Developer/publisher Nintendo (EPD) Format Switch, Wii U
Goodness, where to start? That is, come to think of it, the question most players will ask themselves as Link awakens and walks, blinking, into the largest and most dizzyingly open Hyrule to date. And that’s just the Great Plateau. Soon afterward, Breath Of The Wild begins again, as you float down and the world gets so much bigger still. It’s formidable, overwhelming – and utterly freeing. Nothing and nowhere is off limits.
For a series that has lately been reluctant to take the training wheels off, it’s a startling change: a reversion, in fact, to the Famicom original, which similarly invited you to get hopelessly, gloriously lost. But everything else is a progression: this is a Zelda that’s learned a few tricks…
