The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a 2017 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch and Wii U. Set at the end of the Zelda timeline, the player controls an amnesiac Link as he sets out to save Princess Zelda and prevent Calamity Ganon from destroying the world. Players explore the open world of Hyrule while they collect items and complete objectives such as puzzles or side quests. Breath of the Wild’s world is unstructured and encourages exploration and experimentation; the story can be completed in a nonlinear fashion. Wikipedia
Research exclusive to this game
Bradford, Wesley J. “Exploring the Narrative Implications of Emerging Topics in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.” Journal of Sound and Music in Games 1, no. 4 (2020): 1-21.
Fiorilli, Patrick. “The legend of Zelda: breath of the wild through the lens of Italo Calvino’s memo on “lightness”.” In Proceedings of the 2020 DiGRA International Conference: Play Everywhere, Tampere, Finland. 2020.
Lay, Chris. “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as Philosophy: Teaching the Player to be Comfortable Being Alone.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy, pp. 1-24. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
Hemmann, Kathryn. “Link Is Not Silent: Queer Disability Positivity in Fan Readings of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.” Manga Cultures and the Female Gaze (2020): 125-145.
Hutchinson, Rachael. “Observant Play: Colonial Ideology in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.” Game Studies 21, no. 3 (2021).
Research that includes this game in its sample
Ford, Dom. “The haunting of ancient societies in the mass effect trilogy and the legend of zelda: breath of the wild.” Game Studies 21, no. 4 (2021).
Hemmann, Kathryn. “I Coveted That Wind: Ganondorf, Buddhism, and Hyrule’s Apocalyptic Cycle.” Games and Culture 16, no. 1 (2021): 3-21.
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