30+ Tips for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

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0:00 Intro & Spoiler Warnings
1:05 Exploration
9:44 Ultra Hand
13:46 Zonai Tech
16:35 Combat
18:27 ???
20:42 amiibo

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[leeartlee]

I’m over 60hours in and I’m fairly certain I haven’t even done 25% of the game. This thing is huge. Might be the biggest game I’ve ever played.

[EvilPikachu]

When you need fire for whatever reason, be it lighting up a dark shrine or melting ice or whatever, don't burn your wooden weapons. Instead, attach a fire fruit to an arrow but DO NOT FIRE IT. Just hold the shot indefinitely. You get the light and heat from the fire arrow that'll do whatever you need, albeit at close range, and when you're done you can cancel the shot and it won't count as using any resources. Free fire whenever you need it. There's at least one shrine this makes completely trivial.

[JRDad]

I’d like to say thank you for the awesome idea of just including a “level of spoilers” gauge on these videos. I’d enjoy them on more videos.

[andrebillups]

What’s most impressive about this game is you can be playing this game for hours and every hour it feels new and like you just started playing every area has its own challenges or something new to see. Like at first the caves were basics the further you get from the starting area they start to become deeper and lead you into new areas or shrines

[beauvogames]

16:35 Combat Tip - When a Stone Talus throws its fist / boulder at you like that, you can use Recall on the fist / boulder to send it flying back at it and hit it hard (it'll usually go to ground afterwards too, allowing you to climb up). You need very quick reflexes but if you just make sure you have Recall ready to go at the press of L when in battle with a Talus, you can watch it get ready to hurl its hand at you, then just press L several times until there is a boulder you can click and send back at. Similarly check this with other things enemies throw at you, like Hinoxes, Like Likes and more 😊

[genericfakename]

A useful trick about a specific kind of fusion I've found handy: you can get around the downside of Gloom weapons (does gloom damage to you while holding them) by simply attaching them as fusion material to another weapon-so you gain all the upside of their immense attack power, without any of the downsides, while also increasing their range and possibly changing them to a more preferable weapon type.

[clementdrew]

puffshroom is a godsend for dealing with high tier enemies. Blind em, then sneakstrike them to conserve durability. It's even better if you use an eightfold blade from a yiga then fuse it with a strong blunt material. It's much more useful since you can break enemies armor with that weapon.

[MikeAruba]

I've played about 70 hours into the game. Story-wise, I'm still at the beginning. I haven't began any of the main Temples. However, I've activated every Skyview Tower all over Hyrule. I'm searching for every Zonai Shrines. So far I've completed about 110 Shrines. I've maximized my Stamina Vessels, so now I'm trying to maximize my Heart Containers. This game is pretty big and it's great!

[frankiefromky]

One thing, about breaking boxed etc. with Ultrahand.. and it's a carry-over from BotW. A box or barrel in motion will break %100 of the time where as, if you hold it still when you get it up in the air, it's more likely it won't break. Moving side to side or dropping while it's on the way up is going to make it WAY more easier to break boxes etc. on your first try. It was like this in BotW, so I gave it a try and sure enough... it works in TotK too. Cheers Mates!

[nox_xop]

My two tips are shaking the controller to unfuse things is a lot easier than wiggling your right stick, and that you can flatten anything you pick up with ultra hand with the L button, since sometimes the orientation gets messed up, it’s a nice way to reset it.

[LegendofKal]

If you need to scale a huge cliff and don't have a lot of stamina upgrades (or don't see any rest ledges) it's a good idea to make a campfire, then throw a pine cone in it. This creates an instant updraft, and acts like a free Revali's Gale. Then, if you completed the Rito dungeon, you can get some extra horizontal movement!

[taftasay]

Always fuse Gibdo bones to arrows. They break after one hit so they are perfect for arrow fusing….if you farm them from the gerudo desert, you will have one of the most abundant and powerful fuse materials available.

[Raytize]

Here's a tip: Your shield can function as a weapon too! You can fuse it with Swords or other sharp monster parts (like Silver Lynel Saber Horn) and it can do stuff like cut grass or even trees when you use Shield Bash (Parry)

Or you can fuse it with blunt type materials like boulder or Savage Lynel Mace Horn so it can break enemy's armor or mine ores with it.

Of course it will use up the shield's durability, my pot lid + boulder can mine 10 ores before breaking, for a pot lid it's not bad.

And if you use a high damaging Monster Materials like the Lynel Horns it's very possible to beat enemies with only shields!

[silverthehero]

Something that frustrates me is that ultrahand’s range seems to change based on the context. Sometimes I can grab a far off, out of reach bomb flower but I can’t grab an object for a puzzle that’s practically in front of me.
Also, I wish I could point the camera up more while using ultrahand.

[chaotic_tier-]

Don't forget that you can fuse shields to two handed swords. Also for style points to exploring the depths, Shield Surfing prevents gloom corruption.

[originalulix]

There is a cave right east of Hateno with 5 (five!) gold-sparkly ore deposits.

[rambo_ando]

Zion: "don't activate lightroots, play in the dark". Also Zion: "always add a headlight or bloomflowers to your vehicle so you can see" 😅

[Jason.Olson.Flosses]

Quick map tip:
Water on Hyrule surface represents the stone structures (pillars and rock walls) of the depths. Meaning: anywhere there's water above you on the map, there's going to be a giant stone structure.
So if you're navigating the depths in the dark, You can change your mini map to reflect the surface while you're still in the depths. Go to your menu and change the map to the surface and then exit. Now you have a somewhat functional mini map for areas in the depths that you haven't explored yet.

[iluvatarchem]

That was a good video but the tips are for extremely new players to the game. Here are some more advanced ones without any exploits:

1. When you approach a cave entrance a swarm of bats fly out. Hit them with a bomb arrow and you'll get about 20 eyes.
2. Mark mines, small enemy camps and bosses in the depths. These are the main source of zonite and are essential if you want full batteries and easier exploration at the surface. Don't leave the depths for end game. The central depth areas are not that hard.
3. If you want to fly for longer periods of time do not use wings as these last for about 2 minutes and then they disappear. Instead make a simple device with a wooden platform that you can then autobuild with the autobuilder with about 10-20 zonite.
4. Don't let your best weapons break. Octos are everywhere and they fully repair your weapons.
5. You can always gain height by attaching a bomb on your shield.
6. You can use ascent to get on top of a talus and easily beat it. Just go bellow its belly:D
7. Find the stable that is turned to a newspaper. This will unlock the fairy quest line for upgrades.

[ryanrevland]

My 1st Nintendo game was Zelda 2 Adventures of Link in 1987. It took me the whole summer to beat it. Thirty six years later I saw this game in a wal-mart and thought what the hell. I am now seven years old again staying up past my bedtime and loving every minute of it.