I love everything about this!!! Fabric map, spirit orb, and a picture. The pages are thick and have beautifully vibrant colors. And there’s so many pages!!! I read for over an hour and felt like I didn’t even halfway through!!!
This was so well made. I love it. Thank you for making this.
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From the Publisher
Dark Horse honors Link, the chosen hero, with the Hero's Edition of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild--Creating a Champion!
The Creating a Champion art book is the ultimate companion to the award-winning video game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and includes material from its DLC packs. Witness the making of a champion!
Go behind the legend with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild--Creating a Champion!
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The Creating a Champion art book with an exclusive cover in the royal blue worn by the Hylian Champion! |
A map of Hyrule printed on cloth! |
An art print of the Champions' photo Link hangs in his Hateno home! |
A beautiful glass replica of a spirit orb! |
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Relive your favorite moments from the Game of the Year!
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Sketches and official illustrations from Takumi Wada. |
Design artwork and commentary about the making of the game. |
Historical section of Hyrule as it is known in-game. |
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| The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia | The Legend of Zelda: Art & Artifacts | The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia | The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia Deluxe Edition | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild — Creating a Champion | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild-Creating a Champion Hero's Edition | |
| Become the ultimate Hyrule Historian and collect the series! | An unparalleled collection of historical information on The Legend of Zelda. This hardcover contains concept art, the full history of Hyrule, the chronology of the games, and more! It also includes an exclusive comic by Akira Himekawa! | Over 400 pages of illustrations from the history of The Legend of Zelda, on high-quality paper in an oversized format. This book includes promo pieces, game box and instruction booklet art, character illustrations, sprite art, interviews, and more! | A guide from the original The Legend of Zelda to Twilight Princess HD! Includes an expansion of the lore touched upon in Hyrule Historia, concept art, screencaps, maps, main characters, languages, an interview with Eiji Aonuma, and more! | Honoring the game that started it all! This book comes with a gold foil cover, a Nintendo sleeve and an instruction booklet—it looks so much like the original gold cartridge you might find yourself blowing into the bottom before you open it! | This oversized hardcover is the ultimate companion to the award-winning video game! It features illustrations, design art and commentary, interviews, and a section about the history of Hyrule as it is known in-game. Witness the making of a champion! | This deluxe slipcase edition includes the Creating a Champion art book with an exclusive cover, a map of Hyrule, an art print of the Champions' photo, and a beautiful glass replica of a spirit orb. Bring light back to Hyrule with the Hero's Edition! |
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I just unpacked my Hero's Edition today, it came packed in it's own form fitting box inside another box. Arrived in perfect condition with no dings or dents.Everything comes packed in the slip case.-The hardcover book is a striking blue color that's covered with canvas like material, it feels pretty sturdy and durable like a book meant to be handled. Pages are filled with stunning, vibrant art work and information.-A cardboard insert holds the art print booklet and map. The insert isn't very thick so handle with care. I'm handling this piece the least until I have a more long term plan for displaying everything separately.-The art print booklet looks beautiful and the photo itself it welcome memory from my time playing the game.-The map printed on cloth isn't what I expected or would consider cloth, it's more like a thin felt on paper. But the map is still well printed none the less and MASSIVE to boot. I'm sure this will look incredible when it's framed.- The spirit orb is beautiful and looks very cool when held over a light. There's no flat surface on the bottom so it might be tricky having it on display.All and all, I would say this a perfect addition to any Zelda collection.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2022
An absolute must-have for fans of the game.
By Aidan on August 2, 2022
I think that Creating a Champion Hero's Edition is a must-have for people who love the original game as I do. The amount of insight and art packed into this book is super impressive, and it's a ton of fun to read things that the developers left.
By Aidan on August 2, 2022
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Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2019
The pictures are mostly post concept and pre to early in-engine modeling, with actual finalized models and art from within the game. When hearing the title "creating a champion" I was thinking it was going to be A LOT of conceptual stuff but was wrong. There are very few iterations of things in the book and it more focuses on the honing aspects of design they did to make everything come together. I was hoping for some intense character decisions or ideas but for this book they were all finalized and they just showed how they looked like in game. I actually really liked what they did for most of the buildings/overview areas where they took an in-engine screenshot, then painted or drew over extra lines, towers, etc. for changes. It's really cool seeing them do stuff like that and I rarely see it. I loved the Zora areas personally. There wasn't too much of the divine beasts and ancient mechanisms sadly, they were in there but I was really hoping too see a bunch of decision making and fancy art on them since they are totally new to the Zelda franchise but all that was there was overview and general ideas on them.
The best part of this book is the commentary on nearly every page. Every design had some note or comment on them and every major part of the book has a little excerpt from a director or producer describing what they wanted. They simply add little tidbits of info and provide really great insight into what team leads and art director do and how aspects of games become final. I just love the tiny comments like "raise the tooths and make the tarps shorter to make them flap less" on an image. There are longer dialogues at the end of the book with the major devs like Eiji Aonuma and the art director that are a great read. I really love the portion of the book that is the history of Breath of the wild. It completely breezes over the old timelines and tells you what happens in this game lore wise. It's basically all falvor text and really fun to see how every tribe was affected by the calamity.
The book itself has thick, nice pages (Dark Horse always does an amazing job) and is a fantastic length. The cover however, isn't a normal hardback. it is slightly softer and has one of those mesh/felt bindings around it. Not being a sturdy hardback, it does bend fairly easily. I had it on my lap for less than an hour and noticed the cover already bent slightly (see photo) and the book didn't close flat. I simply put some weight on the book after use to straighten it back out. I would recommend either taking great care when looking at it or using a flat surface like a desk for flipping through it. In addition to the cover, it isn't the same vibrant royal blue as the rest of the collection (see photo), it is a faded softer blue, not like the product picture. Not that big of a deal after thinking about it in my opinion as it mixes up the case contrast just enough to still be acceptable. May be a turn off for some people but the rest of the case and things are the special blue.
There was this really weird spot in the book (see photo) where some pages were creased down the entire length, this went on for about 10 pages and then abruptly stopped. Quite odd and there was no indication for them anywhere else in the book.
The map it comes with is a nice felt material attached on a thick poster like paper. I looks nice and is large. The portrait was smaller than I expected based off the product image, it is around 6X11, but comes in a little case for display. The spirit orb is a cute little addition.
Overall, it is a nice, well put together book that had a lot of thought put into it. There was just too many little things that made me put this to 4 stars, honestly I would put it at 4.5 but can't do that :/. I would highly recommend this to any big Zelda fan, one that has other books like the Hyrule Historia or likewise, or just to someone who's a fan of collectible video game stuff.
Pretty nice collectors piece. Recommended for a big Zelda fan
By Carter on August 19, 2019
First off, the packaging was quite nice, a box within a box within a box is always a great thing to see. The outer case holds everything nicely and the only drawback is its very tall, making it hard to fit on a normal shelf without laying it flat. The case itself is very sturdy and looks nice but the top and bottom have an indentation along the length showing how it was put together, not a big deal but still there.By Carter on August 19, 2019
The pictures are mostly post concept and pre to early in-engine modeling, with actual finalized models and art from within the game. When hearing the title "creating a champion" I was thinking it was going to be A LOT of conceptual stuff but was wrong. There are very few iterations of things in the book and it more focuses on the honing aspects of design they did to make everything come together. I was hoping for some intense character decisions or ideas but for this book they were all finalized and they just showed how they looked like in game. I actually really liked what they did for most of the buildings/overview areas where they took an in-engine screenshot, then painted or drew over extra lines, towers, etc. for changes. It's really cool seeing them do stuff like that and I rarely see it. I loved the Zora areas personally. There wasn't too much of the divine beasts and ancient mechanisms sadly, they were in there but I was really hoping too see a bunch of decision making and fancy art on them since they are totally new to the Zelda franchise but all that was there was overview and general ideas on them.
The best part of this book is the commentary on nearly every page. Every design had some note or comment on them and every major part of the book has a little excerpt from a director or producer describing what they wanted. They simply add little tidbits of info and provide really great insight into what team leads and art director do and how aspects of games become final. I just love the tiny comments like "raise the tooths and make the tarps shorter to make them flap less" on an image. There are longer dialogues at the end of the book with the major devs like Eiji Aonuma and the art director that are a great read. I really love the portion of the book that is the history of Breath of the wild. It completely breezes over the old timelines and tells you what happens in this game lore wise. It's basically all falvor text and really fun to see how every tribe was affected by the calamity.
The book itself has thick, nice pages (Dark Horse always does an amazing job) and is a fantastic length. The cover however, isn't a normal hardback. it is slightly softer and has one of those mesh/felt bindings around it. Not being a sturdy hardback, it does bend fairly easily. I had it on my lap for less than an hour and noticed the cover already bent slightly (see photo) and the book didn't close flat. I simply put some weight on the book after use to straighten it back out. I would recommend either taking great care when looking at it or using a flat surface like a desk for flipping through it. In addition to the cover, it isn't the same vibrant royal blue as the rest of the collection (see photo), it is a faded softer blue, not like the product picture. Not that big of a deal after thinking about it in my opinion as it mixes up the case contrast just enough to still be acceptable. May be a turn off for some people but the rest of the case and things are the special blue.
There was this really weird spot in the book (see photo) where some pages were creased down the entire length, this went on for about 10 pages and then abruptly stopped. Quite odd and there was no indication for them anywhere else in the book.
The map it comes with is a nice felt material attached on a thick poster like paper. I looks nice and is large. The portrait was smaller than I expected based off the product image, it is around 6X11, but comes in a little case for display. The spirit orb is a cute little addition.
Overall, it is a nice, well put together book that had a lot of thought put into it. There was just too many little things that made me put this to 4 stars, honestly I would put it at 4.5 but can't do that :/. I would highly recommend this to any big Zelda fan, one that has other books like the Hyrule Historia or likewise, or just to someone who's a fan of collectible video game stuff.
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Vincent Ellison
Missing item , very disappointed
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 25, 2018
Rogelio Gómez
una HERMOSA edición, digna de un héroe.
Reviewed in Mexico on January 15, 2019
una HERMOSA edición, digna de un héroe.
Reviewed in Mexico on January 15, 2019
Esta majestuosa edición del 4to. libro de la colección de libros de arte y detrás de cámaras de la saga "Legend of Zelda" (Hyrule Historia, Art & Artifacts y Hyrule Encyclopedia) es el perfecto complemento y un regalo perfecto para cualquier fan y coleccionista de la saga, el mapa de la versión de "Breath of The Wid" del reino de Hyrule, viene impreso en tela y es perfecto para enmarcar o colgar como poster, la foto de Link con los guardianes es un easter egg del juego genial y la Réplica en cristal grabado en láser del spirit orb es simplemente maravilloso, simplemente un perfecto artículo para la colección.
Reviewed in Mexico on January 15, 2019
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JBV
Probably the best book ever.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 27, 2018
