The Next Zelda Is Unlikely To Be A Sequel To Breath Of The Wild And Tears Of The Kingdom
Director Hidemaro Fujibayashi seems ready to move on to a new storyline with the next Zelda title.
By Hayley Williams on
Whatever the next game in the Legend of Zelda series is going to be, it's unlikely to be a direct sequel to Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, the game's director has said in a new interview. Instead, the Zelda team will look to «create something new.»
Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma and director Hidemaro Fujibayashi spoke to Game Informer about the highly successful sequel, as well as plans for its future and the future of the series as a whole. When asked whether TOTK's iconic Ultrahand will return in future games, both were fairly certain that it wouldn't, explaining that they would rather move on to something new.
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«If, for example, there was any continuation of Tears of the Kingdom and we were to bring in, say, Ultrahand, then I think to us, it would feel like, 'Well, we're just bringing in Tears of the Kingdom as is,'» Fujibayashi explained. «What we want to do from a game creator's perspective is create something new. From that perspective, I don't think we'll be seeing Ultrahand in every Zelda game or anything in the future.» He also added that «every time we're making a Zelda title, we want to create something new.»
Aonuma added that the Ultrahand is emblematic of the approach the team took to developing Tears of the Kingdom. «You know, first putting all of our ideas in and then being very selective about what we wanted
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