The Inspiration For That The Legend of Zelda Tears of The Kingdom Commercial Has Emerged

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Do you remember that slightly funny, slightly unnerving launch commercial for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom? We now have an incredible story behind that story.

When we had initially reported on the commercial at it first started going viral, we focused on the humor that could be seen it, calling it a commercial for dads. We looked at the little clues that the main character could be a father (looks middle aged, SO walked away instead of staying with him, a Nintendo Switch game that was left unattended), but it seems other fans saw something else.

A lot of fans read that the man was more than bored, but even depressed. Others felt that there was something quite strange about how it seemed nothing else could make the man happy than the new Zelda game.

It seems we were not really able to verbalize what we were collectively thinking; that many of us gamers who play and talk about playing and write about video games, are in the same age range as the man in the commercial. And it was hard to verbalize because it’s too close to our experiences at where we are in our lives, and it makes us uncomfortable.

But maybe we can get more meaning out of the commercial now that we know its inspiration. As reported by GoNintendo, it has come to light that that commercial was actually inspired by a real middle-aged The Legend of Zelda player, who left a long and thoughtful review of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in Amazon Japan.

We’ll share the full text of the review as it has been translated at the bottom of this article, but for those who need it, we’ll share a summary here.

This middle aged Japanese man is discontent with his life and his position in the world. He works to the point of overtime and doesn’t find