The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's first helping of DLC is now live, and includes a brutally difficult challenge which involves working your way through a series of dungeons armed only with the items you find inside.
While this new area will already have many of you gnashing your teeth in frustration, one player has discovered that it has some hidden secrets as well. Reddit user Sharkystheshotty has unearthed what appears to be an unused location outside of the dungeon:
Was on trial three on the Medium trials and flew up near the chest on the floating platform and just went through a wall. Couldn’t get back in...so I didn’t make it.
I don’t really remember exactly where but I flew up with my glider on trial 3 on the Medium trials near where the floating chest was on the wall by the corner.
Recreating the glitch is proving difficult but Sharkystheshotty thankfully grabbed a few screenshots before the game reset. The location is strangely beautiful.
So why does this area exist? Perhaps it was a test area where the developers could tinker with things before adding them to the completed dungeons, or perhaps it was simply a left-over from development that never deleted, as Nintendo assumed no one would find it. If you've been able to find it, be sure to let us know with a comment.
[source kotaku.com, via reddit.com]
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In the first and third pictures, in the sky, are those drones?
Seems like he just went out of bound of where they expected you to go.
The way you type this article seems like you never seen this before. :v
Clearly this is the area of the game where you pop up once you dial in from a real world phone. The place where zelda is life. Where you bug out of the matrix and enter the real world, which turns out is actually Hyrule as so many of us have all known now for so sooo long.
it is dangerous to go alone...
@Bunkerneath Is it not Divine Beast Vah Medoh?
I just got this game, and a Switch two days ago! I'm having so much fun! ARMS is really good too
I want more green grass and wide, open blue skies in my Nintendo games. Looks like we are on our way.
@Aaron09 That's great and all, but keep it relevant man!
I love these glitches
@HappyMaskedGuy He was being relevant...
Could it be a Twilight Zone ?
Kind of reminds me of the inside of the moon from Majora's Mask
Texture mapping area, it seems. A place for the game to have the mappings preloaded in the memory so it's quick to put them on the right objects.
Games have something like this in order to help performance in-game.
What do you need Link?
Swords. Lots of swords (swish as rack of swords slide in).
Somewhat frightening.
The world, but broken.
Hyrule is a flat earth, or a disc.
Link is standing at the edge.
I don't know if this has been brought up before, but I've had this image as my desktop wallpaper for almost two and a half years now, and I'm pretty sure it's not in the final game: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/02/eiji_aonuma_explains_that_the_legend_of_zelda_for_wii_u_will_push_the_hardware_but_that_the_series_has_always_been_open_world
It's probably just a prototype Hateno Village, but would be really interesting if it showed up in the second DLC. That's obviously Death Mountain...probably Dueling Peaks to the left of it. I need to load up the game some time and try to see how well the landscape matches up.
It will be gone by the next update.
I'm so glad that this was documented - Breath of the Wild is perhaps the least glitchy open-world game ever created, and that polish is one of its strongest elements, but it's still always nice to see the edges of what was created. I have no doubt that this will get patched out, so it's nice to have a static record of the beautiful void existing just beyond Hyrule
If I had to guess, I'd say the trial was originally supposed to take place in one big open space, rather than a series of chambers, and now the chambers sit within what's left of that space.
@bolt05 No, he wasn't.
Rumor has it one of those glitched areas holds the physical address to where all the NES and SNES minis are being stored
@HappyMaskedGuy So which of these 2 posts, copied and pasted in their entirety, are relevant?
"That's great and all, but keep it relevant man!"
"No, he wasn't. Jackass."
1 guy writes 1 comment about the Zelda game in the Zelda comment section, 1 guy writes 2 entirely not related posts. Now who do we think is derailing the thread more?
I know you think you are but you're not helping, save the "not relevant" comments for the shoe salesmen. This is a Nintendo site, it was a Nintendo comment. And he didn't use any insulting objectionable language either.
@Aaron09 awesome to hear hope you enjoy ur switch, BOTW and Arms!
@rjejr LOL! i was just about to post the same sentiment! I recently found myself continuing my adventures in XCX trying to build my ultimate skell and saw ur character hanging out. i cant believe i forgot how much fun XCX is even after beating the game
@Majoras_Wrath That's exactly what I was thinking too.
Nice.
@Bunkerneath You probably meant to say "the second picture"...
Strangely beautiful? More like strangely empty. Or not even strangely, since going through a wall in a game almost always results in looking at empty surroundings...
@WanderingPB If my character is waiting for me to come back he's doomed. I got my guy up to level 60 to buy the higher level skell to go beat some serious monster butt - 1 of the flying ones kept mauling me - but I never could figure out how to get the higher skells. I suppose I could look in that $30 hardcover guide book I bought I guess but where's the fun in that?
Wait, this was all just a trick to get me off topic wasn't it?
Zelda DLC FTW woo hoo!!
@rjejr 👏
@rjejr mission accomplished ! LOL!
after i beat the game awhile back i couldnt figure out how to get the materials to build better skells but then i happen to come across a video that explained the process better and now im grinding my way through the global nemesis to get the reward tickets i need in order to buy the pieces i need to build the skell! i was getting my butt handed to me fighting level 80 enemies so i figured its time to upgrade....oh yeah and the zelda DLC is fun...see now we spoke about zelda so this comment is relevant LOL!
Still bothered that it took a glitch to explore Hyrule Field in Wind Waker.
@MartyFlanMJFan Pancakes for breakfast? jk these old tired eyes just needed a minute for the clapping hands to sink in.
@WanderingPB Once I see the word "grind" I'm gone. I rarely did any of the missions that started in that room that linked online. I did a few of the lower level ones but never attempted anything w/ giant fighting monsters. Makes sense that's how you'd get the higher level skells as you don't really need them to beat the story, not even sure you needed the level 30 skells but I bought them anyway just in case. After the main story I did most of the side missions on the sidequest board, I liked the back to the future car guy, that was enough I suppose.
I haven't actually started Zelda yet, bought my kids the Expansion Pass on Friday and watched them play a bit, but I'm hoping my wife can find me a Wolf Link amiibo for my birthday, I'm all about getting any advantage the game will allow. Also old school Cloud and Bayonetta amiibo, still need to pick a Cereza.
I'm adding that "flat-earth border" to my list of BotW locations which kinda freak me out a little when I get near it, along with Typhlo ruins, the Hyrule forest, and the great faeries.
@rjejr My posts were responses, so their relevance lies in the subjectivity of the post to which I was responding. I can't remember ever addressing you though? Funny that.
" ..well guys, this is as far as the Wii U will get us...maybe we should move it to the NX "...
The only time I experienced a glitch was in the coliseum hunting for one of the EX treasure chests. I fell into the wall of the building and could walk/climb through parts of it. Other than some inner workings of polygons and some neat screen grabs I took of Link climbing an invisible wall, it was no where near as noteworthy as this little area.
Most likely just a test/debug area left over from development.
I guess they just copied over the default Hyrule map to put the trals on top and then flattened the unused areas around. You are not supposed to go out of the trial area, so they simply left it there, out of reach.
@Kriven and you need to mind your own business.
@Kriven I can also only remember responding in the same tone as those people who felt the moral need to call me out on... What exactly? Ah yes, I said, in a perfectly friendly manner, 'Thats great, but keep it relevant man!' As in, the article talks about a glitch area in Zelda. The comment in question has nothing to do with the actual talking point of the topic. If you are unable to understand why that is so, then join ranks with your half wit, 'needlessly rude' buddies who made a mountain out of a fictional molehill.
I will respond in kind to their manner towards me. So yeah.
Did this sort of glitch in Metroid Prime before, and Midtown Madness on PC back in the day!
@Kriven Well isn't Aaron lucky to have you look after him, as clearly he is incapable of protecting himself from such a scathing attack on his character as mine was? Condescending much?
If you are incapable of understanding why your response to this 'situation' is inappropriate and vastly ill judged, as were the responses of your comrades, then I have zero interest or benefit in trying to enlighten you, and really don't enjoy having to defend my actions due to your mistaken sense of chivalry.
In short, you all jumped into a fight that was never even there to begin with. You took the arrogant position of taking offense on the part of another person based on nothing but misinterpretation.
Go club some other random person with your stupidity.
@rjejr just created/unlocked the white reaper skell and having a blast so now im going to finish all the affinity missions i never completed...i cant believe i put this game down! ummm my friend i believe "grind" and RPG are synonymous LOL
its strange there was a ridiculous amount of wolf link amiibos on sale at toys r us and gamestop and now i havent seen any since BOTW released...once i finish all the botw dlc i will start hard mode im one of thise that feels the amiibo are kinda sorta maybe cheating...well at least for my first playthrough though i must admit wearing Majoras Mask at night is simply amazing! but im also still playing Persona 5 which to be honest is my GOTY so far...i can only imagine odyssey and XC2...this is going to be tough
Hmmm ok so trial 3 on middle difficulty is the room where you are surrounded by Bokogoblins shooting bomb arrows and such. The platform is held by balloons and has a treasure chest. Might have to try messing around in that area
Neat. Reminds me of that Minecraft glitch where you can go outside the boundaries and it gets glitchier as it goes.
That's not 'strangely beautiful' it's just the copy pasted grass, water, and cloud shadow effects from everywhere else in the game.
@Kriven Uh huh. Nice rant.
@WanderingPB You're making me want to go back in to XCX. Or at least read the guide book. I should probably at least do that, a killer skell sounds like fun. Maybe when the kids go back to school, they are taking turns playing Zelda U so the console is always in use.
I did see a couple of those wolf Link on shelves, but at the time I thought we'd wait for the Switch to get the game. When we bought the game in April I coudlnt' find any. I sent my wife to the NY store, thinking they would have lots of amiibo there, but they told her they were sold out AND they stopped making them, so I stopped looking. And I also bought an Xbox 1 the day we bought Zelda U, so I've been busy.
@WanderingPB @MartyFlanMJFan
Had my Link do my version of the Vincent Van Gogh painting signature on the Grand Plateau. Ganon can have the rest of Hyrule but the plateau is mine. Miiverse makes U better.
@rjejr if u can find the XCX startegy guide for like $10 then its an okay read but the guide isnt honestly as useful as you would think or hope...i google or youtube most of my questions and feel like ive slowly become better at the overdrive and online aspects of the game and this is after 160 hrs....how crazy is that huh? take your time i feel i will still come back to this game years from now in fact i play the original Xenoblade yearly but thats just me plus hearing Reyn and Riki always makes me laugh!
BOTW on the WiiU is still very impressive to me but i cant shake how much better it would be if it had full use of the gamepad. i have both versions...why u may ask...well my Wii U library wouldnt have felt complete without it and when i had sent out my switch back to Ninty to check the battery i just played it on the WiiU...the game can be very engrossing so becareful to manage your time! Van Gogh in deed my friend LOL
@WanderingPB I got the XCX strategy guide at Christmas when I got the game. I've looked thru it for a few things but never for the higher level skells.
And zelda U really does suck you in. I spent 2 freakin hours between last night and this morning trying to get to the top of 1 of the towers, it's the 1 just southeast from where you start so getting there was easy. The invisible wizard guy was becoming a pain so I finally killed him, easier than I thought, should have done him in 1st thing. And figuring out what to do was easy, attach a few octo balloons to the platform, float up, stasis, jump. But at only the baseline stasis I kept falling off at the bottom of the platform. I probably should have given up and come back but I knew it was doable. Took 8 balloons I think, 3, 3 then 2, then stasis, then jump. So that's done.
But my charging cable is kaput. I guess after 3 years of constantly moving it back and forth between the top of the Gamepad and the base either the inside wires are shot or the connector rusted or something. So I just ordered a new charger form Amazon, due here Tuesday. I'll have to make due w/ the classic Pro until then.
Or just play my Xbox like I'm supposed to be doing, Zelda was supposed to wait, but I got sucked in. I'm still stopping after Karriko village though. My kid told me to go there first but I'm taking the scenic route. Should make it in about a week.
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