Link’s challenge in Tears of the Kingdom is to take down a grand evil threat to save the world of Hyrule. But while many players choose to take on the game’s final boss, Ganon, with a traditional means of sword fighting, others have taken to finding more clever, rather humiliating forms of foiling Ganon’s plans.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom features your usual “good vs evil” high fantasy story. With the fate of a world resting on Link’s shoulders, he’s given a variety of powers to navigate the world and take on his foes. One such way is Ultrahand, which lets Link construct virtually any kind of structure or machine. Players can use this to make vehicles, weapons, or in this case, tight enclosures to seemingly break the AI and leave Ganon standing around doing nothing.
An enemy trap like no other
Players have built traps to fight bokoblins or even used simple Ultrahand constructions to capture horses, but this player has taken to trapping Ganon by constructing a maze around him.
ミニゲーム
「迷路から出られなくなった魔王を救出せよ」 #TearsOfTheKingdom #Zelda pic.twitter.com/p5FUNVSPSe— ゆきのさん (@yukino_san_14) July 11, 2023
As it seems, the bosses’ AI is unable to navigate tight spaces and can’t really seem to find its way out of a relatively simple maze. One Tweet reply reads “this was a better seal than the one they usually put on him.
But of course, anything worth doing is worth overdoing, so some players are taking the opportunity to exploit this dynamic by humiliating Ganon.
Ganon is put to work at a fruit stand
So if a tight, restrictive maze causes Ganon to just walk around in circles, what happens if the constructed space around him is even smaller? Well it seems he’ll just stand there, as in the case of this fruit stand that’s been built around him:
なんかそういう屋台のおじさん
#ゼルダの伝説 #TearsOfTheKingdom #Zelda #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/T6IzY7olOV
— にじ🌝👐🌷🌷🌷 (@pm0200kt) July 10, 2023
Or this small, very low-powered, machine that basically aims to butt slap Ganon to death:
ハイラル式ケツバット #TearsOfTheKingdom pic.twitter.com/6Ppnvn7nU6
— ゆきのさん (@yukino_san_14) July 10, 2023
How about trapping him the Triforce symbol?
力、知恵、勇気、ガノンドロフ！ #TearsOfTheKingdom #Zelda pic.twitter.com/BOCyLsiyHf
— ゆきのさん (@yukino_san_14) July 11, 2023
Or creating other patient death machines:
頭皮マッサージ #TearsOfTheKingdom pic.twitter.com/2LqC2JTLD7
— ゆきのさん (@yukino_san_14) July 9, 2023
Humiliating Slapping#TearsOfTheKingdom #王國之淚 #薩爾達傳說 #Zelda #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/zbuEzDhOmu
— Yuda (@zb_yuhudaddy) July 10, 2023
目からビーム #TearsOfTheKingdom pic.twitter.com/32OKs5ByHp
— ゆきのさん (@yukino_san_14) July 10, 2023
Ultrahand is a very surprising feature of Tears of the Kingdom, one that often creates unexpected results. So it was only a matter of time before players found ways to abuse it and break the game.
