Summary
- Taming wild horses in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom can be challenging due to their skittish nature and the limited stamina of Link early in the game.
- Freezing wild horses using a specific trick called Fuse can make taming them easier and safer, as Link can sneak up on them without being kicked or attracting enemies.
- The innovative design of TOTK allows players to discover new ways to use Link's abilities, and there is plenty of content to explore in the game until future DLC releases.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom doesn't gift Link a horse like other games in the series, such as Ocarina of Time. Instead, he has to tame wild horses and bring them to a stable if he wants to use them later. With how skittish horses in TOTK are, this tends to be easier said than done. Additionally, Link won't always have enough stamina to tame wild horses early in the game.
Taming horses in Tears of the Kingdom varies in difficulty as horses with different coats and patterns can be harder to tame than others. Getting Zelda's Golden Horse in TOTK is particularly tough because of how early Link is asked to do so, how much stamina is required to tame it, and how close to a Gleeok location it is. The problem is that horses are basically essential for travel due to the overwhelming size of TOTK's map, and taming them might be easier than it seems.
Taming Wild Horses Is Easy Using A Specific TOTK Trick
Link gets five new abilities in Zelda: TOTK, and Fuse has endless uses thanks to the impressive physics system designed by Nintendo's developers. By Fusing items with a freeze effect, like White ChuChu Jelly, to an arrow and shooting a wild horse, Link has time to sneak up on it without making it run away. Then, when the freeze effect wears off, Link can mount the wild horse without issue.
Benefits Of Freezing Wild Horses In Zelda: TOTK
Using Fuse to freeze the wild horses means that Link isn't at risk of being kicked when trying to mount them, or have to worry about them running away to start the process all over again. The other benefit is that Link doesn't need to worry about attracting enemies that the horse runs into because he has a measure of control once he's on the horse. Then, he can outrun the enemies when the horse calms down enough to obey him. Overall, it's a much safer technique as well as an easier way to tame wild horses in TOTK.
Nintendo let creativity shine through its design of TOTK, and the fact that new ways to use Link's abilities are still being found proves that more than puzzles can be approached in innovative ways, and have a chance to succeed. Since a lot of freezing items are simple enough to gather, Link should have no issues collecting trusty steeds to travel across Hyrule in search of Princess Zelda. Although it won't be getting any DLC, there's plenty to explore in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom until the next adventure.