While exploring Hyrule, one Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player attempts to make a short glide across a gap only to have things go hilariously wrong. As expected, Nintendo has a massive hit on its hands with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom as it has already outpaced Elden Ring and sold 10 million units in just 3 days time. Outside of Mario, The Legend of Zelda remains one of Nintendo's most popular franchises.
While building on the foundation placed by its predecessor, Tears of the Kingdom adds in plenty of new ways to interact with the game world including the newly added sky islands. However, while Breath of the Wild introduced creative ways to solve problems, Tears of the Kingdom has fully embraced it by giving players to opportunity to craft custom solutions using new abilities like Fuse and Ultrahand. The new tools have caused an explosion of content from players posting screen grabs and videos of their gameplay including one player who fell victim to some of the game's new mechanics.
In a post on the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom subReddit, a user named senna98 posted a short 20-second video of their Link attempting to glide across a small gap. As they approach the cliff, Link jumps off as normal and begins the glide to the other side though as he's about to land, one of the falling rocks seen from Aonuma's Tears of the Kingdom gameplay demonstration comes crashing down on top of them and taking all of Link's hearts.
Hilariously enough, senna98 had a fairy in a bottle, so before getting a Game Over screen, Link is revived just in time as he begins tumbling down the cliff. The timing is extra unfortunate as Link lands and takes enough fall damage to again lose every heart for a second time. This time, the Game Over screen does appear, leaving the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom community amused by senna98's double misfortune. Some even recommended they buy a lottery ticket with how well-timed that death was.
While there are certainly those who enjoy using the creation tools to torment Koroks, there have seemingly been a non-stop wave of interesting player creations, many of which are designed to overcome some sort of challenge. From boats, hover gliders, and other transport style vehicles, Tears of the Kingdom players have also come up with ways to help tame horses or build a mech to help clear out enemy camps.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is available exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.