Tears Of The Kingdom Glyphs Are Spoiling The Story For Some Players

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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom seems to be a perfect game. It brings back everything we loved about Breath of the Wild while adding new features to fall in love with. There is a ton of Zelda lore from across the franchise and great characters to flesh out Hyrule. Overall, it's hard to find fault with the Switch title. However, some fans have picked up on a particular flaw in the game’s system that is spoiling the story - the geoglyphs.

Early in the game’s main storyline, players will seek out Lady Impa as she investigates random glyphs that have appeared throughout Hyrule. These geoglyphs are easily spotted from the sky and appear to be in the shape of in-game items and characters like Link’s Purah Pad and the Master Sword. Within the glyphs is a pool of water that the player is tasked with finding. Each pool represents a different memory that contains a snippet of the main story.

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However, and here is where players are finding fault, there is no given order for Link to hunt them down. This means that you can stumble upon the memories out of order, spoiling what happens in the story. This has caused one player to create a whole Reddit thread to lay out the order of the glyphs chronologically. While this handy map is sure to make many new Tears of the Kingdom players happy, those who have already started are disappointed that Nintendo didn’t think of this sooner.

Many of the comments in the thread are sharing how helpful this chronological list would have been at the beginning of the game. You know, before they got the final one first and spoiled the entire story. A particular sore spot seems to be the fact that the first two memories are