The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom isn’t due out till Might 12, which implies followers closely invested within the lore and secrets and techniques of the sport have three months of avoiding (what they are going to most likely suppose are) spoilers forward of them.
The collector’s version of the sport comes with a 204-page artbook, and over the weekend that ebook leaked on-line, with each rattling web page of it winding up posted on the GamingLeaksAndRumours subreddit. It’s the Japanese model, that means it’s troublesome to make out precisely what some of these items is, although that’s not a big drawback because it’s a reasonably fundamental artbook, principally simply photos with some captions beneath.
I’m clearly not going to be posting any of the pictures right here, however I’ve thumbed by means of the pages and have excellent news and dangerous information for followers of the collection. Which is nice and which is dangerous will rely upon how delicate you might be to spoilers.
First up, as a result of this can be a preorder bonus and never a full-blown, standalone artbook, it’s lacking context. There are a whole bunch of photos right here however they’re not specified by any type of order or sequence, and with out paragraphs from the builders and artists explaining in depth what the whole lot means and why it’s there, there’s little right here that you simply wouldn’t have anticipated to see in a trailer.
There are many photos of Hyperlink sporting costumes, some acquainted returning faces, some outfit designs for allies and mates, sketches of (once more, acquainted) dangerous guys and plenty of illustrations of environments that, with out the context I simply talked about, are mainly simply “right here’s a cave, now right here’s a room with a stone ground”.
“This ebook was designed to come back residence with you the day to procure the sport”
I’m being imprecise to not shield anybody, however simply because…that is all very normal stuff. With out the context of this artwork being correctly defined—or from any of us really enjoying the sport—it’s only a ebook filled with cool Zelda pics.
Which, in fact, is all it’s meant to be. Whereas it’s tempting to pore over this ebook three months out from launch, hoping for cryptic spoilers and keys to Tears of the Kingdom’s lore, this ebook was designed to come back residence with you the day to procure the sport. Folks could be free to flick by means of it on the bus on the best way residence, or within the again seat of a automotive, or on the sofa after they’re solely 23 minutes into the sport. There was by no means going to be something big right here, as a result of that will be extraordinarily silly!
For instance there’s not a single picture of Ganon. There’s an illustration of Zelda, however no point out on whether or not she’s playable or not. We have now glimpses of the monstrous transformation Hyperlink seems to be going by means of, however nothing greater than what we’ve already seen in trailers. There’s no plot abstract.
The one issues that might even remotely be thought-about spoilers are a few costumes that reference older video games within the collection, and the return of a very shitty sort of enemy, however these are simply…info concerning the recreation, not narrative beats.
So when you’re delicate to spoilers and also you someway find yourself someplace on the web the place this ebook’s leaks can’t be prevented, loosen up. This can be a preorder bonus, not a Spoiler Tome.
