The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Difference between revisions

* [[Assist Character]]: In order to immobilize and board each Divine Beast, Link works with a partner:

** For Van Ruta, Link must ride on Sidon’s back until an opening appears, then use his own skills to disable the switches on Ruta's sides by swimming up the waterfalls and shooting them with Shock Arrows.

** For Vah Medoh, Teba flies Link to the altitude needed for him to pelt the shield generators with Bomb Arrows, although he doesn’t do much after that except shout encouragement.

* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: Link's feminine good looks make him a very convincing woman when he crossdresses, and several oblivious men fall head over heels in love with him when he talks to them. Vilia also passes for an attractive Gerudo woman... [[Unsettling Gender Reveal|until you get a peek under his veil.]]

* [[Beat Still My Heart]]: Monster Guts of all kinds will throb and pulsate long after the death of their owners.

* [[Bee Afraid]]: They're not incredibly strong, but Courser Bees can be a real nuisance if you want their honey. Luckily, you can sic them on your enemies by shooting down a beehive that's close to them, resulting in the hapless monsters running for their lives as they're chased by the angry swarm.

* [[Big Bad]]: Ganon as usual, but this time as Calamity Ganon, a creature described as "Hatred and Malice incarnate" that threatens to overwhelm the world unless Link stops it in time.

* [[Big Bad Wannabe]]: While the Yiga Clan are genuinely dangerous, it's hard to take them even the slightest bit seriously thanks to how much of a clown Kohga is. {{spoiler|The man accidentally kills himself with his own attack, for goodness sake!}}

* [[Big Beautiful Woman]]: The Great Fairies, who are very thickly built and absolutely ''stunning''. Also, middle-aged Gerudo collectively sport something of an "ex-jock" gut, but are still quite attractive despite their weathered, aged faces.

* [[Big Fun]]: As usual, Gorons as a whole skew towards being fun and jolly souls. Daruk in particular is am [[Boisterous Bruiser|enthusiastic brawler]] who treats Link like a beloved little brother.

* [[Blob Monster]]: Chuchus, living blobs of goo that will try to leap at Link to hurt him.

* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: To a cartoonish level: if Link kills a normal animal, the animal puffs and turns into a piece of meat.

* [[Darkest Hour]]: Shown as history, the battle a hundred years ago which ended with Ganon winning. The ''literal'' darkest hour is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVNJL7bErZc shown via cutscene] as a recovered Memory, complete with a [[Hope Spot]].

* [[Dark Is Evil]]: Unsurprisingly, becoming a swirling mass of dark Malice energy hasn't made Ganon a single bit nicer.

* [[Dead All Along]]: {{spoiler|The Old Man in the Great Plateau is a dead king. More exactly, King Rhoam of Hyrule. And unlike Zelda, none of the four Champions survived into the present day}}.

* [[Deal with the Devil]]: What got the entity inside the Horned Statue an eternity of imprisonment by the goddess Hylia; she didn't like him making outrageous deals like exchanging life for money, or the reverse.

* [[Disc One Nuke]]: Hyrule Castle is an ''armory'' of these. You can go there as soon as you leave the Great Plateau, and if you're careful enough you can walk out with a ton of powerful endgame weapons that trivialize your early battles while they last. You can also get the Hyrule Shield there, which is the best shield in the game and ridiculously durable, making it perfect for practicing your parries against Guardians.

** If you have the DLC installed, the Phantom Armor can be found incredibly early if you don't mind exploring the hostile Guardian-infested Hyrule Field and going toe-to-toe with a Lynel. While it can't be upgraded, 24 defense in total isn't too shabby for most of the game, and its set bonus (a 50% attack boost) means that you'll be hitting ''hard''. And that's before you crank up your attack further with a bunch of cooked meals.

* [[Draconic Demon]]: Artistic depictions of Calamity Ganon from the first battle with him 10,000 years ago show him looking like an evil, dark colored Eastern dragon. Which is odd, because while he ''does'' look vaguely draconic as he twists and coils around Hyrule Castle, his usual boar motif is a lot more apparent.

** The normally benevolent Naydra is turned into one of these due to being corrupted by Calamity Ganon's Malice. She's still peaceful and goes out of her way to isolate herself in the mountains so she can't hurt anyone, but she still looks horrific thanks to the poxlike corruption clinging to her body.

* [[Early Game Hell]]: Things get better once you start finding reliable weapons and equipment, but your start is not an easy one. Even the weakest red Bokoblins with flimsy equipment will hit incredibly hard, and depending on where you go you can run into nasty creatures like stronger blue and black enemies, Wizzrobes, Guardians, and Lynels well before you're ready to face them. Naturally, Master Mode ramps this [[Up to 11]] by making all but one red enemy blue, as well as ''adding a Black Lynel to the Great Plateau''.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Ganon does not even remotely resemble a human in this version, and has long been stuck in the form of a vaguely boar-shaped cloud of Malice called Calamity Ganon. {{spoiler|When you fight him, his first form is that of a grotesque, multi-limbed creature that straddles the line between "zombified corpse that vaguely looks like Ganondorf" and "mechanical insectoid monstrosity", while his second is a [[Kaiju]]-sized boar made of Malice and concentrated hatred for life itself. No matter the form though, just ''existing'' creates dangerous Malice, a type of miasma that corrupts anything it touches, including machinery such as the Guardians.}}

** The spirit dragons are Eastern dragons that follow the usual stereotypes: they're divine in nature, serpentine, fly gracefully through the skies, and can bestow incredible gifts upon mortal kind. However, their moose-like faces are ''seriously'' weird, and being in close vicinity of them is extremely dangerous because of the elemental energy leaking from their bodies. And just in case that wasn't weird and otherworldly enough, after flying around for long enough, they'll disappear into a portal in the sky that opens out of nowhere and quickly closes after them.

* [[Elite Mook]]: Moblins are bigger, stronger, and sturdier than their weaker Bokoblin brethren, and Lynels are ''far'' stronger than even them to the point of being extremely dangerous [[Boss in Mook Clothing|Bosses in Mook Clothing]]. Yiga Swordsmen are also a hell of a lot tougher than the rank-and-file assassins, especially the ones encountered when you infiltrate their hideout since they can instantly kill Link while bypassing any safeguards he has. And yes, that includes the fairies ''and'' Mipha's Grace.

* [[Kill It with Ice]]: Fiery enemies have the same weakness to ice weapons.

* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: Grabbing everything you can take from defeated foes - be it rupees, weapons, food, gems, or [[Organ Drops]] - is highly recommended.

** Dorephan, king of the Zora, is gigantic despite the fact his race have more humanoid proportions.

** [[Cool Old Guy| Bludo]] is the Boss of the Gorons, and is bigger than the others.

** There are also Blupees, which are odd blue spirits that look like a cross between an owl, a rabbit, and a moth. They're peaceful creatures that will bolt the moment they see you, but if you hit them they'll drop Rupees as a reward.

* [[Mook Maker]]: Pools of Malice spit monsters out of their mouths when you approach.

* [[Morton's Fork]]: When you meet a traveler who is secretly a Yiga member, he or she asks Link a question, and the player has to give one out of two answers. Doesn't really matter, however, as both answers result in the Yiga attacking Link. In one case, the Yiga offers to sell Link his Mighty Bananas; if Link doesn't buy them all, the Yiga gets upset at Link for insulting his wares and attacks him. If Link ''does'' buy all 99 of them, the guy's a little happier, but still attacks Link.

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: This is easily the sexiest Link has been in the series' history, and it shows: he starts the game in his underwear, and he gets to wear some surprisingly skimpy outfits that flatter his slender, athletic physique. The male Gerudo armor shows a lot of skin, as does the barbarian armor. And to get into Gerudo Town, you put his feminine good looks to use by having him crossdress in some midriff-baring Gerudo garb.