ikr. I met the hands already (definitly way more difficult then i thought) but i didn't think there would be a sub boss. Sure that in of itself is spoiler but thats like a "huh cool" sort of thing and i still get to see for myself what it is :D
Man, Austin John is always like the helpful friend you meet every now and then and hang out with, that shows you cool new secrets in games and neat stuff to collect Thanks so much for the videos!
Personally I just went across the water instead of around the edge, they did appear at the top of the rocks waiting for me as I climbed but after a few seconds they went away, clearly de-aggro'd.
Honest question Austin, do you actually get to enjoy these wonderful games? You pump these videos out so fast that I feel bad the community kinda makes you speed run your adventures. Hope you're enjoying Tears of the Kingdom as much as we all are!
That’s a good question. I’ve always just thought he likes helping out people like me who get stuck on the silliest of things. Though I’m sure he also loves looking for new things in the game that nobody else has ever done. That seems like a great experience to me.
Thank you SO much for this video! I lost my Hylian Shield who-knows-where and I was SO upset I couldn’t get it back in the Castle. Thank you so much for posting this! ❤
1. Equip weapon to dupe 2. Hard save 3. Drop weapon you want to dupe, equip any other of the same type (sword, bow, shield) 4. Unpause and pause again as quickly as possible, will take a few tries at first 5. Drop newly equipped weapon 6. Load the hard save you made previously 7. If done correctly, profit
Hey you know there’s an easier way to get the shield where you can avoid the hand monster. If you go to about where you meet the captain of the search party for link and Zelda, if you climb down a few feet you will find the tunnel that is right behind where you get the shield
3:30 it does seem like the walls were made like that for that reason. knowing how much detail they put in i wouldn’t be surprised. however even if they didn’t they would say “well we intended so there can be multiple solutions to one thing”
Hey Austin just wanted to leave a comment how helpful you’ve been in your videos throughout the years, it got me through BotW and TotK to almost completion for the games and every single tutorial or explanation was better than other youtubers. Austin, thanks for giving us tips and other information about games, Goodbye!
If you remember from BOTW the library had a passageway to the docks behind one of the bookcases. You can still remove that bookcase and it opens up to the outside. If you paraglide from the opening, you can actually find the opening to the passageway to the docks. You can fly in, light your torch and get the Hylian shield without having to face the Gloom Spawn (unless you want to face them) .I’ve seen several vids about getting the shield and no one seems to mention that way.
There's also a cave hidden almost directly above the brasier you need to light. From first guardhouse, go to the right and run around/paraglide to the north/northeastern rim to find the cave on a ledge. Go down some stairs and you're standing at the torches Edit: standing in the cave entrance, coordinates are -0135, 1085, 0064
Thank you AJ! Was looking for this since the game came out. Now that i have my safety net to recover this beauty i can finally get it. You got a new sub from me good sir keep it up
First time I ran into the gloom death hands is at the beginning of the game ABOVE GROUND. Had no idea what it was. That music started playing and they chased me down….I stood no chance with my 5 hearts. I thought I was in a horror game for a second. True story…never touched a chasm since I thought that’s what they were on the map until the Josha mission which I didn’t do until 2 temples in…
I'm so glad you had this video. During a lynel fight my Hylian shield became "damaged and about to break". Off to Death Mountain I go. Thank you for the information.
A few days ago i saw a post on the totk reddit asking where the shield was without a direct answer. One person commented a riddle that was: where once a hidden shrine was risen by fire, now lays a chest with the bounty you desire. People are amazing sometimes.
Wonder if bargainer statues in the depths sell it like Cece does (but for poes). Not the aboveground one. I know they sell rare stuff too like some of the amiibo items you've obtained before
🤣 So in TOTK, they DID implement something with Hyrule castle similar to BOTW - although lighting the same torch in the back on BOTW actually made a shrine pop up from the ground. Man now I'm really dying to get this game !!!!!! 🙂
I hot this blue shirt with a lobster on it as a side quest that has heat resistance. You find it on a side quest looking through chest in Lucelin Village after you destroy the monsters and restore it. It's sweet...as the boys wanted to find it for their dad...and he gives it to Link. As he found his old one and his wife removed the stain. LOL.
The bug with the shield not being available at all if you don't take it out of the chest and fast travel away sounds scary, I hope they fixed that in one of the patches...
FASTER/EASIER WAY TO GET THE SHIELD: From Lookout Landing head north to the castle. Activate the shrine along the way for a fast travel spot for later. After the main gate turn northeast and go up to the very top of the non-floating area. (Could also go northwest and speak to Hoz to get that done to, either before or after getting the shield. Either way it’s easy to get to both from that top layer) If you go right around -133, 1125 coords and face the chasm the castle floats over, look for a decayed stone pathway leading to the edge of the chasm. Directly under is a cave, go in and you’re right at the spot up need to be to shoot the arrow. Minimal climbing (ascend is your friend!) no ultra hand or rafts needed, no gloom hand run ins. You may see a wizzrobe or two along the outer edges of the eastern side, just avoid them and they won’t even mess with you.
Oh you went around the long way - I used the sky tower to fly to the castle - and there's a great amount of powerful loot inside and you can scale down from there
Those gloom hands are seriously spooky creepy the guardians of botw made me uneasy when I saw them but then hands racing out of the shadows is nightmare worthy
This is great info. I was wonder how to replace it, but the fact I can repair is even better! Thanks, man. Now, how do you find ME? I’ll give you a hint: I’m in one of the depths coliseums, and it’s a hell of a fight!
Suggestion: you should do a " best vehicles in totk" I made one with three small tire's and the steering stick, two tires upfront on the sides and one on the back of the steering stick, it has very low battery consumption decently fast and can be used as a boat " if you put a fan on it" and if you don't have the materials for it, it only costs 12 zoniate, so super cheap
I just spent hours in hyrule castle searching for this shield on my own. Thinking oh there's only so many places it could be.... then I cleared the whole thing and still didn't find it. I can't believe it was this simple🤣🤦♀️
personally, i use the crystal for a tower, chest for important places i need to check out, the little diamond waypoint thing for shrines (which he does in that video, there’s a shine at that diamond thing on his map), and then skulls for mini bosses
You hit hard save before open chest to pickup shield, then do a dupe glitch throw on ground, load game before chest was open pickup up duped shield. Now the shield always there for you to pickup.
I was told that you couldn't re get the sheild in totk and I was kind of scared to use it. Until I decided to search it up and than I saw this video so I'm all good now.
i got into hyrule castle using a piece of fallen rubble that fell in castle town so i had a short glide and did not need to eat stam recovering food to get into the castle. woo
Oh my god. I'd paused the video right when you got the shield to go get my own shield (I'd just kept forgetting about it, when I saw this video I was like "oh, right, I should go get that"), used the board/fan combo to get there (and I still don't have any of those steering thingies and don't know where to find any, so I had to keep detaching and repositioning the fan when I ran into a wall), got the shield, then I continue the video and THEN you say you can use Tulin's power. Whom I literally have out at this very moment lol edit: in case anyone hasn't said it yet, you don't even need to do anything with the gloom hands to get the hylian shield. just... light the torch and the chest will appear, i literally just did it like that and it worked. (I still did the gloom hands despawn trick to get the dark clumps, but _after_ I'd already gotten the shield)
Bro we had the same thought: Wait dont go get it yet cuz it will be better later Man I didnt know about the whole other stuff you explained beforehand tysm! Btw havent had wifi for a while so just now do I get to comment this
gloom hands get easier once you get more items. I usually just send lots of bomb infused arrows at them. Now I can easily access it. Namely going to the depths. But if you do this early. It would be way harder if you don't have things.
The Poe statue things also seem to sell some unique items i haven't tried with the shield yet, possibly they only sell amiibo items too once you've gotten them once?? I know that a few items i got like the sea-breeze shield and boomerang were for sale at the poe's
I am just watching it to try to see....I would love to get the Hylian Shield and champion's tunic. Which I know where the tunic is...just have to feel like getting it.
Great tutorial! For the record, I think the hands are actually called floor masters, especially since they look almost exactly like the floor masters from windwaker!
These are different enemies. I thought the same thing, though! They are officially named “gloom stalkers” and when you kill them, they spawn a miniboss enemy (I will not spoil what it is though).
I loved playing this game spoiler free, i discovered the shield totally accidentally after i beat phantom ganon i was walking past that giant unlit torch and every instinct went off in my head and was like i should probably light that and bam the shield came up
I am trying to get Zelda's Golden Horse...last of the princess sidequests I have...I just made a bunch of stamina exliir's as you need so much to calm it. And I have 2 full wheels of stamina (and 15 hearts. Did lots of shrines. Still trying to find more)
Austin is my go-to creator. Always clear, concise, and avoids unnecessary spoilers.
100%!! Best in the game in my opinion 😊
ikr. I met the hands already (definitly way more difficult then i thought) but i didn't think there would be a sub boss. Sure that in of itself is spoiler but thats like a "huh cool" sort of thing and i still get to see for myself what it is :D
fr
As I searched for how to find the hylian shield, i got this notification from my subscribed channels. This was meant to be.
Tell me about it
That octorok has been injesting mine for too many times
I did the same exact thing
Does anyone know if the Durability up ++ or the Shield up +10 is better for the Hylian shield in TOTK?
@@MrJonnnnnnie shield up 10 because hylian shield got pretty high durability it lasted me trough the whole game but i dint used it all the time
Bruh
Prayers answered
Also if you talk to Cece while wearing the Hylian hood she gives you the option to wear it with the hood down
Thanks. Was wondering about that but kept forgetting to look it up
ARE YOU FR BRO, MY ASS HAS BEEN WONDERING IF THAT COULD EVER BE AN OPTION LMAO
YESS!!! THEY MADE IT AN OPTION!!
I need that (Im not that far lmao)
@@timothyshoup5044 u have too do the whole quest first
I always appreciate the spoiler free or minimal spoilers in your videos
This is the best channel. 🎉
Man, Austin John is always like the helpful friend you meet every now and then and hang out with, that shows you cool new secrets in games and neat stuff to collect
Thanks so much for the videos!
Hey, no need to mess with the gloom hands at all, if you go around them. You just need to light the fire and the chest will pop up.
Me run. Too spooky.
Personally I just went across the water instead of around the edge, they did appear at the top of the rocks waiting for me as I climbed but after a few seconds they went away, clearly de-aggro'd.
i farm ganons for weapons so i need to mess with them
Honest question Austin, do you actually get to enjoy these wonderful games? You pump these videos out so fast that I feel bad the community kinda makes you speed run your adventures. Hope you're enjoying Tears of the Kingdom as much as we all are!
Commenting for traction
Same ^
That’s a good question. I’ve always just thought he likes helping out people like me who get stuck on the silliest of things.
Though I’m sure he also loves looking for new things in the game that nobody else has ever done. That seems like a great experience to me.
I think he gets the game early from Nintendo so I’m sure he fully enjoys the game before he begins making these videos
he's doing us a huge favor, without him i don't think we would have been able to find out most of these things
Thank you SO much for this video! I lost my Hylian Shield who-knows-where and I was SO upset I couldn’t get it back in the Castle. Thank you so much for posting this! ❤
Right. I'm still confused on how I lost it 😂
Hey Austin, not sure if you're aware but the duplication glitch you showcased for materials can be used on weapons and shields as well
How?
How?
how
1. Equip weapon to dupe
2. Hard save
3. Drop weapon you want to dupe, equip any other of the same type (sword, bow, shield)
4. Unpause and pause again as quickly as possible, will take a few tries at first
5. Drop newly equipped weapon
6. Load the hard save you made previously
7. If done correctly, profit
@@breadwhaler and you can do it with your weapon, your bow and your shield, in the same try. Triple profit!
Best Zelda Tutorial TH-camr. Thank you so much AJP!
You straight up have the best, most useful content on all of TH-cam. Masterful work. Concise and to the point.
Just started watching these and I gotta say much appreciated man. Learning how to do anything in this game as a newbie is stressing me out lol.
Hey you know there’s an easier way to get the shield where you can avoid the hand monster. If you go to about where you meet the captain of the search party for link and Zelda, if you climb down a few feet you will find the tunnel that is right behind where you get the shield
He didn't even need to go near the gloom hands
I just jumped and glided over to the other side of the room entirely and climbed the wall to get the shield
Watching the video it seemed like he didn’t even have to challenge the gloom hands? Seems like when he climbed up he was at that platform
I think he just wanted to show an easy way to get rid of them.
Love your videos so much. You’ve help so much in any game I play
After more than 130 hours, its good to know how to get the shield. This helps a lot, thanks!
3:30 it does seem like the walls were made like that for that reason. knowing how much detail they put in i wouldn’t be surprised.
however even if they didn’t they would say “well we intended so there can be multiple solutions to one thing”
Hey Austin just wanted to leave a comment how helpful you’ve been in your videos throughout the years, it got me through BotW and TotK to almost completion for the games and every single tutorial or explanation was better than other youtubers.
Austin, thanks for giving us tips and other information about games, Goodbye!
austin john plays the only creator i go to for nintendo games, always comes through with guides and content but never spoils it, bless you
If you remember from BOTW the library had a passageway to the docks behind one of the bookcases. You can still remove that bookcase and it opens up to the outside. If you paraglide from the opening, you can actually find the opening to the passageway to the docks. You can fly in, light your torch and get the Hylian shield without having to face the Gloom Spawn (unless you want to face them) .I’ve seen several vids about getting the shield and no one seems to mention that way.
I just duplicated 6 of them, but good to know where to upgrade and repair them :)
I got 12 shields just bc lol
The way Austin says water “wooder” makes me happy. Gives me Chrisfixit vibes
There's also a cave hidden almost directly above the brasier you need to light. From first guardhouse, go to the right and run around/paraglide to the north/northeastern rim to find the cave on a ledge. Go down some stairs and you're standing at the torches
Edit: standing in the cave entrance, coordinates are
-0135, 1085, 0064
Thank you AJ! Was looking for this since the game came out. Now that i have my safety net to recover this beauty i can finally get it. You got a new sub from me good sir keep it up
First time I ran into the gloom death hands is at the beginning of the game ABOVE GROUND. Had no idea what it was. That music started playing and they chased me down….I stood no chance with my 5 hearts. I thought I was in a horror game for a second.
True story…never touched a chasm since I thought that’s what they were on the map until the Josha mission which I didn’t do until 2 temples in…
I've been wearing the archeaic shirt for my whole run sofar just because i love the style! right now I've also paired it with the charged trousers.
I wish this guy played all the games I play cause his walkthroughs and help videos are perfect
You sir are a god send, for this and all your efforts into making guides for various series.
Can't wait till I get this game on Thursday it's gonna be awesome!
Love how u just get straight to the point so it's not so much spiolers❤
I'm so glad you had this video. During a lynel fight my Hylian shield became "damaged and about to break". Off to Death Mountain I go. Thank you for the information.
A few days ago i saw a post on the totk reddit asking where the shield was without a direct answer. One person commented a riddle that was: where once a hidden shrine was risen by fire, now lays a chest with the bounty you desire. People are amazing sometimes.
Wonder if bargainer statues in the depths sell it like Cece does (but for poes). Not the aboveground one. I know they sell rare stuff too like some of the amiibo items you've obtained before
I literally was just searching this and saw the notification for this upload! You're the best man!
FYI you don’t have to kill the miniboss. You can just skip it and go straight to the brazier.
Another banger, thank you for being so dedicated
Hey Austin, you first need a blue or wite modifier on your shield before you can get the yellow modifier.
How do you get the 144 power hylian shield?
This is so good! Gonna repair the Hylian Shield then make copies of it using the glitch. Thanks!
I lost mine getting shocked by an electric lizalfos and didn't realize until it was too late. Pissed me off bad it had plenty of durability left.
Ok but how did the horse just get summoned like that?
Amibos
How did you summon the horse? Been playing for 40 hours, and I had no idea you could do that. I always get my horse for the stables.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. I've looked all over the internet this is the only time I've ever seen this horse summoning
🤣 So in TOTK, they DID implement something with Hyrule castle similar to BOTW - although lighting the same torch in the back on BOTW actually made a shrine pop up from the ground. Man now I'm really dying to get this game !!!!!! 🙂
I hot this blue shirt with a lobster on it as a side quest that has heat resistance. You find it on a side quest looking through chest in Lucelin Village after you destroy the monsters and restore it. It's sweet...as the boys wanted to find it for their dad...and he gives it to Link. As he found his old one and his wife removed the stain. LOL.
The bug with the shield not being available at all if you don't take it out of the chest and fast travel away sounds scary, I hope they fixed that in one of the patches...
FASTER/EASIER WAY TO GET THE SHIELD:
From Lookout Landing head north to the castle. Activate the shrine along the way for a fast travel spot for later. After the main gate turn northeast and go up to the very top of the non-floating area. (Could also go northwest and speak to Hoz to get that done to, either before or after getting the shield. Either way it’s easy to get to both from that top layer)
If you go right around -133, 1125 coords and face the chasm the castle floats over, look for a decayed stone pathway leading to the edge of the chasm. Directly under is a cave, go in and you’re right at the spot up need to be to shoot the arrow.
Minimal climbing (ascend is your friend!) no ultra hand or rafts needed, no gloom hand run ins. You may see a wizzrobe or two along the outer edges of the eastern side, just avoid them and they won’t even mess with you.
this is completely true, thank you!
Here are the coords for the cave entrance:
-0144 1085 0063
this is helpful, thanks!
Oh you went around the long way - I used the sky tower to fly to the castle - and there's a great amount of powerful loot inside and you can scale down from there
I love the,”I kind of want to know where he is comment.” So true!
i tried it in botw not too long ago, didnt seem to repair, but glad they added this to the game, hopefully its not a bug
THANK YOU AUSTIN!!!! i was nearly crapping my pants the whole time because i was so scared but i got it and i didn’t even see gloom hands 🎉
i remember watching you alot for botw and as soon as i got to play totk i came back to watch you
Those gloom hands are seriously spooky creepy the guardians of botw made me uneasy when I saw them but then hands racing out of the shadows is nightmare worthy
AUSTIN YOU ARE A KING! i lost my shield thanks to you i can rest assured i will get it back!! love you dude
This is great info. I was wonder how to replace it, but the fact I can repair is even better! Thanks, man. Now, how do you find ME? I’ll give you a hint: I’m in one of the depths coliseums, and it’s a hell of a fight!
Lynels
Gonna repair my Hylian Shield thanks, I'll be saving a Dinraal Spike by doing that
Suggestion: you should do a " best vehicles in totk" I made one with three small tire's and the steering stick, two tires upfront on the sides and one on the back of the steering stick, it has very low battery consumption decently fast and can be used as a boat " if you put a fan on it" and if you don't have the materials for it, it only costs 12 zoniate, so super cheap
I went back to where u get it in botw and had to defeat the gloom hands for the first time😭 , AND ALL FOR A FABRIC FOR PARAGLIDER
I appreciated the placement of the Dusk Bow in the castle
I am not even playing tears, im still watching Austin
if you go in through the northeast side of the castle (waterfall by kings study roughly) you can do this without running into the gloom hands
I spend my days off watching your vids and collecting, you are awesome Austin!
I just spent hours in hyrule castle searching for this shield on my own. Thinking oh there's only so many places it could be.... then I cleared the whole thing and still didn't find it. I can't believe it was this simple🤣🤦♀️
Can you do an explanation on what you use all the map marker symbols for? I need a better system than I’ve been using
personally, i use the crystal for a tower, chest for important places i need to check out, the little diamond waypoint thing for shrines (which he does in that video, there’s a shine at that diamond thing on his map), and then skulls for mini bosses
Thanks for this. I have been holding on to my shield for dear life because I didn't know how to get it back.
i had it and it was probably the first thing i went and did in my game and i must of dropped it or something and lost it so now i had to rebuy it
Remember the great flame blade, lizalfos, and secret shrine here? Good times
Thanks again Austin
Love your videos dude they've helped alot! Keep up the good work my man!
I keep trying to repair my weapons but Tulin keeps sniping the Octorok when I approach it 😭
I just found this dude and I’m hooked ! 💪. Keep it up bro
You hit hard save before open chest to pickup shield, then do a dupe glitch throw on ground, load game before chest was open pickup up duped shield. Now the shield always there for you to pickup.
Austin John = magic....thanks for the vids
I was told that you couldn't re get the sheild in totk and I was kind of scared to use it. Until I decided to search it up and than I saw this video so I'm all good now.
Very reliable game guide
My hylian shield took only 2 days to break on the ganon fight😅
About to get it soon thanks Austin 👍 just got the Champions Leathers looks sweet btw and gonna be lookin even sweeter
i got into hyrule castle using a piece of fallen rubble that fell in castle town so i had a short glide and did not need to eat stam recovering food to get into the castle. woo
Oh my god. I'd paused the video right when you got the shield to go get my own shield (I'd just kept forgetting about it, when I saw this video I was like "oh, right, I should go get that"), used the board/fan combo to get there (and I still don't have any of those steering thingies and don't know where to find any, so I had to keep detaching and repositioning the fan when I ran into a wall), got the shield, then I continue the video and THEN you say you can use Tulin's power. Whom I literally have out at this very moment lol
edit: in case anyone hasn't said it yet, you don't even need to do anything with the gloom hands to get the hylian shield. just... light the torch and the chest will appear, i literally just did it like that and it worked. (I still did the gloom hands despawn trick to get the dark clumps, but _after_ I'd already gotten the shield)
Have to hit that subscribe after all your help with Pokémon violet now all this Zelda content 🔥thanks man
Definitely need a money guide, I know only you can do it ⭐️
300,000+ rupees....bro you been putting in work!
Bro we had the same thought: Wait dont go get it yet cuz it will be better later
Man I didnt know about the whole other stuff you explained beforehand tysm! Btw havent had wifi for a while so just now do I get to comment this
gloom hands get easier once you get more items. I usually just send lots of bomb infused arrows at them. Now I can easily access it. Namely going to the depths. But if you do this early. It would be way harder if you don't have things.
The Poe statue things also seem to sell some unique items i haven't tried with the shield yet, possibly they only sell amiibo items too once you've gotten them once?? I know that a few items i got like the sea-breeze shield and boomerang were for sale at the poe's
This looks like the exact spot where the Saas Ko'sah shrine was in BOTW. We had to light the flame pillar to make it appear iirc.
I appreciate this video, thank you AustinJohn 💚
You're awesome Austin John! Thank you!
I dropped my shield in a shrine when I was electrocuted, but I forgot to pick it up before leaving. I cried.
I just remembered that the docs and the library were connected and I have found a mutch easier way xD
I am just watching it to try to see....I would love to get the Hylian Shield and champion's tunic. Which I know where the tunic is...just have to feel like getting it.
"It's a castle, with a moat
How I get Across...Boat."
By the way you don’t need to interact with the gloom hands at all, you can go to the torch right away
Wow the final boss did a lot of damage it almost broke the shield in like 10 or so hits like wow
I put over 400 hours into the game before looking into guides. Still haven’t found the Hylian Shield and didn’t even know it was in the game 😂
Thx bro my hyliand sheild broke and I was worried af on how to get it back
Thank you, Ganondorf broke mine and I was scared I wouldn't be able to get a new one
Great tutorial!
For the record, I think the hands are actually called floor masters, especially since they look almost exactly like the floor masters from windwaker!
These are different enemies. I thought the same thing, though! They are officially named “gloom stalkers” and when you kill them, they spawn a miniboss enemy (I will not spoil what it is though).
Instructions came too late. Ended up fighting said boss 😂😂😂. Great video though. Definitely follow this guide.
How did he instantly summon that horse? I don't have that ability in the game...
Ok I'm going to feel really silly after researching this...@1:38 I had no idea you could summon a horse lol
I loved playing this game spoiler free, i discovered the shield totally accidentally after i beat phantom ganon i was walking past that giant unlit torch and every instinct went off in my head and was like i should probably light that and bam the shield came up
I am trying to get Zelda's Golden Horse...last of the princess sidequests I have...I just made a bunch of stamina exliir's as you need so much to calm it. And I have 2 full wheels of stamina (and 15 hearts. Did lots of shrines. Still trying to find more)