You’re Thinking About TEARS of the Kingdom All Wrong…
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
- I clarify what the title "Tears of the Kingdom" actually means. The title of each Zelda game is important, as it generally reveals quite a bit about the gameplay and environment one can expect from that specific game. We explore that idea to its fullest potential in this video!
0:00 Intro
3:16 Previous Zelda Titles' Meanings
5:16 History Rhymes Itself
9:35 How do the "tears" fit into all of this?
9:48 Not Crying
11:05 "Tears"
13:16 "Tiers"
14:31 "Tears" further speculation
17:53 Magical Hand connection?
18:35 Zonai and Hylia
21:35 Outro/Call to Action
#zelda #tearsofthekingdom #legendofzelda 
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What if The kingdom from the title isn't referring to Hyrule, but instead to a different kingdom that is an ally of Hyrule who's crumbling remains dropped like tears from the highest reaches of the heavens or the sacred realm...
That’s the type of idea we encourage around here! Great thinking 😎
I feel like that’s not it since the labyrinths arose as well so I think all the islands are from hyrule
@@hunterbittle356 Good point. But aren't the labyrinths of Zonai origin, just like a lot of the sky island architecture? You're right though that it seems like stuff's moving both ways; Hyrule Castle levitates and it's not Zonai as far as we know, and debris and whatever else falls down. It could be the forces of Ganondorf and malice push up, displacing certain things like the labyrinths and Hyrule Castle in order to make room for his malice fueled machinations, while simultaneously a secret Kingdom that is far, far above anything we've seen so far (maybe Zonai, and probably related to the green hand from trailer 1) push downwards in some sort of attempt to counteract Ganondorf and aid Link in defeating him/his evil.
they’re reusing the botw map, and as a direct sequel to botw we can assume it is hyrule.
@@Jabberjai yeah I mean clearly we're in Hyrule for most, possibly all the time. But I mean more that there could be a realm far up in the sky that is a "Kingdom" per say, and has like a capital city, and things are falling from there. Idk obviously I could be totally wrong. It does seems like the "Tears" in the title are a double (triple, quadruple, etc) entendre, and that the title refers to a central, multifaceted theme and set of gameplay elements...
I’ve always thought the “tears” in the title meant “rips” or “fractures”, which would explain the broken areas of Hyrule that are floating high in the sky. They “ripped” or “fractured” and rose.
Love the multiverse thought. Never thought about that before! Great video!
Excellent comment!
I didn’t think about “tears” in that sense, but that could be like a Lorule “we decided to destroy our Triforce so now Hyrule is crumbling” kind of thing (which could technically happen if Zelda loses the Triforce!). I like your thinking!
Thanks for watching as well as furthering the conversation, Crash 🤗
the japanese version of the title confirms its tears as in crying, tho that would be a rlly good idea otherwise
@@claydoesstuff Well I mean, there's also collectable 💧 shaped items and heavy use of 💧 shape mural imagery, so I think it's pretty safe to assume that tears (as in crying) is the intended meaning. Although, there definitely could also be a double meaning.
@@adamwillis908 yeah definitely :) crying tears is probably the case, like you said, but tears (as in like paper) does make a lot of sense too.
Nope, the Japanese translation is Tears(crying) not Tears(ripping)
The two dragons in the logo also look like a WHEEL. Perhaps alluding to vehicles and crafting. Teas/tiers
This video just increased my excitement for the game 10 fold! The tears/alternate dimensions would explain why link has 2 different looks and why Hyrule is seen in both light like how it normally is and dark when Ganondorf returns!
Happy to keep the hype train rolling while we’re all in limbo for the next Hylian blockbuster 😎
Thanks for watching!
I’d also like to note about “tears” is that just because there is an official or main meaning for the word meaning 😢 doesn’t exclude other meanings or that others don’t have ties, it’s just simply not the main meaning.
Agreed 😎
Yea. There isn’t anything to point to anything being ripped or teared from the ground.
There are tears of the kingdom shown in 2021 delay teaser.
Except in Japanese (where you know, the title name actually comes from), it’s explicitly tears (like what comes from the eyes). It doesn’t really matter if there are other pronunciations and meaning in Englishz
@@pezfam As I said in my video, “that fruit hangs too low for me”. That’s a lazy interpretation that severely limits the potential of where this game could take players. I don’t think you’re lazy or anything like that! But I don’t think it’s as black and white as you’re suggesting. I think it’s gray.
@@wizcatcheslightning it’s not lazy thinking. It is what it is. ゼルダの伝説 ティアーズ オブ ザ キングダム is the ACTUAL name of the game. When we call it “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom”, it is being translated from that. They didn’t start with the English title and then have Nintendo of Japan translate into Japanese. And there isn’t room for puns or retranslations in the original Japanese title.
While your hypothesis is interesting, in the scheme of things, it actually doesn’t make sense, because the Japanese title can’t possibly play on the wording of the video.
Plus, less than three days after the title release, Eiji Aonuma and Hidemaro Fujibayashi confirmed everything I said here, that Nintendo of America into English after a name is decided upon in Japanese.
Hey everyone! Just wanted to take a moment to say thank you for all of the feedback! Keeping the conversation going is important in addition to hearing what you have to say! I’m making content as quickly as possible. Until then, hang in there. We’ll all be playing Zelda soon 🤗
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@@mrplatink I'm "too old" to be excited by Zelda releases but I'm as excited as I was when I read that they were working on the first 3D release. That was Ocarina of Time. I don't want to over-hype it in my mind but I can't help it! Especially after BoTW finally fulfilled the original's (I grew up on it) goal of open-world awesomeness. 😎
@@CynHicks We are kindred spirits! I'm waaay too old to be playing Zelda games, but there's that unmistakable sense of discovery, navigation, and adventure when the game throws you in the midst of it all and says, "Have at it. Have fun. Goodbye." BotW sandbox leads me to believe that Tears will be similar, but they know the expectations are higher than high--higher than the skies Link will soon climb! I have high hopes myself, but I know whatever they throw at us, it will be their best effort.
I just want to say that the production quality on this is some of the best I've seen from any creator, including the ones with thousands of subscribers.
Plus pretty much every point you made resonated with me, so there's that too. Well done!
Thanks! It’s a labor of love for certain
🤗 😂
I would really like to see TotK really wrap up all the zelda games into one timeline. Considering all the references to all the other games in BotW, I think it could be possible. I also can't remember, but I thought I heard a theory that TotK would be set _before_ Skyward Sword. Maybe the events of this game will give us the reason why Skyward Sword's world is the way it is, thus turning the timeline into a true cycle. Idk if I explained that in a coherent way. Anyway, nice video.
Yes I’m following you! If BOTW is able to find a plot device that can take us back to events before Skyward Sword, BoTW and ToTK can take place both at the end and beginning of the timeline. Time travel is indeed confusing 😂
Thanks! Hoping to make more as soon as I can get them written/produced
@@wizcatcheslightning eagerly awaiting your video on the subject, I really enjoyed the video
@@Geddy135 I've been working nonstop, trust me, haha! The timeline video, like all good things, takes time.
You know, I feel like a lot of this is way out there and would never happen, but this was probably the most fun speculation I've seen in a while that, while probably super incorrect, didn't anger me?
I can see the work and passion in this video. Keep it up, might subscribe!
Changing minds like 12 Angry Men over here and I wouldn’t have it any other way 😎
Thanks for the input and the view!
My guy...you just blew my mind wide fucking open making the "green Zonai hand" analogous to Link's right hand and what that may implicate. BOOM! Subscribed. Keep 'em coming!
Happy to do my part 🫡
Thanks for the sub!
This video is so well put together thank you for this
Thanks for the feedback as well as the view! 🤗
Really nice job on this. Different and longer than most Zelda videos I watch and I watch them all hah. Definitely going to subscribe. I would love to see a video about the connection between the child timeline and botw.
Hey well thanks for the feedback, Joe! I put quite a bit of time and effort into what started as a timeline theory and then I was like “this needs a preamble, because there’s a lot of gears turning in my head about this” hahaha. Also appreciate the sub, stay tuned for more! Between you and me (and whoever else takes the time to read this) there may be one or two more vids before the timeline vid. However, the timeline vid’s script is mostly written and let me tell ya…what a damn thought experiment! Took forever to make sure it was buttoned up. But I have it, and you can probably expect that before April
@@wizcatcheslightning Of course. I bet, I imagine it takes a lot of time, re-writing and research to do something like that. Looking forward to that for sure. Watching Zelda videos is helping me get through these last few months of waiting for Tears of the Kingdom, I’m sure I’m not the only one haha.
So much is spot on and really intriguing to think about! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching, Sean!
There could be a connection of skyward sword when in the Spirit Trials occur and the Tears of the Kingdom is playing at the Tears you must collect during the Spirit Trials.
I was thinking about that too! The vessel you use to collect those spirit tears looks oddly similar to the Zonai symbol 🤔
The guys that chase you in the spirit trials are also called guardians.
You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention!
That’s what it’s all about 😎
I appreciate you watching!
Bro, this is a great channel. Subbed
Thanks lunchtime 😎
I thought maybe Ganondorf acquired all 3 TriForce pieces & had sonehow merged all 3 timelines, creating overlaps in structures & races (Rito & Zora coexisting).
What if the Zonai were the Hylian race before the events of Skyward Sword, and the current floating islands are a second attempt to reenact Hylia raising her people to Skyloft?
Love hearing all of this! And I’ve had similar thoughts about the Zonai. I can’t shake the thought of the mural Zonai + 2 Zelda figures (Zelda and Hylia or a second Zelda) being canon either.
Again, really well done ! Thank you, I am inspired for the story
Thanks! I wish I could just make videos all day. Sadly, that’s not the case atm 🥲
Great video man!
Thank you sir!
It was so good if the history of tears of the kingdom was about a dimensional universe, where are more than one link, and a version of everyone in all universes
I got chills thinking of the master sword tearing a hole to different ki gdoms.
It’s a neat concept, right? 🥲
Great video. We've already seen the theories that there are 2 different links in this game, but you're the first I've seen to theorize that there could be more than 1 zelda and ganondorf also.
I think you might be onto something here.
I’ll take that to the bank! Thank you for the recognition 🤗
Wow excellent quality video bro. Hope you get more subs in the future.
Hey! I appreciate those words! It wasn’t always like this, that’s for sure! Learned a lot of valuable things during the whole process of being a content creator. Stay tuned for more and thanks for your viewership 🥲
I’m convinced Demise will be in this. Glad to see other people bringing that possibility up!
Rock n roll! Yeah the more I think about him coming back, the more and more he seems like a shoe in at this point.
@@wizcatcheslightning You’d already covered it, but it was the damaged sword on the cover that’s had me thinking that. Not to mention, this title (in the trailers) appears to be sending every enemy that’s ever existed and currently exists at you, I almost think it would be weird if he’s the only one left out with all the skyward sword references.
@@TheMikepatota well stay tuned for more! Because I’ll be dedicating a video with as much evidence as possible support as to why or how Demise could be in TOTK 🤗
If I'm being honest, there should be no way that Demise comes back. The whole point of Hylia's plan in Skyward Sword was to ensure that Demise had no chance of coming back. People seem to misinterpret the scene at the end where Link absorbs Demise's consciousness into the Master Sword. What they fail to realize is that Fi specifically said that Demise's residual consciousness is decaying in the Sword. That's the reason why Impa stayed behind the watch over the sword, to make sure Demise didn't come back. Then, once we return to the present, Impa is still waiting guarding the Master Sword. People also forget that the time travel jump is about 1000 years in the past. 1000 years of time for Demise's consciousness to decay, and that not even including the 10,000 year gap between the Distant Past and Botw time. So it's pretty obvious that there's nothing left of Demise, and the only way I could see him coming back is through the Triforce, and that's if people even remember him in this time. God that was a long ramble.
@@Johnny-Games15 a long but GOOD ramble conducive to the discussion! Appreciate the input here. New video coming soon that kind of elaborates a bit on this idea, but I do plan on making a video dedicated to the return of Demise and I plan on playing through several Zelda games back to back pretty soon here to make sure all of my knowledge is tightly knit. Thanks again for contributing to the dialogue 😎
He time traveled in BOTW. He spent 100 years in the shrine of resurrection.
Good point!
My first zelda experience was alttp. I was 7 years old at the time and 20 years later, I consider alttp one of my favorite zelda games of all time.
That was the first Zelda game I ever beat 🤗
Great Video!
The section about "tears" being tears in spacetime and having different realities merging made me think. You talked about how Ganondorf in one reality could have wished on the Triforce for a second copy of himself, which would mean there would need to be a second Zelda and second Hero.
This made me think, what if sometime after the timeline split in OoT, Ganondorf wished on the Triforce to have the power or to rule ALL of Hyrule? This could be a way for the timelines to converge, with the Triforce merging all different timelines and version of Hyrule, and giving Ganondorf a lot of power, bringing us to BotW, where this cycle with Calamity Ganon appearing every 10,000 years.
This could explain how BotW Hyrule has aspects of all 3 timelines, as well as mentions by Zelda.
Anyways, great video! I'm excited to see what "Tears" refers too! Hopefully multiple things!
Thank you! And that’s an excellent comment. Quite possibly top 3 that I’ve seen on here since publishing, because your comment takes my thinking in the video even further! So thank you for that as well 🤗
Stay tuned for more 😎
While hindsight definitely makes this more clear, NOA did clarify specifically that the title is intended to be tears as in "from crying eyes"
If that’s true, we could still take the meaning of the phrase in about 5 different directions that I can take off the top of my head. The pinned comment for this video elaborates further, in addition to the part of the video where I speak about the history of Zelda titles
Less than 1k subscribers. Underrated channel. Great video.
Appreciate it Wesley 😎
Think of the Twilight realm and the Dark World as the same idea. Both are shadows of normal Hyrule. Each game has a unique art style but concepts remain the same. LTTP was obviously the inspiration for the idea. Both LTTP and TP have a "dark pyramid" in them as a visual representation of the evil world encroaching upon the light.
I really appreciate you sharing that! Twilight Realm totally does have a pyramid like the Dark World did and that’s worth considering. Thanks! 😊
We dont actually know if the Twilight Realm is a dfark image of Hyrule, we never see much of it beyond the little bit when we travel there. It seepeing into Hyrule and Twilighting the land isnt the same as the land itself being a dark mirror of Hyrule.
@@aureateseigneur5317 I think the pyramid in TP is really just a callback to LTTP, it’s interesting symbolism!
@@wizcatcheslightning Its deffinitly a nice visual motif. I'm not sure its a call back to alttp specifically because Zelda has something of an obsession with Triangles and Pyrimids in general, but it could be.
If you're really interesting in some cool symbolism i recommend looking up all the meaning Triangles and Pyrmids have had over the centuries and applying some of that to Zelda. Its use of Triangles and Pyrmids is facinating, far more interesting then its interpretations of abrahamic religion imo.
@@aureateseigneur5317 what are we talking here? Pythagorean theorem? Divine mathematical principles? Earlier than that? Other stuff worth looking into? I like your take here!
Ganon’s Trident makes its first canon appearance in OoT, not downfall timeline. He wields two handheld Tridents.
That’s true! But OOT is technically the beginning of all three split timelines.
You know what, even after the game came out, this video does make some good points. I have theories now
Right on! Hope you make something fantastic 😎
I commented on another Zelda video that with the sky islands and caves "As Above, So Below" would be the perfect tagline for the game, and I'm actually surprised Nintendo hasn't used it in their promotion as of this time.
Whether they’re aware of it or not, the game is definitely leaning in that direction (and hopefully, beyond that, as I hope this video demonstrates)
@@wizcatcheslightning Agreed, also well done on the video! Really enjoyed it!👍🏻
I always like it when someone comes up with a unique and compelling theory/theories that aren’t just your typical, run of the mill “something, something, Zonai” videos that seem to make up the majority of the theory videos on YT these days ever since the first trailer dropped in 2019 and suggested that they would have more involvement in TOTK.
Anyway, keep up the good work! 👏
Subbed and looking forward to your next video.
@@masonschwalm2010 hey well thanks a TON for that input! I definitely noticed a need for more engaging Zelda content. Not that there aren’t creators out there doing things correctly. Plenty of notable names who have inspired my ideas. I am happy to have made this video, I put a lot of love into it under self-imposed time constraints, and I plan on churning out what I can before the arrival of the latest game so stay tuned! 🤗
I like how you took everything from history and made it a part of the possible future. It is not easy to speculate on the direct of the story, well besides the growth of the character(s) and the final fight.. will this be the final fight? What part will the tears ( rips) in time show us to save Hyrule? What is left of Hyrule to save?
I should have another vid out soon, but definitely check out Monster Maze’s video on the Triforce that dropped today. It’s so epically good. He’s an under-valued Zelda content creator
@@wizcatcheslightning He is part of my normal creators I watch... BlackCrisis, Zeltik, RGT, Commonwealth, Bob Wulff Den, Spawnwave, Gameover Jesse. Everyone contributes something.
@@nerdworld8211 no doubt, just wanted to point you toward some other stuff you might find interesting if you didn’t already know about it 😎
Very interesting!!
Thank you. Happy to provide new and interesting thoughts on the subject 😊
Since we know that green is related to both link and the zoni, what if since the two are connected, the zoni figure is ment to represent link or link has to transform or summon that being to defeat demise or gannondorf
I have definitely thought about it in that perspective! I’m definitely itching to research how it all plays out 🤗
I feel like instead of tears as in crying, its tears as in tearing an old cloth, maybe the kingdom ripping (Tearing) itself apart from the calamity's strike, as the trives start to separate and isolate themselves from each other, then link must join the trives toghether as to fix the tears of the kingdom
The japanese title is translated to the crying tears so no
@@Bejaphone bruh the guy said in the video that that might be wrong because the main audience of zelda was mainly ameracan and that while yes the studio is japanese the american title is more cannon or something idk
@@kristopher3623 and NOA has said its tears as in crying
@@turtlechow64 oops
@@kristopher3623 To bad NOA came out 3 days after that trailer and confirmed its crying tears and not ripping tears. Was an ok theory for like 3 days.
I just noticed the glow on links hand when he is holding the broken master sword. This means, that at some point, he gets the triforce of courage when he has long hair.
Regardless of what he gets, it’s associated with the either the goddess Hylia or the Triforce. Possibly both!
Great idea! That figure is an alternate Zelda! I was baffled why they would make a new character and design them so close to Zelda. This would be so satisfying! If this is supposed to be the part of the story that starts everything over again, it would need to pull all the timelines together.
I just noticed something… in the clip from the trailer at exactly 20:41 I think that gold glow is from something everyone seems to have missed…. Pause and look closely it looks like a triangle shape. It looks like a piece of the triforce glowing through his hand
Someone sent me a high definition screenshot of it the other day, and it looks like the Faron/Deku/Zonai symbol except it’s golden
@@wizcatcheslightning oh very interesting! Gosh I’m so darn excited for TOTK! 🥰
@@Atticus_Loves_Lacquer me too Atticus, me too 😎
Looking back on this now, you were definitely overthinking it lol
I knew there's no way an old Japanese company like Nintendo would make a wordplay in a language they don't speak. The whole concept of "rhyme" as a poetry tool is nonexistent in Japanese in the first place since it only has 6 possible sounds to end a word. Since around Twilight Princess, Nintendo started doing this thing where they would come up with a working title in Japanese first (usually with a certain poetic meaning from a Japanese literature standpoint), then swap word for word into English, and make that the final title. I remember when Twilight Princess was still being developed, it was called "Tasogare no Himegimi" at the time, and when they officially unveiled it, the final title became "Twilight Princess" which is literally just the first title but in English.
When I first heard the titles "Breath of the Wild" and "Tears of the Kingdom", I thought to myself "Yup. That really sounds Japanese". It's hard to explain it to non-Japanese speakers. If I were to guess, their line of thinking for the reason they do this is because Zelda has always been fascinating for so many people due to its universe incorporating different cultural themes, elements, and ideas from both Eastern (mostly Japanese) and Western worlds, so making a title in Japanese first and then flipping it into English represents such identity of Zelda itself.
I think you’re misunderstanding the “rhyme” part, as it relates to the story beats, and not the titles of the Zelda games.
I say this in the video, and it’s said in the pinned comment, but the titles reflect the English language using Hiragana. English language used in Japanese phonetics. Where do the most copies of Zelda games sell? English speaking countries. The titles are in Hiragana for this reason. The latest titles might be poetic, but they’re crafted in such a way that they’re created with the intention of reaching English speaking audiences first before Japanese audiences.
So excited to finally explore the tiers of the kingdom, after having explored the length and breadth of the wild
It makes a decent case for why we would have a file size increase between games of less than a 5GB increase (mind you this game is also going to be on a 32GB cartridge)
I had thought of both tears like crying and tiers as in levels, but not tears like rips, that’s a very interesting way of looking at it, maybe it even means all three
Glad you think so! I think it could be all 3
Nice inro dude!
Thank you! Also, thanks for the view/sub!
Grew up watching my pops play the Zelda collection on GC, been playing ever since
That’s awesome to hear! If I ever have kids I’ll probably do the same for them, ha ha
you didnt point out how zelda's sheikah is different than botw links was, it's more switch like than wii u game pad like, like the one link has, paired with surveys that supposedly ask if people would want to play though a story as zelda AND some promotional stuff saying things like join link AND zelda on another quest to save hyrule, meaning zelda might be playable which i dont 100% believe, but lets just say they did, i think that zelda falling ends not in her death but in traveling through time, my theory is the future, he slate looks more advance, while purah could have made it what if it was from the future, and building off your idea of link being the hand that held ganondorf in place then somewhere along the line link finds a way into the past to confront him, each one in a different tier of time, so in stead of it being a physical echelon its more a time one, stacking past and future with botw being present. the title could be an ouroboros the symbol of infinity meaning that the end of TOTK could be how botw starts, link pinning ganondorf in the past only to have he next version join zelda in the future to finish off demise and ending the curse for good. it could even be a revalation that zelda was the one who made a wish to end the cycle of rebirth of ganondorf and demise learned from the future and that leads to the timelines to converge to end the curse all the variables have to gather. sounds like that would be breaking to much from there mold but it would be the way to end the "Legend of Zelda" not the series but like the whole of the curse of demise ark. they seemed like they wanted to branch out like in the ds games so maybe if they give the original series it's send off it could pave the way to a new era for this mythos, instead of just link, zelda, ganondorf they could play with the idea of other parts of the triforce holding the evil, a game where the big bad wields the piece of wisdom instead of just power ect ect ect.
I really appreciate the investment of thought and all the words you shared here, Salted! That is all great info worth contemplating 🔥
Great points here but highly doubtful. We all want the curse to end but then again any zelda after it would be meaningless.
It's a great thought though.
@@jerseyjay607 I honestly don’t care where it goes but I love thinking about it 😆
@@wizcatcheslightning I agree
idea: Links house gets lifted into the sky, and by the end of the game remains there. creating a timeloop from skyward to tears
That would be nifty but how does Demise come back in this scenario you’ve proposed? Wait, what if he were to possess and then absorb Ganondorf? 👀
Great research! And the imagery of Zelda falling, “torn away like a dropping tear,” out of Link’s reach, offers another possible interpretation of the word. The fallen tear, the fallen Hyrule. Indeed, the floating islands can be seen as dots/tears far off in the distance. Ogres are like onions
Mmyes many layers indeed…or maybe each tear represents a princess/sage
@@wizcatcheslightning Whoa! Just like "A Link to the Past"!!!
@@mrplatink exactly my dude 😎
What if you can power up the master sword to tear (rip) your way into an alternate universe? And this alternate universe is your friend's game and you can play coop on his save. Later he could tear (rip) his way into your game to team up on your save to accomplish certain goals
I like that idea especially because the vehicles in the totk trailer reminded me of Death Stranding
Nice bro . I always thought it was funny how quickly zelda RUclipsrs accepted Nintendo’s claims that they are 💧s but I always thought tears as in the tearing apart. my first thought after that was tears resulting in tears. And now we have a three tier heaven , terra and hell . The triforce. Sky, hyrule and the under realm. A holy triple entendre sent by the goddess her
Exactly. And maybe even a fourth tier! The sacred realm. Kind of like there are 3 goddesses and 1 Hylia, a fourth goddess. Or 3 pieces to the Triforce, and one Master Sword. Or 4 total forest spirits Link must encounter to repair the fused shadow.
I like to believe that The conflict 10k years before BotW is when the timelines merged, and I would love to see 2 games that have Link cross over from the child timeline to the adult and ganon timelines to get one third of the triforce and connect various sages in order to bring the timelines back together so as to prevent the duplicated triforces from tearing the timeline apart because of their individual power. the thirds game in the series could be fighting the conflict itself.
In one timeline, the sheika are building the guardians to fight Ganondorf.
In one timeline, Hyrule is properous because of a lack of Ganon, but the Sheika are not technologically advanced.
In one timeline, there are no sheika and hyrule is barely scraping by, but the wilds and sages have great influence (this one is a spin)
I'd love to play that trio. They could be adventures on rails like older games, unlike Botw and TotK being open world.
Maybe the conflict game could be a hyrule warriors type.
talk me to sleep wiz, also link wasnt right handed until skyward sword, he was always left handed before that, the only switched it for the motion controls, makes me really sad they changed it. great video buddy!
Agreed because I’m a lefty! I knew about that change, which was actually the basis for my quantum tears theory because I initially thought the Zonai magic hand was left-handed instead of right-handed (so basically a different Link from either a different era or timeline, essentially). Thanks for watching and commenting, Bradley 😎
I've been doing the same thing, watching video after video about totk, I want it to come out already
64 days and counting! It’s closer than you think!
Wow, this name is confusing. It could be taken in so many different ways. I love it!
Yes my current headcanon is that it’s a quadruple entendre 🤣
Thanks Bread!
Hands down the best theory video I've watched for totk, and I've watched a lot of videos recently, just like you haha. I have a feeling we will see some form of duality that goes beyond time travel, that being some kind of interdimensional travel. I've had this feeling for a few weeks now and this video really brought it into words better than I could. A thought I had during the video: what if the two dragons in the logo represent this game tying all the timelines together as sort of an endpoint to the series, and then the rest of the zelda games can come between skyward sword and this game. Ganondorf using the triforce to wish multiple versions of himself into existence and materialize multiple dimensions or realities would be so cool. That is why we've seen multiple versions of link!!
Thanks Jacob! And that’s an excellent point. If this is the “end of the timeline” then there needs to be a totem of sorts anchoring the split timelines, causing them to converge. Also, this explains why we would have names of places referencing games from all timelines spelled differently. It’s kind of like a Mandela Effect (hate that I’m using this word), or, all points converged for all timelines but names changed due to history changing those names (Yuga becomes Yiga, Lokomo become kolomo for example)
@@wizcatcheslightning you're a genius for thinking of that. If that's not how it ends up playing out, I wish it was! There's actually a certain anime where this happened in one of the arcs
@@lizardman6515 Well thanks 😅
Being a lifelong fan certainly helps!
Which anime are you referring to??
@@wizcatcheslightning if you don't care about spoilers it was Jojo's Bizarre Adventure!
@@lizardman6515 Steel Ball Run was SO GOOD 🔥
😁😁 Ocarina of Time was literally my first experience to that got me into the zelda games
Heck YES! I’m glad you can relate 🤗
Something interesting no one has pointed out is that the tears around the tall figure look uncannily similar to the tears you collect in the spirit realm in skyward sword, now there’s some thought candy
If we follow your logic, the Silent Realm was needed in order to temper Link’s virtues before he could obtain the Triforce in Skyward Sword. We may need to do the same in this new game 👀
I think we might use the triforce to fix the master sword, because it was made by hylia, and the only thing that can match her power is Zelda, who’s in the caves as seen in the opening cutscene, and the triforce, which we haven’t seen in botw, leaving an opportunity for us to see it in totk
Also, the speed at which you hearted and commented on this comment is insane for a 10 day old video
@@Nothingbig1398 I’m typing the script for my upcoming video, and I’m on RUclips listening to other Zelda content while I do that 😂
Personally I believe that Ganondorf in TotK might actually have the Triforce of Power, explaining why he’s waking up now - when Zelda used it to get rid of Dark Beast Ganon it split like it did in OoT, hence why she felt its power was fading as she only kept 1/3
I’m seriously starting to think this as well. What inspired this was the recent video made by Monster Maze about the Triforce. I make mention of this in my most recently published video. To add to your point, Zelda also mentions that she can’t hear the Master Sword’s voice anymore
My first zelda game was majoras mask, please bring back my dekus🥲
Thanks for sharing! That would be awesome! If they can bring back koroks, they can bring back the dekus
You can "merge all three of the timelines" by being placed so far into the future that the events leading up to and then happen in BotW happen in each timeline in the same way, effectively making it not matter which timeline we're playing in. You kind of explained this but then likened it to tears and convergence in BioShock and I'm saying they don't have to have any of that, just three timelines not converging and separately playing out the same events and us not actually knowing which timeline we're in because it effectively doesn't matter a that point. This gives developers more options on how they want to continue the series; presumably they wanted to get rid stories dancing around three separate timelines without retconning anything, which would also give them the freedom to maintain stories in separate timelines later if they ultimately decide that's how they want to continue.
Quite possibly one of the best comments on this vid. Thank you for that 🤗
Does Link have the triforce on his new hand when holding the broken master sword?
I spent quite a bit of time in the editing booth looking at that symbol and the closest thing it looks like would be either the Deku symbol or the Zonai symbol but bathed in gold (the color of Hylia). Inconclusive at this point. Also, I might need glasses
I looked last night and it actually looks like a Zonai glyph/rune. Possibly signifying a specific infected/blessed arm ability for Link. Hope that helps!
I don't think I agree with all of this, but I do think you're onto something. I swear I've heard that the team was asked and confirmed it is crying "tears", but that doesn't mean it can't still be both. and that image of the bridge of Hylia with the beast on it and mentioning the dark world/Lorule really has my thoughts running. this game also seems to have an air of "Link and Zelda rediscovering the truth of Hyrule's history" what with the zonai coming back and these ancient ruins in the sky, where we might even see the rest of skyloft that we never saw drop in SS, so things like visiting the dark world/Lorule or even the twilight realm in some capacity would be absolutely insane. and I def think there's something to that considering the two snakes that parallel each other on the doors, unlike the ones in the title that are an oroboros. what is the dark world/Lorule? an identical but darker Hyrule. a mirror image. just like those snakes. something is mirrored, and they told us the title/logo would "give too much away" which is why they didn't want to show it to us too soon.
I'm not sure we're quite onto it exactly, but I think this is a thread worth tugging on.
This is a well thought idea, and I’m happy to have given a perspective that is different from a lot of interpretations 🤗
“In hermetic terms” - no wonder our theories are so aligned lol
Are you an alchemist? 👀
@@wizcatcheslightning 😉
Yes
I just need to add that I think link has the triforce of courage while interacting with the golden spirit
I like that idea! Thanks for the comment 🤗
Little did he know he was gonna nail everything 2 months before the game came out
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Can we get more then 4 dungeons plz?
I’ll echo that sentiment
I really enjoyed this, but you did spend a bit of time on those wild speculations from Left Field, constructive criticism aside, take my sub and please make more content !
Much appreciated! And I’ll take the feedback! Which ideas seem too far fetched to you? Asking out of curiosity.
@@wizcatcheslightning As with most things these days, variants / multiple Links but lets be real, I'd have said the same for Vehicle Crafting a year ago lol And no problem man, I'm digging your other vids
@@leonlee8524 hey well thanks again for the feedback and glad you enjoy the other stuff! If I had it my way, I’d make 4-5 vids every week! Ha ha
Masterful editing as usual #papafinz
Ty ty. Yes we love his majesty 😆
Dragon tears
I was thinking tears could mean below ground, ground level, and the sky so three tiers of the kingdom .
Same (evidently by way of this video 😅)!!! The Zelda series has surprised me so many times in many different ways, I think the fanbase is doing itself a disservice by limiting their imaginations as where as where this game could take us.
@@wizcatcheslightning I wrote this before watching the whole thing haha!
@@carriejohnson4922 I like that idea! A comment before you watch and then after you watch. Thanks for that 🤗
I'm about to have some tears alright when I actually play this In less than a month
I’ll certainly have tears…of joy!
I personally believe it is indeed pulling all three together and the penultimate version of Ganondorf is resurrected - which, as above so below, would suggest the return of Hylia in her true form as well
Would definitely be interesting to see
At 20:13 can someone make out what the says? I bet it’s important
Check out r/ToTKLang because they probably did
The funny thing a out people arguing about what the title actually is, is that there's nothing saying it be all 3 (tears, tears, tiers)
Exactly 😎
The real tears are those of the koroks and Bokoblins shed in the wake of Link's war crimes.
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I think all meanings of the word tears are valid and both apply.
Rock n roll 😎
Does anyone know the what the Japanese text is? In English it's "tears" but English is English so maybe the Japanese text doesn't have the same wordplay.
The Japanese title is Japanese character that make English phonetics, so the Japanese title reflects the English title!
The zonia character is a Grey cat
God I can’t wait. I really think this game would be a great opportunity to finish off the timeline bringing them all together and possibly breaking the curse of demise. And if that’s the case it may be unpopular but id love if it was kinda the end of the story in terms of the cycle we’ve known all these years and then the next Zelda could be drastically new maybe a new land new big bad new mechanics it’d be a great way to finish off the conventional Zelda series while giving Nintendo an opportunity to do new and way different things! Even if that’s not the case I’ll still be happy as heck from this game more than likely.
Less than 3 weeks my friend 😎
Link’s dominant hand has switched between games several times. Yes, his dominant hand in Breath of The Wild is his right, but any game prior to Twilight Princess he was left handed.
Great observation! As a left-handed person myself, I was always sad when they made Link right-handed. I understand why they did it, but I wouldn’t mind Nintendo bringing back lefty Link
My history is from the original zelda, what a step up from pong or astrosmash. OOT was the next big WOW factor.. and now Breath of the Wild that I still play now ( just started a new game last week ). I have a personal hope Tears of the Kingdom brings us a story beyond OOT or BOTW. They had 7 years and tons of possible DLC from BOTW. The hope is real, the wait is difficult, it is like going to a family reunion… a family you love.
Well spoken 🤣
I firmly believe that the map in BOTW will serve as a foundation with a bunch of virtual territory added to it. Imagine how exciting that is…can’t wait!!!
I just thought of something... The stone on Ganondorf's forhead is in THE SAME PLACE that the SCAR on Demise's forhead... It just hit me... What if DEMISE is the re-incarnation of GANONDORF? 🤔
Ah yes the floor here is the floor
Does Japan have RUclips ??? I wonder what their thoughts an speculations are??.. insightful video you have produced, Nintendo has this well wrapped up an sealed an probably has a right giggle about our speculations, an then be amazed on how close some are
I would think so! They have a pretty free market. Hey, thank you! That means a lot 🥹
Yes, here’s hoping I’m close to being right somewhere in this video 😆
I came late to BotW. I got my game in 2019, early before all of this virus stuff came around. Still haven't beaten it yet though so that's my goal before TotK comes out. Currently have Medoh beaten and I'm planning on Naboris next. I heard the thunder blight was hard and figured the less HP would make it not as bad. But I'm sure it will be. I don't so well with quick decision.
Well hang in there! I finished the game in about 40-50 hours with a mostly completed map. Played for like a week straight because I couldn’t get enough of it (I even planned time off from work). You should have more than enough time to finish your quest before tears
@@wizcatcheslightning especially since I do plan on 100%. Since 75% of the game is running around finding little green men that give you their poo. It'll be tedious. 😅😂 I also got the DLC so I'll be getting the upgraded champion abilities and trial of the sword too. Which will be a pain in the neck. I'm not very good with games like this. But it is fun.
@@pokelynke8232 I’m glad you’re enjoying it and getting your money’s worth! But man the Korok poop challenge…props to you
@@wizcatcheslightning It's like "yahaha, you scared the s**t out of me... Here have a present". It shouldn't be so funny but it is... I also plan on getting the Kilton trophies. Glad the Lynel's aren't part of that. 😰
I think you are on the right track with respect to the symbology of the two tears with reflective symmetry which you mention around the 19:55 timestamp. In particular, the two-headed ouroboros and also other imagery from the wood plaque pre-order bonus from GameStop in the US (specifically the horizontally reflected eyes near the top within the circular script) indicate a similar concept. I think there may also be meaning to the non-symmetric portions of that artwork. Specifically, the five script characters (two below the left-facing eye and three below the right-facing eye) might be representative of five collectible items like dungeon completion tokens. The five symbols may represent major temples or dungeons, and their separation into sub-groups of two and three symbols may indicate the two divisions such as sky and land.
Thanks for this comment! I just saw the plaque and I think you’re on to something! Also the eye implies connection to possibly sheikah or the twili
It IS tiers as well as tears. There is clearly an above ground, ground, and below ground area and ofc the tear objects from the trailer.
Yup 😎
Tears/Tiers/Tears of the Kingdom
What bothers me the most is that we never heard about the zonai before Botw
I’m excited to see how it’s tied in. The timeline is my most loved retcon ever 😂
My first Zelda was A Link to the Past.
That’s a great gateway game to the series!
So… instead of the kingdom CRYING or the memories maybe?? (Weird metaphor) the kingdom rips apart…. It really makes a lot more sense tbh
Rock n roll 😎
There's already been a lot of explanation on how the timeline works out. Tears of the Kingdom is at the end, which is why we go skyward back to Skyward sword, which then starts a new timeline, and so on and so forth. It is all cyclical. That's the only view that doesn't include tons of mental gymnastics. It starts, then ends as it starts, which restarts it etc. Essnetially a timeline loop they are stuck in, but each trip through the timeline is different.
Tell me more! How do you think the loop would reset?
@@wizcatcheslightning ruclips.net/video/2Ltv48X5uMw/видео.html This is one of the pretty decent videos I have seen that goes into it. It's only a possibility obviously, but it matches the symbolism we've seen very well.
@@tjepting1 I’ve just watched it. Thanks for sharing! I’m not against the idea. I’m having trouble thinking about how it would happen as well as the paradox it creates. Demise does mention Zelda from SS looking like a mere bag of flesh compared to what he remembered Hylia to look like.
If fi is alive, and demise was made sure to be dead while he decayed within the master sword, girahim be alive? I mean, he is like the reverse Fi, so if the seal is broken then he could be released….
I think Ghirahim has been alive since Demise’s defeat. He’s Demise’s blade, and he disappears/conjours out of the battlefield just before Demise is defeated
My hope is that its hylias opposite, and not a Zonai. A Goddess of death and a goddess of creation together to deal with pure malice.
That’s an excellent theory!
God I hope this new game is better with the story telling, which by the trailers I’d assume it absolutely is - but Ocarina of time, Majoras mask and The Twilight Princess are the current pinnacle of the series.
The more theory videos I watch however, the harder it is to keep my hope for the upcoming game suppressed.
It just looks too good!
Link isn’t going to time travel nor is he going to hop through dimensions.
The surface from both the sky and the ground look exactly same.
We’ll see what happens
Who wants to see Ganondwarf as an antagonist?
I wouldn’t mind seeing him reprise the role! How he does that would be the big question
Unfortunately the identity of the Zonai figure has been spoiled by the artbook leak...
Yeah I just didn’t want to spoil others who hadn’t seen it
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Thank you! And awesome Phoenix Wright pfp
@@wizcatcheslightning yea it was a really good video with some nice takes. thanks for the compliment, i really just selected my favorite sprite from the original ace attorney, have a great day!
@@heterodoxagnostic8070 happy to offer a fresh perspective 🤗
Thanks again and hope to see you around!
U may be more right than you know! Good is trying to suppress the darkness and malice from “on high” while the darkness is coming up from underneath!! The “”shrines” of this game are above and the lower you go the darker it gets! Especially the lower parts of the earth! Cough, cough! There won’t be much given before this game is released! U guys will love death mountain if your true Zelda fans! Dragons are back along with some amazing bosses! No need to market this game. It will speak for itself! 20 million copies sold easily!
Mannnn idk the more tears of the kingdom theory content I consume the more confused I get. I just want to play the game lol.
Can definitely relate. This is a critical time period because we theorists can only get our theories out before the game releases before all of that is changed. It’s been a fun journey these past few weeks 🥲
@@wizcatcheslightning I just hope whatever they have come up with is cool and doesn’t make me roll my eyes or anything.