In the video above, we cover 12 facts, tips and tricks that aren’t quite as well known, ranging from secrets to glitches, so me that are pretty simple and others that are fairly complex. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been out for four years at this point, and players have found some amazing things, intended or not, that keep the game and its sense of discovery feeling fresh.
Hajime Wakai, the sound designer for Breath of the Wild had a tough time initially realizing the music of the game, specifically the overworld music. One of the first tests he did was to try out the Twilight Princess’ Hyrule Field theme as you were exploring, but because of the different tone of Breath of the Wild, he felt like this was a little too intense for players. In a quote he said “The music would be all stirring and dramatic, but then the player would think: ‘hold on a minute, all I did was throw away a mushroom…’”. He also considered several different instruments during his testing before deciding on the piano, but one he considered even though it was weird was a Dulcimer. Ehhh I dunno about that chief…A commenter in the last video noted that with this quest with Tumbo, the Zora kid, you give him Hot Footed Frogs which he uses to sell while his mom is away. When you give them the frogs, in every language he counts like normal, 1 through 5. But in German specifically, he counts them in Solfege, Do Re Me Fa Sol! Sounds like the German translators understood Nintendo’s easter egg a little better.
Another pointed out that in the Zora domain, some Zora NPC’s are based on things used in sheet music, such as Bazz for Bass Clef, Trello for Treble Clef, Cleff referring to clefs in general, Keye referring to key and key signatures, and Laflat, referring to the flat symbol to lower a notes pitch.
When trying to approach Vah Ruta during the quest with Sidon, getting too close to Vah Ruta will cause Link to get knocked away, and the camera will pan out for you to reset the fight. Thing is you can actually get locked in this unique animation using a glitch, and you can see what Link was doing when the camera pans out. He was actually huddling in a ball when you got hit.
Everyone’s seen a snowball, and they’re usually around in situations where they roll down a hill until they break or are too heavy and can’t be pushed anymore. But by using Magnesis on certain equipment to push the snowball even more, you can create a snowball to its maximum size.
There are so many hidden references to past Zelda music behind Breath of the Wild’s soundtrack, that they would consume an entire video or two to cover individually, but my favorites ones are the temple of time to the Temple of Time theme, the Horse Riding theme to the main Legend of Zelda theme, Pondo and Selmie’s cabin theme to the House theme. There are countless other examples of this kind of secret hidden within the music.
Did you know that the Gerudo Guards are organized by rank with the color they wear? Blue are the lowest rank guards, green are higher rank guards, and red denotes the Squad Leader and Captain of them all, Teake. Blue guards are seen virtually everywhere, but you can see higher rank green guards protect more high value targets, such as the important Northern Icehouse, guarded by Anche, and Buliara of course protecting Riju.