While most sandboxes encourage to a degree, Breath of the Wild makes wandering across the world a core element of how you progress through the game. More importantly, there’s a benefit to losing all your hearts and stamina. However, it’s hard to remember the solution to every single shrine. Some will probably come back to you, but you’ll also probably struggle with some. Replaying games like Portal are tough, because you can’t solve a puzzle for the first time again. Every shrine’s puzzle uses the same visual design, and there are a lot of them. However, this is where Breath of the Wild’s approach to its open world pays off. If you completed every shrine the first time around, it can feel unsatisfying to go back to three hearts and a single stamina wheel. In fact, the only resources that are difficult re-acquire are Spirit Orbs. At worst, you might need to replace some armor, but the quests to get them are part of the adventure you’re trying to re-experience, rather than a grind. You can buy a house for a bunch of rupees, but there’s little else that having a lot of money gives you. There are a couple of minor upgrades for them, but it’s trivially easy to get them again. Most of your core abilities are unlocked before you even leave Tutorial Plateau. Which is why games like Spider-Man come with New Game+ modes that let you start over while keeping all your power-ups and gear.īreath of the Wild-which, unfortunately, does not have a New Game+ mode-has comparatively little in the way of accumulated resources. Spider-Man for the PS4 hands out tokens for most side activities that you use to unlock new powers and upgrades. Resetting these games means giving up everything you’ve worked on and starting over with nothing. In Skyrim, you can build an entire house (or three) from scratch and start a family. Most sandbox games have some kind of reward for the dozens of hours you invest in the game. This is the story of the time I deleted my save file, and why I don’t regret it. It’s hard to go from one-shotting dragons in your meticulously upgraded armor to getting killed by the first wild bear you encounter? After a certain point, you’re just asking for a long grind just to get back to where you were.īreath of the Wild, I would like to argue, is different. Imagine starting Skyrim over and throwing out all your money, gear, and homes that you’ve built. The idea of starting any massive sandbox game from scratch sounds like a nightmare. It’s time for a radical proposal: delete your save file. If you’ve played it at all, you’ve probably played it to death, unlocking every shrine, saving every divine beast, and giving up halfway through finding every Korok. It’s been almost two years since The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild hit shelves.
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