Nintendo’s debuted a few trailers for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in the lead-up to its May 12 release date, but it’s kept a lot of the game’s actual gameplay under wraps. But that’s now changed, as Nintendo has dropped a 10-minute video featuring an in-depth look into Tears of the Kingdom’s gameplay. Legend of Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma walked us through the 10 minutes of action, detailing everything from Link’s updated abilities to new monster types.
Aonuma, playing as Link, used the demonstration to focus heavily on Link’s new abilities, like weapon fusing and movement. Look, you can do just about anything in Tears of the Kingdom, judging from the new trailer. There’s so much to break down; the cool thing about these abilities is that they’re applicable in so many different situations… traversal, fighting, and crafting.
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Of course, Nintendo’s Tears of the Kingdom showcase is pretty short. Nintendo usually spills the details of its gameplay in more lengthy broadcasts, like it did with Splatoon 3 and Xenoblade Chronicles 3. There’s plenty to analyze in Tears of the Kingdom’s 10 minutes — but there’s certainly also plenty that Nintendo’s decided to keep secret.
But for now, here are all the new details we’ve spotted in Tuesday’s new Tears of the Kingdom trailer.
Link has a new ability called Recall, which can rewind object movement. You highlight the object, then click a button to rewind its movement; in the gameplay demonstration, Aonuma uses a rock that’s fallen from the sky island to travel upward into the sky. That’s the one way the ability was used in the gameplay trailer, but there must be many more ways this can be used — maybe in combat?
Weapon fusing is one of the more exciting abilities
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