Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

"Those subtitles… they start to give little bits of hints about maybe what's going to happen," Nintendo Treehouse's Bill Trinen said at the time. "We're still ...

[Nintendo said it couldn't reveal the sequel's full name](https://www.gamesradar.com/the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-sequel-name-is-being-kept-secret-for-a-very-good-reason/) for fear of giving away too much of the game. Now though, with the name of the sequel revealed, Breath of the Wild fans are confessing they're none the wiser. A new trailer showed Link diving headlong through clouds, before a release date of May 12, 2023 was finally announced for the eagerly-anticipated sequel.

Pop on your tinfoil hat, and start discerning Nintendo's messages in the Breath of the Wild sequel trailer.

Twitter user and pixel artist Kaimatten somehow generated this work of art, based on the game’s cover art, just a few hours later: A lot of people are assuming the title says “Tears” as in crying, but what if it’s “Tears” as in rips in reality? The most popular theory online is that this is to contain those tears, the kingdom ones. At this point it’s basically a Rorschach test that says more about the poster than the conceit. (Imagine your own Charlie in Always Sunny gif here.) Here’s a mighty fine one from Reddit user WhatWasThatHowl, which purports to prove multiple crossovers with Twilight Princess, especially the existence of And in an earlier Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Zelda suggests the timelines are being combined. [Zelda timelines](https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/Zelda_Timeline), a migraine is never far away. Here are some of our favorite fan-theories from yesterday’s new trailer, along with the name reveal, Tears of the Kingdom. So, the poster above speculates that since this new trailer is now showing off the same ancient ruins and connecting them to the Twili from Twilight Princess, then it follows that the Zonai are descended from them. It’s worth knowing that the first Breath of the Wild heavily featured ruins from a prehistoric tribe called the Zonai, though the game never really explained any of it. Here’s the trailer, absolutely packed with little details, glyphs and other fan-baiting detritus, for you to forensically dissect. But it’s always fascinating to look over them, hoping to spot the nugget of truth, and the odd few concocted with eagle eyes.

The title of the sequel to "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" was revealed at the end of the Sept. 13, 2022 Nintendo Direct broadcast.

Twitter [user @anime_zelda suggested](https://twitter.com/anime_zelda/status/1569860023190261762?s=46&t=-MwefP2h1grtmJOnHoxCbA) the meaning could be both at the same time, that the tears of the kingdom could come from the disappearance of Zelda, as seen in the first trailer, which leads to the physical tearing apart of Hyrule. ["Tears of the Kingdom" trailer](https://www.svg.com/1005712/its-time-to-talk-about-that-legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-trailer/) did not have a voiceover, though, leaving [fans to speculate wildly](https://twitter.com/DavidRussell323/status/1569820945107361792) on what the title of the new "Zelda" game's name could mean. In many "Zelda" games, Tears are used as a symbol of power or light, like the [Tears of Light in "Twilight Princess." While the trailer has certainly stirred up the "Zelda" fanbase, some details that [have fans questioning the new game](https://twitter.com/JakeBaldino/status/1569705232346521602) – in particular, how to pronounce the first word of the title, and what that could mean for the game. The title of the sequel to "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" was revealed at the end of the Sept. The resulting discourse has fans debating the future of "Zelda."

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom pre-orders have begun, and our guide will show the best and cheapest way to get your copy.

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The sequel to Breath of the Wild was officially unveiled during yesterday's Nintendo Direct, in a brief but lush game announcement trailer.

But one wall depiction, around 30 seconds in, could be a clue as to how many dungeons we could expect. Some of the symbols appear to show Link and Zelda, while others depict beasts or monsters we have yet to meet. The sequel to Breath of the Wild was officially unveiled during yesterday's Nintendo Direct, in a brief but lush game announcement trailer.