We have compiled important tips and tricks for you about Zelda Tears of the Kingdom so that you don’t lose track amidst all the many possibilities and mechanics.
Tears of the Kingdom offers even more freedom and options to make the game world unsafe. Many of the new tricks explain themselves through personal experimentation but could also be quickly overlooked.
To ensure that you are not overwhelmed by all these aspects, we have put together a small collection of tips and tricks.
1. Mark things on the map
Especially in the tutorial and starting areas, you might find treasures that you can’t reach or enemies that you cannot defeat yet.
If you don’t want to forget interesting places, use the marker function of your map. You have many icons and waypoints to choose from, which can help you not only with navigation but also to remember interesting locations.
2. Use the many movement options
The classic riding is back, and you can quickly find a suitable horse. Gliding also returns and reaches a new level through the sky islands. But there are also completely new ways of movement in Tears of the Kingdom.
With the new Ceiling Jump, you can essentially jump through ceilings. Whether it’s a platform, a cave, or a monster camp, you can quickly reach the surface with this ability.
With the new Synthesis, you can fuse all items together. This way, you can connect a cart with your shield, and you’ve built yourself a skateboard. Simple bridges can also prove to be useful.
However, the coolest option is building. With rockets and wheels, you can construct your own vehicle and race through Hyrule.
Instead of building cool transportation, many players end up building penises.
3. Combine your own strong weapons and shields
The previously mentioned Synthesis is not only good for moving around coolly but is also incredibly useful in combat.
You can combine a stick with a stone to build a club. However, the fusion of weapons with gemstones is much stronger. This allows you to create your own elemental weapons. Rhodonite gives you fire effects and sapphire gives you ice effects.
You can enhance shields by combining them with Bokblin horns. The blunt increase of your weapons can also be achieved with various combinations.
Arrows can also be combined with materials. If you fuse your arrow with a fire fruit, you will burn the targets hit.
You should be careful with a few combinations. Combining your sword with an explosive barrel will likely lead to your demise.
4. Complete the tutorial as quickly as possible
Tears of the Kingdom invites you from the start to explore the vast world. However, it is advisable to complete the tutorial quickly, as this not only unlocks the glider quickly, which can often save you from death, but also all abilities.
The locations and secrets are based on all of Link’s abilities and help you interact with everything in the world. Before you struggle to achieve something, unlock everything in the tutorial and use your creativity and all available options.
Many players of Tears of the Kingdom despair at the tutorial because they spend hours doing the wrong thing.
5. General tips for combat
You don’t just have to bluntly hit with your sword. Tears of the Kingdom offers many mechanics that can make combat easier for you.
Use stealth! If an enemy hasn’t detected you yet, you can try to sneak behind them. If you get close enough, you can perform a sneak strike by pressing the Y button, which deals extra damage to the enemy.
Dodging makes the enemy vulnerable. If you have targeted an enemy by pressing the right stick, you can dodge sideways or backward. If you time the jump perfectly with an enemy attack, a slow-motion effect occurs, allowing you to land many sword strikes on the unprotected enemy.
How do I make headshots easier? Another slow-motion effect occurs when you pull out the bow while falling. This drains stamina but allows you to land headshots more easily. These headshots often disarm the enemy, enabling you to attack an unprotected target.
What else awaits you in Tears of the Kingdom, you can see in this trailer:
6. Strengthen yourselves as well
There are several ways to strengthen yourselves. When you complete the many shrines, you receive light blessings. Four of them can be exchanged at the statues of the goddess Hylia to upgrade stamina and hearts. If you upgrade too many hearts or stamina, you can redistribute the upgrades at the statues.
Unlike your ingredients and items, the space for your swords, bows, and shields is limited. To increase the space, you need to find the Korok seeds in the game world. You can then exchange the seeds with Hestu for inventory upgrades.
Temporary upgrades are also important. The many dishes you can prepare not only heal you but also offer various buffs depending on the ingredient. Faster running or more attack power are just examples of useful effects.
Medicine that you can cook from monster parts and certain insects not only strengthens you but also provides resistances. These resistances are essential in ice or lava areas.
In the game, all your recipes are cataloged, so you can no longer forget them. We have compiled helpful recipes for Tears of the Kingdom for you.
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