Recall isn’t just an ability that turns gears the other way, and if you remember its existence, you may wield it like a finely tuned weapon. It’s one of the most versatile abilities inThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, but you have to think outside the box before you start to realize some of its more unconventional uses.
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You may already know that you can ride the falling ruins back into the sky with Recall, but did you know that you can actually turn Recall into a weapon by turning enemy attacks back against them? Experimenting with the abilities given to you by the Zonai Arm is a great way to figure out some unconventional means of playing.
7Throw Projectiles Back At Enemies
A handful of enemies will throw massive boulders at you in Tears of the Kingdom, and among them are Stone Taluses and Boss Bokoblins. If you’re fast enough on the trigger when activating Recall you can send these boulders right back at them. In the case of Stone Taluses, this will stun them long enough that you can run underneath them and use ascend to get up to their weak point.
As for Boss Bokoblins, you can use this tactic to damage them with their own attacks. Although you do risk getting hit if you aren’t fast enough at activating Recall, this method is technically a bit safer than charging in head first and encourages you to look at combat in a new and unique way.
6Cheat At Mini-Games
Sure, for a lot of mini-games, such as the training mini-game just next to Cuho Mountain in Hebra, or the Sandseal Plush Pick-up mini-game,your first inclination might be to just use Ultrahand. You’re still using the game’s mechanic, but you could make things easier if you opted for Recall instead.
Coaxing an object back into place or back in time (just as Sonia explains during a Dragon Tear memory), means that you’re shifting its position, and you’re able to stop it at any point by canceling your Recall. This is significantly easier than trying to catching things in midair and drop them into the goal before you have to get the next one.
If you’re able to switch between Ultrahand and Recall fast enough you can even use them both and get record times.
5Skip Through Most Of A Shrine
Although you can’t use Recall to cheese your way through every shrine in Tears of the Kingdom, there are a few that, if you’re thinking creatively enough, are made much easier by using both Recall and Ultrahand.
Use Ultrahand to pick up a platform and push it to where you need to go before dropping it back at your feet, hop on and use Recall on it, and suddenly you may skip most of the shrine.
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These two mechanics work hand in hand to make solving shrines just that much easier and although it might not be the ‘intended’ solution, it works just as well (if not better) and you’re still rewarded for it.
4Take Black And White Photos
Tears of the Kingdom is a beautiful and colorful game, but sometimes you might want to tap into something a little more retro or highlight Link in the landscape. to do so, you can drop something of screen and wiggle it around long enough that Recall will be busy for a little while.
Once Recall is activated on that item, the world, Link aside, will turn black and white, and you can snap some neat and unique images. Pin them inthe gallery room of your houseor wherever you might be able to hand some photos (like the Gerudo Canyon Stable).
3Stalling Momentum In Flight
If you need to stall in midair while youwait for the Light Dragon to get close to you, or you want to make a perfect landing in a very specific spot then Recall is a great way to do that. It will keep you suspended in both time and place for an extended period of time at, generally, the same level.
If you’re riding something like a Hover Bike, then it will stall the fans in midair, so you don’t have to hop off of the Steering Stick and end up paragliding. Chances are that the times you’ll need to use this ability are niche and hyper-specific to certain moments, but knowing that you have the option, and it’s in your wheelhouse will open your eyes to future possibilities.
2Take To The Skies
The physics in Tears of the Kingdom can be a little bit finicky at times, and with the right placement and stored kinetic energy, you can do some truly wild things without even touching a Zonai device. Take a wooden spear, attach a square wooden panel to it and throw it over the edge of a long rectangular wooden panel.
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Pause time momentarily with Recall and immediately switch over to Ultrahand to grab your plank-spear and fuse it to the rectangular panel with Ultrahand, after which you’re able to hop onto the rectangular panel. If you did it right, you can activate Recall on the spear, which will cause the entire fusion to lift and then launch you higher than a Skyview tower is capable of.
Try thisona sky island, and you may end up hitting the height limit of the game. This might take a few tries to get right, but it is completely doable.
1Retrieve Fallen Items Before They Despawn
Recall has an absolutely absurd range, which means if you accidentally throw something off the side of a cliff or watch as yourDiamondsor monster parts go falling into the Depths you might be able to catch them if you’re precise enough with your Recall.
Whenever you activate it, time pauses long enough for you to try and hover the crosshair over your falling item, at which point all you have to do is wait for it to return to you where you’re able to grab it out of the air with Ultrahand (if needed). Just try to catch the item before it’s too far out of range or else you’ll risk it despawning and, well, you can’t really do anything about that.
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