The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a 2017 video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch and Wii U. Part of the Legend of Zelda series, his story happens in a place of the timeline long after any other installments of the series.

As usual, Link wakes up at the beginning of the game. This time however, he seems to wake up in a kind of hibernation chamber. And when he goes outside of the cave where the chamber was, he discovers something bad happened to Hyrule. Apparently, 100 years ago, an entity known as Calamity Ganon devastated the kingdom of Hyrule. It has been contained inside Hyrule Castle, but the time for his escape approaches. Guided by a disembodied voice, Link decides to go towards the castle.

The gameplay consists of being an open-world sandbox; if you can see it, you can get there with enough effort. As with most Zelda games, you can fight with an sword, shield, and a bow. But the twist is that nothing that you use will last forever, making the search for replace weapons an necessity. It's worth noting that gravity actually has an effect on your arrows in this game and that there are several types of arrows, such as Bomb Arrows and Shock Arrows. And there's also the newest addition, Ancient Arrows, which will obliterate standard monsters with one hit at the cost of taking their loot and weapon with them.

And addition to the traditional archery, swords, and shields setup, there's also two other types of melee available. Which is the spear, useful for striking enemies that are a few paces away from you. And the two-handed swords and axes, which tends to disarm your opponents or knock them down.

Tropes used in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild include:

• Abhorrent Admirer: The Great Fairies in this game are blatantly flirtatious towards Link whenever he visits them. But the relationship is one-sided since he cringes or screams as they upgrade his armor.
• Acrofatic: Kohga sports a rather prominent gut and he manages to be an agile warrior.
• Admiring the Abomination: In one shrine quest you meet a girl named Loone (appropriate) who seems to have an strange fixation with guardians. Fortunately she at least has the good sense to never go near one.
• After the End: The game picks up one hundred years after Ganon devastated Hyrule.
• Amazon Chaser : You meet some outside Gerudo Town, who braved the desert in order to check out the ladies. But they can't get in because men aren't allowed.
• Amnesiac Hero: Link wakes up barely remembering anything other than his mission, but gains bits and pieces of his memories during the story.
• An Ice Person: There's an subspecies of Lizalfos with the ability to spit balls of Ice at Link. Fittingly, Link mostly founds them at the top of mountains or other snowy areas.
• A Child Shall Lead Them: The Gerudo are led by Riju, who ascended to leadership at a young age after the premature death of her mother.
• And Your Reward is Clothes:  Several shrines and side quests gives you armor sets.
• Apocalypse How: Class 0, but Calamity Ganon wants to make it Class 4, if not even worse.
• Arm Cannon:
  • One of Windblight's Ganon defining traits is giant energy cannon on one of it's arms.
  • Being an amalgamation of his minions, Calamity Ganon has Windblight Ganon's cannon on one of his tentacles.
• Attack Its Weak Point: The conventional way of defeating a Stone Talus is to attack the black crystal on it's back.
• Avenging the Villain: The Yiga really step up their attacks on Link after their leader Kogha gets defeated by having their Swordsmasters and archers randomly ambush you in most of Hyrule instead of solely relying on disguised travelers.
• Back From the Dead:
  • Implied by the name of the shrine where Link was sleeping, "Shrine of Resurrection", though Purrah affirms he was only seriously wounded, averting the trope.
  • During the Blood Moon, Ganon resurrects enemies slain by Link so they can try to kill him again.
• Badass Princess: Zelda has fit the Trope before, but this is, without a doubt, the most badass version yet. She's been fighting Ganon nonstop for the past 100 years!
  • Mipha as well, being the Zora princess and one of the four champions.
• Bad Moon Rising: The moon turns red when Calamity Ganon's power rises to its peak. During that time, known as "Blood Moon", the enemies who Link have slain are raised from the dead to fight for Ganon, between other nasty side effects.
• Bat Out of Hell: Keese, pests who appear at night, sometimes in large swarms. Electric, fiery, and icy versions exist too.
• Berserk Button: Don't touch Magda's flowers. If you do she will make you feel THE FLOWER'S RAGE!
• Big Beautiful Woman:
  • The Great fairies. Both literally and their plus-sized appearance.
  • Also Buliara, who's very tall and quite muscular.
• Blob Monster: Chuchus, blue blobs with yellow eyes. Also come in Electric, fiery, and icy versions.
• Bloodless Carnage: To a cartoonish level: if Link kills a normal animal, the animal puffs and turns into a piece of meat. Furthermore if you kill one with a flame weapon it yields cooked meat.
• Boom! Headshot!:
  • An arrow to an enemy's head usually deals more damage than anywhere else.
  • And this is usually fatal to animals. 
• Boss Rush: Entering the throne room of Hyrule Cast before you've cleared all the Divine Beasts will cause the bosses of them to teleport to you to protect their master. They'll come at you in the following order if you didn't fight any of them: Windblight Ganon, Waterblight Ganon, Fireblight Ganon, and Thunderblight Ganon.
• Breath Weapon: What gives an Fire-Breath Lizalfos it's namesake is that it'll occasionally run after you, exhaling an jet an of fire.   
• Bullet Time: Draw a bow while in mid air and time will slow to a crawl for a few seconds, allowing you to take more precise aim. But this will also quickly empty your stamina gauge.   
• Call a Rabbit a Smeerp: The Gerudo have their own gender-specific terms. Women are called "vai" and men are called "voe".   
• Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Link has to go all way back to the beginning of a path towards a shrine if he damages the flowers surrounding it. Even if the damage happens accidentally, like while fighting an enemy.
• Cast From Hit Points: Drawing the Master Sword from its pedestal will drain your life meter. And if you have less that thirteen hearts attempting to pull it out will kill you.
• Chainsaw Good: One of the ancient weapons you can acquire is a combination of an sword and chainsaw.
• Charged Attack: The Guardian in the Soh Kofi Shrine has as last resort strategy a charged attack that leads to it to fire four consecutive laser beams on Link.
• Comically Missing the Point: One of the students in the "Voe and you" class has the idea that the best way to matrimony is to kidnap a guy and strong arm him down the isle. The teacher is quick to point out that, no, that is not appropriate.
• Composite Character: Calamity Ganon has some of the abilties of the four scourges of the Divine Beasts. Such as Fireblight Ganon's fireball bomb and blazing cleaver, Waterblight Ganon's throwing spear, Thunderblight Ganon's lightning rods, and Windblight Ganon's arm-mounted cannon.
• Drowning their sorrows: In the Gerudo Town tavern you meet one drunken patron moaning about her apparently terrible luck with the dating scene.
• I want my beloved to be happy: Paya clearly has feelings for Link but chose to keep them to herself because she believed he had feelings for Zelda.
• Mayfly-December romance: Kind of a one sided one. Mipha was in love with Link (although he only saw her a friend) and made the Zora armor just for him, which is the Zora equivalent of an engagement ring. However since Zoras age at a much slower rate than Hylians it would mean Mipha would have outlived Link by several decades if they had become a couple.
• Paper-thin disguise: The monster masks Link can buy. Apparently only the monsters he's disguising himself as are dumb enough to fall for them.
• Rapunzel hair: Riju's hair extends down to her ankles. Likely longer if it weren't braided.
• Rated M for manly: Pretty much what the Goron's culture in centered around.
• Rib cage ridge: Throughout Hyrule you'll find the huge skeletal remains of leviathans, one of which looks a lot like one of the dragons from Skyward Sword.
• Shipper on deck: One minor side quest has Link act as this helping a Hylian and a Gerudo hook up.
• Continuity Nod:
  • Urbosa references Ocarina of time when she says that her Divine Beast was named after an Gerudo sage.
  • South of Hyrule castle you'll find the ruins of Lon Lon ranch.
  • During a ceremony, Zelda makes references to others Links' lives:

Whether skyward bound, adrift in time, or steeped in the embers of twilight, the sacred blade is forever bound to the soul of the hero...

• Convection Shmonvection: This is actually zig zagged. It's averted with Link needing protective gear to safely explore the scorching sands of the Gerudo Desert and the volcanic Eldin region.But it's played straight when he has an blazing hot sword strapped to his back and he barely feels anything aside from a mild resistance to the cold.
• Cyber Cyclops:
  • The Guardians are mechanical enemies with an single, blue eye that can fire lasers.
  • Also, the four scourges of the four Divine Beasts have the same thing going on, except that they have an mask around their eye.
• Dark-Skinned Redhead: The Gerudo.
• Dead All Along: The Old Man in the Great Plateau is a dead king. More exactly, King Rhoam of Hyrule
• Deal with the Devil: What got the entity inside the Horned Statue an eternity of imprisonment by the goddess Hylia; she didn't like he was making outrageous deals like exchanging life for money, or the reverse.
• Defector From Decadence: In Kakariko village you meet a man who, in a side quest is revealed to have been a Yiga sent in as a spy only to pull a heel-face turn after falling in love with and marrying a Shiekah girl. The Yiga did not take his defection well.
• Dem Bones: The Stalkoblins are reanimated corpses made entirely of bone, without one piece of flesh visible.
• Disney Villain Death: Instead of meeting an graphically violent demise, Master Kogha gets knocked into a bottomless pit by an metallic ball that he summoned. 
• Distinguishing Mark: Paya was named for a papaya seed-shaped birthmark she was born with, the location of it causes an great deal of embarrassment for her. (It's on her butt.)
• The Dreaded:
  • The Zora tribe fears the Lynel that's patrollling Shatterback Point on account that it's vicious, it's close to their village, and that they're against the Shock Arrows that it uses.
  • Due to their role in nearly destroying Hyrule an century ago, it isn't rare to see someone mentioning how dangerous Guardians are; even though they are entire fields filled with their lifeless hulks, the people of Hyrule are still scared of them.
• Everything's Worse with Bears: The bears in this game are dangerous. As in, they will actively try to slash at you with their powerful claws if you anger them. And considering how Bokoblins uses them as calvary in certain areas of Hyrule, you're basically facing twice trouble once you knocked the monsters off their bears. 
• Face-Heel Turn: The Yiga clan were originally Shiekah who turned against their kin and swore loyalty to Ganon.
• Fetch Quest: There's too many side quests in this game to list each example that qualifies. But generally speaking, their more along the lines of killing an specific group enemies, showing off an weapon, or giving someone an few items that isn't easily found nearby.
• The Fighting Narcissist: Revali has let his status an skilled archer and being the only Champion who can freely fly go to his head, which is why he normally speaks to Link in a arrogant tone.
• Fingerless Gloves: Zelda wears them, apparently only because it looks cool.
• Genki Girl: Purah. And judging by some journal entries she was like this even before getting de-aged.
• Glass Cannon:
  • While all of the weapons Link picks up have limited durability and break after prolonged use. The ones that fits this tropes is the Royal Guard equipment, Ancient weaponry, and the Dragonbone Moblin Club; on account of the first two being fragile and powerful while the club hits hard, but it doesn't last long.   
  • Only the Master Sword is indestructible and has an decent attack power. And it becomes stronger when it's near an corrupted Guardian. But the sword will eventually lose it's charge and becomes inactive for ten minutes.
• Go for the Eye:
  • Hinoxes, since it'll deal an fair amount of damage and stun them; but they will cover it if Link deals too much damage to them
  • But this is also the method to finish off an Stalnox, since it'll eventually become it's only vulnerability.
  • And this is an easy way to reset the charge of an Guardian's laser before it fires.
  • And it's also the place where Ancient Arrows can destroy them with one hit.
• Gory Discretion Shot:p Played for laughes with the "Dubious Food" meal, which is apparently so gross, that it has an pixilated icon.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: Moblins will sometimes grab a nearby bokoblin and throw it at you.
• Hero of Another Story: All four of the Champions qualify, each having gained heroic prestige among their own peoples long before meeting Link.
• Heroic Mime: While this is the first Zelda game to have voice actors, Link, as always, remains silent.
• Hoist by His Own Petard:
  • The easiest way of taking down a Guardian is parrying their attack with a shield, reflecting their energy beam attack back on them.
  • When Kohga is on the verge of defeat, he conjures a huge spiked ball to crush Link with, only for it to roll over and knock Kohga into a bottomless pit instead.
• Humongous Mecha: The Divine Beasts are robots constructed to fight Ganon, to be piloted by Champions.
• Improvised Weapon: Link can use wooden sticks and spoons as weapons.
• Lady Land: Gerudo Town has an ancient law that prohibits men from entering the village.
• Large and In Charge:
  • Dorephan, king of the Zora, is gigantic, despite the fact his race have more humanoid proportions.
  • Also Kohga, leader of the Yiga clan.
• Large Ham: Kohga, who comments that Link is standing in his favorite napping place when they meet and it gets worse from there.
  • Prince Sidon as well.
• Lethal Chef: Link encounters one of these who's apparent method of cooking involves tossing gem stones and machine parts into the pot. And the results are usually inedible.
• Level Grinding: Although it's for items, not levels; you're gonna be doing a lot of this if you want to upgrade your armor and to earn some money.
• Mars Needs Women : Or rather Venus needs men. Being a one gender race, the Gerudo need Hylian men to procreate with. There's even a classroom in town where Gerudo are taught how to pick up guys.
• May-December Romance: Ancient technology researcher Robbie and his wife have at least an fifty year difference between them.
• Mecha-Mooks: Kind of justified: Calamity Ganon don't seems to have tried to make any allies and, in fact, seems to not desire one since it wants to kill every living thing in Hyrule; so his mooks are the robotic Guardians, and even then he seems to have enslaved them more because he didn't want to risk having them as enemies than because he desired them as subordinates, because apparently they helped in defeating him before.
• Miniature Senior Citizens: Impa has the size of a small child.
• Money Spider:
  • Talus are huge rock-monsters who yield lots of gems when destroyed.
  • Kill enough mobs, and eventually silver versions of them will appear that, while harder, drop gemstones. In Master Mode, Gold varieties appear that are even tougher but drop more.
• More Dakka:
  • The Duplex Bow fires two arrows in quick succession while only consuming one arrow from your inventory.
  • While the Lynel Bows simultaneously launches three or five arrows in an spread pattern.
• Ms. Fanservice: In a game that isn't that sexual, Urbosa walks around using a scarf as a skirt and using only small breastplates to cover her torso. Without mentioning the high heels.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous:
  • There is an few variants of the Guardian Scouts who wields up to three weapons with their three arms.
  • Calamity Ganon has three main arms for his elemental weaponry and three more growing out of his back for fighting Link in close combat. 
• Mundane Utility: While the elemental melee weapons are powerful in combat, the fire and ice versions can help Link fight off the extreme temperatures if he equips them. And the fiery ones can be used for cooking food and starting fires.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Aside from its negative effect of resurrecting slain monsters, the Blood Moon has some beneficial effects. Mainly providing an unlimited source of money and ingredients in the form of monster parts and other collectibles.
• Older Than They Look: Purah has the looks and the size of a preteen thanks to an experiment Gone Horribly Right.
• Plant People: The Koroks, being based off of trees.
• Properly Paranoid: Brigo has an justifiable reason to fear the end of the world, and he notices the right signals for it.
• Reality Ensues: Link isn't immune via Exposed to the Elements; his health will become lower and he can even die of cold if you don't keep a heat source(like a flame) near him, or make him wear adequate clothes for cold.
• Sand Is Water: Sand Seals, Moldugas, and the Electric Lizalfos are able to swim through the sands of Gerudo Desert as if it 
• Sealed Good In A Can: Link has spent an century recovering from the wounds that he received during the Great Calamity inside the Shrine of Resurrection, which is an sealed caved located in an remote area of Hyrule.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: The Entity inside the Horned Statue is a demon that makes deals with people. You could argue people were only foolish to make deals with her...until the point where she takes one of Link's heart containers to force him into a bargain.
• Secret Secret Keeper: Koko, Dorian's older daughter, is well aware that her mother is dead; but she chose to keep this to herself for the sake of her father and younger sister.
• Shock and Awe: Electrical Keese, as the name makes it obvious. They'll try to shock Link by contact, but don't have other forms of attack.
• Starfish Robots: The Guardians have way more than four limbs and have cephalopode-like heads
• Super Drowning Skills: Link's ability to swim is handled rather realistically; he can swim as long as his stamina wheel holds out. Bokoblins, however, swim about as well as anchors, and it's relatively easy to defeat a group of them by luring them into water. Lizalfos, however, can swim like fish and often ambush Link from water.
• The Undead: Stalkoblins, reanimated Bokoblins' skeletons.
• Turns Red;
  • After draining half of Windblight Ganon's health, it summons four small drones to amplify it's main arm laser attack and to redirect it's own shots between them to attack from another angle.
  • Waterblight Ganon starts hanging upside down to become harder to hit. It also summons cubes of ice as an means of harassing you. And if you're fighting inside Divine Beast Vah Ruta, the scourge floods the room to put you at an disadvantage.
  • The Scourge of Divine Beast Vah Rudania, Fireblight Ganon, sets its giant cleaver ablaze once its lost half it's health. And it also gains an defensive energy barrier and the ability to throw more fire at you.
  • After Thunderblight Ganon has lost half it's health, it not only electrifies it's weapons and gains the ability to create an electrical deathtrap, it also starts fighting smarter by faking the usual dash attack to negate Flurry Rush with an delayed strike with it's shield.
  • In addition to actually turning red when he's on the ropes, Calamity Ganon also becomes invulnerable, save for an small window as he attacks.
• Trick Arrow: Link can use arrows that have elemental powers, like ice, fire and lightning.
• Ugly Guy Hot Wife: At the end of the side quest where Tarrey Town is fully built, you attend the wedding of Hudson and Rhodson. Being an Gerudo, Rhodson is an gorgeous spouse; Hudson, not so much. 
• You Kill It, You Bought It:
  • Link can use the clubs of Bokoblins he kills, though sometimes you just need to knock the weapon from their hands.
  • A pair of Bokoblins is cooking a piece of meat. Link can kill them and take their meat.
  • Taken to a literal level with the purple skull chests: you have to kill all the enemies in that area to be able to open it. You can drop a Bokoblin off a cliff but if he somehow survives landing down below, you have to drop his health to 0 to be able to open the chest.
• Wall Crawl: Link can climb up practically any natural surface, provided that it's dry and isn't at an extreme angle.
• Weakened by the Light: Undead foes only come out at night, unable to stand the sun.
• Wham! Line: Practically every time you meet a traveler, and you discover who they belong to Yiga Clan, they drop one. Because they are a clan of ninja assassins whose whole purpose is killing Link, and after dropping the line they attack you

• Wholesome Crossdresser: In order to stop one of the Divine Beasts, Link has to enter Gerudo Town, disguised as a girl.