Guardians or Gloom Hands: Which Enemy is Tougher?
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Who you throwing hands with.... Guardians or Gloom Hands?
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Guardian music is more terrifying but the gloom hands are WAY MORE TERRIFYING
I agreee but I can defeat the gloom hands but with guardians they have the stressful music and making me panic and after fighting them for many times I still die from them more than the gloom hands
OH HELL NAH BRO DID NOT HUST CALL THE GUARDIANS BOP OF A MUSIC TERRIFYING, HAVE TOU HEARD HOW GLOOM HANDS SOUND... First encounter I ran the fuck away
@Mxiiznon_binary well I did the same but soon I got used to it but the guardian music is just stressful no matter how much u listen to it but it is just my opinion
So true
@CharliezFrancesMichael stressful.. nah, that is a bop for parts that I can sell or get Rob to make stuff into... ez loot bag
Guardians really fit the vibe of BOTW and Gloom Hands really fit the vibe of TOTK. I do wish their was like one secret Guardian gight in TOTK somewhere in the depths.
well said!
There is actually one last guardian (broken version) in top of the akaka lab roof
I want y’all to imagine a Guardian whose legs are Gloom Hands, with two Gloom Hands sticking out of the main body to grab you while it fires the laser.
No god no please no I'm gonna diiiiiiiiie
I was genuinely just about to comment this.
Calm down Satan
@Goteryup I also want *specifically you* to imagine a version of Dead Hand that resides underwater and drags you down into the depths of the ocean when you fight it.
@@EcnavMC jokes on you, I actually never fought a dead hand and don't even know what they look like off hand
The first time I found a Guardian Stalker, I got so terrified... The initial part of the music bringed chills to my hands.
The Gloom Hands were basically the same thing.
I saw it spawn, the sky turning red, the music drastically changing, and the Gloom Hands "war cry" put me on such a fear experience.
hearing the music pop up while they are behind you and you are climbing facing a wall unable to see them is also terrifying.
The gloom hands always seem to find the most opportune moment to jump on you. Like when there's nothing nearby to climb or when you're already out of stamina, and of course you never made those stamina potions you reminded yourself to make.
Visually, the gloom hands.
But there is nothing that can replicate the sheer terror of hearing intense piano music while running for your life as a spider robot with lasers chasing you down
Nah, guardians are just music loot boxes, in my opinion
@Mxiiznon_binary bladesaw on bike makes them really easy
Chop then legs
Personally I always found the Guardians to be more threatening and panic-inducing than the gloom spawn. The gloom spawn were kinda eerie when I first encountered one because I had no idea what it was, but the fear factor wore off after the third or fourth time seeing one. Guardians on the other hand remain a consistently intimidating presence until the late game of any given playthrough.
Yeah nothing's worse than getting ready to do your final run on the tower and you're trying to Glide over a castle wall and get blasted out of the sky even if you're at Full Hearts it's going to hurt you when you land
How r u getting hit while gliding
I think the guardians are more satisfying to beat.
Gloom hands are harder, but the first time seeing both, gloom hands are like yeah a harder guardian, but the guardians you we’re pooping yourself the first time you saw one
The first time ive seen a gloom, was a nightmare i havent expected that, terrifying!!! But guardians are a classic.
The Gloom Spawn was severely nerfed for no reason. Why does it just give up and despawn if you get some distance between you. They should have made it a more difficult sub-boss, especially since they are not as common as the Guardians were, and they’re usually alone. Super terrifying at the very start of the game, but too easy soon after.
I agree. They're too easy to beat once you have figured out.
Um, because it doesn't need to fight, I mean, it's working for Phantom ganondorf afterall.
I always found the Lynels the most terrifying enemies. 😰
@@nyancorp Lynel are ez after 3-4 fight against them. The same move over and over
@@Sakazuki.Akainu Only if you’re good in timing the Flurry rush. 😩
@@nyancorpJust get a royal guard claymore, get it to 1 durability and it does 4x the damage of it and the attached item and you can just chain a few mounts and the Lynel dies quickly
If mod devs decides to make a combo of Gloomhands and Guardians it would definitely scare/traumatised me
The sound that plays when a guardian spots you is the most terrifying and stressing sound in gaming. Change my mind.
@Mazhypic What about the Sonic drowning music?
@@stephanieburnham7505 Yeah I gotta agree it's stressing, but not scary in the sam way.
The Guardian theme outshines the gloom hands theme especially when the piano intro kicks in
Phantom Gannon is so easy also the gloom hands are easily escaped, but the guardians hunt you down and snipe you if you aren’t prepared
My first encounter with a guardian was at the dueling peaks and it was terrifying!
Guardian music is terrifying, but I’ve since learned how to party the lasers, so Gloom hands are more terrifying
U took the happiest part of that music... the scariest part is: TUTURURUTUTUTUTUTTU PUMPURURPPUPUPU
The first time I saw gloom hands is still the part I remember most from totk. The first time I saw them was while the first blood moon was happening. It was terrifying. I was worried they were going to appear every blood moon
My first experience went like “🏃🏃🏃”
Don't forget about ancient arrows.
Gloom hands aren’t quite as scary only because they’re placed around the map so that you’ll only ever be facing one at a time. Guardians often travel in packs
Not really though?? I've never been in a situation where I'm fighting more than one Guardian at a time unless they're stationary Guardians. Typically the walking Guardians are spaced out enough that you literally have to go out of your way to have more than one attacking you at once.
@ there are loads all together near hyrule castle and the entrance to death mountain, also in the forgotten temple
It’s funny I used to be afraid of the guardians every time I heard their music but then when I learned how to take them down, which did take me a year after the game came out, they don’t scare me anymore even if I don’t have the master sword, I still know how to take them down easily shoot them in the eye of paralyze them for a second then attack their legs. Then when they start to look at you again, shoot their eye again, and then continue cutting off their limbs after you takeoff all their limbs and they see you again shoot them in the eye and then keep damaging them and keep rinse and repeat.
Nothing can replicate the sheer terror I've gotten from facing Gloom Spawn
The Guardian (Stalkers) are actually Robotic Octopi.
They were made when the Zelda Dev Team tried to make Octorocks as large as they seemed/appeared in the Original Zelda game.
Since the Octorocks were bigger than Link, they tried to recreate them in the 3D engine and environment, and the Guardians are what resulted lol
There is nothing scarier than exploring Hyrule and watching the spawn of satan rise from the ground before your eyes
Saw this tip from a youtuber (forgot the name) and it worked for me. I first shot the gloom hands with the flash arrows (equipping the 5-arrow bow works even better), when they got stunned, shoot them with bomb arrows (with the same bow), rinse and repeat until they die, it won't take long.
Fear comes in 2 varietys. Fearing for your life, and *OH JESUS WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT* gaurdians and gloom hands both fall on each extreme of this spectrum
Arachnids have 8 legs, and stupid bucket head has 6
First reaction to a Guardian: "Oh shit, it's a Guardian!"
First Reaction to Gloom Hands: "what is that?! What the fuck is that?!?!?"
I didn't mind either, the first time I just ran away until I felt more comfortable to face them properly.
Gloom hands are waaaaay more terrifying than Guardians ever were. You'll just be taking a nice stroll on a sunny day, suddenly the sky turns red, a red puddle appears, hands with eyes come out of the puddle and then they scream at you. The guardians could be avoided by breaking line of sight and waiting a little bit until they wander off. The gloom hands stay until either you or them is dead.
@@JMac413410 Gloom hands will eventually go away if you're able to get high enough out of their reach.
Which psycho at Nintendo thought, "I know, let's combine 5 Wind Waker floormasters together and make them almost unbeatable in the early game, And just for extra misery, have Phantom Ganon pop-up afterwards."
I do like the Guardians and other types of Guardians more the ones we have, just one of them is tough enough but a whole group of them is dangerous we have to dodge their explosive beam and some of them even hold weapons or can even fly
The sound that plays when a walking one sees you is harrowing
Actually my first guardian encounter ended with me spamming the parry button thinking “DO SOMETHING!” And killing it via reflected laser beam, and me sitting in silence for a bit
Gloom hards scared me more because in the great plateau they give you a taste of guardians with the stationary ones before they set you free and can find the walking ones. Also guardian’s can be spotted from a decent bit away. But gloom hands just show up out of nowhere. And gloom hands make the air hazy like a blood moon which freaked me out a lot on my first play through
Gloom hands. You can't escape by climbing, you can't run, you can barely fight them. Then, you defeat them. _And then another health bar appears._
Anyone who finds guardians bop terrify or panic induced then... what are you talking about. This work of art of music is holy to my ears. When gloom hands spawn.. and ... THAT... music plays... i knew just to run, thats what i did on my first few encounters
Bro at least with guardian once you beat it you done while gloom hand after you beat it then you have to fight phantom ganon so is basically 2v1 don’t get me wrong they’re both easy regardless but if I have to pick I say gloom hand takes the cake people choose guardian like I’m sorry but yall don’t know what you talking about it lol in my opinion
I want my first ptsd back, thank you. I'd rather have a discordant piano playing my doom than some out of nowhere, eldritch abomination charging after me.
You should consider this in universe. Guardians are giant, neon-pink mechanical monstrosities that walk around mainly on grass plains; in other words, the definition of "easy to spot" and avoided. Gloom Hands, meanwhile, come out of the ground without prior notice, and are faster than Link, making encounters with them inevitable and extra-deadly.
So yes, Gloom Hands are the tougher enemy, without competition... unless you just climb a wall/tree nearby, and stay there gripping that vertical surface until the Gloom Hands get bored after about a minute and just die.
I already knew the trick with guardians when I started BotW and the timing is pretty easy with a little practice, so instead of jumpscaring me the music just got me absolutely hype for some parrying
Guardians gave me nightmares as a kid
gloom hands are way more terrifying then guardians. my first experience with one was me freaking out and swearing alot lol
I agree with you, that gloom hands are generally more of a threat, but I'm going to play devil's advocate here and share a few thoughts I had as someone who has played both games many times and often evaded battle when I'm busy doing something else.
Gloom hands are more threatening when you fight them, but if you're not equipped for them or just don't feel like fighting them at the moment, I personally find them easier to outrun and you can usually climb up somewhere they can't reach you then wait for them to disappear.
Guardians, on the other hand, have a long range attack that either kills you or knocks you on your ass and the guardian catches up while you're down. And they don't just disappear after a few seconds when you get out of range. They may lose interest and walk away, but they can just as easily see you again and begin another pursuit.
Guardian hunting is my favorite thing to do in BotW. Gloom Hands are scary once.
And another thing about gloom hands is that even if you beat them if you don’t beat them all at once, they’ll come back
You can defeat gloom hands by literally holding on to your life.
Climb to a vertical wall and make sure that they can't reach you, and just wait for them to die in frustration
bro- gloom hand are scary, but guardian theme gave me PTSD
The thing about gloom hands is they can only stay in a specific area. Guardians will spot you from a distance and LOCK ON until they either can’t follow or KILL
Gloom hands caught me so off guard when I went to the maze
The Gloom Hands lose their fear factor, when you realize that a Zonai Rocket onba Shield, is all you need to defeat most of them, without even exchanging a single attack! If even!
Guardians: all you need is a pot lid and good reflexes.
Gloom hands: post game monster. 😐
Gloom hands look scarier but they kinda loose their spark when you realize you can just overpower them with brute force. Guardian’s unstoppable and utterly terrifying until you learn the trick and get good at the timing, because you’re not gonna be able to run from them or kill them conventionally without dying
The guardian theme is my alarm clock 😂
Stalker: big, loud, can be seen in distance, gives big laser showing where it will attack and how to break line of sight.
Gloom: go near you die, use melee weapon, you die, ambushes you with little warning, multiple targets and hard to stun, fast, second phase if you manage to fight back, does gloom damage, creates a field of gloom slowing and damaging you, so evil the environment changes when it spawns.
Gloom hands are a new players nightmare
The concept of the gloom hands is much more terrifying to me, personally, but that’s subjective.
I’m in no way discounting the difficulty of the guardians(especially when you consider early game/new gamers playing), but the fact that the hands only counter is primarily just “get in the air” takes the win. You can’t even be built different and canonically win with a pot lid in this horror show.
Looking back to my first play throughs, Guardians and their music made me run because I couldn't beat it yet, I didn't know the secrets, but I managed to run away. Gloom Hands and their accompanying music scared the beegeebees out of me, worse, I couldn't out run them. Knowing how to handle both now, Gloom hand s take more effort because of shadow Gannon.
The gloom hands are tougher but the guardians are scarier cause I can be a million miles a way and still hear that sound
Gloom hands!!! 🙌 the music goes backwards, the sky turns red, you can’t outrun the dang thing AND it screams like a banshee when it spots you 😭😭😭🫣😂
Been playing for months and never seen gloom hands. NEW FEAR UNLOCKED
im so glad my older brother played botw before i did cause he warned me about the guardians (well, more like he taught me how to fight them after screaming cause i got scared)
I remember the first time i saw the hands, I was heading to a shine in a cave. I was just about to get to a small wall whet the shrine was atop it when i hear what to me sounded like stone dragging, to flesh popping. Obviously concerned by the sound, I turn around, only to be met by a blood curdling screech.. "okay ill get on the wall an- The grabbed me, crap." "well I have gloom heal and heart food, and now I've made it to the top! Great, no bomb them to hell" "those sucked, I bet they drop something cool thou- WHY IS THERE A BOSS BAR!"
Nothing beats walking and hearing that piano start
At least with guardians there is at least a POSSIBILITY to escape or hide…
As opposed to the gloom hands where if you see one, you might as well turn around or warp somewhere else if you‘re not like Obi Wan and possessing the high ground.
I was terrified when i first encountered the gloom hands
Correct, and after the gloom hands are defeated, then comes a more dangerous problem: phantom gandon
I personally think that, in terms of design, the gloom hands are scarier, but the guardian music would still have you running for your life if you heard it out of nowhere
Gloomhands, but only until you know how they work
The first time I saw gloomhands I was like “meh. I’ll just run around…what the f …what the…oh no….oh my gahd!!!!
Now when I play each game, I go guardian hunting but I’ll still avoid gloomhands if I can.
Yeah. Guardian kinda become insignificant once you figure out how to take them out.
I never was afraid to fight a guardian because it seemed defeatable at some point.
i ran from gloom hands because i didnt know you COULD defeat them.
Guardians are a skill check, Gloom hands are an item check.
Also if you climb on Mineru then jump off you can BT a triple shot bow with a powerful gemstone to oneshot the hands
Just imagine if you will, a Guardian with Gloom Hands instead of it's robotic legs.
So I'm writing a fanfic and there's gloom guardians and this is terrifying sir, thank you
By far the absolute best way to clear a Gloom spawn is a durable two-handed weapon with a frost horn or thunder Glock horn attached and then spin to win
The guardian music does raise your bp, but they're very predictable to defeat. I have never encountered the gloom hands yet, but the sudden red sky already spikes ny bp
Gloom hands is more terrifying and it’s not even close. One of the things I hate most is when my screen starts turning red.😂
I think since guardians and gloom hands fight so differently, very different play styles work well against them. My default play style happens to be keep my distance and lob arrows at the thing until it dies, very effective for gloom hands! Less effective for guardians that have armoured body’s, a small weak point, and attacks that can hit from meters away. I think the fact that guardians forced me out of my comfort zone made them scare me more, while gloom hands let me win with my standard strategy.
Phantom ganon is also super weak against the infinity regenerating master sword.
Okay but with the hands, all you need is to climb up a vertical surface and wait them out. They can't climb straight up and, while it takes a while, they will despawn and drop their loot without the second phase.
when i saw those hands i was like "im not dealing with this today" and ran away and i havent played botw but i think guardians
Guardians usually die to 3 parries, but it took me a while to learn how to properly deal with them. On the other hand, once you have a bit of health to tank gloom damage and some stamina, ice based quick spins take care of gloom hands (quick spins using the master sword with an ice gleeok horn is my go to way to deal with them). You could also just use aoe effects on arrows I guess. Phantom Ganon is also pretty easy if you know how to flurry rush, his attacks are clearly telegraphed.
Overall, guardians gave me trouble for longer, but gloom hands are more of a challenge, only because they need the proper equipment instead of just any shield you found
You can kill guardians with literally just a pot lid and a good timing with parrying. With gloom hands, you're guaranteed to wear down your weapon and/or cost you some zonites/zonai devices. Luckily with gloom hands, they dissipate after a certain amount of time if they can't reach you.
Since you don't get much from them, I just run until they stop!
the first time i encountered gloom hands, they spawned on the ground and i was on a rock or something they couldn't get up onto, and they despawned in frustration or something before i had a chance to process what i just saw. i'm not totally sure they even saw me, tbh.
so i learned pretty quickly that i just need to stay out of reach and they'll give up.
guardians though... RUN.
Guardian music brings back trauma
i think Gloom Hands for the fact that even now when i know they exist in the game, they give me a heart attack when i hear the scream before i even see them. plus they grab you. i still run from them even tho i have every heart container😂 hell nah💀🏃🏻♂️
i would definitely say gloom hands are scarier
when i first encountered a non-decayed guardian i went "OH GOD IT SPOTTED ME"
but im pretty sure i can speak for EVERYONE when i say everyones reaction to seeing the gloom hands for the first time went something like
"wHAT THE F*CK IS THAT?!"
The gloom hands were more terrifying when I first saw them but they are easier then guardians
I really want guardians and tears of the kingdom or gloom. Guardians would be crazy cool someone’s already made a theme mixing the two songs.
The gloom guardian I don’t know how it would be implemented if someone makes a mod to combine breath, wild and tears of the kingdom you could find them in the depths. I think it would be cool if they can grab you either slam you or throw you in the air. Something cool like that
The gloom hands are rare (I've encountered them like 4 times in my 100+ hours walkthrough), easy to defeat (if you have the high ground, they can't do much) and to escape from (again, high ground completely nullifies any possible threat)
Guardians, on the other hand, have tons of hp, aren't easy to avoid (especially on the Hyrule field, it feels like they're everywhere), and you have to practice to be able to parry their lasers. I didn't even know you can cut their legs off because I'd be dead if I tried it.
Also, the Guardian theme is horrifying
I recently just got Breath of the Wild. PLEASE TELL ME I DO NOT SEE GLOOM HANDS UNTIL TEARS OF THE KINGDOM!
Guardians are stressful enough, man. My friend was surprised I survived my first encounter with one; she got wiped out ASAP, I went "OH F---" and managed to hide. The "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" in discord probably amused my friend. "Oh yeah, you just met a guardian." Gods.... when the sound comes up, it's "OH F---". I don't think I'd be able to play this at my grandpa's because it does make me swear in alarm.
The Guardians require the skill to parry. Once you got that down, easy peasy. However!!! Those Gloom Hands still give me a heart attack when they appear. And even when I can defeat them easily, they are still scary.
Its worst when suddenly 1 horse back bokoblin, 1 moblin, 2 stallizalfos joins the party after a Guardian spots you lol..
But yep, Gloom Hands are worst since they inmovilize and consumes your heart containers... But it would´ve madness if the Gloom Hands appears also during the night of the Bloodmoon.
I think Gloom hands were scarier The Guardians were scary but once you get good with parrying you can beat them relatively easy.
I think the guardians were way more scary. Just because of the music. I never had any problems with the gloom hands because well I already knew how to play breath of the wild and I could extrapolate what to do with the gloom hands in tears of the Kingdom
Gloom hands come out of nowhere, there is no way to spot them from afar 😢 nothing can prepare you for that first encounter, there aren't hints to their existence either. The guardians were shown in cutscenes at least
The panio still hunts me but i can run from the hord of hands
Gloom hands spread out more, and they're harder to escape
Good archers can also use ancient arrows to one-shot guardians by shooting their lazer eyes