It is not just Koroks that are getting transported around Hyrule in a myriad of unusual ways thanks to Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's new Ultrahand ability. Link is also making his merry way through Hyrule's many regions and camps in a range of eclectic creations, from mechs to trucks and tanks.
As a reminder, Link's new Ultrahand ability allows players to pick up, move, and rotate objects. These objects can then be fused to other objects, and with a bit of creativity players can conjure up their own vehicles and such to beetle across Hyrule.
While I have been happy enough to just place a fan on the back of my timber board to make it go, others clearly have a much better imagination (and a lot more patience, I won't lie, I am still finding Ultrahand quite fiddly to get the hang of) than I do. As a result, there have been some truly remarkable Ultrahand designs making the rounds online.
Here is a video dubbed «The evolution of Zelda warfare», and it shows exactly what you would expect. Things begin in a slightly more humble fashion — the player has added lances of sorts to the front of a fan-propelled kart, and uses it to run down some advancing bokoblins. This is the «mediaeval» portion of the video. However, by the end, they are completing an aerial bomb strike on an enemy fortress.
Ganondorf watching Link fly in with a B-29 Superfortress bomber. https://t.co/5CrtaCBMAQ pic.twitter.com/z0vZTEwELM
Now we have a full on Gundam mech, complete with lasers (as I wrote that, I pictured the Dr. Evil laser meme).
IS THIS GAME EVEN ZELDA AT THIS POINT
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