The fans of The Legend of Zelda eagerly await May 12, 2023 to discover the new installment of the cult saga on Nintendo Switch.
The return of a cult monster
One of the greatest video game sagas of all time, The Legend of Zelda will have a new opus from May 12:Tears of the Kingdom. Direct continuation of Breath of the Wild released in 2017, the game has the difficult task of extending the experience of the previous opus without falling into easy repetition. The latest trailer, released during the Nintendo Direct on February 8, 2023, revealed some of the contributions of Tears of the Kingdomincluding land and air vehicles, allowing another approach to verticalityintroduced in the saga thanks to The Legend of Zelda : Skyward Sword.
Furthermore, if we find in The Legend of Zelda : Tears of the Kingdom the eternal Bokoblins, Moblins, Lézalfos, Octos, Chuchus and other bats, already present in Breath of the Wild, the new opus will also resurrect creatures that we have not seen in a Zelda since a long time. In any case, this is what the trailer teases at 0:32: you can see there, on a bridge, what looks very much like a Gleeok, a three-headed dragon that appeared for the first time in the first The Legend of Zelda in 1986.
To kill this very hard-to-beat creature, you must cut off each of its heads; issue : cut one, the latter remains in suspension and throws fireballs at you, which you must of course avoid while you try to cut the other two. The Gleeoks then appeared in Oracle of Seasons, Phantom Hourglass et The Minish Cap.
We bet that this first appearance in a Zelda in 3D will be brought up to date, for an increased difficulty. Especially since the Gleeok of the trailer seems particularly imposing. It remains to be seen whether, like the first opus, the bombs will be of any help against these formidable monsters. One can also wonder what the gains of the fights against the Gleeoks will be. In the first game, we got pieces of the Triforce ; maybe we will have weapons this time, like the cyclops of The Legend of Zelda : Breath of the Wild.
We can also wonder about a potential diversity of Gleeoks, like the monsters of the 2017 game: will we have dragons with a different number of heads (ranging from one to three), or Gleeoks endemic to certain regions, with specific abilities (fire, ice, electricity)? Answer on May 12th!
Anyway, this news should delight fans of the first hour. If you liked this article, we highly recommend that you read Nintendo’s response to the controversy over The Legend of Zelda : Tears of the Kingdom.