Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Player Points Out Incredible Detail About the Wind Temple

Highlights

• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is praised for its attention to detail, with one example being the boss, Colgera, being spotted lurking around the Wind Temple before the fight.
• Colgera can be seen through a grate in the Wind Temple, indicating the effort made to make the game’s world feel alive and adding excitement for the boss fight.
• The game has been a huge success, with over 19.50 million copies sold and potential for further growth, allowing more players to discover the game’s hidden details.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a game filled to the brim with neat, easy-to-miss details, with one recently-noted example being that Colgera, the boss of the Wind Temple, can be spotted lurking around before the fight with it. Things like this are among the reasons The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom boasts one of the most detailed and lively worlds of any open-world game.

The Wind Temple is the first of Tears of the Kingdom’s dungeons that players will usually end up tackling if they follow the path laid out by the game’s main story quests. There, players must solve puzzles to activate turbines that open up a large grate in the center of the temple, from which Colgera emerges. This leads to one of Tears of the Kingdom’s standout fights, an aerial battle which typically involves gliding through the air and shooting the giant bug-like monster’s weak spots to damage it, though players have found other ways to kill the Wind Temple’s boss.

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What players might not know, though, is that Colgera can be seen through the grate while exploring the Wind Temple. Reddit user PlasticMac pointed this detail out, explaining how in their latest playthrough of Tears of the Kingdom, they got curious about the updraft coming out of the grate. With how massive Colgera is, they assumed it only spawns at the start of the boss fight, only to find the monster circling around inside a large room beneath the grate, guarding the Secret Stone that players receive for defeating it.

The attention to detail here is pretty impressive. It wasn’t necessary for Nintendo to have Colgera flying around prior to its boss fight, and odds are players will be too busy trying to solve the Wind Temple’s puzzles to bother looking in the grate. But the fact that the developers did add this in spite of that is indicative of the effort made to make Tears of the Kingdom’s world feel so alive, and for players who do notice Colgera beneath the grate, it should help build excitement for the eventual boss fight.

These details, along with the many improvements made to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s award-winning formula, have made Tears of the Kingdom one of Nintendo’s biggest hits yet. The latest sales data from Nintendo has confirmed that the game has now sold 19.50 million copies, making it the Nintendo Switch’s ninth best-selling game of all time, which, safe to say, is impressive for a game that’s only six months old.

With the momentum the game has generated thus far – something that the recent announcement of a live-action Zelda move will likely help maintain – that sales number will likely grow quite a bit in the coming years. That means more players will be able to discover all the cool little details there are to be found in Tears of the Kingdom.