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[Draugoth]

Nintendo has officially announced a Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Switch OLED console. It launches in April, ahead of the game the following month

A The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom themed Nintendo Switch Pro Controller and Carrying Case will also launch alongside the game on May 12th.

 

[AJUMP23]

RECALL!

 

[AJUMP23]

FUSE!

Weapon fusing is cool. I can't wait to do that.

 

[Topher]

Ah man.....thank God for Fuse!

 

[Scotty W]

It’s all so magical!

 

[GymWolf]

Some devs watched the latest just cause games uh...

 

[AJUMP23]

Homing Arrows with Eyeballs. That is lovely.

 

[Topher]

This is going to take scavenging to a whole new level

 

[AJUMP23]

Ultrahand!

 

[AJUMP23]

ASCEND! Pass through ceilings.

 

[Topher]

 

[ChazAshley]

Dear Nintendo, here's my $70

 

[AJUMP23]

I really enjoyed that. Looks like a lot of fun for the price of my Nintendo Voucher.

 

[Thief1987]

You can do basic things in some idiotic tedious way! Look how creative we are!

 

[Poltz]

Fuse, Ultrahand and Ascend look like gamechangers.

 

[Flabagast]

LMAO what the fuck have they been doing the last 6 years ? This looks like an expansion pack. This is GoW Ragnarok all over again.

How depressing.

 

[AV]

tl;dw notes

- Development is complete and it's very much BOTW again with new stuff
- Yes, weapon durability is still in
- New abilities: Fuse and Ultrahand, stick objects together to create new weapons and objects, loads of combinations to try - stone hammers, mushroom shield, makeshift vehicles
- Rocks will fall from the sky and you use an ability called recall to get yourself to sky islands. Not the only way
- New ability: Ascend, can go straight through ceilings to quickly reach the top of areas
- Special edition Switch OLED April 28th

 

[Umbasaborne]

Looks neat mechanically, wish they would talk about dungeons, structure, underground ect…

 

[kubricks]

The fuse mechanics is so cool!
Day one for me, can't wait to try all sort of silly things in it!!!!!

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

Its Zelda so of course i will get it, and i love the new stuff he showed......however, this game is ugly. I'm hoping it was just the video compression, otherwise the best looking thing about the game was the water.

 

[Poppyseed]

You can do basic things in some idiotic tedious way! Look how creative we are!

I do worry about that a bit. I don’t want to spend ages crafting a vehicle to go to a sky island. I also don’t want to waste that time only to find I have it pointing the wrong way when I smack the fan - and have it run out of power. That said, it was mentioned in the video there are multiple ways to get to sky islands.

Also, this game is a creative gamer’s dream come true.

 

[EverydayBeast]

I like the trailer hell I remember pre ordering months ago, it’s fresh and will be great. You can laugh at things like fusing weapons and jumping through ceilings but the Zelda series is coming full circle and you owe it to yourself to play this game.

 

[Sanepar]

It is just perfect. Now give me switch 2 to play this 1440p@60fps

 

[Henry Panic]

From the looks of it they didn't fix any problems people had with the first game so far.

Only added more features and padding.

 

[jaysius]

How is it so fucking ugly?

Also the shitty weapon breaking is back.

 

[sainraja]

Can't wait!

 

[SCB3]

That all looks incredible! I'm super curios on what I can make and fuse together

Nothing about Shrines though, I assume they're back but you'd think it would be featured a bit.

Also that Switch OLED, I still run a Launch Switch, its almost making me want it, that Pro Controller is a must but however

 

[LordOcidax]

Day 0, Can’t wait.

 

[Topher]

Also the shitty weapon breaking is back.

Seems like the Fuse feature is meant to mitigate that a bit though.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Looks great.

This crafting direction they're going with qualms my fears about that dreaded DLC label.

 

[Pelao]

It looks cool, but it really feels like an expansion rather than a sequel. Still, Breath of the Wild is one of my favorite games of all time, despite not being a huge Zelda fan, so getting more of the same doesn't bother me in this case.

 

[Hosam6xavi]

 

[jaysius]

Seems like the Fuse feature is meant to mitigate that a bit though.

Still a trash feature.

 

[Holammer]

Looks good. Overall it feels like a weird sequel.

 

[jorgejjvr]

Still a trash feature.

I personally love it

 

[PrefectAboro]

Man I was so spoiled playing BOTW on CEMU.....this looks like a PS3 game! The new sky islands don't look much different than what we got on the ground. I was expecting DUNGEONS! There has to be dungeons right??

 

[jaysius]

So they've harvested the rest of the features from every survival game in the last 15 years now with the crafting, great.

 

[SnapShot]

Many awesome new abilities, can't wait!

 

[Mato]

They really doubled down on all the crafting stuff. Yawn. I guess I'm over Zelda. Elden Ring FTW.

 

[saintjules]

The english VO sounds very familiar.

 

[Spaceman292]

Looks VERY similar to BOTW. Before he went up to the floating islands it literally looked identical. It'll probably be great, because the first one was great, but SIX YEARS?? HOW?

Seems like Zelda has the same problem as Pokemon. It's still basically fun but it's falling further and further behind today's technology. Seems like they've been at a stand still since 2014.

 

[jaysius]

Ascend feels more like hacks than a good feature, kind of kills some of the exploration by just automating it, kill a little bit of the fun.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Can't wait to see what people with way more imagination than me come up with.

 

[sainraja]

LMAO what the fuck have they been doing the last 6 years ? This looks like an expansion pack. This is GoW Ragnarok all over again.

How depressing.

They're adding bunch of new features to the sequel and there is still a lot they haven't shown. Sequels don't need to reinvent (read: completely change) everything about the game lol.

 

[Umbasaborne]

Looks VERY similar to BOTW. Before he went up to the floating islands it literally looked identical. It'll probably be great, because the first one was great, but SIX YEARS?? HOW?

Yeah…pretty bummed that it will be at least another half decade before we get a new zelda game thats meaningfully different then breath of the wild

 

[Oberstein]

Cool mechanics, I'm in.

I'm sure they try to show as little as possible for very specific reasons.

 

[Umbasaborne]

They're adding bunch of new features to the sequel and there is still a lot they haven't shown. Sequels don't need to reinvent (read: completely change) everything about the game lol.

When you take 6 years to make that sequel, its reasonable to expect more than we have been shown

 

[jaysius]

SO they didn't even mention the Zelda playable parts... ROFL!!!

 

[tkscz]

tl;dw notes

- Development is complete and it's very much BOTW again with new stuff
- Yes, weapon durability is still in
- New abilities: Fuse and Ultrahand, stick objects together to create new weapons and objects, loads of combinations to try - stone hammers, mushroom shield, makeshift vehicles
- Rocks will fall from the sky and you use an ability called recall to get yourself to sky islands. Not the only way
- New ability: Ascend, can go straight through ceilings to quickly reach the top of areas
- Special edition Switch OLED April 28th

I'd assume recall can be used for more but that's all they've shown us. I wonder if the old abilities will return. Really hoping for a form of the hookshot to return, would make island hoping horizontally easier.

 

[Banjo64]

Yeah…pretty bummed that it will be at least another half decade before we get a new zelda game thats meaningfully different then breath of the wild

Grezzo will hopefully be releasing something soon.