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One creative player has recently gone to great lengths to recreate a variety of Olympic sports events inThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Aside from serving as a testament to their engineering ingenuity, the result of their efforts also underlines the vast versatility ofTears of the Kingdom’s building mechanics.
While the latestZeldagame doesn’t force players to use the Ultrahand ability for anything beyond solving some simple puzzles, its building mechanics still offer quite a bit of depth. That’s reflected in the never-ending influx ofastonishingTears of the Kingdomcommunity creationsthat have been making the rounds online ever since the game hit the store shelves back in mid-2023.
Tears of the Kingdom Player Organizes Hyrule Olympics With Koroks
In yet another testament to Ultrahand’s versatility, Reddit user FortyTwoer has recently leveraged this useful power to build obstacle courses, tools, and contraptions that they used to recreate some Olympic sports in the latestZeldagame. Their endeavor wasn’t too focused on authenticity, but was primarily geared toward delivering maximum entertainment value. To that end, FortyTwoer invested a lot of effort into ensuring thatTears of the Kingdom’s Koroksget to participate in their Hyrule Olympics alongside Link.
Although Koroks aren’t exactly the most athletic of creatures, the player provided them with some rather helpful contraptions that helped them triumph over Link in a number of events, including shot put and sprint. At the same time, theirTears of the Kingdomdevicesproved hilariously inadequate for supporting Koroks in some other categories. E.g., the pole vault recreation ended with the player launching the unwilling participant way beyond the landing mat that they were targeting.
Another highlight from FortyTwoer’s Hyrule Olympics was the discus throw, whose implementation would also work as the in-game version of the hammer throw event. Link lost in this category, as well. He did notably better in hurdles, primarily because the contraption that his opponent was using to compete malfunctioned, which almost resulted in his rival escaping from the event grounds just ahead of the rowing competition (which didn’t end well for the Korok, either). All of this craziness was merely the first day of the player’s attempts to recreate Olympic sports inTears of the Kingdom. They had already shared a follow-up video that tackles breaking and dressage in a comparably creative manner.
FortyTwoer said that these wacky videos likely won’t be a daily thing. Nevertheless, they are determined to continue making more of them, and will attempt to follow thereal Paris 2024 Olympicsschedule when deciding which sports events to tackle next.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
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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.
