Scrambling across the idyllic vistas of Nintendo’s vast new fantasy sandbox The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, it’s easy to watch the action-adventure’s sunken structures plaintive artifacts of a vanished golden age waiting to be restored
Breath of the Wild, a $59 action-adventure game that launches with the Nintendo Switch on March 3 (it's also available for Wii U), has the makings of a masterful captain. Exploring its expansive collage of verdant, gelid and sun scorched zones is akin to tromping onto the set of a painterly Studio Ghibli film. An experience so simultaneously prodigious and accomplished that it feels like a mind-blowing mic drop to the sort of "open world" games (Grand Theft Auto V, The Elder Scrolls, The Witcher 3) the industry seems bent on proliferating.In the game, you play once more as the franchise’s sandy haired paragon, toiling to thwart nefarious forces, team up with the eponymous princess and revitalize a slumbering civilization. In reality, a company so iconic its name still works as a metonym for “video games,” is reeling from rejection of its last console, the bold but confusing and now beleaguered Wii U. The upcoming Switch console, meanwhile, represents Nintendo’s years-in-the-offing gambit to right the ship—and just maybe steam ahead toward terrain of the sort once held by the company’s disruptive WII.
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