 What if I was to tell you that we sort of know how tears of the kingdom begins? And I know there's a lot of people that are like man, we start out on the sky islands and Sure, I think that plays a role, but thanks to some leaks we have had Spoilers I suppose I should warn you about right now turn away from this video if you don't want to be spoiled Of course if you click on the video wanting to know how the game begins I presume you're okay with certain amount of spoilers anyways We're gonna get into this in a moment first. I want to remind you we are on our road to 100,000 subscribers how we had a thousand new subscribers in the last 24 hours. You guys are insane. Thank you so much If we happen to get there by the time tears of the kingdom comes out We're gonna give away a collector's edition of the game We're also gonna give away a Zelda tears of the kingdom switch Oh that and one of those pins that you could only get at PAX East might be planning some other stuff as well We're gonna blow it out with a nice little celebration that being said let's talk about this stuff And first off we need to talk about the beginning of the game It's very evident from the gameplay when link has four hearts that we're at the beginning of the game Right, we usually start with three maybe your fourth at the Good at the completion of some sort of thing at some sort of event in Breath of the Wild it was you beat the four Shrides you can turn that in and get your fourth heart Etc turn in those spirit orbs, so obviously we're at the very beginning of the game in the gameplay We've seen so far, but this isn't the actual beginning of the game And I think some people know this because we have seen links arm not be messed up already in trailers Well one thing that has become super obvious after the gameplay Released and we got more information is that the art book leak We got earlier wasn't just a bunch of concept art see The theory this whole time surrounding the art book leak is how much does it really matter? Because a lot of the art in an art book is probably just potential ideas Not things that actually made it into the game, but here's the problem after we got that 10 plus minutes of gameplay a ton of stuff in the art book appeared in the gameplay essentially inferring that Everything in the art book is actually just art chosen specifically from aspects They have put in the game and that now makes the art book leaks even more valuable for people that want additional information Now we're not going to sit here and go over every single page in the art book because again Nintendo would probably be a little mad They already didn't like when we went over 50 of them But I'm gonna bring up a few examples One of them is that the beginning of the game, right? This is what we're focused on now. We're not gonna start right away in the sky Or at least we're not gonna start right away in the sky with links are messed up I guess I should clarify that and we know this from the art book because we have a couple of images that again to me This isn't super spoilery because we sort of can assume this based on prior trailers Well, we have this first image where it's link in Zelda in some sort of underground or some sort of temple of Some sorts and link appears to be following Zelda who's leading the way and maybe even Translating some of the text that she sees it's a very cool thing We see the master sword on links back link in his traditional garb His arm isn't messed up at this point and everything's looking just like hey This is some continuation of Breath of the Wild and then there's another image in the art book where link is again Following Princess Zelda down a cave of sorts So we could sort of connect this to the trailers We've seen already where they're traveling together in some sort of underground area And this is where they end up bumping into calamity Ganon we know that stuff explodes from his chest and attacks the sword and Somehow somewhere in their links arm gets messed up We don't really know Exactly what happens because we haven't seen the full cut scene and we haven't played the game but that's clearly how the game begins and Then we probably at some point when link is laying down as we see all on the one trailer with his arm already messed up Whatever he wakes up from that which again link waking up from something. What a shocking beginning to gameplay We end up on some sky island somewhere where we learn the initial abilities that link has including a send Rewind I guess it's not called rewind right. It's called recall And then obviously fuse and was that master hand right something like that So that's that's his four abilities that he has so look I'm really excited that this sort of is starting to piece together where there's clearly a big event that happens at the beginning of the Game whether or not part of that event is playable or not I don't know but it's definitely an event and then it leads to link being asleep again It's some sort of Resurrection pool again or some sort of healing thing and then we we probably open up on a sky island that skyland We actually saw that bigger one At the beginning of the one that really beginning later on in the trailer when they say hey now We're on a bigger sky one that bigger sky island is probably the first sky island we visit And that's when we realize we're up in the air and we're like what the hell is going on And there's probably some story elements that happened along the way So that seems to be how the game begins But there's just so many interesting points and I want to bring up some stuff That we now know is true from the art book again This is not really spoilers per se here because this is obviously stuff We've already seen but just to provide evidence of stuff in the art book happen as an example the zone I charge everyone got excited about yeah, that was in the art book But let's provide a bit more evidence. We saw a brief instance of a ranger construct. He didn't you know Onuma didn't really interact with the ranger construct But we have seen that ranger construct in the art book before it was revealed Moving on obviously the swirls and the rocks We've seen some various evidence of that as well with glowing orbs and swirls and rocks and potential temples and stuff Like this in the official art also the Golem that like slams into the ground That that we've seen in a prior trailer Well, we have some images showing at least aspects of that golem existing in the art book Even the wheel that we see on the law the infamous lawnmower Hey, that was technically in the art book as well Also, there seems to be an item in the inventory some sort of weird sphere with some green ooze We're not really sure what it is yet. And yes, that was in the art book as well Also, if you zoom in on a certain part of the world, you can see what some sort of Machine that has been titled a gumball machine basically and yeah, that was in the art book too So look obviously it's pretty clear at this point everything in the art book is Probably in the game and that makes the art book just such a massive spoiler and you can understand Why maybe Nintendo was pretty upset about these things I don't think it's interesting to observe, you know, figure out different aspects of this game before the game comes out And just be really really excited about tears of the kingdom together because together We are going to go on an epic adventure of many many epic proportions We got triple-a developers being just in awe of what they have seen so far. We've barely seen anything I also want to address one thing I've seen some arguments about the the whole this still looks like DLC thing and a lot of it has to do with the visuals What I find interesting is when someone grabbed a screenshot of the horse riding in this game versus breath of the wild said Hey, can you spot the difference? And then they mentioned I bet you if I put up an image of Pajora's Mask and Ocarina of Time, I could tell the difference And you know why you could tell the difference in horse riding in Ocarina of Time and Pajora's Mask? Because there's a day night cycle on the bottom Otherwise it kind of looks identical. The point is sequels are supposed to look like each other The last of us one two and three look like each other, right? Like that's just that's that's what sequels are I think people forget that a direct sequel is supposed to visually be pretty much the same Will there be some minor enhancements? Sure. Maybe you expected more enhancements But if they use that processing power for gameplay instead increasing draw distance instead Then I think that's a better use than necessarily saying hey, let's make things look prettier now You could argue that's what we need to switch to for and maybe there is some sort of 4k crazy upscaled version of this game That exists that Nintendo can't show us right now because the new system isn't announced But I'm just pointing out that I'm pretty happy by what we've seen so far and I can't wait to see more I mean, I think it's pretty obvious We're going to see more the producer of the Zelda series hinted himself that this is all he could show for now Suggesting they will be showing more later. So yeah, I'm pretty excited I hope you guys are too. Thank you for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video