The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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8.7

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  1. DoomQuakeDuke
    Sep 11, 2023
    10
    All the chapters of The Legend of Zelda have stories and music worthy of Oscar awards, but this first open-world of its kind was truly revolutionary. Only those who love video games can admire the magnificence of this undisputed masterpiece. You could spend days and days exploring the fantastic world of Hyrule. ITALIAN USER
    All the chapters of The Legend of Zelda feature stories and music    All the chapters of The Legend of Zelda have stories and music worthy of Oscar awards, but this first open-world of its kind was truly revolutionary. Only those who love video games can admire the magnificence of this undisputed masterpiece. You could spend days and days exploring the fantastic world of Hyrule. ITALIAN USER
    All the chapters of The Legend of Zelda feature stories and music deserving of Oscar awards, but this first open-world of its kind was something groundbreaking. Only those who love video games can appreciate the magnificence of this undisputed masterpiece. You could spend days and days exploring the fantastic world of Hyrule.    … Expand
  2. Tadlad
    Sep 10, 2023
    9
    This game has so much to it and you can tell a lot of work was put into it. The exploration is insane due to the massive world and detailed areas which are drastically different from each other. The combat is fairly simplistic yet fun due to the intriguing gameplay mechanics. I'm in love with the art style of the game, it's just fun to play and is very relaxing. It's a new step into theThis game has so much to it and you can tell a lot of work was put into it. The exploration is insane due to the massive world and detailed areas which are drastically different from each other. The combat is fairly simplistic yet fun due to the intriguing gameplay mechanics. I'm in love with the art style of the game, it's just fun to play and is very relaxing. It's a new step into the Zelda franchise and I'm excited for what they continue to do with it.… Expand
  3. TreasureOrTrash
    Sep 8, 2023
    0
    Trash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  4. Vagrantglass
    Sep 8, 2023
    10
    Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Switch

    Gameplay: 10
    Story: 5
    Sound: 8
    Music: 7
    Graphics: 6

    Overall: 10/10 ✨✨

    That's not a typo, the sense of exploration, the rewarding nature of the game and how fun the systems are it's extremely hard not to recommend the game. Play it!
  5. fnenamg
    Sep 8, 2023
    9
    you can do almost anything in this simple world. There are some flaws that are quite noticeable, but these flaws don't significantly hinder the enjoyment of this game.
  6. hhedd
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    **** game. Very overhyped japan arcade with bad visual, lack of dialogs and content
  7. KillianZane
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a masterclass in open-world game design, earning a perfect 10/10 without question. It flawlessly blends exploration, adventure, and storytelling, creating a vast, breathtaking world that's both immersive and enchanting. The game's freedom to tackle challenges in any order, combined with its ingenious physics-based puzzles and inventive mechanics,The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a masterclass in open-world game design, earning a perfect 10/10 without question. It flawlessly blends exploration, adventure, and storytelling, creating a vast, breathtaking world that's both immersive and enchanting. The game's freedom to tackle challenges in any order, combined with its ingenious physics-based puzzles and inventive mechanics, keeps players engaged for hours on end. Link's journey through Hyrule is a timeless masterpiece that sets the bar high for open-world gaming, making it an essential experience for every gamer.… Expand
  8. LiesofP
    Sep 7, 2023
    7
    Without question the most overrated game in existence. There are far better games out there with considerably lower scores.
  9. Traumvita
    Sep 6, 2023
    8
    Honestly not a huge fan of the new direction with LoZ but I still thoroughly enjoyed the game. The cell shaded visuals are stunning and music is good. Story and the way it’s told is pretty weak. World was cool and it was fun to explore and discover stuff. I’m 50/50 on the shrines. A solid entry and a solid mix up to the formula.
  10. Phuz
    Nov 9, 2020
    0
    **** in the Wild.

    There are people on here rating this extra high to make up for troll reviews. They aren't even troll reviews. They're legit. This is not trying to counter balance anything. 0/10 is my honest score. I love Nintendo and Zelda. Been playing both since 1986. If you like running around a vast empty space, very slowly, collecting items and doing some beyond basic, boring    **** in the Wild.

    There are people on here rating this extra high to make up for troll reviews. They aren't even troll reviews. They're legit. This is not trying to counter balance anything. 0/10 is my honest score. I love Nintendo and Zelda. Been playing both since 1986. If you like running around a vast empty space, very slowly, collecting items and doing some beyond basic, boring puzzles with poor graphics and worse music then this is the game for you, that is practically all you do, run around an empty space. If you want the great graphics, music, gameplay, atmosphere, emotion, puzzles, bosses and dungeons synonymous with Zelda then save your money.

    This isn't Zelda branching out and trying new ideas, it is just destroying what was an exceptional gaming franchise. The new ideas were all s**t. ALL. It literally brought nothing good and turned something incredibly engaging and fun that I would skip meals to carry on playing, to something I could have switched off at any time, never played again in my life and not be remotely bothered if I never saw anything BotW related again ever.

    Had this been a bit of a poor game I didn't get much enjoyment out of I would have given a 3/10 but this is a poor game I was annoyed at wasting 6 hours of my life on. Virtually nothing happened other than a few fetch quests and a very annoying stamina gauge. The Skyward Sword stamina got on my nerves sometimes but this was a whole other level of unneccessary annoyance.

    The whole 6 hours I persevered with it was a frustration, the climbing, the empty world that everyone raves on about being so great to explore, the temporary weapons, the lack of music, the fetch quests, the worst voice acting imaginable, the terrible dungeons (if you can call them that). Just utter rubbish. If it wasn't Zelda no-one would have given it a 10, no one would have bought it and certainly not for £50. It is simply no fun to play. Worst Zelda I've played. Do yourself a favour and get a WiiU that you can play about 14 Zelda games on, including all of the best ones made and you can even play this junk on it too should you choose. Yes the loading times and animations on the WiiU will be just as bad as the Switch, so don't worry you'll still get time to make a brew between scenes. If you want to get a Switch for Zelda BotW don't bother. Get the WiiU and proper Zelda's. Switch is great but don't buy it if just for BotW.

    Whilst on the topic of WiiU, Xenoblade Chronicles X on WiiU destroys BotW on anything. The world is so much better designed. If you are going to enjoy running round an open world doing quests then the Xenoblade X world is leagues ahead of this. It is huge and beautiful and alive and has good music too.    … Expand
  11. salvegaming
    Sep 6, 2023
    10
    Jogo fantástico que reinventou a franquia. Considero que o Ocarina of Time continua a ser o melhor Zelda de todos mas este está logo atrás. Daria um 9.5 mas só dá para classificar dando números inteiros, então será um 10.
  12. Tiradentes
    Sep 5, 2023
    9
    Pra mim é o melhor Zelda já feito. Ele trás aspectos que serão utilizados não somente nos próximos games da serie, como na indústria de jogos em geral.
  13. M1sfiT
    Sep 3, 2023
    9
    Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!! tlzbofw
  14. Alarchou
    Sep 3, 2023
    9
    Un incroyable classique et une putain de surprise à sa sortie, la switch aurait pas pu rêver mieux pour sa sortie. 18/20
  15. JustAHonestGuy
    Sep 3, 2023
    10
    This game is just perfection.
    I must say that somehow the experience was ruined for me, 130 hours had already passed and I had not done the second divine beast, I am a lot to explore and seeing that I was missing more than half of the game got me demotivated, so I left it to rest a bit, then I came back completing it with 300 hours. Amazing game despite that i made the game larger than it    This game is just perfection.
    I must say that somehow the experience was ruined for me, 130 hours had already passed and I had not done the second divine beast, I am a lot to explore and seeing that I was missing more than half of the game got me demotivated, so I left it to rest a bit, then I came back completing it with 300 hours. Amazing game despite that i made the game larger than it should be.    … Expand
  16. phuchaitt3
    Sep 3, 2023
    7
    There are certain elements that made me drop this game: too much empty space and running around aimlessly, weapon breaking after swinging several times make me dislike this game's equipment progression (what is the point of getting the better sword if it breaks eventually and there is no way to fix it)
  17. Julian3692
    Sep 2, 2023
    8
    Juego revolucionario para el momento. Sin embargo no considero que sea perfecto como muchos indican. El mundo en ocasiones se siente vacío. No rejugable
  18. feis_
    Sep 2, 2023
    8
    ⬜️⬜️
  19. skyhell10
    Sep 1, 2023
    0
    Gráficos datados, Jogo repetitivo, mundo aberto vazio e extremamente chato. História rasa a cheia de furos.
  20. malek_the_first
    Sep 1, 2023
    10
    original gameplay
    funny mechanics
    good graphics
    good soundtrack
    story is inspired
    deserves all the hype it got
  21. mitchferal
    Aug 30, 2023
    6
    The game I bought the Switch for.

    Bad stuff: - this game feels like playing World of Warcraft in Legion without a guild. Essentially the same cycle of activities, but with dramatically worse music. - there's no story here at all. I've gotten so used to AAA games being sweeping, emotional narratives, with engaging characters, wading into this quiet sandbox was disorienting. I havent    The game I bought the Switch for.

    Bad stuff:
    - this game feels like playing World of Warcraft in Legion without a guild. Essentially the same cycle of activities, but with dramatically worse music.
    - there's no story here at all. I've gotten so used to AAA games being sweeping, emotional narratives, with engaging characters, wading into this quiet sandbox was disorienting. I havent played a Zelda game since Ocarina of Time, so it might have been a misunderstanding on my part of what I was getting into, but this story is shallow to the point of tedium.
    - Almost everything is extremely easy - and then some random things are so absurdly difficult as to seem like you've started playing a different game. Not my favorite phenomena.
    - Just make the frigging horse magic. Just let me summon the horse wherever. I shouldnt have to buy a DLC to have basic transportation be fun and easy when the game covers such impossible distances. Everything about the horses is cool, except the sheer impossibility of using them with any regularity. In a game that wants me to treat my horse like a trusted companion, I ended up swapping them out like cars in GTA. Dreadful design.
    - Cooking is extremely endearing until it is agonizing. Terrible interface for something you have to do so much of, and while the noise they came up with for it is very good, there are limits - if a method of bulk cooking had been included, I suspect I never would have tired of the cooking music. Dreadful design.
    - No fishing pole. What on earth possessed them to not include a fishing pole?
    - The DLCs are just stuff they left out of the game. Nothing new, it's all stuff that genuinely should have been in the game, that already cost 70 dollars. Nasty business.

    Good stuff:
    - The puzzles, and the tools and interface for those puzzles, are magical. I never, ever wanted the shrines to end. Dazzling, imaginative work, Im only sad they werent more difficult, and more plentiful. Not worth 70 dollars, bc there simply isnt enough of them, but definitely the thing that best recommends the game.
    - the slate abilities, even outside the puzzles, are wonderfully good fun, and feel fresh and engaging long after everything else has faded.
    - It's a very pretty place to spend time.
    - Some really terrific set-pieces; the four big 'dungeons' felt great.
    - A quality of wonder and scale that is hard to overstate.

    I think if I hadnt kept playing WoW after my core group of friends moved on, and thus suffered the resource grind cycle of that game for so many hours, this one wouldnt have bothered me so much. But I did. And some design choices feel, even now, however many hours through, completely inexplicable - made worse when they rectified a number of them, but wanted me to pay to get them. Terrible cost to joy ratio when considered against most big titles.    … Expand
  22. Lukart59
    Aug 30, 2023
    10
    The best game I have ever played, I love it so much. It will never get old and deserved its game of the year. The mechanics, the combat, the puzzles, this game is simply perfection.
  23. Megataco2017
    Aug 28, 2023
    9
    Good game..................................................................
  24. BertKA88
    Aug 29, 2022
    8
    Without a doubt the most fun I’ve had exploring an open world ever. The fact I could go anywhere was so refreshing however this results in a game with not much of a story and some progression issues which stops it being a 10. That open world though….
  25. Ludle
    Aug 24, 2023
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Amazing game! You should definetly play.
    The champions abilities are mid and there aren't really traditional zelda dungeons.
    The devine beasts are all realy the same other than the missions to get to them and the bosses are a bit different. Over all, the best game I ever played!    … Expand
  26. JuliaBohn
    Aug 24, 2023
    0
    This game follows the generic Nintendo game franchise called Zelda. In which the protagonist saves the princess. Want a more Nintendo “story” than this? He may be a plumber, a swordsman, but that's what it's all about.

    The open world is completely empty of content, with repetitive puzzles called Shrine, and a story that makes any child sleepy. The gameplay is 100% limited to Roll and    This game follows the generic Nintendo game franchise called Zelda. In which the protagonist saves the princess. Want a more Nintendo “story” than this? He may be a plumber, a swordsman, but that's what it's all about.

    The open world is completely empty of content, with repetitive puzzles called Shrine, and a story that makes any child sleepy.

    The gameplay is 100% limited to Roll and Hit, typical of generic and industrial Souls Likes games, which are facilitated for players limited to pressing two buttons. The difference here is that we have more colors.

    The game copied several mechanics from other games like Ark Online, among others, but for an outdated platform that is the Switch, this can be innovative.

    I'm amazed how Nintendo manages to sell the same game for 30 years with the same story (Spoiler: no story) every time. Who knows, maybe next time they'll be able to innovate and make Link not lose his memory again.    … Expand
  27. turbo_dweeb
    Aug 24, 2023
    9
    this game is my isht and in my opinion it is the most rad cool awesome game of all time
  28. Massraider
    Aug 22, 2023
    10
    This is a legend on the Nintendo Switch! Without any doubt, I put this game in the first place! Everything is fine in it!
  29. Leonardo232008
    Aug 21, 2023
    10
    Melhor jogo que já joguei. Mundo aberto incrível e gigante 100 horas de jogo e não fiz nem metade do que é disponível
  30. juan873
    Aug 21, 2023
    5
    Estuvo bien pero se nota que la consola necesita un poco mas de potencia para poder disfrutarlo bien
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  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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