“The sequel to ‘The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’ is now in development,” Nintendo announced during a livestream on Tuesday. The developer isn’t giving up any details about the. Interactive map of Hyrule for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with locations, and descriptions for items, characters, easter eggs and other game content.
. Manaka Kataoka. Yasuaki Iwata. Hajime WakaiSeries,ReleaseMarch 3, 2017Mode(s)The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is an developed and published. An entry in the longrunning series, it was released for the and consoles on March 3, 2017. Breath of the Wild is set at the end of the; the player controls, who awakens from a hundred-year slumber to defeat before it can destroy the kingdom of.Similarly to the original (1986), players are given little instruction and can explore the freely. Tasks include collecting multipurpose items to aid in objectives or solving puzzles and side quests for rewards.
Breath of the Wild 's world is unstructured and designed to reward experimentation, and the story can be completed in a fashion. Development of Breath of the Wild lasted five years. Wanting to reinvent the series, Nintendo introduced elements such as a detailed, and., known for their work in the open-world series, assisted in designing landscapes and topography. The game was planned for release in 2015 as a Wii U exclusive, but was delayed twice due to problems with the physics engine. Breath of the Wild was a for the Switch and the final Nintendo-published game for the Wii U. Two packs were released later in 2017.Breath of the Wild received acclaim for its open-ended gameplay and attention to detail, and has been called one of the. Critics called it a landmark in open-world design, despite minor criticism for its technical performance at launch.
It won numerous awards, including several honors. By 2019, Breath of the Wild had sold over 15.11 million copies worldwide, making it the bestselling Zelda game. A direct sequel was announced at. Players are free to explore the world of Breath of the Wild using a variety of tools. For example, by jumping from a high elevation and deploying his paraglider, Link can travel distances quickly.Breath of the Wild is an set in an environment where players are tasked with exploring the kingdom of while controlling.
In terms of structure, Breath of the Wild encourages, which is illustrated by the game's lack of defined entrances or exits to areas, scant instruction given to the player, and encouragement to explore freely. Breath of the Wild introduces a consistent to the Zelda series, letting players approach problems in different ways rather than trying to find a single solution. The game also integrates a 'chemistry engine' that defines the physical properties of most objects and governs how they interact with the player and one another. For example, players may take advantage of the game's dynamic weather by throwing metal objects at enemies during to attract a lightning strike.
However, the level of realism offered in the 'chemistry engine' also means that players will equally attract an unavoidable fatal lightning strike if wearing any metal during thunderstorms. These design approaches result in a generally unstructured and interactive world that rewards experimentation and allows for nonlinear completion of the story.As Link, players can perform actions such as running, climbing, swimming, and gliding with a, although Link is limited by his. Link can procure items from the environment, including weapons, food, and other resources.
Unlike previous Zelda games, weapons and shields will degrade over time. Many items have multiple uses; for example, wooden weapons and armor can be set to light fires or collect incoming enemy arrows, and shields can be used as makeshift. Players can obtain food from hunting animals, gathering wild fruit, or collecting parts of deceased enemies.
By cooking combinations of food or materials, the player can create meals and elixirs that can replenish Link's health and stamina, or provide temporary status bonuses such as increased strength or weather resistance. An important tool in Link's arsenal is the 'Sheikah Slate', which can be used to mark waypoints on a map. Over the course of the game, Link can collect powers to add to the Slate, including remote bombs, the ability to manipulate metal objects, form ice blocks on watery surfaces, and temporarily stopping objects in time. In combat, players can lock onto targets for more precise attacks, while certain button combinations allow for advanced offensive and defensive moves. Players may also defeat enemies without weapons, such as rolling boulders off cliffs into enemy camps.Besides exploration, players can undergo quests or challenges to obtain certain benefits. Activating towers and shrines adds waypoints that the player may warp to at any time. Activating towers also adds territories to the map, although location names are not added until the player explores that area.
Dotted throughout Hyrule are shrines that contain challenges ranging from puzzles to battles against robotic opponents. Clearing shrines earns Spirit Orbs, which can be traded for additional health or stamina points. Scattered across Hyrule are small puzzles that reveal Korok Seeds, which can be traded to expand inventory size for weapons, shields, and bows.
Towns serve as hotspots for quests, sidequests and shops selling materials and clothing. Hikers and other travelers offer sidequests, hints, or conversation. Additionally, players can scan figures against their console to summon items or call Link's horse from previous Zelda games and Wolf Link from Twilight Princess. PlotBreath of the Wild takes place at the end of the in the kingdom of. 10,000 years before the beginning of the game, the evil threatens Hyrule, but he is defeated by, descendant of the Goddess Hylia, with the help of her knight,.Hyrule matured into an advanced civilization, protected by four Divine Beasts (enormous animalistic machines) and an army of Guardians (autonomous weapons). Upon Ganon's return, four great warriors were given the title of Champion and piloted one of the Divine Beasts each to weaken him while protected by Zelda, Link, and the Guardians. Link struck Ganon down with the, allowing Zelda to seal Ganon away.9,900 years later, the kingdom of Hyrule had regressed to a medieval state.
Reading their ancestors' prophecies, the Hyruleans recognized the signs of Ganon's return and excavated the Divine Beasts and Guardians. The champions of Hyrule's races—Daruk, warrior of the mountainous; Mipha, princess of the aquatic; Revali, archer of the birdlike; and Urbosa, chief of the desert-dwelling —assembled to pilot the Divine Beasts, while the current Zelda and Link battled Ganon. However, Ganon the Guardians and Divine Beasts, turning them against Hyrule.
King Rhoam and the Champions were killed, the castle town was destroyed, and Link was gravely wounded. Zelda took Link to safety, hid the Master Sword, and used her magic to trap Ganon in Hyrule Castle.100 years after that, an Link awakens in Hyrule.
He meets an, who reveals himself as the spirit of King Rhoam. Rhoam explains that Ganon, sealed in Hyrule Castle, has grown strong; he pleads for Link to defeat Ganon before he breaks free and destroys the world.Link travels across Hyrule, returning to locations from his past and regaining his memories. With the help of the Hyrulean races, he boards the four Divine Beasts and purges them of Ganon's monsters, releasing the spirits of Hyrule's former champions and allowing them to pilot the Divine Beasts once again. After obtaining the Master Sword from the Lost Woods, Link enters Hyrule Castle and defeats Ganon with the help of the Divine Beasts and Zelda's Bow of Light. Zelda seals Ganon away, restoring peace and allowing the spirits of King Rhoam and the champions to depart. Sensing their presence, Link and Zelda smile fondly.If players fulfill certain conditions (i.e.
Freeing all four Divine Beasts, retrieving the Master Sword, etc.), they unlock a secret ending in which Zelda realizes that Hyrule must be rebuilt and that she and Link must begin the process themselves. As Link and Zelda survey Hyrule and embark to rebuild their world, the princess confides that she may no longer possess any supernatural power, yet still she is happy. With Breath of the Wild, Zelda series producer sought to rethink series conventions., an internal division of, developed Breath of the Wild for the.
According to series producer, the development team aimed to 'rethink the conventions of Zelda'. Following the release of in 2011, Aonuma received comments from players who wished to see a more interconnected map to explore the locales between the gameplay areas. In 2013, Nintendo experimented with nonlinear, gameplay in.
At the 2014, Aonuma said he planned to reform dungeons and puzzles, two of the series' major gameplay elements, and redesign the game to allow players to reach the end without progressing through the story. As Nintendo had never worked on a modern open-world game before, they took influence from the development of.Prior to full development, the developers designed a playable 2D prototype similar to the original Zelda to experiment with physics-based puzzles.
The final game uses a modified version of the. At the, Director, technical director Takuhiro Dohta, and art director Satoru Takizawa held a presentation titled 'Change and Constant – Breaking Conventions with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild', during which they demoed the prototype. Aonuma called the physics engine in Breath of the Wild a major development for the Zelda series, saying that it 'underpins everything in the world' and makes things operate in a 'logical and realistic way', allowing players to approach puzzles and problems in different ways. He expanded on the difficulty in developing this system, recalling how one day during development he entered an area in the game and found that all the objects had been blown away by the wind.
'Our mission in developing this new Zelda game. Is quite plainly to re-think the conventions of Zelda.
I'm referring to the expectation that the player is supposed to complete dungeons in a certain order.we want to set aside these conventions, get back to basics and create a newborn Zelda so that the players can best enjoy the real essence of the franchise.' , producerThe game was built and demonstrated with touchscreen features for the Wii U, but the developers found that looking away from the main screen distracted from the game. The features were removed when the game moved to tandem development across the Switch and Wii U. The also affected animation; although Link is canonically left-handed, he is right-handed in the game to match the GamePad's control scheme, which has its sword-swinging buttons on its right side. The Switch version performs better than the Wii U release when docked to a television, although when undocked, both run at the same. The Switch version also has higher-quality environmental sounds. Aonuma stated that the art design was inspired by and art to help identify the vast world.
The game's landscape was based on locations in and around, the hometown of game director, and was partially designed by, who assisted with topographical level design. 'I really think the implementation of this physics engine is a major development for the Zelda series. The way the physics engine underpins everything in the world really offers up a lot of new possibilities. For instance, in Breath of the Wild you might have a puzzle where making use of the physics, there’ll be various ways you can solve that puzzle. That really opens up a lot of possibilities so there’s not just one way to progress in the game or just one way to solve a puzzle.' , producerBreath of the Wild was the first main Zelda game to use voice acting in, although Link remains a.
Aonuma was affected by the first time he heard a character with a human voice in-game, and wanted to leave a similar impression on players. The team decided to record voice-overs for all cutscenes instead of only the key scenes, as originally planned. Nintendo provided. Initially, players were not able to mix and match the languages of voices and subtitles; however, Nintendo released an update in May 2017 that allowed players to choose the voice-over language.
The game on February 3, 2017, with Nintendo holding a to celebrate. Coinciding with the game's launch in Taiwan and South Korea in early 2018, Nintendo introduced a patch worldwide adding traditional and simplified Chinese and Korean translations for the Nintendo Switch version.The original score was composed by Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata, and Hajime Wakai.
Kataoka and Wakai had previously worked on the Zelda games and respectively. The soundtrack was primarily written and performed on a, with a focus on music and sounds rather than the melodic and upbeat music in previous Zelda games. According to Wakai, this helped add 'authenticity' to the environments, and was taken on as a challenge by the rest of the sound team. Promotion and releaseAonuma originally teased the game for the in January 2013 during the company's presentation. The game, he continued, would challenge the series' conventions, such as the requirement that players complete dungeons in a set order.
The next year, Nintendo introduced the game's, visual style with in-game footage at its press event. Once planned for release in 2015, the game was delayed early in the year and did not show at. Zelda series creator reaffirmed that the game was still set for release on the Wii U, despite the development of Nintendo's next console, the. The game was delayed again in April 2016 due to problems with its physics engine. Nintendo let attendees play the game's Wii U version at, where they also announced its subtitle, Breath of the Wild.
Said that the showing would 'take your breath away', and Breath of the Wild was the most talked-about E3 2016 game on social media according to, a social media monitoring platform. It was also listed among the best games at E3 by Eurogamer,.
At a Nintendo presentation in January 2017, a trailer was shown announcing that the game would be released as a launch title for the Switch.Breath of the Wild launched for both the Wii U and Switch on March 3, 2017. It was the last Nintendo game released for the Wii U. The Switch version was available in limited 'Special Edition' and 'Master Edition' bundles, which both included a Sheikah Eye coin, a Calamity Ganon tapestry with world map, a soundtrack CD, and a themed carrying case for the Switch.
The Master Edition also included a figurine based on the Master Sword. An 'Explorer's Edition' was released for the Switch on November 23, 2017, containing a two-sided map and a 100-page book of story information. In Europe, the game used unique packing artwork. A five-disc, 211-track soundtrack was released in Japan on April 25, 2018. Downloadable contentOn June 30, 2017, Nintendo released a 'season pass' for two bundled (DLC): The Master Trials and The Champions' Ballad. The Master Trials adds gameplay modes, features, and items.
In the Trial of the Sword challenge, Link fights through around 45 rooms of enemies and must finish each room before proceeding. Link begins with no equipment, but is rewarded with a glowing Master Sword that has greater durability and possesses a doubled damage stat if the player completes the challenge.
The pack also adds an option to play the game at a higher, which adds ranks and raises the ranks of enemies. The enemies are more perceptive when Link sneaks near them and slowly regenerate health in battle. New floating platforms throughout the land offer enemies to battle and treasure as a reward.
The Hero's Path feature draws the player's path on the game's map, designed to help players determine places they have not visited. The player can also find the hidden Travel Medallion to save Link's current position as a single waypoint to which the player can transport Link at any time. New items include the Korok Mask, which helps the player find Korok locations, and other themed cosmetics related to previous Zelda games.The Champions' Ballad was released on December 7, 2017, with a trailer presented at exhibiting the new content. The expansion pack adds a new dungeon, original story, gear, and additional challenges. It also introduces the Master Cycle Zero, a motorcycle-like vehicle that Link can ride after players complete the pack's additional content. Reception ReceptionAggregate scoreAggregatorScore(NS) 97/100(Wii U) 96/100Review scoresPublicationScore10/1010/109.5/10Essential40/4010/1010/1010/10Nintendo World Report9.5/1010/10VideoGamer.com9/10Breath of the Wild was released to critical acclaim, with some calling the game a and one of the. On the, Breath of the Wild was the and holds the largest number of perfect reviews of any game from any year.
Industry publications including, and ranked Breath of the Wild the best game of 2017. It was the 29th game (including retrospective perfect scores) to earn a 10/10 score from Edge and the 24th game to receive a from.The open-world gameplay received praise. Jose Otero of IGN described it as 'a masterclass in open-world design' and 'a wonderful sandbox full of mystery, dangling dozens upon dozens of tantalizing things in front of you that just beg to be explored'. GameSpot called it the most impressive game Nintendo had made, writing that it 'takes designs and mechanics perfected in other games and reworks them for its own purposes to create something wholly new, but also something that still feels quintessentially like a Zelda game.
It's both a return to form and a leap into uncharted territory, and it exceeds expectations on both fronts.' Wrote that the game world was 'an absolute, and unremitting, pleasure to get lost in' and that 'the magic of being given all the tools in the opening hour is the knowledge that the solution to any problem is already at your disposal, and you can always change tack'.According to Kyle Orland of, 'after spending a week utterly immersed in Nintendo's open-world reimagining of the tried-and-true Zelda formula, it's hard to return to the more formulaic entries of the franchise's past'. Journalists commented on unexpected results not intended by the developers, with serendipitous moments proving popular on. Chris Plante of predicted that whereas prior open-world games tended to feature prescribed challenges, Zelda would influence a new generation of games with open-ended problem-solving.Reviewers lauded the sense of detail and immersion. Kotaku recommended turning off UI elements in praise of the indirect cues that contextually indicate the same information, such as Link shivering in the cold or waypoints appearing when using the scope. Reviewers also commented on the unexpected permutations of interactions between Link, villagers, pets, and enemies, many of which were shared widely on social media. A tribute to former Nintendo president, who died during development, also attracted praise.was more critical than most, giving Breath of the Wild a 7/10 score.
He criticized the difficulty, weapon durability, and level design, but praised the open world and variety of content. Other criticism focused on the unstable and the low resolution of 900p; updates addressed some of these problems. SalesBreath of the Wild broke sales records for a Nintendo launch game in multiple regions. In Japan, the Switch and Wii U versions sold a combined 230,000 copies in the first week of release, with the Switch version becoming the top-selling game released that week. In the UK, Breath of the Wild was the second-bestselling retail game its week of release behind, and became the third-bestselling Zelda game behind Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. In the United States, Breath of the Wild was the second-bestselling video game during its month of release behind. Nintendo reported that Breath of the Wild sold more than one million copies in the US that month, 925,000 of which were for Switch – a 100%.
That month, Nintendo reported it had sold 3.84 million copies of Breath of the Wild worldwide, 1.08 million for Wii U and 2.76 million for Switch, surpassing the Switch's global sales of 2.74 million for the same period. Nintendo president said that the attach rate of Breath of the Wild to the Switch was 'unprecedented'.
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This evil has been turned back time and time again by a warrior wielding the soul of a hero and a princess who carries the blood of the Goddess. With the passage of time, each conflict with Ganon faded into legend.
So listen closely as I tell you of this 'legend' that occurred 10,000 years ago. Nintendo. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Impa: Hyrule was then blossoming as a highly advanced civilization. The people thought it wise to utilize their technological prowess to ensure the safety of the land should Calamity Ganon ever return. They constructed.
The Divine Beasts. They also built a legion of autonomous weapons called guardians. Nintendo. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Impa: The Divine Beasts were piloted by four individuals of exceptional skill from across the land.
And thus, the plan to neutralize Ganon was forged. The princess and the hero fought alongside these four Champions against this ancient evil.
The Guardians were tasked with protecting the hero, as the Divine Beasts unleashed a furious attack. And when the hero wielding the sword that seals the darkness delivered his final blow, the princess used her sacred power to seal away Calamity Ganon. Nintendo.
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