Highlights
- Players can craft vehicles in Tears of the Kingdom to help Link explore Hyrule and defeat Ganondorf.
- One Tears of the Kingdom Player has created a pickup truck that can move at surprisingly fast speeds.
- The crafting system in Tears of the Kingdom allows for endless creative possibilities and keeps fans engaged.
A crafty TheLegend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player has put together a surprisingly speedy pickup truck for Link to drive across the realm of Hyrule. One of the main draws of the latest Zelda game is Tears of the Kingdom’s deep crafting mechanic, which allows players to build virtually anything they can think of using both the natural resources surrounding Link and the ancient technology left behind by the Zonai. This has led to Tears of the Kingdom becoming a virtual sandbox for players to flex their creative muscles in a variety of interesting ways.
This includes building useful vehicles to help Link navigate The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s large open world and fulfill his quest to save Hyrule from the evil Ganondorf once again. Some of these are entirely original designs, such as a rolling centipede-shaped wagon or an unusual Tears of the Kingdom battle machine that can swipe away enemies like golf balls. Others draw influence from vehicles from popular media like the Batmobile or the Separatist Droid Tanks from Star Wars.
Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom Puts the Next Game’s Timeline in Jeopardy
Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom played with The Legend of Zelda’s timeline in novel ways, but didn’t leave much room for their successor.
Reddit user Efficient_Demand5759 had a somewhat simpler, but no less impressive idea for their latest Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom creation, which they recently shared on r/HyruleEngineering. This custom-built vehicle looks like a Hyrule-style pickup truck, and it can move surprisingly fast across the hills and plains of Hyrule. As shown in Efficient_Demand5759’s shared video clip, Link uses his new truck to blast past a wondering Goron explorer and roll into one of Hyrule’s villages.
Link Rolls Into Adventure In His Custom Pickup Truck
Efficient_Demand5759 has built and shared many other inspired Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom contraptions, such as the aforementioned Centipede vehicle and a flying rail jet powered by a single Zonai fan device. Other Reddit users have been impressed by their recent truck creation and have even asked them if they can use it to transport objects like rocks, logs, or even Tears of the Kingdom’s often-maligned Koroks – which could make completing some of the game’s many sidequests a little easier.
Ever since it first launched on the Nintendo Switch last May, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has been praised for the level of freedom it grants players in exploring its massive open-world map and making incredible inventions using the game’s crafting system. It isn’t clear if this crafting system will return in a future Legend of Zelda game, but it certainly has ensured that fans will keep coming back to Tears of the Kingdom during the wait for Link’s next adventure.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is the sequel to the beloved open-world adventure, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. This installment once again sees Link and Zelda battling to protect Hyrule from falling to Ganondorf. This new adventure takes place in the same land of Hyrule as Breath of the Wild but sees something called the Upheaval, which allows link to travel to Sky Islands, as well as deep into the Depths beneath Hyrule. Players can use special abilities to fuse together weapons, and build items to help them progress through the release.
- Released
- May 12, 2023
- Developer(s)
- Nintendo
- Publisher(s)
- Nintendo
- ESRB
- Rated E for Everyone 10+ for Fantasy Violence and Mild Suggestive Themes
- How Long To Beat
- 59 Hours
- Metascore
- 96