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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom nearly had a scaled up name that spoiled its twist


Once upon a time the Tears of the Kingdom team was thinking of a slightly different name for its Breath of the Wild follow up.

One of the candidates for the title that made it to end was 'Tears of the Dragon'," Aonuma explained in Tears of the Kingdom's newly-released art book (as translated by Nintendo Everything). Image credit: Nintendo As for what is next for the Zelda series, Echoes of Wisdom is set to release on 26th September. Our Tom has already been hands-on with the upcoming release, noting it "manages to still feel like a proper Zelda game - rather than being a more forgettable princess-led spin-off" in Eurogamer's Echoes of Wisdom preview.

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