In a new YouTube video, former Nintendo employees Kit & Krysta discussed the “biggest secrets” they had to keep at Nintendo, and surprisingly, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s reveal was one of the closest-guarded.
Announced at E3, there really wasn’t much to show. A one-minute teaser offered a brief glimpse at Zelda and Link traveling through an ancient cavern, as swirling green magic written in ancient runes flowed from a mummified corpse surrounded by malice, all while Hyrule castle rose from the ground. We didn’t even get a title, just a vague promise that a Breath of the Wild sequel was in development.
Nonetheless, according to former senior public relations manager Kit Ellis, the very first reveal had “a higher level of security than anything else I’d certainly been a part of.”
Kit claimed that “less than ten people” at Nintendo were on the disclosure list—not even his boss was privy to the reveal, and only one person in legal was approved to look at the materials.
“It was me, like a couple of the Japan liaison people, Doug Bowser—I’m not joking,” he explained. “And the reason I was chosen to be involved in this…
