Nintendo debuted a new Tears of the Kingdom trailer during the February DIrect, and it looks like things aren’t quite as happy as Link left them in Breath of the Wild. The trailer begins with an unknown voice calling for the minions of darkness to arise, as a Blood Moon – which signaled the rebirth of Link’s foes in BotW – stains the land crimson while it quite literally falls apart around Link.
Oh, and Tears of the Kingdom will be $70. Nintendo didn’t announce that part out loud, but the initially-removed listing is back up with the same price. Whether other new Switch games, like Pikmin 4, will follow suit remains to be seen.
In the new trailer, we see Link hop aboard a few new contraptions to zip around the crumbling shell of Hyrule, including a hovercraft and what looks rather like a Mario Kart-style go-cart. Familiar foes such as Hinox and Moblins are joined by new golem-like creatures and winged beasts that Link uses his newfound powers to take down.
One of the abilities shown was a homing arrow of some kind, but what else his magical hand can conjure up remains to be seen.
And that’s about it. There’s still very little to indicate what’s going on narratively in Tears of the Kingdom, though Nintendo teased more interactions between Link and Zelda. Tears of the Kingdom releases May 12, 2023, for Nintendo Switch.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
