{"id":116260,"date":"2020-08-04T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/08\/early_zelda_breath_of_the_wild_build_shows_link_running_around_japan"},"modified":"2020-08-04T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T02:45:00","slug":"early-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-build-shows-link-running-around-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/04\/early-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-build-shows-link-running-around-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Build Shows Link Running Around Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/be00da12f76b6\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/be00da12f76b6\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/be00da12f76b6\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Back in 2017 &#8211; the same year as the release of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a><\/strong> on the Wii U and Switch &#8211; Nintendo showcased the early stages of the game&#8217;s development at a CEDEC conference.<\/p>\n<p>Now, some images of the footage it shared at this event have surfaced online. It shows a map of Japan, Link running around <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Himeji_Castle\">Himeji Castle<\/a>, and the unused skydiving mechanic &#8211; which was apparently lifted from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/legend_of_zelda_skyward_sword\">The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword<\/a><\/strong> but never <em>properly<\/em> implemented into Breath of the Wild. Take a look below:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>The team supposedly used a 2D map of Kyoto to help gauge the distance between landmarks in the game and then built up certain locations, such as Himeji Castle, into basic 3D models (thanks, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pixelpar\/status\/1286425979615936513\">@Pixelpar<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of these early development screens of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? <em>Tell us in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2017 &#8211; the same year as the release of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the Wii U and Switch &#8211; Nintendo showcased the early stages of the game&#8217;s development at a CEDEC conference. Now, some images of the footage it shared at this event have surfaced online. It shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}