Controversy erupts over the shortened name for the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. “Anyway, I hate Tiakin.”

On September 13, Nintendo released new information on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sequel. The official name of the work is “The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom]And the release date was May 12, 2023. It was an auspicious announcement that the official title and release date had been decided, but there was some discussion behind it. is an abbreviation.

The abbreviation of the previous work “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” was often referred to as Brewai, taking the lead from “Breath” and “Wild”. Under that rule, “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” would be “Tiakin”. However, there seems to be a fair amount of people who oppose the term Tiakin.

For example, Mr. Peco, who made a name for himself playing “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” and playing with style, simply hates “Tiakin”. Either way, he has a sense of crisis for the establishment of “Tiakin”, and on SNS, he is slowly lining up counter-proposals with “Tears”, “Kingdom” and “Kindom”. At the moment, he seems to think “Tears of Kingdom” is good.

Peco is not the only one who has resisted the abbreviation of Tierkin. Opinions vary, such as “She looks like Hikakin” and “She doesn’t look like Zelda because she’s bubbly”. Twitter’s search predictions ended with words like “Tiakin TV”. After all, it seems that each of them has a sense of inconsistency with the abbreviation Tiakin.

On the other hand, the fact that there are no leading candidates for the counterproposal itself is also a cause for concern. Some users take the abbreviation “TotK” from the English title “Tears of the Kingdom”, but there are also rumors of dislike that it is “like TikTok”. I don’t like Tyrkin, but the fact that other abbreviations aren’t correct probably aggravates the problem.

Nintendo rarely takes the initiative to give abbreviations to their titles. Also in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild no abbreviations were presented and there were variations in the abbreviations such as “Bureob”, “Burewai” and “BotW”. However, while each abbreviation has a robust look to it, it somehow represents the thick game content of the same work and each abbreviation has been accepted. On the other hand, when we hear “Tiakin”, we tend to think of influencers outside of The Legend of Zelda such as “Hikakin” and “Anakin” and characters from other works. It’s fair to say it doesn’t feel right at this point.

If the game actually goes on sale, the name “Tiakin” may be accepted in light of its content. However, until then, it looks like there will be a debate on what to call the work. Whether or not Nintendo will dare to show the answer. In game development, production jobs are often referred to by codenames, but it is also worrying how “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” is called within the development team. In any case, it seems that such an abbreviation is also one of the pleasant entertainments until the game is released.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will be released for Nintendo Switch on May 12, 2023.

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