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[Matt Mortem]

Pretty cool look at the open world design of Breath of the Wild

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Even before its reveal, the Nintendo Switch felt like it had to be a console with a singular purpose. It was to be the machine to unify Nintendo’s split hardware platforms – the consistently barnstorming handheld wing, and the increasingly limp-footed home consoles – into a single, successful entity, that could be served with a solid stream of games regardless of the company’s lack of latter-era third-party support.
Hardware-wise, Nintendo has already delivered the best possible version of that ideal. The Switch is a delight to use, robust enough in its physical form as to feel like a premium console when used in any of its various formulations. And it’s clearly powerful enough to deliver cutting edge, complex, entirely modern game experiences, based on the evidence of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild alone. Channeling a uniquely Nintendo design sensibility of tactility, inviting ergonomics, and consistently fun ease-of-use, the Switch hardware just works. Really, really well. It delivers everything it had to.

Not only that, but it does so while conspicuously doing what Nintendo has rarely done before. Learned from its own mistakes.This is very significant and very heartening, because a stick-in-the-mud mentality - a seeming refusal to meet the modern industry halfway - has long been the cause of Nintendo’s home console woes. Ever since the Nintendo 64, in fact. Technically progressive in a great many ways, Nintendo’s refusal to accept optical storage in its first 3D machine directly caused the start of the slip in third-party goodwill. The Gamecube conceded to discs, but used a proprietary Nintendo version, with a smaller capacity than PS2 and Xbox DVDs. Then of course, came the Wii. Previous-gen horsepower, and an obsession with proprietary motion control. And then there was the Wii U, which had all the same problems in addition to just not selling.
The Switch though? Its unique features are there to facilitate playing in different places, not dictate playing in different ways. There are no hoops to jump through, for players or developers. But at the same time as wising up in terms of how to really connect with interesting but inviting hardware – or, perhaps more accurately, remembering how it always used to do it – Nintendo very strongly looks to be striking the same balance with software. And here’s where it’s learning from other people’s mistakes. Namely, Sony’s.
The reason that Nintendo’s handhelds – from the Game Boy to the New 3DS – have always done well is that Nintendo has always understood the differences in the cultures of home and portable gaming. Home machines need big, glossy, detailed, expansive games. Handhelds? Well, you launch that empire with Tetris. And on the inverse, a lack of this understanding is precisely why rival handhelds have failed. Both the PSP and Vita launched with the intent of using horsepower above and beyond the portable standard to deliver the full, AAA experience on the move. But it turned out that few people actually wanted that. As decent a recreation of the ‘big’ console series as Uncharted: Golden Abyss might have been, ultimately it wasn’t a great fit for playing on the bus, and was rendered rather pointless by the existence of three better, full-sized Uncharteds already existing on the PS3.

Later, Sony realised it error, but alas it realised too late. The latter years of the Vita’s life were defined by an indie goldrush, as Sony charged forth to sign as many interesting, smaller games as possible, using the resurging independent game dev scene as fuel. Suddenly there was a huge, untapped source of handheld-friendly games, requiring little internal development resource on Sony’s part. The Vita, with just a few exclusivity deals and the odd development funding incentive, could have the library it had always really needed. Unfortunately, the damage was done by that point. While the Vita’s last couple of years delivered a great machine with a healthy sense of purpose, sales momentum had been hit too hard during its early, stumbling days to properly recover, at least in comparison to the massive sales enjoyed by the 3DS.
And it seems that Nintendo was paying attention. Because while some (myself included) initially worried about the Switch’s apparently spartan launch window, dominated as it seemed by Zelda and little else of comparable heft, Nintendo’s later indie showcase suddenly made the bigger picture very clear. Rather than simply using the unified platform to effectively double its own development resources, Nintendo is rallying exciting indie devs with exciting projects toward what will, in a year or so, be the dominant (if not only) handheld games console in the market. Indie devs whose games are a perfect cultural fit. Indie devs who are more likely to be Nintendo-friendly in a business sense too, due to their lower overheads, largely non-physical sales model, and non-reliance on either the PS4’s full processing power, or its full install-base in terms of sales and profitability.
As well as being a natural fit in terms of both handheld ideals and development models, this, crucially, is also a strategy that can work right out of the blocks. Projects like these, and their developers, don’t need to wait until a huge number of players have committed to a console before they commit to production, which goes some way to breaking the catch-22 of ‘games mean hardware sales, hardware sales mean games’ that challenges any console during its launch period. In short, the Switch can hit the kind of eclectic momentum the Vita was eventually building toward, and do so within its first few months, effectively covering the ‘handheld’ side of the console’s identity off the bat, without any great resource burden on Nintendo.
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That in hand – and with momentum only likely to build if Nintendo continues to snag the kind of exclusivity and special edition deals it’s opening with – bespoke, first-party developed games of every shape and size can enjoy a great deal less pressure than on recent Nintendo home machines, dropping into an already healthy ecosystem rather than having to prop up the whole damn thing. And with the first salvo of those first-party games starting with a vast, intricate, immaculately crafted Zelda that can easily go toe-to-toe with any major open-world action game available on rival consoles, a Splatoon 2 beta coming this very week, and the first real, progressive, core Mario game in seven years on the way – not to mention inevitable E3 announcements in June – the Switch already feels like the healthiest and most smartly managed Nintendo console in generations.

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And the cherry? By embracing and promoting contemporary indie devs as readily as it is, the Switch is already aligning itself with the kind of enigmatic, left-of-centre game design that the core Nintendo fanbase has always valued, but importantly, without pandering to an exclusive audience bubble. There are already obvious allusions to specific past glories, in the likes of Fast RMX (F-Zero GX2 in all but name) and the Blaster Master sequel, but sitting alongside creative new ideas like Snipperclips and Snake Pass, they create the impression of a console intent on serving Nintendo nostalgia well without being beholden to it.

It feels like after years of trying too hard to stand apart, Nintendo has finally found the right balance of making its point of difference work as an asset, without smothering itself with divisive otherness. That it has done so with such exciting clarity and insight, across hardware and games in unison, makes the Switch feel like the return of the creative, progressive, yet strategically sober Nintendo that was such a consistently vital force during its heyday. And, as anyone who remembers the pre-Wii days can tell you, that can only be a good thing for gaming in general, whether you ever pick up a Switch or not.






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[NHawk19]

In OoT The time temple was in Hyrule. Could the walls around the Great Plateu be the walls of a previous Hyrule Castle?

It would've been underwater during the great flood and filled with sand etc. Then when the waters receded that produced the salt it they were left exposed.

Also any chance the tower sits on the location the Goddess Statue landed at the end of Skyward Sword?

 

[Matt Mortem]

That's what I was thinking. The Great Plateu had a lot of OoT flavor IMO.

 

[NHawk19]

So that also means the by the time Twilight Princess happened, Hyrule Castle fell or was abandoned, because the time temple is located at the scared grounds in that game. Also means when they were excavating for the Guardians from 10,000 years ago they almost exposed Demise whom by now almost everyone has forgotten about.

We haven't seen a game in which the guardians were created have we? So all the timelines take place more than 10,000 years before the start of time mentioned in BotW. Could they be working on a game that unifies the timelines and creates the guardians?

 

[zenith16]

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[KillerMcQueen]

It's in the Twilight Princess timeline, it's the only post-OoT game to get directly referenced within the game's story, and the Arbiter's Grounds also appear as ruins in the desert. Everything tying it to other timelines could conceivably have come about some other way.

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

The whole Zelda timeline thing is a mess and a needless exercise in connecting games that were never narratively connected to begin with. I've always went under the assumption that the only Zelda games that are canon to each other are the games that directly reference each other.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

The dumbest thing they did was add Hylia as the Goddess.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

Yeah, it's weird to have one goddess instead of the usual 3. But the 3 were represented throughout the game through references and the springs.

 

[Lily Adler]

I thought Din, Faore, and Nayru were above Hylia.

 

[Rodrigo90]

They are. Hylia was created to carry on their word.

Like God creating Jesus to spread his message...

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

Zelda reinvents its mythology with each release which is another reason having a canonical timeline for all the games is stupid.

 

[Lily Adler]

I actually agree that the creation of a timeline was a little unnecessary. The narrative for Skyward Sword could have easily worked just as a prequel of OoT.

 

[Reek]

so ive finished all 4 uh.. temples? divine beast... whatever... talk about extremely underwhelming... not one felt like a dungeon. and all completed in half an hour... the bosses were easy as **** too... i had the most trouble with the Zora boss... the other 3 were pretty easy.

the divine beast didn't even have enemies in them, except those little eye infection things and occasionally some of the mini walking spider things. im thinking they spent way too much time on shrines and didnt focus enough on making the divine beast more challenging, and bigger.

i dont know... guess they should have went with the classic zelda dungeon style for those 4 but what do i know. ive loved every bit of it really.

I fully upgraded stamina and finished almost all the shrines, minus some of the Major Test of Strengths... so i have like 25 hearts or so... now im just going to do the side quests for the numerous stables and finish the game unless im missing something

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

so ive finished all 4 uh.. temples? divine beast... whatever... talk about extremely underwhelming... not one felt like a dungeon. and all completed in half an hour... the bosses were easy as **** too... i had the most trouble with the Zora boss... the other 3 were pretty easy.

the divine beast didn't even have enemies in them, except those little eye infection things and occasionally some of the mini walking spider things. im thinking they spent way too much time on shrines and didnt focus enough on making the divine beast more challenging, and bigger.

i dont know... guess they should have went with the classic zelda dungeon style for those 4 but what do i know. ive loved every bit of it really.

I fully upgraded stamina and finished almost all the shrines, minus some of the Major Test of Strengths... so i have like 25 hearts or so... now im just going to do the side quests for the numerous stables and finish the game unless im missing something

I definitely understand where you're coming from but I was actually incredibly happy with the size and length of the Divine Beasts, but then again, I am probably the most jaded Zelda fan out there. The idea of going through traditional Zelda dungeons makes me want to vomit at this point.

 

[Reek]

just seems like they could have done much more with them... instead of the divine beast basically being 5 shrine puzzles in one place

 

[KillerMcQueen]

The divine beasts definitely were the only real issue I had with the game, they were far too easy and short, and all shared similar aesthetic and bosses.

 

[NHawk19]

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Thanks for that. I haven't made it to a couple items they showed yet. Also liked the commentary about the Sheikah and how their tech just seems to exist but origins never really get explained. Does make you wonder if they're some kind of "time guardians".

 

[Lily Adler]

So I suck at cooking. I created Dubious food while trying to be adventurous with my cooking.

 

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Following the Making of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild three-part video series from earlier this month, Nintendo has released an additional “Bonus Session” video where the creators discuss their favorite characters, locations, and shrines, and share a special message with viewers.




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[zenith16]

Originally Posted by LibidoLoca
So I suck at cooking. I created Dubious food while trying to be adventurous with my cooking.

hmm may be these will help



Here’s A Look At The Best Recipes In Breath of the Wild For Combat, Rupees, And More

By Casey . March 27, 2017 . 8:00amA new video shares a look at the very best recipes you can craft that will give you various benefits in combat, stamina and more, as well as exactly where to find the ingredients for each recipe.

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In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you can forage the land for ingredients you then combine to create recipes that yield various benefits. Some of these benefits include temporary stamina boosts, increased resistance to the elements, and even the ability to find more rupees.

In a new video, IGN shares a look at the very best recipes you can craft that will give you various benefits in combat, stamina and more, as well as exactly where to find the ingredients for each recipe. For example, to create recipe that grants a temporary 20 bonus hearts, you must cook the durian fruit found in the plateau north of Faron Tower.

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In the latest The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild making of video, members of the development team go over their favorite parts of the game.

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Earlier this month, Nintendo released a three-part The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild video series that went through the making of the game. It covered its beginnings, story and characters, and open-air concept. Today, Nintendo has released a bonus session. In it, members of the development team like Producer Eiji Aonuma and Director Hidemaro Fujibayashi talk about their favorite elements of the game.


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[Lily Adler]

Thanks for that. I may watch it, but don't want to get entirely spoiled. I ran into Stone Talus (butchered the name) on accident while coming back from the final shrine of the Great Plateau. I'm​ going to try and make a certain dish before continuing on the main quest.

 

[Reek]

eesh once you get [blackout] the gerudo fury power up thing[/blackout] ... everything, including lynels, become oh so easy.

 

[Reek]

Finished the game... Did all 120 shrines or whatever, got the Hero armor...

Amazing game. 9.5/10 because the divine beast were underwhelming...

but that music when you storm Hyrule castle...