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* [[Game Over]]: Of course, this message is shown when Link is defeated, but the game has a creative addition to it that takes a while to notice. If his hearts are reduced to zero by an elemental attack, the letters in the message are of inappropriate color, red for fire, blue for ice, and yellow for electricity.
* [[Gameplay and Story Integration]]:
** The grave injury Link suffers at the beginning of the game is the reason he cannot use the Master Sword, and his Heart Containers are reduced to three. {{spoiler|During the third phase of the final battle, much later, Ganondorf's gloom attacks are more lethal than normal, as they completely destroy Link’s heart containers, rather than render them unusable, meaning this damage cannot be healed at all. Fortunately, those lost Hearts are restored before the 4th phase of the battle.}}
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** {{spoiler|Master Kohga claims that after he and Link fought in the previous game, he was thrown into the Depths. Sure enough, if you go to the spot where that fight took place, the [[Bottomless Pit]] that was there the last time is now a chasm that leads to the Depths.}}
** {{quote| After Link defeats the Phantom Ganon that was disguised as Zelda, there is no longer any commentary when the Blood Moon appears.}}
** Rubies, topaz, and sapphires were stated to have elemental affinities in ''Breath of the Wild'', and that was supported by elemental Taluses dropping the corresponding stone (Igneo with fiery rubies and Frost with cold sapphires). This game makes their elemental properties even more present in gameplay, since Fusing topaz, rubies, sapphires, or opals onto your weapons adds their stated elemental power to them.
** {{spoiler|The three dragons will periodically head on into the Depths after a certain amount of time. Notably, unlike the others, the Light Dragon will never go into the Depths, always remaining in the overworld. Considering who the Light Dragon is, despite losing her memories and personality, she likely retained enough basic sense from long ago to know just how dangerous the Gloom and the Depths really are.}}
* Gameplay and Story Segregation:
** The game is set a few years after ''Breath of the Wild'', and while many Hyrulean NPCs recognize Link and remember him fondly for the first game, there are some scenes where returning characters don't seem to remember him. Perhaps most obviously, the only residents of Tarrey Town who treat Link familiarly at the start are Hudson and Rhondson, despite Link's work being responsible for the residency of everyone else there as well. Greyson and Pelison, Kapson, and Fyson in particular were NPCs Link had to personally invite to the town, but they don't seem to recognize him this time.
** Completing the "Dragon's Tears" sidequest, which slowly tells the story of what happened to Zelda and where she is now, has no bearing on remaining sidequests and the main quest, whose stories continue to hinge on the mystery of Zelda's whereabouts even if Link and the player already know and would logically be able to speak up about it and clarify a few things.
** Despite the Master Sword having had much, much longer to heal this time around and constantly absorbing holy power that whole time to become much stronger than it was previously, it still has the recharge penalty from ''Breath of the Wild'' after extended use, despite logically being in its most powerful incarnation yet. Also, much like in ''BotW'', it is repeatedly stated that the Master Sword is the only weapon capable of defeating Ganondorf, but the player is able to use any weapon against him.
** The Zonai Research Team - including Impa and Mattison - frequently use Zonai Balloons, which are one of the few devices to have a usage time limit before disappearing, yet Mattison is able to fly one all the way across Hyrule from Tarrey Town to Gerudo Town.
* [[Gemstone Assault]]: While the gemstones were either used to upgrade certain pieces of gear or sold to merchants for a ton of money in the previous game, in this one, they can be fused to weapons in order to create makeshift Fire/Water/Lightning/Ice Rods. In fact, these Gem-fused weapons replace the elemental rods wielded by the Wizzrobes outright.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:
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* [[Giant Spider]]: Marbled Gohma, who combines this trope with [[Giant Enemy Crab]] in true Gohma fashion.
* [[Glass Cannon]]: Royal Guard weapons once again, but now Gerudo weapons function in this way.
* [[Global Currency Exception]]: There are a couple of vendors that don't use the otherwise universal Rupees:
** The Bargainer statues trade their goods for Poes, which are lost souls scattered throughout the Depths.
** The Zonaite Forge Constructs trade Zonaite ore and Large Zonaite ore for charges and power cells. Justified as Link's providing the material to forge new ones.
* [[Glowing Eyelights of Un-Death]]: Ganondorf's decomposed form, which Link and Zelda encounter in the prologue, sports orange glowing eyes made of Malice upon becoming aware of their presence and turning to confront them.
* [[Godzilla Threshold]]: {{spoiler|Over the course of the story via the completion of specific quests, it is revealed that with Ganondorf assassinating Queen Sonia and claiming her Secret Stone for himself to become the Demon King, the Sages failing to defeat him, which forces Rauru to sacrifice himself to seal him away, Mineru sealing her soul within the Purah Pad, and with the Master Sword still destroyed from the beginning of the game, Zelda ultimately decides to swallow her Secret Stone and become the Light Dragon (a process that robs her of her humanity) to restore the Master Sword over countless millennia, until Link is ready to claim it once more.}}
* [[Good Bad Bugs]]: One way to benefit from the Blood Moon is to save all your cooking until it occurs. Anything cooked between 11:30 and midnight on the night of a Blood Moon will be a critical and the results will be maximum efficiency, and it’s possible to see it around 10:30 or so. However, should you need more than 30 minutes to cook everything in your inventory, there’s a useful glitch that can help. When it’s 11:50, teleport to a Shrine and enter the Shrine. This will cancel the actual Blood Moon effect until the next night, giving you an additional 30 minutes to use the cooking effect.
* [[G-Rated Drug]]: Marbled Rock Roast, a suspicious-looking cut of maroon-colored Rock Roast that messes with the minds of Gorons that eat it. They tend to either become lazy and lethargic, or aggressively try to push it onto other people, but the unifying thread is that they can't stop eating the stuff, and end up with red eyes to coincide with their addiction.
* [[Grievous Harm With A Body]]: Hoblins and Boss Bokoblins often attack by throwing things at Link, usually rocks or explosive barrels; they also tend to throw the regular Bokoblins at Link if there’s nothing else to throw.
* [[Ground Pound]]: Both Frox and Lynels have this as an attack.
** {{spoiler|Link himself can do this by infiltrating the Yiga Clan and learning the Earthquake technique. Having done that, by using the Attack command with no weapon equipped, he can cause the ground to shake under enemies, knocking them down.}}
* [[Guest Star Party Member]]: During the main story, Tulin, Yunobo, Sidon, and Riju will each accompany you to their respective dungeons and help you fight the monsters inside. While they leave your party once they awaken as Sages {{spoiler|aside from a few moments later in the story}}, they leave aspects of their powers with you that play the same role as they did.
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