The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom isn’t due out till Could 12, which suggests followers closely invested within the lore and secrets and techniques of the sport have three months of avoiding (what they may 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, which means it’s troublesome to make out precisely what some of these things is, although that’s not a large drawback because it’s a reasonably fundamental artbook, principally simply pictures with some captions beneath.
I’m clearly not going to be posting any of the photographs right here, however I’ve thumbed via the pages and have excellent news and dangerous information for followers of the collection. Which is sweet and which is dangerous will depend upon how delicate you’re to spoilers.
First up, as a result of it is a preorder bonus and never a full-blown, standalone artbook, it’s lacking context. There are a whole bunch of pictures 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 just wouldn’t have anticipated to see in a trailer.
There are many pictures 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 principally simply “right here’s a cave, now right here’s a room with a stone flooring”.
“This ebook was designed to return house with you the day to procure the sport”
I’m being imprecise to not shield anybody, however simply because…that is all very commonplace stuff. With out the context of this artwork being correctly defined—or from any of us truly taking part in the sport—it’s only a ebook stuffed with cool Zelda pics.
Which, after all, 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 return house with you the day to procure the sport. Folks could be free to flick via it on the bus on the best way house, or within the again seat of a automobile, or on the sofa after they’re solely 23 minutes into the sport. There was by no means going to be something large 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 via, 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 of spoilers are a few costumes that reference older video games within the collection, and the return of a very shitty kind of enemy, however these are simply…information in regards to the recreation, not narrative beats.
So should you’re delicate to spoilers and also you one way or the other find yourself someplace on the web the place this ebook’s leaks can’t be averted, loosen up. This can be a preorder bonus, not a Spoiler Tome.