By cooking combinations of food or materials, the player can create meals and elixirs that can replenish Link's health and stamina, or provide temporary status bonuses such as increased strength or weather resistance.
Players can obtain food from hunting animals, gathering wild fruit, or collecting parts of defeated enemies. Many items have multiple uses for example, wooden weapons and armor can be set to light fires or collect incoming enemy arrows, and shields can be used as makeshift snowboards.
Unlike previous Zelda games, weapons and shields will degrade over time. Link can procure items from the environment, including weapons, food, and other resources. These design approaches result in a generally unstructured and interactive world that rewards experimentation and allows for nonlinear completion of the story.Īs Link, players can perform actions such as running, climbing, swimming, and gliding with a paraglider, although Link is limited by his stamina. However, the level of realism offered in the "chemistry engine" also means that players will equally attract an unavoidable fatal lightning strike if wearing any metal during thunderstorms. For example, players may take advantage of the game's dynamic weather by throwing metal objects at enemies during thunderstorms to attract a lightning strike. The game also integrates a "chemistry engine" that defines the physical properties of most objects and governs how they interact with the player and one another. Breath of the Wild introduces a consistent physics engine to the Zelda series, letting players approach problems in different ways rather than trying to find a single solution. In terms of structure, Breath of the Wild encourages nonlinear gameplay, which is illustrated by the game's lack of defined entrances or exits to areas, scant instruction given to the player, and encouragement to explore freely. The expansion includes two DLC packs – The Master Trials features a new ‘Trial of the Sword’ challenge, Hero’s Path mode, Master mode, a travel medallion and new armour, while The Champions’ Ballad offers a new quest, extra armour, ancient horse tack, and Link’s Master Cycle Zero motorbike.įor those who just can’t get enough of Hyrule, but aren’t about to try hacking their console, Waikuteru has plenty of gameplay videos on YouTube to peruse until the Breath of the Wild sequel is released.Breath of the Wild is an action-adventure game set in an open world environment where players are tasked with exploring the kingdom of Hyrule while controlling Link. If you’re still itching for some extra Zelda content, you can always grab the game’s official Expansion Pass, which is available for both the Wii U and Switch versions. That being said, you’ll still only be able to get it via emulation on a hacked console, so don’t expect to ever get this content with Nintendo’s blessing. Unfortunately, at the moment Second Wind is only being developed for the Wii U version of the game, but a Switch version could be on the horizon afterwards. However, beta versions are already being shared on the project’s Discord server and plenty of gameplay footage is available.
The mod is still in development, currently sitting at about 60% completion, with a team of over 50 people contributing.
Second Wind is compatible with the CEMU Wii U PC emulator, but you’ll also need the Breath of the Wild Cross-platform Mod Loader for it to work. Unfortunately, not just anyone can get their hands on this new expansion.