Tears Of The Kingdom Trailer Shows Off Buildable Boats

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Previous The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailers showed off what looked like custom-built cars driving across Hyrule, but a new ten-minute gameplay demonstration has finally unpacked this mechanic. It's called Ultrahand, and it lets you piece together objects in the environment to build contraptions like boats.

At first, we see producer Eiji Aonuma glue together three logs which he then moves to a river. Here, he demonstrates that they float, meaning that they can be used to get across wide bodies of water that would typically drain Link of stamina, leaving him to drown.

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However, static logs bobbing about in water won't help you cross a river - at least, not here, since it looks like Link can't paddle. Instead, Aonuma reshapes the logs to form a jet ski shape, adding fans that blow wind to the back to propel it forward. With two attached, he zooms across the water, showing that you can put together entirely customised boats from scratch in any way you see fit.

You can build boats in other ways, too. If you don't have fans readily available, you can always build sails and let the wind push you forward, as Aonuma shows once more with a small raft. And, as seen in recent trailers, you can even make cars to cross vast fields, or flying machines to reach the sky islands. Whether you opt for a traditional hot air balloon or something more futuristic, like a platform with four fans shooting you up into the sky, is your choice. Maybe we'll find a way to build Link a jetpack.

We've only seen a snippet of what Ultrahand will let us do, as Breath of the Wild showed that both games are a sandbox where the only real limitation is your creativity. Once it launches,