15 MORE Things You STILL Didn't Know In Zelda Tears Of The Kingdom

This time in Tears Of The Kingdom, we're diving into early development stories, quest outcomes you likely never came across, and musical secrets that are easy to miss.
In the video above, we cover 15 facts, tips and tricks that aren’t quite as well known, ranging from secrets to glitches, so me that are pretty simple and others that are fairly complex. The recently released Legend of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom has a massive world with endless possibilities, and we're only starting to scratch the surface of all of the secrets and tricks this game has to offer.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:15 Secret Fi Easter Egg
1:00 Early Development And Hyrule Engineers
1:56 Aonuma Didn't Like Ultrahand Glue
2:29 Boat Transport Failures
3:04 Korok Leaf vs. Bees
3:14 Boomerang Kite Trick 1
3:27 Boomerang Kite Trick 2
3:37 Traveling Trick
4:04 Rainy Campfire Addendum
4:23 Thorn Trick
4:34 Smoke Can Steam
4:40 Ruin Rubble Barricade
5:05 Adaptive Shrine Music
6:14 Mastro's Musical Secrets
6:44 Geoglyph Music Recreation
7:41 Outro
#gaming #gamespot #breathofthewild

[@RinHara5aki]

I blinked and this year flew by! What was your favorite fact in this episode?

[@blackychan311]

Seriously it's crazy they it's already been a year! I think my favorites are 3,5,12, 13, and 15. 15 is insane tbh

[@MerthanE]

Hey this video isn't in the TOTK playlist yet, hope someone fixes that

[@MrZenobi]

you said smoke could steam but how do you get it to steam. and the last fact was my favourite

[@RinHara5aki]

@@blackychan311 Yeah I've seen 15 making its rounds on social media for awhile, but the music was really hard to hear. Glad my edit made it easier to hear :)

[@RinHara5aki]

@@MrZenobi While its raining, fire off a puffshroom, then shoot it with a ruby or big fire attack!

[@kmcsciguy]

That glyph musical secret is so neat!

[@nikifallen93]

This was the best stitched-together version I’ve heard for actually showing the music. Perfect presentation!

[@falcon_3146]

I can't believe it's already been a full year since the game's release, time flies! Tears of the Kingdom is a simply amazing game and I'm glad to have experienced it!

[@fatalwaffle1715]

Yeah.

[@KimJongWilll]

I feel the same way man, what an honor

[@galaxygamer2220]

Every single time I see these videos pop up, for YEARS, my reaction is always: no way there's 15 more things I don't know about BotW or TotK. Yet here we are. That last fact was insane

[@BohemusTheTravelingMerchant]

Man that last one with the glyphs is crazy!!

[@novaduck_iv]

The effort the Zelda team puts into small details is already insane, but the sound design is just unbelievable.

[@jasonzervos]

The geoglyph music secret is SO AMAZING!

[@SuspiciousTemmie]

Man, it's crazy to think that Tears of the Kingdom has been our for a full year already. I still vividly remember everyone getting hyped for the _trailers_ of this game

[@davii_ms]

7:22 ok first how do you even discover stuff like this? Second that sequence left me speechless! Thank you so much for whoever edited that!

[@ILikeWafflz]

So I discovered a glitch all on my own. If you're in a fiery area and you shield and drop a bomb, as if to try to parry the immediate explosion, you can pick the bomb back up but still get the explosion. I guess the bomb item and the explosion exist simultaneously for a frame or two.

[@destinymontez6170]

Yay, a new glitch I’ll never be able to do

[@Olive_Gamer139]

That last fact is CRAZY!

[@Mike-wr7om]

I was playing the other day, and I discovered that there is a subtle pink smoke in certain areas of the depths that is wafted when you swing your weapon. Not sure if you guys have covered this one in the series so far, but I had never noticed it before.

[@acecarego]

so glad the shrine music was finally covered. Happy Birthday TOTK !!

[@TOGade-dj6jh]

It’s incredible how much detail there is in this game. As a musician I enjoy the musical little tidbits ✊🏻🙌🏻

[@Croton]

THE BOOMERANG CHASE, its the reason i always carry a giant colgera boomerang 😄

[@paulrance5445]

Surprise to see you here How’s the Zonai run coming along?

[@riahisama]

Turns out I don't know anything about this game

[@eridesu]

Same even with 200+ hours

[@math_calculus1]

This guy is so dedicated, pumping these out one after another, never misses a beat. Thanks rin!

[@spriggo97]

I recently discovered that in the low gravity shrine ‘Jump’ if you go back instead of forward at the start, the low gravity goes away.

[@justinbombach9873]

Yeah the low gravity only occurs in certain areas, so if you go just slightly outside the boundaries they expect you to be in, you can escape the low gravity.

[@StrictlyGaming_1]

A year since the game launch and I’m still playing it. Loving TotK very much!

[@painuchiha2694]

Happy 1 year anniversary to this incredible game 🔥

[@hasan1980hb]

Can't believe this game is ten years old now!

[@Nagira_Kannazuki]

Happy 1 year anniversary to Totk!

[@capgorski]

#15 was seriously impressive and I bet it took a long time in editing to get it just right. Well done

[@HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo]

Thank you so much for taking the time to show the glyphs bit. That's _incredible!_

[@wenchinatrenchcoat8459]

Is there another game company that puts that much work in musical nuance? To this day I have occasionally some music bits from SM and OOT from the N64 playing in my head. Standing ovations to the maestros!

[@Sarah_H]

3:05 you can also throw a Puffshroom at hives to disperse the bees and drop the hives, and if the hive is on an Evermean, it'll wake it up and automatically disorient the Evermean, so you can just run in and grab the hive without having to use up durability killing the Evermean. Also saves bow durability

[@caillet14]

This series is why I’m still subbed to this channel

[@TheAINathan]

Me too

[@Dipwad_Omega]

The Zelda devs never fail to impress me with their musical Easter Eggs. The fact that "Ballad of the Goddess" is just "Zelda's Lullaby" backward has stuck with me all of these years, and even now it continues to inspire me, so much so that I even wrote my own set of pieces using the same trick. The thing with the Glyphs in TOTK playing the main theme when stitched together is awesome too. I'm not even a huge Zelda fan outside of BOTW/TOTK, but I am a music nerd, and these fun obscure little references that most people won't even know about are some of the coolest things in my eyes.

[@Dylandamuffin]

Happy 1 year anniversary 🎉

[@Jakco808]

Just completed it. Nintendo outdid themselves with this one with a clear vision

[@Aless08]

This series wil never end (and it's a good thing)

[@corinneisverycool]

the geoglyph music bit is actually so cool

[@LarryDeskPlant]

Good to see this series continuing a year after the game's release, a truly great game, keep up the good videos gamespot.

[@smashdriven1640]

That rocket surfing trick is sick! I’m definitely going to use that from now on.

[@0eL3VEn0]

For fact one, it goes deeper than just FI's theme. It's the cord progression from the warp whistle from Mario Bros 3 and the opening of Ocarina of Time, just slowed down

[@TheRavenKing611]

And here’s to another year of fun facts. Because let’s face it, there’s still another year’s worth of facts.

[@Leo-pd4fc]

Wait what, is The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom 1 of the Best Game on the Nintendo Switch of All Time really a Year old? Time is really going faster than i tought wow! I got TOTK in last year's christmas 2023, but I still haven't started to playing it yet, because there's so much Nintendo Switch games what to play like Super Mario Bros Wonder, Prince of Persia The Lost Crown, Penny's Big Breakaway and Princess Peach Showtime what I'll play now, but someday I'll play TOTK, maybe it's today because it turned into 1 Year old game, happy 1th Anniiversary Birthday The legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom! 🐉🎈🎉🥳🥂🎂🎁

[@flaffles87]

Dang it's been that long already. Always appreciate anything related to music. It's what sticks the longest.

[@eliseoc.g.6465]

The Legend of Zelda attention to the detail ❤

[@Gabey262]

Dang Zelda’s tears were so powerful that not only did it recreate her memories but also pieces of the main theme song.

[@trademarksarefun]

The Korok vs. bees will be extremely helpful! I also didn’t know you could fuse ruin rubble. I accidentally broke the boat on the boat transport, so I saw that one organically, lol

[@KrulKrulSprietSpriet]

When we needed you the most, you came through! Loved the video! :)

[@SnowyGreenHatMustache]

You making me wanna play the game today..

[@agent_mystic217]

The Geoglyph Easter egg is sooooo good🔥

[@Chubby_Bub]

It's interesting what they did with the geoglyph BGM because on the newly-announced soundtrack, they included each as a separate track. BotW had a similar thing with Kass's Ancient Songs being sections of the main theme, and they were combined together.

[@UncleLarrrry]

It's always a great day when one of these comes out!

[@Chikedor]

Last one is CRAZY

[@Cleverstryke]

the fact that people have made WHOLE PLANES in this game!

[@pikachu591]

3:09 lol "pesky bees"

[@MaybeLater002]

In the A Picture for Woodland Stable side quest, when taking a picture of a goron soaking in a hot spring; you can take a picture of either Jengo or Bohrin at any time, and the game will still register that they are soaking in a hot spring, even if they’re not!

[@Pickyjonez]

You gave me chills at 7:35 🥲

[@ILikeWafflz]

Another thing I found; I may be overthinking it, or maybe it's a musical easter egg. When you upgrade your battery, the forge station hammer sounds are pitched such that, if you swap just two of them, it sounds quite similar to the "major item get" theme from the Metroid series

[@Jamil1989]

That last obe gave me goosebumps. I was like, "What's going on!" with a smile on my face. 😁

[@paweenadyke114]

At 4:53 when the block blocked the attack, we all know the horse did everything

[@kristianlawrence]

Wow, #15 was awesome! God I love this game and all of its developers and designers.

[@emmamiller.]

The Zelda music team is just 🤌🏻🤌🏻

[@fatalwaffle1715]

Awesome Video Bro!

[@Carmen-nn5jk]

I haven't seen any KZbinr yet mention how the Easter egg that Stable Trotters mirror the instruments in Majora's Mask. Flute (Link's ocarina), Horn (Deku), Strings (Zora), and Drum (Goron)

[@pedrovictorsilvaladeira7877]

I had no idea you could use your shield as a barricade this way. Incredible!

[@Kethra430]

Love this series 😊

[@TruMaverick]

I know a secret. The Gloom tells a hidden tale that no one talks about

[@hyliasknight]

How about you talk about it, instead of being cryptic?

[@darvida719]

7:20 need a full version of this so bad

[@mictony999]

The reason why fused items still maintain their physics and occlusion property is because of how they made every object a rigidbody

[@Plasmix559]

Always love a new episode!

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

You are one of the few people who pronounces Fi's name properly. Too many people call her Fee which annoys me, and Hyrule Warriors tells us how her name is supposed to be announced. 2:57 I'm surprised Nintendo thought of this. I like how you knew about the portable launch tower.

[@MasonHu]

integrating gpt4o with npc responses would be crazy

[@riofernando9414]

I love watching these

[@Carlo_p_sax]

THE LAST ONE WAS AMAZING

[@roastingtomatoes1512]

I loved every second of this

[@davidandre3719]

4:30 I didn't even know backflip was a thing

[@daverijsenbrij7228]

For the last memory, they should have made the light dragon appear at that spot since it is on the spirally place

[@kevincurran9975]

What the game doesnt tell us by looking is ravios hood. It tells us in its description saying your speed of climbing sideways increases which is true but it doesnt have a symbol like most buffs do. So if you dont read the description you will probably never figure this out

[@puppy14]

I got hooked again recently after 150 hours last year, and now I’m 650 koroks in. I didn’t even realize a majority of these lolz

[@kuboshg]

actually with the thorns you can also get stuck in there and link won't take damage for a short period of time so you can jump get stuck then jump to dodge them hope that helps.

[@paulrance5445]

Knew the geoglyph music one since Zeltik also covered it once iirc

[@jampharos]

i was wondering what the "did you know you can parry/flurry rush" was going to be this time but there weren't any :(

[@camrynrichards4025]

4:52 NOT THE HORSE💀😭💀😭

[@endthelag4490]

I was just watching more of these as this dropped

[@Moon-Vixen]

absolutely wild that it's been a whole year, and there's still items I didn't even know you could get! like those ruins blocks! where do I find that?👀

[@BobBob-bm9kz]

The rocket jump trick is sick

[@BobBob-bm9kz]

I'm a huge lover of shield surfing, wish I knew it sooner

[@kevincurran9975]

Did you know that the start up theme for totk when you select new game/continue a bit of the dragons theme

[@the_marvelous_one]

I love theses videos

[@samwoodley1653]

How tf do people pick out once singular tiny quiet note from a short sequence in one part of the map that they aren't even paying attention to and go "oh wait, that was the 6th part of the main theme slowed down on a different instrument" It took me a while to realise Evermean is mean evergreens

[@ILikeWafflz]

Lol that's funny because the instant I saw "Evermean" I was like "heheh evergreen wordplay" I've done that with many other words though

[@justsomewheel9379]

Nice of Nintendo to extend GameSpot's Legend of Zelda fact content by another 7 years when they released Tears of the Kingdom

[@ARandomUser332]

Spoiler Warning: During the Demon King boss fight. During the hero's duel section in the second phase. You take a picture of the champion's weapons. Granted if you do try to do so. You are most likely going to get hit by Ganondorf. This shocked me because of how I thought they were just in the background.

[@rogerpham3332]

wow, a actually stuff i didnt know about before (axcept for the thorn thing)

[@darvida719]

7:20 goosebumps

[@michaelgarner4423]

After 1 year My consensus Is it worth the 6 year wait? Yes Is it everything I ever wanted? Yes and No Is it worth 70$? Yes Does it deserve Goty? In a way Yes Is it DLC? NO!!!! Overall score: 9/10

[@MEGALONTHEKING]

The geoglyph one is actually kinda smart

[@Corpsman01]

I’ve enjoyed the game and obviously will enjoy the replayability included in the creativity of building Zonia items.

[@WarriorHunterb]

Just imagine what this team’s going to do when they get a significantly more powerful hardware to work with.

[@haste2]

Crazy that its been a year...

[@CaioMakako]

I'm doing a research for my Masters in Music about the interactiveness of music in open-world games. Can you share with me where you got the info and screenshots used in tip #13? That would be gold for my project. Thanks and that was an amazing video!

[@RinHara5aki]

The footage is from the recent GDC 2024 Tears Of The Kingdom panel, but the music examples you'll have to fine by looking for the raw TOTK music files, you'll see them labeled and listed under "SmallDungeon" like shown above.

[@doublecomplex4741]

Nice! I learned things. 😂

[@jamsstats1700]

One thing you still didn’t know: If you approach one of the mains towns before a blood moon a blood moon happens immediately

[@SaintKnight42]

The legend of rocket shield

[@user-ot8lj9hr5c]

Very wow.

[@TheCommenterrr]

The Korok one is so useful

[@unitedcrypto]

REALLY?!?! ON MOTHERS DAY?!?! man imma have to watch this tomorrow

[@suburbantimewaster9620]

You’re right. I didn’t know any of this.