Skyward Sword's Sacred Tears Are The Key To Tears Of The Kingdom
We finally have a name for Breath of the Wild 2! Link can also go on rock lifts and a Hylian stealth bomber! Rejoice! I’ll stop taking the piss now, I’m excited for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. But to be honest, I’m more excited because Breath of the Wild is one of my favourite games of all time rather than because of anything we’ve seen in any trailers.
Nintendo is playing its cards close to its chest with Tears of the Kingdom, but that hasn’t stopped eager fans from analysing the epic reliefs to try to figure out exactly what has happened to Hyrule and where this fits into the complicated clusterfuck that is the Zelda timeline. However, many people are too busy looking at the visuals of the trailers, that they’re missing the clues in the title.
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That includes my own colleague, Lead Features Editor Jade King, who provided some excellent analysis of the new trailer as soon as it dropped. I learned a lot from her feature, but she failed to analyse exactly what the titular ‘tears’ are, aside from conjecturing that they are “the lingering presence of a world that has ceased to exist for centuries.” She could be right, but if we look to previous Zelda games, there might be more at play.
First, let’s look at Breath of the Wild. The only tears of importance are the ones that drop on your Sheikah Slate when you climb to the top of the Sheikah Towers across Hyrule. It’s worth noting that there’s an almost opposite tear drop effect in one of the early Tears of the Kingdom trailers, which transports Link up to the civilisation in the clouds. Are these the eponymous tears? It seems unlikely, but that cloud Hyrule will have a hugely important role
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