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Alright so, looking at the Tears of the Kingdom situation, there's one aspect of the game a lot of people still have questions about and they want to know if there's some validity to it and that has to do with dungeons being present in the game and we're not talking like Divine Beast style dungeons or Zonai Shrines or something like this, we're talking about actual dungeons and to a date we haven't had any really trailer footage or gameplay footage that confirms dungeons exist but we do have something that we need to pay attention to and again I'm gonna warn right now that this does get into spoiler territory I'm just full out warning right now this is based off of the art book it does deal with spoilers and I want to make sure that I'm very very clear about that so you don't see anything here that you don't want to see. Now that being said we have to glance at some stuff from the art book now because so much of the art book was shown in the actual gameplay footage the gameplay footage we got the 10 minutes from IG Aonuma he put out there and and and all that gameplay a whole bunch of it was confirmed in the art book so what this does is add validity to the rest of the art book and this is why we're having this conversation today because I believe the art book at this point reveals one of the dungeons that we're going to be playing in now I want to be a full credit to this over to Split Bolt over on the Tears of the Kingdom Reddit thread we'll put a link in the description to that Reddit thread where he grabs some images and gives a little bit of an explanation so this first image you see here is just of a giant open room right nothing really too fancy here could mean anything but then you get to the next image and you see what appears to be a fan blade at the bottom of a tunnel blowing upwards and some lines being drawn I don't know if these are like enemy shooting things at you or these are just you know destinations or puzzles you need to solve you see a door to enter you see potential doors to get out of that are currently locked so there's some sort of wind related puzzle here in this long shaft now again this doesn't have to be a dungeon but it does have a similar theme to the prior image then we get to the next image which shows a giant turning crank that is you know probably going to be reversible with the recall ability which is probably how you get over it but you see link standing there in some sort of new armor suit and again this has a very similar feeling to the prior two images as if this might be one in the same dungeon but of course if you're going to have all this stuff happening you're going to need items and why what kind of dungeon item could there be well how about this flying gliding suit image this could very well be what you need in that wind tunnel section with the fam blowing up so you can constantly stay afloat while doing certain things and you might go I already have the sail cloth why do I need this well the sail cloth is pretty limited because you can't actually do anything with it versus a gliding suit like this so I do think there is some notability here in possibilities at least and then of course we go over to the pin set from the special edition the collector's edition and there appears to be a symbol on one of the pins that depicts something very close to a Japanese symbol for wind suggesting that this could be a wind based dungeon now of course this is still just speculation there's nothing 1000% for sure in here but the person who came up with this did note things like you know the walls would probably not be climbable and all that stuff I think in general this probably is a sneak peek at a dungeon in the game and is basically a pseudo confirmation that dungeons will be present now this doesn't tell us how many there will be will it just be four will we have eight nine twelve fifteen no idea but what we can say is that these at least appear to be if not from the same dungeon at least images of a dungeon or dungeons and I'm really excited by the prospect of these of course it could just be massive massive zone I shrines and we're maybe overblowing things a little bit but personally from just a desire standpoint from a logic standpoint and the fact that technically Breath of the Wild had dungeons they just weren't that great so maybe we should start being like hey I'm not just gonna ditch junk dungeons are gonna actually step it up and make them even better I think that is perfectly reasonable a couple things to remember about Breath of the Wild is while the final file size after all the DLC and everything was around 12 gigabytes reality is that the original release at launch had to fit on a 8 gigabyte VU disk so they really had to rein things in to make it fit on that we you just let alone the smaller cartridge size on switch they don't have to do that this time the games about double the size are pretty close to double the size of what Breath of the Wild was at launch and look I think that's going to lead to a lot more content a lot more stuff happening maybe even double the content of the original Breath of the Wild so if that's the case that way it would you know be reasonable to expect that dungeons would have got expanded upon and these images were merely an example of expanding upon those dungeon concepts and doing some cooler stuff maybe even bringing dungeon items back even if those dungeon items are a bit more organic such as hey now you get a new get up a new suit to wear that and it gives you this extra glide ability which you can imagine would be super useful when your sky falling right so you can glide to you know really far away areas of Hyrule from where you fall off from the sky islands because you have a glider suit but in this case it's actually needed for certain puzzles within the dungeon so I think there is a lot of really neat possibilities here I think it's also really cool to imagine there being more and more dungeons of course this isn't definitive proof we do have some rumors that exist out there that there would be some dungeons up in the sky which I absolutely think there would be some dungeons up there or that that giant Golem beast that slams down my link is one of the bosses or something like that right these are rumors that are floating out there we've talked about in the past but I just want to see dungeons come back I'd like them to be themed in some sort of way they don't necessarily need to be like the same elemental fire water wind although that does appear that this might be a wind based dungeon but I would like to see themed dungeons come back but more importantly I'd like to see the unique boss battles I feel like that was the thing that maybe hurt rest of the wild the most with their dungeons it wasn't that each one thematically felt similar after all they're all divine beasts but that the boss fights didn't feel unique enough outside of thunder blight the other ones really felt very very similar and even then they were all aesthetically the same I would just like to see varied boss encounters and have reasons for the boss's existence again deep story reasons and stuff like that and I think we are probably going to get that in this game I just think Nintendo is holding back after all IG Aonuma said in the gameplay thing that hey I can't show you all the changes there's way too many there's so much stuff happening you know this is all we can show you for now meaning they're gonna show more later but there's not gonna be an ability to show everything you'll have to play the game and I honestly I think this is one of those things are just sort of keeping really close to the vest but I do think they will unveil if not this dungeon a dungeon before the game comes out I just get this feeling the way the marketing cycle is going give them another couple weeks we're gonna hear about it previews are gonna come out eventually and if there's dungeons I'll probably mention them in the previews and yeah we're about to get information overload here over the next 30 days so what do you guys think about the idea of this potentially being done a dungeon and do you think dungeons have returned because to this point it is still unconfirmed if dungeons are actually in tears of the kingdom thank you so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video