You can’t pet the dog inTears of the Kingdom, which might sound upsetting at first, but most celebrated that fact since it’s a feature often used to score brownie points online. But that doesn’t mean that everyone stopped there and moved on with their adventures in Hyrule. Other, more creative people, put together machines that would do it for them. While some of you aretorturing Koroks,building orbital canons, andthirsting over Purah, Twitter user Noah put together a contraption that moves a wheel attached to a stick back and forth so that it strokes the dog like a mechanical arm. They use hot air balloons to keep the stick in place and spin it by rotating a larger wheel. The dog seems to like it, but it’s a bit rough.RELATED:Nintendo’s Zelda Patents Are The Polar Opposite Of InnovationIt’s awkward watching Link linger around while he blankly stares at his industrial dog petting machine, but it’s just further proof that Tears of the Kingdom’s only major limitation is your own creativity. People said you couldn’t pet the dog, so Noah challenged themselves to prove that wrong. And now we can all go away and build our own dog petters. More accurately, people will find a way to make this into a Korok murder machine.
If you don’t fancy putting together a big machine to pet the dog, there’s a simpler way. As pointed out by @QuillerKween, readying an item to throw sees Link put his hand out, which you can then use to move back and forward. It’s not technically petting the dog, but it’s close enough.
Now that we’ve found a way to pet the dog, we need to find a way to make a mechanical dog that pets us. At the rate at which creations are getting more complex and bizarre, I doubt it’ll take long before we hit that pivotal moment in Tears of the Kingdom’s history. This is the same game where players are putting together tanks and Macross Frontiers to decimate bosses - they’re more reliable than a stick, at least.
Let’s just be grateful we can’t attach the dog to our machines, yeah? You’re meant to pick up Koroks to help them find their friends, usually by sticking them in a car or a boat, but people quickly put them on timed explosive rockets and flung them into the sky. Thank god we don’t have to watch people do that to a poor dog.
