Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom almost had another name, but right at the end they realized it was a big spoiler

Some believe that watching a movie or video game trailer is a spoiler. They think that everything from the poster itself is a preview that they didn’t ask for. Even knowing who appears is a huge attack against our right not to find out anything at all. Perhaps that’s why Nintendo decided to backtrack on the title of the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, fearing the fans’ backlash.

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Dragon: The Legend of Zelda

On its day, all gamers were waiting for Breath of the Wild 2, and more specifically, its title, which was expected to be just as free and amazing as the first game in the franchise. However, when Nintendo finally decided to show its first trailer, it was called Tears of the Kingdom, and there were quite a few disappointed ones.

But there was a reason behind this somewhat strange name: it was used to cover up a huge spoiler. As Eiji Aonuma says, “Dropping the hint that the Light Dragon is Zelda would have been a problem, and it had an effect on the title. One of the candidates that made it to the end was Tears of the Dragon.”

Of course, people would have connected the dots: “It would have been a bad idea to have the word ‘Dragon’ in the title, and we wanted to have draconian patterns in the logo, but we decided to do it differently. We would emphasize the Light Dragon, after all.” The problem was that nothing good came out. The release date was approaching, and someone on the team said, “What about ‘Kingdom’?”

“With Tears of the Kingdom, we felt that the phrase could join the Dragon of Light for us, and we could use dragons in the logo. With the title decided, the logo became what it is now.” Honestly, I can’t be the only one who, with Tears of the Dragon, would have gone to the window to applaud with excitement, right?

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