A full recap of everything we know so far about the game.
The first trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was shown off at Nintendo’s E3 coverage last night and boy does it look good.
Nintendo first showed off the trailer you see below before cutting over to about an hour of Pokemon Sun and Moon – after that little diversion we were back with a Breath of the Wild demo. Bill Trinen from Nintendo of America, was joined by Eiji Anouma to run through some of the basics.
The demo started off from the start of the game with link awakening from a pool of water in The Shrine of Resurrection. A voice tells Link to wake up, and as he does and approaches the exit of the shrine tells him again (with real voice acting) that;
Link… You are the light — our light — that must shine upon Hyrule once again. Now go..
And then this;
That’s it, there’s no hand-holding and no tutorials – you’re just off and ready to go.
The first demo that was on early this morning showed off a few of the games new features and changes to the Zelda formula. For one, Link can now jump – sure Link could jump before but now there’s an actual button. This new jumping ability means it’s easy for Link to now climb! Pretty much any surface that looks like you could climb up it – you can. There’s a gauge on the screen that shows how much stamina you have so you can’t climb and hang forever like Nathan Drake – but it does open the world up vertically.
The game is completely open world as well, the map below – take a look;
The portion of the map with the yellow markers is the portion of the E3 demo – huge.
There’s also big changes to the inventory, the environment and how it affects Link. First up, most weapons in the game will degrade and be destroyed over time. Each weapon also has a different amount of attacking power and shields have different numbers of defences. Enemies too also have a certain amount of HP, so you can see in advance if you want to take on a group of moblins or not.
The game has also done away with random hearts in the environment. Instead Link will now need to eat, hunt and cook to stay healthy. The weather and environment will also effect Link, at one point in a demo he begun to shiver and take damage until a quilted piece of clothing was put on to warm him up. They’ve really added survival aspects to the game here.
Over the three hours of the live stream there was so many things to point out and notice, we can’t cover them all but we can’t go without talking about the Sheikah Slate – Link gets this ‘tablet’ device when he awakes and it has the map on it, it has a scope and even works to unlike trials. There are 100 different trials littered around Hyrule to try out and these points on the map count as warping points later on in the game.
We’ll continue to update this post as the day progress and we learn more.
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