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Exploring the Great Sky Island in Tear of the Kingdom makes for one of the coolest openings in a Zelda game, but that doesn?t stop some of us from wanting to escape it.
Normally you have to play through the entirety of the Great Sky Island area to make your way to the mainland of Hyrule, but glitch hunters and Tears of the Kingdom speedrunners (https://www.destructoid.com/how-to-complete-tears-of-the-kingdom-totk-in-under-an-hour/) have been trying to find a way around that requirement since the game was released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtCyWiOd1n8&ab_channel=Timber
A YouTuber called Timber posted a lengthy video on January 23rd detailing their search for a way off the Great Sky Island. They began experimenting with different methods almost as soon as the game came out, but it took the help of the larger speedrunning community, and the better part of a year, to find a solution that works in the 1.0 and 1.1 versions of the game. The final process involves an elaborate series of glitches that let Link clip through the map, fly across the world, and land in the final boss arena.
Hundreds of hours went into discovering all the glitches necessary to pull this stunt off. Even making a single run from the Great Sky Island to the boss arena takes upwards of two hours. But if you can line up all the pieces just right, and defeat Ganondorf with no upgrades and hardly any weapons, you can beat Tears of the Kingdom with under one percent of the game completed.
https://www.destructoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Spectacle-Rock-location-directions-in-Tears-of-the-Kingdom-3.jpg?w=640Screenshot by Destructoid
How to skip the Great Sky Island tutorial in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
The main idea behind getting off the Great Sky Island without playing through the tutorial is simple enough. You get Link to clip out of the map and fall down below the Depths (https://www.destructoid.com/tears-of-the-kingdom-the-depths-terrifying-zelda-horror-blog/) where the game hides the arena for the final boss. When Link gets close enough to the room, he triggers the final boss cut scene and can make his way to the end of the game. In practice, it?s much more complicated than it sounds.
You?ll need to start by using the Fuse entangle glitch to entangle a Zonai steering stick to your shield. Fuse entangle does a ton of funky things with different objects by tying their game state to the shield on Link?s back, and doing it is a pretty straightforward process:
Use Fuse to connect an object to your shield
Swap shields before the fusion finishes
After this you'll still have a stick and a shield, but if you drop or unequip your shield, the stick will vanish. Next, unequip your shield just as you jump onto the stick. That should cause you to clip through the bottom of the map, but there?s another problem. When you drop too far below the Great Sky Island, the game will reset you. So you need to initiate a dialogue with a Steward Construct by firing an arrow and upsetting one at the same moment you start to fall. As long as you keep the dialogue window open, the game will let you keep falling.
Clipping out like this slows down Link?s fall, so now you?ll have to wait about 45 minutes for him to sink down beneath the Depths. In the video, Timber had to set up an elaborate series of platforms to help him make it to the right spot to trigger the boss cut scene. After building the platforms, he?d clip them outside of the map and position them so they?d automatically guide Link into the boss arena.
Of course, after you finally get away from the Great Sky Island, you?ll have to contend with Ganondorf and his army. That?s a big ask at the beginning of the game, but there?s another glitch that can save you here called zuggling. If you combine it with Fuse entangling, you can move objects between game saves. Here?s how it works:
Fuse entangle the object you want, like a weapon, to your shield
With the shield still equipped, put your back up against a wall
Drop your shield
Switch shields
Drop the new shield
You have to do steps three through five very quickly, but you?ll know it worked if the entangled shield and object are both still visible. From there, you should be able to load another save taken at that same location in the game and pick up the objects. Once you get the method down, you can take the items you need to the Great Sky Island and move them to the beginning of the game (https://www.destructoid.com/7-beginner-tips-for-tears-of-the-kingdom/) . From there you just have to hoping your steering stick aim is good.
The post Someone figured out a detailed way to skip the Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Great Sky Island tutorial (https://www.destructoid.com/someone-figured-out-a-detailed-way-to-skip-the-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-great-sky-island-tutorial/) appeared first on Destructoid (https://www.destructoid.com).
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Exploring the Great Sky Island in Tear of the Kingdom makes for one of the coolest openings in a Zelda game, but that doesn?t stop some of us from wanting to escape it.
Normally you have to play through the entirety of the Great Sky Island area to make your way to the mainland of Hyrule, but glitch hunters and Tears of the Kingdom speedrunners (https://www.destructoid.com/how-to-complete-tears-of-the-kingdom-totk-in-under-an-hour/) have been trying to find a way around that requirement since the game was released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtCyWiOd1n8&ab_channel=Timber
A YouTuber called Timber posted a lengthy video on January 23rd detailing their search for a way off the Great Sky Island. They began experimenting with different methods almost as soon as the game came out, but it took the help of the larger speedrunning community, and the better part of a year, to find a solution that works in the 1.0 and 1.1 versions of the game. The final process involves an elaborate series of glitches that let Link clip through the map, fly across the world, and land in the final boss arena.
Hundreds of hours went into discovering all the glitches necessary to pull this stunt off. Even making a single run from the Great Sky Island to the boss arena takes upwards of two hours. But if you can line up all the pieces just right, and defeat Ganondorf with no upgrades and hardly any weapons, you can beat Tears of the Kingdom with under one percent of the game completed.
https://www.destructoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Spectacle-Rock-location-directions-in-Tears-of-the-Kingdom-3.jpg?w=640Screenshot by Destructoid
How to skip the Great Sky Island tutorial in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
The main idea behind getting off the Great Sky Island without playing through the tutorial is simple enough. You get Link to clip out of the map and fall down below the Depths (https://www.destructoid.com/tears-of-the-kingdom-the-depths-terrifying-zelda-horror-blog/) where the game hides the arena for the final boss. When Link gets close enough to the room, he triggers the final boss cut scene and can make his way to the end of the game. In practice, it?s much more complicated than it sounds.
You?ll need to start by using the Fuse entangle glitch to entangle a Zonai steering stick to your shield. Fuse entangle does a ton of funky things with different objects by tying their game state to the shield on Link?s back, and doing it is a pretty straightforward process:
Use Fuse to connect an object to your shield
Swap shields before the fusion finishes
After this you'll still have a stick and a shield, but if you drop or unequip your shield, the stick will vanish. Next, unequip your shield just as you jump onto the stick. That should cause you to clip through the bottom of the map, but there?s another problem. When you drop too far below the Great Sky Island, the game will reset you. So you need to initiate a dialogue with a Steward Construct by firing an arrow and upsetting one at the same moment you start to fall. As long as you keep the dialogue window open, the game will let you keep falling.
Clipping out like this slows down Link?s fall, so now you?ll have to wait about 45 minutes for him to sink down beneath the Depths. In the video, Timber had to set up an elaborate series of platforms to help him make it to the right spot to trigger the boss cut scene. After building the platforms, he?d clip them outside of the map and position them so they?d automatically guide Link into the boss arena.
Of course, after you finally get away from the Great Sky Island, you?ll have to contend with Ganondorf and his army. That?s a big ask at the beginning of the game, but there?s another glitch that can save you here called zuggling. If you combine it with Fuse entangling, you can move objects between game saves. Here?s how it works:
Fuse entangle the object you want, like a weapon, to your shield
With the shield still equipped, put your back up against a wall
Drop your shield
Switch shields
Drop the new shield
You have to do steps three through five very quickly, but you?ll know it worked if the entangled shield and object are both still visible. From there, you should be able to load another save taken at that same location in the game and pick up the objects. Once you get the method down, you can take the items you need to the Great Sky Island and move them to the beginning of the game (https://www.destructoid.com/7-beginner-tips-for-tears-of-the-kingdom/) . From there you just have to hoping your steering stick aim is good.
The post Someone figured out a detailed way to skip the Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Great Sky Island tutorial (https://www.destructoid.com/someone-figured-out-a-detailed-way-to-skip-the-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-great-sky-island-tutorial/) appeared first on Destructoid (https://www.destructoid.com).
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