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One highly inventive player has gone through the effort of building a wacky mechanical beast meant to mimic a dragon inThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. An entertaining video showcasing their creation recently made the rounds on social media as yet another example of the incredible level of freedom that theTears of the Kingdombuilding mechanicsoffer to players.
Much likeBreath of the Wild, its sequel features several dragons that can be found circling various portions of Hyrule. There is a total offour dragons to be found inTears of the Kingdom, and while each of them drops unique crafting materials and dons distinct colors, they all share the same flying animation that shows them gliding through the air while bending their serpentiform bodies like some kind of flying eels.
In an effort to recreate these majestic creatures, Reddit user CynicMusic recently put together a wacky contraption using theTears of the KingdomUltrahand ability. And while the end result of their design effort might not look like one of the game’s dragons while stationary, it’s easy to see what its creator was going for once the machine takes to the skies. Namely, this convoluted device mimics a dragon’s locomotion animation in an exaggerated manner thanks to a triple pendulum consisting of wood beams connected via cartwheels.
The mechanical dragon’s head equivalent comprises a Zonai Wing with three Zonai Fans, which function as the machine’s main propulsion system. There’s another fan mounted at the top of the triple pendulum that consistently keeps the vehicle’s “neck” upright, while indirectly causing its dragon body equivalent to move in a more erratic manner. The resulting movement is “totally chaotic,” as CynicMusic put it, but highly amusing to witness.
TheTears of the Kingdomplayer explained that the stabilizer mounted at the end of the vehicle next to its Zonai Steering Stick offered a greater stalling effect than expected, which prompted them to practice controlling the contraption. That notwithstanding, CynicMusic eventually concluded that “you’re able to’t really pilot a chaos vehicle” of this sort, much like their recently shared video demonstration of the machine illustrates.
To my surprise, the stabilizer stalled the wing less than expected, so I practiced controlling it. You can’t really pilot a chaos vehicle but I tried.
This isn’t the first attempt at creating a mechanical dragon that theZeldafandom has authored to date. AnotherTears of the Kingdomplayer recently built a flying dragon machinethat’s much easier to pilot than CynicMusic’s contraption, although its increased maneuverability comes at the cost of a less majestic—and hilarious—flying animation.
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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.
