One of the biggest mysteries in Tears of the Kingdom is what has happened to the Sheikah Shrines, Sheikah Towers, and Divine Beasts from Breath of the Wild, or the Guardian-storing pillars around Hyrule Castle. Where did they all go? In an interview with Telegraph, director Hidemaro Fujibayashi gives a simple explanation:
They disappeared after the Calamity was defeated (sealed). All of the people of Hyrule also witnessed this, but there is no one who knows the mechanism or reason why they disappeared, and it is considered a mystery. It is believed that since the Calamity disappeared, they also disappeared as their role had been fulfilled.
It is, anyway, commonplace for mysterious events and strange phenomena to occur in Hyrule. Thus, people have simply assumed the reason behind the disappearance to likely be related to ancient Sheikah technology and it seems there is no one who has tried to explore the matter further. The main civilizations in Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are completely different, so we thought about the game based on concepts that match each of these civilizations.
This is the exact explanation that I came up prior to the game's release (see here for example), where I've speculated that the Sheikah technology may have dissolved in the same vein as the Sheikah monks, because it has fulfilled its purpose after the elimination of Calamity Ganon.
In the extended ending of Breath of the Wild Zelda mentions that Vah Ruta has stopped working, where this could have been the beginning, though you would expect it all to dissolve magically at the same time. Ideally, this would have already been shown at the end of Breath of the Wild, so this question wouldn't have come up in the first place.
In any case, I'm totally okay with this explanation, but I'm not okay with this not being stated in Tears of the Kingdom at all. They should have given this explanation in somewhere in the game, where there are more than enough Sheikah scientists who could have mentioned this at some point. It's just poor story telling to leave such "details" to interviews and future data books.
They also could have tied Calamity Ganon and its Malice to Ganondorf and his Gloom, making the latter the source of the former, where instead they are treating it all as independent entities. This seems like a missed opportunity, but it also allows for the above explanation, because technically Calamity Ganon wouldn't be truly gone otherwise. And maybe they wanted to make Tears of the Kingdom stand on its own feet, but then they shouldn't have made it a sequel taking place in the exact same Hyrule to begin with...
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Kinda wish guardians lived on as enemies but only in the Depths. Would make them stronger enemies and give them extra attacks like in Hyrule Warriors. I believe they were found deep underground originally along with the divine beasts, so explanation could be that these versions were never found and activated 100 years ago. Therefore they didn't disappear like the other Sheikah tech.
ReplyDeletePlus they are iconic and the enemy variety is still lacking for a game with 3 huge maps. As it is the Frox and their mini counterparts are the only new enemies in Depths