2023-05-06 23:43:01
At the end of the 1990s, Medellín was filled with places where children, young people and adults went to play video games that they could access through a rental system. In one of them, three children, Alexander, Gabriel and Jaid, English-Spanish dictionary in hand, got to know the kingdom of Hyrule and they fell in love with him.
It was a place full of magic that had forests, mountains, lakes, a desert, villas and ancient temples in which eternal battles between good and evil and the secrets of the almighty Triforce were fought, as explained by Nintendo.
the scene of The Legend of Zeldaa series of action and adventure video games created in 1986 by designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka, and developed by Nintendo, in which a young warrior named Link (a character inspired by Peter Pan) had to face different dangers and solve puzzles to help Princess Zelda (a character inspired by the writer Zelda Fitzgerald) to defeat Ganondorf.
Ganondorf is the representation of evil and who had “his first appearance in the ocarina of time and then in Wind Waker and in Twilight princess”, details Alexánder Herrera, communicator, reading promoter and fan of Zelda since 1998.
For many, this game is the “typical” story of the hero, but it counts, as a point in favor that has been maintained over time during these 37 years, and is considered by critics and by the most experienced players as “the best video game of history”.
As of April 2020, more than 113 million copies of its “46 games (50 versions)” have been sold, according to Vandal, a Spanish video game expert website. This underlines that only in 2017 Zelda sold 22 million copies of Breath of the Wild for Nintendo Switch; and that the publication of the last trailer of Tears of the Kingdomwhich hits the market on May 12, got 27 million views one week after its publication.
A success based on the conservation and reinvention of various factors. “The developers of The Legend of Zelda they have redesigned the open world since it was created and have exploited it to the fullest in their latest works. Riddles or puzzles and dungeons fire anyone’s imagination to solve them. The game environments are extremely varied: air, earth, fire, ice, water”, notes obstetrician Jaid Cardona, a passionate gamer of this saga.
Zelda is a game of exploration, non-linear on many occasions, with an exceptional soundtrack and graphics that allow the gameplay, based on personal growth, to be a religion for those who have always played it, like those three children who They met in Medellín so many years ago, and that today, as can be read in their comments here, they are eagerly awaiting to discover what Nintendo will surprise them with this time.
What the sequel promises
The promising sequel to Breath of the Wild that had been announced since 2019 and that took the title of the “most anticipated video game of 2023” at The Game Awards, with only two trailers it managed to make players around the world turn their eyes to it and fantasize about all the possibilities that, As speculated, it promises in its new mechanics.
It is known, for example, thanks to a select group of journalists who had the opportunity to play it a few weeks ago, that it will have everything that fans liked about its prequel, that there are four new abilities “Ultrahand, Combination, Recoil and Infiltration” , they demonstrate in Vandal, and that it has a “gachapón mechanics (without microtransactions of any kind) that allows you to obtain objects that are used to manufacture vehicles and other utensils.”
Herrera ends by saying that what makes fans wait for each installment with such emotion is that it has the magic of telling its story only when it is being played, that is, the trailer does not show everything: what is the narrative trigger, what is it that what’s going on in Hyrule, why Zelda has short hair for the first time, why Link has a dark arm, how the story is really going to unfold. The emotion lies in not knowing what the hero’s role is going to be, which is the player himself.
Doubts all that can be resolved next Friday.
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