Nintendo has just detailed everything coming to the first Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild DLC pack. It’s due to release this Winter. This is just part one of the Expansion Pass.
Aussie gamers can expect to pay $30 for both DLC packs. Nintendo has not revealed a release date outside of the Winter (Summer in America) time frame.
Trial of the Sword
When you get to a certain sacred location, you can take on the new “Trial of the Sword” challenge. Face an onslaught of enemies, one wave after another. Link starts the challenge without any equipment or weapons. When all the enemies in a room are defeated, Link proceeds to the next. Clear all the trials (about 45 rooms in total), and the true power of the Master Sword awakens.
Hero’s Path Mode
This new map feature shows the path Link has walked through Hyrule from the last 200 hours of gameplay. Use the time tracker bar to see where you’ve spent the most time and where you have yet to explore. There’s bound to be more adventures and maybe a shrine or two on the road less traveled.
Hard Mode
In Hard Mode, enemies gradually regain health, so take them out as quickly as possible. All enemies are also powered up by one level. For example, Red Bokoblins in Normal mode are now Blue Bokoblins. Enemies can also have higher maximum levels than they would in Normal mode. Look up, and you may also find enemies and treasure chests in the sky!
Travel Medallion
Somewhere in the world, there is a chest with a Travel Medallion inside. When you use this, you can register your current location as a fast travel point on the map. You can only register one location using the Travel Medallion.
More Armor
There are 8 treasure chests placed around Hyrule containing armor themed after previous The Legend of Zelda titles. Watch for tips as to the whereabouts of these chests as you travel around Hyrule.
Korok Mask
The Korok Mask is also hidden in a treasure chest somewhere in the world. While wearing this mask, it shakes whenever Link is near a hidden Korok location. There are 900 Koroks hiding in Hyrule, so this should help you discover quite a few of them.
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This is by far one of the most insulting excuses for DLC i've ever seen. I've seen more content pushed out in bug fixes, and Nintendo expects us to fork over cash for THIS? First off, if anyone has already completed the game, they're not gonna find ANY of those additional map features to be of any use, let alone the Korok armor. The Trail of the Sword, as fun as it may be to go through, appears to be a sorry excuse to calm those that were annoyed about the durability system.
I'm still interested to see what the third pack will be, being an additional story arc, but there is no way in hell i'll be paying for something as minuscule as this.
Oh yeah, and lets see how long it takes for this comment to be taken down because crazed Zelda fans can't handle criticism. I'm looking at you butt face.
Holy shit, this DLC is poorly handled. Most of this functionality was supposed to be in the game since day one. This is certainly not worthy of even being called DLC. Having to find every single item on this page in the entire map is just blatant disrespect.
Not enough bang for our buck? Really dude? This game has more perfect reviews than any other game in history and it took them 5 years (maybe more) to create. It was only $60 and you're complaining that this DLC costs too much? If you don't like then don't spend the $20 on this and the DLC to come in Decmeber. BotW should have cost way more than $60 in the first place if you take into account the man power and the hours it took to create it. Don't be looking for things to complain about just for the hell of it dude
Back up that day one statement with evidence or shut the fuck up
Where is it written that it was supposed to be included from day 1?
Nowhere, it's obviously what I think and I didn't say otherwise (I should have said "should have been in the game since day one". I apologize for that). It's only logical. I find it ridiculous that most of the things in this DLC are only being added *now* when they could have been included at release. It's just not how DLC works. It's Assassin's Creed's "Timesaver DLC's" all over again, only overpriced. At least Ubisoft told you what you were getting yourself into before you paid 20 bucks for access.
And if you wanted this stuff to be done on the games release, you'd have to wait til December 31st for the game, because this DLC is still in the making. You know they busted their ass to get the game out in time for the Switch release, and even had to patch it later because it wasn't completely ready.
Does "true power" means that it's not gonna break or go on cooldown?