One Change Would Make Zelda: TOTK’s Ending So Much Better
The main story in is nothing short of grandiose, but its ending took a turn that missed an opportunity for more poignancy. As a direct sequel to, at the end of which Calamity Ganon was seemingly destroyed, gets rather inventive with its narrative, choosing to tell two parallel arcs spanning untold millennia. Its conclusion is satisfying and emotional, but one change could have been for the better, though such an ending seems incredibly unlikely with the history of Nintendo's flagship fantasy series.
[Warning: The following article contains spoilers for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.]Mimicking the narrative design of its predecessor, focuses on two stories separated by a number of years, one told through a series of memories found in Dragon Tears across Hyrule. These Dragon Tears fall from the Light Dragon, who is actually Zelda in , transformed after swallowing a secret stone in Hyrule's distant past. She willingly undergoes such a dire transformation in order to personally protect the Master Sword during the thousands of years it will take for the Blade of Evil's Bane to repair itself after being damaged by Ganondorf's Gloom in 's opening sequence.
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Zelda's shocking transformation is revealed in 's final memory, found at the center of the spiraled Rist Peninsula after exploring every Geoglyph. She then wanders the skies of Hyrule as the Light Dragon for what is presumed to be tens of thousands of years, giving the Master Sword time to regenerate in hopes that Link will one day learn of its location from the memories stored in her tears. It's an incredibly tragic arc for Princess Zelda, perhaps her most harrowing in the series,
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