 to the next topic here topic to new breath of the wild info oh boys if you don't want breath of the wild spoilers you need to just stop listening right now skip ahead like I literally just like skip this entire segment I don't know how long it is at this point so I can't I can't tell you where to skip to in the video maybe I'll try to put it well in the video it'll be its own thing so just skip this whole segment if you don't want to get spoiled audio is gonna be audio I just just skip ahead to hear us talking about something it's not Zelda right um so breath of the wild game informer all those fine folks at game informer they got to do something that as far as we're aware no other media all that has gotten to do when the switch event was happening and there was the the two breath of the wild demos that we knew about there was the one they got to play on the show floor or it's not show floor it was just a floor where the media got to play the game and it was just the demo that we got to play back at E3 yeah and then there was a second demo that they weren't allowed to touch that apparently was the full game and that's where they showed up where Nintendo employee would like answer questions and just show up one of the stables and a few of the things out in the world that they wanted to show you but they didn't want to show you everything like there was a one shrine they would do that looked really easy but then they wouldn't actually talk to the person at the shrine and show you it yeah because spoilers are right right whatever reason it might be so there apparently was a third thing going on at least for just game informer as far as we know and basically the way they said it because they had posted out like their own their podcast their game informer show and on there they said well we got there we were playing the demo and all of a sudden they just like pull this aside to a back room and like two of us got to sit down and just play breath of the wild for like three plus hours that's ridiculous like and for starters really jealous for starters right sorry sorry for audio version I was doing something a little inappropriate but the they got taken to a back room and got to play breath of the wild not just like playing from the beginning for three hours they were as they described it it looks like there was already save files and they were just dropped into different save files to experience different parts of the game and one of the save files gonna drop them in at a stable and they got to learn a whole bunch of new things about the stables like they're like every stable is ran by unique a unique character so it's not like one character runs all the state no and then just magically appears at each one yeah they're like video games man video games right and that each stable is gonna have its own unique characters that you know go to it and leave from there to go back to wherever their villages or something and they have a purpose to be there and it's also like it's kind of also serves as a bizarre like in Skyward Sword in the main village where you go in and it's really like your potions and your upgrades and you know whatever your storage you can also sleep they also have like it like it I can go in kind of hotel yeah you can you sleep at it and here's the cool thing this is the first time we've heard of this is that when you go to sleep you have an option that you can pay extra rupees and I don't know if I wish this was true in real life you just pay money and you get to deep sleep or something right but somehow you pay money and then you wake up and you have a temporary extra heart until you get damage done and like you know you however much you pay determine how many extra hearts you get so say say you have you come in come in with your four hearts and then you pay a hundred rupees you wake up the next day with four extra hearts on top of those four but they're yellow and as soon as you get hit and they don't replenish yeah it's kind of like a kind of like a temporary shield that you get in some games so like that was really cool to find out we know that we've known in the past that there's like some food items you can make that do the same thing so I guess this is just another way to do it if you don't happen to have the supplies and you know there's a really difficult boss coming up or something and you just want to really pad your health as much as you can really cool thing personally but I think you know beyond that you know by the way we are gonna be talking about a dungeon soon they got to go into the world and just do anything they want they weren't told what to do and this is she threw was kind of like that yeah or they didn't kind of try to force you what to do yeah and and you know it because this was the full game you would figure oh they don't want you to find things no they did and this is probably game informer specific because they were under massive NDAs and because game informer has now stretched what they've done into a month-long coverage lead up to Breath of the Wild so it's kind of like every day they're releasing new info so even by the time you hear this there's gonna be new info that we're not discussing because we don't know it right and it's it's interesting that they got that opportunity and I had I think it's because they're magazine entity so they got a plan out ahead but like there are some really cool things that they discovered like we knew horses could die but even them knowing that going in it shocked them when it actually happened yeah yeah actually he shot his own horse I think he was using bomb arrows and in the midst of using them the horse ran through and it like the horse died from the rules and it's like he's like man like that really impacted him because like even though he didn't get that horse it was named Kyle or something yeah it was Kyle yeah like he still felt the connection to the horse because this never happened as all the before right like you especially in this game it seems like the horses develop relationships with you because you sue them you feed them you can make them like you better so they do things for you which I know sounds like a slave like I'm like you so they do exactly what you want to do but it's a horse yeah it's just yeah what do we do the horses anyway right races in real life yeah like come on but in this game that's how it although that's like the literal sense of what's happening you're doing it to get a reward at the same time it feels like you're developing a relationship with a horse unlike in the past when you're just kind of handy to Pona right yeah like this is your horse like in Twilight Princess if one is already your horse or in Ocarina of Time it really doesn't feel like you earn the horse per se like you don't have a choice like that's just the way the game goes here you got to choose horses you have some of them are really really hard to sneak up on and they have all different stats different personalities and I think they have personalities right that that I mean not personality or they're talking to you but just how they behave right like some are gonna be a lot rougher with you than others and take a lot be a lot harder to tame and you need to have for a lot longer and treat them differently like maybe it's even possible no one's asked this question yet but it's even possible that you know the horse is because of those different personalities you might have to do you might have to tame them in different ways like yeah you always have your soothe right if you give one horse an apple another horse might say screw that yeah right apples actually pissed me off and give me hives yeah you know spit it out at you and get angry at you and actually prefer something different maybe they want or maybe for some reason they want cooked horse meat I don't know why not why not so like maybe they're one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse you never know and like this is like the smallest thing in here that that but but it kind of brings in this sense of this world being alive right because you learn to care for this thing that you or an enemy killed I'm assuming you didn't mean to get the horse killed so right yeah accident and things you can do you can actually use the horse and you can like kick things to yeah and actually some of them had actually they all have I think different strengths yes stuff like that so you can actually use them in combat encouraged you but at the same time you take a risk and use them in combat so it was really strange to hear that this thing that they didn't they didn't capture they had already felt something for and it died and it was like a big shocking thing like an emotional moment that's like whoa yeah like games don't do this right and not like they weren't saying just like Zelda games don't do this like games don't do this like yeah they don't when you have your horse in the Witcher 3 that's your horse yeah right it doesn't die it might run away doesn't die yeah so like games just don't don't do this to you let you spend all this time training something and just rip it from you and by an accident I don't know another thing speaking of horses being different to from other Zelda games you cannot just call your horse from anywhere you have to be within a certain distance to which which again makes sense yeah I'm like cell phoning my horse across the world to run to me hey how you doing how are you coming over so so that was kind of cool and then they talked about the weather so now explain what they got surprised about with the weather so apparently they were in a giant lightning storm and they decided that they were carrying a metal shield and no I think it was short and sword and shield actually and they were struck by lightning and died yeah that is amazing yes um couple reasons it's amazing one that that's even in the game at all and that basically a right lightning rod and and as they describe it they kind of make death fun yeah right well I mean like like you died from it you're just like wait what yeah I mean we had the we had the one video for me three where you just decided to go when you died and we just turn it into a death video because I dive in ice cold water and survive with no clothes on for a little bit you can for like more than a half a second yeah right you better hope you're there's something to grab on to so it's like man that that lightning though and they said like apparently when they were doing the center rupture like we didn't know this was going to happen like like they're just like okay and it's kind of like what a Ajay Anoma said in the past he doesn't even know everything that's there is the find in this game because everything is so dynamic and so free flowing that there are situations that are gonna come up where not everybody on the Zelda team knows that's even a thing that could happen not everybody might know you can get struck by lightning or right or maybe they knew you can get struck by lightning they didn't know they put in the game where your metal will attract it like just like it logically would right especially when you're in a world like this where it's basically here's a wide open field and you're the only metal thing in it you probably would buy one attracts tracks the lightning you know obviously people getting hit in real life by lightning is rarity but we have a lot more metal things on the right and it's also not as funny but this is also a game so anybody out there who's got been struck by lightning we're not saying it's funny at all but it's funny in this game in the game and the thing is like it's just another layer to the game like you need to de-equip your metal items and equip wood ones or equip like you know maybe you have one of the stalfos arms that you can beat things with that's not metal right equip stuff that lets you progress to the world without having as big of a threat like I think you could still randomly get hit by lightning but yeah like lightning hit trees hit the ground like you can still get hit but it's not like specifically going to target you and they even said like there's cool things you can do with this like if you have a metal shield you can just take it throw it at a group of enemies and the lightning will strike that yeah and then I'll hit the enemies that that is pretty awesome yeah it's it's just that extra layer like we we saw in person through playing it how amazing the physics engine was oh definitely but we didn't see how weather is affected by it I don't think we even saw much weather at all no no I mean it was just cold the only weather we saw were like on the the actual fake weather in the booth when you find the plates on the ground oh yeah and it would be a thunderstorm thunder thunder thunderstorm quote unquote no so man well it makes me curious like how well what happens in a snowstorm right like is there actual blizzards and they mentioned actually there is because they didn't mention that they were walking through the through the snow and all of a sudden a couple enemies just came out of nowhere and surprised that kind of them because they didn't see them yeah so like they what what's really curious to me about this is the the the attention to detail like did you know who's I said several times like he's so proud of like the sound of the hooves and everything and I know that's just one thing and he's repeating it because he must be like really really proud of how that turned out but like that's not it that's one minor detail in a game that pays a lot of attention to minor details as an example when you're running the snow you move slower yeah real life when you run in the snow you move slower that that makes sense yes yes for people who don't know what snow is yes you do actually run slower yeah it's it's just crazy all the stuff that they experienced that no one else outside of Nintendo themselves is probably experienced at that point and just how they said there's constantly something going on so like a lot of people a lot of fears with Breath of the Wild have been that there it's such an expansive game that it's gonna feel empty and I guess based on their experience now they got off the plateau and got to explore freely and said they mostly tried to go north who knows maybe they're trying to get to the mountain I don't know but they just got to go north for a few hours and it just kind of there was always something like even if you weren't fighting there was something going on in the environment that would draw your attention to it and you never felt like you were bored and and I think that's the big thing people were worried about oh it's empty I'm gonna get bored apparently not there's so much going on no right there's there's can with nature and with the physics engine yeah you know with you know with weather you know like I said you know they were in snow they were in sand they were I mean they were all over the place and you know these few hours and everything just worked and this is where now now we get into the stuff that that's extra spoiler spoiler extra spoiler and that's a they actually got to do a dungeon and we're not talking about a shrine yeah they literally said this is a dungeon it has a boss at the end of it they tell the name of the boss so like they described the boss and they've now released a screenshot of the boss which I'll probably throw up in the video version somewhere here and it it sounds like the dungeon that they played isn't something that's as long as say a dungeon in Twilight Princess and Twilight Princess arguably have the longest dungeons in the series the game was basically here's a bunch of dungeons everything else is in between yeah and the dungeons were really long and really elaborate they said this feels more like dungeons and Zelda one where they're shorter but there are a lot of clever puzzles so instead of focusing on having a massive dungeon and figuring out how to traverse it you have a smaller dungeon but there's a lot of very very unique puzzle elements to it that aren't always obvious and actually if I remember right they did say there is actually multiple ways to solve each puzzle to yes because as they point out in this particular dungeon there is a Sheikah site place where you like the dungeons movie and the Sheikah site thing allows you to manipulate the dungeon let's you twist it or whatever and that let that that gives you access to different things and let's you try out different ideas like there's this what are they we finally know what that black gunk is called that that emanates that from Calamity Ganon oh I I don't forget yeah I don't remember but like in that in that gunk there's eyes Zelda thing sure didn't the eye like that's how you beat everything in Zelda right um so you defeat these eyes and it clears out the gunk so like that's what some of the puzzles are but a lot of the puzzles are physics-based and it sounds like that's kind of the gist of what dungeons are gonna be in here like it's all about physics and manipulating the environment and I am totally for that oh yeah totally like one thing I always said about Zelda over after all these years is that okay I've done 17,000 block pushing puzzles yeah none of these feel different anymore yeah right it feels like something I've done before maybe the answer is different maybe I gotta push to a different spot but I've done this yeah like a bunch of times and I think that's what's really unique about how these dungeons are having approaches you have no idea this is a physics engine yeah it's all being done with something Zelda's never done before um that's crazy to me and they said it's extremely fun and when they got to the boss it kind of opened up and if you look at the screenshot you could tell it almost looks like they're outside somewhere I don't know they don't really go over the fight too much outside of saying that like it's a faceless boss which you can see in the screenshot and it has like an arm cannon shooting missiles at you and like shooting spikes or shooting spikes at you and some other stuff crazy stuff going on and they did beat it they didn't tell us what happens after you beat it like do you gain a heart like they didn't go over that at least they haven't gone over that yet right yeah it wasn't talked about in the in the article and gave a former as magazine so and the thing apparently is like part of calamity Ganon maybe that's why it's faceless I have no idea but it's called Cole calamity something yeah I can't I really apologize for not knowing the name off the top of my head right now and it it is said at some point during the battle or before after that it is part of calamity again and so it's possible that all the big bosses in the game are like come together in or like or like part of calamity again and himself yeah part of his entity that come together at the end a lot of theories we could throw around for that and I gotta say none of this sounds bad to me no no not at all it sounds amazing so we learn all this stuff and there's been a slew of things there was some new like Nintendo released some new official art showing off like an all brand new design for a specific Korak that we've never seen before and there's just new information trickling out every day so as I said by the time you listen to this there'll be even more stuff out that we're not going to be discussing so having sat down and you read that you read the article for sure yep you sit down and read it yep well it's awesome it I didn't quite like the flow of it but yeah well the flow of the article yes yeah it kind of jumped from here to there so and I think you know I don't know if that's a I don't know it's hard cuz I'm not behind the scenes of them I think there's things they weren't allowed to talk about right and I don't feel like it felt like it was supposed to be one cohesive story but it wasn't yeah and I again like it if you haven't read the article yet I you know go purchase the digital copy game informer if you're interested it's like a four or five no it's a 12 page piece or something it's really long but get my it's a yeah so like there's a lot of big images so it's not as long as it appears right but it does have new screenshots in there so enjoy those they're nice so like you yeah it kind of felt like there was clear sections but there was no flow between yeah no not at all and again I think that's a lot of because they just they played for a few hours they're trying to summarize that down to you know right yeah no I get it and they either weren't allowed to talk about certain things or it wasn't something that was not worthy enough to really bring up it's just part of the experience that you're gonna experience every time you play yeah and I don't know if the pages that I read were out of order anything no they were in order okay so yeah yeah like I said it just kind of felt something felt a little off about it but I mean it was good informational around yeah yeah so you know that about the information setting aside you know the abruptness of some of some of the flow of the piece knowing all this new stuff what do you think I mean you you are as hyped for this game as I am and that's crazy because I've like this has been what I do yeah it is March 3rd here yet that's that's that's all I can say I mean it needs to get here like now yesterday yeah yesterday and you know I'm still still pressing my contact at Nintendo I'm a client and when am I gonna know what right really like if anything not just to review the game right oh definitely I just want to play it so like I applaud game of former yes definitely yeah lucky them you know go ahead and go over to the site if you're looking for more information about it obviously I'd love to say come visit internal prime net but we're slowing our news coverage down a little bit in anticipation of some new hires and some other things going on at the site but we will be picking it up as we get closer to launch but game of former themselves like what we're posting about the games coming from them so I go to the site check them out you know they posted a game of former show where they spend like the first hour of the show almost the first hour of the show talking about their experience with this game behind the scenes and in it they show footage of a lot of what they did so like if you want to see this in action not just read about it in the magazine that go there they did an awesome job another thing they did and this was pretty obvious if they got to do something that most other people do they also got to interview Shigeru Miyamoto and Eiji Anebo and I got to say it's the most entertaining interview I've ever seen you will go with that I don't know how informational it was yeah yeah it was either extremely informational or hoax hoax or it was partially in between yeah like they label that you know here's 51 questions posed I think it said was about breath of the wild but a couple of the questions weren't above us a while all right yeah there is that like in here there's things like you know like they asked about paper Mario and then like did you know what basically said like we're working on that and it's like wait are you saying you're making paper Zelda yeah right yeah or are you just like working on a paper Mario for the switch or yeah it was really weird well I mean he did pointed his shirt so I know and then like then like Miyamoto did like a pose and I was like okay is this joking and like this cuz kind of kind of brings back to like Eiji Anebo way back in 2014 when he said oh I didn't explicitly say that was like and it blew up in this big thing I was in a female yeah blah blah blah and it almost felt like a lot like that where it's like they're kind of going along with it so I don't know right but then there's things like there's some things that feel like it's a joke but then it's actually legit in other cases as an example Eiji Anebo has asked what Link's last name is he looked over at Shigeru Miyamoto because yeah they did he did not create like so yeah you know this is not a question he's ever answered and Shigeru Miyamoto is like it's like Mario and then and then the game so guys like what so it's a Link Mario's last name is Mario yeah and it's like no Link Link yeah because Mario's last name is Mario it's Mario Mario and it's Luigi Mario that's a little weird last name of the Mario Bros. well I guess it makes sense yeah Mario Brothers yeah that is true Mario Mario yeah that is true it's like it makes sense it kind I mean I'd never really thought of it that way yeah like in Zelda's was Link Link that's like why not is he joking or well I don't know because then they both that like turned to each other kind of laughed at it because Eiji Anebo was like well I'm not something we've ever thought about you're right yeah I mean more like instantly he's like it's like Mario and it's like so is he thought about it or yeah or is he just coming up with this like in a fly different news sites out there they're like oh man links last name is link and it's like yeah do we know for sure you're right but but at the same time Mario's last name is Mario's it's like they literally referenced it's like Mario yeah right it's like what for Mario it is Mario Mario so it could be link link it's honestly a completely irrelevant thing right especially since there's multiple links interesting question yeah it was a very interesting interview there were maybe my favorite question was when they were like hey can we trust these translators right and they paint over the translators translators smiling yeah so and they said yes you could trust them yeah but um you know because obviously they were probably surprised with some of the the translated answers they were getting back like really yeah like what yeah you know like oh or the screw your favorite Mario so I don't know it's just a fun interview we you can go on YouTube I think they finally have it on YouTube now and look up 51 questions about for a while or something it should pop up as like top video just crazy I don't know what to believe from it so I don't want to talk about yeah more more information we could possibly lean from just I don't I don't know what we can lean from it even at Zelda and Farmer you know Darren was asking me or yeah just asking like in general like what to what to do with this thing because like we break it up like normal and make a bunch of stories out of it or like what now just like yeah I don't this is what the only interview I've ever seen or watched or read that I'm just like throw the video up and it could be true or it could be BS and I think we should just make a single post about these again I agree so that's exactly what they did at Zelda and Farmer so yeah it's just fun it's great and I think it's gonna do it for for brought the wild I do have one more thing to add yeah I know right right holy cow stop the presses I actually have something to add I don't remember whether it's in the article or if it was in the interview but I know I can't remember which one of them said that actually I and to what you were saying before I don't know if anybody actually knows everything in this game because they had so many different groups of people working on it they had one per one group specifically working on animals just just animals in their movement and everything else like that and then another one's working on like trees and another one working on this and that they had so many different teams working on this that I don't know if there is one person that really knows everything in this game which is kind of crazy yeah like the one guy there was this is back to the switch event when they were doing a live stream the one guy I think it was maybe Nintendo UK that was doing it one of the Nintendo Ruts was playing through it and he went yet he lit a torch and went over to a beehive and the bees dissipated so he was able to knock on the hive and get the chest and yeah you got it and the guy said oh you know the the person who was doing also talking was like yeah as you see like you know that that's the thing you can do in the game and the guys like actually I didn't know that's like the guy who did he's like actually I didn't know that was a thing like I just found that out now yeah he works in Nintendo so it's like yeah like it's crazy that there's so much in this game that no no one person knows yeah I like it's probably impossible no one person knows even everything that's possible in the game not just the stuff that's in it but how things can be done like there's gonna be things done with this physics engine by gamers that Nintendo had never even thought oh yeah yeah I just hope it doesn't like start flinging you off of cliffs like and what the heck is it Skyrim yeah you know and you know I'm just I'm just broadens all inform and I'll look and if there's anything we missed right and we do recommend going over there yeah it is great site like the great site I'm still technical editor chief of it for a couple months and like they are really doing an excellent job you know I so I've had some people ask me in the past about Zeldin former like since Zeldin former kind of works on a process of posting content that other people have done like you know maybe they went to Nintendo everything and saw the report or they went to go to Nintendo or they went to Game Informer in this case or someone on Twitter so it's all like second or third-hand information trickling down the Zeldin former posts about and I've often had people say well why like why go there why not just go to Nintendo everything when they get it up faster and all I could say is that in just now like when I want to look up stuff it is so much easier to go to one site that has everything so they're going to Nintendo yeah everything and having to type in Breath of the Wild and you know if they didn't take something correctly it's not you're not gonna find it in there right which actually I went back through some of my posts and I realized I didn't have tags so so it's like one of those things that I guess it's just it has everything in one spot yeah anything you want to know about Breath of the Wild that is out there is gonna is either on or going to be on Zeldin former I won't write and it's like that for every game so you know when obviously I'm a little biased because I know right you know I've been at her in chief almost eight years there but it's just now now that I'm kind of transitioning on my way out as emotional as that is for me I still find it as like an excellent source even like over what I do at Nintendo Prime even if we were on top of the Zeldin news I would still tell you the ones on the news side on the internet Zeldinformer.com definitely there yeah if you just want to gather up Zeldin news and that's all you care about Zeldin formers place to be come to us for we'll have Zeldin news but we also have a lot of other things right easy to bury it and it's not gonna get buried here you know as an example like at the time that we're recording this you know like the top thing Zeldin's lullaby can be heard in Breath of the Wild now I know because I read this earlier today it's not just that it can be heard it can be heard in various different forms all over the overworld it's not to be like the general overworld theme and every time you hear it in front of the overall it's completely different and you might not even recognize it as I know for this report here one person heard it only by speeding up the video but like five times as fast oh geez you can hear it and it sounds like a master doing oh yeah like there was a trailer once for it was I think it was the first trailer for Skyward Sword where if you play the music in it backwards it was something like that very nice it was crazy I yeah I think it was Skyward Sword so like Nintendo is really cool doing the stuff and what does this mean who knows and I must have a greater context if this is the overall theme for the overworld and there's no music in the overworld there's music it's just subtle yeah it's subtle it's there to give you some ambient noise but it's not there to detract you from like you shouldn't be traveling the overworld to hear the music you should be traveling it to enjoy the world and this is gonna help enhance that experience right rather than like when you are playing Twilight Princess you go on the thing you got this big epic music team it really doesn't matter what's going on around you you're just enjoying this epic song as you're riding horse and it's great it's sweet I love yeah Princesses Hyrule Field music but you know it's just I'm not there's nothing in that world to enjoy right and that's that's the point I think to give you something to enjoy this is a lot more to enjoy so a lot of things you want to pay attention like I said you earlier enemy surprised you know I'm like use all your senses yeah you might have heard of something that tipped you off that there was an enemy with the fly you can do six hearts damage yeah yeah that's right they got jumped out of the snow and then just destroyed just wrecked difficult game they they they spoke at length on their game and former show about this is a difficult Zelda game and it takes you if you're a Zelda veteran it takes you by surprise because Zelda hasn't really been difficult like this in a long long time not since Zelda 1 Zelda 2 like this is well when they went back to the roots to build an open world Zelda game it wasn't just the exploration it was yeah like this is a dangerous world man yeah it's dangerous these aren't just enemies you just waggle around and dominate you're just randomly waiting for old man to pop up it's dangerous and they didn't know they didn't know and this is something we knew from our experience it probably didn't stand out to you because you don't have as much experience with Zelda games but most other games even when you have multiple enemies on screen say you have five oh yeah yeah they wait to attack you at once like you're only really dealing with one at once yep not this time now there's no need in turn you can be trying to dodge one and then you three more of my turn to just drill you yeah it's crazy it's I almost said expected I don't expect it no but it's real yeah that's what like if like when you watch movies and it's a gang of people game around one guy and he's fighting well that's not holding work hold on guys one at a time guys one at a time yeah yeah like that's not how things work no like as someone who's gotten beaten up before like no they all come at you at once yeah I mean yeah there's a risk they might hit each other but they're probably gonna hit you a huck of a lot more oh yeah you know you always hope that the one guy sucks the other guy too hard by accident and then that starts to fight with them they leave you alone but that just doesn't happen right they just get mad and then they just hit you even harder so we'll get into yeah yeah more of that but yeah it's just a really cool thing there's this game yeah I think just wrap this up it's amazing marks third needs to get here this game right dude this is all right