The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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  1. Awanka
    Mar 20, 2023
    9
    I finally got around to playing this legendary game, and it's pretty great with some caveats. BOTW is very well-executed. The combat is tight, and the sense of exploration, and delight of discovery, are unparalleled. It also shakes up the Zelda formula by bringing a lot of new concepts to the table, like difficult terrain traversal, and a large open world with high environmentI finally got around to playing this legendary game, and it's pretty great with some caveats. BOTW is very well-executed. The combat is tight, and the sense of exploration, and delight of discovery, are unparalleled. It also shakes up the Zelda formula by bringing a lot of new concepts to the table, like difficult terrain traversal, and a large open world with high environment interactivity. Fire and water follows realistic physics, so rain will form puddles and make surfaces slippery, and fire will spread to anything flammable.

    For all the progress that this game has made, there's something holding it back from being perfect. Strangely enough, BOTW actually felt too open-ended with too much added complexity. The beauty of a Zelda game is the simplicity of storyline and gameplay. The series features a streamlined experience of sharp gameplay, meaningful exploration, and minimal narrative to get in the way. It's an exercise in minimalism, and the player is always exploring, kicking ass, or moving to the next dungeon. Breath of the Wild has far more complexity than a typical Zelda game, and that's good and bad. BOTW has a lot of meandering around wondering what you're supposed to be doing next, listening to terrible NPC dialog, trying to figure out an obscure quest condition, or remembering the different possible cooking combinations to make your recipe. It is at times simultaneously perplexing and tedious.

    Also this game is really wordy. The other thing I loved about Zelda is that there are few npcs, and they barely talk. BOTW has tons of cringy NPCs, and they won't shut up. You can't tell what is important information, and what's mindless npc banter. I feel like this is another step backwards for the franchise.

    Although an objectively great game, I miss simpler Zelda games like Twilight Princess.    … Expand
  2. Jimbok3rr17
    Mar 20, 2023
    0
    Game bad fell of mountain very bad also rain lots of rain too much rain I really like this game btw
  3. jotape01
    Mar 20, 2023
    0
    This game revolutionized what we call exploration. It is immensely fun and it changes the way how any Legend of Zelda. It is supposed to be. A con might be the fact we do not have dungeons, however, the concept is that the world is your dungeon. The story, the details, the music, everything is done incredibly. If Ocarina of Time changed the world and made it magic, this game is itsThis game revolutionized what we call exploration. It is immensely fun and it changes the way how any Legend of Zelda. It is supposed to be. A con might be the fact we do not have dungeons, however, the concept is that the world is your dungeon. The story, the details, the music, everything is done incredibly. If Ocarina of Time changed the world and made it magic, this game is its equivalent.

    Play it, enjoy it. An absolute masterpiece.    … Expand
  4. YanagiJuniper31
    Mar 17, 2023
    10
    who made this game?
    this game is ****
    i'm just playing this game, exploring the world, accidentally staying up all night and just thinking
    aonoma or whoever you even are>
    how did you make a game this ****
    overall probably the dark souls of nintendo switch launch titles {}{that game is also ****}{}
  5. Playmaker01
    Mar 5, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Zelda Breath of the Wild é a experiência definitiva do que é jogar um jogo de mundo aberto. Após a revolução do Ocarina of Time, o qual criou o target e inspirou tantos outros games 3D que vieram depois, Breath of the Wild levou ao extremo o que significa liberdade na gameplay. Neste game você pode fazer absolutamente o que quiser, a hora que quiser e quando quiser. Se seu intuito ao começar o game é enfrentar diretamente o last boss, o jogo te permite, mesmo se tornando um imenso desafio, sendo que também é possível passar pelas shrines e dungeons na ordem que preferir. A liberdade é tão grande, que nos praticamente 75 km de mapa você pode ir literalmente até onde a sua vista alcança, não existem paredes invisíveis no game, se avistar uma montanha distante ao horizonte e se atrever a ir lá, o jogo vai permitir a aventura, e se prepare pois ele irá te surpreender e te recompensar pela sua ousadia em se aventurar no seu vasto universo. Tenho 32 anos, nasci em 1990 e jogo desde então, passando por super nintendo, ps1, dreamcast, xbox, xbox 360 e playstation 04, até os dias atuais nenhum jogo fez o que Zelda Breath of the Wild alcançou, você é o heroi, você molda o mundo seguindo a sua história. O jogo não te direciona, não identifica no mapa aonde deve ir, apenas siga seus instintos. O fator replay é infinito, existem modos mais difíceis com as dlcs para aqueles que gostam de mais desafios. A história é contada por meio de flashes de 100 anos atrás, onde o herói foi desacordado por um longo período de tempo e apenas fragmentos da sua memória são revelados até o desfecho final contra o Ganon da calamidade que foi selado junto com a princesa Zelda no castelo, se sacricando para que, após 100 anos, você finalmente consiga trazer luz para o mundo como o herói do tempo em Ocarina of Time fez CERCA DE 10 mil anos atrás. Nada mais a falar, jogo nota 10 de 10 em todos os quesitos, reconhecido como o melhor de todos os tempos numa lista de 100 pela IGN, revolucionou um gênero que já estava definido, ganhou game of the year de 2017 enfrentando jogos como Mario Odyssey, Persona 05 Horizon Zero Dawn. O incomparável, ícone de um legado antigo que soube novamente se reinventar, o extraordinário Zelda Breath of the Wild, o game que me fez ter vontade de comprar um Nintendo Switch apenas para jogá-lo, o melhor jogo de todos os tempos, não perca essa aventura pois como o jogo diz, you Born to be Wild.… Expand
  6. riffazz
    Mar 15, 2023
    10
    Imprescindible. El mejor videojuego de Nintendo Switch, y uno de los mejores de la historia. Todo es casi perfecto, la ambientación, la música, las mecánicas te hacen vivir una historia única.
  7. zekepliskin
    Mar 14, 2023
    5
    Some good bits and innovations, but It's painfully overrated at this point.

    There are a lot of clever bits, sure. Do the tutorial and go explore the map, getting to the top of those often pretty challenging in a good way towers, unlock the map. Initially the variety of the shrines is engaging. Interactivity like being able to make your own shelter and fire from flint you found, scale    Some good bits and innovations, but It's painfully overrated at this point.

    There are a lot of clever bits, sure. Do the tutorial and go explore the map, getting to the top of those often pretty challenging in a good way towers, unlock the map. Initially the variety of the shrines is engaging. Interactivity like being able to make your own shelter and fire from flint you found, scale any mountain you can see and have stamina for, prepare your own dishes. This sets a new standard for open-world games.

    The problem I found is, after a while it just gets repetitive and the flaws start to become obvious while the initial novelties of the gameplay mechanics start to wear thin. I did 30-50 hours on the Switch, put the game away and then never felt compelled to play it again. I got to the elephant Divine Beast, Ruta or whatever it was called, and was bored.

    I think what gets me the most is that basically all weapons other than the Master Sword break. No, you can't repair them. They all shatter. The Master Sword, while it doesn't have that problem, constantly needs recharging. I suppose if you own an iPhone you're used to that in the real world, but it doesn't make it acceptable in a game.

    Even if the weapons weren't constantly exploding, forcing you to kill the momentum of a battle by scrolling through your inventory looking for a suitable substitute, there isn't exactly a huge variety of enemies to dispatch with them. You'll see palette-swapped Hobgoblins or Bokoblins or whatever they're called all day long. Same old Guardians everywhere; when you learn the trick to destroying them that gets monotonous too. Lot of the bosses and mini-bosses get reused. I get it, animation is expensive, but I would have chosen a smaller map and more enemy variety, personally, spend the game budget there instead.

    You can tell it was designed for the dual-screen Wii U; there's a lot of legacy references to it left in. Nintendo spent too much money developing it to let it die on the Wii U, clearly, so they ported it here. Might explain the pretty poor DRS and frame rate issues; it's easy for the engine to get overstressed and start dropping those frames.

    The shrines, too, get overdone. Sometimes the biggest obstacle and most fun part is getting to them, only to find it's a rehashed Mini Guardian boss fight or some ever-so-slightly-different iteration of some puzzle that was only vaguely challenging the first time. Never seems like they get more complex or force you to think much, or combine the unlockable powers in interesting ways.

    The story is a bit thin, too. There's not much in the way of character development, or indeed many story-relevant characters at all. Zelda is somewhere between a cardboard cutout and a fairly standard warrior princess cliché; not much going on there.

    I'd like to say the music is memorable, but beyond reusing the standard Zelda themes and musical cues from older games I preferred (Link's Awakening, while pretty linear, was more fun than this is to me) I can't remember a note.

    I think I might have given the game a six or seven but the amount of praise heaped on BotW, I just don't get it, when people say "there isn't a thing wrong with it" and I can list a few things right away. A lot of the open world "innovation" is just stuff I thought you should always be able to do in games, and some that came before it had elements of those anyway, so I wasn't "blown away". Even reading through the most recent reviews it just reads like simping for the game while not even being able to articulate specific things they like about it before they hand it another easy 10. I wish it were better to me, I wish I was playing the same game everyone else was, but honestly it's a bit meh; certainly not terrible as there is stuff here to praise, but not the wondrous all-encompassing masterpiece some people seem to think it is.

    I personally think as hugely-praised and sometimes criticised for it open-world RPGs go, Skyrim and The Witcher 3 are the greater achievement. The Witcher 3 is dripping with fascinating characters, multi-part arcs, a nice balance of linear storytelling versus explore and find yourself. Stumbling onto quests and things in that game feels more organic, and I can tell you more about Zoltan and Triss from that one than I can about the lumps of unshaped clay that are the "characters" here. There's more world building, more lore. Actually the same is true about Skyrim, to an extent, and even though that's got a creaky old game engine powering it, was a more fascinating world too. I can't remember a lot about the questing I did in BotW, but I certainly remember things like the vampire DLC storylines, the thousand steps (and yes there are way less than a thousand) and Ebony Warrior character pretty well in that game.

    And you know the great thing? Both Skyrim and The Witcher 3 are also available on the Switch    … Expand
  8. iAlexander13
    Mar 10, 2023
    10
    Напевно найцікавіша гра в яку я взагалі коли небудь грав. Думаю що інші вже детально розписали всі деталі, тому не бачу сенсу набирати багато тексту.
    Обов'язково варто гру купити, й спробувати самому.
  9. Vinivitorioyo
    Mar 9, 2023
    10
    É o meu jogo favorito da vida. Perfeito. Incrível. Melhor experiência que já tive. Indico pra qualquer pessoa.
  10. SpiderSucc
    Mar 9, 2023
    8
    I have not finished alot of the game yet so take this review with a grain of salt but i think breath of the wild is pretty goot although the start is pretty slow so i didnt really get into it at first but i think other then that and weapon durrability making no sense and i dont like when your weapons break its a pretty good game and i can see why so many people like this game
  11. quaresma_marcus
    Mar 6, 2023
    9
    Muito bom o jogo, o gameplay e os graficos são bons, mas a verdadeira estrela do jogo é o mundo aberto, ele é uma maravilha do mundo dos jogos, imenso e cheio de coisas pra se fazer.
  12. Sanbarra
    Mar 8, 2023
    9
    One of the best games ever!
    I'm a huge Zelda fan and although many things are done differently in BotW than in the earlier parts, the math works out. Nintendo shows once again why - in their best form - they are unrivaled.
    Good: - FREEDOM. You can do whatever you want and it will work! - Scope: 120+ shrines - A huge open world that offers something to discover every 10 steps. -    One of the best games ever!
    I'm a huge Zelda fan and although many things are done differently in BotW than in the earlier parts, the math works out. Nintendo shows once again why - in their best form - they are unrivaled.

    Good:
    - FREEDOM. You can do whatever you want and it will work!
    - Scope: 120+ shrines
    - A huge open world that offers something to discover every 10 steps.
    - Lovable supporting characters, from simple traders to story characters.
    - The best resource system of any open world. You're never super rich, and you can never have enough resources to upgrade all the useful gear.
    - Incredible physics. From fire/water/electricity to gravity, static and force.
    - The paraglider!

    Average:
    - Enemy Variation. All enemies feel unique, but the variation isn't that huge.

    Bad:
    - In a game that involves a lot of climbing, rain shouldn't be the biggest hurdle of all...
    - No Ganondorf. The glorification of Ganon and the bosses in general are the game's biggest disappointment, which Tears of Kingdom needs to make up for greatly!    … Expand
  13. 3ls0ul
    Mar 7, 2023
    9
    Este juego aún no lo eh jugado o completado, así que pondré una reseña y nota diferentes cuando lo haga.
  14. Azeemo99
    Mar 7, 2023
    10
    Undeniably the greatest open world game ever made. It is of the elite few that truly understand what a great open world should be - an oyster for the PLAYER to uncover. Much of its excellence stems from the lack of hand-holding, allowing the feeling of personal discovery, in understanding its mechanics to exploring the hundreds of secrets scattered throughout the world. Even when walkingUndeniably the greatest open world game ever made. It is of the elite few that truly understand what a great open world should be - an oyster for the PLAYER to uncover. Much of its excellence stems from the lack of hand-holding, allowing the feeling of personal discovery, in understanding its mechanics to exploring the hundreds of secrets scattered throughout the world. Even when walking around it captures a serenity that is hard to replicate, and one could spend hours encased in. Its minimal story and lack of direction means there is never a predetermined route or set of actions that boxes the player in, but instead the entire world calls out to them at every moment, begging to be seen and explored. Masterpiece.… Expand
  15. liminaai
    Mar 6, 2023
    8
    Link literally woke up with no memory, saw a creepy castle and an old man explained everything in such an oversimplified way and Zelda only told him to help her and save Hyrule yet Link STILL listened and helped. No **** questions he just knew what was right and what was wrong. I'm writing this at 12 AM so I probably worded this horribly- JUST BUT THE GAME
  16. daboosa
    Mar 6, 2023
    10
    Initially I didn't get this game and was struggling to know what to do how to do it, i was completely lost (about 15hrs in). I then read a review that basically said you just need to forget the conventions of a normal video game and just go exploring. I jumped back in with this mindset and my word what a journey I carved out for myself, 200+ hrs later and my greatest game of all time amazing!
  17. Filipe69
    Mar 5, 2023
    10
    Le plus bel open world créé du moins pour le moment, le jeu procure tellement d’émotion et est tellement addictif, on y pense toute la journée. Le game play est parfait, le jeu est beau, le scénario est parfait. Un énorme monde ouvert avec tous ces sanctuaires et tours. Beaucoup de quêtes annexe et un dlc superbe.
  18. lucasnascimento
    Mar 3, 2023
    1
    É um dos melhores jogos de todos os tempos, se não for o melhor! Mas não possui tradução em português.

    It's one of the best games of all time, if not the best! But there is no translation in Portuguese.

    Es uno de los mejores juegos de todos los tiempos, ¡si no el mejor! Pero no hay traducción al portugués.
  19. GreenSquid
    Mar 2, 2023
    10
    Melhor jogo de todos os tempos, tudo nele é incrível, só o fato de você fazer as coisas nele na ordem que quiser, faz ele sensacional
  20. DerRoteRackham
    Mar 1, 2023
    10
    Simply Amazing. Nuff said. This is the best game I've played in this entire generation of hardware. The game is beautiful, combat is fun, the shrines have been delightful- I'm very, very impressed.
  21. SHIKI7
    Feb 28, 2023
    5
    Not a Zelda game but still fun.

    Reasons why:

    1. No dungeons

    2.Bad story. Doesn't motivate you to want to progress

    3.lack of enemy verity

    4.weapon durability

    Other than that it's a pretty fun as a game by itself but as a Zelda game it's disappointing.
  22. Grass_watcher
    Feb 27, 2023
    10
    It’s the best open world game, I got hundreds of hours out of it! I completed 100%
  23. mkhue108
    Feb 26, 2023
    9
    This game is amazing. Love the gameplay, art style, sound track, world building. To me, story leaves room for imagination.
  24. Txuso
    Feb 25, 2023
    10
    Primer juego de la Switch en su momento. Me lo he pasado casi 5 años después. Brutal!!!! A ver que tal el siguiente...
  25. 1brianm7
    Feb 25, 2023
    10
    This game is great, I've beaten the final boss and gotten every shrine 4 times, 500-ish hours, I was so entranced with the endgame the 1st time I was playing that I nearly missed the Great American Eclipse after taking a train all the way to Charleston. Who knows, I may do the same seeing the next two eclipses with Tears of the Kingdom.
  26. kirbo_11
    Feb 24, 2023
    8
    Good game must get for switch, a little overhyped. Best open world and best zelda.
  27. JhonattanGiron
    Feb 23, 2023
    10
    Nintendo se saca de la manga al mejor juego de la historia demostrado, han acertado con perfección pura en su mundo abierto, el ciclo día y noche, el clima, los monstruos, historias, doblaje único, diseño artístico, banda sonora, jugabilidad, dificultad y la combinación de todo eso ha dado como resultado una obra maestra, La mejor master piece de la historia.
  28. kerminator
    Feb 23, 2023
    8
    the open world of this game is great but it can also prove to be a very difficult game at some points while playing but none the less it is a fantastic game.
  29. hugfite
    Feb 23, 2023
    10
    The best game of all the time and better than Red Dead Redemption 2. I love Campa
  30. Fletch1027
    Feb 21, 2023
    9
    An experience that no other game has, where you feel like everything that you found was something you did.
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97

Universal acclaim - based on 109 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 106 out of 109
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 109
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  1. GameGrin
    Dec 12, 2017
    100
    Where it takes mechanics from others in the industry, it improves upon them; where it introduces new ones, you slap your forehead in amazement that it hasn’t been done before. Breath of the Wild is development done right, and damn near the best game you’ll play all year.
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  2. Wired UK
    Aug 30, 2017
    100
    Breath of the Wild is a masterpiece.
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  3. Games Master UK
    May 19, 2017
    96
    Up there with the finest Zelda games, Breath of the Wild is bold, liberating, and utterly astonishing. [Apr 2017, p.60]
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