Tears of the Kingdom: The Final Analysis
Part 13: The Finale
Part 12 here
So, Sidon's tear.
I backed up a few frames to see if I could get a better look at the etchings on it while it was close up.
It looks...like an eye?
Almost like an Eye of Truth, but not quite. Given that Zelda's tear had Recall on it, I wonder if this tear gives a power unique to it, as well.
When we zoom out, we can see that Sidon, at this point in the game, is wearing a fitted version of his father's crown.
Which, of course, begs the question—what happened to Dorephan? When last we saw him, he was in good health and spirit, if mourning his daughter. Is he hurt? Did the Calamity injure him? Did Sidon prove himself mature? What is going on?
Tulin comes into view. He's only here very briefly, so it was hard to catch him properly, but-
Right here, he's now holding the Great Eagle Bow instead of his old Swallow. Which, if you didn't know—in order to make the Great Eagle Bow in Breath of the Wild, after you've broken the original, you need to take Harth a Swallow Bow, five bundles of wood, and a diamond. Little buddy possibly crafted the upgrade himself.
Now let's look at his tear.
This one is much more abstract than Sidon's, so I haven't any guesses as to what it could mean.
Once Tulin flies by, Link races to fight an enemy, a HUGE shard on his back.
Despite its size, however, he wields it as a one-handed weapon, fused to the hilt of a Rusty Broadsword:
The material doesn't look like anything I've seen before, and given its glow and the fiery Gleeok he's about to face-
I'd say it's embued with the power of ice, if not outright made from the interior of one of Naydra's horns.
Speaking of Gleeok! For those unfamiliar, Gleeok is a classic Zelda boss. And by classic, I mean actually classic.
This guy, from the original Legend of Zelda, has made so many appearances.
Oracle of Seasons had Gleeok like this.
In Phantom Hourglass, it was a two headed water serpent.
This isn't even counting the variants and spinoffs, Gleerok from Minish Cap or Gleeokenspiel from Cadence of Hyrule. This guy is recurring, just like Dodongo is.
The number of heads Gleeok has varies—even in Legend of Zelda, the boss showed up twice, first with two heads and then with four. And in its official art from back then
He has three.
This guy has three huge, unhinged jaws, fire blazing out of the crest of its heads, and its eyes are all malice slits.
Despite the fire, though, the background is a dull teal, with snow falling. The only other place in the trailer we've seen this environment is in the Thunderhead that we've explored with Tulin.
We're reaching the end now. Zelda holds the Master Sword, says that Link is "our final hope."
"Our last line of defense will be Link."
After what? What is Link a contingency for? Plans falling through? Ganondorf breaking free?
Tears of the Kingdom. The filled in, red edge of the mural we saw in the last trailer.
Ganondorf commands his forces, a towering figure above the rest.
Soldiers stand bravely against him in battle.
There are enemies new long with the old.
And among the chaos, right at Ganon's feet, one person has managed to slip past the hordes, with no weapon or shield to protect them.
Zelda, scuffed from battle, calls our name-
The Master Sword clutched tightly in her hands, hilt barely visible.
"You must find me," she says, seated on her altar
Her face toward the southern sea
From a place we've seen before.
I'd like to bring your attention to one last thing, before I end this analysis.
We've encountered five tears thus far in the trailer, each with different colors, each different significance.
We're still missing two.
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some things I noticed in the new totk trailer that I haven't seen talked about
I'm pretty sure that's going to be gleeok or some type of new spelling of the classic boss. I also suspect that it will either be a over world boss like hinoxes are, or it's going to be a specialty type of boss connected to specific quests, main or side. One hope I have is for elemental varieties of it as I think that could pose a really fun challenge.
I think it's likely that part of Death Mountain is going to break off, allowing us to enter into the depths of the volcano and perhaps even find a temple or whatever the equivalent will be for temples. Either that or a very large cave system that has possible story connections, as we do see in other parts of the trailer where it appears that Death Mountain is now spewing malice (as can be seen in the earlier picture of gleerok.)
So like, I can't take a picture of sound, but early in the trailer during this segment it clearly sounds like they're in some form of echoing chamber as the bokoblin hits the ore; which leads me to suspect that this particular area may be a segment of the underneath of Hyrule that we will get to explore.
And redeads have returned! They seem to be modelled after the ones found in oot, but I would also love to see some variants around Hyrule, like frozen ones that leave you in ice once they let go, or ones that constantly on fire in the hotter areas of Death Mountain. I'd also think it'd be fun if we could have a side quest that allows us to find a "secret chamber" hidden within the Kakariko village cemetery.
extra speculations under the cut
Some things I speculate:
That at some point, you as Link will trigger separate story events that causes the labyrinths to rise into the sky, probably in relation to quests to unlock new abilities not directly related to the master sword (like the champion's abilities for example.)
I suspect that we will restore the master sword like we do in past games, either with a sacred flame from each of the springs like in ss (the most likely case,) or uncovering lost ancient temples and inserting the sword into an alter like in ww.
Weapon restoration. Although maybe that's more of a hope. I also would like the option to be able to purchase weapons from merchants, not just arrows.
I also suspect, that like ss, Link is going to be chasing after Zelda for a portion of the game, probably after their fall. Although instead of being with Impa, that Zelda instead will be travelling with an avatar for the being we've seen in the cave carvings.
Purely speculation with no real evidence, but I suspect that green hand we see belonged to the previous hero who initially sealed up mummified Ganondorf.
More voice acting. It was pretty well received, and we now have heard Ganondorf (presumably, I saw someone on reddit suggest it may be Demise speaking in the trailer which would be quite fun tbh.) So I think it may be likely to see more cut scenes this time around with voice acting.
I. Want. Tingle. He would be perfect to add in now that there's sky travel, and perhaps like Majora's Mask, you need to buy map segments from him in order to expand your map of the sky.
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