Summary
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomis a game filled to the brim with neat, easy-to-miss details, with one recently-noted example being that Colgera, the boss of the Wind Temple, can be spotted lurking around before the fight with it. Things like this are among the reasonsThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomboasts one of the most detailed and lively worlds of any open-world game.
The Wind Temple is the first ofTears of the Kingdom’s dungeons that players will usually end up tackling if they follow the path laid out by the game’s main story quests. There, players must solve puzzles to activate turbines that open up a large grate in the center of the temple, from which Colgera emerges. This leads to one ofTears of the Kingdom’s standout fights, an aerial battle which typically involves gliding through the air and shooting the giant bug-like monster’s weak spots to damage it, though players havefound other ways to kill the Wind Temple’s boss.
What players might not know, though, is that Colgera can be seen through the grate while exploring the Wind Temple. Reddit user PlasticMac pointed this detail out, explaining how in their latest playthrough ofTears of the Kingdom, they got curious about the updraft coming out of the grate. With how massive Colgera is, they assumed it only spawns at the start of the boss fight, only to find the monster circling around inside a large room beneath the grate, guarding the Secret Stone that players receive for defeating it.
The attention to detail here is pretty impressive. It wasn’t necessary for Nintendo to have Colgera flying around prior to its boss fight, and odds are players will be too busytrying to solve the Wind Temple’s puzzlesto bother looking in the grate. But the fact that the developers did add this in spite of that is indicative of the effort made to makeTears of the Kingdom’s world feel so alive, and for players who do notice Colgera beneath the grate, it should help build excitement for the eventual boss fight.
These details, along with the many improvements made toThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s award-winning formula, havemadeTears of the Kingdomone of Nintendo’s biggest hits yet. The latest sales data from Nintendo has confirmed that the game has now sold 19.50 million copies, making it the Nintendo Switch’s ninth best-selling game of all time, which, safe to say, is impressive for a game that’s only six months old.
With the momentum the game has generated thus far – something that therecent announcement of a live-actionZeldamovewill likely help maintain – that sales number will likely grow quite a bit in the coming years. That means more players will be able to discover all the cool little details there are to be found inTears of the Kingdom.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is the sequel to the beloved open-world adventure, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. This installment once again sees Link and Zelda battling to protect Hyrule from falling to Ganondorf. This new adventure takes place in the same land of Hyrule as Breath of the Wild but sees something called the Upheaval, which allows link to travel to Sky Islands, as well as deep into the Depths beneath Hyrule. Players can use special abilities to fuse together weapons, and build items to help them progress through the release.
