Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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Kaysa, Zelda Breath of the Wild.

Beautiful, difficult game made by people who long for their childhood spent outdoors, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a love letter to nature where you climb trees and watch the wind and weather kissed by rain and lit by sky, with moons travelling, stars falling, and sounds of animals mixed with occasional piano notes.

Sticks, apples, lizards, and crickets, foxes, and ruined buildings, even phones and cameras, are there in a fantasy-technology world linked to our own, telling the timeless story of positive and negative energies endlessly swirling around each other.

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Strafe and dodge by holding ZL and jumping sideways or backwards. If you do it a split second before an enemy strikes you, you’ll perform a “perfect dodge” triggering a slow-motion “flurry rush” where you can counterattack using Y for multiple hits.

Similarly, with a shield equipped, press A a fraction of a second before being hit to “perfect-parry” an enemy strike.

Rain makes surfaces slippery and difficult or impossible to climb.

If you have a metal weapon equipped during a thunderstorm you can get struck by lightning!

Many enemies sleep at night allowing you to sneak into their camps stealthly by pressing down L-stick.

Controls for Zelda Breath of the Wild

Button Action
L-stick Move / climb
R-stick Look
A Interact
B Put away, sprint, drop
X Jump
Y Attack (hold for power attack)
ZL Focus, guard, center camera
ZL + ←L-stick→ Strafe
ZL + A Parry
ZL + ←L-stick→ + X Side hop dodge
ZL + ↓L-stick + X Back flip dodge
ZL + X + A Shield surf
ZR Bow & arrows
Press L-stick Crouch for stealth
Press R-stick Scope
L button Runes
R button Throw weapon
↑D-pad Runes
←D-pad Shields (Arrows while holding ZR)
→D-pad Weapons (Bows while holding ZR)
↓D-pad Whistle
+ Pause
- Sheikah Slate


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