The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - The Champions' Ballad
DLC Pack 2 cannot be purchased outside of the expansion pass. The Champions' Ballad. Following the guidance of an unseen voice, Link encounters a new test: the Divine Beast Tamer's Trial. Take hold of the…
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - The Champions' Ballad is an adventure developed by Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 3, released 7 December 2017 on Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch and Wii U.
What The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - The Champions' Ballad is
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - The Champions' Ballad is an adventure game developed by Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 3 and released in 2017. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch and Wii U.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a 2017 action-adventure game developed by Nintendo EPD for the Wii U and Nintendo Switch. Set near the end of the Zelda timeline, it follows Link as he sets out to save Princess Zelda and prevent Calamity Ganon from destroying the world. The player explores the open world of Hyrule, collects items, and completes objectives such as puzzles and side quests. Breath of the Wild's world is unstructured and encourages exploration and experimentation; the story can be completed in a nonlinear fashion.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - The Champions' Ballad is the 104th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition in 2018. Its critic score of 83 is 3 points below the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at 100.
How it was received
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - The Champions' Ballad holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 12 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 50 votes.
What it launched against
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - The Champions' Ballad launched on 7 December 2017, within three weeks of Star Wars Battlefront II, Hello Neighbor, Yakuza Kiwami 2 and Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Star Wars Battlefront II, Hello Neighbor, Yakuza Kiwami 2, Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition.
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