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Ali Jones

I never would have expected Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to channel my favourite obscure open-world survival game

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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has just unveiled two very exciting new abilities for Link. Fuse can snap different materials together to create an infinite array of new weapons, and Ultrahand, which Link can use to create more complex combinations. In the trailer, that means things like a simple raft, but we've already seen things like a car, a hot air balloon, and a primitive helicopter in other videos.

I originally assumed that those were items we'd be able to find in the world, their primitive nature suggesting that perhaps a smart Bokoblin had cobbled them together, or perhaps some long-lost civilization. But the suggestion that we can make them ourselves, combining items at will to create whatever we like, reminded me of a very different game.

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