Games Inbox: Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom pressure, Ubisoft price hike, and GoldenEye 007 love
The Wednesday letters page compares failed predictions for the Nintendo Direct, as one reader enjoys Microsoft Flight Simulator.
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Legendary pressure So now we know the next The Legend Of Zelda is called Tears Of The Kingdom and… not much else. Nintendo clearly weren’t interested in showing much more of the game but just giving us a name and a release date. That’s fine, I’ll take that. I’m sure there’s still a chance it could be delayed again but if Nintendo hasn’t earned people’s trust after all this time, I don’t know what to tell you.
If the game does hit its date though, it will have been over six years since Breath Of The Wild and that is a long time for what everyone assumed to be a Majora’s Mask style sequel, where most of the assets are reused from the previous game. A lot of the world does seem to be the same, but they also appear to have added a whole new floating world on top of it, or at least that’s my interpretation of what we’re seeing.
If the question is whether the game will be worth the wait though it’s basically impossible to tell at this point. What does strike me though is that while we know the name we don’t have any idea of the gimmick of the game. Is it just Breath Of The Wild with more magic abilities? I can’t believe it would be that simple, but until we have more information who knows.
If this is the longest gap ever between a Zelda game then that puts extra pressure on a game that’s already trying to follow-up
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