Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - What are the Spiral Stones? (Trailer Analysis) 

...And The Bread Pirate! R- ri- right...? That is what you were about to say... right? 😨

And Commonwealth realm

And Hyrule Gamer

I agree so badly omg.

@@TheBreadPirate I love ur vids

uh, or just different bokoblin version? bro

In fact I'd go as far as saying that they started working on the sky islands around the end of 2020 / early 2021, for various reasons. One of them is that almost all of the islands they first showed are not in the final game, except the "tutorial island"... and that was almost fully covered in clouds back then... and when you increased the contrast of the image, you could see that it's completely unfinished behind those clouds (everything is basic cubes, even the trees and co., while now we see those areas and they just look like normal sky island areas). So it's clear to me that everything regarding the sky islands in those early trailers (other than the main concepts of the zonai powers and co.) is very unrepresentative of the final game. This also indicates that the sky islands are indeed a "smaller part of the game" and are likely where side activities such as this game's version of shrines take place and the majority of the development was spent on "something else that's more important", which is probably the caves and probably where the dungeons take place.

@@simonrockstream no the older build bit is far more likely, all recent footage has enemies with purely unorthodox horns and not what they had in the first game, there'd be no reason to keep the old variant around intentionally

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O damn.. You may be right I wonder if anyone's counted up how many we've seen in total so far? If it's 7 (like the mural) then I think you're 100% right

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I swear Zeltik knows BOTW Hyrule better than I know my own province.

They should have made it so that blue sheika tech was in the blue sky, green was down on the green ground and red in lava filled caves.

Farore is so mysterious. I’m so happy they on focusing on her

I wonder is there will be a 3rd game, with Power/red for it’s main colour

@@TheMaskOfFairies great idea

@@TheMaskOfFairies Red is already used. It's Malice.

I love how the zoom showed off the shape of the rocks and their rings. I never noticed the details in the trailer, and I'm glad we can see it in detail.

Erm, a whole group of passionate ZeldaTubers have touched on the Green spirals and it's structures pretty well. Won't name them on here out of Respect of course. I really dunno why it's always this ''youre the Best guyyy'' narrative on every blog anyway: maybe use RU-vid a little more?

@@netweed09 I’m apologize if there was any miscommunication between us. I didn’t mean that there aren’t people that have put in this much effort to the green spirals. I would never assume that just because I haven’t seen it that it doesn’t exist. I know I don’t watch every single person that covers these things, that would be impractical. I was simply saying that this is the first time I, personally, have seen someone go in-depth with them. Out of all the people I watch, he is the first to put out a video of this concept. I also was simply complimenting his thought process. Anyways, I apologize if I offended you in any way. Thank you for the comment and pointing out that other people have covered this topic. I’ll definitely need to keep an eye out for them.

@@haileyredd5951 Thank you, and no need for apology. 👍 I did sound a bit blunt so I should be sorry (and I am here) but I just felt I had to mention it as honestly, even on RU-vid there's such a great community of Zelda devotees. As you may have seen with the numerous collab videos they have, which are an amazing listen (even for me that's not all into theories all the time lol.)

They have shown new towers which are more likely the new travel points.

@@jace15076 The towers aren't abundant enough to be the only teleport points, much like BotW.

The shrines are a welcome concept but were overshadowed by disdain for a lack of traditional dungeons. I wouldn’t mind if they stuck around, hell give us another 120 shrines lol I only ask for like 4-6 dungeons I may spend a couple hours on a piece and maybe even a revisit of the divine beast puzzles. Couldn’t hurt for replayability but regardless I’ll probably play through this game ATLEAST as many times as I played through botw haha

@@JoseGonzalez-pf7md Yeah, agree haha-I do hope the dungeons in this one will be more traditional..it does seem to have more of that feel, but who knows!

@@lilinkeditz07 For me, 6 years of game development with same world reused justifies the design of traditional dungeons. On the top of this, we have the element of 8 “drops/tears” surrounded the mysterious figure in the previous trailer. What else can it be? In all Zelda games, so small numbers always represent dungeons. Plus it was one of the most anticipated features from players.

@@nicholasderemi8493 Yes, it totally makes sense for dungeons to appear, especially when you put it that way. Haven’t thought about it like that.

I'm glad somebody pointed this out about Epona being shown. I honestly think that she will be in the base game, and man, I didn't think about Lon Lon Ranch, that's where Epona grew up. Maybe Lon Lon Ranch will play a more significant role. Who knows? At any rate, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is shaping up to be the masterpiece of the century.

@@Enigmaculate I sure hope so! We did in fact see the remains of the destroyed ranch in botw! So really anything is possible! And absolutely agreed!! I’m very excited for this game and it’s sure to be a fantastic experience! 😄

I’m just wondering if I can bring wolf link from the amiibo into the new game.

@@danielciufo7765 Also, I cannot even begin to grasp the sheer insurmountable size of this sequel, even all of the trailers we've been shown so far of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is just BARELY scratching the surface of what's going to be in this game, and considering the fact that Breath of the Wild is a gargantuan behemoth itself, this truly significant and exponentially mind-blowing. I'm overwhelmingly excited for this sequel man. This along with Metroid Prime Remastered are my most anticipated Nintendo Switch games and my most anticipated video games in general. GOD Bless and GODSpeed 🙏.

Wasn't Epona shown in pre-release BotW footage as well? I think most scenes with Link and a horse featured Epona actually.

Same

Great to see the larger members of this passionate Community of the Best gaming series here. Love the content, haven't been this genuinely interested for a main Zelda release since Skyward Sword!