The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom introduces a potentially mind-blowing new ability.
That would be “Fuse,” featured today by Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma in a new gameplay presentation for Tears of the Kingdom. You can see the full walkthrough just below, in which Aonuma reveals the ability, which allows the player to link objects around the environment to form useful tools or large weapons.
This has the potential to be a big deal for the most creative Tears of the Kingdom players. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve seen a Breath of the Wild player pull off a wild trick or a chaotic stunt over the past five years, but combining that with items, weapons, and vehicles created by the players could open Zelda players.. for even more carnage.
Some of the creations presented by Aonuma are already wacky. The producer assembled several logs of wood to form a raft, for example, and even bolted fan motors to the rear of the platform for a motorized vehicle. This was in addition to joining a stick with a huge boulder to form a big stick to hit the poor Bokoblins with.
Since the gameplay reveal aired, some Reddit users (Opens in a new tab) have spotted other items you can merge into the environment. Remember those big steel platforms from Breath of the Wild? Turns out you can also use them in your Fuse designs, which opens the door for Link to use items in his designs that are bigger than the little Hyrulian.
Breath of the Wild was a fantastic sandbox for player creativity, and Tears of the Kingdom is picking up that torch with the Fuse ability. Be sure to be ready for some weird and wonderful player creations in equal measure later this year when Tears of the Kingdom finally launches.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will be released later this year on May 12 for Nintendo Switch.
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