Breath Of The Wild 2 Should Be A Love Story

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I’m a hopeless romantic that ships Link and Zelda in Breath of the Wild. I also ship Link and Sidon, Zelda and Paya, and probably a handful of other pairings if you held a gun to my degenerate head and made me admit to them. Once you blow my brains out you’ll find it’s filled with wholesome hand-holding with the occasional glimpse of smut. I am pure to the bitter end. But I’m normally a giant gay, so indulge me as I go straight for a little bit.

While Breath of the Wild’s narrative is often derided for being little more than a selection of discordant flashbacks to underpin the rise of Calamity Ganon, I continue to feel this sells a magical story so damn short. It’s the best example of character development and world building in the series’ long history, using subtlety as its greatest strength to depict a land that is clawing back from the brink of oblivion. Bright sparks of hope are found throughout the sprawling adventure, all of which spur you onward with heartfelt curiosity.

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Hyrule is filled with fascinating personalities and historic locations to uncover, but Link and Zelda are the two centrepieces that keep it together. Their chemistry is palpable despite a one-sided expression of dialogue, Link’s facial expressions lifting a gargantuan weight on his shoulders to showcase him as a valiant knight who is willing to do anything for the Princess before him. After he awakens in the Shrine of Resurrection he must accept his own failure, ruminating upon the losses of close friends while finding some way to save the girl he left behind to fight this battle all on her own. She needs your help and yours alone.

The flashbacks you uncover across Hyrule