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I'm sorry, but the whole "that thing that was put as a filler can be another map" isn't anywhere close to being anything that can even theoretically be realistic. It's just WAY too far fetched. Kass returning for the DLC is another story, hell, I'm pretty sure that they removed him JUST so that they could add him back in the DLC, but it won't have anything to do with the land outside. It's not realistic at all.
Something you might like to know is that if you look at the depths to the left of hyrule castle you can see something that looks like a corridor but it’s much deeper than possible to get to. Maybe you could look into that.
Considering how botw turned out and current nintendo trends if anything we will see extra quests with a ton of "challenges" thats most likely about it with potentially a kass side story or something else like sooga since he wasn't involved in botw or main totk
in skyrim the devs put in the white gold tower in a place completely unseen by the player in a 1 to 1 sized cyrodiil beyond the southern mountains. there was just as much land beyond Skyrim as there is in totk. it was never used. even with the tower being there as a low res asset. i just want the master cycle zero back..
I think Nintendo missed an opportunity with the pirates around the shore areas. They could have made them a new race to imply an entire new realm across the sea. There could even be a new villain for Link to fight off
The fact that Cece was outside the kingdom studying fashion pretty clearly tells us Hytopia is out there somewhere. It would be cool to see a few sequel kingdoms get to exist as DLC since those weren't the kingdom of Hyrule and any games in those lands could be legends about real places in TotK's world.
Are there other kingdoms mentioned throughout the series? I’ve got a bad memory. There is the place in Majora’s Mask, but isn’t that an alternate reality?
That would explain the apparent timeline confusion with the game. Basically saying that Rauru and Sonia founded a new Hyrule separate from the one founded after Skyward Sword.
Whatever kingdom houses Yona's domain may be a fair bet. It might also explain the influx of new characters. The Gorons don't simply double in population, for example. Labrynna then? That had River Zora royalty.
As much as I would love to see tie ins to the Oracle lands, I think a lot of the naming was integrated into this Hyrule, like in Akkala. So I very much doubt it. I would absolutely love to see the Oracle games get their due though
@@s.k.6100 I was going to say how there's a lot of Holodrum and Labrynna naming around the Talus Plateau, but I figured it was too small to house two kingdoms.
@@xinpingdonohoe3978 Botw and Totk take place at the end of every timeline so its very possible people from each kingdom settled there and since they share some cultural roots it makes sense they would settle close to each other. Maybe they fell at some point, maybe it was just some folks who wanted to move to a new/different land
@@joescraft123 That’s the one. It’s actually the island that I thought was being referenced in Zora’s domain when they were talking about the sky fish island at first. Then I thought to myself “Surely that’s too far away? Maybe they meant a sky island shaped like a fish?”
I found Penn after the newspaper questline and he mentioned a bard. The area was where Kass was located before for a shrine quest in botw. Perhaps he is involved and we find Kass in a future dlc quest 🤔
I feel like there's too much symmetry in the Far Distance for it to be usable map for us to play in :( You can see a bunch of lines where the map is just repeated back over itself. It's a timesaver in order to have something there that's better than flat textures, but it doesn't look like real environment we're meant to explore someday :( That said I'm *really* hoping they just replace it and let us break out of Hyrule finally. I'm dying to go beyond the border.
From what I recall the game uses a heightmap as the base terrain and adds detail objects on top of it. It may be a function of the game to tile/repeat the heightmap in the out of bounds region to save on rendering new stuff. I do recall in BoTW at least there was a lot of repeating shadows on the ground when going way out of bounds which did seem to indicate that BoTW did this at least. Hard to say if that's the case in ToTk too though. I've been able to use a save edit to teleport link out of bounds and with a glide/infinite staminia cheat I could zoom around the northern area. Though past 7000 or so meters the camera stops following Link so there was a limit to how far I could go. Oddly I could not go anywhere to the west, south or eastern out of bounds region. The moment I moved link into any of those areas (even when doing so from the North), Link immedietely freezes in place and can't move. The game isn't frozen though as I could still use menus and teleport back to a fast travel point. Another thing is the DLC for BoTW. The Master Sword Trials occured in a empty copy of MainField (the internal map ID name for Hyrule) with the heightmap flattend out and the trial arena's happening on a raised portion so going out of bound there was a good way to see what the heightmap looked like without all the detail meshes added on top. It's how they setup all the different Weather and such for some arenas which is probably why they decided not to dump them into a new dungeon map ID like the shrines. Maybe the dungeon map IDs didn't support Weather effects.
with the Zonai tech, I could see the DLC working via someone making a zonai flying machine, and that'll be the trigger for switching from the Hyrule Map to the new Map and back again
The one I want to explore the most is the edge of the desert. The cliffs make sense to stop you, they're tall and come after a ravine. The sea makes sense because ocean currents and winds may keep you in. But the desert makes no sense. Why does link just stop? A desert expansion would also be cool because it would let us explore that weird mountain in the gerudo Highlands too
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the reason you can't go deeper into the desert is the Molduga population that is inevitably out there. Likely the depth of the sand-sea increases beyond the Gerudo areas, meaning there are few, if any, areas that reach above the sand where a Molduga would be unable to reach anyone attempting to cross.
@@stwbmc98 even with the screw showing, "You can't go and further," you can get up on top of it. You can't go over the entire top, but you can force your way up the very edge of the closest ridge.
That is a huge amount of undiscoverable space, holy heck. This new land could have more monsters, or maybe just monster variants. Maybe a change in design or they could go the route AoC where regular enemies are elementalized. Like a Thunder Moblin!
The return of Termina? I'm hoping to see a connection between the Zonai and the Twili considering how similar their architecture seems to be. Look at Midna's helmet and compare it to the Zonai ruins to see what I mean.
Kass and the Stable Trotters World Tour would be an amazing DLC. Featuring Link on the ocarina and harp, of course. I believe, especially with the resolution of the newspaper quest line, that an expansion involving Kass is highly probable
@@Zeninaoya that would be... saxy. Jokes aside, Something along those lines would elevate this game even more. Playing Lasers on stakes is all good fun but having a full fledged Instrument again would be awesome
What if... and just hear me out... what if the "land" you speak of is just an illusion? Like a painting to mask the edge of the world... I mean, it's a little hard to believe that Nintendo designed & rendered a map that is more than twice the size of the one we already have, just to be a nice sight in the distance that we're all totally going to get to use someday. Wouldn't they have just used that map instead? It would have squashed all those concerns about reusing the BotW map. Nope. None of this makes any sense at all. I've noticed a vicious cycle with Nintendo fans. We get our hopes up... way up past where they should ever be, only to have them crushed by reality. Then, a little time passes... & we've found another obscure detail that Nintendo didn't really put that much thought into, but we're just gonna run with it anyway. Videos like this one are the reason people get so angry with Nintendo. Because something that was never promised didn't come to pass. It's destroying Nintendo faster than their litigious nature.
I agree with your stance on the extra map just being there for the sake of having something to take up the space that wasn’t visible in BOTW but would add that it’s not exactly Nintendo that’s getting anyone’s hopes up when people obsess over the minutiae. And to say it’s “destroying” Nintendo is hyperbole of the highest order; they’re doing just fine lol I think it’s more of an issue that needs to be tempered on the individual level: fans can’t get so excited about completely unfounded theories and expect them to come true every single time. Do they leave breadcrumbs with the intent of stirring discussion and increasing engagement across their social media presence? Absolutely. But that’s the nature of consumable media like video games in the current day and age. I think there’s a problem with the way people process theories in the Zelda community. Just because they leave said breadcrumbs by no means implies we’re meant to throw ourselves into a tizzy over them and expect them to be proven outright in the next installment. The expectation that Nintendo will appease every single whim and want of its fans is misplaced and will always lead to disappointment. Zelda has always been a game focused on gameplay and entertainment value, not deep narrative lore and exposition, BOTW and TOTK show that. They give players enough to come up with their own head canon that’s propped up with what scant info they provide for the sole intent of allowing every player to make the most of it on their own terms but that doesn’t mean any of it is going to be taken into account in a later game/ officially whatsoever.
@varden506 Well, when I used the word "destroying" I was referring to the general idea of them totally sucking. They are indeed getting worse as time passes. Especially when it comes to their relationship with their customers. Sure, there will always be fanboys willing to hand cash to them in exchange for garbage. But people with brains will eventually stop giving them money. As far the "hopium" comments I made, I'm less worried about the disappointment & more concerned about the cycle of speculation & "insiders" spreading rumors. These rumors & "leaks" are always 100 times better than what Nintendo is even capable of. Just look at the difference between OoT on NSO & the illegal versions that the kids have created. They make Nintendo look as though they aren't even trying.
and well they needed something to be visible outside of hyrule. or else it would look really weird and isolated if outside hyrule was just fog. or void.
@@MurderTheMouse well seems it curves if you go up very high in the sky. so i think it's a round planet hyrule is on. but what lies beyond the borders we don't know for certain. maybe holudrum and Labirnya don't exist anymore. ( i probably mispelled those names). we just don't know since they are not relevant to the current story.
I personally would love to go out into the desert in a DLC more focused on this iteration of ganondorf’s past, all we really see of him in the main story is just him already being a menace so I would like to see his rise to power as he conquers the desert, and maybe learn more about his motivations to full-on destroy hyrule
@@CordeliaWagner i know that, but there’s a line in one of the cutscenes where it’s reported to rauru that “the last free settlement in the gerudo desert has been conquered” which implies he also had a rise to power beyond just that
Yeah, I think Ganondorf's lack of depth really hurts the game. I saw another channel say that as a boss, he's phenomenal. As a character, he really isn't
Ganondorf is bad for being bad, he does not have any tragic history nor does he care about gerudo, his origin was already explained in Skyward Sword: he is the reincarnation of Demise's wrath
I think we should be able to do water things, Sidons wife (I forget her name) mentions she's from another domain, come on that would be so cool to explore!! Water dungeons and what not, it'd be epic
thats what some people want....like a windwaker sort of dlc but now we can also have underwater places and caves....and dungeons or maybe just a whole new game more based in the sea
Having an expanded map in regions OUTSIDE of Hyrule would be EPIC... but somehow I doubt they'll actually do it. IF they do it, I doubt it would be DLC. The scope feels too big, especially compared to Breath of the Wild's relatively small DLC (which they would probably have DLC similarly in Totk). IF they ever do an area outside of Hyrule, I feel like it would _need_ to be its own separate game. Maybe a Breath of the Wild 3 so to speak (I don't know if they'll make a third game though, they've never done that sort of thing in the past like when they made sequels like Majora's Mask).
I think dlc will probably add more sky islands or stuff into the depths as they have a lot of empty space especially compared to hyrule wich is packed with stuff
well we have a couple of plot hooks that might be used. A different zora domain. the fact that apparently the sky stuff dropped down from higher up which means there could be a whole addition top layer. a certain someone getting a team rocket style blast off potentially needing followed up on.
True! I would love to see other settlements of the different races in hyrule expanded to different regions and/or have different places to explore with different races altogether! (Although, sticking to the traditional zelda format with the original races is totally fine.) I would love to one day get to visit Yona's domain though a potential DLC.
If we get a sequel to Tears of the Kingdom, then I hope the world design is inspired by Elden Ring and A Link Between Worlds. By completing one part of the over-world, you’ll be able to unlock more of it.
Then it becomes less open air which is the whole concept of botw and totk. Which would be okay with me since it's been in the past 2 games. But will nintendo risk that
A map as big as the rest of the continent wouldn't be a DLC, it would be a full on other game years in the future. The same for expanding Labrynna / New Hyrule etc into a BotW style map, that's too much for a DLC. But, we could definitely go to a chain of islands off the coast, that's more manageable. Or bringing the rest of the missing sky islands down past the Barrier, like the obvious missing Skyloft, City in the Sky, Palace of Winds, etc. Vaati DLC?
Instead of places outside of hyrule, i was thinking of places in hyrule that we STILL couldn't get into, Like the top of Mount Agaat and the MASSIVE ravine that surrounds the northen part of the kingdom from the ocean all the way to the desert. I know, both are used as ways to serve as boundaries to explorable space but its still odd the way that they chose to do it: Why prevent us from going on top the mountain, instead of going down the other way? for example. It'd be neat if they used those places, specially the ravine, that are still somewhat visible as ways to expand the map, instead of simply going beyond the in-game map.
Seeing the map comparison reminded me of Hyrule between 1 and Adventurer of Link 😂 (Also, @Hyrule Gamer Penn talks about Kass being gone after you finish all 12 Potential Princess Side Adventures... *Penn is at Washa's Bluff.* )
Maybe for DLC they can bring an ancient version of skyloft that’s super high in the sky and make a whole new adventure from it and maybe even some more sky islands with more content.
Maybe that’s where termina is located haha. Doesn’t Penn talk about Kass? He mentions the great rito bard used to train himself where he went after the quests with him are done
(Slight spoilers) I wonder if when you get the master sword you're taken to the sacred realm and if there is a place below the depths (as seen before the army)
In the lore, specifically the original Japanese game manual for one of the earliest games, mentions that Ganon was from the equivalent to Hell. I remember a RUclipsr citing it, but I am unable to find it. So maybe there is a depths-ier depths to see where it all started
I have had this idea of a Legend of Zelda game that takes place in the same universe but outside of Hyrule which has a whole new Protagonist and possible Antagonist. It could even have little references to the land of Hyrule.
A new explorable area would add so much more content to a game that already has so much content that I'm surprised my switch hasn't exploded. It probably will if a dlc like this was added.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that noticed Kass is missing. I’ve searched high and low for him because I feel like he would of love exploring the sky islands.
Guys remember, totk is just 18,2 GB and it is already so massive, imagine if Nintendo would make a more powerlful console how big zelda games would be. The problem with Nintendo switch is that it is less powerful than other console
I believe we already have explored some of that. In particular, I believe the Skyward Sword Eldin Volcano is out to the north. I also believe that the islands out across the sea were the island areas in Zelda 2.
i higly doubt we will get such substantial dlc. im expecting dlc that is similar in scope to what we got in botw. ie master mode and maybe some small event/gauntlent
I agree with your theory with what happened with kass, and it makes sense, because maybe he decided to fly up higher than ever when the sky islands spawned, because he got curious about them, and then he was able to see all of the area around hyrule, and decided to explore it. Also it would make sense because kass was also a big part of the dlc for botw.
I mean, the part to the northeast of explorable Hyrule is easily the lands we know as 'North Hyrule' from Zelda 2, just with an isthmus to connect the larger island from Zelda 2. It fits PERFECTLY.
It would be amazing to go to areas outside of Hyrule. I could see them doing two areas. This is just speculation, but one of my favorite movies was Avatar The Way of Water. I could see see them adapting it. Or they could do pirates and link could command his own pirate ship. I think thats more likely. Also it would be cool if you could bulid your own kingdom to rule over and bulid an army and cities. That would be two amazing ideas for dlc that probably have never been done before. Those are my thoughts.
I remember with BOTW being curious about the out-of-bound areas beyond the map. Especially the northernmost area where you could actually see another landmass across from the cliffs. I remember making several unsuccessful attempts to cross to that area and was frustrated the game wouldn't let me. The game developers had clearly stated that an any area you could physically see could be accessed. I honestly doubt anything will ever come of these areas but it would be fun if they opened these areas up in DLC.
Getting some real Hunter x hunter vibes and the Dark continent revealing the seemingly massive world we’re familiar with is actually a small spec :D Shoutout to the discord server as well!
it would be cool if in the dlc we’re exploring an entirely new land when suddenly you hear kass’ harp slowly fade in. i’d love to hear it in totk’s new sound system, everything environmental sounds beautiful in it
I’m under the impression it will be a mini spin-off game releasing sometime in between now and whenever the next big Zelda game will release, probably with the next console
TOTK - DLC "the LYNEL friend" I had a DLC dream yesterday..... Cutscene - Link watches it: Story-wise it actually takes place right after Hyrule Castle and defeating the Ganonndorf Phantoms. after gannon went underground. a battle is raging on the hateno wall, a gang of warriors and LINK new companions are standing on the battlements and quivering - a horde (!) of LYNELS is storming in - after a long back and forth the lions are retreating because they were decisively prevented from storming the wall by magic or a retreat order. then playable again. LINK sees a wounded LYNEL and wants to finish him off. he asks him, covered in blood, to give him the deathblow. however, LINK decides against it because there is something odd about the LYNEL. it seems to emit a slight glow. like the forest god…. A cutscene follows with IMPA and the recovery process of the LYNEL etc. then the LYNEL can be called up as a mount and combat companion. when you climb up, there is always a little saying along the lines of: "you don't think you can ride me?!" - or "yes, yes, you seem to enjoy it...." Sitting on it, the leune himself shoots arrows when you switch to ARCHER MODE, you don't use any yourself. the actual DLC quest involves the storming of a LYNEL FORT, which is located in the northern part of the map, on the vast mountain plains that cannot currently be reached, nor can they be reached in BOTW. after waking up, i couldn't extract the exact meaning, also in relation to the storyline ;)
I'm not against the suggestions, but there is NO WAY they are going to do something that expansive in a DLC. TOTK itself was originally planned for DLC, but made into a game because it far exceeded the scope of DLC. What you're suggesting would end up being a new game.
I really don't see the DLC expanding Hyrule outside of it's existing borders, especially not to the extent HG is hoping for. Aside from the fact that we can see that area is empty, an expansion of that scale seems to fall into the same issue TotK did when it was just a DLC idea for BotW; It's just too big. Like, based off the rough map of that outside area that was shown, the hypothetical new area would be just as big as Hyrule itself, if not bigger, and for it to have it's own main quests and side quests and stuff; at that point you're just making an entirely new game. Think about the scale they stopped at when making the BotW DLC; it added a few small locations around the map; nothing bigger than a shrine or the final dungeon. An entirely new kingdom just seems like way *way* too massive of an expectation. I think it's pretty clear that the area past the cliffs around Hyrule are simply there as visual fluff; a way to avoid players looking out at the horizon and going "Wow, there absolutely *no* world outside of Hyrule." It's just there to keep you immersed in the world by not having the literal world cut off at the same place the playable world map does. If they *were* to expand the world in that way, they'd then have to introduce a new visible outlying land that you can see but not explore, at which point the question of "when do we get to explore what's out that way" becomes an infinite loop that can't be sustained by a finite game.
Yeah this is so confusing and the fact they’re not adding anything makes everything more confusing. Like what is the depths?? They didn’t explain ANYTHING
When you finally defeat master kohga he is launched into the sky through a chasm so I’m thinking maybe he got launched to a far away land where we will run into him again? This and many other things in the game lead me to believe we will get a massive dlc or even a third game.
it would be absolutely hilarious if Koga became a recurrent boss in this ‚new‘ timeline. the yiga have got to be one of the most popular subplots in TOTK, and making Koga implausibly indestructible as a foreshadowing plot device would be just plain brilliant.
I have had real questions about this for a while now. if you look at the maps both the depths and sky seems complete (top to bottom - no dead space). HOWEVER, look at the ground level map: do you notice anything at the bottom? there is a large blacked out rectangle at the the bottom. my thought process is if the other maps are complete, why isn't the primary map complete?
future dlc or not, this is the most adventurous link of all. He got experience with the 1st calamity before botw starts, then the 2nd when we start playing (basically after he reawakens), plus botw dlc, then the time of hyrule's reconstruction, which was 2-3 years, and NOW totk, where there's the depths and the skies. AAAND not to mention that this is what I know, the biggest ideration of hyrule in the zelda series. I mean, WOW. This link has had so much going on, then maybe future dlc for totk. crazy.
If you look at the scale of the prior DLC, you'd see that the idea of a whole new kingdom and storyline battling a new great evil is not the territory of a DLC pack but rather a whole new game.
As much as I'd love Hyrule to be extended west or northward, I think I'd love an underwater segment way more, mixed in with a far away island or continent
When you go to the map, it’s interesting that you can scroll a little more past the center of the map when scrolling to the bottom and bottom right parts of the map. I thought something was going to open up towards this areas with the pirates, but nothing happened ☹️
Thought experiment for the story/lore wise, a divine barrier of sorts that allows inhabitants in and out but repels outsiders for their safety while containing Link and Gannondorf during botw/ totk. Potential sequel material or chapter for the next game and expansion of the world around Hyrule I do want
It would be awesome if in the sequel to TOTK, the Blood Moon becomes permanent and hyper chaos breaks out, so Link has to go to the Moon 🌙 and fight monsters on the Lunar surface. I would to love to see a completely new set of plants and monsters, like are in the current underworld.
yet here i am wishing we just get more lore on the triforce and where it all ties in to this link and zelda timeline......plus when we will get more info on the dark link/s we see in twilight princess(theres 3 dark links?)
Diving is also on high demand when it comes to exploring the sea. Because I think it would be epic if we could find the long and forgotten Kingdom of Hyrule from Wind Waker.
Direct to be announced tomorrow. DLC for ToTK will be announced, featuring a season pass, comprised of three chapters- each being 1/3 of the unexplored map, including sky and depths. Each dlc pack releases every six months. Keeps the game evergreen fosho ;D
Maybe we revisit Holodrum and Labryna 🤔i mean it was descripted they where near Hyrule or at least in travelable distance 🤔maybe the old Oracles even become the dragons we see 🤔 and somehow Ganondorf could Return again 🧐
If they make a 3rd entry into BotW expanding the area with 2 new maps (Holodrum and Labryna) is probably the only direction they can go since we already went to the sky and underground. I would use Twinrova (since TotK has references to Twinrova hidden in the game) trying to revive Ganondorf as the main conflict (think something similar to Link's Adventure)
*fingers crossed* DLC! DLC! DLC! Great video man! I've often wondered about those other areas too. It confirms again that Hyrule is just a country/continent too, one part of a much bigger world. 👀
I hope we get to upgrade the runes like in botw, increase the number of items attachable with ultra hand, have the ceiling for ascend be higher up, and being able to attack a third item with fuse
I personally would love it if DLC was the form of a new kingdom! It seems definitely possible as Termina was sort of a parallel world to Hyrule in the past
I doubt they will add that much for DLC - that sounds like a whole new game's worth of content. Remember, Breath of the Wild's DLC was just a few extra shrines, a small dungeon, trial of the sword, and a hard mode.
@@HyruleGamer I'd love it if they did, just I think its unlikely they'd have time to create a whole new world. Maybe if they make another sequel and turn it into a trilogy we'd get something like this.
I thought you were going to talk about how we can see the ancient Hyrule throne room back when Rauru was in charge. And that it looks nothing like the current Throne room. So maybe we could get a DLC where we could visit places seen in the cutscenes but not reachable in the actual game.
Just wild that how I was literally thinking this about an hour ago as I was gliding down near the Gerudo Highlands and looking out west. I kinda like having that area being there but unknown. I want to see the world expand too though.
I love your idea HG but I think its a really big ask, and I think expanding/adding new new maps would be better suited for a new LOZ game (maybe a 3rd BotW entry) and on a new more powerful hardware by the time it comes out.
I can’t see them adding areas outside of Hyrule’s borders in DLC. If they add new explorable areas, I’m imagining, like… Upper Skies and Deepest Depths.
Well if we remember Zelda II the adventure of link. Link had to travel the ocean to get to a new continent to continue his quest with the temples. This was before Wildwater came out and the idea of a flooded hyrule was ever brought up. The original map where we started had all the elements of tge hyrule kingdom for what it was known back then, death mountain, the cemetery, the marshlands I also think there was Prarie and a semi desert. Pretty much all elements found in the current Hyrule. So it would make since there is also unexplored lands beyond the ocean far from Hyrule into another unknown kingdom.
Also: can we please stop telling people it's five to eight years after BotW? I keep hearing that same number repeating, but it *can't* be right. We have a quest chain revolving around a nine year old girl whose parents only just met in BotW. Her whole life has to fit between games. {There's also a girl who didn't age *at all* between games but I have to believe she's a mistake. There's no *story* involving her, so whoever wrote her lines probably didn't know about the time skip.}
@@HyruleGamer I mean yes, eight and nine are close, but the *maximum* most of the community has been saying is still less than the *minimum* the game outright tells us. I'm only frustrated because it's so many people saying five to eight that everyone's accepted it, but the only number the game itself gives us is outside that range.
Kaas is hinted at when you finish the News Side-Quest and find yourself at a specific location with the Deliverybirdman. i also hope further content expands on this, since it felt left rather open. i believe the DLC to be more streamlined towards BOTW: • Master Sword Challenges, since atm our Master Sword doesn't even list any Damage Value, though afaik it does 30 (45) damage only. • More Insights into Champions, or in this Case, the Sages. We might get further Memories of Zelda working out the Dungeons in the far past with the Races, while getting some actual Sages Powerups, since the "Sages Wills" only increase the Damage Output • personally would love more Lore insight into the Divine Beasts, maybe those were truly sent outside Hyrule to explore the Lands beyond together with some technical Staff and the remains of many guardians and towers as repair materials. we could obtain new zonian tech or new prestine weapons here.
I just can’t see them actually doing something like this for DLC of all things. Think about how long it took for them to update the current Hyrule map and create all of these new features for TotK. A whole separate area with unique geography that’s more than three times the size of Hyrule is a VERY unrealistic vision for what they’d be willing to do with DLC. If they wanted to make a third game and make it a trilogy, I could maybe see it happening, but not without another 6+ years of development. The problem with that, though, is what antagonist do you use for a third game? TotK told the ultimate Zelda story of facing Ganondorf himself and completely obliterating him for good, they can’t bring Ganon back otherwise TotK’s ending will feel hollow. I could see them using Vaati as a potential antagonist but idk if they would want to take such a risk, considering Vaati is nowhere near as popular or recognizable as Ganon/Ganondorf. I honestly think their plan is to do DLC for TotK, which will simply take place in Hyrule and introduce maybe a few more shrines, some unlockable goodies, a Master Mode, and a short narrative about some of the remaining mysteries of the kingdom (just like BotW’s DLC). Anything more than that feels extremely unrealistic in my eyes
In terms of DLC, I was thinking about the outfits we have and wondered why Nintendo couldn't make Link transform into the artstyle from each game, like low-poly Hero of Time Link with his old textures, and even old Hyrule Field OST. I think it would be a neat addition to further reference old games like how Super Mario Odyssey allowed Mario to dress up as his low-poly self from SM64.
My bet for DLC is something akin to the BotW DLC. Master mode gets added in and there are a few new questlines revolving either around the sages (similar to champion's ballad), the disappearance of the Shiekah tech, Ganondorf's rise to power, or the disappearance of the Zonai. No matter which potential storyline they go with for DLC it will most likely involve Kass. What I'm betting they WON'T do is adding entire new areas Solstheim style into the game. At most it will be new cutscenes, some new shrines and potentially a new ability and/or upgrades to existing abilities. Tears of the Kingdom is already approaching the Switch's limit and I'm sure adding entire new cities and what-not would be problematic, and on top of that it just doesn't seem like the Zelda team's style, at least when looking at the BotW DLC. That being said, if the next game uses this iteration of Link and Zelda again, they will 100% be exploring new places beyond Hyrule. Something caught Zelda's attention that got her to venture to foreign lands, leaving the sages back home to keep things running in the kingdom. Boom. There's the start of your story. And that's where I'll end theorizing about future games because Tears has only been out a month and a half and it is far to early to be speculating like that lol.
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I'm sorry, but the whole "that thing that was put as a filler can be another map" isn't anywhere close to being anything that can even theoretically be realistic. It's just WAY too far fetched. Kass returning for the DLC is another story, hell, I'm pretty sure that they removed him JUST so that they could add him back in the DLC, but it won't have anything to do with the land outside. It's not realistic at all.
Something you might like to know is that if you look at the depths to the left of hyrule castle you can see something that looks like a corridor but it’s much deeper than possible to get to. Maybe you could look into that.
Considering how botw turned out and current nintendo trends if anything we will see extra quests with a ton of "challenges" thats most likely about it with potentially a kass side story or something else like sooga since he wasn't involved in botw or main totk
in skyrim the devs put in the white gold tower in a place completely unseen by the player in a 1 to 1 sized cyrodiil beyond the southern mountains. there was just as much land beyond Skyrim as there is in totk. it was never used. even with the tower being there as a low res asset.
i just want the master cycle zero back..
This Video Aged Well.
I think Nintendo missed an opportunity with the pirates around the shore areas. They could have made them a new race to imply an entire new realm across the sea. There could even be a new villain for Link to fight off
I was really hoping for that when I heard about the Pirates, but oh well
@@HyruleGamersame. imagine my disappointment when all I saw were bokoblins...
When I heard "pirates" I thought it would be rouge Hylians.
PIRATES!?!? AWESOME!!
Oh... They're Bokoblins. You... You could have just said that, Nintendo
Facts, I was very excited for pirates, it made the world feel bigger till I learned what they really were.
The fact that Cece was outside the kingdom studying fashion pretty clearly tells us Hytopia is out there somewhere. It would be cool to see a few sequel kingdoms get to exist as DLC since those weren't the kingdom of Hyrule and any games in those lands could be legends about real places in TotK's world.
She went to the Mushroom Kingdom. That's why all her stuff is mushroom-themed. Zelda and Mario exist on the same planet. Prove me wrong.
Also made me think of how Yona is from another domain!
@@lovelymountain8583And how Kass went outside Hyrule to study music!
Are there other kingdoms mentioned throughout the series? I’ve got a bad memory. There is the place in Majora’s Mask, but isn’t that an alternate reality?
@@KayPeterson-kikibright83 The game boy color games happen in other kingdoms, holodrum and labryna if memory serves me right.
Watch the areas outside of Hyrule just be older, abandoned iterations of Hyrule from past games 😂 So many meta jokes to be made 😂
That would be sad but cool to see!
That would explain the apparent timeline confusion with the game. Basically saying that Rauru and Sonia founded a new Hyrule separate from the one founded after Skyward Sword.
Ive always thought this
@Shadow01974 yeah I feel like Hyrule fell at the end of the 3 timelines, something happens that merges them, then Rauru and Sonya found BotW's Hyrule.
@@Shadow01974 Imagine being so dense you still believe a timeline exists 💀
Whatever kingdom houses Yona's domain may be a fair bet. It might also explain the influx of new characters. The Gorons don't simply double in population, for example.
Labrynna then? That had River Zora royalty.
Maybe they heard of the upheaval and wanted to help
As much as I would love to see tie ins to the Oracle lands, I think a lot of the naming was integrated into this Hyrule, like in Akkala. So I very much doubt it. I would absolutely love to see the Oracle games get their due though
@@s.k.6100 I was going to say how there's a lot of Holodrum and Labrynna naming around the Talus Plateau, but I figured it was too small to house two kingdoms.
@@xinpingdonohoe3978 Botw and Totk take place at the end of every timeline so its very possible people from each kingdom settled there and since they share some cultural roots it makes sense they would settle close to each other. Maybe they fell at some point, maybe it was just some folks who wanted to move to a new/different land
An amazing easter egg would've been a small chance of the isle of the wind fish appearing at sea one day and disappearing the next
Maybe as a random encounter?
Technically the island in the south east of Hyrule is a reference of that, but I would have enjoyed this as well.
@@mikelapine1 eventide island?
@@joescraft123 That’s the one. It’s actually the island that I thought was being referenced in Zora’s domain when they were talking about the sky fish island at first. Then I thought to myself “Surely that’s too far away? Maybe they meant a sky island shaped like a fish?”
@joescraft123 Yeah, the rock on it is called Koholit Rock I think which is a nod to it
I found Penn after the newspaper questline and he mentioned a bard. The area was where Kass was located before for a shrine quest in botw. Perhaps he is involved and we find Kass in a future dlc quest 🤔
I feel like there's too much symmetry in the Far Distance for it to be usable map for us to play in :( You can see a bunch of lines where the map is just repeated back over itself. It's a timesaver in order to have something there that's better than flat textures, but it doesn't look like real environment we're meant to explore someday :(
That said I'm *really* hoping they just replace it and let us break out of Hyrule finally. I'm dying to go beyond the border.
I would love to, someday!
I hope so to, in either dlc or a sequel
From what I recall the game uses a heightmap as the base terrain and adds detail objects on top of it. It may be a function of the game to tile/repeat the heightmap in the out of bounds region to save on rendering new stuff. I do recall in BoTW at least there was a lot of repeating shadows on the ground when going way out of bounds which did seem to indicate that BoTW did this at least. Hard to say if that's the case in ToTk too though. I've been able to use a save edit to teleport link out of bounds and with a glide/infinite staminia cheat I could zoom around the northern area. Though past 7000 or so meters the camera stops following Link so there was a limit to how far I could go.
Oddly I could not go anywhere to the west, south or eastern out of bounds region. The moment I moved link into any of those areas (even when doing so from the North), Link immedietely freezes in place and can't move. The game isn't frozen though as I could still use menus and teleport back to a fast travel point.
Another thing is the DLC for BoTW. The Master Sword Trials occured in a empty copy of MainField (the internal map ID name for Hyrule) with the heightmap flattend out and the trial arena's happening on a raised portion so going out of bound there was a good way to see what the heightmap looked like without all the detail meshes added on top. It's how they setup all the different Weather and such for some arenas which is probably why they decided not to dump them into a new dungeon map ID like the shrines. Maybe the dungeon map IDs didn't support Weather effects.
with the Zonai tech, I could see the DLC working via someone making a zonai flying machine, and that'll be the trigger for switching from the Hyrule Map to the new Map and back again
Oh for sure!
Nether portal
@@willoeters9681 lol
The one I want to explore the most is the edge of the desert. The cliffs make sense to stop you, they're tall and come after a ravine. The sea makes sense because ocean currents and winds may keep you in. But the desert makes no sense. Why does link just stop? A desert expansion would also be cool because it would let us explore that weird mountain in the gerudo Highlands too
Mount Agaat has always driven me crazy, especially now that Agaat Canyon in the Depths is explorable but the mountain still isn’t
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the reason you can't go deeper into the desert is the Molduga population that is inevitably out there. Likely the depth of the sand-sea increases beyond the Gerudo areas, meaning there are few, if any, areas that reach above the sand where a Molduga would be unable to reach anyone attempting to cross.
They should’ve just made it were that the sand storm is so bad that you take damage form sand hitting you.
@@stwbmc98 even with the screw showing, "You can't go and further," you can get up on top of it. You can't go over the entire top, but you can force your way up the very edge of the closest ridge.
@@PhailRaptor or things bigger and scarier than Moldugas
That is a huge amount of undiscoverable space, holy heck. This new land could have more monsters, or maybe just monster variants. Maybe a change in design or they could go the route AoC where regular enemies are elementalized. Like a Thunder Moblin!
There is so much space out there!
Maybe in DLC !
As a Lynel fan, I would LOVE to see elemental Lynels. Gleeoks just aren't nearly as fun to fight.
@@niyo919 For real! Lynel superiority
@@Questie71 Lynel master monster race. Lynels are the real king of the monsters Gleeoks would get destroyed by Lynels in a 1v1 unironically.
The return of Termina? I'm hoping to see a connection between the Zonai and the Twili considering how similar their architecture seems to be. Look at Midna's helmet and compare it to the Zonai ruins to see what I mean.
Yes, Termina is a place I’ve been ever wanting to return to as an open world.
Holdrum and Labrynna maybe?
I don't think the Zonai were all extinct. I think some were banished and became the Twilight people.
Banished for using forbidden magic.
@@thelegendaryzonaiwarrior6400Termina is a whole different universe.
Kass and the Stable Trotters World Tour would be an amazing DLC. Featuring Link on the ocarina and harp, of course.
I believe, especially with the resolution of the newspaper quest line, that an expansion involving Kass is highly probable
*Stable Heroes
Nah,we need link with the saxophone asap
@@Zeninaoya that would be... saxy.
Jokes aside, Something along those lines would elevate this game even more. Playing Lasers on stakes is all good fun but having a full fledged Instrument again would be awesome
@@-siranzalot- yeah I agree having an instrument in the game would be cool, especially if they bring my boy kass back
I imagine if they do something like this they'd give Link his ocarina back, like say if Kass found on his way to some other kingdom
What if... and just hear me out... what if the "land" you speak of is just an illusion? Like a painting to mask the edge of the world...
I mean, it's a little hard to believe that Nintendo designed & rendered a map that is more than twice the size of the one we already have, just to be a nice sight in the distance that we're all totally going to get to use someday. Wouldn't they have just used that map instead? It would have squashed all those concerns about reusing the BotW map. Nope. None of this makes any sense at all.
I've noticed a vicious cycle with Nintendo fans. We get our hopes up... way up past where they should ever be, only to have them crushed by reality. Then, a little time passes... & we've found another obscure detail that Nintendo didn't really put that much thought into, but we're just gonna run with it anyway. Videos like this one are the reason people get so angry with Nintendo. Because something that was never promised didn't come to pass. It's destroying Nintendo faster than their litigious nature.
I agree with your stance on the extra map just being there for the sake of having something to take up the space that wasn’t visible in BOTW but would add that it’s not exactly Nintendo that’s getting anyone’s hopes up when people obsess over the minutiae. And to say it’s “destroying” Nintendo is hyperbole of the highest order; they’re doing just fine lol I think it’s more of an issue that needs to be tempered on the individual level: fans can’t get so excited about completely unfounded theories and expect them to come true every single time. Do they leave breadcrumbs with the intent of stirring discussion and increasing engagement across their social media presence? Absolutely. But that’s the nature of consumable media like video games in the current day and age. I think there’s a problem with the way people process theories in the Zelda community. Just because they leave said breadcrumbs by no means implies we’re meant to throw ourselves into a tizzy over them and expect them to be proven outright in the next installment. The expectation that Nintendo will appease every single whim and want of its fans is misplaced and will always lead to disappointment. Zelda has always been a game focused on gameplay and entertainment value, not deep narrative lore and exposition, BOTW and TOTK show that. They give players enough to come up with their own head canon that’s propped up with what scant info they provide for the sole intent of allowing every player to make the most of it on their own terms but that doesn’t mean any of it is going to be taken into account in a later game/ officially whatsoever.
@varden506 Well, when I used the word "destroying" I was referring to the general idea of them totally sucking. They are indeed getting worse as time passes. Especially when it comes to their relationship with their customers. Sure, there will always be fanboys willing to hand cash to them in exchange for garbage. But people with brains will eventually stop giving them money. As far the "hopium" comments I made, I'm less worried about the disappointment & more concerned about the cycle of speculation & "insiders" spreading rumors. These rumors & "leaks" are always 100 times better than what Nintendo is even capable of. Just look at the difference between OoT on NSO & the illegal versions that the kids have created. They make Nintendo look as though they aren't even trying.
and well they needed something to be visible outside of hyrule. or else it would look really weird and isolated if outside hyrule was just fog. or void.
@@ghoulchan7525 You've just brought up a good point. Is Hyrule round like the Earth? Or is it flat like the theories of flat earthers.
@@MurderTheMouse well seems it curves if you go up very high in the sky. so i think it's a round planet hyrule is on. but what lies beyond the borders we don't know for certain. maybe holudrum and Labirnya don't exist anymore. ( i probably mispelled those names). we just don't know since they are not relevant to the current story.
I personally would love to go out into the desert in a DLC more focused on this iteration of ganondorf’s past, all we really see of him in the main story is just him already being a menace so I would like to see his rise to power as he conquers the desert, and maybe learn more about his motivations to full-on destroy hyrule
He rised to power because he was born male. That's how a male Gerudo becomes King.
@@CordeliaWagner i know that, but there’s a line in one of the cutscenes where it’s reported to rauru that “the last free settlement in the gerudo desert has been conquered” which implies he also had a rise to power beyond just that
Yeah, I think Ganondorf's lack of depth really hurts the game. I saw another channel say that as a boss, he's phenomenal. As a character, he really isn't
Maybe if you go far out enough, you get a Twinmold boss fight to confirm the theory that The Stone Tower in Majora's Mask contains a portal to Hyrule.
Ganondorf is bad for being bad, he does not have any tragic history nor does he care about gerudo, his origin was already explained in Skyward Sword: he is the reincarnation of Demise's wrath
I think we should be able to do water things, Sidons wife (I forget her name) mentions she's from another domain, come on that would be so cool to explore!! Water dungeons and what not, it'd be epic
if we get ‚underwater exploration in Yona‘s home kingdom‘ in a future game, i‘ll just faint with joy.
thats what some people want....like a windwaker sort of dlc but now we can also have underwater places and caves....and dungeons or maybe just a whole new game more based in the sea
@@atlas956 I'd want her domain to look something like or similar to OoT's Zora domain, it would be pretty awesome
Having an expanded map in regions OUTSIDE of Hyrule would be EPIC... but somehow I doubt they'll actually do it. IF they do it, I doubt it would be DLC. The scope feels too big, especially compared to Breath of the Wild's relatively small DLC (which they would probably have DLC similarly in Totk).
IF they ever do an area outside of Hyrule, I feel like it would _need_ to be its own separate game. Maybe a Breath of the Wild 3 so to speak (I don't know if they'll make a third game though, they've never done that sort of thing in the past like when they made sequels like Majora's Mask).
most they could add is like a small confined dungeon area if they wanted to go beyond the borders. but not a full games worth.
@@ghoulchan7525 Yeah, you're totally right.
I think dlc will probably add more sky islands or stuff into the depths as they have a lot of empty space especially compared to hyrule wich is packed with stuff
well we have a couple of plot hooks that might be used. A different zora domain. the fact that apparently the sky stuff dropped down from higher up which means there could be a whole addition top layer. a certain someone getting a team rocket style blast off potentially needing followed up on.
And didn't Sidon's wife say she's from another Zora settlement?
True! I would love to see other settlements of the different races in hyrule expanded to different regions and/or have different places to explore with different races altogether!
(Although, sticking to the traditional zelda format with the original races is totally fine.)
I would love to one day get to visit Yona's domain though a potential DLC.
Her character page does!
If we get a sequel to Tears of the Kingdom, then I hope the world design is inspired by Elden Ring and A Link Between Worlds. By completing one part of the over-world, you’ll be able to unlock more of it.
Then it becomes less open air which is the whole concept of botw and totk. Which would be okay with me since it's been in the past 2 games. But will nintendo risk that
Same, I want to go through different worlds
A map as big as the rest of the continent wouldn't be a DLC, it would be a full on other game years in the future. The same for expanding Labrynna / New Hyrule etc into a BotW style map, that's too much for a DLC. But, we could definitely go to a chain of islands off the coast, that's more manageable. Or bringing the rest of the missing sky islands down past the Barrier, like the obvious missing Skyloft, City in the Sky, Palace of Winds, etc. Vaati DLC?
There's plenty of open world games that have dlc with a whole new world to explore. The Witcher 3 is one example
@@tumultuousvyeah but I don’t know if I can trust the switch to handle all that unless they make it on a switch pro or something
@@taha51617 ? the witcher 3 is on switch
Instead of places outside of hyrule, i was thinking of places in hyrule that we STILL couldn't get into, Like the top of Mount Agaat and the MASSIVE ravine that surrounds the northen part of the kingdom from the ocean all the way to the desert.
I know, both are used as ways to serve as boundaries to explorable space but its still odd the way that they chose to do it: Why prevent us from going on top the mountain, instead of going down the other way? for example.
It'd be neat if they used those places, specially the ravine, that are still somewhat visible as ways to expand the map, instead of simply going beyond the in-game map.
Seeing the map comparison reminded me of Hyrule between 1 and Adventurer of Link 😂
(Also, @Hyrule Gamer Penn talks about Kass being gone after you finish all 12 Potential Princess Side Adventures... *Penn is at Washa's Bluff.* )
Maybe for DLC they can bring an ancient version of skyloft that’s super high in the sky and make a whole new adventure from it and maybe even some more sky islands with more content.
I hope for the DLC that Fi returns, and you have to explore the new area to get her to come out of your sword
I hope more than most things that Nintendo makes us able to fix the Master Sword more, because dear God it sucks right now.
@@spectoestis3106 agreed
Maybe that’s where termina is located haha. Doesn’t Penn talk about Kass? He mentions the great rito bard used to train himself where he went after the quests with him are done
(Slight spoilers)
I wonder if when you get the master sword you're taken to the sacred realm and if there is a place below the depths (as seen before the army)
In the lore, specifically the original Japanese game manual for one of the earliest games, mentions that Ganon was from the equivalent to Hell. I remember a RUclipsr citing it, but I am unable to find it. So maybe there is a depths-ier depths to see where it all started
@@s.k.6100 this would be the original realm that the Demons appeared from in SS then?
@@xinpingdonohoe3978 Truthfully, I don't know. I'm not the one who found the original information
The one thing I want, is just a way to display outfits in Link's home
Heck yea!! 👍
@@zeldafreak1975 They already have the stands and mannequins in the shop! It'd be so easy
I have had this idea of a Legend of Zelda game that takes place in the same universe but outside of Hyrule which has a whole new Protagonist and possible Antagonist. It could even have little references to the land of Hyrule.
A new explorable area would add so much more content to a game that already has so much content that I'm surprised my switch hasn't exploded. It probably will if a dlc like this was added.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that noticed Kass is missing. I’ve searched high and low for him because I feel like he would of love exploring the sky islands.
Guys remember, totk is just 18,2 GB and it is already so massive, imagine if Nintendo would make a more powerlful console how big zelda games would be.
The problem with Nintendo switch is that it is less powerful than other console
I believe we already have explored some of that. In particular, I believe the Skyward Sword Eldin Volcano is out to the north. I also believe that the islands out across the sea were the island areas in Zelda 2.
i higly doubt we will get such substantial dlc. im expecting dlc that is similar in scope to what we got in botw. ie master mode and maybe some small event/gauntlent
Personally I would love to be able to explore ancient hyrule through time travel in a dlc
I agree with your theory with what happened with kass, and it makes sense, because maybe he decided to fly up higher than ever when the sky islands spawned, because he got curious about them, and then he was able to see all of the area around hyrule, and decided to explore it. Also it would make sense because kass was also a big part of the dlc for botw.
he says in botw that he studied music outside of hyrule, so he probably already knows about those areas
I mean, the part to the northeast of explorable Hyrule is easily the lands we know as 'North Hyrule' from Zelda 2, just with an isthmus to connect the larger island from Zelda 2. It fits PERFECTLY.
It would be amazing to go to areas outside of Hyrule. I could see them doing two areas. This is just speculation, but one of my favorite movies was Avatar The Way of Water. I could see see them adapting it. Or they could do pirates and link could command his own pirate ship. I think thats more likely. Also it would be cool if you could bulid your own kingdom to rule over and bulid an army and cities. That would be two amazing ideas for dlc that probably have never been done before. Those are my thoughts.
I remember with BOTW being curious about the out-of-bound areas beyond the map. Especially the northernmost area where you could actually see another landmass across from the cliffs. I remember making several unsuccessful attempts to cross to that area and was frustrated the game wouldn't let me. The game developers had clearly stated that an any area you could physically see could be accessed.
I honestly doubt anything will ever come of these areas but it would be fun if they opened these areas up in DLC.
Getting some real Hunter x hunter vibes and the Dark continent revealing the seemingly massive world we’re familiar with is actually a small spec :D
Shoutout to the discord server as well!
Heyo Neox! Indeed!
it would be cool if in the dlc we’re exploring an entirely new land when suddenly you hear kass’ harp slowly fade in. i’d love to hear it in totk’s new sound system, everything environmental sounds beautiful in it
I’m under the impression it will be a mini spin-off game releasing sometime in between now and whenever the next big Zelda game will release, probably with the next console
TOTK - DLC "the LYNEL friend"
I had a DLC dream yesterday.....
Cutscene - Link watches it: Story-wise it actually takes place right after Hyrule Castle and defeating the Ganonndorf Phantoms. after gannon went underground.
a battle is raging on the hateno wall, a gang of warriors and LINK new companions are standing on the battlements and quivering - a horde (!) of LYNELS is storming in - after a long back and forth the lions are retreating because they were decisively prevented from storming the wall by magic or a retreat order.
then playable again.
LINK sees a wounded LYNEL and wants to finish him off. he asks him, covered in blood, to give him the deathblow. however, LINK decides against it because there is something odd about the LYNEL. it seems to emit a slight glow. like the forest god….
A cutscene follows with IMPA and the recovery process of the LYNEL etc.
then the LYNEL can be called up as a mount and combat companion. when you climb up, there is always a little saying along the lines of: "you don't think you can ride me?!" - or "yes, yes, you seem to enjoy it...."
Sitting on it, the leune himself shoots arrows when you switch to ARCHER MODE, you don't use any yourself.
the actual DLC quest involves the storming of a LYNEL FORT, which is located in the northern part of the map, on the vast mountain plains that cannot currently be reached, nor can they be reached in BOTW.
after waking up, i couldn't extract the exact meaning, also in relation to the storyline ;)
I'm not against the suggestions, but there is NO WAY they are going to do something that expansive in a DLC. TOTK itself was originally planned for DLC, but made into a game because it far exceeded the scope of DLC. What you're suggesting would end up being a new game.
I really don't see the DLC expanding Hyrule outside of it's existing borders, especially not to the extent HG is hoping for. Aside from the fact that we can see that area is empty, an expansion of that scale seems to fall into the same issue TotK did when it was just a DLC idea for BotW; It's just too big. Like, based off the rough map of that outside area that was shown, the hypothetical new area would be just as big as Hyrule itself, if not bigger, and for it to have it's own main quests and side quests and stuff; at that point you're just making an entirely new game. Think about the scale they stopped at when making the BotW DLC; it added a few small locations around the map; nothing bigger than a shrine or the final dungeon. An entirely new kingdom just seems like way *way* too massive of an expectation. I think it's pretty clear that the area past the cliffs around Hyrule are simply there as visual fluff; a way to avoid players looking out at the horizon and going "Wow, there absolutely *no* world outside of Hyrule." It's just there to keep you immersed in the world by not having the literal world cut off at the same place the playable world map does. If they *were* to expand the world in that way, they'd then have to introduce a new visible outlying land that you can see but not explore, at which point the question of "when do we get to explore what's out that way" becomes an infinite loop that can't be sustained by a finite game.
Yeah this is so confusing and the fact they’re not adding anything makes everything more confusing. Like what is the depths?? They didn’t explain ANYTHING
When you finally defeat master kohga he is launched into the sky through a chasm so I’m thinking maybe he got launched to a far away land where we will run into him again? This and many other things in the game lead me to believe we will get a massive dlc or even a third game.
Kohaga is algeric to death
it would be absolutely hilarious if Koga became a recurrent boss in this ‚new‘ timeline. the yiga have got to be one of the most popular subplots in TOTK, and making Koga implausibly indestructible as a foreshadowing plot device would be just plain brilliant.
he goes to space
@@kylesimone6140The final front…tear😂
@@Perry_Neum…of the King Dumb? 😬
I have had real questions about this for a while now. if you look at the maps both the depths and sky seems complete (top to bottom - no dead space). HOWEVER, look at the ground level map: do you notice anything at the bottom? there is a large blacked out rectangle at the the bottom. my thought process is if the other maps are complete, why isn't the primary map complete?
Unless you mean the generic side border, I can't figure out which surface black rectangle you mean.
future dlc or not, this is the most adventurous link of all. He got experience with the 1st calamity before botw starts, then the 2nd when we start playing (basically after he reawakens), plus botw dlc, then the time of hyrule's reconstruction, which was 2-3 years, and NOW totk, where there's the depths and the skies. AAAND not to mention that this is what I know, the biggest ideration of hyrule in the zelda series. I mean, WOW. This link has had so much going on, then maybe future dlc for totk.
crazy.
If you look at the scale of the prior DLC, you'd see that the idea of a whole new kingdom and storyline battling a new great evil is not the territory of a DLC pack but rather a whole new game.
It’s so disappointing to
Watch this video now. I still don’t want to believe that there won’t be ANY dlc for TOTK. 😢
Maybe we’ll see where Yona is from 👀
As much as I'd love Hyrule to be extended west or northward, I think I'd love an underwater segment way more, mixed in with a far away island or continent
When you go to the map, it’s interesting that you can scroll a little more past the center of the map when scrolling to the bottom and bottom right parts of the map. I thought something was going to open up towards this areas with the pirates, but nothing happened ☹️
Thought experiment for the story/lore wise, a divine barrier of sorts that allows inhabitants in and out but repels outsiders for their safety while containing Link and Gannondorf during botw/ totk. Potential sequel material or chapter for the next game and expansion of the world around Hyrule I do want
It would be awesome if in the sequel to TOTK, the Blood Moon becomes permanent and hyper chaos breaks out, so Link has to go to the Moon 🌙 and fight monsters on the Lunar surface. I would to love to see a completely new set of plants and monsters, like are in the current underworld.
and then we see the other side of the moon is a face sleeping waiting to be awoken
What if the area is called Termina😂
Oh no, the lore there would be crazy xD
yet here i am wishing we just get more lore on the triforce and where it all ties in to this link and zelda timeline......plus when we will get more info on the dark link/s we see in twilight princess(theres 3 dark links?)
I mean it's not out of the realm of possibility. Its known that there are plenty of other kingdoms and settlements around hyrule
random thought but i wonder if anyone has checked all the files and updates for the game to find out any new files leading to DLC or info about that
3:30 there is a sword etched into the left side of the unknown space 👀
i hope its the location of the master sword from wind waker (since we all know there is 2 master swords)
Diving is also on high demand when it comes to exploring the sea. Because I think it would be epic if we could find the long and forgotten Kingdom of Hyrule from Wind Waker.
Kass does have one brief mention; once you complete the newspaper quest lines Penn talks about him. Not by name, but by profession
Direct to be announced tomorrow.
DLC for ToTK will be announced, featuring a season pass, comprised of three chapters- each being 1/3 of the unexplored map, including sky and depths. Each dlc pack releases every six months. Keeps the game evergreen fosho ;D
I'll believe it when I see Nintendo announce it lol
If that was to happen tomorrow, it'd be huge!
@@HyruleGamer I wasn't being serious! More of a wishful thought lol
Great video though!
Maybe we revisit Holodrum and Labryna 🤔i mean it was descripted they where near Hyrule or at least in travelable distance 🤔maybe the old Oracles even become the dragons we see 🤔 and somehow Ganondorf could Return again 🧐
If they make a 3rd entry into BotW expanding the area with 2 new maps (Holodrum and Labryna) is probably the only direction they can go since we already went to the sky and underground. I would use Twinrova (since TotK has references to Twinrova hidden in the game) trying to revive Ganondorf as the main conflict (think something similar to Link's Adventure)
*fingers crossed* DLC! DLC! DLC!
Great video man! I've often wondered about those other areas too. It confirms again that Hyrule is just a country/continent too, one part of a much bigger world. 👀
Thanks a lot!
Wow I remember when you just had 10 thousand subscribers that’s awesome that you’ve grown so much. You will always be one of my favorites
Thanks a ton!
5:05 I guess I am technically below the video
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Alas, DLC has been confirmed to not exist.
Cass could take you there on his hot air balloon... that way you can just stand there letting him play you music while you load...
AND IT WOULD BE LIKE KAPP'N IN ANIMAL CROSSING IT WOULD BE SO AWESOME
Will you be making theory videos on TOTK soon? My favorite videos of yours were always the botw theory videos on random NPC s and locations :D
I think the secret area is hyrule from ocroniea of time
I expect there to be a DLC featuring the old sages at some point too... Ballad of the Sages anyone? :P
That would be very cool!
Honestly, my 2017 switch wouldn't be able to handle such a big dlc, but it would be cool!
Aw man, yeah xD
Looks like an old Zelda map like ocarina of time
I just sneezed. Can someone say bless you to me?
When I look at that potential full map it reminds me of the first half of Zelda 2's map just shifted a bit to the left
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I hope we get to upgrade the runes like in botw, increase the number of items attachable with ultra hand, have the ceiling for ascend be higher up, and being able to attack a third item with fuse
I personally would love it if DLC was the form of a new kingdom! It seems definitely possible as Termina was sort of a parallel world to Hyrule in the past
I doubt they will add that much for DLC - that sounds like a whole new game's worth of content. Remember, Breath of the Wild's DLC was just a few extra shrines, a small dungeon, trial of the sword, and a hard mode.
Why do you doubt it? Just curious
@@HyruleGamer I'd love it if they did, just I think its unlikely they'd have time to create a whole new world. Maybe if they make another sequel and turn it into a trilogy we'd get something like this.
I thought you were going to talk about how we can see the ancient Hyrule throne room back when Rauru was in charge. And that it looks nothing like the current Throne room.
So maybe we could get a DLC where we could visit places seen in the cutscenes but not reachable in the actual game.
Interesting idea!
I too initially thought that's where we were going with the video and was a little disappointed, haha
If Nintendo dont do it do it yourself
2:53 Shesez did also a zoomout of the hole TOTK map in his last vid.
How about a return to Termina from Majora's Mask?
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Haven't they announced no dlc?
Just wild that how I was literally thinking this about an hour ago as I was gliding down near the Gerudo Highlands and looking out west. I kinda like having that area being there but unknown. I want to see the world expand too though.
Does Gerudo Desert border the sea?
Notif Gang 🔥. Nice captions btw
Appreciate it!
I always thought about this, It makes me so happy that someone had the same idea, I just don't see it happening...
It’s not gonna happen.
I love your idea HG but I think its a really big ask, and I think expanding/adding new new maps would be better suited for a new LOZ game (maybe a 3rd BotW entry) and on a new more powerful hardware by the time it comes out.
I can’t see them adding areas outside of Hyrule’s borders in DLC. If they add new explorable areas, I’m imagining, like… Upper Skies and Deepest Depths.
Well if we remember Zelda II the adventure of link. Link had to travel the ocean to get to a new continent to continue his quest with the temples. This was before Wildwater came out and the idea of a flooded hyrule was ever brought up. The original map where we started had all the elements of tge hyrule kingdom for what it was known back then, death mountain, the cemetery, the marshlands I also think there was Prarie and a semi desert. Pretty much all elements found in the current Hyrule. So it would make since there is also unexplored lands beyond the ocean far from Hyrule into another unknown kingdom.
I don’t like kass
Also: can we please stop telling people it's five to eight years after BotW? I keep hearing that same number repeating, but it *can't* be right. We have a quest chain revolving around a nine year old girl whose parents only just met in BotW. Her whole life has to fit between games.
{There's also a girl who didn't age *at all* between games but I have to believe she's a mistake. There's no *story* involving her, so whoever wrote her lines probably didn't know about the time skip.}
If you believe it's wrong, what do you suggest it is? I keep hearing the same "this is wrong" but with no suggest as to what's right lol
@@HyruleGamer well his comment suggests that maybe it could be at least 9yrs since the last game owing to the age of the character.
@@dangermouseuk78 At least 9 isn't too far off 8 imo. I hope we'll get a set answer at some point!
@@dangermouseuk78 yes, exactly.
@@HyruleGamer I mean yes, eight and nine are close, but the *maximum* most of the community has been saying is still less than the *minimum* the game outright tells us. I'm only frustrated because it's so many people saying five to eight that everyone's accepted it, but the only number the game itself gives us is outside that range.
Kaas is hinted at when you finish the News Side-Quest and find yourself at a specific location with the Deliverybirdman. i also hope further content expands on this, since it felt left rather open.
i believe the DLC to be more streamlined towards BOTW:
• Master Sword Challenges, since atm our Master Sword doesn't even list any Damage Value, though afaik it does 30 (45) damage only.
• More Insights into Champions, or in this Case, the Sages. We might get further Memories of Zelda working out the Dungeons in the far past with the Races, while getting some actual Sages Powerups, since the "Sages Wills" only increase the Damage Output
• personally would love more Lore insight into the Divine Beasts, maybe those were truly sent outside Hyrule to explore the Lands beyond together with some technical Staff and the remains of many guardians and towers as repair materials. we could obtain new zonian tech or new prestine weapons here.
I just can’t see them actually doing something like this for DLC of all things. Think about how long it took for them to update the current Hyrule map and create all of these new features for TotK. A whole separate area with unique geography that’s more than three times the size of Hyrule is a VERY unrealistic vision for what they’d be willing to do with DLC. If they wanted to make a third game and make it a trilogy, I could maybe see it happening, but not without another 6+ years of development.
The problem with that, though, is what antagonist do you use for a third game? TotK told the ultimate Zelda story of facing Ganondorf himself and completely obliterating him for good, they can’t bring Ganon back otherwise TotK’s ending will feel hollow. I could see them using Vaati as a potential antagonist but idk if they would want to take such a risk, considering Vaati is nowhere near as popular or recognizable as Ganon/Ganondorf.
I honestly think their plan is to do DLC for TotK, which will simply take place in Hyrule and introduce maybe a few more shrines, some unlockable goodies, a Master Mode, and a short narrative about some of the remaining mysteries of the kingdom (just like BotW’s DLC). Anything more than that feels extremely unrealistic in my eyes
In terms of DLC, I was thinking about the outfits we have and wondered why Nintendo couldn't make Link transform into the artstyle from each game, like low-poly Hero of Time Link with his old textures, and even old Hyrule Field OST. I think it would be a neat addition to further reference old games like how Super Mario Odyssey allowed Mario to dress up as his low-poly self from SM64.
My bet for DLC is something akin to the BotW DLC. Master mode gets added in and there are a few new questlines revolving either around the sages (similar to champion's ballad), the disappearance of the Shiekah tech, Ganondorf's rise to power, or the disappearance of the Zonai. No matter which potential storyline they go with for DLC it will most likely involve Kass. What I'm betting they WON'T do is adding entire new areas Solstheim style into the game. At most it will be new cutscenes, some new shrines and potentially a new ability and/or upgrades to existing abilities. Tears of the Kingdom is already approaching the Switch's limit and I'm sure adding entire new cities and what-not would be problematic, and on top of that it just doesn't seem like the Zelda team's style, at least when looking at the BotW DLC.
That being said, if the next game uses this iteration of Link and Zelda again, they will 100% be exploring new places beyond Hyrule. Something caught Zelda's attention that got her to venture to foreign lands, leaving the sages back home to keep things running in the kingdom. Boom. There's the start of your story.
And that's where I'll end theorizing about future games because Tears has only been out a month and a half and it is far to early to be speculating like that lol.