Tears Of The Kingdom Lets You Parry By Fusing A Shield To Your Sword
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom just dropped its third and final trailer ahead of next month’s release, providing us with tantalizing clues for the Breath of the Wild sequel. Not only did we get to see Ganondorf in all his glory, but we also got to see an expanded selection of new items that Link can make using his new fusion ability.
In case you missed last month’s gameplay reveal, Link will be able to take two objects and fuse them together to create entirely new weapons. The examples we saw last month were a little lame (you can’t really make a rock tied to a stick look that impressive), but today’s trailer showed a truly innovative creation: a shield fused with a sword. And not just any sword--a two-handed sword!
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You might be wondering just what good tying a sword to a shield can be. In fairness, it seems like you’ve just removed your defensive armament in favor of creating a misshapen club. However, as you see in the trailer below, Link can actually use this abomination of a weapon to parry attacks. This provides Link with all the benefits of a shield while maintaining the reach advantage of a two-handed weapon.
That's not the only new weapon revealed in the trailer. Later on, we see Link riding on horseback with some sort of new arrow readied. It looks like it'll probably explode, but there's no way to tell without seeing what ingredients went into making the arrow.
And we also got to see a new vehicle Link can create using the fusion ability. Last month we saw Link make a boat, but in today's trailer, we see him at the wheel of a giant tank. It's mostly just a giant stone cube on a wheeled chassis, but you can still see two arms firing
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