Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild Dlc Review

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has had a crazy yr. Information technology's already taken home at least one major award for all-time overall game of 2017, and has been nominated for countless more. While its faults have been laid bare at this bespeak, you tin't really deny that it'due south been one of the most talked most and influential releases in the by 10 months or so.

The conversation isn't over yet — not fifty-fifty after the sun sets on the last planned DLC,The Champions' Ballad.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch [reviewed], Wii U)
Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
Released: June thirty, 2017
MSRP: $nineteen.99 (part of the flavour pass, cannot buy individually)

Rather than provide a number of quality of life updates, Champion's Ballad positions itself as a bonafide story add-on (it'due south kind of not, just all volition exist revealed before long). You'll access it all by heading back to the very first shrine you wake up from (or by accepting myriad sidequests to get outfits or a horse-summoning device), which will queue up iv new quests on your main map. After it'due south all over you get a motorcycle — which your mileage may vary on (ha) depending on how much of the open earth you've already completed.

This joint is incorporated and listed every bit a "chief campaign" quest, and isn't institute in a separate menu option. You're immediately granted access to the goofily named "One-Striking Obliterator," which kills enemies instantly but also allows y'all to suffer the same fate (hey, it'due south just like that one Devil May Cry difficulty). It'southward a massive kick to the jaw early. Those four quests involve killing settlements of enemies, and even if an enemy literally breathes on you, you die. One time an private area is conquered, a shrine pops up.

I've seen some chatter about them being tough, but they're roughly on the level as a few of the high-end difficulty shrines in the principal game. I appreciate that Nintendo is yet finding absurd means to punish Link and the actor even after they've exhausted 120 concepts already, even if they could have been pushed a little farther to the limit of what Breath of the Wild is capable of.

If you lot're expecting some epic additional showdown with the strengthened spirit of Ganon, or some terminal chip of closure that instantly teases the next Zelda anime fashion, this isn't the DLC y'all're looking for. Instead we'll get to spend a picayune more time with the Guardians themselves (without any new revelations in the process), while you explore some cool new shrines and a new dungeon, the latter of which is an amalgam of the Divine Beasts you've already seen. Every bit someone who loved the idea of the Beasts mixing upwards the routine dungeon delving formula I can dig it, simply those of you who wanted Nintendo to do the same thing they've always done won't magically be swayed past this new 1.

I repeat, this is generally a series of challenges connected through the main map, with the narrative taking a backseat. I can deal with that considering that's merely like how the actual campaign operated, simply the outright most disappointing thing nigh it is the retread through a few boss battles (sans one, which is unique) — and the lack of whatsoever alteration any of the final fight with Ganon despite the hint that there might be. If this is truly the last DLC, it would've been corking to get at to the lowest degree an extra form to tango with.

Despite that, I had a great time taking on the new shrines and the obliteration silliness. Breath of the Wild is however a blast, and so even if everything feels familiar, I couldn't help but take myriad detours and comb through areas I had already been before but to ensure that I didn't miss something. Continue your expectations in check and y'all'll savor the ride.

_{[This review is based on a retail build of the game provided by the publisher.]}

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Source: https://www.destructoid.com/reviews/review-the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-the-champions-ballad/

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