Wind-powered raft
March’s gameplay demo showed off how Link can fashion together a variety of vehicles in some clever ways. Here, Link fuses together three logs, and then shapes them using the “Ultrahand” ability. He then attaches two propellers to take him across the lake. It’s a nice fusion (pun intended) of utility and creativity, and I’m looking forward to seeing what other possibilities await in Hyrule with this system.
Whether it’s expanded traversal opportunities, clever weapons and defenses, or just that i’ll be plain good fun to smash together random stuff to see what happens, fusing looks to give Tears of the Kingdom’s wide-open sandbox a wonderful injection of inventive playfulness.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom arrives on Nintendo Switch on May 12, 2023.
