After seven years out of the closet, there are many of you still devoted to Breath of the Wild, and recently one player showed off a rather unorthodox way to find the first (and easiest) Korok in the game .
Breath of the Wild’s physics engine is one of the game’s strongest points and has allowed the creative players among you to turn Hyrule into a sandbox where you can do everything from using bombs to move around the map flying up to pinning your horses to walls, most of which is unfeasible in the sequel, Tears of the Kingdom. A popular trick is the Bullet-Time Bounce, which allows you to use your shields to jump onto an enemy’s head, sending you flying through the air, something that is honestly overkill for what a player had in mind.
In a video posted to Twitter by @HyrulesPheasant, we see them make good use of the BTB and lure a nearby bokoblin to the entrance of the Temple of Time. After getting themselves into position, they throw themselves out of a broken window with their shield at their feet, bounce off the bokoblin’s head, bounce off the Temple wall before being catapulted into the nearby pond, fall into a ring of water lilies and find the Korok – pretty spicy stuff.
Getting the first korok in the intended way.🤔🤓 pic.twitter.com/8F3zHVVv4INovember 8, 2024
For anyone who hasn’t played Breath of the Wild yet and isn’t aware of how pointless this all is, the usual method to unlock this particular Korok Seed is to simply jump into the circle from the bank of the pond directly above it . . Combined with the fact that you’ll likely pass this point within about 10 minutes of starting the game, it seems unlikely that Nintendo had this solution in mind.
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