Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player channels Tony Hawk to beat a shrine in the gnarliest way possible

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A Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom fan has decided to go against the grain and solve a shrine as if they were playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. 

Twitter user @garrettkidney (opens in new tab) shared a clip of them completing one of the shrines in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom without doing it the way Nintendo intended. As you can see from the video below, Garrett instead decided to use a shield to rail grind across from one platform to the other. It wasn't as simple as just hopping on the rail though, as they also had to find a way to get up onto the platform in the first place. 

When asked why they had this idea, Garrett told us: "I couldn't work out the regular solution. I spent around ten minutes messing around with the wheels trying to figure out how they propelled the platform before realizing I could remove the platform completely." The Zelda fan continues, "I then tried to solve it with the platform upside down - this was a whole process - before once again failing."

This is absolutely positively not the intended solution and that it actually worked is what makes this game magic. pic.twitter.com/vyeCRdiCexMay 12, 2023

"I then thought 'Is there anything to it hanging sideways?'" Garrett explains, "And that's when the platform fell in a way that I could stack the wheels on top of each other and use everything to get to the rail and shield slide. It was a combination of frustration, coincidence, and creativity." 

It's great to see that Tears of the Kingdom allows players enough freedom to try these kinds of things out. We asked Garrett if this was a thing they were attempting to do throughout the Breath of the Wild sequel, finding unique ways to solve puzzles, to which they responded: "I'm not sure. I guess it