A lot of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is spent leaping between Hyrule’s panorama and the floating islands above it that I can’t fathom by some means beating the sport with out traversing each the sky areas and Hyrule correct. However that’s precisely what one participant miraculously managed to tug off.

TotK subreddit person Black_Hand_Gotthard shared a put up (h/t Polygon) with a screenshot of each the ending cutscene and a map of the sport’s sky layer stuffed out with the entire airborne fast-travel factors, proving that they did certainly full the sport with out visiting the floor of Hyrule. They responded to questions on how they pulled this off, and it appears like they used numerous the Zonai tech that offers you navigation instruments like gliders to maneuver by means of the air or rockets that propel you up increased. But it surely additionally appears like the sport’s extremely widespread makeshift hoverbike got here in useful as nicely.

So yeah, in principle, you might get round in Tears of the Kingdom with out touching the bottom for a number of hours. Nonetheless, beating the sport does require you to go all the way down to the floor…however not essentially touching down on Hyrule’s floor.

Spoilers for Tears of the Kingdom observe.

The ultimate boss struggle in opposition to Ganondorf takes place beneath the floating Hyrule Fortress. Reaching this space would often require one thing just like the paraglider, which you should go to the floor to get, however Black_Hand_Gotthard says they had been capable of survive by utilizing fairies, which can revive Hyperlink ought to he lose all his well being. Barreling from the sky islands to the core of Hyrule—bypassing the floor completely—is nothing whenever you’ve obtained a little bit magical individual stashed in a bottle in your pocket.

All of that is made potential by Tears of the Kingdom’s open construction, which doesn’t actually require you to do something particular at any time after you go the prologue. That freedom means you may simply miss issues just like the paraglider which might be ostensibly on the primary path as a result of you may merely fuck off and do different issues.

Tears of the Kingdom has been out since Could, and I’m nonetheless fascinated at how persons are discovering new methods to play it. It’s a disgrace we’re not getting DLC, as a result of including new toys and instruments would little doubt give the group but extra oft-strange, undoubtedly fascinating new concepts.

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