Your Breath of the Wild 2 theories are too attention-grabbing to be true

Nintendo in spite of everything gave us some other glance The Legend of Zelda: Breath of Wild‘s sequel throughout E3. It wasn’t a lot, however lovers are scouring it for main points and plot hints the entire similar. Some are even growing wild theories, like that we might in fact be taking part in as Zelda and even Ganondorf on this new sport.

I feel we must all almost certainly chill out just a little.

No longer so sequel

I’m talking from revel in. I take into accout the lead as much as the primary Breath of the Wild. I noticed the tree-like Koroks and the bird-like Rito and idea, oh wow, this should be a Wind Waker sequel! Others speculated that it adopted the occasions of the unique NES video games on account of some degree in a gameplay demo the place Hyperlink overpassed a cliff in some way that resembled the important thing are for the primary Zelda.

When Skyward Sword launched in 2011, Nintendo created an reputable timeline, albeit a convoluted one who splits into 3 other realities. So all of us sought after to grasp the place does Breath of the Wild have compatibility in. It seems the solution used to be … nowhere? Or it’s in all 3 of them?

Nintendo has been obscure and complicated in regards to the query, which used to be one thing of a letdown for folks like me who in finding the Zelda chronology attention-grabbing. We would have liked to consider that Breath of the Wild used to be part of the bigger Zelda tale that Nintendo appeared to be weaving.

As an alternative, it felt like Nintendo used to be taking flight from the timeline it had simply established. Certain, Breath of the Wild has numerous references to all types of Zelda video games, even much less well-liked ones like Phantom Hourglass (shoutout to Linebeck Island). However there by no means appears to be any importance to those references. They’re simply, smartly, references.

So when folks understand that Breath of the Wild 2 (or no matter Nintendo will name it) has some similarities with Skyward Sword, particularly with its emphasis on floating islands and having Hyperlink dive out of the sky, I believe just a little anxious. I don’t need to be birthday party pooper, however let’s dial our expectancies again just a little. Sure, perhaps the sport will borrow some ideas from Skyward Sword. However we’ll solely be disenchanted if we predict Breath of the Wild 2 to proceed any of Skyward Sword’s tale beats, like elaborating on Dying’s transformation into Ganon.

No longer the entirety is a conspiracy

As for who we’ll be taking part in as in Breath of the Wild 2 … smartly, name me loopy, however I feel it’s going to be Hyperlink. Glance, I’d additionally love so as to play as Zelda. I simply really feel like we’re all assuming that’s going to occur based totally off of not anything. Certain, we noticed Hyperlink and Zelda in combination within the sequel’s first teaser trailer. It’s greater than a bounce to head from that to “oh, they should each be playable.”

Heck, I take into accout after we noticed the primary teaser for Breath of the Wild and numerous us idea that the primary personality wasn’t even Hyperlink. I by accident helped propel this rumor after I interviewed Eiji Aonuma at E3 2014, and he advised me that he by no means mentioned the primary personality within the trailer used to be Hyperlink.

This used to be only one purple herring, however I now really feel like Zelda lovers are swimming in a sea of them. I’m frightened we’re seeing conspiracies the place there aren’t any. It’s like several of the ones Silent Hill lovers that assume that Hideo Kojima arrange a dummy studio to paintings on a brand new sport for that franchise. Why wouldn’t it be this kind of convoluted secret?

After all, none of it issues all that a lot. Breath of the Wild used to be an incredible sport regardless of no longer being the Wind Waker sequel I fanaticized it will be. I’m hopeful that Breath of the Wild 2 can also be simply as improbable, irrespective of any marvel playable characters.