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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Nintendo Switch

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Hardware Platform	Nintendo Switch
Genre	Adventure-game-genre
Number of Players	1 player

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Discover Hyrule as never before: by making your own path, choices, and consequences
Ingenuity is the key to survival: find multiple solutions to tons of dynamic puzzles
Surprises hide around every corner: scavenge weapons, armor, plants, animals, and more
Live off the land: find weapons and armor, cook food, and brew elixirs
Utilize special technology: the in-game Sheikah Slate controls, objects and enemies in fun ways

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B01MS6MO77

Release date

March 3, 2017

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42,801 ratings

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10 x 2 x 2 inches; 2.08 Ounces

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Everyone 10+

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SWSwitchTitle10

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2.08 ounces

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Nintendo

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January 13, 2017

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Forget everything you know about The Legend of Zelda games. Step into a world of discovery, exploration, and adventure in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a boundary-breaking new game in the acclaimed series. Travel across vast fields, through forests, and to mountain peaks as you discover what has become of the kingdom of Hyrule in this stunning Open-Air Adventure. Now on Nintendo Switch, your journey is freer and more open than ever. Take your system anywhere, and adventure as Link any way you like.

2017 Nintendo. The Legend of Zelda and Nintendo Switch are trademarks of Nintendo.

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Game of the Year, Best Action Adventure, Best Game Direction The Game Awards 2017	Best of Show, Best Console Game, Best Action/Adventure Game E3 2016 Game Critics Award	2017 Nintendo. The Legend of Zelda, Wii U, and Nintendo Switch are trademarks of Nintendo.

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Just another sheep

Good bye social life

Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2017

Platform For Display: Nintendo SwitchEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

I... have never been so taken aback by the vastness of a game. You really don't need to read another review, Zelda alone is worth the price of a switch. Like if they sold this game for 300 dollars I would probably buy it. In fact, it's the only Switch game I own, and have no real plans to purchase anything else because between the original game and Master Mode, I will be getting a divorce soon so I can spend more time collecting mushrooms and climbing mountains.

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Brett Connolly

Near perfection. Nails so much but still has a few rough edges.

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2018

Platform For Display: Nintendo SwitchEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

This is how you revitalize a franchise that was starting to grow stale in it's formula. I bought a Switch just to play this game and I do not regret my purchase. I'm going to go over pros and cons to make this review a little easier to read.

PROS:
+ HUGE OPEN WORLD - Lots of interesting places and things to discover. It's quite exhilarating to scale a mountain in order to get a better view of everything around you and then paraglide to points of interest. If you can see a place on the map, you can get to it.
+ COMBAT EXPERIMENTATION - Combat experimentation is fun and rewarding, for awhile (more explanation in 'cons' section).
+ FUN AND VARIED COMBAT (FOR AWHILE) - Different enemy types are interesting and have specific tactics that clearly telegraph their moves making combat a rewarding learning experience and almost never feels cheap.
+ RPG ELEMENTS - The RPG elements fit very nicely into the Zelda universe and give the game a lot of depth. Mountable horses have different stats, enemies can have different elemental types along with stronger variations, weapons, armor, and shields have wildly different stats and abilities, food and elixirs provide different buffs, etc.
+ GAME DIFFICULTY - The game is relatively difficult compared to previous Zelda games. You really have to assess combat situations before entering the fray and many enemies are punishing. You will die, many times, but you do learn, with time, and with learning comes triumph and satisfaction. DLC adds Master Mode for the most hardcore players or those who found Normal too easy.
+ COOKING SYSTEM - Cooking system is deep and rewards experimentation. Cooking not only allows for the crafting of meals and elixirs which gives you numerous buffs, but it's also one of the best ways to make money.
+ WEAPON DURABILITY - Weapon and shield durability forces you to continually hunt for new gear and keeps combat interesting and tense. While I didn't think I would like this system at first, it makes for a much more engaging game than just getting a single, over-powered item and just relying on that the rest of the game, which would get boring, imo.
+ SHRINES - There's over 120 'shrines' which are peppered all over the map which act like mini-dungeons. They usually can be completed in 10 minutes or less and usually involve the use of several of Link's Runes (that you get at the beginning of the game) that give you the ability to move metallic objects from a distance, throw bombs, summon ice pillars, or even freeze objects and apply force to them to launch into enemies or to other places to help solve puzzles. I love these shrines because they're fun to solve, and due to the game's physics engine, many can be solved in ways the developers probably didn't intend (look up YouTube videos on it). Shrines are short enough that they're not a huge time investment like normal Zelda dungeons that used to demand an hour+ of your time to complete, making them ideal for short gaming sessions.
+ NO HAND HOLDING - Doesn't explain much, doesn't hold your hand, and expects you to learn everything from the world, NPCs, and experimentation.

CONS:
- BARREN FEELING OPEN-WORLD - The world feels very barren and empty, much of the time. Many say the map is 'dense' but I don't think that's an accurate word to describe it. The map is loaded with things to do, but there is lots of empty space between those points of interest. Think if you took the map of Skyrim (a game I would call 'dense') and expanded it by 3 times the size, including time to travel between points of interest. Horses don't really help with traversal especially when you're moving across mountainous or rocky terrain.
- COMBAT GETS STALE - Combat experimentation becomes less effective as you become stronger. Ambushes with bombs, chu chu jellies, stasis, etc, all become less and less rewarding as enemies become stronger. Before, a carefully aimed bomb could kill an enemy, outright, or roll into barrels which would take out an entire encampment, now a bomb does roughly 5% damage and most other means are hardly worth the effort over just using brute-force. For a game that really rewarded this kind of behavior at the start, I was bummed that I couldn't rely on those tactics later in the game, adding to the combat feeling stale and repetitive after awhile.
- CAN'T SUMMON HORSES FROM ANYWHERE - Horses cannot be summoned from anywhere. The DLC solves this with 2 different solutions, but it should have been in the base game and been an early quest/reward before you spend 50+ hours exploring the map. This was super frustrating to me when walking to Gerudo town, which ended up being close to 25 minutes of walking/running from the nearest shrine. A horse would have made this trek much more bearable but there were no stables nearby to even take it out of.
- INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AND GENERAL UI - Inventory management and the menu UI could use a little work. While I loved having so many interesting items and ingredients to discover and experiment with, moving through the menus got tedious, especially when you have multiple pages of stuff to sort through or when you find new, better weapons/shields and have to go back into your menus to drop some to make space. Menus felt cluttered and even after 80 hours, I would still fumble through menus trying to do specific things.
- PERFORMANCE AND LOAD TIMES - The game runs pretty well a majority of the time, but there are certain places where it will chug, specifically when there's lots of particle effects on-screen or there's a lot of things to render. This also makes load times get kind of old, as it can take up to 20 seconds to load into new areas or even just reload the area you are in, after dying. Even dying in a shrine results in a 10 second reload, which is baffling since they're not in the open-world and shouldn't take that long to render, especially when they've already been rendered before your death.
- GRAPHICS - While the game looks pretty good most of the time, there's other times that the hardware limitations really show, like when you're trekking across big meadows or rocky mountains with little detail. It looks really good for a handheld system, but doesn't quite hold up to console standards, even compared to last gen.
- EXPLAINS NOTHING - While I love that the game doesn't hold your hand, I was equally frustrated by not having a clue how to do certain things. While a purist would argue that all the answers are SOMEWHERE in the game or that you should just experiment, someone like me just doesn't have the patience to play 90% of the games content to then find out that a certain ability will significantly help map traversal and reduce travel time. I want to know these things up-front or at the latest, halfway through the game, since getting an ability to improve travel time feels less rewarding when I've already slowly trekked through a vast majority of the map at 60 hours. DLC rewards are not as great if you have nearly completed and covered the entire base game... what's the use of a horse or motorcycle you can summon anywhere if you don't have anything left to explore?

Anyways, I absolutely love this game. Given the number of rather large gripes that I had with it, I felt like a 4 is a fair score. I really look forward to the next game but I hope people can acknowledge and admit the game's shortcomings, otherwise, these things won't be fixed in order to give us the most refined and amazing follow-up that we all are already salivating for.

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Adam MachanicTop Contributor: Cooking

Time Consuming Drudgery

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2018

Platform For Display: Nintendo SwitchEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

I tried, and tried, and tried ... I've put in maybe 30 hours to date, and I've gotten basically nowhere. And I don't really feel like moving on at this point.

This is a huge, HUGE game. I've explored maybe 10%. The graphics are excellent, the soundtrack is great if a bit minimalist. It's big, it's WIDE open, and it's super-involved. Weapons break on you. Stocks of ammunition (i.e. arrows) run out. If you want to eat, you need to collect and then cook your food. If you want to cook your food you need to find yourself some fire. And on, and on.

Big, open, involved -- all of these are probably plusses for a lot of gamers, and this game has certainly received its fair share of great reviews. But here's the thing: I'm an adult, with a real life and responsibilities. And every time I sit down in front of this game I spend two or three hours collecting supplies and cooking food and fighting various monsters, all without making much progress. Why bother?!

Breath of the Wild, maybe it's not you. Maybe it's me. But you're no Link Between Worlds. You're certainly no Ocarina of Time. You feel like a big mess of a game that just doesn't quite come together and, as phrased so brilliantly by Sweet Brown, ain't nobody got time for that.

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Russ T.

Great game for all ages.

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2017

Platform For Display: Nintendo SwitchEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

I bought this for my kids because of the great memory I had playing Zelda 2 when I was a kid. That was one of the most challenging and rewarding games I had ever finished. I've not played video games for over 25 years until getting the switch and BOTW. I am amazed at how much gaming has improved and how much I've missed out! I like that this game is not all about fighting and is not too violent and gruesome. The game is fun for all ages and even my youngest 5 year old boy enjoys playing it, although he mostly just explores the villages and experiment with cooking. The biggest problem with this game is that it is so addictive that we'll play it all day and don't want to do anything else. So my wife is not too happy.

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Leo J

YOU HAVE TO GET THIS GAME!!

Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2017

Platform For Display: Nintendo SwitchEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

If you are a Zelda fan and/or a fan of Western RPG's like the Elder Scrolls series (for example) then you will LOVE this game. Hundreds of hours can be spent playing this game and exploring the VAST map that this game touts. Like nothing else the Zelda series have ever seen and that's all before the DLC that will be released later this year.

Gameplay and the story is largely engrossing. You won't want to turn off your Nintendo Switch and you will be glad you purchased one if for nothing else than for the ability to play this game...but don't sleep, there's TONS of great Nintendo 1st party titles on the horizon that Nintendo fans will WANT TO PLAY!

Back to Zelda though, the atmosphere, graphics, sound and gameplay are all SPOT ON. There's crafting of Food, Potions, Weapons and Armor as well as a bunch of quests, side quests and tons of hidden content to keep you engrossed for at least the next several months... The Game of the Year buzz that this game has received is 100% deserved. Get this game! You will LOVE It!

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GoronVolvagia

El Mejor Juego de la Historia.

Reviewed in Mexico on April 30, 2017

Platform For Display: Nintendo SwitchEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

No es ninguna broma y no soy un fan ciego de Nintendo puesto que tambien cuento con Xbox One y PS4. Pero este juego vale mucho la pena. Este juego es gigante son como 20 juegos en uno puedes hasta surfear en Nieve. Surfear en Arena. Te gustan los calabozos bueno este juego cuenta con mas de 120 digo mas por que para encontrar algunos calabozos necesitas hacer algunos acertijos que contarian como otra manera de hacer calabozos para que aparezcan los otros calabozos. Hay semillas regadas por todo el mapa mas de 800 y cada semilla es otro acertijo. Y 4 calabozos principales de la historia. Mas de 300 armas demasiadas armaduras demasiados escudos. Enemigos poderosos el sistema de batalla es impresionante. Ya no me acuerdo de tanto que da este juego es casi ilimitado si lo quieres acabar al 100%. He pagado ese mismo precio por otros juegos y la verdad no contienen ni el 15% de contenido con todo y si bajaras el DLC de lo que te da este Zelda solito es impresionante. Bien por Nintendo me impresiono. Pagar este precio por zelda la verdad se me hace muy barato y mas que te da mas de 300 horas de juego si lo quieres acabar al 100% con todo.
No me lo espere.

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Manuel García

Otro Zelda que no puedes perderte.

Reviewed in Mexico on July 3, 2017

Platform For Display: Nintendo SwitchEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

El juego es muy bueno, no se que mas pueda decir de un Zelda, este al introducir un mundo abierto garantiza cientos de horas de diversión, ya dependerá de cuanto quieras invertir de tiempo en el juego, pero el mismo no te decepcionara, el envío fue rapidísimo al día siguiente, incluso me dijeron que ya hacen entregas también los domingos aquí en Guadalajara, una excusa mas para ser miembro prime, son de esas pocas veces que realmente sientes que una membresía si te da un valor agregado, y en este caso Amazon no me ha decepcionado. Les dejo un par de fotos para que puedan apreciar el producto y unas comparación del juego con una moneda de cinco pesos para que tengan una idea concreta de su tamaño.

Totalmente recomendable.

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alok singh

amazing game

Reviewed in India on October 18, 2018

Platform For Display: Nintendo SwitchEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

my whole family loves this game.a very lengthy quest.we spent a lot of time completing it.about gameplay no need to say anything,internet is full with reviews of this remarkable game..zelda games are the star attraction of nintendo platform.awakens memories of playing zelda on older nintendo systems.must buy if you own a nintendo switch and if you dont own a nintendo switch then purchase the console solely to play this game.games like zelda on nintendo or god of war on ps4 are the main reason that people buy these consoles.

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Misael Medina

Épico es poco para describirlo

Reviewed in Mexico on May 30, 2017

Platform For Display: Nintendo SwitchEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

Nuevamente Nintendo lo ha hecho, ha creado una obra maestra después de tantos años con la saga de Zelda, este Zelda se siente tan diferente pero al mismo tiempo tan familiar, tiene una historia profunda e interesante, como juego de mundo abierto, es fácil perderse, pero así también es sencillo volver al sendero de la historia principal el mundo es ENORME, llevo 5 semanas jugandolo y pienso terminarlo (con coleccionables), las voces (Ingles y Japones), los personajes y como se desarrolla la trama lleva justo la forma que tu le das, e incluso en el orden que tu quieras, uno de los mejores juegos que Nintendo ha tenido la osadía de crear.

Por cualquier precio al que adquieras este juego, vale cada peso o centavo que hayas pagado por el.

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Colbag

Great game.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 20, 2020

Platform For Display: Nintendo SwitchEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

Excellent game. Arrived earlier than expected and definitely lives up to the hype.

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