Nintendo finally unveiled the official name to the sequel to Breath of the Wild with a new trailer for the game. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom now has a release date of May 12th, 2023. Exciting, right? You would think, but after watching the trailer, not really.

What irritates me about this trailer isn’t that it’s only about 90 seconds long. It’s that they spent about 40 of those seconds showing us runes on a wall. Nintendo obviously doesn’t want to show the game yet so they wasted our time making us look at a wall for half of the name reveal trailer. It almost feels like a troll.

We’re eight months from release of the game. Eight months from the release of Breath of the Wild in 2017 we had a full E3 of Treehouse footage about it. I’m not asking for that much info for Tears of the Kingdom, but the trailer could’ve been much better.

Should we be worried about the game? No, not really. Nintendo has earned the benefit of the doubt with the Zelda series. However, they’re using Breath of the Wild’s popularity and acclaim to be even more secretive than normal. Nintendo’s basically saying ‘Tears of the Kingdom is the sequel to Breath of the Wild and we know you’re going to be excited for it no matter how little info we give you’. Nintendo isn’t going out of their way to generate hype for Tears of the Kingdom because they know they don’t have to. And they’re right, the hype is already there because Breath of the Wild was so good.

Also, there’s the possibility that Nintendo will announce and launch some new Switch hardware next year. They could be saving the big gameplay reveal of Tears of the Kingdom to help sell that hardware. Pure speculation, but it’s a possibility.

It’s one thing when gamers get their hopes up for a Nintendo Direct on their own by listening to insiders and rumors on social media – but it’s another when Nintendo does it to their fans. They would’ve been better off just announcing the official name of the game on a social media post and been done with it because this trailer told us almost nothing about the game.

If the whole point of a trailer is to generate hype, I’m less hyped for Tears of the Kingdom than I was before the trailer and before I knew the name of the game. May 12th, 2023 feels far away and we know almost nothing about the game to be excited about.