Tears of Kingdom begins

Between March gameplay in detail And The meaty launch trailer in Aprilabout which we know much more The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom than at the beginning of the year. But even now we continue to receive new information, such as B. where Link starts the game and a possible first look at how deep he will go underground.

After the April 13 trailer a own website for Tears of the Kingdom went live as discovered by IGN

. Along with general information about the game that we already knew, the site reveals that Link will not begin his journey in the sequel on Hyrule’s surface, but on one of his new floating islands. “There, our hero must gain new abilities before returning to the surface world to begin his epic adventure,” reads a description.

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That certainly makes it sound like the first island works similarly breath of the wild

‘s Great Plateau starting area, where players could explore shrines and new gameplay mechanics before setting out to explore the rest of the game’s sprawling open world. It could also indicate that Link’s great fall through the sky in the last trailer could be from his first leaving Tears of the kingdom‘s initial floating island area.

Alongside this official detail, a leaked commercial for the game appeared on the zelda underreddit also, tease a few more interesting tidbits. The display shows the game in both handheld mode and docked. In handheld mode, we get a confirmed glimpse of a Gleeok, the Hydra-like dragon, right from the start zelda, chasing Link across a bridge with a name that suggests there may be many more of them around the world. Docked, we see Link shoot an arrow at a plant to light up a mysterious forest.

Most importantly, the footage in the forest shows a z-coordinate on the minimap of -470, meaning the location is deep underground. With Tears of the Kingdom Fans have wondered if the hero of the time could also explore the opposite direction, as Link flies between islands in the sky on a mechanical glider, and the leaked commercial seems to confirm that, at least secrets –and possibly entire dungeonswill be hidden deep beneath the surface of Hyrule.

Tears of the Kingdom is coming to Switch on May 12, and it seems like news is continuing to trickle out every now and then, especially if the entire game was leaked sometime early. The leak of the game’s artbook in February has already led to this Nintendo wants to subpoena Discord to find out who is responsible.