The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the first 3D open-world game in the Zelda series. Link can travel anywhere and be equipped with weapons and armor found throughout the world to grant him various…
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is an adventure developed by Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 3, released 3 March 2017 on Nintendo Switch and Wii U. The main story takes about 92.3 hrs to finish.
What The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is an adventure game developed by Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 3 and released in 2017. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch and Wii U. It runs on Havok Physics.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Link is awakened in a room by a voice calling him and learns that he has been asleep for 100 years after failing to stop a monster called Calamity Ganon. Although the monster is being held in Hyrule Castle by Princess Zelda, Calamity Ganon's power continues to grow and if not stopped he will eventually break free with enough power to destroy the entire world. Link embarks on his quest to defeat Calamity Ganon and save Hyrule and Zelda.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the 95th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Master Edition in 2017. Its critic score of 98 is 12 points above the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at 100.
How it was received
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild holds a critic score of 98 out of 100. That places it above 100% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 27 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 95, across 3,017 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 92.3 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 246.8 hrs, roughly 2.7 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild launched on 3 March 2017, within three weeks of Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda, NieR: Automata and Hollow Knight. It reviewed better than all of them. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda, NieR: Automata, Hollow Knight.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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