Nintendo’s New Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Trailer Is Very Unhappy

There are every kind of demographics who’re going to be very into the subsequent Zelda recreation, however this new trailer for Tears of the Kingdom—one that’s someplace between a private enchantment and a private assault on me, a 43-year-old man—has one very particular viewers in thoughts.

The youngsters, they’re gonna purchase it. The youths, the younger adults, it is a new Zelda recreation, these folks all pre-ordered the sport (or bugged their mother and father to pre-order it) months in the past. However outdated avid gamers? That’s a unique story. Older avid gamers have jobs. They could have a giant home, they may have a household, they may produce other issues to do as an alternative of play video video games on a regular basis.

Certain, they may personal a Swap, and have been into Zelda in some unspecified time in the future in time—perhaps as lately as 2017!—however that was six years in the past, and instances change. In 2017, for instance, I used to be 37 years outdated with two children and was working at a online game web site. In 2023 I’m…OK, dangerous instance, however there are going to be lots of people in Nintendo’s crosshairs for this recreation that may not be as into this Zelda as they had been the final one.

For them, Nintendo Australia made this trailer, and it positive is one thing:

There are two methods you may learn this trailer. The primary is the best way its creators and Nintendo clearly meant, which is that this man, who has a boring job and a boring life as a result of he’s a boring middle-aged man, can nonetheless discover some pleasure on this world. And he can discover it by staying up late and taking part in a online game.

This studying works, particularly in case you’re the goal market! Zelda makes him comfortable, each at house and on the bus, and it even evokes him to look out the window and respect a stunning little bit of surroundings as he drives previous it. “There’s nonetheless good on this world”, he thinks to himself, and it’s all as a result of he bought The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

But there’s additionally one thing unsettling about the entire thing. It’s shot fantastically, however like IGN’s Brian Altano says beneath, maybe too nicely; it begins making you overlook it is a online game trailer and suppose that, perhaps, that is only a very unhappy film a few very unhappy man:

I believe each may be true on the similar time! Extra online game trailers like this please, it’s beautiful seeing some real thought put into one.