Overseas gamers choose Zelda: Breath of the Wild as one of their favorite Japanese games – here’s why
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A few weeks ago, Famitsu did something rather interesting and out of the norm for the magazine. A questionnaire was sent out to overseas fans – as opposed to readers in Japan – and asked them to share some information about their favorite Japanese games. The results were published in the latest issue this week.
As for the rankings, below are the top 20:
Nintendo Minute – “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Character Bracket”
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This week’s episode of Nintendo Minute has gone live. In today’s video, Kit and Krysta rank the characters from Zelda: Breath of the Wild in a bracket. Watch the full video below.
Zelda: Breath of the Wild mod adds playable Linkle
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At least for now, Linkle only exists in the world of Hyrule Warriors. But now fans have brought the character over to Zelda: Breath of the Wild through a new mod in the Wii U version.
Dario Rolle, who made the mod, makes it so Linkle is reskinned as Link. Aside from looking different, facial animations and light voice acting have been added.
You can see Linkle in action below.
Nintendo celebrates Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s first anniversary with special art
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To ring in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s first anniversary, Nintendo has shared a special piece of art. We have it attached above.
Thanks to skilarbabcock74 for the tip.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild official soundtrack releasing in Japan on April 25
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Update: Bumped to the top. You can reserve the limited edition on Play-Asia here (with $5 off) and the standard edition here (thanks Jake and axel). We also have a few more photos below.
Original: Following Xenoblade Chronicles 2 earlier this week, Nintendo announced today that they will also release the official soundtrack for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in Japan. Releasing on April 25, it will come in two version: a first print limited edition and a standard edition.
The limited edition, which will cost 7,000 yen, pictured above, comes with the following:
Zelda: Breath of the Wild has sold over one million copies in Japan
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has reached a new milestone in Japan. Between both Switch and Wii U, sales have surpassed one million units.
Breath of the Wild has sold 871,528 copies on Switch. Wii U accounts for another 133,024 units. Of course, the game has been sold digitally as well, though we don’t have a specific number in that area.
Zelda: Breath of the Wild devs considered giving players control of the weather
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In Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the weather and environment around you are more important than ever before. Link goes up against some tough conditions, ranging from the blazing heat to frigid temperatures depending on your location. The weather is also a key element when scaling mountains. When it starts raining, you can bet that climbing will become much more difficult.
Giving players control of the weather was actually something the Zelda: Breath of the Wild team considered, according to Hidemaro Fujibayashi. The game’s director explained to Game Informer this month why it ultimately didn’t make sense in the end: it wouldn’t have been as fun and “would have increased the number of variables in the world.”
Zelda: Breath of the Wild update out now (version 1.5.0)
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A new update has gone live for Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It primarily acts as a way of adding in support for more languages, though Nintendo says fixes have also been implemented.
The full patch notes are as follows:
- You can now select Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), or Korean in the language settings menu on the Switch console to display text in the selected language.
- Voice Language selection is not supported for the above languages. If you choose “Match System Settings” in Options, voice data will be set to Japanese.
- Various fixes to improve gameplay.
Thanks to Cameron and Reddit for the tip.
Zelda: Breath of the Wild devs on The Champions’ Ballad DLC, what’s next for the series, more
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Nintendo has published a new video interview with Eiji Aonuma and Hidemaro Fujibayashi, the series producer for Zelda and Breath of the Wild’s director respectively. The two talked about a few different topics, including The Champions’ Ballad DLC, what’s next for the series, and more. Watch the full interview below.
Watch Mr. Aonuma and Mr. Fujibayashi talk about The Legend of #Zelda: Breath of the Wild and share some behind-the-scenes insight into The Champions’ Ballad DLC. pic.twitter.com/v8v5Rbsbpr
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) January 31, 2018
Breath of the Wild now the second highest-selling Zelda game
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Nintendo confirmed earlier today that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has shipped 6.7 million copies on Switch worldwide. Adding in sales of the Wii U version of about 1.08 million, the overall total should be roughly 7.78 million units worldwide.
The big takeaway from that number is Breath of the Wild is now the second highest-selling Zelda game. Only Twilight Princess has it beat globally with 8.85 million copies sold. Breath of the Wild could very well overtake it in time.