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

This time in Tears Of The Kingdom, we make pet Gleeoks, escape the final battle, and make friends with Phantom Ganon.
In the video above, we cover 22 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.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:17 AOE Shock Current
0:40 Ascend Into Sky Islands
1:02 Lynel Fireball Trick
1:10 Gloom Hand Trick
1:18 Gleeok Pet
1:52 Hot Spring Secret
2:02 Cece's Possible Inspirations
2:29 Stove Material Holding
2:44 Friendly Gloom Hands
3:00 Friendly Phantom Ganon
3:17 Shock Negation By Fusing
3:39 Campfire In Rain Trick
3:55 Inferno Link
4:17 Inferno Enemies
4:30 Spring Shield Stuns
4:53 Mineru Glider Secret
5:10 Mineru Midair Glider
5:23 Multi-Directional Rush Attacks
5:56 Final Battle Barriers
6:24 Zelda's Reaction To Gloom Fireball
6:35 Shoot Gloom Fireball
6:40 Escape The Final Battle
7:25 Outro

[@Ricardo57492]

I LOVE that final battle glitch lol. I cant wait to see what people do with it.

[@Spletz]

What versions is it possible on?

[@MythSlayer256]

​@@Spletz 1.2.1 would be my guess since this video was 7 hours ago.

[@the_hero_of_hyrule1986]

I'm gonna go inside the great deku tree's mouth🤣

[@Luke_the_goomba]

same

[@CardboardBox8]

Imagine a combat montage featuring the Light Dragon glitch, by for example jumping off it for bullet time. That would be INSANE.

[@holyelephantmg8838]

Who needs a Thunderclap?

[@MythSlayer256]

ABSOLUTLY

[@Stroyoo_03]

That last glitch is utterly amazing 😭 so glad this series is ongoing still 🤣

[@Whofan06]

Oh my God having Zelda chase you all throughout Hyrule is so cool I actually might have to try that one.

[@Croton]

My favorite use of the Mineru wing fuse is using it to fight Colgera - it's surprisingly possible and super fun!

[@RinHara5aki]

The fire gleeok’s updraft is fun too!

[@PhineasThompson]

Wow, I had not thought of that!

[@Croton]

@@RinHara5aki 👀 I gotta try that!

[@MythSlayer256]

btw I'm subscribed to you and Gamespot.

[@colinmagaming]

CROTON

[@ChrisHoulihan]

All amazing, but you saved the best for last. Can you drive Zelda dragon thru the dueling peaks is what I want to know? That would be amazing footage. Falkor vibes

[@kass3333]

No way it's the link to the past guy

[@michmill7007]

what i want to know is if she can go in the depths

[@ChrisHoulihan]

@@michmill7007 if she can, will she light up the underworld?

[@michmill7007]

@@ChrisHoulihan don't think so

[@cheepplays]

“hey whatcha doin?” “ah, just taking zelda out for a walk”

[@SuspiciousTemmie]

That last one makes me wonder, would it be possible to take Zelda to the Depths? And if so, can you fight one of the boss rematches with her? It would be awesome!

[@goodcat132]

We need more Zelda x Link fighting along footage, that looks funny and epic at the same time

[@TheBreadPirate]

The hotspring secret was awesome. 👏

[@ShuckleShellAnemia]

There’s one exception, and that’s the hot spring in the shrine of resurrection. In the depths below it is… another hot spring! The heat must be coming from even deeper than the depths!

[@johncoe929]

Something I discovered recently: if you reach the lightroot under the Forgotten Temple without opening the shrine first, your shrine sensor goes off. Interesting note of just how deep the Depths actually are.

[@Chubby_Bub]

Well keep in mind the shrine is at the bottom of a canyon and to mirror that the lightroot is on top of a giant plateau. I'm not sure what the range of the sensor is exactly, but it looks like the height for the shrine is -83 and the lightroot is -351. So both are relatively close to the Depths ceiling.

[@johncoe929]

@@Chubby_Bub indeed. It’s still an interesting data point that surprised me when I stumbled upon it

[@marccloutier5787]

Something i noticed, if you don’t play this game you’ll have a better life!!

[@PEAS-ne9gx]

​@@marccloutier5787stick to your baseball buddy

[@marccloutier5787]

@@PEAS-ne9gx I’m Canadian we don’t baseball up here

[@r.i.p.KingVon8062]

Imagine living in gerudo town and it starts raining gleeoks💀💀

[@1990Floh]

And Dragon-Zelda zooms in to help Link

[@michael85225]

🎶 Hallelujah it's raining Gleeoks! 🎶

[@a.jthomas6132]

When Light Dragon (Zelda) comes to aiding Link in the middle of the final battle, my first thought was “did she come back and maybe draconification hasn’t removed everything that is Zelda?” It is just a theory… but I believed it is her love for her knight is what drove her dragon instinct/consciousness in saving him from falling as the pair fought the climatic battle against the Draconified Demon King. We all seen that when her powers were activated when the ones she loves is threaten in Breath of the Wild. Their love and sacrifices for each other are the core themes of Link and Princess Zelda.

[@Chubby_Bub]

It seems like draconification preserves some of your will and instincts even if you lose your self, perhaps specifically the reason you swallow the stone. The Light Dragon intrinsically knows it's her duty to help Link defeat the Demon King, and the Demon Dragon maintains Ganondorf's goal to take over the entire world with gloom.

[@Moon-Vixen]

tbh, I think they're flat out wrong about her losing herself/that draconification makes you lose yourself. the game's main theme (besides "hands") seems to be "the history you thought you knew is not as correct as you thought it was", and Mineru understands draconification because of what their history tells them. but think about how little data they had on it. they only had the 3 dragons to work with, and those dragons' goals were just to serve their springs. Link is the only one we know of who can speak to the statues, so presumably only we know that they ARE still serving their springs, even if it doesn't really look like it. so to them, it would look like they're just mindlessly flying around in aimless directions/circles. they also don't seem to react to someone standing on them, but do horses and cows bother to react every time a fly lands on it? no. doesn't mean the cow/horse is mindless ether. but we in the future see otherwise, even with the original 3. Dinraal changes her path when the Sheikah quest requires it, knowing what she needs to do for a challenge made both by and for people who existed *long* after they originally draconified. as well, if we look at all of Zelda's behavior, she stays around the great sky island in order to keep an eye on Link's progress. she's mentally strong enough to project herself into the room so she can give Link her sage power, and knows that then he is ready for her to remove the cloud barrier now that he's ready. she tracks him across the land of hyrule and keeps track of what memories he's collected, and only once he's seen all of them (and she's there watching him when he sees the last one, she is *actively* tracking him) does she drop the real last one. she recognizes when it's him collecting the master sword on her head, and no matter where you are when you grab it she specifically goes back to the place she draconified to drop him off. she could have just continued flying wherever she was and just let him jump, but instead she dropped him off, and at an emotionally significant location. then in the final battle she still is able to track him in the air and juke dragondorf's bite *at speed!* as well, dragondorf also has the presence of mind to continue attacking Zelda and link and even grabbing him in the room AS he's transforming. absolutely NONE of this implies any of them are "mindless" or have "lost themselves". but I think the biggest hint is when Rauru sees Zelda in the temple and says he doesn't understand how that's possible, because it shouldn't be possible. that is almost outright telling us, before we even know what he's talking about, that they were wrong. but, I do also agree with you. I think it's the strength of her will and her love for Link that's kept her going for all those centuries, helping her to keep her mind sharp on her task and priorities, to not let the passage of time numb her mind and make her lose sight of her goal. something that I think the lack of attributed to the seeming "mindlessness" of the other 3.

[@penguinista]

The game is so min bendingly complicated, it is amazing that it works at all.

[@M_B_J]

never tire of these. Here's hoping the TOTK series goes as long as your BOTW one

[@ethanmahajerin8197]

I said this last video, but the way Link holds the master sword differs from other 1-handed weapons. Usually, 1-handed weapons are held by Link so that the "sharp" points are angled vertically. But for the master sword, the sharp edges are angles horizontally. It's not useful to know, but it's still a small detail.

[@MorganSuhm]

The Gleeok collar exploit feels like putting a traffic cone on an automatic driving car. Completely immobilizes it.

[@a.jthomas6132]

I know it won’t be possible because of the developer’s’ decision but I feel a need for the Master Mode and a DLC side story in Tears of the Kingdom. Hopefully in the Deluxe Edition for the Nintendo Switch 2 version. There is much we do not know about the Zonai origins, no whereabouts of Rauru x Sonia’s child(ren) since they existed in the background, the unknown identity of the Ancient Hero, No Twinrova boss battle, and there is very lil backstory of who this version of Ganondorf is before he becomes the Demon King. Plus it would’ve give us a grand opportunity to see what Hyrule is like in the past with a playable Princess Zelda with her own gameplay that is far away from Link’s. Let alone make up the lost opportunity we have in Skyward Sword’s unfinished Second Quest story. Since Tears of the Kingdom’s story is divided in the perspectives of two main characters (Link and Princess Zelda), why Nintendo didn’t bother to allow players to explore Ancient Hyrule in a playable Dragon Tear memories?

[@mercury2118]

I've found a useful trick. If you use Yunobo in tall grass, he will create a trail of updrafts to follow. Pairing this with Tulin makes traveling a lot quicker.

[@MayerTheYouTubeSlayer]

Just binged this whole series yesterday after restarting the game last week - what a wonderful surprise to find this morning!! Awesome series y’all

[@Nexusspeeth]

I’ve missed this, Always excited for more of these!

[@TrueWolves]

The irony is that in real life, Diamonds are *quite* flamable.

[@pablomerino1357]

This facts are insane! Thanks for the content

[@FormerlyDuck]

If you get the master sword in the final battle, instead of earlier, and then warp away, will you still have the master sword? And does it behave like the regular Master Sword?

[@eliseoc.g.6465]

Try pal. Youll be legend

[@marccloutier5787]

Who cares lol

[@Hazemann]

Top 2 best games & best open world games for Switch are Zelda TOTK & Hogwarts Legacy. TOTK already 150 hours with 3 main boss defeated & HL already 33 hours since I bought its 5 days ago ❤❤❤

[@bob_3472]

OH MY GOD FINALLY A NEW THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW VIDEO!!! As always, great content!

[@PoPo-qp8zq]

Great series. I can't wait for more!

[@nightpups5835]

one of my favorite movement combos is yanobo to make flames to lift link up and into Tulins wind gust.

[@GBG993.]

It's funny that there's another Max Blumenthal other than the one at Grayzone, who is a fantastic reporter

[@reezrahman1350]

wow the last battle glitch looks amazing! so excited to explore this!

[@chompiethetortoise5972]

I had no idea that shield jump resetting still worked in totk until you used it against the lynel while discussing springs. Thanks!

[@Madeoftea]

Spring shield into bullet time off a Lynel charge rush is 🔥

[@Wezryx]

This game's equivalent of guardian taming yay. Both games you contain guardians and the gloom hands respectively. 3:13

[@ElemonAdventures]

It’s crazy that there’s still things people are discovering in this game. And the glitch at the end is awesome

[@brightya]

The only masterpiece beyond the era

[@owenbyrne9850]

I've got to try that escape the demon dragon fight glitch

[@JephteOrtiz-vc1zx]

I wonder why the master sword sometimes does not get it's 60 damage boost when fighting ganon.

[@GrnArrow092]

I never thought to fuse a spring to my shield when fighting lynels. That does make the battle a whole lot easier as it can deflect a lynel's attacks.

[@colinmagaming]

I Love All of the Glitches! I tried them all and some of them actually worked!

[@mistadomino]

The helm to fight gloom hands is clutch!

[@user-qm1fs4qi6m]

Thank you so much for mentioning the spoilers very good video as well👍

[@richardmahn7589]

Yay, just what I needed, friending gloom hands and have their creepy, well, hands hovering above me. What I always wanted! Nightmares!

[@MythSlayer256]

I like that some of these videos have at least a glitch like the last MORE Things You STILL Didn't Know In Zelda Tears Of The Kingdom which had a height trick with a stabilizer and a U block.

[@MythSlayer256]

I also love the boss skip tho I want a video describing how you do it exactly.

[@qcard76]

I watch these in the hope that somewhere, buried behind a mountain of untold Easter eggs and secrets, Kass is waiting to be found

[@PilaCiu]

What about sages talking to you before the Ganondorf fight? If you have only one or two of them they have unique lines but it isn't documented anywhere.

[@KevinTheFluffyWolfy]

the final battle glitch is pretty cool!

[@Fatasscat318]

You are an awesome KZbinr, never quit

[@hentikirby7142]

I'm so glad I got the day one physical copy. Roll back as many times as I need.

[@emmamiller.]

That last one is so cool

[@GameGingo]

Okay, nah. That final one is just crazy. Imagine all the wild shenanigans with that.

[@MoblinFanLikesMoblins]

Good vid once again :D

[@user-hx7pl6ms1e]

Please give us Totk videos more often, they're great!!!

[@robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708]

3:08 The aerocuda method only works on current (and maybe 1.2)

[@doriang6522]

Those final battle Zelda glitches feel SINFUL 😢

[@Echohoody]

WOW I had no clue about the warping out of the final battle. It’s almost like warping out of the final ganon battle in BOTW. Also, how do you did the infinite jump in this one?

[@kastanimates]

I am VERY curious how to do that last one... anyone know if there's a video tutorial on it?

[@a.jthomas6132]

The Ancient Hero from both BOTW and TOTK is proof that not everyone born with the Hero’s Spirit is Link.

[@thebaseandtriflingcreature174]

unless the ancient hero just so happens to be named Link also

[@Chubby_Bub]

I'd expect he _was_ named Link. You could even theorize he's named after the current Link since Zelda told people about him in the past.

[@thebaseandtriflingcreature174]

@@Chubby_Bub and wouldn't it be hilarious if, because of the ancient heros legend, links parents decide to name him that way in honor of it.

[@Chubby_Bub]

@@thebaseandtriflingcreature174 I was being a bit silly with the Link idea, but I do like to think Rauru and Sonia named their child after Zelda and this started the tradition of Hyrulean princesses being named Zelda

[@Digiritter_Prinz]

7:13 its Like the Bug with the BOTW hahahah

[@YTFireGamer.]

The escape the final boss was my favorite that is so cool

[@jarurn_7326]

have you tried shooting his projectile in dragon form with master sword's beam by creating a platform midair?

[@Nintendofan91]

Y’all really saved the best for last this time 😂

[@formercityboy9772]

the last one is WILD !!

[@iamsilentprince811]

All I can imagine now is a Lynel and link fight on the back of Zelda as a dragon 😭💙

[@adsart6014]

Bro this last glitch is awsome i need to try it

[@JeffHawthorne]

That last glitch with Zelda!

[@hundragant]

Someone needs to do a Mineru only run. Where the first objective is to unlock Mineru asap and then have to stay on Mineru as much as possible after

[@shadow_28476]

Aww Dragon Zel is soo cute 🥰

[@Digiritter_Prinz]

3:58 I DID NEVER EVER SEEE THAT!

[@cowcow0506]

I want to try that last one immediately

[@Z00keeper54]

Dear GameSpot, this video is missing from your TotK playlist!

[@allanswain2425]

For the campfire in the rain , you can also use the flamethrower

[@sea34101]

The last one is crazy.

[@thiti_4811]

"Link goddamit we have a kingdom to save come back here!"

[@mrcombustiblelemon2902]

I actually knew #6 this time around! 🎉

[@That_One_Sunshine_Knight]

Id like to imagine that Lynel is VERY confused...

[@blairthenerd3452]

I can’t find any walk through for the final glitch

[@west3Dgaming]

WOW. Zelda endgame stuff is amazing

[@gametimes-lg4qu]

It's so great!

[@Kethra430]

Yes, new video!

[@479gemgirl1]

Which Shrines have that electric battery (1)?

[@Reaktron88]

Like Like Culling reminds me of aparatus storge

[@phasi2182]

that's cool and all but you can actually avoid using up a diamond to block fire by running away, or fusing something else, or using a metal shield, 3:36

[@andrepeng]

mineru is so badass

[@jerseyjay607]

Wow! I'm gonna take Dragon Zelda all over! Thank you for this!

[@TheJiminyJim]

Okay dragon zelda companion is fire!

[@thatsdaniellelol]

I really should not be here. I’m still playin Breath of the Wild but I’m so in love either way this series! Imma play it spoilers or no spoilers (plus I’m playing like 15 games rn so it’s gonna be a while before I finish BOTW anyway)

[@Lamz.Z1]

I knew two of the Demon Dragon fight details and had previously pointed them out in a video of mine which really didn't get views. Now, did you know that you don't take damage when you land on a dragon from any height?

[@denischen8196]

Why did Nintendo not think of making some of the fire enemies burn extra hot as if they are given a pine cone?

[@USMCbrantley]

In my mind this game is truly the GOTY lols we gonna be seeing this stuff and talking about this game much longer than BG3.

[@brightya]

I think the TX? is meant for best CG movies and powerpoint games. Their GOTY has nothing to do with the best game of the year.

[@headbang3r1186]

Cope

[@L3g3nd_of_L1nk]

How many hours do you have in TOTK?

[@ljmittelsdorf6594]

I can teach the gloom hands a very valuable lesson

[@alanperry4037]

When you fight colgera you can go through its portal and you’ll go into this wierd dark place

[@Em-yd3sn]

5:49 why is the master sword doing 30 damage instead of 60?

[@tuanthanhtruong7918]

Probably the msgnotfound master sword.

[@ctreston22]

If you throw a rock at an ore deposit, it creates a spark that can be used to start a fire.

[@Lamz.Z1]

How did Ganondorf's health go down so slowly in number 18? 5:52 Is it a glitch? Someone please tell me.

[@lincolnhausman7025]

Nice 🤙

[@wyattskinner697]

1:04 or just parry them lol

[@painuchiha2694]

I think this good game tbh

[@danielwiebe619]

2:55 not sure which I like better...

[@user-qh3rf3ru3q]

I LOVED SPINGS STUNS IT SHOULD HELP ME BEAT LYNES