Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

@jump: She or Fi can return as supporting characters and I wouldn't mind. If there're no hand-holdy guides, which it is already confirmed that there aren't, then Navi and Fi can't be as annoying as they were in their respective games.

Every time I see Zelda, now, I'm gonna feel really sad. I just wanna say I'm sorry!

What did you do to her?!?!?!

So, here's my overlong trailer break down and thought-stream. Y'know, if you really want that:

1

• SOMBER, love it.
• Sandstorms in the desert!?
• Arctic fox.
• Sand seal spotted. Arctic desert.
• Koroks attend to the Great Deku Tree. Wind Waker 2.0.
• The Master Sword at the base of the Great Deku Tree in bloom. Seasons!?
• There's that spiral shore.

2

• Finally, some substantive voice acting. Love it!
• Dormant guardians, trees in autumn, coincidence!? Seasons!?
• I cannot express how much I love that operatic singing behind the dramatic piano music.
• That costal ruin looks like an awesome water temple!
• The draw distance is noticeably better than in the E3 footage.
• Ganon's pink shadows / goo are shown to literally spawn the bokoblins, lizalfos, and moblins this time.
• I got the giant sand-swimming snake fight I wanted in the form of Jhen Mohran.
• Link is sliding behind the sand walrus thing, but not on his shield. Arctic desert.
• No new runes are shown. They're holding somethings back still.
• I got the fire-breathing Lizalfos I wanted, and the fire is blockable <3
• Something is shining around the cyclops bokoblin's neck.
• We're fighting a humanoid Sheikah — not a construct — to get to a cube with Sheikah circles and Japanese-inspired sealing tags on it!? I dig that temple.

3

• A little worried about enemy variety. I hope there are overworld camp-dwelling enemies besides just bokoblins and lizalfos.
• The bomb arrow leaves a weird white foamy trail that looks like water. Halo hype?!?
• WEIRD SHEIKAH HEART / ORGAN THING. YES! Give me that rune! Go weird, Zelda. Go weird and go for gold.
• It looks similar to Link's cryostasis chamber. I hope it isn't just another place where Zelda the character is frozen.
• WINDMILLS YESSS!!! Looks like a coastal Italian town. The people still ride horses. OP much?
• There are two distinct insignias on maroon banners to the right.
• Also, some weird tall jars containing flat green, blue, and red. Is one of the banners for the potion shop?
• Gerudo oasis town that looks like a Super Mario Galaxy level!? Aquaducts? The Gerudo are back?!?
• Mount Saint Helens hype!
• Lighting on the water looks sssssoooooooooo nice!

4

• That wide shot! Are there terraforming puzzles in this game!?
• I think the Fire Nation mind controlled that big Sheikah Death Mountain guardian. It's overheating a 'lil.
• PG-13 hype! Anime hype! T-rating hype! Also it's a Goddess spring, so we're operating off of that lore.
• Another Sheikah walker!? SHEIK! Stop building the anime robot monsters that will inevitably doom us all!
• This game is Ocarina of Time cross Skyrim cross Shadow of the Colossus.
• I loooove that mood lighting. You hurt Zelda, Link.
• Gyroid hype. At least confirmation that all of this Sheikah tech is literally 'resurfacing.'
• Link lets Zelda go in the forest. She's wearing a similar kind of design bracelet to her one in Skyward Sword.

5

• Hyrule Castle Town, ya burnt!
• I'm loving the direction and shot composition!
• Really with that waif anime girl faltering run animation?
• A Sheikah sand castle in the desert!?
• Link is standing next to an awesome Gerudo princess with a long braid, their desert walrus mounts flank them.
• Can we please not have Zelda's role in this game be crying into the arms of the silent male protagonist? It ain't 1940 anymore.
• Love the bokoblin mounted attack animation.
• Stal-moblin, sick.
• GORO! I got the gorons I wanted <3. He has a sick chain sash with a their tribal insignia emblazoned on the center.
• I wonder what that statue refers to.
• Oh god they made the Great Fairies horrific. I miss the hair-covering-breasts fairy queen from Twilight Princess already.
• That shot, that lighting! Don't tell me this game ain't Skyrim when there's a day/night cycle this pretty and a button to share it with.
• The same Gerudo princess, she's holding the same golden spiky relic as in the last shot.

6

• I got the ZORAS I wanted to kill! (Killing TBD.) Not sure I like that they made them huge and themed like different fish like splatoon — and I don't really like the deep maroon with the cel shading — but at least they went with the more detailed Twilight Princess look.
• The shark zora is wearing ribbon sash with his tribal symbol. Maybe these are the racial leaders? I like his jewelry.
• Arctic zora hype! I'm heading straight to Snowpeak now.
• I'm pretty sure this Sheikah cogworks with Ganon goop is inside one of the corrupted Shadow of the Colossus guardian bosses.
• I take it back, I love the look. I'm glad to see a traditionally shaped zora, even if it has to be the girl because of stupid gender norms.
• She's handing Link some glowing magic thing.
• HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
• Catfish zora. KING Zora. Feed me.

7

• Zelda magically sacrifices herself to keep Link from getting sniped by a guardian in the past. Snore.
• Zelda's in her Goddess get up and Link's in his tattered clothes with the ruined Master Sword. Is this that scene from the initial trailer where Link gets laser-sniped?
• The cel-shaded lighting looks excellent at least.
• Generic narration and excellent direction.
• Obligatory anime "I must go on!" scene. Link is beat up and looks as pissed as a void of a character can be.
• Nice cut from the Master Sword's position in the scene to where it is in the title.
• The Great Deku Tree is in bloom. Spring!?
• Reminds me of the after credits scene of FFXV: Kingsglaive where it shows Noctis' car breaking down at the beginning of the game.
• Please be much, much better than that utter mess of a story.

Ugh, hope there's an option to disable the voice acting.

I do kinda hope there's dual audio. The Japanese voice acting is so much more expressive! Either way, 3rd of march!? I don't think anyone was expecting to play this that soon. I love it

@Haru17 Windmill town has more of a northern France / Germany vibe to it to be honest. I think I agree with you about Zelda though. You know I'm nowhere as bothered by that stuff as some people are, but this time I do hope she's a little more than an emotional wreck.

Also, the narrator said that we need to save his daughter. Is that Zelda? Is he the king of Hyrule? Or is it someone else? Are we saving that voice from the very beginning?

@Octane Yeah, I hope it's not as archetypal as Skyward Sword, which was directed by the same guy.

And it would be odd if we see the read the old man's dialogue in the beginning, and then it's voiced later in the game. I don't think it'll be him. In fact, I keep betting he's Ganondorf.

Ninty's going all out with the localising. Here's the different dubs for those who want to compare 'em. I also ranked them:

Great:
Russian Awesome, except for Zelda's crying.
German
Alright:
Japanese
English
Spanish (Scroll down for the video).
Eh:
French
Italian

I don't speak any of the languages listed as native BTW, or actually speak at all beyond basics, save for English.

@ClockworkMario Nice gathering all of those up! I hope they'll all be available at launch. Surprised they didn't do Chinese, but I guess consoles are weird over there.

@Tsurii
Yeah, it's the Russian Zelda I was complaining about. I actually don't mind the German old lady. Sure, she's kinda forcing that voice, but her delivery is still pleasing – or maybe I just have a soft spot for the language. IMO the only German performance that's noticeably weaker than in other versions is that Goron.

Speaking of the Goron, I read on another forum that he says "Use her" in the Russian dub instead of the regular "Here it comes!". No idea what it could mean though. You notice any similar differences between the German and the English dubs?

North America doesn't get the strictly worse box art for once. And they're not plastered gold like Skyward Sword and Ocarina of Time 3D! God bless.

Look out, Europe, "Here it comes!"

Finally, we have a few new screens on the back of the box with excellent lines such as "Answer the call," "Defend the legend," and "Craft your survival." Oh my life, the buzzwords. I love the slick windowed design, though. Looks excellent like the Switch itself.

I'm wondering if I should pre-order the special edition. There's no Wii U special edition, right?

@Tsurii
What bugs me with the German goron is pretty much what you said. It doesn't quite sound mighty and gravelly (har har) enough. French and English gorons are more to my liking.

I'm not 100 % on this, having listened to all of the different languages way too many times, I'd say the two voices (King of Hyrule?) are the same.

The trailer was so GOOD! The music was Amazing and seeing more of the story has really hyped me up! I'm especially loving the characters designs and animations. They're just so expressive and arghhh! I NEED THIS GAME!!!

@Octane
To my knowledge there isn't

THIS GAME LOOKS AMAZING OH MY GOOOOOOOOD i had goosebumps. I LOVE that there's voice acting, it feels so fresh!!!

I've got this game like a sickness.

I feel like playing it will end an age of my life, n-not to be dramatic...

@Haru17 Just 7 more weeks! And our lives will be over. And when we awaken from our slumber, Mario will be there to make us spend our money on hats!

@shaneoh Shame, I want that map. Especially if it's poster size. Maybe I should just get the Switch version anyway and double dip on the Wii U version to play in March. But that's €160 for Zelda..

@Octane
Yeah it wouldn't be cheap. I've done the math, I can just afford the Master Edition as well as the Switch.