Summary
- A Tears of the Kingdom player creates an impressive machine that looks like a crab.
- The incredible design features giant pincers and bulbous eyes, gaining many upvotes on Reddit.
- Players often showcase their creativity by imagining real-world animals as machines in the game.
One The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player has showcased their building talents by making a mechanical crab in the game. While many Zelda fans are playing Echoes of Wisdom, engineering-minded gamers continue to build impressive and sometimes bizarre creations in Tears of the Kingdom’s open world.
While Tears of the Kingdom is a sequel to 2017’s Breath of the Wild, it revolutionized the gameplay by introducing new abilities for Link. Specifically, Ultrahand in Tears of the Kingdom gave players creative ways to fuse objects to make operable machines. Unsurprisingly, many fans took this ability to the next level, creating incredible machines based on real-world things and objects from popular media franchises.
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Recently, GrahamCray on the Hyrule Engineering subreddit shared one of their most recent in-game creations with the community. Specifically, the player designed and built a mechanical-looking crab, and the results were impressive. Using various objects and Zonai devices found in Tears of the Kingdom, they managed to create a machine with an incredible likeness to the sea-dwelling animal. Perhaps the most notable aspect of the build was the bulging eyes of the crustacean. Another detail that helped nail the design of a crab was its movement. GrahamCray built the mechanical crustacean so it could move sideways, similar to the real-life animal.
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Player's Mechanical Crab
This mechanical crab has caught the attention of other building enthusiasts on the subreddit. With nearly a thousand upvotes, many users complimented GrahamCray on the design. In particular, the eyes stood out to many players. Fortunately, the creator gave some insight into how to make the crab for those wanting to give it a shot. According to GrahamCray, the eyes of the crab were composed of three parts: Blue Moblin Horn, Shrine Bowl, and Pot Lid. In addition, another user pointed out the clever use of Leviathan Heads from Tears of the Kingdom for the claws.
It is worth mentioning that the mechanical crab built by GrahamCray continues a trend of players building real-world animals in the game. Over the past year, players have built all sorts of creatures using parts from the game. For example, another gamer known as kmarkow previously built a kitten in Tears of the Kingdom. Utilizing the game’s various Zonai devices and objects, they replicated the key features of a feline, including its whiskers, tail, and pointed ears.
It will be interesting to see what fans like GrahamCray and kmarkow create in the game next. While the plethora of builds already featured on the Hyrule Engineering subreddit would make it seem like players would be running out of ideas, the community continues to surprise and delight. Hopefully, whatever comes next will further this trend of impressive fan creations.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 95 /100 Critics Rec: 97%
- Released
- May 12, 2023
- ESRB
- Rated E for Everyone 10+ for Fantasy Violence and Mild Suggestive Themes
- Developer(s)
- Nintendo
- Publisher(s)
- Nintendo
- Engine
- Havok
- Cross-Platform Play
- N/A
- Cross Save
- N/A
WHERE TO PLAY
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.
- Franchise
- The Legend of Zelda
- Steam Deck Compatibility
- n/a
- Platform(s)
- Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2
- Genre(s)
- Adventure, Action, Open-World
- How Long To Beat
- 59 Hours
- X|S Optimized
- n/a
- OpenCritic Rating
- Mighty
