BOTW 2 Leak: Update 2

I'm back guys!

I've come to clear up some of the confusion started by my previous posting. I talked to my source and he cleared some of the confusing portions of my previous leak.

For starters, he elaborated more on Tybalt. Tybalt apparently takes a kind of Hero's Shade/Force Ghost from Star Wars kind of role in the game. He isn't physically alive, and his sacrifice at the end of the flashback story is the death of his spirit. He was around thousands of years before Link's birth, and was responsible first hand for Ganondorf's disgust with society and greed for power.

I have some new information regarding gameplay. A new gimick for the game is that you can combine certain runes to merge the effects. One example of this is a when you combine the remote bomb and cryonis, you get the ability to throw a bomb that loses the ability to be remotely detonated, but freezes enemies around it when exploded.

The overworld of the game is fairly similar to Breath of the Wild, but there are some changes. Many areas such as the Great Plateau, and Hyrule Castle Town are now fully repaired once again, and inhabited with NPCs. Another change is that Kakariko Village is in ruin. It is destroyed in the first hour or two of gameplay from what I've been told.

Another major change is the addition of other playable characters at some points of the game. This is not something I was expecting, and is a series first, I'm fairly sure. Tybalt is playable for a short segment toward the beginning of the game, as he seeks out the location of Gerudo Town. Zelda is also playable for some limited segments of the game, while Link and her solve dungeons together. This seems to be a fun feature that is a nice change of pace for the series. However, don't be afraid, Link is still the main playable character!

A strange change they've added is an overeating debuff. I think its meant to nerf the abilities of food in the first BOTW. If Link eats an excessive amount of food in a short amount of time, he becomes slower and his attacks do less damage. This was a very strange addition in my honest opinion.