In praise of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's uncanny, inhuman mountains

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See those mountains?

My favourite Zelda moments generally don't have much to do with Zelda. They're not moments of heroism or even action, to be honest. If anything, they tend towards the opposite: a little change in the world that comes unannounced, an accidental glimpse of something from just the right angle in a quiet moment when I think I'm busy doing something else.

There's another moment, from Wind-Waker, that I love just as much. It's Dragon Roost Island, an early part of the game, and I guess I'm climbing towards a boss. Outside, hopping around on the wind-cleaned rock, I'm messing about with the eyeglass and I see a distant part of the same island, the same cliff, where one of those Kargaroc birds is sat in their straw nest.

This week, like every week, I tried to do a few straggly shrines but couldn't find any. I thought about taking on the next big beast, but thought also about how tricky and involved I had found the last one. So I did what I always do in Breath of the Wild. In the face of so much I had to do, I chose something I wanted to do instead. I picked a mountain and decided I would try to climb it. Two mountains in this case.

The aprons tie into traversal too, which is still a puzzle with Breath of the Wild's climb-anywhere system, but a different puzzle to the puzzle that older Zeldas used to stage.

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