8 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Zelda Tears of the Kingdom

Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Tips! VERY IMPORTANT tips and tricks to know when you play the new Zelda Switch game! These are the top 8 things I wish I knew before starting my Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom gameplay!

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[andrebillups]

Once you start doing caves you realize how different this game really is I absolutely love the level of exploration this game has added at times you even get lost and stuck. I just did the maze today and was in there for an hour.

[ToeCutter]

As someone who completed BOTW less than 2 weeks after the release of TOTK, perhaps the most important thing to remember about TOTK is that it isn’t BOTW. TOTK still takes place in Hyrule, but it’s not the same Hyrule we played through BOTW.

I’d “planned” on playing over the surface first, simply to obtain the map, but quickly discovered how bad a strategy that was. The player starts the game on the Great Sky Island, because that’s where most of the resources are. I wanted to avoid the Depths until I’d coins all the towers (and map), but clearly that doesn’t work because there are SO MANY resources that can only be found in The Depths.

It’s a GREAT game, but I transitioned directly from defeating Calamity Ganon and finishing the DLC, to ripping the shrink wrap off and starting TOTK and WOW, I was not prepared for how much both Hyrule and Zelda gameplay changed.

Most important advice: Understand how Zonaite, Zonai charges and Zonai crystals WORK. You avoid quite a bit of wasted time, as just about everything you’re going to need is in those Depths.

[Chevifier]

Tip 9: Start up all the great fairies quests asap to up your defence to not get 2 shotted in the mid game😅

[GG-idbt]

"Save often my friends, you won't regret it". Truer words have never been spoken.

[CozyGamesHeaven]

I’m even more hyped now, can’t wait to get my copy 😍

[Mrco_]

This game is so good but it’s so confusing. Like I don’t understand what I’m supposed to do what I can do and what I should do. There’s so much it’s overwhelming in a bad way. Once I get off the sky island I don’t know what to do

[andrebillups]

I tried refusing as well 😂🤣😭 I was so disappointed at least I used a rock just to test it. I was still disappointed though I have strong weapons I refuse to use because of this and also definitely saving all the time is important. The enemies one hit you if you end up exploring. I eventually learned just run away or sneak away

[christopherfrey]

I learned to save often back in my super NES days. A lot of frustrated 6 hour long gameplay not saving but very far and made a fatal mistake

[syntheticreality]

We can’t play the game yet could you wait😭

[billballmar]

I explored sky before I traveled down. It's best to explore the heck out of SKY Land and then finally get going to the Quest start.

[bobjob]

Those gloomy pebblits are interesting… maybe fuse one of those glow fruits to a wand to de-gloom them, and then you can chuck rocks.

[Kazeromaru]

Only gripes: The Master Sword is weaksauce once you get it compared to BoTW, in botw the Master Sword fixed the broken weapon problem and it should do that, it should be the most powerful, hardest to "Break" weapon in the game. It's the MASTER SWORD.

But despite being told "It just keeps getting stronger" and then getting it back and finding its damage as low as 20 dmg and it breaking just about as frequently as a knight's broadsword just feels sad.

Its sad because it feels like its this way because they made the fuse system... the Master Sword should not ALSO rely on that fuse system, it should be the exception to the rule just like the non-corrupted weapons SHOULD be but aren't.

Or, if you want to keep the fuse system even with The Master Sword make its fusions different, like in one image of a title thing or something (may've been the opening after you jump and get "TEARS OF THE KINGDOM!" with epic music) I saw the sword have an extra light "blade" coming off the end of it like it was a normal extension.

Let fusions with The Master Sword make it have a wholly unique look to what the other weapons in the game had, that would fix it for me, but Nintendo won't hear these complaints or rectify them, so I'll just have to enjoy the game for what it is and use the Master Sword for back decoration during cutscenes.

[TheDuke]

I listened without watching since there was so much spoiled with the background vid. But other wise all good stuff to know.

[oppa]

I’m gonna try to believe you, I keep falling asleep playing this game because after landing in hyrule it looks and feels exactly like BOTW to me.

[awesomo]

When I found out about the depths, it got increasingly better.

[Chevifier]

They need to update that quick select menu to be a 5 column grid based menu.

[alexepena]

The chacha slide reference killed me 😅. Good job! Lol

[aidenmcnatt]

Hello and I can't wait for tomorrow

[shimmerngspirit]

Ascend is love. I find Zelda stresses me out. I never know which way to go. I'm in the second dungeon because I feel like that's where I am supposed to be but I just want to wander around.

[bootsminor]

I rilly do thank that there should be a free playable demo for that game.just so we can get the feel of it before paying $70.00 for it. If we never get that I think we at least need that game as one of the first games on the coming switch. If it's as glitchy as it looked like it was frome a revew I watched of it when it just came out.