{"id":132758,"date":"2023-03-28T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-147215"},"modified":"2023-03-28T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:00:00","slug":"random-tears-of-the-kingdoms-ultrahand-is-a-loving-nod-to-nintendos-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/03\/28\/random-tears-of-the-kingdoms-ultrahand-is-a-loving-nod-to-nintendos-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Tears Of The Kingdom’s ‘Ultrahand’ Is A Loving Nod To Nintendo’s Past"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In today’s The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom<\/a> gameplay trailer, we found out that yes, Link can indeed build vehicles. And he does this using the brand new ability ‘Ultrahand<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n

Now, if you’ve been around these parts for a while, then you probably spotted this name and went “wait, what, Ultra Hand<\/strong>? Like the 1960s toy?” And we’re pretty sure that’s what this big gameplay feature is referencing. The toy was created in 1996 by Gunpei Yokoi, who played a pretty major role in video game development, as he designed the D-pad, Game Boy, and WonderSwan.<\/p>\n

Ultrahand, in Tears of the Kingdom, allows Link to pick up one large material from a distance and fuse it to whatever he’s building. In comparison, the Ultra Hand (keeping up?) is a grabber toy where you hold two handles at the end of a cross-cross-connected plastic device and use them to grab things from far away. The toy usually came with objects like balls or ball-like objects with cylinders which you had to try and grab.<\/p>\n

Sense the similarities? Lots of others certainly do.<\/p>\n