Zelda: Breath of the Wild – no towns or traditional partner character

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is making big changes to the classic Zelda formula. During today’s Treehouse stream, it was explained how this new game is mixing things up in two areas.

First, Breath of the Wild will not have any towns. The title features Hyrule in ruins, and inspiration was taken from the very first entry in the series. However, there will be stray NPCs to be encountered – there just won’t be towns or villages in the traditional sense.

It was also stated that Link will not have a partner character in Breath of the Wild – think Midna, Navi, etc.

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