The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: Difference between revisions

** In addition to the Chuchus making a return from the last game, we have the Little Frox, little frog-like rock monsters found in the depths, and curiously the only mobs in the Depths with no Gloom corruption. Unfortunately, it seems the reason they were put there was to foreshadow the appearance of their big brother, who is... not adorable at all.

** Bokoblins. Be honest, it's hard not to love these guys, especially when you gain the Bokoblin Mask and are able to safely get close to them, especially iven how their actions at their strongholds when they don't know Link is watching - like dancing or squabbling with each other over fruit.

* [[Airborne Mook]]: One of the new enemies introduced in this game is the Aerocuda, which the Bokoblins use for transport. Not very formidable, they can be destroyed with one hit from an arrow. They can, however, attack Link when he’s using his glider or a Zonai-built flying machine, making them slightly dangerous there.

* [[Ambiguous Situation]]:

** Thanks to how surprisingly little this game touches upon the events of ''Breath of the Wild'', it's hard to tell what sort of relationship Ganondorf had with Calamity Ganon. Was he directly controlling it, or was it an independent manifestation of his rage and malice? If Ganondorf could see what was going on through Calamity Ganon's eyes, he sure doesn't mention it, and he doesn't recognize Link either (While he does recognize Zelda, {{spoiler|it's because he already met her in the distant past thanks to the game's [[Stable Time Loop]]}}.

** There’s also the issue of [[Ship Tease|the exact nature of Link and Zelda’s relationship]], where the story seems to be letting the players come to their own conclusion. Zelda was obviously using Link's house during the [[Time Skip]], as made clear when Link arrives at his house in Hateno that he could purchase in the previous game, but there is no confirmation that they were living together or if Link gave it to her. On one hand, the table is set for two people, and Link seems to have no problem using the bed (which can be used to restore his health) and Zelda would not have needed the secret study in the cavern underneath if she had the house to herself. On the other hand, none of the townsfolk in Hateno seem familiar with Link, implying that he didn’t spend much time there, and there’s a long sidequest where he seems intent on getting a new house in Tarrey Town, which wouldn’t be necessary had he been living in Hateno.

* [[Amplifier Artifact]]: According to Mineru, this is the purpose of the Sages’ Stones. They amplify existing power, but do not grant it. The new Sages (Tulin, Riju, Sidon, and Yunobo) use them to increase their own power and create spirit avatars of themselves to accompany Link.

* [[Anachronic Order]]: More than likely, the player will uncover the Dragon Tear Memories in the wrong order, making the flashback stories incomprehensible until they can all be viewed as a whole. In fact, it is possible the player can discover exactly what happened to Zelda long before the plotline that involves tracking her down is resolved. Of course, Link will never relate this information to inquiring NPCs until the plotline is resolved, suggesting that he is learning them in the correct order even if the player is not.

* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]:

** Literally every Misko quest rewards you with a piece of armor, and in some cases a matching weapon, such as the Fierce Deity Sword.

*** The Homing Cart. These are [[Cute Machines]] which, if turned on, slowly wheel themselves towards enemies. On its own, this is useful as a distraction, because monsters will attack the cart, but cannot harm it so long as the battery has power, letting Link launch a surprise attack. Attach a weapon to it - like the Cannon or any of the Emitters - and you have a lethal combat drone to send after them! Of, and it wags its “tail” when there are no enemies for it to home in on. The Construct Head is similar, except it is a stationary rotating platform rather than a Cart.

** The Stal Horses were something of a novelty in the previous game; Link could tame them, but not keep them, as the Stables refused to house undead horses. While the same is true here, they have a useful ability if tamed in the Depths. They are not covered in Gloom the way most enemies in the Depths are and Gloom does not harm them, so Link can ride on them and gallop right over large patches of Gloom without taking any damage.

 

== B ==

* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: {{spoiler|In one of the flashbacks, Ganondorf murders Sonia, attacking her from behind, but no blood is seen for the rest of the scene, even as Zelda tearfully cradles her body. Judging by the sound effect, this was either a censored back-stab, or Ganondorf simply ''punching her hard enough to snap her spine''.}}

* [[Body Armor as Hit Points]]: Link can encounter Mooks wearing stone armor. This gives them a second life bar that Link first must destroy using a blunt weapon before actually lowering their health.

* [[Body Motifs]]: Hands. Symbolic of creativity, ingenuity, and cooperation, they play a major role in several parts of the story:

** Link loses his right arm, and gains a [[Magitek]] prosthetic; hand symbols mark places where Zonai technology is activated by a palm scan. The first skill he uses, Ultrahand, lets him move objects via telekinesis, and he can also learn Earthquake, a Yiga technique that lets him fight with bare fists.

 

== F ==

* [[Fantastic Flora]]: In addition to the fruits and vegetables that Link can harvest and use, there is Sundelions, flowers found in the Sky Kingdom that hold solar power within, and are able to cure the debilitating effect of the Gloom. The Depths are covered with forests of strange twisted trees with fronds resembling peacock feathers, and strange purple grass. They're also gigantic mushrooms and weird fern-like plants.

**[[Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables]]: The stat boosting fruit and mushrooms return from the previous game (except Hearty Durans), with a lot of new ones appearing, such as elemental fruit that can be bonded to weapons in order produce bursts of flame, frost, electricity, water, or flashes of light. There are also muddle buds, whose pollen disorients living creatures, puffshrooms, whose spores create obscuring smoke, and the explosive bomb flowers.

* [[The Sociopath]]: Ganondorf, as usual. He's violent, sadistic, power-hungry, and a total egomaniac who cares for no one but himself.

* [[Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome]]: Yunobo seems to be a victim of this once you arrive in Goron City, and see that he's inexplicably become a rude, sneering drug kingpin dressed like an evil luchador. {{spoiler|He's still the same [[Nice Guy]] that he always was, just [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] thanks to Phantom Ganon's machinations}}.

 

== T ==