Nintendo pulled back the curtain on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s gameplay on Tuesday to reveal a ton of new ways Link can craft stuff. Mushroom shields. Helicopter rafts. Big, huge sticks. The hero of time is handier than ever and fans are loving it.
Today’s mini-Zelda Direct showed Tears of the Kingdom is doubling down on Breath of the Wild’s incredible toolset to let players create everything from boulder clubs to cars. Link’s new abilities will let him rewind time to fly through the air on big rocks as well as fuse items together to make contraptions both goofy and powerful. The possibilities are clear, and so are the memes:
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023) pic.twitter.com/H25YZ3sltD
— hot cyber 🖨😎 (@HotCyder) March 28, 2023
Link on his way to kill Ganon in Tears of the Kingdom pic.twitter.com/C5y91wxw9m
— Ben Bertoli?! (@SuperBentendo) March 28, 2023
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023)
Developed by Nintendo EPD pic.twitter.com/HTBIwwMdTv— PalmaSoft (@PalmaSoft) March 28, 2023
YOU CAN MAKE A MEAT ARROW IN TEARS OF THE KINGDOM pic.twitter.com/qBH1WT17KT
— eric pointcrow (@PointCrow) March 28, 2023
Tears of the Kingdom pic.twitter.com/B9zMclI0xg
— Mel the Honeybee🐝(comms closed) (@melthehoneybee) March 28, 2023
tears of the kingdom homing weapon pic.twitter.com/TbNjEQrr4k
— 👁🗨sara🦷 (@pyramidserum) March 28, 2023
Want to take a second to appreciate one of Link’s new abilities is named “Ultrahand,” presumably after the real-life toy Nintendo made in the 70s pic.twitter.com/Oap4CxUdUx
— Tristan Cooper (@TristanACooper) March 28, 2023
Forget the Master Sword, here I come Ganon #ZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom pic.twitter.com/41FfXz5Soz
— Cathiane (@Cathianedraws) March 28, 2023
I LOVE TEARS OF THE KINGDOM pic.twitter.com/MEFogzh9Zt
— POPKONI🍋 (@popkoni) March 28, 2023
#TOTK totk spoilers
THIS PIC IS FUCKING REAL NOW pic.twitter.com/hE62MAkKma
— 👁🗨sara🦷 (@pyramidserum) March 28, 2023
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023) pic.twitter.com/L0wVXwrqGX
— Tristan Cooper (@TristanACooper) March 28, 2023
totk link is good at thinking on the spot! pic.twitter.com/uk7Zr9FW5T
— ⛩BIG RAD DEMON DAD⛩ (@_VioMarks_) March 28, 2023
The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom, 2023 pic.twitter.com/bltwnBezVb
— LunarLiv (@LunarLivH) March 28, 2023
Zelda Tears of the Kingdom fuse ability pic.twitter.com/3T0SJqGLto
— TheNCSmaster (@TheNCSmaster) March 28, 2023
One of the best parts of Breath of the Wild was all of the emergent techniques, trick shots, and glitchy ways to break the game that devoted players discovered in the months and years following its release. If anything, Tears of the Kingdom looks poised to be even more chaotic. Fans joke about Link taking on Calamity Ganon with some caveman monstrosity made of rocks and twigs but that’s exactly what’s going to happen. Or maybe they’ll find a way to simply ram him with their Green Goblin glider.
As others have pointed out online, it’s basically confirmation over 10 years too late that Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts was onto something. It also makes me wonder what Fallout 76-style Zelda with full-blown base-building would look like. Maybe we’ll find out in the year 2030. For now, I’m content to see how many weapons I can craft out of mushrooms, even if the return of weapon degradation means they still might be constantly breaking. If Link’s vehicles can break too I might start to cry.
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