The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - The Champions' Ballad

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 338 Ratings

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  1. michelepapucci
    Dec 10, 2017
    7
    If you really like doing Shrines one after another (which felt repetitive) then go for it, ‘cuz they’re the best ones you’ll ever find in this game. If you really wanted some extra story, some new adventurous quest around the field of Hyrule to uncover some mysterious background then I suggest you to stay away from this downloadable content.
  2. Kick454
    Apr 21, 2018
    5
    Overhyped, mediocre DLC that shouldn't exist. There were only three good things about the DLC. I hope Aonuma learns not to lie to the Zelda fans ever again.

    Pros: + Dungeon: Better than every other dungeon aside from Hyrule Castle. + Boss: Thank god it's not Calamity Ganon Part 6. + Shrines: They are the best in the game. Cons: - Overhyped glorified Shrine Quest: ...This is what    Overhyped, mediocre DLC that shouldn't exist. There were only three good things about the DLC. I hope Aonuma learns not to lie to the Zelda fans ever again.

    Pros:
    + Dungeon: Better than every other dungeon aside from Hyrule Castle.
    + Boss: Thank god it's not Calamity Ganon Part 6.
    + Shrines: They are the best in the game.

    Cons:
    - Overhyped glorified Shrine Quest: ...This is what I get for waiting Nintendo? Fire Aonuma please, he sucks at making Zelda nowadays.
    - Story: FIVE THIRTY SECOND CUTSCENES? WHERE IS THE NEW STORY? I ONLY EXPECTED AN ACTUAL STORY, NOT JUST FLESH OUT THE CHARACTERS.

    Overall, The Champions' Ballad was a really disappointing DLC in some factors but delivered in others and shall warrant a 5/10 from me. Hopefully Odyssey gets better DLC if it ever gets some.    … Expand
  3. Tazcat2011
    Dec 9, 2017
    6
    Disappointing and uninspired are two adjectives I would use to describe this DLC. Adding more shrines and using a 1-hit kill mechanic for the start of the DLC is terrible. This is hardly a plot driven “Story DLC” that Nintendo was billing it as. If you absolutely loved the shrines in BotW then this is for you. If you were hoping for something different, stay away.
  4. Daniel_Campbell
    Dec 11, 2017
    7
    $20 for the complete DLC package feels pretty fair. This particular piece of DLC is enjoyable for the most part, but there are a few pretty big warts on this otherwise pretty face.

    Motion Controls: There are a few universally held beliefs in gaming. One of them being; Motion Controls suck. At their best they are functional and at their worst they make the game near unplayable. For    $20 for the complete DLC package feels pretty fair. This particular piece of DLC is enjoyable for the most part, but there are a few pretty big warts on this otherwise pretty face.

    Motion Controls:
    There are a few universally held beliefs in gaming. One of them being; Motion Controls suck. At their best they are functional and at their worst they make the game near unplayable. For Champions Ballad, they tend to skew towards the later, especially in handheld mode. The motion control shrines in the base game were the biggest blight of the overall experience, but for some reason they force motion controls left and right in this DLC.

    Challenges VS New Content
    The new dungeon in the game is great. Full of fun new puzzles that culminate in a fun boss fight. Everything else feels like challenges created using existing assets and mechanics. Rehashing previous fights, no new weapons (aside from one you don't get to keep), and playing a cartography version of "Where's Waldo" round out most of the time you'll spend most of your time on during this DLC.

    If you have already played through the main game and completed all of the shrines this DLC is not going to supply you with dozens of hours of content. It is a nice supplementary piece for people who have yet to play through the game. It's worth the price but it's not exactly that the truck load of content a lot of us hoping for. If you have already completed the main bulk of the game, then this is only going to take you about 4 to 5 hours to chew through all of the content available in this package. Here is hoping there is a second wave of DLC that will supply us with new lands to explore and new weapons, bows, armor, and enemies. But overall this feels like the rehashing of a lot of things that are already in the game that have been slightly rearranged to make a new challenge.    … Expand
  5. wiiroy
    Dec 13, 2017
    5
    I love Zelda BOTW, I gave it a 10/10, but this DLC is really disappointing. There's no real new content, no new world or map. There are a few of the same old enemies in different places on the old map. There's a few new shrines which use the same assets as the old shrines - hardly distinguishable - like you could make them all yourself in a day with a passable level editor. They feelI love Zelda BOTW, I gave it a 10/10, but this DLC is really disappointing. There's no real new content, no new world or map. There are a few of the same old enemies in different places on the old map. There's a few new shrines which use the same assets as the old shrines - hardly distinguishable - like you could make them all yourself in a day with a passable level editor. They feel rehashed and ultimately pointless. When you've got full hearts and stamina there's very little motivation to spend hours running around the same areas for some spirit orbs. There's no new story, just some more flashback cutscenes. There's a mini-dungeon that the same as the old ones (you can even fight the same old bosses again, hooray).

    Overall, for a third of the price of the original game, this DLC is a real let-down.    … Expand
  6. elnicobra
    Dec 14, 2017
    7
    No puedo dar una puntuación "verde" ya que nunca voy a estar de acuerdo con DLC's este contenido perfectamente podia estar en el juego inicialmente y mucho mas los objetos que trae consigo. No puedo valorarlo negativo porque obviamente lo que agrega esta a la altura del juego, pero insisto, o entregan este contenido de forma gratuita como parte de retribucion por sus ventas o ser un GOTY,No puedo dar una puntuación "verde" ya que nunca voy a estar de acuerdo con DLC's este contenido perfectamente podia estar en el juego inicialmente y mucho mas los objetos que trae consigo. No puedo valorarlo negativo porque obviamente lo que agrega esta a la altura del juego, pero insisto, o entregan este contenido de forma gratuita como parte de retribucion por sus ventas o ser un GOTY, o crean una segunda parte y la venden en el mercado con el mismo nivel y contenido que el juego "base"… Expand
  7. vspvitor
    Nov 22, 2020
    7
    Loved the dlc but we really anted to play with the champions(now its possible with age of calamity)

    the boss is great and the missions
  8. R7valero
    Dec 30, 2017
    7
    Si en el DLC pack 1 le dí un 6 de nota, creo que esta vez tendría que dar la nota en conjunto, de manera que justifique el precio total del Pase de expansión.
    Seguramente todos los usuarios teníamos otras expectativas en cuanto al DLC pack 2. La historia adicional sigue teniendo las características de la historia base, es decir, una serie de misiones que puedes hacerla en el orden que    Si en el DLC pack 1 le dí un 6 de nota, creo que esta vez tendría que dar la nota en conjunto, de manera que justifique el precio total del Pase de expansión.
    Seguramente todos los usuarios teníamos otras expectativas en cuanto al DLC pack 2. La historia adicional sigue teniendo las características de la historia base, es decir, una serie de misiones que puedes hacerla en el orden que quieras y cuando quieras. Esto es bueno ya que no rompe la estructura original del propio juego, y puede durar unas 10 horas mínimo pasárselo (no creo que todo el contenido del DLC 2 supere las 15 horas). Creo que la historia no cuenta nada nuevo y que no profundiza mucho más en los personajes tal como prometieron. De todos modos es un juego que aunque para mi gusto la narrativa apolíptica de Ganon no es mala, no hace falta contar mucha historia, sino seguir jugando explorando y completando nuevos santuarios,
    Los santuarios son buenos, pero la nueva mazmorra creo que no es la mejor. En mi caso la superé teniendo dificultades solo al cómo empezar, pero luego me resultó muy intuitivo. El jefe final es inesperado y muy bueno. Me alegré bastante de luchar y tardar un rato en derrotarlo con ligeras dificultades y buenos patrones de ataque.
    El resto de contenido de vestimentas es mediocre, ya que me parece buena la idea de darte pistas y encontrarlas, pero luego no aportan nada a la jugabilidad,
    En resumen, el Pase de expansión no es el mejor del mundo, pero tampoco es malo. Es entretenido de jugar y creo que el precio en conjunto es justo, ya que ofrece horas de entretenimiento para seguir jugando un par de decenas de horas más. A este DLC le pondría la nota de 8, y al Pase de expansión un 7, considerándolo justo en cuanto al precio en relación a la diversión y a la calidad,    … Expand
  9. Megafont88
    May 4, 2018
    7
    Unlike Botw's first DLC pack, this one was pretty decent. It was much more enjoyable to play and added to the story. A few of the new shrines were more annoying than necessary, but other than that they were ok.

    However, the new boss was poorly designed. It felt very cheap as Link just seemed utterly out-matched. I beat it on my first try, but due to its poor design and how unfair it    Unlike Botw's first DLC pack, this one was pretty decent. It was much more enjoyable to play and added to the story. A few of the new shrines were more annoying than necessary, but other than that they were ok.

    However, the new boss was poorly designed. It felt very cheap as Link just seemed utterly out-matched. I beat it on my first try, but due to its poor design and how unfair it felt, that battle was not much fun.    … Expand
  10. Loo_oo
    Jul 4, 2018
    5
    Ce DLC n'apporte rien de bien "profond", et rien de plus à l'histoire. Il se contente de survoler à nouveau les personnages... Une mécanique plutôt répétitive pour chaque héro, qui finit pas décevoir. Mais la magie de ZELDA est toujours là, pour satisfaire notre faim insatiable de découverte. Et cet open wolrd nous se prête à la "re"decouverte des lieux.
    Bref, Nintendo TAKE MY MONEY je    Ce DLC n'apporte rien de bien "profond", et rien de plus à l'histoire. Il se contente de survoler à nouveau les personnages... Une mécanique plutôt répétitive pour chaque héro, qui finit pas décevoir. Mais la magie de ZELDA est toujours là, pour satisfaire notre faim insatiable de découverte. Et cet open wolrd nous se prête à la "re"decouverte des lieux.
    Bref, Nintendo TAKE MY MONEY je vous pardonne    … Expand
  11. jiorl
    Feb 11, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Good: New Shrines, new divine beast, the bike you get as a price is cool, memories after you beat each are nice and add depth to the 4 divine beast pilots, final boss is a great test

    The Bad: some of the challenges to get the shrines are rinse and repeat, using motion controls in this game sucks

    Other Notes: The Champions Ballad DLC offers a ton of new challenges, even if they feel a bit rehashed sometimes. The 5th Divine beast is quite good, but maybe a fraction easier than some of the other divine beasts in the base game. And the boss after completing the divine beast is a great challenge. All in all, while it isn’t perfect, it gives me a reason to come back to BoTW, and that in itself is great    … Expand
  12. Sensou
    May 31, 2022
    6
    This review is for both DLC as you cannot purchase only one of them.

    DLC Pack 1 somehow not worth it as you only get 1 extra save slot but you need to restart the game and with higher difficulty. The only worth content is the trials of master sword and travel medallion. DLC Pack 2 is filled with more content where you can upgrade all champion's power where I think it's way too simple    This review is for both DLC as you cannot purchase only one of them.

    DLC Pack 1 somehow not worth it as you only get 1 extra save slot but you need to restart the game and with higher difficulty. The only worth content is the trials of master sword and travel medallion.

    DLC Pack 2 is filled with more content where you can upgrade all champion's power where I think it's way too simple for an upgrade as you only decrease the recharge time. On top of that, you can enter some kind of "Divine Beast" to get a motorcycle, huh. I prefer my horse as you will also get ancient gear for your horse so you can call your horse wherever you are and my horse doesn't need a fuel to run.

    You notice I rate it 6 and its majorly due to the outfits/ armors you get on both DLC which looks cool and awesome but it sucks because you cannot upgrade it, like what the flark? There's no point in choosing the DLC armor (besides korok mask) if you cannot upgrade it, it turns out it just for look. Shame Nintendo.

    With this I can conclude that Zelda BOTW is very unrewarding and unfair (not to compare with other open world game). The game can reward you more but they decide not to, and I think with the DLC they will reward you properly but turns out its a bummer. Well, at least you get a lot of hours more in the game with the DLC as I've played it for around 10-15 hours more with it.    … Expand

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. Nintendo Force Magazine
    Feb 26, 2018
    90
    The secrets and surprises are worth the cost of entry. [Issue #32 – March/April 2018, p. 26]
  2. Games Master UK
    Jan 25, 2018
    84
    Not quite what was advertised, but a splendid coda to one of the greatest games ever made. [Feb 2018, p.78]
  3. Gamersky
    Jan 21, 2018
    90
    The second DLC provides more things to play and experience than the last one, with new combat, new puzzles, new areas to explore, and new story to dig.
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