Features:

  • Forget everything you know about The Legend of Zelda games
  • Travel across vast fields, through forests, and to mountain peaks as you discover what has become of the kingdom of Hyrule In this stunning Open Air Adventure. Number of Players: 1 player
  • Now on Nintendo Switch, your journey is freer and more open than ever. Take your system anywhere, and adventure as Link any way you like
  • Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) Content Description: Fantasy Violence, Mild Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol
Good bye social life

I... have never been so taken aback by the vastness of a game. You really don't need to read another review, Zelda alone is worth the price of a switch. Like if they sold this game for 300 dollars I would probably buy it. In fact, it's the only Switch game I own, and have no real plans to purchase anything else because between the original game and Master Mode, I will be getting a divorce soon so I can spend more time collecting mushrooms and climbing mountains.

Great game for all ages.

I bought this for my kids because of the great memory I had playing Zelda 2 when I was a kid. That was one of the most challenging and rewarding games I had ever finished. I've not played video games for over 25 years until getting the switch and BOTW. I am amazed at how much gaming has improved and how much I've missed out! I like that this game is not all about fighting and is not too violent and gruesome. The game is fun for all ages and even my youngest 5 year old boy enjoys playing it, although he mostly just explores the villages and experiment with cooking. The biggest problem with this game is that it is so addictive that we'll play it all day and don't want to do anything else. So my wife is not too happy.

YOU HAVE TO GET THIS GAME!!

If you are a Zelda fan and/or a fan of Western RPG's like the Elder Scrolls series (for example) then you will LOVE this game. Hundreds of hours can be spent playing this game and exploring the VAST map that this game touts. Like nothing else the Zelda series have ever seen and that's all before the DLC that will be released later this year. Gameplay and the story is largely engrossing. You won't want to turn off your Nintendo Switch and you will be glad you purchased one if for nothing else than for the ability to play this game...but don't sleep, there's TONS of great Nintendo 1st party titles on the horizon that Nintendo fans will WANT TO PLAY! Back to Zelda though, the atmosphere, graphics, sound and gameplay are all SPOT ON. There's crafting of Food, Potions, Weapons and Armor as well as a bunch of quests, side quests and tons of hidden content to keep you engrossed for at least the next several months... The Game of the Year buzz that this game has received is 100% deserved. Get this game! You will LOVE It!

Truly Epic

Bought the Switch for my son, but we play Zelda BOTW together. We have made it to Hateno, which I'm guessing is less than a tenth of the overall game. Let me just say that it is insanely good. It is epic. It is like all the imaginings I had as a kid playing dice RPGs. The freedom of being able to explore such a large, rich, intricate and gorgeous world is fantastic. Climbing mountains, gliding down into charming villages, galloping through open countryside on horseback, running along wooded trails, hunting, foraging and cooking, dodging thunderstorms, conquering shrines. Even just gazing at the landscape from the top of a tower is just awesome. This game is so good we have to set timers to remind us to take a break. If only we could just climb in ;-)

The cartridge should have been gold!

In 1987 there was a gold cartridge that was obviously better than the rest. That's when I played Zelda for the first time. I was a toddler and still remember what an adventure it was. Since there was little text I could still play even though I had no one to read it to me. It was my driving force to learn to read and count. It was my favorite game year after year. Now 30 years later and this is almost the game I imagined from staring at the manual art and blocky pixels on that limited palette of the NES. I have not bought a Nintendo game in over a decade, and this was the first game that made me buy a nintendo console since the Cube. The world is vast and feels old giving a real feel of a adventure, the combat is ingauging, the difficulty is perfect, physics are the best around, cooking is accually entertaining and worth while, the ability to climb really adds something, the art design is great at hiding the 720p/900p resolution, and the ammount of things to see is awesome, the puzzles are well done for the most part, and the lack of direction harkens back to the NES game. On the downside the story is not in the league of say Witcher 3, the music can feel to subdued in my opinion, voice acting is sparse and should have been fully voiced or not at all, and the weapons do break to often. The gameplay makes up for all of this though. I am addicted to the gameplay, and you set the pace. I'm typically a 60fps4k pc gamer, but this game is just done so well. So is this game a nostalgia trip. YES! But it is an amazing experience. So here we are 30 years after the original golden cartridge that first really got me into video games and this is a worthy successor. My 4yo son sits with me when I let him. I help him play, and read him the text. It is one of his favorite things to do. He is starting to sounding out words with me and counting his money. Though he has me to read to him. Seriously this cartridge should have been gold.

Best Zelda game? ...maybe, it's solid

One of the best games I've played. I love Zelda games but to be honest it's been a long time since I been entranced by a Zelda game. I just didn't think the latest Zelda games prior to Breath of the Wild lived up to their hype. So I didn't think BotW would either and the videos online didn't really capture my attention either. But it's hard to capture how fun it is in a video. Normally I lose interest pretty fast in open world games because there is just so much to do and the growing list feels daunting. BotW's world is insanely massive, as in it makes Skyrim's world look small, but I don't find myself losing interest. In fact I have the opposite problem. Once I feel like I have asserted my dominance in one area I see another area off in the distance that piques my interest and in BotW you can go anywhere you can see. No invisible walls or mountains too high. And then the game rewards you if you like to experiment. It doesn't punish you and try to limit it eggs you on. The potion/cooking system alone will give you useful rewards for experiments. But it doesn't stop there. You can change the properties of many things just by exposing them to the elements. You may be weak to an element (heat/cold) but you can use items in various ways to overcome the environment. You may also find yourself weaker to an element by what you're doing. (e.g. don't wield a metal weapon during a lightning storm ...or swim) Sloshing around in puddles will alert your presence to the enemy but sometimes bad weather and/or nighttime can help you sneak up on them.

A must-have for Zelda fans and new gamers alike

This is definitely my favorite Zelda game to date. It's got beautiful graphics and excellent gameplay. This will be a game that I return to again and again after I've finished it. There is so much area to explore, and a lot of extras hidden throughout the game. I bought this to play on my Switch, and I feel like if you really want to put your new handheld device to the test, this is the game to do it with. Zelda: Breath of the Wild exceeds all my expectations. This game also looks superb when you've docked your Switch and are playing on the big screen.

First Zelda Game !

I’ve never played a Zelda game. I can see what all the hype is about now. Such a beautiful game, that will have you entertained forever. I have trouble putting it down. Nothing really bad to say about it. If your a first timer like me, don’t hesitate to try this out.

A true masterpiece. Even "non-gamers" can enjoy it.

This is a beautiful game. I have played some of the old Zelda games and didn't really enjoy them too much. I don't generally like action RPGs. This game, though? I love this game. There are often many different ways to tackle any problem and your only limitation is your imagination. It took some time to get used to the controls (might take less time for someone who is more used to fighting games), but they make sense once you do. The worst part of the game is that it uses the button function of the joysticks, so if you apply too much pressure (as you might during an intense fight), you will either crouch or go into scope mode. Obviously, these are both very bad things when you're trying to maneuver around an enemy. Some people complain there are too many shrines. I don't think so. I love the shrines. Each one is a puzzle and though some elements are repeated, I do not feel they are repetitive as each requires you to think about how to use those elements in a new way. I've also seen people complain about the korok seeds, but I don't see how that's a problem? It's a fun little bonus to find and it only helps you by expanding your inventory. If you don't want to go around looking for them, don't. Trust me, you will stumble across plenty as you're exploring.

This game makes my weekends valuable again

I've been playing video games for 28 years. I haven't played a Zelda game since the first two on the NES, and I never had a particular allegiance to either that franchise or to Nintendo in particular. But Breath of the Wild is one of the all time best games across all platforms. I bought a Switch primarily to play Xenoblade 2, and got this because "Well, I guess it looks pretty cool." Fast forward a few hours of gameplay, and that synopsis became: "Oh hey, it's like they took every moment of my childhood spent watching Saturday morning cartoons, added the ability to scale sheer walls and hang-glide, and injected it back into my heart." If you don't have the adequate memories for gamer nostalgia, grab this game and start making some. The combat is fun, varied, and rewarding; the world is gigantic and alive with wind and weather and light. There's a sense of distance and reasons to explore. There are lots of things to do and lots of ways to do them. There is a full spectrum of moods from tranquil to majestic to intense. Few games come this close to getting everything right. Now of course I can't guarantee that any game is for everyone. If you're a cool kid and you think your friends will tease you if they catch you outside of Dark Souls, by all means, stay away. Actually, forget your friends. You have Breath of the Wild now.

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