Breath Of The Wild 2: 7 Details You May Have Missed From The E3 2021 Trailer

7. New Abilities

Many people originally speculated that Link was going to lose his arm. This was due to some concept art where Link had a robotic arm and the fact that some dark energy clinged onto his arm in the announcement trailer. Turns out this dark energy was just giving Link some cool new abilities for him to play with.

It looks like the Sheikah Slate is going to be replaced as Link's main form of powers, with his arm taking up those responsibilities. It's only for a couple of seconds but you can clearly see some magical device on Link's limb in the trailer.

Two new abilities were also shown off.

One ability let Link freeze a metal ball before shooting it forward into enemies, even showing where the ball is going to go.

It's likely this ability can only be used on metal objects otherwise it would be ridiculously overpowered.

The second ability lets you turn into either energy or water and shoot yourself upwards, through any structures in your way.

It's likely Link is turning into water here as just beforehand we see something happen to a puddle of water.