Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom To Get No Direct Sequel, Confirms Devs

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will get no direct sequel.

[-Foxtrot]

Oh for the love of god…move on

Remember when each main line Zelda game was different

[Inverno]

Yes, but this solves an issue that all those games have. They could easily stick this universe and move forward and back to have an actual timeline. They could pull from all the other Zelda games and bring them together and have some consistent continuity. They also have the possibility of an even more sci-fi Zelda in this universe too.

[-Foxtrot]

The issue is all you are going to get is a reskinned map over and over with little improvements scattered around

Whether people want to admit it or not was copy and paste for the majority of TotK while they added things on top.

It just comes across as them doing it so it’s easier for them to make a new game as the foundation is already done rather than making a completely new map from scratch.

[Chard]

the many narrative inconsistencies between BotW and TotK indicate that Nintendo has little interest in timeframe continuity

[VenomUK]

Tears of the Kingdom was originally intended to be dlc, I believe, that was expanded into a full game. Historically Nintendo produces one new game per generation.

[Profchaos]

@venom I tend to disagree it's not typically one game per gen.
Zelda 1 and Zelda 2 NES
Ocarina and Majora n64
Wind waker and twilight princess GameCube
Twilight Princess again and skyward sword and I guess crossbow training but not really. On Wii
Botw and totk switch however botw was always intended as a Wii U game first and foremost like twilight princess it just didn't get completed in time

So I don't really agree it's one per gen it's more like whenever it's done

[Inverno]

I don't think making a game from scratch will really fix the problems BoTW and ToTK have. They plan to keep on doing open world, and the problem with open world is that every dev that does an OW game follows the same formula. They had the chance to improve in the 6 years it took to release ToTK, but all they really did was do more of the same, and there's no denying that. I don't doubt they'll bring back the koroks and Shrines, and have yet another barren, and needlessly huge map. And with their attitude towards story I have doubts the next game will b any better.

[MrNinosan]

I remember when Zelda was actually amazing games, even thou it has been 25 years since.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Right now, I just want a remake of an older game like Link To The Past, or a brand new game in the vein of previous 3D Zelda games (OoT, MM, TP, WW, SS, ect...). I had my fun with BoTW/ToTK, I don't want to revisit it again any time soon.

[Profchaos]

We did get links awakening I guess. I'd like to see link to the past in that style to

[Profchaos]

Agree I liked that all the games were different than what came before some elements may remain but overall each adventure felt fresh totk feels similar to Majora in many ways awesome games but not a totally new one

[sushimama]

Keep Zelda fresh. Good. Need new world

[franwex]

There’s really never been any Zelda trilogies, not sure why everyone here is so up in arms.

[tombfan]

Good, time to move on.

[gold_drake]

yea lets move on.

miyamoto doesnt rly care about timelines anyways so yeh. ha.

[Agent75]

Zelda needs a revamp, although I would also expect a new 2D game at some point. Breath of the Wild on Switch was a Wii U port and still holds up to the Switch version.