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ultimateinferno · 2 years

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Hey! You! Random Zelda fan. Want to feel old?

I, a stranger on the internet, experienced the timeline of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom as follows:

January 2013: Breath of the Wild was first announced (then referred to as "Zelda U"). I was in elementary school.

March 2017: Breath of the Wild is released. I was partway through high school.

June 2019: Tears of the Kingdom was announced (known as BotW2). I was graduated by then.

May 2023: Tears of the Kingdom is released. I will have my Bachelor's degree and am 100% fucking celebrating with this game.

This is ignoring the fact that the previous console Zelda was Skyward Sword which was released ~18 months before BotW was announced, thus drawing out the timeline even further.

#despite TotK's release cycle being a whole year longer than BotW #many people feel like the wait for BotW is longer #I have a couple theories #I think that not only did both BotW and SS release at the end of a console generation #but BotW is identified as a Switch game vs a SS's Wii game status #also in the time frame between SS and BotW; A Link Between Worlds; WW and TP HD; Hyrule Warriors were all released in the interim #and mm:3d and triforce heroes as well #while between botw and totk there was just... links awakening remake; age of calamity; and cadence of hyrule #and skyward sword:HD + Hyrule Warriors deluxe #and so while you would think there would be a lot more *waiting*#highly eventful periods of time are remembered as lasting longer than uneventful spans #also once again BotW had DLC which extends the lifetime of the game #not to mention that BotW undergone two separate 1-year delays #while TotK technically had one 6/7 month one #so having game after game released in that short time frame #this isn't even mentioning 2020 just ruining everyone's sense of time cause of covid #zelda #legend of zelda #the legend of zelda #loz #breath of the wild #tears of the kingdom #botw2 #breath of the wild 2 #nintendo #nintendo switch #nintendo direct #video games #games #time is fucking wack yo

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