Zelda Fan Makes The Best Godzilla Movie In Tears Of The Kingdom
Toho meets Tears of the Kingdom in a brand new video showcasing one Zelda fan’s incredible ingenuity. The video features the godfather of all kaiju, Godzilla, waging war against the usual assortment of tanks as he proceeds to lay waste to a small coastal village. What makes the video so special is that it was created entirely using The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom‘s in-game crafting engine.
What puts the clip over the top is the addition of some slick editing to make it more cinematic, as well as music and sound effects taken directly from the Toho Godzilla movies.
X user @sumoguri2323 took advantage of TOTK‘s various building materials and Zonai devices to recreate the King of the Monsters in the game. Using Link’s Ultrahand ability—a mechanic unique to TOTK that allows the Hylian to telekinetically pick up random objects and glue them together—, @sumoguri2323 was able to painstakingly construct Godzilla as well as some tanks for him to destroy.
What puts the clip over the top is the addition of some slick editing to make it more cinematic, as well as music and sound effects taken directly from the Toho Godzilla movies. The result is a scene that feels like it came straight out of a Showa-era Godzilla movie rather than a Legend of Zelda game.
The video starts with “Godzelda” slowly walking out of the water as the familiar Godzilla theme music plays. We are then treated to an overhead shot of the beast moving toward TOTK‘s Lurelin Village, where a group of tanks—also creatively crafted out of the game’s Zonai devices—begin to fire on him. The tanks’ projectiles, of course, bounce harmlessly off of the Zelda version of Godzilla just like they do the movie version.
With his signature roar ripped right from the movies, Godzelda rears up before unleashing his devastating atomic breath—simulated here by TOTK‘s Zonai beam emitter—and eviscerates the puny tanks like they were made of paper. The monster then switches to good old-fashioned regular fire-breathing as he sets the entirety of Zelda’s Lurelin Village ablaze. The video ends with Godzelda walking back into the sea, his mission of rampant destruction completed.
The Godzilla video is just the latest example of a gamer exploiting the newest Zelda game’s deceptively rich crafting system. That, along with the game’s realistic physics engine, has given birth to hundreds if not thousands of offbeat creations the game’s creators could have never dreamed up when they were coding the game. Creations such as orbital lasers, amusement park rides, and even electrified cages built to contain some of the game’s more intimidating monsters.
Then, of course, there are the countless ways players have used TOTK‘s building mechanics to craft intricate devices with the sole purpose of torturing the game’s many annoying Koroks. The Zelda equivalent of Minions, the Koroks are small woodland creatures hidden all over the game’s map that, when found, reward you with a piece of their poop. No, seriously.
As with all the NPCs in The Legend of Zelda series, Koroks can’t be killed, but there is still a certain sick satisfaction to be found in launching them into space or even just dropping rocks on their heads.
Or, you know, stepping on them with a 390-foot water-dwelling dinosaur works, too.
