#BOTW MEMORIES SERIES#

Don’t get me wrong, you’ll run into people and there’s a story to follow, but having an old man who conveniently shows up to push you in a certain direction? That’s gone. So when you leap off of the Great Plateau (with the paraglider, of course) and land on the ground below it becomes clear that there will be zero guidance from that point on. The moment when I realized that I was on my own.I figured there’d be more areas to explore, but when you gain the ability to leave the plateau, you realize just how small all of that space was – and it was a LOT of space! I legit thought that space was a significant portion of the game. The moment when I realized the Great Plateau was basically the tutorial.I’m gonna do ten moments so this doesn’t go on for 5K words or something.

So to celebrate the four-year anniversary I’m gonna list off some of my favorite moments in the game! Some are touching, most are silly, and they’re all a perfect depiction of me being absolute Zelda trash. Seriously, this game is probably one of my favorite launch titles of all time. There’s just so much you can do in the game, whether you wanna ride your horse through the land, invade a Bokoblin camp and use their fire to cook your meat, or visit that extremely handsome shark prince even if there’s no new dialogued with him because you’ve finished that part of the story.

#BOTW MEMORIES SERIES#

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was such a fantastic entry to the ongoing series that I still think about picking it up even if I’ve done all the DLC, gone through Master Mode, completed all the shrines, can fight off Golden Lynel, and shield deflect the laser beams from Guardians (eh … for the most part). Four years ago today marked the launch of the Nintendo Switch, but with that launch came one of the best games in its entire library (if not THE best, depending on who you’re asking).