Uh-Oh! A Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Ad With New Footage Has Leaked Online

I love leaks and spoilers!
No greater way to find out if something is worth the money and/or time.

Don't wanna see spoilers? Don't go searching for them.

Luckily, I've already pre-ordered so I don't need to watch an advert lol.

I hope there's quite a few underground areas to explore and I'm liking the scene where they shoot glowing mushroom arrows to light up pitch black areas. Something so trivial yet shot my hype meter up some more.

Wow. There was already some brief glimpses of what looked like underground areas but this footage cements that and yeah, it looks like we can go pretty deep.

Sky, land and underground exploration?! Man, this game is gonna be incredible.

That Gleok fight looks straight out of Demon Souls; that is to say, absolutely awesome!

The official website made reference to ‘dank caves’, so it seems like the sky islands aren’t the only new areas. I wonder just how much underground exploration there is. One month until we find out!

Flame Gleeok huh? So you're telling me there are other kinds...

Only in America.

The Gleeok looks like it will be a fun fight with how massive it is. Hopefully there are multiple throughout the map. But good news is we’ve seen 2, potentially 3, new bosses.

Just so amazing. I have a tear in my eye

Being a Flame Gleeok rather than just "Gleeok" means there will probably be other elemental forms of the Gleeok, like an Ice Gleeok or Lightning Gleeok.

And yeah, that underground Z-coordinate is crazy deep. All that's left to know is just how large the underground really is.

@KryptoniteKrunch The only thing we're missing now is underwater exploration. I want to be able to dive deep underwater like in Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, and Majora's Mask. That would give even further incentive to re-explore the same Hyrule from the previous game. Imagine diving under Lake Hylia to find out there was a hidden Dungeon this whole time! Horizon Forbidden West did it, so hopefully this game follows suit. The trailer showed us Link hopping inside of floating bubbles, and in one clip he's diving toward a floating sphere with a hole in it that appears to be filled with water. Fingers crossed.

This is perhaps a bit too unrealistic, but what if the object of the game is to keep ascending higher and higher until you're able to leave the planet's atmosphere? I think I remember aliens being in a lot of the beta concept art for BotW. That would be kind of amazing, lol.

How to expand on a game where you explore the entire surface of a world?

Why, explore the skies and underground as well.

It's like an open world layer cake!

Cheesy advert, but amazing looking game 🤩

That Z coordinate may or may not be meaningful. Dungeons could be in different loading zones like they were in BotW, so you could just get teleported to different coordinates. It would be really cool if the whole thing really were open world with no loading zones, though.

@westman98
It could, but one of the Gleeoks we see is in the hebra region, so it wouldn’t make much sense to have a flame gleeok in a place where an ice one would be. Elemental ones would be cool though.

I bet people will still complain about enemy variety even if they introduced 15 brand new enemies (by brand new I mean no color or elemental swaps).

To make these people happy they should introduce 1 billion trillion new enemy types.

Because, as these people know, enemy variety is the single most important thing in a game. How else would Elden Ring be so popular? You can't really do anything else but fight in that game, the world is not really interactive, there are no puzzles or abilities compared to Link's, you can't even swim...etc.

But as long as the game has enough different enemies who cares if the actual gameplay is barebones.

Right? RIGHT? I create a game with black and white stick figure graphics and create 1000 different enemies. Then it better be the best game ever because of enemy variety!

The only thing that really disappointed me in BotW was the absence of any caves. Really hoping we get some real deep labyrinths to explore in TotK.

They should have shown all of this before showing off how much it resembles BotW.
How did they manage to make this look so bland until now?

@Cia sounds like you played Elden Ring like a boss rush game, Did you not explore and do any of the optional dungeons?
Siofra River puzzle dungeon and Ancestral Spirit are totally optional yet offer some of that traditional Zelda goodness missing from BotW.

Are we sure that was underground? Looked like a dark forest or something to me but then I don’t have the best eyesight.

@FroZtedFlake that’s exactly what I thought too! 🧊 🐉

@Cia Cia, you yourself were a “new enemy type” in Hyrule Warriors! So yeah, new enemy types are a big deal.

I love how inclusive this ad is. I think back to when I was a kid, it was only the boys playing Zelda. Now in the ad there are 7 women and 5 men. Also very diverse with the casting. Zelda really is for everyone.

Looks like the authorized leaks are coming out before release date.

@echoplex Full Disclosure.... I kind of WISH my friends would watch me play Zelda and cheer for me. But I still think I'd rather them cheer me on in a Splatfest.

@blindsquarel 5 that I can think of off the top of my head- the box golem, the splatoon shark, the giant construct, flame gleeok and the massive ice beast

@Johnny44 the z coordinates were -470 so yeah that's guaranteed underground

@RemembersGems I mean damn near every trailer has shown some form of underground so it's pretty obvious at this point

@Vapeguy
Yeah, I forgot about the other trailers. That’s gonna be a lot of bosses to fight if they carry over the ones from BOTW.

@Chaotic_Neutral

BotW goes beyond traditional puzzles and TotK goes a landslide beyond it. Seriously, we've seen the Zelda-style oldschool puzzles in a million games after OOT. Even indie games have puzzles like that.

There's nothing awesome about Elden Ring having a few puzzles like this. It doesn't push the envelope anywhere. What makes BotW and even more TotK so great is the interactivity in the open world setting. Compared to that games like Elden Ring look dated.

Just some examples:
Armor in the new Zelda games improve stats, but it can also have other effects such as the rubber suit nullifying lightning or full zora armor increasing swimming speed.

You can swim and climb any surface in the new Zelda games. You can't even swim in Elden Ring let alone climb.

The new Zelda games have numerous things you can break to materials, such as cutting trees for wood. All materials have their uses such as armor upgrades instead of just rotting in your inventory. This is even more true in TotK because of the Fuse ability.

The physics based puzzles are innovative in an open world game.

All the effects of the physics and chemistry engine are far beyond Elden Ring.

There are so much more traversal methods, such as shield surfing, sand seal surfing, paragliding, swimming up waterfalls, etc.

Meanwhile in Elden Ring.... you can fight and there are some old school puzzles we've seen in a million games. You can travel on foot or use one horse (BotW had many horses you could pick with different stats and customizable looks). And that's it. The best features of the game are the enemy variety and the impressive landmarks. I dare to say the latter is its best feature, even if it's just a visual thing.

@Cia BotW allows all of what you stated at the expense of story, character development and progression.
You get all of the abilities at the beginning of the game with nothing to work towards and the map is 90% empty. You can climb or swim anywhere but there's no point as there isn't anything to discover and it usually takes a large amount of effort (managing stamina and breakable weapons all hamper the experience) with little pay off. Spend 30 mins traversing a mountain to get to the top and there isn't a single thing up there apart from a pointless Korok seed.

It's effectively a Ubisoft map with way fewer missions and points of interest with some cool abilities that get stale quickly. What's the point in having multiple ways of traversal when there's no destination. The same with the armour sets, the are all pretty much pointless (yes I did get them all) as there are more effective ways to get the buffs. Just grind rupees and you can buy enough mats to craft 100's of elixirs. For example I never bothered upgrading my stamina wheel at all because there was no need, I always had a full inventory with enough mats to craft more if I needed so could get anywhere I wanted.

You can pretty much do everything you stated in BotW (apart from shield surf) in games like AC Odyssey or Valhalla but those games also managed to fit in Character progression, an actual story, side events. Saying BotW is innovative shows that you haven't played many open world sandbox games, it's one of the most generic games I've played.

Hopefully in TotK with the fuse and create abilities we should at least get to build houses and settlements like in Conan Exiles which will actually give the game some end game content aside from messing about for no reason.
It wouldn't have been so boring if Nintendo had included multiplayer so you can go in and mess around with friends.

Please, dear God, let that be a dungeon rising from the sand! Pretty sure Nintendo is addressing the biggest complaint from BOTW and I can't wait.

I do not find what @dekuforce to respond to my post to being trolling or worth a ban. On my post he stated what for the US or European market is most likely fact based on demographics. Maybe he said something in post 28 that was terrible and inflammatory, but if was his response to me, I see no malice or trolling.

I've bought the digital version, so it's good to go in the morning when I wake up.

AAA Nintendo games are the only games these days that make me excited for day one releases.

I know this game won't disappoint 😎

@echoplex My brother and I, when a game doesn't have co-op, watch each other, give tips, and comment on each other's gameplay. It does happen.

i wonder how high/deep we gonna go in the game?

Almost spoilt it for myself, but those cringy voices had me turning it off almost instantly lol

@FroZtedFlake I wonder if Gleeocks are a new type of overworld "boss," like Taluses or Hinoxes in BoTW