BOTW 2 Leak: Update

I apologize, my last post got taken down for some reason, I’m not sure why. HOWEVER I’M BACK WITH MORE INFORMATION!!

My friend told me tons of new info about this game! I’m trying to convince him to make a reddit account so he can come talk to you all without using me as a messenger. Well anyways, let’s get into all the new info.

This game is supposed to be pretty dark for a Zelda game. My friend said it’s probably a bit darker than Majora’s Mask. Theres alot of themes of loneliness, death, and sadness throughout the story. My friend compared Link’s story in this game to a Shakespearian Tragedy. I’m not sure what he meant by that.

I asked my friend about the mentor character in the flashback parts of the game. My suspicions were confirmed, and this new character is both Hylian, and the person who trained Link to become a Champion/Knight. His tentative name is Tybalt, but that is subject to change according to my friend. In the first set of flashback segments, Tybalt is shown to be a heroic man with good virtues, however later flashback parts take a darker turn. My friend said that Tybalt is racist in a sense towards the Gerudo people. The heinous act that he committed, that I mentioned in my previous post, is slaughtering many Gerudo citizens, including Ganondorf’s mother. My friend said that Ganon is seen as a young child during this scene, and watches as his mother is murdered.

At the end of the flashback sequences, Tybalt sacrifices himself while trying to stop the Calamity while Link and Zelda watch in horror. That’s all I heard about the mentor figure for Link.

This time around, there will only be 75 new shrines. The reason for this is that there will also be around 6-7 full dungeons in addition to this. These shrines will also be a little bit longer than they were in BOTW 1. My friend told me that one unique shrine that he enjoyed was a “spot the difference” type puzzle. He said that you are shown a room, and the screen cuts to black and then something is moved. The goal is to put the objects back into their initial location from memory.

I want to elaborate a bit more on the main antagonist of the games. I stated before that the antagonists were a wayward group of Ganon’s followers. My source has said that they are a cult who are trying to revive Ganondorf with the use of something from Link (I don’t know what). It sounds very similar to how it was in Zelda II. They are a seperate organization from the Yiga Clan. Theres apparently some kind of conflict between the Yigas and Cult, but my friend didn’t elaborate further. He doesn’t know for sure, but he believes that the Cult is actually the Zonai (Barbarians who made the mazes in BOTW1)

That’s only a bit of the info I have, but I want to keep this post somewhat brief so I’ll post more info at another time.

Cheers!