When it comes to Zelda weaponry, the old 'uns are generally the best 'uns in our book. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild might give you a wealth of cool swords and spears and glowing Guardian blades to experiment with, but once you get your mitts on the Master Sword — the series' sacred blade — it can be hard to go back to using anything else.
Pulling the Blade of Evil's Bane from its stone in the forest isn't simply a case of giving it a firm yank — you'll need have collected a not-inconsiderable 13 hearts before you have the strength to wield it. Well, that was the case, although a newly discovered glitch lets you collect the sword regardless of how much many hearts you've got.
Using just a campfire (which you create by dropping some wood at your chosen spot and setting fire to it) to 'rest', it's possible to take the sword from the stone simply by mashing the 'A' button as you awaken after some bye-byes. Apparently discovered by Bot_W on Twitter, we haven't tried it ourselves just yet, but Gaming Reinvented has and has made a video showing just how easy it is:
Once you have access to Korok Forest, you simple sleep at a campfire on the sword's triangular plinth and hammer the 'A' button when you wake up. You'll grab the Master Sword without the requisite number of hearts and will be free to unleash its awesome power much sooner in the game than you 'should'.
Good news for everyone, then! Well, not for the various monsters and ne'er-do-wells in the game, but don't worry — they're digital. Just recently we saw that the Yiga Clan will happily grab the Master Sword if a glitch is used to make them spawn in Korok Forest, so it seems the bad guys have an opportunity to become the hero of Hyrule, too.
Let us know below if you've tried out this glitch below.
[source twitter.com, via gamingreinvented.com]
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Cool but how do people discover these things? I mean, who just went “Yeah, I’m going to drop a campfire in a certain range of a specific area then mash A and maybe something will happen. Cool.”
There are already speedruns incorporating this into their run!
https://www.speedrun.com/botw/run/y6dw3n1m
Though it's not yet the fastest run, there was a different method for getting early master sword before.
Or download a walkthrough guild and it will save you having to think to much. A bit like doing today's crossword, when you have tomorrows news paper with the solutions. 🙃
@wanderwonder well, once a game has been out for so many years, hundreds of players will try a plethora of ways to break it.
Fascinating that this simple method took so long to figure out!
(wonders about what "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" was the subject of this article (a Nintendo Wii U game or a Nintendo Switch game))
That's ridiculously simple, I gotta try this lol
Honestly, after seeing so many hidden tricks and glitches for this game, especially recently, it seems like replaying BoTW to try them out would make the game an entirely new experience
This is awesome as I'm playing a three hearts mastermode run and having to change them to hearts and back to get the master sword with the statue person would be a pain
That’s great, now if anyone has any glitches for the trial of the Sword (first DLC), that would be helpful
But can you make a Yiga clan member drop whatever is yoiking before it disappears... hmmmm
I tried this several times and it doesn’t work.
@wanderwonder Unloading areas to perform frame perfect tricks (usually through mashing) has been around since OOT, possibly even further back than that in the series. With older games, things were unloaded in the next room, so finding ways into those rooms without hitting the triggers was the key, but now everything is loaded for a considerable distance around Link, and going to sleep is the only option for unloading the area. I'm surprised it's taken this long to find honestly, it's such a simple glitch to perform in a game with some of the most bat ***** insane tricks going!
@Gerald There's already out-of-bounds glitches you can use to cheese all 3 levels of the Trials. All you have to do is beat a Hynox with a metal crate each time & you're set.
Look them up on Youtube.😉
I’ve also tried this twice and it didn’t work (I’m at 5 hearts). Is there something I’m missing? Has anyone actually confirmed that this works outside of this video?
I'll play it the way it was meant to be played.
Genius, maybe I can hold the world record for a longrun. The game's been out for like 4 years and I still haven't beaten the main quest.
But does it work in Master Mode though 🤔
@Gerald Agreed - the Trials really soured the game for me. I haven't been back since I ran into it. I know it's optional but this kind of crap is throughout the game. I loathe when they make things unnecessarily hard just to pad the game.
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