While Heart Containers and Stamina Vessels make up a large part of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom‘s progression, players looking to maximize their stats will have to scrounge nearly every corner of Hyrule to do so. Using the same systems as Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom’s variety of challenging enemies and terrain make hearts and stamina vital for combat, exploration, and a variety of challenges, such as taming horses. However, with both stats sharing a spendable resource, TOTK forces players to choose between prioritizing one or the other.
Much like Breath of the Wild, most of a player’s extra health or stamina will come from completing TOTK’s various shrines and obtaining the Light of Blessing contained within, four of which can be exchanged for a Heart Container or Stamina Vessel at any Goddess Statue. Keeping in line with more traditional Zelda titles, however, Tears of the Kingdom also awards Heart Containers at the end of each major dungeon, serving as a source of extra health even for players who might not have explored very thoroughly. With a maximum of 40 hearts and three full wheels of stamina, however, players may need to pick and choose which stat they prefer.
Similar to Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom does not allow for players to max out both hearts and stamina. Even with all of TOTK’s temples, shrines, and the select few quests that give Heart Containers or Stamina Vessels completed, maxing out one stat leaves the other two upgrades short of the maximum. While it’s unlikely to be any sort of problem, especially for those who fully make use of the game’s vehicle-building and cooking mechanics, it can be somewhat frustrating for completionists to be left just short of a stat’s maximum potential.
While a potential future DLC may allow players to finally max out on both stats at once, it is worth noting that even with Breath of the Wild’s extra Spirit Orbs from The Champion’s Ballad, both hearts and stamina still couldn’t be maxed out – meaning that more TOTK content won’t necessarily bring enough resources for players to fully max out. On the other hand, however, getting every health and stamina upgrade in TOTK does bring players closer to the game’s caps, being only two upgrades short as opposed to the base game of BOTW’s three.
While the missing hearts or stamina might be annoying to completionists, TOTK has plenty of ways to circumvent the limits, such as temporary hearts and stamina from cooking or resting at inns or exchanging upgrades between the two stats at the Horned Statue below Lookout Landing. And, as with many of the extra challenges in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, like Korok Seeds or armor upgrades, hearts and stamina are likely intended more to facilitate a player’s journey than to be fully maxed out.
2023-05-30 14:30:05
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