An Italian voice actor for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild could have revealed a serious plot level within the long-awaited sequel. Spoilers observe.
Legend of Zelda YouTube channel Lega Hyrule uploaded a video the place they interviewed Pietro Ubaldi, the Italian voice actor for Goron champion Daruk at a fan occasion. Within the video, Ubaldi candidly revealed that he’s not solely reprising his position as Hyperlink’s stalwart (and long-deceased) good friend, however that he’s additionally voicing certainly one of Daruk’s ancestors as nicely.
“Whose title I don’t bear in mind, sadly,” Ubaldi stated within the video. “However it was a bit extra severe Daruk.”
Whereas the phenomenon of a voice actor freely giving plot particulars for an upcoming sport isn’t something new, within the video, Lega Hyrule’s Emanuele notes that Ubaldi’s revelation that Daruk returns within the sequel is peculiar contemplating Daruk’s spirit passes into the afterlife on the finish of Breath of the Wild. However that isn’t to say that Daruk popping up in BotW2 is an impossibility–he was already a spirit all through the occasions of the primary sport, in spite of everything, and it’s additionally potential that all through the sequel, extra recollections of Hyperlink’s previous will floor through which Daruk (and the opposite champions, Revali, Mipha, and Urbosa) had been alive and nicely.
Extra notable, nevertheless, is the information that an ancestor of Daruk’s makes an look. To be clear, we all know nothing about this ancestor–not his title, or what number of generations eliminated he’s from our boy Daruk. Nevertheless, Emanuele does increase the intriguing chance that he would be the ancestor who piloted Divine Beast Rudania within the battle with Calamity Ganon that occurred 10,000 years previous to Breath of the Wild.
In fact, like Daruk, this ancestor could seem as a spirit or solely in flashbacks, we don’t know. However what if this ancestor seems as a result of Hyperlink in some way travels again in time to the battle that occurred 10,000 years in the past? What if we uncover that the hero of legend who wielded the Grasp Sword in that wrestle is our personal Hyperlink, solid again in time? Zelda video games have a penchant for timey-wimey plot factors, so it’s hardly out of the query. Given BotW’s plot involving Hyperlink Rip Van Winkle-ing himself from a 100-year sleep to provide Ganon the smoke, it might make sense that Hyperlink would hyperlink up (I’m not apologizing) with Daruk’s ancestor prior to now, given the truth that he’s the “hero of time” and all.
Ubaldi’s leaked plot element, whereas innocuous, is an enormous deal contemplating it’s the primary actual nugget of data Zelda followers have gotten about BotW2 since Nintendo’s trailer finally yr’s E3. Though the teaser trailer is briefer than most YouTube ads, eagle-eyed followers theorized that Hyperlink has time traveled to the previous primarily based on his toga-like garb and his lengthy hair.
Sadly, outdoors of the BotW 2 trailer that’s now almost a yr outdated, the parents over at Nintendo have been tight-lipped about any particulars, even going as far as omitting the sport’s precise title in concern that it might trace too pointedly on the plot, merely calling it, in the intervening time, “the Sequel to The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild.”
“As for why we’re holding again on the title, you’ll simply have to remain tuned as a result of, clearly, Zelda names are type of vital,” Invoice Trinen from Nintendo Treehouse advised IGN in a 2021 interview. “These subtitles… they begin to give little bits of hints about perhaps what’s going to occur.”
Followers are gonna have to attend just a little longer due to BotW2’s shifted launch date from this yr to someday in 2023. Hopefully Nintendo provides followers some new footage to scour over earlier than one other voice actor candidly breaks NDA and divulges what their characters are as much as in BotW2.
