Highlights
- A player in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom built a battle-ready Guardian Stalker, a terrifying enemy from Breath of the Wild.
- Guardians are absent in Tears of the Kingdom, but one player recreated the Guardian Stalker using the game’s building mechanics.
- The machine is assembled with meticulous detail, using various materials and a popular combo of Zonai weapons for maximum effectiveness.
One particularly inventive player managed to build a battle-ready Guardian Stalker from Breath of the Wild in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Their convoluted contraption is just the latest in a long list of terrifying war machines that Tears of the Kingdom players have been building since the game’s debut.
Guardians are the only type of Breath of the Wild’s enemies that are nowhere to be found in the latest Zelda game. And while some players are hoping to see them return in a potential Tears of the Kingdom DLC, many are perfectly content with their omission. After all, these robotic creatures were capable of causing a lot of grief throughout Breath of the Wild and were particularly terrifying to encounter during the early sections of the game.
While Guardians are thus gone from Tears 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—using Tears of the Kingdom’s building 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. While killing Colgera in Tears of the Kingdom isn’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 current Tears of the Kingdom building 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 Kingdom is available on Nintendo Switch.
Source: Gamerant