Currently doing my visiting period for the phd in Greece and went into a local shop to ask if the preorder was needed, the store assistant said “you don’t want it now?”. And here I am with my copy 💕

Good luck finishing your PhD.

Yeah and tomorrow I should start some crucial data collection, was not expecting this unfortunate event *cries in tears of the kingdom*

Wow! I know you're busy but I really hope you get to have time to play :)

Yeah I’ll work until dinner time and then it’s just me and the princess

Man, I bought digital and I hate waiting!!! have fun for me until I can play !!!

To be fair, those of us with digital will likely be able to play faster than most people who have to pick up in store or get delivered.

Me too, just started downloading and it's gonna take at least 3 to 5 hours, better it start downloading now instead of on the 12th where the servers will be overloaded I'm sure.

Ya know I've never understood this sentiment and I am so happy I don't. I find people's hype for this release, and new releases in general, so cute. But am so grateful that it's the *one* thing in the gaming world that I am not into.

Wow! I know you're busy but I really hope you get to have time to ~~~~play~~~~ work on your PhD :)

Too busy with ToTK so hopefully they'll have time for that PhD ;P Congrats to the commenter tho!

I’m sure your advisor would love to keep you as cheap labor for another year! All the best for your dissertation and saving Hyrule

Haha he’s a total nerd and he’s also going to play it

I wrote my dissertation right when Horizon dropped last year, and that’s by far one of my favorite game series. All I did was grind writing and analyses, and then hunt for mechanical dinos. I’ll forever have that time be memorable for it. Best of luck to you and I hope TOTK is able to help ease some of the stress of your diss process!!

They will get a PhD in Ultra-Hand before anything. Btw if your becoming an engineer then TotK is probably going to be fairly beneficial.

I fell behind a semester on my Bachelor's degree bc I wouldn't stop playing Breath of the Wild.

Oops!! I beat BoTW and graduate with my Ba on Saturday, just in time to get lost in Tears of the Kingdom… sorry to my artwork, we taking a break. 😜

Im from Greece, just got it from Gamestation!

wish Australia was this unhinged

I have no idea how it happened, but i knew it would. Playing the game right now. It's... everything

Y’all get everything a day early anyways

Yep! Cancer included

Oh geez LOL.

Gamestation is what my Mom called my Dreamcast

Better than me thinking a PlayStation was the name of a kind of playground 🛝at peoples homes… I was a sheltered child.

Gamestation is the most off brand game stop name I have ever heard, I love it

I'm graduating with my PhD on Friday so I can't play until all the festivities are done 😭

Yeah, but you’ll be playing as *Doctor* Link!

Wow congrats, that's huge! And that way you kinda get to celebrate twice :)

i am from Greece and yes many small shops do like that ,actually youencourge me to do the same tomorrow morning and ask them

Congratulations on the whole PhD thing. I imagine what a huge commitment that can be. I wish you the best. I'm happy you got your copy early. Relax and enjoy.

Funny, a mate of mine also just went to greece for his phd. If I had known I would have told him to bring me Totk as a souvenir xD

Aaaaahahahahah this is so unfair

Well I’m doing my research on social inequalities so I guess this can be defined as a case study for my project.

Lmao, good one.

Does it play yet or is the download locked

Playing it right now

Any thoughts?

My expectations were high and so far I have not been disappointed at all. 1) the opening title scene gave me serious goosebumps 2) I spent a lot of hours on botw and got a bit burned out by it… but here the opening area is so nice that you just want to go around and check every square meter 3) playing portable and the performances are very stable, not a single performance issue so far. The game got a small update when it started

Haha I’m defending my PhD on June 1 and I definitely will be spending the two weeks leading up to my defense preparing… and not playing Zelda…

In which town man??? I am Greek :p

Athens

Can you share the store with us? By the way, congratulations on your PhD

Gamestation

That store associate is a legend

Good luck with your PhD! I feel your pain... My MSc dissertation is due on Monday so that's my kingdom of tears 🥲

Haha I was lucky enough that BotW released 2 months after I submitted my PhD thesis back in the day 😀

I thought Amazon preorder was the way to get it early and apparently that is very much not correct

In my experience, Amazon preorder is the way to get it late.

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Reading this was like a gut punch.

It might depend on the game..... I've only pre ordered Metroid Dread on Amazon and it arrived on release day. Let's go 2-2 Amazon!

I was 0-2 when I stopped giving them chances, but I hope it works out for you! I gave Walmart a chance this time. My order still says “Preparing” and they haven’t even charged me, but FedEx gave me a delivery notification for Friday so I’m assuming it’ll show up.

It's very hit or miss, unfortunately. Pretty much playing the lottery ordering from Amazon

You used to at least get it on release date with Amazon. I haven't pre-ordered a game forever though so I dunno how it is now. I'm picking my preorder totk up from best buy when they open.

Brick and mortar store is always better

So do they just sell it in-person early?

Some do, my store often ships games 2-3 days early to me

Does the Amazon preorder come at the same time as the typical Amazon mail or is it priority? Still haven’t bought but considering just walking in Friday morning to a store to grab

Just walk into local store. It's a lot less hassle. I've had games (and other stuff) on pre-order get delayed or even cancelled cause they weren't able to fulfill all of the orders

god really does have favourites.

The gifts of the Almighty are weighed and parceled out in a scale peculiar to himself.

What are you waiting for TEAR that plastic off.

Do you also eat steak in front of starving children?

😂

I can't wait. Told the kids and husband this is what I want for mothers day

Them to leave you alone all weekend to binge Zelda Bringing provisions upon request? Sounds like a good Mother’s Day to me!

This is all I asked for and then the company my husband is a contractor for decided to start a major thing this weekend starting on the 12th. He’s forced on night shifts all weekend long which means I will basically be forced into double duty all weekend. 😭

That sonovabitch boss. Let’s send them a glitter bomb. They should know all work stops this weekend.

W mother

Mother 4 leaked

That’s what I bought for my wife as a Mother’s Day gift haha I have a backup gift as well just in case because you never know:P

This guy husbands!

Pro Gamer Move

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The devil works fast but Nintendo Ninjas work faster

I can still hear their voice 🕊️🕊️🕊️

Here come the Pinkerton

Someone's calling in sick

I took 2 vacation days. I'm thinking that won't be enough.

It’s looking like you’re gonna need 1-2 vacation *years.*

I’ve been legit sick with meningitis since last month…just got covid over the weekend. It’s super shitty but holy crap i get to play as much zelda as my body will allow lol so that’s a win right?

Good luck with that tho

Ill be starting mine 24 hours from now. Cannot wait

I hear if you play it early Nintendo will come after you!

This is true and I'm the only person that knows how to prevent that from happening. OP will have to send me that contraband ASAP so that I can responsibly dispose of it.

Trust me. I got my hands degloved after I played three minutes of it early.

Degloved? ON THE ENTIRETY OF BOTH HANDS?! What a horrible image in my head.

Bro it’s may, gotta take the gloves off sometime

Like Mickey Mouse, I would like to avoid ever being degloved in my life.

Yep they have a contract with the pinkertons don't they?

Watch out for Pinkertons

Don’t worry. Zelda has a plan. You just need to have some faith.

We'll be picking apples in Termina Link!

What happened in Termina?

We just need more RUPEES, LINK!

Hazbro moment

We just need more rupees then we can just DISAPPEAR.

My favourite part of a big game release coming up is the endless photos of the game case from people who got it early

Don't give me hope I will get mine on friday, not monday 🙃

Same. I even took the friday off. Order still hasn't been processed :( ​ Shoulda choosed the pick up on store option. I blame my lazy ass

Did you order through Walmart, because I’m having this same issue and it’s stressing me out.

Can speak on Best Buy on my end, order isn’t shipping until Friday :(

I have Walmart and am still waiting for a shipping notification

I preordered from Walmart. Still "preparing your order". It's making me very nervous.

Amazon better have my shit ON MY DOORSTEP by EOD on Friday, I swear to god.

Delivery Attempted…

this would drive me insane

Now expected: Wednesday, May 17

Amazon didn't deliver my botw on time so this time I opted in person pick up at best buy.

How late was it? I’m getting nervous now.

Don't know, I called Amazon and told them to refund because I was getting a digital copy instead.

Mine hasn't shipped yet and I def don't live in a 1 day area. Does say "arriving Friday" though

Mine shipped a couple of days ago so I am hopeful for once…but who knows.

was it good? you 100%d it already right?

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Poor handheld performance always bums me out. That's how I play my Switch 99% of the time. (Totally expected rough performance in general with handheld being worse for this game anyway, but still bums me out.)

All 9000 koroks

Yeah, there are 1800 poops now

haven’t 100%d it yet. but i downloaded the leaked version. it’s really fun if you like botw you will love it

You lucky man! Still refreshing every 5 minutes the delivery website

Got it from a local shop. They usually give you preordered stuff early

Make sure you don’t ever mention the name of that shop. You may not get fucked by Nintendo but they absolutely will.

You just went there and asked for it? Or did you get an email or something

Called the shop yesterday and they told me that i could pick it up today, so I did

I wish I had an independent shop by me. All I got is GameStop's.

Pegi 12

Does that mean there is a curse word?

Nah every 3D zelda has been pegi 12, it just means that you smack monsters semi-realistically

Also botw had some pretty suggestive stuff like the fairies that basically rape you lmao

„basically“

Gannon drops the gamer word somewhere in there

Link's first word is fuck

Oh no... I read that with a deep raspy man's voice in my mind...

I can hear the macho narrator in my head.

And I'm just here constantly trying to open my digital copy in the hope someone at nintendo accidentally pressed the button early

If I remember correctly it's only ever happened twice. Paper Mario Color splash preload was actually playable 2 weeks early and then 1 person was able to play Advanced Wars right around it's original release date

That Advance Wars thing was so weird. You know something like that will never happen again. Feels like AW has been out forever now though because of it. Good Lord.

Ah so it's every9ne doing that then huh? Cause same

Nice! Im hoping to go to my local and get mine tomorrow Edit: I did indeed get it a day early

I hate you! I hope you enjoy it from the bottom of my heart!

Nintendo is going to put your family in a labor camp for the next 3 generations

That's neat. I estimate that mine will arrive between one to three weeks after release, gonna be patient and enjoy some early gameplay streams from my favorite streamers.

My order says it's arriving a week after release. Of course I only ordered earlier this month. The folks getting theirs early must have ordered months ago.

Mine says it’ll come friday and i ordered mine around march or so, so these folks mustve bought it when pre orders went up

I’d bet you could just walk into a Walmart/target on release day and pick up a copy so you don’t have to wait.

I live in Brazil, most games are imported from outside the country so it takes much longer. The thought of walking to a Gamestop on the day of release to get a preorder copy that you bought beforehand sounds like a thing of a dream to me.

Nintendo sending their assassin droids after you

I wish GameStop would fuck up and send me my collectors edition early. I’m probably going to get it digital too though and Nintendo isn’t going to accidentally have that on the eshop early. Does this game work with the voucher? I might have to get one of those. Also do gold points work with vouchers?

These past few days of waiting really do feel longer than the 4 years we've been waiting for this game. can't wait though, Have fun!

5 years now

5? i thought it was E3 2019 it was announced I might be wrong though

Nintendo lawyers want to know your location.

I might get it but still even haven't finished breath of the wild yet

Careful, Nintendo is gonna hire a mobster to come break your knees.

Haha dude that's crazy. But unfortunately you're gonna get assassinated by the freaking Nintendo ninjas 💀

Dude, Nintendo is going to see this shit. Run. Hide. Withdraw all of your money out of your account and move to Oregon and live in the woods until we tell you it's ok to come back out. Nintendo can't sue you if they can't deliver the subpoena.

Got email from the courier that they will deliver it tomorrow, cant wait

Nintendo are gonna send assassins after you they crazy

I got a missed delivery card from DHL from their attempted delivery yesterday, WHILE I WAS HOME ALL DAY?!?!?! Then when I went to the shop to pick it up they said it's not there. So I've accepted that it's lost to the void now and I will not get it for release day

I’m in Japan right now and I’m about to take my plane to the US. I wanted so bad a Japanese copy. :(

Shhhh *no you didn't*. You got it *on time*

I never get shit early

Mine also arrived today, from Shopto. Royal Mail 48 turned into 24!

Really?? I also ordered from shopto and mine hasn’t shown up yet. Fingers crossed

After 6 years Im still waiting to have this luck and get a game early 😩

Another release, another set of these posts 😒

Dumb question but can you play it ahead of time or does Nintendo block it until Friday?

Playing right now

First impressions?

Ah good to know! Enjoy

I work for a store that has it and I'm so sad I can't yoinky sploink a copy but I'd be so fired.

nice

Can’t wait for mine!

Knew this would happen. This is what I came here for. Oh the excitement about this game is now in the early copy phase!! Can't wait!

I’m trying to best Octopath Traveller 2 before mine arrives.

Sad digital preorder noises. Been staring at my Switch Home Screen for a while

Mine says "Arriving May 15th at the earliest." First and last time I order a game online instead of going to pick it up.

TotK received early = you lucky bum Enjoy!

So when are you inviting us over to play?

Lord. I’ve seen what you have done for others and I want that for me.

im hoping mine DOESN'T come in early because this week ive been taking AP exams and my last one is on Friday, so when i come home after the last exam i can celebrate by playing ToTK.

Are there any spoiler-free reactions from people who've played it? I was looking on r/Zelda and r/tearsofthekingdom and couldn't see any

nintendo still hasn’t even shipped mine for friday 🥲

Omg these ppl who get it early rly piss me off no offence, I want one so badlyyyyy

DAMN Amazon says Feb 16 delivery for my pre-order : (

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:Hello Nintendo ninjas he is the guy

Have fun buddy

I'm crossing my fingers mine gets here early. It was shipped today from a location two hours away, there's no reason it shouldn't be here tomorrow but I have a feeling I won't get lucky.

watch out for pinkerton

even tho it comes out friday 12:00am, im still viewing that at as tomorrow and gladly staying up until 12 to play for atleast 2 hours 😂

Nintendo gon find you

Careful, the starving indie devs might DMCA this picture

What is that sticker? Im guessing tax stamp but I've never seen it before. Plenty of Pegi logos but never that one.

so jealous of everyone who can play the game at launch and doesn't have exams

https://i.imgur.com/41D1AL1.jpg I’m so excited, arriving today too!

I can't decide if i want to buy it

And here I am 10 am Thursday and it hasn’t even shipped