
You can go anywhere, any time, and every triumph is yours, won through your skills, perseverance and smarts.

Minecraft is a game about possibility, a space in which you play on your own terms. Well, it looks tastier than Yeto's Secret Soup anyway. And there's another game on which Breath of the Wild seems to have an eye: Minecraft. "It's the first Nintendo game that feels like it was made in a world where Half-Life 2, Halo, Grand Theft Auto 3 and Skyrim happened," he said. When Oli reviewed Breath of the Wild he pointed something that's fundamental to its divergence from other Zelda games.

A world lay out there, just for me, if I could just survive the night.Īnd recently I've felt that same thrill, watching the camera in Breath of the Wild swoop behind Link as he exited the Shrine of Resurrection and follow as he reached the clifftop opposite to look out across all Hyrule. It doesn't tell you why should should play or what you're aiming for.īut for all that I was confused, I was also enchanted by the knowledge that the world stretched out in all directions around me, studded with hidden mineshafts, veins of gold and villages, and with forests and deserts, tundra and oceans, all waiting to be discovered. It doesn't tell you about the alternate dimensions that you can visit, or about how you get to them.

For much of its history, Minecraft hasn't done much to help you understand how to play it, how to craft things, what these crafted things do, and why you'd want them. Do you remember your first adventures in Minecraft? I do.
