The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will have dungeons, Nintendo has confirmed less than 48 hours before the game releases on May 12. Game director Hidemaro Fujibayashi confirmed this in an Ask the Developer interview with Nintendo.
Fujibayashi said dungeons have changed from Breath of the Wild, in some exciting-sounding ways. “They’ve changed from the previous game. For example, there is a dungeon that connects directly from Hyrule’s surface. If you dive from the sky straight into the dungeon, you’ll trigger an event. We think this will be a new experience that wasn’t possible in the previous game,” the director said.
Technical director Takuhiro Dohta said dungeons in Tears of the Kingdom are “unique to their respective environments.”