Great thought-provoking idea. I love to speculate as well. “Tears” for me means “lament,” or “sorrow,” a dropping of sorts, and from what we see, Zelda literally drops to her doom. Perhaps Zelda, as a concept more than a princess, “drops” as well, and we lament the princesses downfall. Hence, the need for recycling the Hero of Time, and the Goddess of Hylia. We begin again. Perhaps that shaggy-haired Link is a Link reborn, one who cannot endure the tear-drop shape of the Master Sword, corrupted by malice, and must begin his adventure again, hitting the restart button again, and again. And through it all, the tears, though utterly painful, guide us, by the sprinkling of their baptism, to new birth. Just speculation 🥲
@@mrplatink hey well happy to have inspired you, and that’s what it’s all about! It’s cyclical, like an ouroboros, or two dragons eating each other’s tails 😎 Also thanks for the sub 🤗
@@wizcatcheslightning HA! I see what you did there! I wonder if I'm looking too much into this, but seeing Zelda fall has made such an impression on me throughout the trailers...literally, throughout the years! But that last one, where she and Link are desperately trying to hold on to each other... It makes me think of Zelda as a tear (liquid), being torn (to tear apart) away from the Hero of Hyrule. Can't deny it--I love speculation!
Everytime I see the vehicles I get trauma flash backs to banjo kazooie nuts and bolts the vehicle crafting game that was supposed to be the HD successor to one of the best 3d platformers ever created. 😞
@@wizcatcheslightning yeah but theres 7 uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh right facing tears? and 1 left facing tear- which some people believe is a twilight refrence but i like the idea of low-rule being below high-rule like a buried culture-
One of the big secrets is the Minish live in the sky islands. When Link shrinks down, the small islands will seem massive. Are you guys ready to battle giant bladed rhino beetles?
@@wizcatcheslightning Yes. Just go into any TOTK trailer and RANDOMLY hit pause, save the picture and print it. Do that repeatedly till you got the size of a book. That's what the art-book is. It a trailer in book form. Spoilers are when you get the GAME, play it and see stuff in it that Nintendo did NOT put out before the game. For example the Lynels in BOTW were never shown in a trailer. The spoilers aren't out yet because the GAME isn't out yet. People are looking at these art book images and still making THEORIES.
@@Molybed1 ikr Only 1 or 2 things in that book that could be considered a spoiler, everything else is just art, concept art at best too, not everything may be in the game. These are the spoilers Wingsuit rito outfit, so wingsuit may be in The icon on the wall is some race we have never seen before and has the name of the first sage, so is most likely a sage. Weapon crafting is pretty much confirmed by the art book That is about it. There are some locations that hint at dungeons, lots of enemy and cosmetic concept art....none of it spoilery. The art book hints at some of the children in BotW being about 10 years older so TotK looks to be some years after BotW. That is it I think.
@@Stinkyremy How is it a spoiler when you are still theorizing? Also the wing suit makes sense considering the "air" gameplay in TOTK and have you seen the wingsuit in action? We dont fully know exactly what it does yet. That's the point I was making. As for the crafting you saw a snippet of that in the second trailer when we saw a Dragon's head on Links shield blowing flames. A dungeon was hinted in the first trailer when we saw a door with feet carved in stone at it. Watch the first trailer again. There is nothing "new" in the artbook or a big unknown revelation. If the artbook showed Link standing on the moon, that would be a spoiler.
@@Molybed1 I agree. I listed what is essentially all the spoilers in the entire art book. I mean none of it is guaranteed but if the wing suit is actually in it, that is a spoiler as an entire wingsuit mechanic is spoiled by the book. Nothing else is really spoilers or has been shown already like weapon crafting and the humanoid woman in the iconic wall art. This is not an intentional nintendo spoiler as I have seen vids get taken down by nintendo for posting images but why would nobody want to even talk about it, especially if they are a zelda theorising youtuber. Seems stupid.
You’re absolutely welcome! I don’t understand how everyone is focused on the face value info, especially with a series that has a reputation for titles with dual meanings.
@@wizcatcheslightning This practically got answered as soon as the title of the game was revealed, after translating the Japanese title, and also Nintendo officially told Eurogamer it means tears as in crying.
I’ve got some interesting stuff in the works with these ideas. Editing good content just takes f o r e v e r and a half. If you can’t remember my channel name, I suggest subbing, but totally up to you 🤗
@@haifito I'm referring to story spoilers. The artbook has only characters designs and items. All of the images are all in Japanese and if those Japanese texts are spoilers you would have to go out your way to spoil yourself.
It was a preamble for the next video I made. So if you stumbled upon the channel with this video, well then you’ve got the video that this video is building up to ready to go. If I could, I would organize my vids better, but I produce vids one project at a time 🤷🏻♂️
Yes, language is a compromise, you’re right. I don’t think you’re understanding how wordplay works or what the developers of Zelda games think about when making their titles, bub 😉
The title of the game could be just misleading. In a way people interpret sadness .when actually nintendo could've meant tiers of the kingdom to represent different levels of the game. Which would of made it to obvious in the direction the game was goin to be. of course this is just my opinion I have no clue what the story plot of they game will be which I'm fine with untill I play the game. I don't need to much detail when it's less 3 months away.
@@john.s7559 exactly right! This is where my head is at. Think of Hyrule like the map layout for Dark Souls 1. You can Google “dark souls 1 map/layout” if you need a reference. That is what “tiers of the kingdom” would mean! I don’t want to spoil anything more but your head is on the right track 🤗
@@wizcatcheslightning I wanna add, I’m glad someone else thought this. Tiers/tears/tears. And I think it’s possible that all three are used here like a pun of sorts. I genuinely hope so. Did you see about the art book and the Rauru race?
@@RennyBQUEEN just Google searched the word to make certain: it is indeed “revelatory”! And now I remember because I went through like 12 drafts of the script and that was one of the changes I made. So I said it correctly 🤗 However I did make mistakes in other videos I’ve produced 😆 Check out the other ones for some good info 😎👉👉
@@wizcatcheslightning I assumed you meant relevant. The context made it seem that way; very different words. Was I incorrect in what you meant? I could’ve been.
Not sure if you saw any of the leaked art but there was one set of armor in the artbook that looked very similar to zants outfit. It might be wishful thinking but i hope the twili return in some aspect.
@@jakejudy5455 I did see that! The latest trailer has a clue about the twili if you look closely. No, I’m not kidding. I WILL be posting a video about this and so much more as soon as I can get the time to edit.
Great thought-provoking idea. I love to speculate as well. “Tears” for me means “lament,” or “sorrow,” a dropping of sorts, and from what we see, Zelda literally drops to her doom. Perhaps Zelda, as a concept more than a princess, “drops” as well, and we lament the princesses downfall. Hence, the need for recycling the Hero of Time, and the Goddess of Hylia. We begin again. Perhaps that shaggy-haired Link is a Link reborn, one who cannot endure the tear-drop shape of the Master Sword, corrupted by malice, and must begin his adventure again, hitting the restart button again, and again. And through it all, the tears, though utterly painful, guide us, by the sprinkling of their baptism, to new birth.
Just speculation 🥲
Excellent comment that pushes the discussion I want people to have in response to this video! Please stay tuned for more videos. You’ve inspired me!
@@wizcatcheslightning your vid inspired me first! Lol
@@mrplatink hey well happy to have inspired you, and that’s what it’s all about! It’s cyclical, like an ouroboros, or two dragons eating each other’s tails 😎
Also thanks for the sub 🤗
@@wizcatcheslightning HA! I see what you did there! I wonder if I'm looking too much into this, but seeing Zelda fall has made such an impression on me throughout the trailers...literally, throughout the years! But that last one, where she and Link are desperately trying to hold on to each other... It makes me think of Zelda as a tear (liquid), being torn (to tear apart) away from the Hero of Hyrule. Can't deny it--I love speculation!
@@mrplatink you’re in the right place. And the mural should be important like it was in BOTW. I will elaborate further soon!
Tears or did they mean tiers as in levels, below, ground level, and above. But used the spelling of tears to misguide us?! Hmmm
Carrie’s asking the right questions
That Hy(rule) and Lou(rule) just blew my mind..
🤯
Everytime I see the vehicles I get trauma flash backs to banjo kazooie nuts and bolts the vehicle crafting game that was supposed to be the HD successor to one of the best 3d platformers ever created. 😞
I think we’re gonna exceed those expectations, teej. As far as “why the heck is Link flying?” Think about that BIG dungeon from Phantom Hourglass…
You'll collect 7 tears to restore the master sword 100%
I agree to the restoring of the Master Sword part!
then why does link's vials have 8 slots not 7?
@@damiennightmaresx7950 original Zelda involves 8 princesses
@@wizcatcheslightning yeah but theres 7 uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh right facing tears? and 1 left facing tear- which some people believe is a twilight refrence but i like the idea of low-rule being below high-rule like a buried culture-
@@damiennightmaresx7950 7 tears/7 sages/7 maidens. 1 princess
I’m curious though…what’s the twilight reference with the left facing tear?
One of the big secrets is the Minish live in the sky islands. When Link shrinks down, the small islands will seem massive. Are you guys ready to battle giant bladed rhino beetles?
The art book did not have any spoilers in it. People are just being weird. The art book opens up even more questions.
Did we look at the same art book with the same level of forensic detail? 👀
@@wizcatcheslightning Yes. Just go into any TOTK trailer and RANDOMLY hit pause, save the picture and print it. Do that repeatedly till you got the size of a book. That's what the art-book is. It a trailer in book form. Spoilers are when you get the GAME, play it and see stuff in it that Nintendo did NOT put out before the game. For example the Lynels in BOTW were never shown in a trailer. The spoilers aren't out yet because the GAME isn't out yet. People are looking at these art book images and still making THEORIES.
@@Molybed1 ikr
Only 1 or 2 things in that book that could be considered a spoiler, everything else is just art, concept art at best too, not everything may be in the game.
These are the spoilers
Wingsuit rito outfit, so wingsuit may be in
The icon on the wall is some race we have never seen before and has the name of the first sage, so is most likely a sage.
Weapon crafting is pretty much confirmed by the art book
That is about it.
There are some locations that hint at dungeons, lots of enemy and cosmetic concept art....none of it spoilery.
The art book hints at some of the children in BotW being about 10 years older so TotK looks to be some years after BotW.
That is it I think.
@@Stinkyremy How is it a spoiler when you are still theorizing? Also the wing suit makes sense considering the "air" gameplay in TOTK and have you seen the wingsuit in action? We dont fully know exactly what it does yet. That's the point I was making. As for the crafting you saw a snippet of that in the second trailer when we saw a Dragon's head on Links shield blowing flames. A dungeon was hinted in the first trailer when we saw a door with feet carved in stone at it. Watch the first trailer again. There is nothing "new" in the artbook or a big unknown revelation. If the artbook showed Link standing on the moon, that would be a spoiler.
@@Molybed1 I agree. I listed what is essentially all the spoilers in the entire art book.
I mean none of it is guaranteed but if the wing suit is actually in it, that is a spoiler as an entire wingsuit mechanic is spoiled by the book.
Nothing else is really spoilers or has been shown already like weapon crafting and the humanoid woman in the iconic wall art.
This is not an intentional nintendo spoiler as I have seen vids get taken down by nintendo for posting images but why would nobody want to even talk about it, especially if they are a zelda theorising youtuber.
Seems stupid.
I've been saying all of this from the beginning. What KINGDOM are we even talking about here?! Could be the Minish Kingdom 🤔
Exactly! Check out my latest vids for more explanation 🤗
Also, excellent name reference to both ghibli and kingdom hearts 🤣
@@wizcatcheslightning Thank you! You're probably the first person to get the references. Huge fan of both! I subscribed so I'll keep watching.
@@howlbastion hey well thanks a ton for that! It really helps keep me going. And glad I got the references! I tend to be good at that 😆
Thank you! You're the first video I've seen that even mentions that Tears of the Kingdom might reference rips instead of crying.
You’re absolutely welcome! I don’t understand how everyone is focused on the face value info, especially with a series that has a reputation for titles with dual meanings.
@@wizcatcheslightning This practically got answered as soon as the title of the game was revealed, after translating the Japanese title, and also Nintendo officially told Eurogamer it means tears as in crying.
It’s not rips because in Japan it means tears as in crying
@@zkproductions4351 I feel like Japan makes the titles more so to appeal to Americans because the series is more popular in America.
You have peaked my interest to say the least
I’ve got some interesting stuff in the works with these ideas. Editing good content just takes f o r e v e r and a half. If you can’t remember my channel name, I suggest subbing, but totally up to you 🤗
@@wizcatcheslightning I subbed
@@SteveTheGold1 welcome, welcome 🤗
When I saw the goddess of hylia leak in tears of the kingdom art book leak I was one handed for some reason. 😳
bruh
Where i come from we call this a "dick move" >_>
keep up the good work sir!
Thank you sir 😎
Artbook had no spoilers and it gave us like 200 pages of things we'd had never seen before and we don't know the story
"Artbook had no spoilers". Also, "200 pages of things we'd had never seen before".
@@haifito Yuuup
@@haifito I'm referring to story spoilers. The artbook has only characters designs and items. All of the images are all in Japanese and if those Japanese texts are spoilers you would have to go out your way to spoil yourself.
well, that was a zelda-themed nothing burger
It was a preamble for the next video I made. So if you stumbled upon the channel with this video, well then you’ve got the video that this video is building up to ready to go. If I could, I would organize my vids better, but I produce vids one project at a time 🤷🏻♂️
@@wizcatcheslightning np
You really caught lightning😂
Can’t tell if you’re being genuine or facetious. Regardless, I’ll take the engagement 😎 👉 👉
The tears go into links viles for some sorta power.
😢🏰
In laymen’s terms, yes
This doesn’t connect with the fact that the name reveal is Japanese based. Tear doesn’t have dual meaning bub. Hate to break it to ya.
Yes, language is a compromise, you’re right. I don’t think you’re understanding how wordplay works or what the developers of Zelda games think about when making their titles, bub 😉
@@wizcatcheslightning I disagree.
@@BenjiSchwimmerDance explain why you disagree. Happy to discuss it further with you
The title of the game could be just misleading. In a way people interpret sadness .when actually nintendo could've meant tiers of the kingdom to represent different levels of the game. Which would of made it to obvious in the direction the game was goin to be. of course this is just my opinion I have no clue what the story plot of they game will be which I'm fine with untill I play the game. I don't need to much detail when it's less 3 months away.
@@john.s7559 exactly right! This is where my head is at. Think of Hyrule like the map layout for Dark Souls 1. You can Google “dark souls 1 map/layout” if you need a reference. That is what “tiers of the kingdom” would mean! I don’t want to spoil anything more but your head is on the right track 🤗
….relevatory…..😢
Good thing it’s a video I didn’t spend late hours editing 😅
Thanks for pointing this out regardless!
@@wizcatcheslightning it bugged me but meant it without malice. :) enjoyed the video :)
@@wizcatcheslightning I wanna add, I’m glad someone else thought this. Tiers/tears/tears. And I think it’s possible that all three are used here like a pun of sorts. I genuinely hope so. Did you see about the art book and the Rauru race?
@@RennyBQUEEN just Google searched the word to make certain: it is indeed “revelatory”! And now I remember because I went through like 12 drafts of the script and that was one of the changes I made. So I said it correctly 🤗
However I did make mistakes in other videos I’ve produced 😆
Check out the other ones for some good info 😎👉👉
@@wizcatcheslightning I assumed you meant relevant. The context made it seem that way; very different words. Was I incorrect in what you meant? I could’ve been.
Remided me of something jordan peterson would say.
What part specifically? The whole, bloody thing?
@@wizcatcheslightning i see what you did there lol. Starting with think about its meaning.
Not sure if you saw any of the leaked art but there was one set of armor in the artbook that looked very similar to zants outfit. It might be wishful thinking but i hope the twili return in some aspect.
@@jakejudy5455 I did see that! The latest trailer has a clue about the twili if you look closely. No, I’m not kidding. I WILL be posting a video about this and so much more as soon as I can get the time to edit.
@@jakejudy5455 side note: thanks for the sub. We’re gonna “Maps of Meaning” the HECK out of this! 😎