Someone playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom took a break from pummeling monsters to, instead, throw them a rave party. The release of Tears of Kingdom has led to an explosion of creativity from players who have gone wild using the game’s abilities to create a seemingly endless array of incredible contraptions.
Much of the creativity can be attributed to the Ultrahand ability, which allows players to not only pick up nearly any object in the game but also attach it to other objects. This can be put to deadly use when using Zonai devices to build a deadly mech that can quickly and thoroughly dispatch a boss or to find clever ways to torture Koroks. Many of the machines that players have shared are for killing. They’re not often used to throw parties that bring heroes and villains together.
The party was started by a member of the Tears of the Kingdom subreddit known as Orikron. Using highly reflective mirrors found in the Gerudo Desert area of the map, Orikron used Ultrahand to attach the mirrors to a Zonai Big Wheel. Whacking the wheel with a weapon was all the party needed to get rocking. The wheels spun, which gave the light reflecting off the mirrors some motion, essentially turning it into a Hyrulian disco ball. And with that, the nearby Bokoblins were compelled to dance.
It's worth mentioning, however, that the Bokoblins aren’t actually dancing. They’re being blinded by the light reflecting off the mirrors. The motion of them partying is just them reacting to being stunned by the light repeatedly in time with the motion of the wheels. Link isn’t exactly dancing either. The shot is from the perspective of Tears of the Kingdom’s in-game camera. The camera allows players to pose Link in a variety of ways for selfies. Orikron is engaging and disengaging a specific pose over and over to simulate a dancing effect.
Tears of the Kingdom is not an average Zelda game. The tools its developers at Nintendo have included make it a playground for imaginative players who don’t mind holding off on saving Hyrule and finding Princess Zelda to, instead, do something as fun as building a clever little device as a workaround for a complex puzzle or going absolutely nuts by building a giant wheel of death. This is all in just a matter of weeks since release. Just imagine what players will be doing with the game’s systems in a year.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is available now on Nintendo Switch.