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Zelda Breath of the Wild Previews

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http://www.polygon.com/2017/2/24/14...t=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Lets get Breath of the Wild's demand that you take it seriously out of the way first, in case you haven't been following the interviews and narrative surrounding it in the last year or so. Breath of the Wild is, without question or debate, the hardest Zelda game of the last twenty years. In fact, as an "old" who literally grew up playing the original Zelda games on NES and SNES when they came out, I'd argue it's the hardest Zelda game period. The first twenty minutes or so are pretty low key — you can kill the scrub bokoblins and other minor enemies you meet without much trouble using nothing more than a tree branch picked up off the ground. But once you leave the initial learning spaces and venture into more typical zones, you're probably going to die.
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Seems like Polygon broke the embargo a few hours early.
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I feel like there isn't anything new in this article. Ah, maybe the boomerang. I guess they're not allowed to talk about story and dungeons until next week.
 
I shouldn't have read it, I am on a light media blackout here (look at threads sometimes but not more). Now my hype jumped from "ok, will get" to "must have immidiately".
 
So I guess this is the thread we're gonna use when the rest come out. Feel free to use this banner I made yesterday :)

As for the Polygon preview, glad to hear the game's hard but then again, it is Polygon :P
 
I'm glad the game is difficult. It was almost impossible to die in the other 3D Zelda games.

Now I only hope Nintendo doesn't back down when people inevitably whine about how hard it is.
 
Maybe this is why the hard mode is dlc. It really is completely optional and maybe not the best way to experience the game if the normal mode is already so hard.
 
Eh, if the previews are going to be confined to talking about the plateau and vague general statements then... whatever.

Freeze me until March 03.
 
Didn't we already know that the game will be hard from all the footage we saw? Why is this such a surprise for everybody now?
 
KingSnake said:
Didn't we already know that the game will be hard from all the footage we saw? Why is this such a surprise for everybody now?
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i mean generally there was talk of constantly fresh ideas and smart puzzles getting thrown at you, and combat being anything bur trivial and not necessarily unfair, just unforgiving.

good things to read
 
Sounds awesome, the puzzles really intrigue me, i'm looking forward to that

Oh someone took it down, the main points were


It's hard and there's not many areas where you get stopped from going because you don't have something in particular
it's full of enjoyable puzzles that don't hold your hand
the boomerang can be used as a melee weapon or a thrown weapon and all the weapons break at some point or another
 
watershed said:
Maybe this is why the hard mode is dlc. It really is completely optional and maybe not the best way to experience the game if the normal mode is already so hard.
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Considering how hard everything already hits, the hard mode may be more than just more damage and no hearts. Hell, this game already has more damage and no hearts on normal. Hard mode could well be far more complicated than we're expecting.
 
good read

im still a bit concerned about this games story and how its told, hopefully the other previews give some insight.
 
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