The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is full of opportunities to cheat.
I’m not talking about actually hack or cheat — Nintendo has traditionally not dealt with players cheating in his games. The cheating I’m talking about refers to playing the game in a way that may not have been intended by the developers. Now fans of Tears of the Kingdom take that ethos to a new level; they build super bridges to solve all their problems and share clips of their work on platforms like TikTok.
In Tears of the Kingdom, Link has a new ability called Ultrahand. This allows him to pick up and arrange objects and glue them together to create a larger structure. It is a major change introduced in Tears of the Kingdom, and it introduces various sandbox mechanics as players build machines and other contraptions to help them solve puzzles or navigate Hyrule’s rugged environment.
Most importantly, you can use this skill to build a bridge. You can essentially make a bridge out of anything. Sure, wood from a felled tree will work, but there are plenty of other random materials scattered around Hyrule that you can bond together to make a bridge and get from one place to another. Players have shown how much they can do with a simple but very long bridge.
If you build a bridge and then leave the area, everything you build will disappear. So some people just lug their bridge from place to place like a goddamn 100 foot handbag.
Others are convinced they broke the physics of the game by making a bridge that is too long.
This person has made a bridge long enough to rival the Bridge of Eldin and somehow crammed it into a shrine. Don’t ask me where all the pillars came from – it’s ridiculous.
My personal favorite is this clip in Mayachin Shrine – the bridge isn’t that long, but it’s messy. It sure is one unique way to solve the puzzle.
It’s kind of a one-track mind, hembo-ish solution that just makes sense to me. Oh, you can’t get to a tower? Build a bridge. Don’t you want to fight all the Bokoblins? Build a bridge to get around them. Can’t understand a timing puzzle? Just use the items to build a bridge. I can’t build a mecha or war machine or even a fully functional glider right now, but you know what I can build with confidence? A bridge. And it works.