![]() ![]() ![]() If you get lucky enough to save some money in the bank and get somewhere in your chosen pursuits, life becomes less about whether you have the freedom to do what you want, and more about the series of choices you have to make in order to do things as well as you can. Those who felt that prior Zeldas had become overly handholding and tutorialized were thrilled with how this one just threw you outside and said “you figure it out.”Īs an old man who constantly has to “figure it out” in life, this was a massive turn off. But for the most part, the thing that made Breath of the Wild stand out is how much you didn’t have to do in it. It still has really fun, focused challenges like the shrines, and the bit where you have to invade the home base of the banana-obsessed Yiga Clan. You can play Breath of the Wild for hours without ever hitting an obstacle that you can’t just climb over, walk around, or otherwise circumvent. They’re a part of Hyrule, a world that Link and I adventure through, but which live and breathe apart from Link too.īreath of the Wild made the playground much, much bigger than it had ever been before, and the obstacle courses did not, for the most part, scale up in kind. These aren’t some sort of secret boss, and they aren’t scenery. Everything is interactable, and all of it is one living, virtual ecosystem of interacting rules and ideas.Įven when I was getting a screenshot of Naydra now, years later, for this piece, I had to appreciate the feeling of gliding alongside and seeing all the ice blasts ripple outwards. And the more I played, the more I realized these dragons, as much as everything else in Breath of the Wild, are part of the world. Naydra, as I would learn, was corrupted, and needed help to be let loose, to roam the skies of Hyrule like the other dragons. ![]() I thought to myself, “huh, that’s a neat background effect.” Then, while playing later on, I was making my way up a snowy mountain and discovered, through the fog, a massive ice dragon right in front of me. The first one I saw seemed miles away, drifting in the wind. ![]()
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