What Happens if You Let Riju DIE in Tears of the Kingdom?

In Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, it pays off to ask "What Happens If". Like what if you let Riju DIE during the Gerudo defense mission? We're going to let Riju suffer defeat and see what happens in this video! We find the answer to that question and a whole bunch more here.

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Here is another video where we asked "What Happens if You Don't Catch Zelda?"

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[dionelr]

I was thinking about riju’s age difference between botw and totk to figure out how much time has passed. I wonder if we’ll ever get an old man Link in a Zelda game.

[FwooshEye]

I always dressed up as a Yiga when confronting Master Kogha lmao, it was always so hilarious to see his remarks on it, especially since he's the only Yiga who comments on your disguise not working on him. Like, he's not the only Yiga who sees through your disguise, there are at least two Yiga traps where it doesn't matter you're in full Yiga-gear, they'll attack you anyway - the Colosseum in the Depths under Korok Forest, and the Zelda in a Cage trap on Dueling Peaks (that one gave me the arguably best ingame photo I've taken, I put up it in Link's house). There might be other traps where the disguise won't work but I missed those in that case. I also found it funny to dye the outfit yellow, though I was a little sad it didn't change any dialogue. Though the one who complains about Link's hair colour became a little funnier bc he won't remark on you being banana-coloured lol

[richardmahn]

"What happens if you let Riju die?"....wait, so most people don't see this? She died twice on me before I got it right. GAME OVER LINK, GAME OVER!

[Marjorie_Fisher]

I got that result with Riju the first two (maybe three?) times I did that fight. Was quite surprised at it.

[Lamz.Z]

Riju died a few times for me because I didn't know that part was going to be a notch above normal Zelda difficulty.

[isaiahnabatian]

Ever thought of how old Impa is? She witnessed the events of 100 years ago when she was 20. That means she’s at least 120 years old, plus the time between botw and totk. How is she still alive???

[ps_majima]

since i didnt see anyone else comment it, theres actually a layer of water under the entire map, just gerudo desert. whenever water shows up in the map, the devs just brought up the water instead of spawning in water for that spot. they do the same technique for both botw and totk so it must be more optimized than individually placing water around the map

[amcleanrn]

I've seen riju die so many times because I did not know how to beat the gibdos

[AviraFalchHP]

Riju Spaghetti sauce got me dying from laughter

[rayray-kqzj]

17:32 lynels dont attack if you dont have a weapon out for a small period of time!!

[TheTolnoc]

There's a few sick combat tricks you can pull with Rocket Shield Surfs. If you do a spin while doing a rocket shield, it has some really weird properties.

[AdamE]

0:40 riju died so many times when i tried this challenge 😭😭

[IStareAtGames]

Rhetorical guess before video starts:truly because it’s a Nintendo game I think once she dies the game will make you completely restart the whole tower defense mini game, because this is just what Nintendo does to us

[NegativePlusInfinity]

15:15 I’m legit farming gibdos at all 4 locations rn and I was so confused my brain thought I was playing on 2 screens

[IStareAtGames]

IM SO CONFUSED THESE GUYS NEED MORE SUBS.THESE VIDEOS ARE ABSOLUTELY GOLDEN

[YakultYogo]

Riju: I’m…sorry Link..

GAME OVER

Link: welp now I don’t have to die for a Game Over

[AB-yjep]

If you look in more of the graves at the cemetary there should be gibdos in them

[goldeneaglemercenary]

So Link goes limp and drops dead at zero hearts, but Riju only collaspes to her knees?

[obsessionunbound]

The fact that I know what happens when Riju dies from experience:

[jennifermorrey]

I know of an error message no one is talking about yet. If you just use Autobuild without ever making something with Ultrahand afterwards. You will get an error message saying "there are no registered designs. I recently decided to replay TOTK, and when I got Autobuild, I used it, and there it was, "it said "there are no registered designs". Let me remind you, the only way you could ever see this death message is if you never use Ultrahand again after obtaining Autobuild. Once you do, there will be a registered design, and you won't need that error message anymore!