 The producer of the Zelda series, and I apologize cuz I'm gonna butcher his name. It's Eiji Ayanuma has Finally spoken about tears of the kingdom. He's been pretty silent since the direct in fact completely silent He hasn't made any public appearances or spoke at all about tears of the kingdom since September of last year or I guess February if you want to talk about the February direct, but here's the thing. He's Actually opening up a little bit probably because we are weeks away from the beginning of the major marketing campaign leading into the launch of the game and He finally spoke up at the Famitsu dengeki game awards 2022 so these were awards that happened over the weekend they do this big sort of event just like the game awards does here in the United States and He went on stage to accept the award for most anticipated Game and of course since this is the game that won most anticipated tears of the kingdom He wanted to add some of his own words to accepting the award to maybe tease the upcoming game So finally we have some real news here that we can speculate on because it came right from the horse's mouth Now before we dive into that I want to remind you we are on our road to 100,000 subscribers And I would really appreciate if you would just subscribe to the channel In fact if we can somehow get to 100k by the time tears of the kingdom comes out I'll go ahead and just give away a collector's edition of the game. Alright, so what did he have to say on stage? Well accepting the award. Well, this is a translated version So credit right now. I'm giving to game explain for providing this to us anyways And it says in the previous title breath of the wild you were able to experience a new world of Zelda With the freedom to go wherever and do whatever you want in the sequel tears of the kingdom The players free Imagination will be filled with new gameplay that will bring about changes To the game world. I think that everyone who voted will feel pleasantly surprised And I hope you can enjoy the unknown Hyrule as you like Thank you So there's two key things that he brings up one is that the gameplay will bring about changes to the game world So we all know that there are various things that are different about Hyrule But some people think there's not enough differences. It may be that's because the differences come through gameplay You know, you could argue this is the tease for time travel or something like that where you travel through time And that gameplay mechanic leads to changes in the world. Maybe there are certain things you do If you remember like skyward sword We didn't have time travel But we had like the time stones or whatever and that would unveil things from the past that would change the world So I'm not saying that those are the mechanics are going to use those are just ones They've used in the past. So I'm just looking at this and going damn to damn damn damn This looks like a really really interesting concept that we can start Speculating on also he mentions that it's an unknown Hyrule I think that is the first time that He's mentioned at all that the changes to Hyrule are so Significant that even if you played breath of the wild This Hyrule is unknown What is unknown about it again? Maybe this supports the theory of traveling to the past to a Hyrule We've never seen maybe this supports a billion different theories about what the heck happened to Hyrule All I know is telling us the gameplay brings changes to the world Oh, and that it's an unknown Hyrule for people who play breath of the wild That's what people have been waiting for like if we're gonna be in the quote-unquote same Hyrule Then we need to see major changes. Well, if it's suddenly unknown that I would argue that some pretty major changes Now I want to go over some of the other Awards that were given out because Nintendo wasn't a long game of the year By the way ended up going to Elden Ring like it has pretty much everywhere else But there were some wins for Nintendo's in specific categories now Here's one that I didn't really understand best scenario. I'm not really sure how they set that up It was it was between heaven burns red xenoblade Chronicles 3 and Pokemon Scarlet Violet Pokemon Scarlet Violet took the crown there Also, there was another win for Pokemon Scarlet Violet for best character Arvin won best character For Pokemon Scarlet Violet interesting enough Kirby and the forgotten land Kirby from that game was actually up for best character Quite interesting best action game went to Splatoon 3 Interesting enough Kirby was up for that one as well. It's the best action adventure game with the sonic frontiers So that's interesting and here's something that's cool Well, Elden Ring won game of the year Xenoblade Chronicles 3 won best RPG So Elden Ring wasn't the best in its own category, but it was the best game That happens by the way and sometimes these places want to recognize different games So I'm glad to see Xenoblade Chronicles 3 getting some love Obviously we talked about as well that Zelda won most anticipated games So you guys let me know what you're thinking about obviously these awards so they do a good job You know, I just went through an article on Nintendo Life to show you those awards But what I'm really curious about are obviously the words from the director of the Zelda franchise again He accepted an award for Tears of the Kingdom in person and said this stuff publicly And we are just being provided translations of that public statement And I think that this statement is revealing in some ways. It doesn't hurt the hype That's for sure. I think one thing that is very obvious about this statement is that the producer of the Zelda series has seen Everyone calling this just DLC. He has seen it. He has seen people say it's the same high rule Boring and the fact that his first, you know, public comments that aren't Pre-recorded we're simply saying yeah We want players to feel free with their imagination and be filled with new gameplay that will bring about Changes to the game world and yes, I want you to be surprised and I hope you that you enjoy the Unknown high rule Clearly trying to emphasize that there are major Massive changes to the world of high rule and we just haven't seen anything and I can't wait for this game to come out My hype is uncontrolled. I always tell people the hype responsibly, but I know guys me personally I'm done hyping responsibly. I've been done for a while been done since the Zelda Direct really or the lead up to I call it a Zelda Direct the The February Nintendo Direct I'd be careful because we might have a Zelda Direct coming up But I let my hype responsibly, you know whole stick fall off the moment that I figured that tears of the kingdom is gonna be at That February Direct so again, you guys let me know what you're thinking about this down in the comments below And what changes do you want to see to Hyrule like it's going to be the quote-unquote same high rule But what massive changes could they make that would make you excited to re-explore all over again? Obviously, we've seen some buildings rebuilt in some areas. So that's pretty interesting some new enemies But what could they do like they relied heavily on shrines and Korok seeds What are they gonna do this time to make us want to go? Hey, we need to see what's over that cliff We need to go over there. We need to see what's on the other side Thank you guys for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video