The Legend of Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma has revealed that an alternate ending is featured in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. But only players who meet “certain criteria” will be able to witness the second possible conclusion of the game, according to Aonuma. “There is an alternate ending if you meet certain criteria,” he teased. “If you do a few things, you may see a different ending.” The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is scheduled to launch on March 3 for both Nintendo Switch and Wii U.
There’s An Alternate Ending In The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
Calling it now: It’s going to be a super tragic ending where Zelda gets sacrificed to finally free Ganon and the entire world falls into ruin. Everyone dies except Link, left alive to make him remember his failure for the rest of his natural life.
Hopefully it’s something like Wind Waker’s ending where it hits you right in the feels, or at least for me it did.
I personally expect something different. I expect there to be one “real” ending, which you get when you play most of the story, and one different endinge that you get when rushing through the game and skipping a lot of the story stuff, which you could technically do.
P2. The surprises keep on coming.
I wonder what these “certain criteria” are, and how difficult it will be to achieve them.
Guess we’ll find out in the days and weeks after March 3rd.
It’ll probably be in the prima guide lol.
Let me guess: you have to 100% the game.
Looks like I won’t be seeing the “normal” ending.
SPOILER FREAKING ALERT!!
I don’t consider this to be a spoiler tbh, it says absolutely nothing about any ending :/ if the “certain criteria” were explained then that would definitely be a spoiler. I doubt Aonuma-san would have shared this tidbit early on like this if it gave anything away.
Just the fact that i know a second ending exists is a HUGE spoiler for me, but maybe I’m a just a crazy Zelda fanboy. Who knows?!
A lot of games with alternate endings will reveal that as a feature before the game comes out though… it’s not like he said what the endings will be.
I know that and for a small indie game that’s fine, not for a huge AAA game like Zelda tho.
Actually though, it is expected at this point from any game. If it was a spoiler to the story then it’s one thing, but it’s a gameplay mechanic and nothing more
Some people tend to classify leaking gameplay mechanics as being spoilers in & of themselves. Weird, I know, but there are people like that.
So much spoliers
SCREW YOU GUYS!! I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU PUT THAT IN THE FREAKING TITLE OF THE POST!! BE CONSIDERATE MAN!!
You don’t even know what the regular ending is.
I DONT CARE!! I DIDNT WANT TO KNOW THIS!!
https://youtu.be/wqlFiTOi6QQ?t=26s
||Batman you did not read this article, you read about health insurances and how it would benefit your broken spine…||
||Also the Ganon loving Joker is still at large somewhere in Gotham City…||
I have a friend who’s sensitive to spoilers like you, she hates hearing this type of stuff. Not being rude but I’d suggest you be careful coming to this and other gaming sites over these next couple of months- especially RIGHT AFTER the game launches. The next 2 to 3 months could possibly be very upsetting to you as people will instantly be sharing most information they find. While I don’t mind this piece of information getting out because I probably wouldn’t have even known there was an alternate ending(s) just by playing the game, things like this and even bigger details will soon be all over the place. If you want to go in mostly blind it might be a good idea to duck the internet for a while 🙂
Hope you enjoy the game! Switch is almost here finally!!
Jajajaja poor batman will not sleep anymore knowing there is an alternative ending :(
Holy barnicles batman!
BARNACLES IS RIGHT!! IM FREAKING PISSED MAN!!! I would go on a news strike but unfortunately i have a Nintendo News focused YouTube channel so gosh dang.
Its not that bad really. Its a zelda game you should know the main objective. Its not a spoiler he said you can finish it in a different way.
Alternate: Link dies World is flooded to seal ganon. Windwaker begins.
That wouldn’t make much sense, since WW happened because no hero came at all, not because he failed. Otherwise tha would be pretty cool! As long as you actually get to see the world getting flooded.
I don’t care, I’ll do it. Whatever it takes. Here’s my money 💵💵💵
Cool. Extra incentive for a second play through. No complaints.
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I usually play a Zelda game once with zero contact with anyone else who’s playing it, stay away from magazines (the time when it was magazines ) or sites… No YouTube no Twitter (this time as in fairly new to twitter) and just see what happens. Badger I finish it I look up stuff to see if I’ve missed anything to determine if it’s worth a second play through … This time I already know I need to play twice !
A lot of people saying need to play twice. An alternate ending could also just be the “true” ending. You know how you play some games, beat it but it doesnt feel all fleshed out though? Like you missed a little back story but still feel great about it? Im guessing this is how this will play out. Where as in you do the certain criteria and you get the more expansive ending.
I hope that there’s a “bad ending” to the game that really hits you in the feels, maybe for dying to Ganon or trying to fight it too early.
“So are ya gonna keep adventuring or just bang my daughter?”
“Yes”
*Zelda will remember that*
Congratulation! End 2ing!
They have no problem spoiling their games but ask them something important about the system and its
“Hey, look over there…”
“What?”
…Nintendo rep vanishes…
except this really doesn’t spoil anything about the plot, just gameplay
Inb4 Zelda dies
No thanks. Just give me one ending instead of me playing the entire game over again just to see another.
I like when games have alternate endings. It gives the game more replay value. That is, if the game is fun enough to want to keep playing. Which I believe this Zelda game WILL be. Alternate endings is one of the things that made Chrono Trigger so unique and fun.
And Maniac Mansion on the NES. Loved all of the different endings.
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It looks like I’ll be buying two copies of the game to finish it those two endings
except Zelda games have multiple save files, and sometimes even a new game + feature
Because apparently the timeline wasn’t intricate enough with 4 branches, now this double-ending thing comes in with another timeline split.
Well, guess I gotta beat the game twice then! ;)
Exactly! More branching.
Praying that there’s a bad ending for dying to Ganon or something else.
Great other than Majora’s mask this is new concept in the series.
But few people actually made it to the moon on Majora’s mask, so…
I’ll enjoy a full cinematic bad ending! As for the good ending, I’m hoping it’ll be similar to Final Fantasy X-2 & how it handled the ending: the more of the story you see, the longer, and better, the game’s ending.
The bad news about this: if there are varying different good endings, there’s gonna be a lot of in-fighting, as if the Zelda fanbase doesn’t have enough of that already with people being against the official timeline for whatever reason & those for it, about which ending is the canon ending. Hopefully the game itself will make it obvious which ending is the canon ending, though, to stop the in-fighting. Then again, in a way, Nintendo probably loves the fact the Zelda fanbase is split straight down the middle.
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