Breath of the Wild Sees its First Review
To say there’s a lot riding on the success of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is something of an understatement. After Nintendo’s lackluster showing with the Wii U, many consider this game to be the make or break title when it comes to the launch of the Nintendo Switch. We’ve got our unit and copy of the game (which we did an unboxing of) but for consumers, both the game and the console arrive this March 3rd.
Basically, anticipation is at a fever pitch and now we’ve got our first official review score coming in from EDGE magazine, based out of the UK, and they have given Breath of the Wild a whopping perfect score with a 10 out of 10. Perfect scores are hard to come by, and we say this despite giving Horizon Zero Dawn a perfect score of its own recently, but something tells us that this score is probably very well deserved.
Gracing the cover of their April issue (naturally) we’re given some details into the game following the write up inside.
- EDGE indicates that the game is very dense
- Distractions abound with content being “an absolute, and unremitting pleasure to get lost in”
- Over 100 shrines and they’re multi-purpose
- Four beasts must be exorcised, with a couple sub-missions, a final dungeon and a boss fight for each
- If you focus on just the main quest you’re looking at about 20 hours
- You’ll have all the tools you need after playing 4 shrines (opening hour)
- Defeating beasts will net you RPG like stat boosts and a new power with a big cool down that breaks the game in ways they wouldn’t spoil
- Frame rate is a little uneven on the Wii U version, dropping to teens in very busy sequences like heavy weather effects, rarely when it matters
- Nuts and bolts combat is a little unpredictable at times but that encourages you to the many other tools and powers at your disposal
“The result, for all the longevity of its series and the familiarity of the open world genre, is a game that evokes feelings we haven’t felt for 20 years. Not since Ocarina of Time have we set foot in a world that feels so mind-bogglingly vast and unerringly magical, that proves so relentlessly intriguing. Plenty of games promise to let us go anywhere and do anything. Few, if any, ever deliver so irresistibly. 19 years on Ocarina is still held up as the high water mark of gaming’s best loved and greatest series. Now it may have to settle for second place”.