Summary
One particularly inventive player managed to build a battle-ready Guardian Stalker fromBreath of the WildinThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Their convoluted contraption is just the latest in a long list ofterrifying war machines thatTears of the Kingdomplayers have been buildingsince the game’s debut.
Guardians are the only type ofBreath of the Wild’senemies that are nowhere to be found in the latestZeldagame. And while some players are hoping to see them return in apotentialTears of the KingdomDLC, many are perfectly content with their omission. After all, these robotic creatures were capable of causing a lot of grief throughoutBreath of the Wildand were particularly terrifying to encounter during the early sections of the game.
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While Guardians are thus gone fromTears of the Kingdom, they are not forgotten, at least as far as Reddit user Huydeptrai0794 is concerned. Namely, this crafty player recently took it upon themselves to recreate the most vicious variant of this enemy—the Guardian Stalker—usingTears of the Kingdom’sbuilding mechanics. They did so with great success, as underlined by their recently shared video demonstration of the machine that shows it making short work of a Black Bokoblin.
Putting this monstrosity together was no easy feat, as its legs consist of half a dozen Colgera jaws carefully joined to a wooden cartwheel via a pair of Zonai Big Wheels whose rotating motion allows the machine to walk. Whilekilling Colgera inTears of the Kingdomisn’t necessarily difficult, the recurring variant of the boss that can be found in The Depths only drops a single jaw, so obtaining six of them can be a time-consuming task. Alternatively, players can simply down a single Colgera, then duplicate its jaw using Link’s Autobuild ability for three Zonaite a piece, which is what the creator of this battle-ready Guardian Stalker did.
The rest of the build is fairly straightforward, as the mech’s body consists of a single balloon basket with a Zonai Steering Stick. Sitting on top of it is a Construct Head equipped with a Zonai Beam Emitter and Cannon, a popular combo in the currentTears of the Kingdombuilding meta that essentially acts as an auto-targeting laser turret. The video demonstration of the machine that its author shared on Reddit also reveals that this makeshift Guardian Stalker is surprisingly responsive to control for a machine that moves in such a mechanically complex, spider-like fashion.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomis available on Nintendo Switch.
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