NOTE: There are spoilers forward for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
As many will bear in mind, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s official title wasn’t revealed till surprisingly near launch, and we now know precisely why.
Noticed by Nintendo Every little thing, it’s revealed within the lately launched official artbook for the open world action-adventure title, titled The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Grasp Works, that the sport’s title was initially presupposed to be Tears of the Dragon.
Collection producer Eiji Aonuma explains within the e-book that even till fairly late into the sport’s growth, its title was presupposed to be Tears of the Dragon, although it was one which the event crew was reluctant to formally introduced, because it fairly overtly referenced a serious story spoiler.
“Letting it slip that the Gentle Dragon is Zelda would have been an issue, and this had an impact on the title too. One of many candidates for the title that made it to finish was Tears of the Dragon.
“However it will be a nasty concept to have the key phrase ‘Dragon’ within the title, and we needed to have dragon patterns within the brand, however determined in any other case. It’d emphasize the Gentle Dragon, in any case [laughs]. However nothing else good was coming to thoughts, and we had been operating out of growth time…
“We went by many phrases, after which one time a employees member prompt, ‘What about Kingdom?’. With Tears of the Kingdom, it felt just like the phrase may connect with the Gentle Dragon to us, and we may use dragons within the brand. With the title determined, the emblem lastly grew to become what it’s now.”
A few years earlier than the sport launched, Nintendo spoke about the way it was reluctant to unveil the sport’s title as a result of it contained potential hints concerning the story. In fact, the title Tears of the Kingdom does nonetheless vaguely allude to Princess Zelda’s destiny within the recreation, although not practically as explicitly because the initially deliberate title would have.
In the meantime, subsequent up for the Zelda franchise is The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge, which launches for the Nintendo Swap on September 26.
