Fans solve Tears of the Kingdom’s biggest mystery yet: where is Zelda?
Fans of The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom have wasted no time scrubbing through the final trailer to figure out where the princess is lost using the BotW map.

Open up, it’s the FBI. Or even worse, it’s the fans of The Legend of Zelda, who have the same analysis and geolocation tools and something even more important: a lot of free time. The followers of the saga have dissected the Tears of the Kingdom trailer with the intensity of serial killers and have not been slow to discover the best kept secret it presented: where is princess Zelda?
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Based on the fact that Tears of the Kingdom is a direct sequel to Breath of the Wild and will inherit the map from that, players have compared the geography that surrounds the princess with the background of the original game and have made a video that shows us where in Hyrule it is. I’m sure the place looks familiar to you:
By perfectly overlapping the background in these shots with BotW we can pinpoint Zelda's location: she's in the Great Plateau, behind the Temple of Time. #TearsOfTheKingdom pic.twitter.com/cZ654ROkUF
— Luigi (@looygi) April 15, 2023
With less than a month to go until the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (slated for May 12), each one deals with the wait as they can. We kill time clinging to all those exhaustive analyzes of what has been shown up to now, with the certainty that we are facing one of those games that are set to mark a before and after in the industry.
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