The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild patched with DLC support

As is the case with any big release, chances are that people will get the game before official release, and this is no different with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (it was recently pirated on Wii U, for example).

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild comes as a launch title for the Nintendo Switch on March 3.

To register, you simply select the game on the Switch home screen and hit the + or – button, where you select “My Nintendo Rewards Program” and then “Earn Points”.

We already know that Nintendo plans to drop additional content for the game with a Season Pass, which means that there is going to be plenty of room for new updates to come inbetween with new content that hopefully free players can enjoy without having to pay extra. In fact, the tool they developed ran in the game’s engine to allow for quick portability to the final product, meaning that it was actually 3D and not two dimensional. Two days! Stay tuned for news, reviews and more, here at COGConnected. A later photo taken by USGamer shows concept art of Link in a spacesuit, facing off with a Metroid.

“The first step in designing the game was to re-examine these conventions and put our sights on changing the structure of the game from one where you play within the confines of a pre-prepared mechanism, to one where the user can actively engage with the game”, explains Fujibayashi. It’s one of a kind and you need to attach the controllers to the console in order to play. Nearly better than Quick Draw is Fake Draw, in which the gruff man’s voice might yell “Fish!” or “Fake!” and you try not to be fooled until he shouts “Fire!”

These issues are most prominent during early gameplay and will hopefully ease over time and as you clock up the hours, the arrow fumbling did quickly ease thankfully.

It soon becomes obvious that 1-2-Switch is essentially a tech demo for the Switch, and specifically for the Joy-Cons. It presents a wonderful sandbox full of mystery, dangling dozens upon dozens of tantalizing things in front of you that just beg to be explored’. I should be annoyed by this, but I’m not, because climbing in the newest Zelda is nearly always some kind of puzzle game, and the further in you get the more hard the challenges become. A lot of the characters now have voice acting in cut scenes and just seem to have much more genuine likeable personalities than characters in previous Zelda games.

First and foremost, it is developed and published by Nintendo, with Eiji Aonuma returning to produce the game. Especially given that as well produced as the live action intros are, they often don’t explain the rules or controls very well. Still, for Zelda fans – particularly those who are interested in game development themselves – the discussion provided plenty of food for thought, and a substantive glimpse into the process behind one of gaming’s best-known series.

Are you ready for the launch of one of the most anticipated title in recent years?

There’s a wonderful level on ingenuity throughout, making use of the many capabilities of the Joy-Con controllers. And as much fun as the formula is, eventually it can’t help but feel, well, formulaic.