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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

We’ve put together a new video guide that will tell you about all every location for Korok Seeds on Great Sky Island in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

Players start the game in a similar area to Breath of the Wild’s Great Plateau, and right away, there are things to collect. In our video walkthrough, we take you through all Korok Seed locations on the Great Sky Island in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. There are a surprising amount of secrets tucked away in this short opening area. These seeds will help expand your inventory for shields, weapons, and bows by turning them in to Hestu – similar to the previous title – throughout your journey.

Zelda Tears of the Kingdom duplication glitch

Duplication glitches have always proven popular with games, and now one has been found for the recently-released The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

The glitch is notable because it’s pretty easy to perform, and it works on just about everything. Players can duplicate endless amounts of inventory items including diamonds, which fetch a high price. Naturally, it applies to weapons as well.

Zelda Tears of the Kingdom sales 10 million

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom sold over ten million copies worldwide in its first three days, Nintendo has announced. It’s the fastest-selling game in the history of the Legend of Zelda series.

Also revealed today is that over four million copies were sold alone in the Americas. It’s the fastest-selling Switch game and the fastest-selling Nintendo game for any system in that territory. The same goes for Europe as well.

Ganondorf design Zelda Tears of the Kingdom

Hidemaro Fujibayashi, the director of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, has commented on Ganondorf’s new design in the game.

Speaking with The Verge, Fujibayashi said that Satoru Takizawa – who’s been working on the series since Twilight Princess – led the way on Ganondorf. Fujibayashi requested for him to be “a very cool, very awesome demon king.”

Another tidbit has been shared about the debut sales for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, this time for France. We’re hearing that the game sold roughly 500,000 copies in its first week. Keep in mind that’s only based on physical – Nintendo doesn’t report digital data.

Putting Zelda’s sales into perspective, it sold more than Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet did at release. It also outperformed the launches of Red Dead Redemption II and the latest FIFAs, which have been popular in the region.

Zelda Tears of the Kingdom UK sales milestones

Some initial tidbits have surfaced about The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s sales performance in the UK, and the game is off to what sounds like a fantastic start.

Tears of the Kingdom is already the eighth biggest Zelda game of all time having already outsold Skyward Sword, The Wind Waker, and A Link Between Worlds. Note that this is based purely on boxed sales – digital data from Nintendo is not reported. Had digital been factored in, the debut for Tears of the Kingdom could be even higher.

Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Majora's Mask comparisons

The Legend of Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma has weighed in on comparisons fans have drawn between Tears of the Kingdom and Majora’s Mask. This comes as part of an interview with Polygon.

Both titles are built based on their predecessors, but Aonuma was quick to point out that with Tears of the Kingdom, it was “the opposite sort of challenge”. He brought up how with the new Switch title, Nintendo “took the same world and some of the same materials, or constituent parts, but needed to make it [all] bigger, and needed to create a more expansive world”. That goes for both a horizontal and vertical sense.

Aonuma explained:

The moment many Nintendo fans had been waiting for finally happened this week – we’re of course referring to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom launching. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: this is a huge release for Switch and one of the most notable titles of 2023 for gaming in general. It’s been six years since Nintendo came out with Breath of the Wild – the series’ most successful entry – so it’s understandable how much anticipation there’s been behind it.

Although it’s not been terribly long since Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom arrived given how it just came out yesterday, many of you likely have been sinking your teeth into it by this point. With that in mind, we’re interested in your early impressions. If you picked up the game, how are you feeling about it so far? How do you think it compares to Breath of the Wild? Let us know in the comments below.

HORI Zelda Tears of the Kingdom accessories

Original (4/15): HORI has revealed a few new Switch accessories based on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The company is readying a stand, Joy-Con substitutes, and carrying cases.

The play stand is pretty straightforward. You can park your Switch system there, and it can be folded for easy transportation in something like a pouch or bag.

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom official strategy guide book

Original (5/7): Piggyback made an official strategy guide book for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in collaboration with Nintendo back in 2017, and the two sides are teaming up once again – now for Tears of the Kingdom.

Retailer listings have made this known just days before the launch of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. An official description indicates that it will include answers for all of the game’s puzzles, riddles, and mysteries plus a curated walkthrough, an atlas of Hyrule, and more. It’s a big guide standing at nearly 500 pages.

It looks like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom official strategy guide book will have a standard version and collector’s edition. Right now we’re uncertain what the latter offers, but with Breath of the Wild, that game’s collector’s edition guide came in premium hardcover, featured an extra-large map poster, and had a small art section.


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