Fans of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom are once again waiting for a playable Princess Zelda.

Yesterday, February 8, the latest Tears of the Kingdom trailer debuted in a flashy Nintendo Direct. Shortly after, the official Zelda Japan Twitter account tweeted out Princess Zelda’s Tears of the Kingdom artwork, seen just below, in which the princess wears a slightly redesigned Sheikah slate.

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This led to a ton of fans hoping and praying for a playable Princess Zelda. In the comments section of the Reddit post just below, Zelda fans are desperately hoping that the redesigned Sheikah Slate means the princess is a Tears of the Kingdom protagonist, not just a sidekick as usual.

“Playable Zelda is now more likely,” writes one commenter. “That’s the impression I got when he asked Link to lend him his power,” another Reddit user said, referring to a line heard near the end of the new Tears trailer. of the Kingdom yesterday.

Hey, some Tears of the Kingdom fans are just taking the redesigned slate to mean that Zelda won’t be gone for around 15 minutes into the new game. fans that she would once again be relegated to the role of damsel in distress.

“So either they created full art for the first 10 minutes of the game before she went down or she has a major role in the game,” one Reddit user wrote in response to the above post. “Zelda having the Slate gives me a little – tiny – a glimmer of hope that he could do more than just disappear after the first fifteen minutes and disappear for the whole game,” added another.

With the new Sheikah Slate and the new look of Zelda, fans of the princess are really pinning their hopes on a playable Zelda after decades of waiting. Will Tears of the Kingdom finally give us a playable Zelda, or will legions of fans find themselves once again searching for what might have been?

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