It has been, at this point, six years since the 2017 release of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The Switch launch title, and Nintendo’s swan song on the Wii U, made an indelible mark on the industry with its approach to the open-world space.
Tomorrow, on May 12, its sequel The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will be released. In fact, our review of it should already be live right here, right now. It’s a revamped version of the Hyrule we saw in Breath of the Wild, only now with floating sky islands and a hot new villain in town.
This doesn’t erase Breath of the Wild from the history books, though. I, myself, haven’t played Tears of the Kingdom at the time of this writing, so who knows if I end up loving it more. But Breath of the Wild was a pretty big sea change for the industry, and I don’t think it will be forgotten. In fact, for one last day before we all skydive into a new Hyrule, I wanted to host a little celebration of Breath of the Wild here on Destructoid.
So I’ve asked the Destructoid staff to come up with their favorite moments, big or small, from their time playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Please share yours in the comments down below too, and let’s give it one big hurrah.
There are plenty of breathtaking moments in Breath of the Wild that made me appreciate the scale of what Nintendo had created. Even just leaping from the Great Plateau and gliding down into Hyrule proper for the first time was amazing. But the dragons were the moment I felt like I was seeing something truly amazing.
The first one I saw seemed miles away, drifting in the wind. I thought to myself, “huh, that’s a neat background effect.” Then, while playing later on, I was making my way up a snowy mountain and
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