#ztotk

[boozerman]

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom — (3/?)

[silversodas]

So….I just realized that Penn’s “little birds” that he gets information from at stables, are, in fact, little birds

I thought “little birds” was always just his code for employees at the stables or travelers he has on retainer. I didn’t notice until I got to the stable just outside Goron city (that’s where I took the picture above, sorry for the shit quality) I noticed he was mumbling to himself and realized that there where birds around his feet, that fly away if you get to close, he doesn’t look up till you talk to him though. The birds always go back after a few seconds.

He does this at A LOT of stables too! If he isn’t talking to a person he is talking to a group of little birds at his feet.

Also! The Rito people being able to communicate with regular birds makes perfect sense, but it’s something, I don’t know why, I never once considered

[linecrosser]

getting ready

[bonncy]

My fav outfit so far

[dooniichez]

I'm so normal about them

[overwatch]

[crunchyfield]

How tall is Link in Zelda Tears Of The Kingdom ?

This topic is always what most players wonder when playing a (new) Zelda game especially when Link looks shorter than almost every NPCs and entities.

But what surprises me the most is that many people in the community assume he is the same height as in ZBOTW or claim to have figured out his height based off of ZBOTW without elaborating much somehow which isn't satisfying at all.

We want to know Link's height in ZTOTK based off of ZTOTK information and tools.

What we want to be looking into at first is Link's canon height.Unfortunately, speaking to NPCs/reading diaries/looking for something's or someone's canon height didn't provide any type of canon reference to figure out Link's canon height (unlike in Breath of the Wild where a gerudo named Deltan stated she was 8 feet tall).

As a result we are going to work out Link's height using in-game measurements, to do so we'll manipulate the in-game coordinates :

These are important to calculate distances as well as measuring Link in those distance units.

It has been established for a while now that one distance unit displayed in the coordinates is equivalent to one meter.It is quite difficult to back up this statement but when talking to NPCs, those who quantify distances generally come up with the metric unit (I don't have a screenshot for proving it but if you talk to a brown skin traveler with an afro haircut and a rabbit shield in the French version of the game, he comes up with the metric unit at some point).

With that assumption in mind let's start off by looking for a reference (i.e: an object or something which will be used to determine Link's height), a wooden crate seems to be good one as we can approach its model with a cube on top of being experimentable on flat surfaces.

Now the idea is to approximate a wooden crate's height and to do it we have to measure many crates on top of each other with the altitude coordinate :

We could've measured 100 crates merged all together but the game reFUSEs to fuse more than 21 items together (I learnt it the hard way after spending around 600-ish zonaites to make sure the tests go right in any case) :

Ultimately 20 blocks were measured successfully on a flat surface in a maze so here are the altitude coordinate values at the surface level and at the 20th wooden crate level respectively :

Subtracting both coordinate values (111-71) we find out 20 crates are about 40 meters tall meaning that a crate is about 2 meters tall.

Then we can figure out Link's height by measuring him next to a crate.However in order to avoid any parallax issue we are going to locate a specific part of the wooden crate the top of Link's head reaches with a sample of screenshots from different angles :

(I took many more angles but to not overload this post we'll keep these 6 photos as a simple sample)

Thereafter, we can figure out the specific crate's portion the top of Link's head reaches (blue line) :

Finally we can calculate Link's height using some proportionality and pixel measurements :

Therefore Link is roughly 1.73 (5'8")meters tall, he is actually taller than 5'2" (1.58 m), still not surprising.

I smell sussy bakas coming up with Bread pirate's video from miles away so let me explain why the 5'2" is sort of wrong when it comes to Link's height in BOTW :

If we take a close look at where link is placed next to the metal box, we can see there is a parallax issue (i.e: the change in the apparent position of the metal box relative to Link being more distant, caused by the change in the picture's line of sight towards both Link and the metal box) which means Link is taller than what he was measured previously in BOTW :

Hereafter seem to be the specific part of the metal box the top of Link's head reaches in BOTW :

Thus recalculating Link's height in BOTW following Bread Pirate's method without the parallax issue suggests that Link is around 1.78 meters (5'10") :

Basically BOTW Link & TOTK Link are practically about the same height (5 centimeters are a little negligible in the game) empirically which in some way confirm "the not changed height" and why we could feel like Link is as tall in TOTK as in BOTW.

Now for more interpretations regarding other entities/NPCs in comparison to Link, I advice you to see this post :

Sidenote: Furthermore, taking errors and uncertainties into account we can find a range in which Link's true height in Tears of the Kingdom is included.

About the altitude coordinates we measured, those values are rounded up without shown decimal places which means that the first 71 altitude coordinate value actually ranges from 70.5 to 71.4 and that the second 111 altitude coordinate value ranges from 110.5 to 111.4 :

Besides, to find the uncertainty related to a wooden crate's height we determine the difference between the minimum gap/maximum gap and the rounded value found.Knowing that rounded value was 40 m then we get a 0.9 m variation from that value for the height of 20 crates implying the uncertainty of a single wooden crate's height would be 2 m ± 0.045 m.

As for the pixel measurements, it is generally one pixel variation for a numerical measurement tool such as in image editors.

So calculating the overall uncertainty for TOTK Link's height gives a height value ranging from 1.67 m (5'6") to 1.78 m (5'10"):

Link's height = 1.73 m ± 0.06 m

[gelu-the-babosa-multiversal]

Rauru notices you or something.

[foolnamedjoey]

I'm not going to pretend I know the lore, I just think they are really pretty...

[esperr]

Link tears of the kingdom icons

[ghostfacekid]

I hate to be that guy but..

The game isn’t even a month old, please stop posting spoilers for Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. I love seeing excitement back in the Zelda community but not all of us were able to drop hours and hours into the game yet because we are all adults now with different responsibilities and schedules.

It’s not just me either. I’ve seen plenty of other people genuinely discouraged to even play as much cause they already know what’s gonna happen and it is very demotivating.

Funny clips of deaths or whatever is fun to watch but I’m seeing countless fan arts and people straight up saying what happens in the main game.

“Just stop scrolling and play it then” sure, I get that argument, but a lot of us scroll on our breaks at work and are too tired to play the game when we get home or we have normal chores to attend to.

“A lot of us put Zelda spoilers in the tags” and a lot more don’t and most people include the tag because it gathers more views to posts too.

I’m not trying to shame creators or anyone wanting to post their art but please for the love of Hylia be courteous

Edit: some people posting spoilers don’t use spoiler tags as well which is also frustrating

[boozerman]

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom — (1/?)

[silversodas]

Me after walking into a boss fight by accident at Rito Village and gaining Tulin: OH SHIT! We get companions in this game!? Wait he’s like 12..Oh! I get his avatar, I get it, it’s a different flavor of the champion abilities.

Me leaving Rito village and Tulins ghost thing scares the shit outta me: OH OK! I guess I do get a companion? Oh he fights things with me!! I guess Nintendo didn’t want to risk an annoying companion situation. But…it would have been a good story telling detail though, I wish I could draw better, I could make an entire comic series about Link and him gaining his yeet Gannon team.

Also is it just me, or was it a little weird how that ancestor was acting? It just felt…off? And it really bothered me that his entire face was covered by that mask, I couldn’t even see his beak move as he talked.

Also the vows with the rings thing is…interesting

Me going into death mountain with Yanobo: ok, I am fully behind Nintendo’s decision to make them ghosts that fallow you around now, YANOBO! MY HOME SLICE, BREAD SLICE, DOG! DO YOU HAVE TO BE STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME AT ALL TIMES??! I AM TRYING TO WALK HOMMIE!!

(He pushed me into the fucking lava)

Ok, it’s kinda sweet that Yanobo gets panicked whenever I get knocked down and asks if I am ok

Meeting the sage of fire: oh yay, the creepy masks again, seriously the fact that I can’t see your mouth moving is really bothering me for some reason.

Yanobo giving his vow: oh sweet, instead of a handshake he is giving me a fist bump…and it’s sealed with..another ring, cool

Me derping around, then getting a brick to the face realization while thinking about vows and remembering that rings represent BINDING: I DONT OWN THEIR FUCKING SOULS RIGHT!?!?

[nireleet]

Recent doodles: I saw Spiderverse and everyone knows who the best characters are and I think Link should wear MORE crop tops.

[bonncy]

big boy

[lycheefruiit]

Someone send help- I introduced my friend to Zelda : Tears Of The Kingdom a while ago now and within the WEEK I showed it to them, they had gone out and bought the game. Which then lead to me getting to see their account slowly change into a Link bible.

I then got bombarded by videos and fanart they made of the game.

I've never been prouder of someone oml-