In between doing their foremost marketing campaign and the occasional new thing, the Critical Role crew has accomplished TTRPG one-shots themed round particular video video games. Normally 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 couple of weeks, the subsequent sport to affix that checklist will likely be Nintendo’s lately 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 planet of Hyrule. So in the event you’re fearful about potential sport spoilers on this, it doesn’t sound like you could be. When requested on Twitter, the Critical Role staff confirmed there could 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 latest 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 “wonderful fever dream…it’s absolutely unhinged,” whereas Mercer referred to as it “pleasant to play formally in Hyrule having grown up eager to BE in Hyrule.” With how huge Important Position is by itself and the way Tears has principally grow to be most individuals’s Game of the Year, the synergy is sensible and should probably deliver some Zelda followers into the TTRPG fold when all is claimed and accomplished.
Important Position will premiere its Legend of Zelda one-shot on Thursday, Might 30 @ 7 PM PT (so 9 or 10 PM, relying on in the event you’re Midwest or east coast) by way of its Twitch and YouTube channels.
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