotW just add in a bit of red. The myths also say that the 5th era of existence will end with earthquakes i.e. the awakening of that lovecraftian horror which would be Gannondorf in this case. The Aztec gods were also using that horror to house their creations which is much like the Sheikah using Gannondorf's power to fuel their tech. So I hazard the guess that the reason each attack of Gannondorf is now 10000 years apart instead of every few hundred years as seen in the gap between most of the middle timeline games because they are siphoning him so it takes him longer to gain strength but now the siphon seal is properly broken probably due to hyrule not using Sheikah tech for the last 10000 year period due to a stupid ruler. The Iconography of the Zonai is also very Mesoamerican especially with all the "eastern" dragons in BotW which is close to quetzalcoatl minus the feathers.

    -The symbol for the game in particular looks very Meso or south American.

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