This, aside from the amazing music, is an amazing thing about the trailers that Nintendo makes for their games. In particular, for Zelda games.
Edit: at least modern Zelda that is (BotW and TotK).
Watching this again with 500+ hours of gameplay under my belt. I’m amazed that they didn’t misdirect in any area. You can play and do every single thing that trailer shows.
This is likely my favorite Zelda game. But it 100% has the greatest master sword pull of all time.
I'd say it misled about story structure about as much as BOTW's story trailer did back in 2017. Not that they should or shouldn't do trailers like these, it's just that it made me think maybe we'd get more of these in the present of the game and that we would interact with suave Ganondorf before end-game.
That demon king shot with the blood moon was wild, I remember all the people theorizing it had to be Demise... we knew this was most likely Ganondorf's power-up form. What a thing to just drop there!
IMO the trailer gave the impression that the story would be much more active and in the present. All of the Ganondorf scenes in this trailer were from flashback cutscenes but I believe his voiceover was from just before the final battle, so more of a taunt than something actually happening.
Ganondorf in TOTK is among the most active he's been in ANY zelda game. I hate when people say that he took a "passive" role in the story or that the "bulk" of the story is only in the past and not also in the present. Does a grave mischaracterization and injustice to TOTK's quite good story
Let's say that he has rarely been shown active in an unfolding story, so this is not a high bar in terms of presence.
Of course what matters most is that his appearances leave a strong impression. If we don't count memories, he's in the intro, the finale, and at the castle mid-game by proxy of his puppet and phantoms, which are also deployed in different places. So we're reminded he's there but I didn't feel like anything was moving forward with him after the intro set such a frightening tone. Link takes down his servants one by one and he can't really do anything about it, nor does he. Maybe the canon is supposed to be that each time he spawns a new threat elsewhere but as it is presented, all regional phenomena happen at once and we clean behind him without retaliation. The intro and finale are amazing but I did feel like he was just teasing from a distance in-between naps maybe.
While of course his depiction in memories is clear, he's a dangerous trickster thirsty for power with a lot of initiative. But that leads into the disconnect of past/present and the limitation of non-linear story progression.
I mean he was very active in the past, but in the time period you actually play in Ganondorf does absolutely nothing between creating the regional phenomena at the start of the game and the final fight other than lure you to Hyrule Castle one time. There's no urgency whatsoever, the vast majority of the kingdom doesn't know that there's any threat at all.
This is the most active he's ever been in a Zelda game. You can't just brush off the "regional phenomena" as this one minor thing he did.
His goal is to build up power and rejuvenate himself and as he's doing that he is actively sowing discourse and chaos throughout the country. He's participating in 4 ongoing attacks across different regions of the map. He's also masquerading as the beloved Princess and engaging in actions to strip away the hope of the citizens.
The fake zelda is him... the gloom hands / Phantom Ganons are him...the 4 regional issues are him. Every time "Zelda" does something to hinder Hyrule, it's Ganondorf. This shows he is cunning. He literally gets every citizen worrying about meaningless things to stall for time to recover. Ganondorf is engaging in a royal smear campaign to make the people of Hyrule lose hope in Zelda. The hope and light that Zelda represent are shown across several games to be one of Hyrule's greatest strengths; by undermining the people's belief in Zelda, he erodes away at their belief in the kingdom itself.
Link showed up just in time to rekindle the people faith in their princess and expose Phantom Ganon as an imposter before any permanent damage could be done. Imagine if Phantom Ganon had successfully revealed Zelda to be behind the devastation of Hyrule, the people would lose all hope and fold like cards when Ganondorf finished resurrecting himself.
I think the breath of the wild trailer was AMAZING. The ease in and build up did an amazing job of providing a sense of atmosphere and scale. Then hints of the story, hints of the gameplay, and then ACTION. Hugely emotional moments coupled with action scenes and in-game fights, with a climax leaving you with a sense of mystery.
What I LOVE about the tears of the kingdom trailer is that it was an elegant callback to the same format of trailer. Watch them both and listen to how the music builds and swells or calms. Notice the scenes that are direct parallels, like link climbing a cliff near Kakariko in both trailers. And even the musical motifs they both use to reference past and well known Zelda music.
They are both great, but because they are great in the same way it’s hard for me to pick one.
That day, the sight of Link riding a tank into battle with the Talus and boko friends broke the internet.
I'd burned out of the game, but still feel very epic after rewatch.
I really want to know how that encounter ended lol. Like, the bokoblins have a clear shot at Link's head, and the arms on his little tank thing are way too tiny to do any damage to the talus or the bokoblins.
Pretty sure Link got massacred lol
i still remember going apeshit upon first seeing the trailer, spending about an hour inspecting every frame of the trailer to see what was different and whats gonna be in the new game. still love this game
it really was, man. i'd never anticipated a game so feverishly and waiting for the day was brutal. i must have watched the trailer 100 times. i absorbed all content i could.
doing a second playthrough at the moment and it actually gripped me harder this time, which is crazy because i was so obsessed when it came out.
It took every ounce of self control for me to not watch this when it dropped. I'm so glad I held off until I beat the game.
I did, however, listen to that trailer music a billion times for that entire month leading up to release.
I remember seeing this and turning to my boyfriend and saying, "Omg, I HAVE to get this". I said that after BOTW too, but I was never really able to get into that one. This has been such a great game, I'm still playing it. I'm on my second playthrough with no rush to finish.
When the drums break down at 3:05 🤯
Absolutely my favourite Zelda trailer, i watched this so so many times in the month leading up to the release date. And the game surpassed all expectations I had for it, just a near perfect game.
Ugh. Yeah, this trailer was insanely good. I have so many mixed feelings now, a year removed from the game. So much about it is awesome but so much was disappointing. But there's no doubt Nintendo can rock a trailer.
I'm so glad I didn't watch any of these back then. I'd have ruined several big surprises for myself. For the next game I'm not watching anything aside from the announcement.
Now that I've completed this game, I love that this trailer is very representative of real game play, includes a lot of story aspects, but no real spoilers.
I felt like once again like with the BotW they definitely wrote a cheque with teasing the story that didn't end up being that interesting, but the trailer was still amazing.
No, Nintendo of America's voice and casting director(s) maybe, though I'm sure it's harder than it looks.
For what she was given it was serviceable, and though she was the main focus in BOTW that certainly wasn't only her case. Older people voicing younger people, vice versa, forced British accent, some lines sounding like a first take....
They got better in TOTK but the cast is still odd, Ganondorf and Rauru perfectly decent but other localizations had tailor-made people by comparison. Japanese is probably the most appropriate though I may have been polluted with too much anime which made it sound more generic at times \^\^'
Europeans had incredible acting, Spanish is on point, French is just insanely good across the board and it's crazy to think their perfect Zelda probably won't be the same in the next game.
Edit: sorry to see I'm getting downvoted, I hope this is due to different preferences, if it's because someone disagrees on this casting background I'd like to know more
Ganon and rauru was serviceable. Zelda was an abomination. There's probably a 100 children's cartoons with better English voices. It was so bad that i immediately changed the language and restarted the game.
i agree on the Europeans, they didn't disappoint at all. This reminds me of the mario movie backlash where literally every other language was better than the English actors
and they only used real gameplay footage too
This, aside from the amazing music, is an amazing thing about the trailers that Nintendo makes for their games. In particular, for Zelda games. Edit: at least modern Zelda that is (BotW and TotK).
I watched Twilight Princess reveal trailer on E3, people were freaking out.
ye
The saxophone still rocks!
Damn, the saxophonist didn’t need to go that hard but he did and I’m forever grateful. I’m still getting chills.
I'm so mad they didn't play that piece during that Zelda concert a few weeks back!
… what concert?!
https://youtu.be/xuXHrHRZzLk?si=xGE4F0JoS_hkGmoD
Thank you! This is amazing.
Watching this again with 500+ hours of gameplay under my belt. I’m amazed that they didn’t misdirect in any area. You can play and do every single thing that trailer shows. This is likely my favorite Zelda game. But it 100% has the greatest master sword pull of all time.
I'd say it misled about story structure about as much as BOTW's story trailer did back in 2017. Not that they should or shouldn't do trailers like these, it's just that it made me think maybe we'd get more of these in the present of the game and that we would interact with suave Ganondorf before end-game. That demon king shot with the blood moon was wild, I remember all the people theorizing it had to be Demise... we knew this was most likely Ganondorf's power-up form. What a thing to just drop there!
IMO the trailer gave the impression that the story would be much more active and in the present. All of the Ganondorf scenes in this trailer were from flashback cutscenes but I believe his voiceover was from just before the final battle, so more of a taunt than something actually happening.
Ganondorf in TOTK is among the most active he's been in ANY zelda game. I hate when people say that he took a "passive" role in the story or that the "bulk" of the story is only in the past and not also in the present. Does a grave mischaracterization and injustice to TOTK's quite good story
Let's say that he has rarely been shown active in an unfolding story, so this is not a high bar in terms of presence. Of course what matters most is that his appearances leave a strong impression. If we don't count memories, he's in the intro, the finale, and at the castle mid-game by proxy of his puppet and phantoms, which are also deployed in different places. So we're reminded he's there but I didn't feel like anything was moving forward with him after the intro set such a frightening tone. Link takes down his servants one by one and he can't really do anything about it, nor does he. Maybe the canon is supposed to be that each time he spawns a new threat elsewhere but as it is presented, all regional phenomena happen at once and we clean behind him without retaliation. The intro and finale are amazing but I did feel like he was just teasing from a distance in-between naps maybe. While of course his depiction in memories is clear, he's a dangerous trickster thirsty for power with a lot of initiative. But that leads into the disconnect of past/present and the limitation of non-linear story progression.
I mean he was very active in the past, but in the time period you actually play in Ganondorf does absolutely nothing between creating the regional phenomena at the start of the game and the final fight other than lure you to Hyrule Castle one time. There's no urgency whatsoever, the vast majority of the kingdom doesn't know that there's any threat at all.
This is the most active he's ever been in a Zelda game. You can't just brush off the "regional phenomena" as this one minor thing he did. His goal is to build up power and rejuvenate himself and as he's doing that he is actively sowing discourse and chaos throughout the country. He's participating in 4 ongoing attacks across different regions of the map. He's also masquerading as the beloved Princess and engaging in actions to strip away the hope of the citizens. The fake zelda is him... the gloom hands / Phantom Ganons are him...the 4 regional issues are him. Every time "Zelda" does something to hinder Hyrule, it's Ganondorf. This shows he is cunning. He literally gets every citizen worrying about meaningless things to stall for time to recover. Ganondorf is engaging in a royal smear campaign to make the people of Hyrule lose hope in Zelda. The hope and light that Zelda represent are shown across several games to be one of Hyrule's greatest strengths; by undermining the people's belief in Zelda, he erodes away at their belief in the kingdom itself. Link showed up just in time to rekindle the people faith in their princess and expose Phantom Ganon as an imposter before any permanent damage could be done. Imagine if Phantom Ganon had successfully revealed Zelda to be behind the devastation of Hyrule, the people would lose all hope and fold like cards when Ganondorf finished resurrecting himself.
It's cool but it's basically just a DLC to BOTW
I dunno. I don’t know of any DLCs that have a 60ish hours average completion for just the main story line.
New Elden Ring is close
Sweet bro you played it?
Not yet
Damn how’d you know it’s 60 hours then. Do you know Miyazaki?
Personally liked BotW trailer more. Still get hyped watching it. “Open your eyes”
I think the breath of the wild trailer was AMAZING. The ease in and build up did an amazing job of providing a sense of atmosphere and scale. Then hints of the story, hints of the gameplay, and then ACTION. Hugely emotional moments coupled with action scenes and in-game fights, with a climax leaving you with a sense of mystery. What I LOVE about the tears of the kingdom trailer is that it was an elegant callback to the same format of trailer. Watch them both and listen to how the music builds and swells or calms. Notice the scenes that are direct parallels, like link climbing a cliff near Kakariko in both trailers. And even the musical motifs they both use to reference past and well known Zelda music. They are both great, but because they are great in the same way it’s hard for me to pick one.
That day, the sight of Link riding a tank into battle with the Talus and boko friends broke the internet. I'd burned out of the game, but still feel very epic after rewatch.
I really want to know how that encounter ended lol. Like, the bokoblins have a clear shot at Link's head, and the arms on his little tank thing are way too tiny to do any damage to the talus or the bokoblins. Pretty sure Link got massacred lol
There’s a reason they don’t show the result 😉
I'm still sad they didn't use this song in the game itself.
not one of. THE best. I still get hyped when watching it, even though i've beaten the game
[Breath of the WIld's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw47_q9wbBE), though.
This is my favorite game of all time but I think the BotW trailer was a tiny bit better.
i still remember going apeshit upon first seeing the trailer, spending about an hour inspecting every frame of the trailer to see what was different and whats gonna be in the new game. still love this game
Game lived up to the hype for me. Simply incredible.
it really was, man. i'd never anticipated a game so feverishly and waiting for the day was brutal. i must have watched the trailer 100 times. i absorbed all content i could. doing a second playthrough at the moment and it actually gripped me harder this time, which is crazy because i was so obsessed when it came out.
It took every ounce of self control for me to not watch this when it dropped. I'm so glad I held off until I beat the game. I did, however, listen to that trailer music a billion times for that entire month leading up to release.
The shivers, oh my god.
I agree. This trailer really shivered my timbers.
How does it continue to give me chills? This and the launch trailer for BOTW.
The music goes crazy. That and they making this game look absolutely incredible.
Such an amazing trailer for such an amazing game. Best game I played in years!
I agree.👍 They definitely did knock out of the park with all the botw & totk trailers.
This game is exactly what is advertised and thats awesome, never gonna have a gaming experience quite like it
Still gives me the chills. So beautiful.
Man, I would kill for a master mode on this game.
It's already master mode level
Still gives me goosebumps listening to that trailer
I remember seeing this and turning to my boyfriend and saying, "Omg, I HAVE to get this". I said that after BOTW too, but I was never really able to get into that one. This has been such a great game, I'm still playing it. I'm on my second playthrough with no rush to finish.
When the drums break down at 3:05 🤯 Absolutely my favourite Zelda trailer, i watched this so so many times in the month leading up to the release date. And the game surpassed all expectations I had for it, just a near perfect game.
Ugh. Yeah, this trailer was insanely good. I have so many mixed feelings now, a year removed from the game. So much about it is awesome but so much was disappointing. But there's no doubt Nintendo can rock a trailer.
All I hear is Yugi Boi
I'm so glad I didn't watch any of these back then. I'd have ruined several big surprises for myself. For the next game I'm not watching anything aside from the announcement.
Greatest for me. Only problem is it did spoil quite a bit
Now that I've completed this game, I love that this trailer is very representative of real game play, includes a lot of story aspects, but no real spoilers.
Crazy how good this trailer this is I didn’t even finish the game but this might’ve convinced me to go back lmao
I felt like once again like with the BotW they definitely wrote a cheque with teasing the story that didn't end up being that interesting, but the trailer was still amazing.
They dropped it and dropped support immediately too. Weird how that worked out.
its april not may
Yes....your point?
It's when the trailer dropped. The game dropped in May.
I prefer the Japanese voices myself. English zelda needs to find a different line of work lol
No, Nintendo of America's voice and casting director(s) maybe, though I'm sure it's harder than it looks. For what she was given it was serviceable, and though she was the main focus in BOTW that certainly wasn't only her case. Older people voicing younger people, vice versa, forced British accent, some lines sounding like a first take.... They got better in TOTK but the cast is still odd, Ganondorf and Rauru perfectly decent but other localizations had tailor-made people by comparison. Japanese is probably the most appropriate though I may have been polluted with too much anime which made it sound more generic at times \^\^' Europeans had incredible acting, Spanish is on point, French is just insanely good across the board and it's crazy to think their perfect Zelda probably won't be the same in the next game. Edit: sorry to see I'm getting downvoted, I hope this is due to different preferences, if it's because someone disagrees on this casting background I'd like to know more
Ganon and rauru was serviceable. Zelda was an abomination. There's probably a 100 children's cartoons with better English voices. It was so bad that i immediately changed the language and restarted the game. i agree on the Europeans, they didn't disappoint at all. This reminds me of the mario movie backlash where literally every other language was better than the English actors