Nintendo Confirms Tears Of The Kingdom Will Have "Huge" Dungeons
It sure seemed like Link would have to explore some pretty big dungeons when Nintendo released The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s third trailer. Link was briefly shown falling down a cavern covered in lasers while a giant stone golem stepped out of its rocky tomb. If that’s not a huge, puzzle-filled dungeon, I don’t know what is.
As it turns out, fan intuition was right about dungeons being back in Tears of the Kingdom. In the third part of Nintendo's own developer interview, game director Hidemaro Fujibayashi confirmed that dungeons are back in a big way for the Breath of the Wild sequel.
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"They've changed from the previous game," Fujibayashi explained. "For example, there is a dungeon that connects directly from Hyrule's surface. If you dive from the sky straight into the dungeon, you'll trigger an event. We think this will be a new experience that wasn't possible in the previous game."
Programmer Takuhiro Dohta described Tears of the Kingdom's dungeons as "unique" with a "wide variety of regional characteristics," while lead artist Satoru Takizawa noted how difficult it was to design these larger dungeons.
"Making a 'wide variety' was pretty challenging. The four Divine Beasts were the dungeons in the last game, and they shared similar designs. This time, the dungeons are huge and each carry their own regional look and feel, just like traditional The Legend of Zelda games," Takizawa said. "We think they will provide a satisfying challenge for players. They were certainly a challenge to develop!"
In earlier parts of the interview, we got to see how Tears of the Kingdom developed over time. Several clips were shared showing footage of Link's constructible
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