Tears Of The Kingdom Players Keep Doing Things You Didn't Know Were Possible

Who of you first saw the option to fuse planks together to make bridges, and thought, “This will provide me the means to create my own planetarium?”

That was the direction in which Chinese player Rutiwa headed, using a combination of the game’s falling stars, a wheel, and the distant fusing trick.

This looks deceptively simple in setup, but getting those stars to fuse in the air is a whole ordeal using staff weapons that are removed by a bizarre process, in tandem with an exploit with the Autobuild, and let’s just say it’s amazing. Meanwhile, the results are so completely lovely!

If it spins in a ball, then it’s Sonic, right? That was the vision of Satougashi020, who created a stunning catherine wheel effect by placing the rolling Sage of Fire into a circle made of, um, carts. Therein lies the sheer joy of these imaginative builds, where objects are entirely misused to make bizarre and surprising ideas come to life.

Here’s a challenge for you: try to watch this fewer than seven times. Given how satisfying it is to see those circular trails of fire, and the way he races off along the ground at the end, it’s pretty much impossible.

Ha.

Video game + physics = dominoes. That’s one of Newton’s laws of video gaming. So we suspect that this enormous domino run will likely be outdone, and outdone in spectacular style, possibly spanning stretches of the game’s map. But this from Chocrab_1226 has a whole other agenda.

Yes, that agenda is cruelty to Koroks, because of course it is, but no amount of sympathy for the poor, maligned creatures can outdo the perfect comic timing of this edit.

OK, since we’ve ventured into Korok cruelty, surely the darkest (and funniest) aspect of how TotK is being played, we might as well see just how ingeniously it’s being done.

Take zelda_watchan for instance, who raises the stakes of torturing these poor little innocent blighters to a whole other level, by sending an entire cage of them to their Upside Down fate.

Oh god this is so wrong. Yup, those are Koroks glued to the wheels, and to the outsides, and indeed filling the cage to bursting, all screaming out for help, as they sent to their doom in the Depths. Awful. Brilliant.

One of the best Twitter feeds to follow for amazing, imaginative builds is definitely uran120. More usually a Lego builder, the Japanese account is currently posting some brilliant TotK stuff, including the Fortnite Battle Bus above. What a masterpiece!

If you’re like me, when you see a Lynel anywhere in TotK, you turn tail and scarper. But there are better, braver folks out there, who are defeating this centaur-thing in some incredible ways. zb_yuhudaddy, above, uses a combination of techniques with astonishing speed, including Autobuilds of 16 exploding barrels in combination with the Recall ability, all while riding on a Wing, finishing with a perfect cool guy not looking at an explosion.

Or, you know, it could go like this:

If you spend as much time looking for cool TotK builds as we do, then you’ll have seen a lot of machines people have made for automatically killing entire armies of enemies. But few are as visually and violently impressive as what ApokaPeo calls “Iron Spider Armor.”

First of all, it looks like something Iron Man would have made for Spidey. Secondly, look how many cool different things it’s doing! It’s freezing, it’s lasering, it’s exploding! And all so effectively, too. Just watching it Autobuild is satisfying enough, though.

Why not.

It’d be frankly rude not to finish on a giant freaking robot. We’ve seen a lot of these, and every single one is so impressive, but surely none more so than ekudy’s? Just look at this killer-bot.

This isn’t just aesthetically fantastic, but it’s such a feat of engineering too. And yes, those are mine carts.