In between doing their fundamental marketing campaign and the occasional new thing, the Critical Role crew has executed TTRPG one-shots themed round particular video video games. Often timed to return out round a title’s launch window, previous one-shots have included the likes of Elden Ring, Elder Scrolls On-line, and Doom Everlasting.
In a number of weeks, the subsequent sport to hitch that record might be Nintendo’s not too long ago launched Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. On Friday, the crew revealed they’d partnered with the developer to run a one-shot set on the earth of Hyrule. So when you’re frightened about potential sport spoilers on this, it doesn’t sound like you’ll want to be. When requested on Twitter, the Critical Role group confirmed there can be nothing spoiled, and that the one-shot’s “story and characters are of our personal creation. Everything is solely impressed by parts of The Legend of Zelda.”
Working the sport would be the present’s major DM, Matt Mercer, who additionally voices Ganondorf in Tears. (You might also know him as Hot Ganondorf.) The gamers encompass Important Position co-creators Liam O’Brien and Marisha Ray, together with current transplants Emily Axford (Dimension 20) and Robbie Daymond (Exandria Limitless/Marketing campaign 3), plus newcomer Omar Najam (Dimension 20). On Twitter, Daymond described the one-shot as a “superb fever dream…it’s absolutely unhinged,” whereas Mercer known as it “pleasant to play formally in Hyrule having grown up desirous to BE in Hyrule.” With how massive Important Position is by itself and the way Tears has principally change into most individuals’s Game of the Year, the synergy is sensible and will probably convey some Zelda followers into the TTRPG fold when all is claimed and executed.
Important Position will premiere its Legend of Zelda one-shot on Thursday, Might 30 @ 7 PM PT (so 9 or 10 PM, relying on when you’re Midwest or east coast) by way of its Twitch and YouTube channels.
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