Tears of the Kingdom is still shrouded in mystery, and that’s just the way I like it

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We’re less than a month away from the launch of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and even though we just got a new trailer jam-packed with details, there’s still so much we don’t know about the game.

Here are a few concrete things I can point to after watching all of the released footage more times than I care to admit:

It’s a sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
There are a bunch of islands in the sky.
Link somehow gets a new, glowy right arm.
That glowy arm gives him a bunch of (incredible-looking) powers, including the ability to build and fuse things together (like vehicles).
At some point, Zelda needs Link to find her.

The Master Sword gets messed up.

Ganondorf’s back.
And so are some of Link’s friends.

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