I wonder if the islands are a way to make more challenge-based, objective oriented content in an open world setting since the sky islands wouldn't have to be connected like the grounded locations are.

I'm feeling November 2022 guys 

Arceus comes in January and we have Splatoon 3 in the middle of the year

I don't see Nintendo releasing their IPs too close to cannibalize themselves. Zelda was the last announced, so probably will be the last released 

Seeing the old enemies still play a big part is kind of jarring. A hopefully there's a lot more variety this time around.

They said it was "aiming" for 2022 so its definitely in the latter half of the year. Reminds me a bit of when Sony first announced Horizon Forbbiden West was targeting 2021, fast forward and they're still unsure whether it will make the end of the year.

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Yea the trailer was sort of strange. The parts that reminded me of the kind of Valve-esque elements of Breath of the Wild (being able to teleport through the ground, repurposing gliders so that they now extend to high-altitude air travel with the floating islands, the water (?) gadget etc) were great. The parts that just looked like more Breath of the Wild were strange in that they actually seemed to appeal to the fears that people have been saying for a while now, I.E just exploring the same map again but slightly altered, having the same lack of enemy variety, etc.

I mean, I 100% don't think those will be actual problems with the game. I think Nintendo knows what they're doing with this game, the Zelda team is always very inventive and if anything they're pretty quick to respond to criticisms of their last game (sometimes by even going too far in the opposite direction, haha). But it really wasn't the best showcase of the game I think, even though I liked the trailer a lot. Like it literally ended on just the same Hyrule Field as BOTW, just now Ganon's Castle is in the sky, for the last 15 or so seconds of the trailer. That seems so memey, it's as if Nintendo wanted forum warriors to freak out with complaints  

Isn't this page broken for anyone of you? All our posts are somehow part of Wyrdness's post. Erased browser data and whatever, but it still looks like this for me;

I feel like time manipulation is gonna be key to this, like in the trailer when the rolling spiked ball is sent back along its path, basically temporally inverted. Both trailers so far also play what sounds like music played backwards. Time could be the primary new ingredient being added to the physics/chemistry system of the first game. (We already had stasis, but I'm talking about moving things forwards and backwards in time)

I hope they keep the 4 abilities and add 3-4 new elemental skills (Wind, Fire, Water, bolt?)

For some reason the page went funny when I tried to post a screen from the trailer since then I can't even edit the post to sort it out maybe a mod can just delete the post to try and fix it.