Tears of the Kingdom: Bombs are Back, You Can Throw Almost Any Item, and More

With the clock ticking fast for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s release, we finally got our hands on the game and shared our impressions here. , many more details need to be revealed.

I’ve written about some of the major changes elsewhere. Things like improved cooking, ways to make weapons more durable, and being able to save designs for more complex Ultra Hands his builds. But we also wanted to do some of the smaller changes and upgrades we noticed in Tears of the Kingdom, from the respawn of bombs, to the ability to free most of your inventory from empty islands when needed. Below are some of the interesting points we noticed.

Resurrection of the bomb, sort of

Ever since I first saw the new abilities for Ultrahand, Fuse, Recall, and Ascend, I wondered if the original set of runes (Statis, Remote Bombs, Cryonis, and Magnesis) would also return.No firm answer on that yet, but finally got absolute confirmation Several A version of the bomb is available in Tears of the Kingdom, albeit slightly more contextually than Breath of the Wild.

The preview gave access to Bomb Flowers instead of rune-based Remote Bombs. Bomb Flowers in Tears of the Kingdom are items that can be picked up, added to your inventory, and used like any other item. Fuse with weapons and shields, throw at enemies, drop on the ground, arrows. And it works just like I expected the bomb to work. Explodes on impact. This means you can use them to pierce arrows to detonate distant targets, or use them for extremely dangerous melee combat that can hurt you more than your opponent.

We don’t yet know how to get bomb flowers, how prevalent they will be in the world, or if other types of bombs will become available, but at least we’ll be able to carry bombs in some form, so we’ll be safe. Please take care. Face all kinds of explosive mayhem in Tears of the Kingdom.

anything can be thrown

Breath of the Wild allowed you to throw swords at enemies if you wanted to. This attack did a lot of damage, but could also break the weapon. This feature had additional creative uses when you got items such as boomerangs, but was limited to just weapons. can do.

apple? of course! rock? Throw it! Tutu jelly? Throw it at your enemies and see what happens! It basically turns anything at hand into a possible projectile with different effects. These range from distracting enemies who are confused about what has landed on their heads to giving effects such as fire, ice, and clouds of fog. For example, if you don’t want to run out of arrows, you can toss a fire fruit into a patch of dry grass to set it on fire.

These effects generally seem to be similar to those inflicted by fusing items we’ve seen before into weapons. It will be very interesting to see how you can get into such wild situations.

Looks like modifiers have been added to weapons

I finally got a look at multiple weapons in Tears of the Kingdom, and in the process I noticed a new feature: weapon modifiers. It’s not on all weapons, and it’s not exactly clear what determines these, but some weapons seem to have special effects at random. There’s “quick charge” which is visible, and “extra durable” which obviously means that more hits are needed before the weapon breaks. Depending on how it is acquired, weapon hunting and discovery could become even more interesting and exciting than it is now with the fuse function.

Colock Quest is back, baby!

We’ve already seen Colock Quests teased in leaked commercials, but we also got to see exactly how they’re implemented in-game… yeah, it’s pretty much the same I’m still organically discovering puzzles where items seem a little off, and by swapping or adjusting them, I can find hidden colocks. There are also some more complex puzzles with even bigger rewards. At some point, I had to recombine two separated coroques, resulting in two coroque seeds instead of one. Yes, the little golden poop is back.

Another big difference this time around is that these korok seem to be actively searching for Hestu, the maraca-playing korok we met in Breath of the Wild. Hestu was pretty prominent in Link’s journey in the first game, but he may be missing this time around, and Korok encourages him to track him down. I’m here.

why was that a giant gacha machine

A recent Tears of the Kingdom trailer gave us a brief glimpse of what appears to be a giant gacha or gumball machine. And yep, it looks like it! If you give these machines a new item called “Zonai Charges”, you’ll receive a wealth of items, especially the Zonai Devices, which are used to craft Contraptions. For example, Zonai devices include fans that can propel vehicles, portable cooking pots, flamethrowers, and more. If you’re looking for tech to make your build work, look no further than these big gumball machines.

The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom – April 2023 Screenshots