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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

GAME REVIEW right moment activates a fury mode in which you can hit several strokes at high speed. One more added to the gameplay are the so-called modules, which are tools that are necessary throughout the adventure and are unlimited, but with time limit. And the last addition is the most controversial, because not many pleased, and we have a huge arsenal of weapons and shields, but these are not forever, after a time they break, so it will be necessary to create strategies for an extreme situation in which your most powerful weapon breaks.

The story of this game is a rarity in the world of video games, It is not the games that present the story and the background directly interrupting the gameplay abruptly; neither is it from those games that the story is very ambiguous, they do not tell anything directly and the player has to intuit it; Breath of the Wild has a story, but you only discover it if you want, you can say that the story is optional, if you have enough skill you could finish it within 10 minutes of starting it without knowing anything. If you decide to know the story you will encounter charismatic characters, which makes you really care about saving the world. The story is about the kingdom of Hyrule that is in ruins, because 100 years ago a force of evil called Calamity Ganon attacked the kingdom and destroyed them; Link, the protagonist, awakens in a strange cave without remembering anything at all, but soon learns that he defended the kingdom 100 years ago but was defeated. The story tells you in two ways, the first is direct, showing us cinematic that give us a rather brief

vision; The second is discovering it through memories that we must look for to know the characters and the different events of the past and to have a better notion of why the things of the now are as they are. In general, it is a very good story, although it leaves some unknowns and loose ends, but, it is satisfactory.

Without a doubt, Breath of the Wild is a watershed in the saga of The legend of Zelda, as it breaks with many of the mechanics and traditional aspects that have been built in all its years of existence. To start this game is open world in more ways than one, because not only is it has a map that you can explore with total freedom, but also open in a sense that can be played in many ways, each person has his way Different from solving puzzles and how to progress in the game, the world they created is coupled excellently to any attitude that you decide to face this game, very different from the so linear way of delivery raisin, where there was only one way Pass the challenges. A tradition in The Legend of Zelda saga is Dungeons, which have always been the funniest part, but in this case, it is different, because now the Dungeons are completely optional, as well as being much shorter and very few; The Dungeons have been somewhat displaced by so-called Sanctuaries, which are Dungeons, but much smaller, but with the advantage of being many, more than 100.

This game changes a lot of things that we thought a Zelda is, but it has undoubtedly been a fresh air that has seated wonderful to this saga of video games. It is an experience which most players are willing to repeat, hopefully the next delivery will rescue a lot of what this game has done.

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