Nintendo's 'The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom' is everything great about big-budget, mainstream video games. There's a story, yes, but this is a game about curiosity and discovery, rewarding players for constantly asking, 'What if?'
It starts with an archaeological mission. A so-called gloom — a scorching red mist that seems to have risen from the depths of the Earth — is believed to be the cause of a widespread sickness . For just a few minutes, “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” the most anticipated game of the year, will guide players by the hand, taking them down into the caverns beneath a medieval castle.
For a fleeting moment, the gloom seems a distant memory. But these catacombs are home to more than “The Legend of Zelda” lore. This patient, cinematic beginning is building a mystery, giving us glimpses of Link’s magical Master Sword but never letting us attack with it.
“Zelda” games have long grown with the video game medium, outlining for the industry how we move, battle and puzzle-solve in interactive spaces, first in 8-bit worlds and now expansive 3-D universes. Link has been a character of transformation, a cipher for new ways to play — at times he’s donned metamorphosing masks or mutated into paint on a wall — and all the while “Zelda” games have tinkered with the balance between narrative and gameplay.
And conundrums abound. Link’s arm, scorched dead by the reanimated corpse, is replaced and transformed in the sky kingdom by what is presented as a godly species known as the Zonai. What’s important to know is that we don’t know much about the Zonai — their existence is one of the game’s central questions — only that now Link’s arm has magical abilities. The primary skill is called “ultrahand,” which will allow Link to fuse together many of the items found throughout the game.
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