As such, when seen as a whole, Hyrule never overloads you with markers, with missions, with stuff. The map will remember stables, select shops, fast-travel shrines but it'll only display much of this information when zoomed right into. The bubbling brooks and towering rock formations, well-travelled roads and ancient ruins might have been presented in quite a basic form on Link's personal GamePa… Sheikah Slate, certainly when seen beside the wonderfully diorama-like equivalent in Horizon Zero Dawn, but they were effortlessly readable.Īll The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild screenshots courtesy of Nintendo. A few Towers down, and there was a quantum leap of appreciation for this game's mapping system. It allows you to breathe, appropriately.īut, as those 50-plus hours are an evident testament to, something changed. When seen as a whole, Hyrule never overloads you with markers, with missions, with stuff. I disliked it so: even when I had a destination on the horizon, not being able to always read the right route to it put me into the path of considerable danger more than once. As I pushed into unknown lands, I did so with caution-a far cry from the comparative cavaliering of over 50 hours later, loaded up on health and stat perk provisions.
I was carrying just a few hearts and a sliver of stamina, and I was low on confidence now that I was out of the comfortable Great Plateau. I felt restricted, afraid of venturing too far from the comfort of cartographically supported scenery. Breath of the Wild, for the most part, does not.
This was not how Other Open-World Games work: Horizon Zero Dawn and Nier: Automata, to use recent examples, both add details and destinations to their maps as the player discovers them.
#HORIZON ZERO DAWN MAP VS BREATH OF THE WILD DOWNLOAD#
For me, the most notable gripe from my first proper session with Nintendo's game was: what the hell is this world map about? I was walking, riding, gliding, exploring and yet the only way to turn my clear screen contoured, a whole lot of nothing into informative lines, was to climb a Sheikah Tower and download the local neighborhood information from its magical tooth of glowing blue data gloop.
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