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Ana Diaz (she/her) is a culture writer at Polygon, covering internet culture, fandom, and video games. Her work has previously appeared at NPR, Wired, and The Verge.
There is so much any given player can do in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. You can become the architect of the world’s largest bridge, an engineer behind crimes against Koroks, or if you want, just turn the sloping hills of Hyrule into Link’s personal skateboard park. It’s a giant game with plenty to do, so I’d forgive any player who, I don’t know, just so happened to have completed the game yet. But now, with the impending release of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, anyone still playing Nintendo’s last Zelda title might be rushing to beat the game before the next mainline Zelda game comes out.
Nintendo will be releasing Echoes of Wisdom to the Nintendo Switch on Sept. 26. While some features of the game, — like the fact you can play as Zelda — have fans buzzing with excitement, some players aren’t quite ready to move on to the next Zelda game. That’s because some want to make sure they beat the main storyline of Tears of Kingdom.
The TikTok user Just_jaynie shared a video on TikTok that made light of the upcoming release. The video, which as more than 15,400 views, shows sped-up footage of Just_jaynie playing Tears of the Kingdom and rushing through the fields and map to complete the game. You can view the video below.
People flooded the comment section of the video with replies about how they haven’t beaten the game yet either. The top comment on the video said, “the amount of time I spent playing that game while diligently refusing to finish is staggering,” another person chimed in an said, “So we all didn’t complete Tears of the kingdom yet,” with a blushing emoji in the text. Others talked about how they’ve played as much as 90 hours of the game, but just couldn’t work up the courage to go challenge Ganondorf.
And TikTok commenters aren’t the only people who haven’t beaten the game. One of my favorite types of Reddit posts in the Zelda communities are the ones that talk about what people got distracted with on their way to beat Ganondorf. This post from two months ago talked about the person played Tears of the Kingdom, became obsessed with it, but then just dropped the game one day. Another person in the same thread chimed in and said that they were just spending time running around collecting knickknacks to max out their armor stats.
It makes sense — sometimes you might not want to beat a game because you don’t want to feel like it’s done. But while a new game coming along might be the push to finally tie up loose ends, Tears of the Kingdom won’t disappear off the Switch’s hard drive on Sept. 26.
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