{"id":3702,"date":"2017-10-28T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/zelda_breath_of_the_wilds_champions_ballad_dlc_is_still_due_this_year"},"modified":"2017-10-28T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T14:50:00","slug":"zelda-breath-of-the-wilds-champions-ballad-dlc-is-still-due-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/28\/zelda-breath-of-the-wilds-champions-ballad-dlc-is-still-due-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelda: Breath of the Wild&#8217;s Champions&#8217; Ballad DLC is Still Due This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a fantastic time of the year for those that love big-time game releases, but one download-only addition we&#8217;re rather excited about is the Champions&#8217; Ballad DLC for\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a><\/strong>. With new amiibo for those Champions due in just a couple of weeks some have been wondering if the DLC would come at the same time. It seems that won&#8217;t be the case, but the wait shouldn&#8217;t be too long.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo Australia \/ New Zealand has published a video in which Eiji Aonuma gives a special message to the fans. He says some pleasant things and reminds us about the amiibo, before shifting to the DLC and stating that the team is &#8220;currently working on it with great effort&#8221; and &#8220;it&#8217;ll be available by the end of this year&#8221;.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It seems like a pretty definitive indication that it won&#8217;t arrive alongside the amiibo (though perhaps that was the plan originally). That said, as the most notable and story-driven expansion to the game it&#8217;s understandable that Nintendo wants to get it right.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re eager to see what it&#8217;ll have to offer, in any case &#8211; it&#8217;s possible some further update on the release will be given when Nintendo reports its financial results on Monday 30th October.<\/p>\n<p>Are you excited about the Champions&#8217; Ballad story DLC for Breath of the Wild?<\/p>\n<p><em>With thanks to Zac for the heads up<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a fantastic time of the year for those that love big-time game releases, but one download-only addition we&#8217;re rather excited about is the Champions&#8217; Ballad DLC for\u00a0The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. With new amiibo for those Champions due in just a couple of weeks some have been wondering if the DLC [&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-3702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702","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=3702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}