GAME REVIEW The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Author: Cristรณbal Capiz Orozco Breath of the Wild is the latest title of this famous saga of video games, which is one of the longest videogames saga, with more than 30 years of existence. Is available for Wii U and Nintendo Switch. There was enough controversy around this game, because it was delayed by two years, but all controversy and anger over this fact disappeared when it finally hit the market, because the game is excellent. This game will be analyzed for their visual and audio features, gameplay, narrative and its impact on the series to which it belongs. From the first teaser in 2014 we realized that in this game has put an incredible emphasis on the visual section, because the artistic direction captivated most who saw it, a style based slightly on Impressionism, but much more marked in its base in the Japanese animation. Although the consoles for which it is available are not the best in graphics, the game looks beautiful, landscapes are the best, because it has a very wide rendering range, so much that you can see from an edge from the map to the opposite side. Nature, which is the true soul of the game, is represented with plants, forests and many animals, very well detailed and with realistic behaviors, which give the player a feeling that he is actually in a real world. The textures when approaching much look a little pixelated and they take time to load, but they do very well with their job. In the sound section in The legend of Zelda has always stood out a lot, because this saga has some of the best musical themes of
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video games, this case is not the exception, although, for this delivery they have given a different address for two reasons, the first, is by the change of composer; since the beginning of the saga Koji Kondo, who is also composer of other themes as the main theme of Mario bros, had been the composer, but this time it is a different composer; the second reason is that contrary to other games, here the music tries to be discreet, it is environmental, as it combines with environmental sounds of nature, bird songs, the sound of the wind, and the sounds of other animals. It really is an incredible soundtrack, conveys feelings of adventure and epic, the best of this saga. The gameplay in this game is a delight, the relationship between our character's movement and the atmosphere is exquisite, because Link's new abilities allow you to climb, jump and plan through the air when you are in high places; therefore, even if the map is huge, it never gets tedious to walk through it, because it is very fun to go through
the hills, canyons, bridges and so on. The combat system is the traditional one, but with the addition that dodging the attacks at the