14 Things I Wish I Knew Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Tears of the Kingdom has finally arrived, and it has shaped up to be one of the most mind bending games I’ve ever played. During my time with the game, I’m willing to share a couple secrets I’ve learned along the way, and all of these are achievable before even leaving the beginning area, the Great Sky Islands. So here are 14 spoiler-friendly things that I wish I knew while playing Tears of the Kingdom.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:23 Zonai Overcharge
0:52 Torch 2.0
1:11 Updraft Upgrades
1:39 Learn to Throw
1:50 Toss Items at Certain Enemies
2:10 Careful When Fusing Certain Items
3:09 No Durability Used
3:24 Inventory Gets Crazy
4:12 Icicles are Useful
4:32 Ice Block Possibilities
5:15 Shield Bomb Launching
5:42 Windshield High Jump
5:59 Glider Control
6:20 Ability Combinations
7:54 Outro

[richizzle]

I love how they made unintended mechanics and just straight turned them into mechanics

[darkglass]

I at first thought it was insane with what you can do with an icicle, but then my mind was blown with those ascend tricks.

[denisruskin]

If BoTW was mindblowing on the sandbox part, this one takes that to a new plateau.

[adamneumann]

6:23 and onward is certifiably insane. The possibilities with these abilities are endless...

[foxman]

I love how shield bomb launching basically allows us to do those crazy combos that only the pros in botw could do. No need to do any crazy glitches anymore, now you can just get creative and try out your own combos. This seems like we're gonna keep discovering things in this game for a really long time and will not get old any time soon. So excited!!!

[xicyx]

3:08 HUGE TIP don’t hit them with an axe. You will destroy your boat and you will be sad.

[Stelthily]

Instead of recalling a rock to ascend through, sometimes it’s simpler to just stand on the rock before you recall it

[Lyra_dragonal]

Another good rewind tip, if you attach wood to an arrow (or any object that isn't destroyed on impact). After firing it and waiting for it to land you can attach a platform to it with ultrahand then recall the arrow to fly where it came from. Use this to get very high quickly or travel back over a big jump/drop easily

[z.a.q]

The fact that these are things you can do just from the tutorial island is absolutely insane

[chiliboy]

Another thing I've noticed is that if you fuse two weapons together, when the enhanced weapon runs out of durability, only the weapon on the end breaks, leaving you with the original weapon. I think that's a really nice touch.
You can also fuse rocks and boulders to shields and parry to break ores and cracked rocks.

[vivalaram]

Aside from the Spicy Peppers, you can also use Hylian Pinecones to create an updraft similar to Revali's Gale from BotW.

[lachieh]

Something i found out which i really want to try is that if you throw a weapon and then use recall on it, it practically turns into a boomerang and comes right back

[BTG_gamer]

Here's another useful tip to whoever comes across this comment: Attach 2 fans to the front and back of a steering stick, both facing down, and you've got a hover bike. Most useful thing I'll probably ever make in totk, helped me get everywhere I could possibly want easily! Fans are obtainable on the great sky island, but to get the steering stick, unlock the mount lanayru skyview tower, get to the gumball machine at that sky archipelago, and you could get a steering stick. Hope this was useful, have a nice day!

[ImusNoxa]

My jaw literally dropped with some of these. Thanks for continuing the awesome "things you didn't know" with TotK! I look forward to the next one!

[stephfahey]

You can transfer your old horses from BOTW to TOTK once you go to your first stable to register. Also, I have 2 Eponas now because I didn't know this when I first used my amiibo to get her in TOTK lol.

[deifiedtitan]

The ice shield is nuts. The system they created is so thorough

[NintendoMania]

I'm finding all the new stuff super fun but also really overwhelming, it'll come to me more over time though haha

[piggywiggly]

the possibilities are basically endless. this game is art, a masterpiece at that.

[LittleRedKuma]

One thing I learnt was to get extra height out of a hot air balloon. Set it of and wait for it to go as high as possible, then when it falls back down, wait till you've recharged, stand on it and recall it, it will then go back up and at it's peak cancel out and activate it again. I had been neglecting the recall up to that point, didn't find it that useful. But now I'm thinking about other ways to use it.

[brandonchambers]

Man this game is so amazing. The things we can do as long as you have the imagination to think it up. Like at the end with the rock/ tree pole recall and ascending through it for height just blew my mind.