For a long while The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s title was a secret for fear of spoilers, and that’s apparently because it used to have a different name.
Big spoilers ahead for Tears of the Kingdom, so read at your own peril.
Back in 2019, Nintendo surprisingly revealed that a sequel to Breath of the Wild was in the works, but at the time it didn’t have a proper name. For a good few years everyone just referred to it either as the sequel to Breath of the Wild, which is what Nintendo generally referred to it as, or Breath of the Wild 2. Eventually, in 2022, Nintendo gave it its great title, Tears of the Kingdom, but a year prior the developer had said they didn’t want to reveal it yet for fear of spoiling the game. I was one of the many people that felt confused by that point, as Tears of the Kingdom as a title doesn’t really tell you anything. But as revealed in the recently released Master Works book, it turns it that it’s because the game had a completely different name quite late into development.
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