Tears of the Kingdom engineering

August 5, 2023 6:48 PM

In today's special episode, we're looking back at the CRAZIEST TOTK builds from July. (SLYT)
posted by rebent (8 comments total)

Top Gaming Plays posts these videos what feels like every day. It's probably not more than reading the captions from reddit posts or whatever, but I've started looking forward to seeing what else others are up to with zonai devices
posted by rebent at 6:49 PM on August 5, 2023 [1 favorite]

Who cares about high scores when you can recapitulate the engineering discoveries of the last three centuries?

I love these videos the same way I love Eve Online stories.
posted by wenestvedt at 7:48 PM on August 5, 2023 [9 favorites]

Those poor, pook Koroks. But maybe if they showed some initiative and got themselves to their friends, they wouldn't have to accept rides on janky forklift / snowblower / hoverplane / flamethrowers.
posted by The corpse in the library at 8:24 AM on August 6, 2023 [4 favorites]

I love this game. I have played it mostly without building stuff--I really don't enjoy that aspect. But I do enjoy seeing the creativity of others and get their joy in coming up with these. Even with the Koroks, I generally pick them up with Ultrahand or go with the absolutely most basic build. I am annoyed by them, but also won't leave one abandoned by the road.
posted by agatha_magatha at 9:41 AM on August 6, 2023 [2 favorites]

I watched a video about a guy trying to get one of the undead horses out from the underworld to the surface. It took a lot of tried to capture the horse and get it onto a lifting platform, and after a lot of hilarious failures, he got the horse basically up to the surface, and when the horse hit the plane of the ground of the surface world it just vanished. He didn't know at that point if it was a bug or if the program is designed to not have those underworld horses up on the surface, but he left it there at the end of the video.
posted by hippybear at 10:07 AM on August 6, 2023 [2 favorites]

I watched a video about a guy trying to get one of the undead horses out from the underworld to the surface.

I saw one with someone trying to push a gleeok into the depths and it similarly vanished when it went down the chasm. Seems intentional.
posted by rustcellar at 10:31 AM on August 6, 2023

Also I was genuinely concerned because this post reminded me that last night I dropped a korok off a zonai wing into a canyon accidentally in the midst of trying to rescue them then immediately got bored and fast traveled somewhere else, until I remembered I died myself after dropping the korok while trying to find them again. I’m not built like the folks who torture them.
posted by rustcellar at 2:28 PM on August 6, 2023 [2 favorites]

I watched a video about a guy trying to get one of the undead horses out from the underworld to the surface

My favorite way to get around the underground. I wonder if Kilton's Monster Saddle/Bridle could be fitted to one of them...it's something I was gonna try to figure out when I get around to playing again.
posted by Chuffy at 7:01 PM on August 7, 2023