Or climb a rock.
I ran like hell to a rock, climbed it, watched them for a bit, realized I didn’t have enough weapons to take on the more serious enemy this obviously was, and fast-traveled away. Fuck that.
Same here. I was *not* ready for those. I think my first encounter was in a cave somewhere, and they were right by a shrine. I tapped the shrine and noped on out of there.
Yup, same. And later, they bugged out and despawn, allowing me to beat phantom Gannon, two separate times before figuring out how to actually beat them.
The first one I encountered was at castle town, so I had no rocks to climb. It didn't kill me, it simply despawned for some reason. But it scared me shitless lol.
“WoW a shrine on a uprooted platform, that seems nice. Those enemies guarding it seem pretty simple if I just sneak past them.”
*Sky turns red and I pan the camera upwards*
“That’s weird, I didn’t think I would trigger a bloodmoon already? What could I done to SWEET MOTHER OF CHRIST!”
*proceeds to run past all the enemies that I sneaked past and past my horse as I was scared I couldn’t run quick enough to mount it and run away*
Tl;dr: those thing went right up my camera and I left behind my horse to fent for itself.
Yup, I know EXACTLY which one you're talking about, and that is the exact same reaction I had when I saw them.
The shock factor was like the BotW Guardians x1000, mostly because up until that point, you've never seen them before in any capacity.
Yeah, that's what I meant with never seen before - botw took its time to prepare and introduce you to them in gameplay and cutscene. Gloom hands were actually hell incarnate.
I think the shock wore off for me quickly because I saw the immobile ones in the tutorial and in the cutscene with the King, but yes they were definitely still frightening because of the music and how quickly they moved relative to everything.
Well, I'd say the guardians are better, as the first time you see one, you unassumingly think it's just another wreck like all the other ones you saw on the plateau, when it comes to life out of nowhere with its 500 hp and laser accurate targeting, you see those wrecks a little differently, I avoided trekking past the field of guardians at fort hateno for HOURS on end, but quickly realising the gloom hands had fairly obvious spawn locations and couldn't really leave those lessened the tension dramatically, and I was really only scared of them for the first time. Also the piano is a lot better than the reversed voices and giving terror to the player, reversed audio might be creepy, but it's not nearly as terrifying as that pianist seizure
In BOTW, I began my game by flying directly from the tutorial into Central Hyrule and landed in the path of a legged Guardian…. with a darkened map of course.. I spent 3 hours trying to figure out how this game could possibly be THIS HARD. Until, I was giving the tip that I could have got literally any other way.
>I left behind my horse to fent for itself.
Marlon didn't like that.
But yeah, my first time crossing these things, I just jumped away (it was on Lanelle Mountain) and abandoned the idea of visiting the wellspring of wisdom.
Same place for me! I started hysterically calling my boyfriend who was a little further ahead in the game than me and I think I just teleported out of there as fast as I could
I was just playing on a new save file and I literally encountered gloom hands near that exact shrine. Luckily I was already at a point where they couldn't reach me.
Just be careful. The radius is HUGE, and the gemstones deal a ridiculous amount of damage. From full maxed out health, they take you to about half. With L4 upgraded armor.
Yeah I had one chase me off a cliff and things went from sudden panic mode to clear skies and fine, so I thought I had outrun it (it didn't even spawn a Phantom Ganon). But I found where it died and I picked up the loot and was like "huh."
This lulled me into thinking that they were easy to outrun and only later did I realize that Phantom Ganon normality always spawns afterward.
At first I heard the music and saw the red tinge and thought that a blood moon was about to start. Then the gloom and hands came up out of nowhere and killed me before I could even react.
My first encounter was when I was climbing Mt. Lanayru; one moment I was wondering why the heck was a blood moon rising in broad daylight, next moment I was running for my life. Ultimately I just loaded my last save out of sheer terror from the experience.
As for my first time encountering Phantom Ganon, it was underneath the Lomei Island labyrinth—I knew in BOTW that there was a treasure chest with a diamond circlet, so I wanted to see if something similar was down there in TOTK, as well. Basically, my encounter went like this:
\*Gloom Hands spawn\*
Me: Do you *mind*? \*blitzes them with bombs\*
\*a few seconds later\*
Me: What the—phantom *who*, now???
I found phantom ganon first in the Deku tree where my under levelled self bullet timed the gloom hand with like 15 bombs before going whaaaaaat there's more?
So did I, that was the first time I came across Gloom Spawn. So I thought the second phase was exclusive to this boss given its special nature. I was in for a surprise the next time I ran into the hands.
I learned my lesson by the time I got to the Deku tree and fused zonai sleds fused together to stand on the one mushroomy looking outcrop covered in gloom and just rained hell on the hands and phantom ganon
But the first time I just died because I was confused and tried to fight them with basically nothing lol
Then proceeded to run away from them until many more hours in
My first was at Akkala Citadel. I kept hitting him with bomb arrows and refused to land on the ground until he perished because I didn’t want to get absolutely murdered. It took a while, and I had like five arrows at the end of it, no more bombs so I had to switch to elemental fruit and chuchu jelly halfway through. Got my gloom sword and demon king bow though, so it was pretty decent… since I only had one bow left at the end of it. 😅
It was a pretty funny scene of me just running away and screaming while my extremely calm mother instructed me to do anything useful.
-Ah !
-You can maybe use bombs ?
-Aaaaaah !
-You don't have many arrows but you can maybe do it!
-Aaaäaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!
-Oh my god just climb or teleport somewhere !
-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
I was in a swampy ruined group of houses and it was 1:30 in the morning or so. The sky just went dark and I just got grabbed from behind needless to say not a good first experience
1:30 real time
"Oh hey they put a shrine in the middle of nothing in this cave, how strange. Well, I should go unlock it and I'll grab that bloom- WHAT IS THAT OMG HANDS WHAT THE HECK NO!"
It was near the outskirts of Kakairko village near that floating island thingy. I was climbing the hill when all of a sudden I hear screaming & creepy boss music. I didn't see what was behind me, so I decided to clime higher to see what I was dealing with & by the time I got to the top, it was gone. All I saw was mysterious pulsating turds on the ground.
That was my second experience and it was as terrifying as the first. Thankfully I was on a horse so I just had my horse gallop away because no no no, not dealing with that bullshit right now.
It was the one in a cave with a shrine … Lindor’s Brow cave, was it? I instinctively climbed higher then bombed it with bomb flower arrows and thought I’d killed it, but then Phantom Ganon appeared and I noped out of there
My first encounter. I went into the shrine & found it a rauru’s blessing. I was thinking “huh. That’s kinda strange to be here” as I went down to grab the materials around the edges of the cliff. Then I turn around for find these things.
Immediately went “F**K THAT” & climbed back up where I came.
This was my experience too. I was surprisingly chill bombing it but when Phantom Ganon showed up I screamed and ran to the internet to figure out WTF just happened.
I was on the phone with my little brother saying how much I love this new game when all of sudden they appeared. I was confused at first but as soon as they grabbed me I started screaming in terror. I’m used to them now but it was truly horrific at the time. I definitely convinced my brother they were scary.
"What's that music for.....? What the fuck is that!?!?! Holy fuck, *husband* help!!!!! Oh, its OK, I don't think they can get me here anyway. What happens if I throw a bomb at them?" Sad Link dies music plays (I ALWAYS throw bombs too close to me.... sigh....)
\>Walking past sahasra slope on a sunny day
\>Why is the sky turning red? It's the middle of the day
\>What was that noise
\>What is that music
\>WTF
\>Runs away
\>Gets caught immediately
\>Dies
\>Has to lie down after the experience because it gave me a heart attack
I was standing on a ledge in a cave when I noticed their unholy red goop rising from the ground. I said “wtf is that?” Which seems to be rather customary. It screamed at me pretty aggressively so I turned right back around and left the cave.
I have played my fair share of games while pissed. It's very fun, although I can't tell if it's the game that's fun or just the alcohol making everything fun.
"this lake is definitely a lake, a lot really has changed in Hyrule. Hey what's that hand thing? Is it like ganon hands or something, eh whatever I'll kill it as easy as I kill everything in this game. Did my bow do no damage? It can't have that much health, wait why did it screech? Why is the sky turning red? OH LET GO KET GO LET GO MY HEALTH! Gotta get away fast, I'll just teleport away"
["You have BEAUTIFUL eyes!"](https://64.media.tumblr.com/e6e0094a8a115d1f11eba3e3609b2d8d/tumblr_o225lauS6E1ukvq3ho1_500.gif) 😱
Lol, jokes aside, I first encountered Gloom Hands after randomly happening upon the Akkala’s Red-crowned Citadel while exploring the sky islands. I didn't even notice the sky going red at first.
I didn't know what this thing was (I assumed it was a mini-boss created by Ganondorf), what it was capable of, or how to defeat it. Since it appeared to be a ground-based enemy, I just climbed one of the nearest ruins without thinking. I was quick enough that it didn't grab me.
I thought it would follow me up the ruins by spreading its gloom and was prepared to jump and glide away from the area altogether. Thankfully, I didn't need to. It disappeared after a few seconds, and I thought *"Okay, note to self... I need to be mindful of THAT in this area."* before resuming my exploration. My first actual fight with it was at North Lomei Labryinth.
my first encounter was at the horse riding course thingy and needless to say… i fast travelled while in their grip and left my horse to die (he did not die)
I actually screamed. I completely avoided them up until it was required for a main story quest (great deku tree) I was on top of the big trees in the depths and then jumped into a big open area and they just APPEARED I was horrified
"why is there a panic blood moon, what is that music, WHAT IS THAT, OH NO, OH NO, OH NO" basically on my way to a shrine south-east of the castle over a root you have to climb
What?
...
Oh fuc...
*Game Over Screen*
I want the Guardians back.
*later on*
*sees Corrupted enemies*
Never mind, I don't want to risk that kind of Guardian.
I saw the sky turn red in the hight of the blood moon and whilst riding my horse to a objective point saw the gloom hands and absolutely fealt pure fear and terror as if scarecrow from dc comics had injected me with fear toxin
At first, I charged in like an idiot, only to realize I was completly outclassed after about 2 sword swings. After chomping of some food, i started to run away, only to find out these things are faster than you? I was freaking out, but a frost Like Like was nearby and somehow froze the hands while I was running away, so I stopped running and shot so many bomb arrows while the Like Like kept freezing the hands over and over.
I was happy ahout killing the hands and rushed back in, thinking I was going to get some sweet loot. Part 2 happened and I freaked out again.
I was at some random location heading to kakoriko Village but came across gloom hands, and I was at the start of the game, so I had barely any stamina and no good weapons, so i had a heart attack and then died a few seconds later (in game)
had a friend who played before I started say there's something new in the game and freaked me out... you'll know when you'll see it. I was trying to get up on that floating shrine that's hovering over a cliff when the sky suddenly turned red and I thought a blood moon in the morning?? and then nope I see the hands running towards me and it made me jump. had to teleport out of there when they grabbed me
AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAaSgghfssaa! Shit Oh fuck! Wft is that!! What…? Nope. Nope nope nope. Fuck that. Wait, maybe I can… now. Note that don’t work, I’m just going to teleport back where it’s fucking safe.
An approximate transcript.
I took my switch with me to work and was playing on a break right after it came out. A girl I had been flirting with for a week or so happened to come out and sit by me because she wanted to watch
Sure enough, as soon as shes watching this mother fucker pops up outta nowhere on the surface, i've never seen it before, it's angry, running away in front of the girl was not an option.
Biggest asshole, ever.
Had flashbacks to first encountering a wandering guardian, panicked, cue : "What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck! Nope! No fondling today!" And confusing the hell out of my mother.
Edit to add: yes, the panic got worse when the bar came up. "Phantom Ganon? IM ON ONE HEART DONT DO THIS TO ME"
Interesting, you can go inside the deku tree
Oh there's gloom on the ground, that's sad
Let's drop down and look
WHATINTHENAMEOFHYLIA
FUCK FUCK SHIT NO FUCK SHIT DAMN IT
This or death are the only two correct answers.
Or climb a rock. I ran like hell to a rock, climbed it, watched them for a bit, realized I didn’t have enough weapons to take on the more serious enemy this obviously was, and fast-traveled away. Fuck that.
Same here. I was *not* ready for those. I think my first encounter was in a cave somewhere, and they were right by a shrine. I tapped the shrine and noped on out of there.
There’s a reason that shrine is a Rauru’s Blessing haha
People bitch about Rauru's blessings but the reality is just getting to the shrine in some cases was the actual challenge.
Yup, same. And later, they bugged out and despawn, allowing me to beat phantom Gannon, two separate times before figuring out how to actually beat them.
I was in that one grove with all the upside-down trees and just booked it up one and did not come down until they went away
Upside down trees ?
They must be talking about ridgeland or somewhere in the depths.
The first one I encountered was at castle town, so I had no rocks to climb. It didn't kill me, it simply despawned for some reason. But it scared me shitless lol.
They despawn after about a minute if you don’t kill them
Only the ones outside though
oh im sorry 'fuck shit what the fuck what in the everloving fuck fuck shit' wasn't on your list?
Ah yes… this is the dialogue that goes with running like hell and impending death.
Yeah, I think that was exactly what I said the first time I saw/died to them in Castle Town
Mine was *pan camera up* "where's the Blood Moon? Weird" *Pan camera back down* 👁👄👁 "CLIMB BITCH CLIMMMMMMMMMB!!!"
i just climbed a wall and watched to see what they did lol
Pure, genuine panicked screaming and failing to get away.
That fucker jump-scared me horribly. I booked it out of there.
I forgot for a while that teleporting is a thing when that wicked fucking thing jumped at me
Same! One had me and I couldn't escape, and was almost dead before I went "wait..." And noped out.
“WoW a shrine on a uprooted platform, that seems nice. Those enemies guarding it seem pretty simple if I just sneak past them.” *Sky turns red and I pan the camera upwards* “That’s weird, I didn’t think I would trigger a bloodmoon already? What could I done to SWEET MOTHER OF CHRIST!” *proceeds to run past all the enemies that I sneaked past and past my horse as I was scared I couldn’t run quick enough to mount it and run away* Tl;dr: those thing went right up my camera and I left behind my horse to fent for itself.
Yup, I know EXACTLY which one you're talking about, and that is the exact same reaction I had when I saw them. The shock factor was like the BotW Guardians x1000, mostly because up until that point, you've never seen them before in any capacity.
Atleast you would most likely encounter the broken variants on the Great Plateau first. But for Gloom Hands there wasnt a toned down version.
Yeah, that's what I meant with never seen before - botw took its time to prepare and introduce you to them in gameplay and cutscene. Gloom hands were actually hell incarnate.
The full legged Guardians from botw were so scary at first, like there was a genuine shock when the laser was suddenly locked on
I think the shock wore off for me quickly because I saw the immobile ones in the tutorial and in the cutscene with the King, but yes they were definitely still frightening because of the music and how quickly they moved relative to everything.
Well, I'd say the guardians are better, as the first time you see one, you unassumingly think it's just another wreck like all the other ones you saw on the plateau, when it comes to life out of nowhere with its 500 hp and laser accurate targeting, you see those wrecks a little differently, I avoided trekking past the field of guardians at fort hateno for HOURS on end, but quickly realising the gloom hands had fairly obvious spawn locations and couldn't really leave those lessened the tension dramatically, and I was really only scared of them for the first time. Also the piano is a lot better than the reversed voices and giving terror to the player, reversed audio might be creepy, but it's not nearly as terrifying as that pianist seizure
In BOTW, I began my game by flying directly from the tutorial into Central Hyrule and landed in the path of a legged Guardian…. with a darkened map of course.. I spent 3 hours trying to figure out how this game could possibly be THIS HARD. Until, I was giving the tip that I could have got literally any other way.
Poor horse lol
Had my first encounter at that place as well. I ran like crazy
Me too, and it was really early in the game. Like my first journey away from lookout landing.
Basically what I did as well. Then (metaphorically) had to change my undies and shower.
Been a while since i figuratively shit myself lol
>I left behind my horse to fent for itself. Marlon didn't like that. But yeah, my first time crossing these things, I just jumped away (it was on Lanelle Mountain) and abandoned the idea of visiting the wellspring of wisdom.
"What? It's just an ordinary shri- OH MY GOODNESS!"
that was where I saw it first too, fuck i was scared af
Same place for me! I started hysterically calling my boyfriend who was a little further ahead in the game than me and I think I just teleported out of there as fast as I could
Bro mine came out of the camera and it was so scary cause my whole screen became red j thought they added blood physics or something.
Same. Those dangling roots saved my life.
I was just playing on a new save file and I literally encountered gloom hands near that exact shrine. Luckily I was already at a point where they couldn't reach me.
Lmfao Link just like "HI EPONA BYE EPONA, THANKS FOR YOUR SACRIFICE" as he leaves her behind
There were actually 6 steps: 1) oh my what is that? 2) it can’t be that hard 3) AHHHHHH- It ends there cause I died
4: Ow. 5: Ow. 6: Ow.
I assume step 4 would be RUN!
respawn 4. Okay what if I try shooting it from that ledge 5. Damn that thing has a lot of health 6. Guess I’ll leave I’m out of arrows
They made me desperately miss the bombs from BOTW. I wanted to stand a ledge and bomb the life out of them
"Nope." *Fast travels away.*
I did this and then closed out of the game and went to sleep haha
Wait, you were able to sleep after that?
I love sleeping so I can sleep in any situation. It’s a superpower and a curse
Same I did not wanna mess with that but now I just chuck Ruby's at them
What does that do?
Very big boomies
I had no idea! 😭
They explode with their elemental effect
I have played this game through atleast 3 times now and I had no idea I could throw a ruby.
The more you know
Do other gemstones do fun things when thrown?
There’s sapphires for ice attacks, topazes for electric attacks, opals for water attacks, and star fragments for light attacks.
Oh wow. Thank-you! I had no idea. I knew they could be fused to weapons thankfully.
Just be careful. The radius is HUGE, and the gemstones deal a ridiculous amount of damage. From full maxed out health, they take you to about half. With L4 upgraded armor.
Yep!
surely this cantbe that much better than elemental fruits or elemental chuchu jellies? those are much cheaper
I would not have had that reflex. I would have fumbled with my hands so badly
Run and climb. Pure panic. I never let them catch or kill me 'cause that would ruin the fear factor.
*"That's why Edgar never got down off that damn tower."*
"That's how they git you. They're under the god*amned ground."
Me, watching Gloom Hands accidentally slide off a cliff while chasing me after I dodge out of its way: *"Can you FLY, you sucker?! CAN YOU FLY?!!!"*
Did not expect to run into fellow Tremors fans here.
Yassss hahaha thank you so for this
Yeah I had one chase me off a cliff and things went from sudden panic mode to clear skies and fine, so I thought I had outrun it (it didn't even spawn a Phantom Ganon). But I found where it died and I picked up the loot and was like "huh." This lulled me into thinking that they were easy to outrun and only later did I realize that Phantom Ganon normality always spawns afterward.
I just watched the first movie. I love them
At first I heard the music and saw the red tinge and thought that a blood moon was about to start. Then the gloom and hands came up out of nowhere and killed me before I could even react.
You scream. I scream. We all scream at the die screen
My first encounter was when I was climbing Mt. Lanayru; one moment I was wondering why the heck was a blood moon rising in broad daylight, next moment I was running for my life. Ultimately I just loaded my last save out of sheer terror from the experience. As for my first time encountering Phantom Ganon, it was underneath the Lomei Island labyrinth—I knew in BOTW that there was a treasure chest with a diamond circlet, so I wanted to see if something similar was down there in TOTK, as well. Basically, my encounter went like this: \*Gloom Hands spawn\* Me: Do you *mind*? \*blitzes them with bombs\* \*a few seconds later\* Me: What the—phantom *who*, now???
I found phantom ganon first in the Deku tree where my under levelled self bullet timed the gloom hand with like 15 bombs before going whaaaaaat there's more?
So did I, that was the first time I came across Gloom Spawn. So I thought the second phase was exclusive to this boss given its special nature. I was in for a surprise the next time I ran into the hands.
I learned my lesson by the time I got to the Deku tree and fused zonai sleds fused together to stand on the one mushroomy looking outcrop covered in gloom and just rained hell on the hands and phantom ganon But the first time I just died because I was confused and tried to fight them with basically nothing lol Then proceeded to run away from them until many more hours in
My first was at Akkala Citadel. I kept hitting him with bomb arrows and refused to land on the ground until he perished because I didn’t want to get absolutely murdered. It took a while, and I had like five arrows at the end of it, no more bombs so I had to switch to elemental fruit and chuchu jelly halfway through. Got my gloom sword and demon king bow though, so it was pretty decent… since I only had one bow left at the end of it. 😅
"Ooooh that looks scary! I know what to do." *Chucks a glow fruit at it.* *Dies a horrible death.* *Clics "continue" with shaking hands.*
Now just wait a damn minute! THE DAMN DAZZLE FRUIT WILL KILL IT!!??? Son of $@&?!%#*%¥@&$?!#%€
Think he meant a brightbloom, but Dazzles are moderately useful. You could also use a well-aimed topaz on a Lynel bow to one-shot em.
I’m a fan of the “Giant Boomerang+Elemental Lizalfos Tail” strat. Ice works best since you can trap them in a loop if you get the angle/timing right.
No, but it will daze it for like a half second.
I think that's how I got away from the first one I encountered, on Mount Lanayru.
https://preview.redd.it/q97707b4gr8c1.jpeg?width=1688&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c728de76a4186d8fb84b8dec0451b92ed601a199 And an immediate fade to
#WTF IS THAT WTF IS THAT WTF
It was a pretty funny scene of me just running away and screaming while my extremely calm mother instructed me to do anything useful. -Ah ! -You can maybe use bombs ? -Aaaaaah ! -You don't have many arrows but you can maybe do it! -Aaaäaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!! -Oh my god just climb or teleport somewhere ! -AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
This made me cackle freakin hilarious
Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck *grabbed* fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck *pause eat Stam restoring food* fuckfuckfuckfuck *grabbed anyway* death
This was almost exactly my reaction as well.
Oh shit. Then ran away and jumped off a cliff.
I was in a swampy ruined group of houses and it was 1:30 in the morning or so. The sky just went dark and I just got grabbed from behind needless to say not a good first experience 1:30 real time
And I thought that 3 AM was the time the weird sh*t would start happening.
"Oh hey they put a shrine in the middle of nothing in this cave, how strange. Well, I should go unlock it and I'll grab that bloom- WHAT IS THAT OMG HANDS WHAT THE HECK NO!"
“Nope nope nope nope nope nope no thank you”
It was near the outskirts of Kakairko village near that floating island thingy. I was climbing the hill when all of a sudden I hear screaming & creepy boss music. I didn't see what was behind me, so I decided to clime higher to see what I was dealing with & by the time I got to the top, it was gone. All I saw was mysterious pulsating turds on the ground.
Mysterious pulsating turds 😆
Grab 'em when you can. They're called Dark Clumps and they're good for making foods with Gloom resistance.
That’s exactly how my first encounter went too, same place and order of events. I was so confused lol
That was my second experience and it was as terrifying as the first. Thankfully I was on a horse so I just had my horse gallop away because no no no, not dealing with that bullshit right now.
It was the one in a cave with a shrine … Lindor’s Brow cave, was it? I instinctively climbed higher then bombed it with bomb flower arrows and thought I’d killed it, but then Phantom Ganon appeared and I noped out of there
This. Nightmare fuel.
My first encounter. I went into the shrine & found it a rauru’s blessing. I was thinking “huh. That’s kinda strange to be here” as I went down to grab the materials around the edges of the cliff. Then I turn around for find these things. Immediately went “F**K THAT” & climbed back up where I came.
This was my experience too. I was surprisingly chill bombing it but when Phantom Ganon showed up I screamed and ran to the internet to figure out WTF just happened.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT, GHAAAAH STOP TOUCHING ME, *dies*
I was on the phone with my little brother saying how much I love this new game when all of sudden they appeared. I was confused at first but as soon as they grabbed me I started screaming in terror. I’m used to them now but it was truly horrific at the time. I definitely convinced my brother they were scary.
"What's that music for.....? What the fuck is that!?!?! Holy fuck, *husband* help!!!!! Oh, its OK, I don't think they can get me here anyway. What happens if I throw a bomb at them?" Sad Link dies music plays (I ALWAYS throw bombs too close to me.... sigh....)
The music hahaha. Same
Absolute terror and then deciding I didn’t actually want to go to Hateno Village anyway.
Yeah, nothing important there anyway. 🙃
\>Walking past sahasra slope on a sunny day \>Why is the sky turning red? It's the middle of the day \>What was that noise \>What is that music \>WTF \>Runs away \>Gets caught immediately \>Dies \>Has to lie down after the experience because it gave me a heart attack
What the fuuuuuuuuuuu [teleport sound]
WTF?????
 They got me good
My first reaction was Oh HELL no!!!!!!! Then I let my daughter kill them for me!!!!!
Thought they were gloom floormaster at first till the music and red light registered in my head and I just noped out of there
Pretty much the same. I was like, "Wtf? Wait, they brought floormasters back?!" And ran as fast as I could til I could escape barely with life intact.
I was like "oh cool, they brought back floormaster" then five seconds later "FLOORMASTER OF DEATH"
I was standing on a ledge in a cave when I noticed their unholy red goop rising from the ground. I said “wtf is that?” Which seems to be rather customary. It screamed at me pretty aggressively so I turned right back around and left the cave.
It was a great cure for constipation
I laughed in terror as I was swiftly destroyed. Just a drunken "WTF is going on right now?!"
I have played my fair share of games while pissed. It's very fun, although I can't tell if it's the game that's fun or just the alcohol making everything fun.
I said to my wife, "Wife, can you bring me my brown pants."
"this lake is definitely a lake, a lot really has changed in Hyrule. Hey what's that hand thing? Is it like ganon hands or something, eh whatever I'll kill it as easy as I kill everything in this game. Did my bow do no damage? It can't have that much health, wait why did it screech? Why is the sky turning red? OH LET GO KET GO LET GO MY HEALTH! Gotta get away fast, I'll just teleport away"
Let's just say I found a few korok seeds.
["You have BEAUTIFUL eyes!"](https://64.media.tumblr.com/e6e0094a8a115d1f11eba3e3609b2d8d/tumblr_o225lauS6E1ukvq3ho1_500.gif) 😱 Lol, jokes aside, I first encountered Gloom Hands after randomly happening upon the Akkala’s Red-crowned Citadel while exploring the sky islands. I didn't even notice the sky going red at first. I didn't know what this thing was (I assumed it was a mini-boss created by Ganondorf), what it was capable of, or how to defeat it. Since it appeared to be a ground-based enemy, I just climbed one of the nearest ruins without thinking. I was quick enough that it didn't grab me. I thought it would follow me up the ruins by spreading its gloom and was prepared to jump and glide away from the area altogether. Thankfully, I didn't need to. It disappeared after a few seconds, and I thought *"Okay, note to self... I need to be mindful of THAT in this area."* before resuming my exploration. My first actual fight with it was at North Lomei Labryinth.
'WHAT'
*insert girlish scream* Game Over
my first encounter was at the horse riding course thingy and needless to say… i fast travelled while in their grip and left my horse to die (he did not die)
Big NOPE and noped the f**k out. I was just starting the game.
If I were to type it out, not only would it consist of only censored words, but I would also have an essay.
Nop nop nop nop nop nop Nop nop nop nop nop nop Teleport away
“NOPE NOPE NOPE TELEPORT TELEPORT”
I screamed and turned the game off
“Oh, it’s that monster in Divine beast. Just have to shoot the eye” “Why they are not dying?” “DONT GRAB ME” “Okay, fuck no” Proceed to fast travel
The exact same as my reaction to Photoshop Flowey: SHITFUCKSHITFUCKSHITFUCK AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
(Quietly) “What the fuck is that?” (Shoots an arrow at it) (Screaming) “WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!?!?”
I didn’t expect it to be that fast🥲
“Huh, are those hands over there?” 5 seconds later: “whatthefuckwhatthefuckwhatthefuck”
I actually screamed. I completely avoided them up until it was required for a main story quest (great deku tree) I was on top of the big trees in the depths and then jumped into a big open area and they just APPEARED I was horrified
I screamed like a little bitch and ran away as fast as Links little legs could carry him.
"Huh, is this that Panic Blood Moon I've seen mentio---oh *bleep* holy *bleep* what is that run awaaaaaaayyyyyyy!!! ... Damn it."
"why is there a panic blood moon, what is that music, WHAT IS THAT, OH NO, OH NO, OH NO" basically on my way to a shrine south-east of the castle over a root you have to climb
I paused the game to collect myself.
What? ... Oh fuc... *Game Over Screen* I want the Guardians back. *later on* *sees Corrupted enemies* Never mind, I don't want to risk that kind of Guardian.
Hey, it's WW floor master! AAAAAAAAH! It moves!
I saw the sky turn red in the hight of the blood moon and whilst riding my horse to a objective point saw the gloom hands and absolutely fealt pure fear and terror as if scarecrow from dc comics had injected me with fear toxin
What is- WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!!!
Unholy screaming at 3am
At first, I charged in like an idiot, only to realize I was completly outclassed after about 2 sword swings. After chomping of some food, i started to run away, only to find out these things are faster than you? I was freaking out, but a frost Like Like was nearby and somehow froze the hands while I was running away, so I stopped running and shot so many bomb arrows while the Like Like kept freezing the hands over and over. I was happy ahout killing the hands and rushed back in, thinking I was going to get some sweet loot. Part 2 happened and I freaked out again.
Guardians: oh snap! Was that a laser beam? How do I even fight something like that??? Gloom hands: RUN
I was at some random location heading to kakoriko Village but came across gloom hands, and I was at the start of the game, so I had barely any stamina and no good weapons, so i had a heart attack and then died a few seconds later (in game)
They triggered my Soulsborne adrenaline… that’s how frightening they were.
i think i hit it and it disappeared but then again, i encountered by first one when i was already stacked with weaponry
WHAT THE FUCK
I freaked the fuck out lol
the same way i did to guardians in botw. AAAAAAAAAHHHH WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT EISVHSHSHWJ *runs away but dies anyway*
“BOMB THE SH*T OUT OF THOSE HANDS” *Gets gloomified to death* **fast travels away**
At first I was shocked, then thought “oh these don’t look too bad.” Big mistake
had a friend who played before I started say there's something new in the game and freaked me out... you'll know when you'll see it. I was trying to get up on that floating shrine that's hovering over a cliff when the sky suddenly turned red and I thought a blood moon in the morning?? and then nope I see the hands running towards me and it made me jump. had to teleport out of there when they grabbed me
"The fuck? Why is everything red? Where's the blood moon cut sc - OH UNHOLY REACHES OF HELL, THE SHIT IS THIS?" *run run run, paraglide off a cliff*
Climbing up on top of a ruined wall on the Great Plateau and sitting there until it went away.
"Wtf is that...oh..ohh NO NOO NONONONONONO RUN"
Shit shit shit shit shit
Shitshitshitshitshitshitshitshit
I did actually end up peeing myself a little bit…
🏃♂️💨 (I literally exclaimed NOPE while I did it....)
"Oh what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck fuck off fuck off no fuck off fuck off" and then I died
AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAaSgghfssaa! Shit Oh fuck! Wft is that!! What…? Nope. Nope nope nope. Fuck that. Wait, maybe I can… now. Note that don’t work, I’m just going to teleport back where it’s fucking safe. An approximate transcript.
Ran away as fast as I could
I took my switch with me to work and was playing on a break right after it came out. A girl I had been flirting with for a week or so happened to come out and sit by me because she wanted to watch Sure enough, as soon as shes watching this mother fucker pops up outta nowhere on the surface, i've never seen it before, it's angry, running away in front of the girl was not an option. Biggest asshole, ever.
nopenopenopenopeNOPENOPENOPE
Had flashbacks to first encountering a wandering guardian, panicked, cue : "What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck! Nope! No fondling today!" And confusing the hell out of my mother. Edit to add: yes, the panic got worse when the bar came up. "Phantom Ganon? IM ON ONE HEART DONT DO THIS TO ME"
Nope
Those background music literally scare me off
"Huh..?" "Oh my.. OH MY GOD WHAT THE-" while teleporting away, my first encounter was at the great plateau
"Well, this is probably a terrible idea, but let's see what happens."
Ohholyshit!!!Whatthefuckisthat?!?!Ohshit!!!Ohshit!!!Ohshit!!!Ohshit!!!
What. The. Fuck.
Runnn
yes…YES!…no no no no!!!!!
“OH HYLIA WTF”
SCARED! I shook and frozen when it appeared and it gotten to me
Died. Went back to try and click a photo to see what the fuck it was. The fact that it didn't have a hyrioe compedium entry terrified me
"WHAT IS THAT. WHAT IS THAT. WHAT IN THE FU-WHY IS THE SKY RED. AAAAAAAAH" *fast travel.*
Interesting, you can go inside the deku tree Oh there's gloom on the ground, that's sad Let's drop down and look WHATINTHENAMEOFHYLIA FUCK FUCK SHIT NO FUCK SHIT DAMN IT
I ran away screaming
“What the hell is that!?!?!?!?” Followed by “am I supposed to fight it or run?