The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - The Master Trials

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75 30 June 2017

What The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - The Master Trials is

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - The Master Trials is an adventure game developed by Nintendo and released in 2017. It is available on 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.

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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 Master Trials is the 98th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was Super NES Classic Edition in 2017. Its critic score of 75 is 11 points below the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at 100.

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How it was received

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - The Master Trials holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 4 points above the year average.

What it launched against

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - The Master Trials launched on 30 June 2017, within three weeks of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Diablo III: Eternal Collection, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Splatoon 2. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Diablo III: Eternal Collection, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Splatoon 2.

Cheats and codes

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