The Zelda games of recent years really have been an unbelievable tonic for the series as a whole, elevating it once again to the top of Nintendo's various franchises and intellectual properties.
If you still haven't played them for some reason, the two mainline Zelda games released for the Switch so far changed a lot of what the series had become known for, making it a lot better in the process.
Breath of the Wild took us into an open-world for the first time and showed the potential of that system, with Tears of the Kingdom picking up the proverbial ball and running with it from there.
The success of those two games has now seen thoughts turn to what's coming next, and it seems like it could have a major feature that could change the gameplay significantly.
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Switch 2 Zelda Game Could Have Inter-Dimensional Travel
As first reported by Game Rant, the upcoming Legend of Zelda game on the Nintendo Switch 2 could make jumping between dimensions a major part of its gameplay loop, if a recent leak proves reliable.
That news comes via a recent episode of the XboxEra podcast, in which one of the hosts detailed exactly how cross-dimensional features will be implemented, with the information supposedly coming from an inside source.
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The game will supposedly be running on the same engine as the last two games, only with some bespoke technical improvements designed to take advantage of the increased power of the Switch 2.
Given how puzzle elements have always been pretty prominent in the Zelda series, travelling backwards and forwards between dimensions could really open up possibilities in that regard for the developer.
Echoes of Wisdom laid the groundwork for some of this, so it wouldn't be a surprise to see it all turn out to be true, though as with any leak, we do need to take it with a pinch of salt for now.
The bad news for fans, as shared on the same podcast, is that it's looking like the release of this next Zelda game will be years away, with anything before that seemingly quite unlikely.
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Nintendo themselves have remained very tight lipped on the next game, with confirmed details about what we might expect still very thin on the ground. With the attention set to be on Pokemon for the next few months, don't expect that to change anytime soon.
Topics: Nintendo, Breath Of The Wild