The Ascend skill is the secret joy at the heart of so much that's great with Tears of the Kingdom
Ascend is super simple. It allows you to position yourself under an overhang or a ceiling and then jab a button and go up through the layers above you and emerge on top. That's it. That's Ascend.
A couple of theories on why I love it so much. The first is that it feels extremely good to use, and compared to the relative fiddliness of Ultrahand and Fuse, that's very welcome. There's a lovely sense of chugging through rock when you Ascend. Link gets wedged in the underneath of a surface and then he gets wedged in the top too, and I feel that sense of being stuck, due to some Nintendo magic, though my fingers as I play.
Ascend works the same way. I'll be on the ground and I'll remind myself to look up and see if there are possibilities overhead. I'll look at mountains and read their structures differently, seeing the overhangs not as hurdles but as possibilities, shortcuts.
All of this is such a delight I think because, on some level, I had dreaded Tears of the Kingdom. It was Zelda, which I love, but it was also Minecraft, also Valheim, a game about harvesting and constructing, two things which I always feel are a bit beyond me. But here's Ascend, a forgotten treat in the mix, encouraging me to play around with impossible geometry without even having to understand it. I love it.
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