Warning! This article features spoilers for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was almost called Tears of the Dragon, famed Nintendo developer and Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma has revealed.

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Once upon a time the Tears of the Kingdom team was thinking of a slightly different name for its Breath of the Wild follow up.

Tears of the Kingdom almost had a very different name, but Nintendo was worried it would be a massive spoiler. As part of the new Tears of the Kingdom artbook, series producer Eiji Aonuma explained that one of the front-running names for Tears of the Kingdom would have let an important detail about the game's narrative "slip.

The following article contains major spoilers for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom had a different name very late in development. The team didn't want to spoil the game's major twist with their title.