It took an international collaboration to begin cracking Tears of the Kingdom open. For the first few days after the game's release, glitch hunters had been trying to break it using techniques similar to those used in Breath of the Wild, but nothing was working.

"Everyone was kind of scratching their heads," recalls one glitch hunter who goes by the name Mozz. Then, on day three, a breakthrough arrived on Discord, courtesy of the Chinese community's discovery of a number of duplication bugs. Sure enough, Mozz and their fellow glitch hunters were able to replicate them. One thing led to another, glitches got stacked upon glitches, and the ef …

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If you're 20 or so hours into Tears of the Kingdom and you don't have Autobuild, you're doing it wrong.

Last week, there was a tweet going around asking that now Tears of the Kingdom's been out a few weeks, what advice would you share? Lots of people left valuable nuggets of information like fusing rubies to your equipment that can keep you warm during the Rito quest-line (just, y'know, don't fuse 'em to anything wooden). Another good piece of advice: use Ascend more! Are you using Ascend already? Great! Use it 1,000 percent more!

I shared that unless your Purah Pad's power wheel is complete, you are not done with the tutorial, emphasizing …

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Anyone who has managed to clock in hundreds of hours on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild since its 2017 release will understand well how, over time, you can't help but develop a constellation of habits and preferences that end up defining your individual playstyle. In the same way that there was no one "right" way to progress through Breath of the Wild's story, the game gave you the freedom to figure out how you wanted to move through the world, and those two things alone made it unlike any other Zelda title in the franchise.

The same can be said of Tears of the Kingdom for a variety of reasons, ranging from how much bigger the game' …

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The Zelda developers are trolls, and I love them.

One really well-designed aspect of Tears of the Kingdom is that the game will teach you how to play it. I don't mean through explicit tutorials; rather, throughout my frankly embarrassing amount of playtime, the game presented to me, either in shrines or in the overworld, obstacles and the tools to surmount them. And every time I solved a puzzle, a more complex version of that same kind of puzzle would pop up later on, forcing me to put together what I learned to take on this new challenge. It makes Tears a kind of Metroidvania in that sometimes my progression is locked until I've mastered a …

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