Summary
- One Tears of the Kingdom player found a way to hug a Lynel to death.
- They did so with a bizarre machine mostly composed of large Zonai wheels.
- The unusual contraption managed to delete a White-Maned Lynel in approximately 18 seconds, which is much faster than these creatures can feasibly be beaten in conventional combat.
One creative The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player has devised a devious device to delete a Lynel using mostly wheels and little else. The footage showing their bizarre contraption in action later made the rounds online, just ahead of Tears of the Kingdom's first anniversary.
The latest Zelda game hit the market exactly a year ago, on May 12, 2023. Aside from captivating many a player with another take on Breath of the Wild's exploration-focused gameplay, it upped the ante with a complex building system revolving around its new Ultrahand power. Many fans have been toying with this mechanic ever since, giving rise to a huge influx of wild Tears of the Kingdom community creations.
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Tears of the Kingdom Player Hugs a Lynel to Death
One such piece of inspired engineering was recently shared by TikTok user Cross.XXX, who put together an unusual contraption for deleting Tears of the Kingdom's Lynels by essentially hugging them to death. Their device comprises over a dozen Zonai Big Wheels evenly divided across two arms, which are themselves stuck on a pair of Hover Stones connected via a perpendicular cart. The final piece of the puzzle is a Zonai Steering Stick, which allows the weird contraption to be controlled.
When the device is powered on, its two wheels acting as joints make the arms move in a clapping-like motion. The arms themselves are made of perpendicularly angled wheels, which allow them to slowly crush whatever finds itself between them. This concept appears to work extremely well in practice, as evidenced by Cross.xxx's video demonstration of the machine that saw them hug a White-Maned Lynel to death in about 18 seconds. That's a fairly impressive time-to-kill, as even highly skilled players who can obliterate Tears of the Kingdom's Lynels in traditional combat normally need up to a minute to handle the higher-tier variants of these menacing creatures.
Cross.xxx's contraption thus isn't just incredibly inventive and extremely entertaining, but also exceedingly efficient at what it does, which is the de facto Holy Trinity of Tears of the Kingdom Ultrahand tinkering. While the author never offered any background information on how this contraption came to be, its impressive time-to-kill appears to make it suitable for Tears of the Kingdom Lynel farming, even if that wasn't the original idea behind the design. The device has been circulating online for months by now, having most recently resurfaced on the front page of the r/Zelda subreddit, where many fans offered praise for the "Lynel abuser machine" ahead of the game's first anniversary.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Released
- May 12, 2023
WHERE TO PLAY
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.
- ESRB
- Rated E for Everyone 10+ for Fantasy Violence and Mild Suggestive Themes
- Developer(s)
- Nintendo
- Publisher(s)
- Nintendo
- Franchise
- The Legend of Zelda
- Platform(s)
- Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2
- Genre(s)
- Adventure, Action, Open-World
- How Long To Beat
- 59 Hours
- Metascore
- 96
