When Breath of the Wild came out in 2017, it introduced an open world concept to the long running The Legend of Zelda series. The ability to do pretty much whatever you wanted whenever you wanted has lead to extreme popularity for the game. With anything as popular as BotW comes strong opinions, and not just about gameplay.
Fans of the game have their own strong opinions about various plot lines and characters, big and small. If there’s one thing an opinion means in the Internet age, it’s that for every opinion there’s a meme either for or against it. With Breath of the Wild 2 hopefully coming soon, it's time to revisit some of them.
Magda Needs To Chill
If there’s a terrible location in Breath of the Wild, it’s the Shrine enclosed in the maze made of flowers. Magda, their guardian, will lose her cool and reset you right back to the outside edge of the maze if you so much as clip one with Link’s little toe. There’s no doubt that getting to the center and into the shrine was one of the hardest parts of the game for many people.
I Know It’s Here Somewhere
When Link is called the Hero of Hyrule, he definitely takes it seriously—even if he isn’t doing such a good job of being Zelda’s personal knight. He hunts back and forth all across Hyrule helping everyone else out first, leaving her alone to hold back Calamity Ganon.
How many of the countless hours spent by players in game has been turning over every rock in game in search of those little hiders? What’s a few more days after she’s been there 100 years, anyway.
Suspicious
One of the worst things is cooking for the first time, new to the game and low on the rubbish you’ll have bags full of later in the game, only to mess it up and come up with some dubious food. Why is it always dubious? Why are there so many things that make the same thing, anyway? Shouldn’t anything with monster parts be dubious, just on principle? Eating bugs is fine, but add the wrong mushroom and it’s inedible?
Fair Point
Three of the four Divine Beasts messed up their lands pretty badly. Then you have Vah Medoh just kind of flying around the Tabantha Frontier just not doing much of anything other than being a giant bird machine.
Sure, if one of the Ritos flew high enough it would attack them. But just ask the Gorons—that’s something on a completely different level than Rudania chucking burning boulders off the top of Death Mountain all willy nilly.
NOPE.
Even after you get some of the combos down or have better weapons, the mid and upper level lynels can still give a player quite the fight. The only thing that can possibly make facing a lynel worse is coming up on it unawares with Link right out of the Shrine of Resurrection when you start a game on Master Mode. To make things worse, it’s not even a lowly regular lynel—it’s white-maned and waiting to ruin your day.
Hard Choices
Since the newest entry in the Animal Crossing series came out, Switch owners have been facing a hard choice: add a few more hours to the hundreds they already have in BotW, or fly to their tropical getaway and see what’s up with their motley cast of villagers. (Spoiler: Tom Nook says it’s time to finally pay off that loan. He hasn’t forgotten.)
They may be the same game anyway—how much time do you spend gathering fish and bugs in both?
Good Luck?
You know the meme is right—if you’ve gotten chased down by even two Guardians at the same time before, you’re feeling more than a little nervous right now. You can probably hear the sound of all of those lasers getting ready to go off and blow you into next week, too. Maybe Link can make it out of there before they all take a shot at him, because he’s definitely not going to be able to deflect all of them. Hopefully Daruk’s Protection is ready.
He’s Not Wrong
Poor Mipha—she did have a reason to be jealous of Zelda, after all. After falling in love with him and thinking for a long time that she would marry Link one day, he became distant after getting the Master Sword and becoming Zelda’s appointed knight. Link isn’t wrong though- why do they glow? Maybe it’s to find mates but even so, you’d think someone wouldn’t go around calling the glowing fish stealthy. You’d think the stealthy fish would be the one you haven’t even caught yet because you haven’t found it.
Maybe It’s A Vitamin Deficiency
Why are the Yiga Clan so into bananas, anyway? There’s only one Sheikah through all the games who isn’t part of the Yiga Clan who has an obsession with them, so it’s probably not a Sheikah thing. Maybe they should also move their headquarters to Faron—since that’s where the Mighty Bananas grow (as opposed to the Gerudo Desert where their hideout actually is.) Whatever the reason, their extreme obsession with banana is both hilarious and a little disturbing.
Why Would You Want To Change His Mind?
The final fight with Calamity Ganon has become something of a meme itself in the years since BotW was released. He’s easier to defeat than some of the Blights in the Divine Beasts, and after making your way through the rest of Hyrule he almost seems like a walk in the park. After running all over to get material and residents for Hudson, it feels a little like Hudson and Company are family.