What Breath Of The Wild Is Like For Someone Who Doesn't Play Games

This past year, my wife made the mistake of taking an interest in my hobby, and instead of just letting her play games for fun, I figured it'd be more interesting to chronicle her journey of figuring out how to play video games. So, this is a continuation of the first video on the subject and it examines what Breath of the Wild is like for someone who doesn't play games. Enjoy.

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Red Faction Footage from World of Longplays

#GamingForANonGamer #BotW #Zelda

[musikSkool]

"I talked to him just a minute ago, how could he possibly have anything new to say."
- Said no videogame designer ever

[jasonw]

*pushes rock off cliff* "that sounds really violent"


*does it again*


she learns quick

[princesszelda]

Wife: "that sounded really violent"
Razbuten: for good measure, she pushed the other rock as well

[furankii]

Non-gamer here. I started playing botw a few years ago after watching my husband play and he encouraged me to try. I faced pretty much every struggle that your wife did. My husband taught me quite a few things, like investigate on things that are out of place, and talk to everyone etc. At first I only enjoyed exploring the world, cooking, and solving shrine puzzles, and absolutely hated fighting cos I died in pretty much every battle in the beginning. I was used to smashing buttons on Street Fighter in the arcade and I thought doing that would get me through the fight, and boy was I wrong lol. Every fight was stressful for me and I would scream and panic, and my husband taught me to calm down and watch how the enemies move and dodge them. This helped a lot and I started to get a bit more comfortable with fighting the smaller monsters (or avoid them), and even finding more strategic ways of lowering their health or killing them from a safe distance. It was all good, until I got to my second Divine beast, the Thundeblight Ganon, where I constantly died and struggled to kill him, and I rage-quited the game and went on a hiatus for almost 2 years. My husband encouraged me to continue by getting stronger first with more hearts, better weapons and armours and go back to fight the Divine beast when I'm ready. So I picked up again and focused just on that. From then on I enjoyed the game even more than ever and got more and more confident with the game. Though still not great at battles, but I can take the damage cos I got more hearts lol. After defeating all the Divine Beasts, I just kept exploring every inch of Hyrule and found all the shrines, did most of the side quests, upgraded a lot of my armors to prep for the fight with Ganon. Last weekend, I finally defeated Calamity Ganon and finished the game!! Now I'm ready to play Tears of Kingdom!

[noha]

girl: has never plays a game before


you: throws her right into dark souls

[lovewilcox]

The genius of BotW is that when you find yourself asking the question “I wonder if this will work” then usually the answer is “yes”.

[ShiftK]

Your wife encountering any small obstacle:
*I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move*

[lordstumpy]

Interestingly, as an experienced gamer, I found that BotW was confusing at times, I realized I was so used to relying on cues and hints and basically - games spoon-feeding me by having a linear storyline, that I actually got stuck thinking; "did I miss something?", "have I done this in the wrong order?" "Should I have gone here first?" once I got the idea that BotW wasn't supposed to be played in one way - boy did I have the time of my life. This is exactly the type of game I had always desired, without knowing it.

[serious_salt]

While my mom was playing this game, we realized that in puzzles where link needs to stand on and weigh down a panel you can substitute in two hydromelons! Apparently link is two hydromelons heavy.

[geckoszn]

Dude if she felt that Breath of the Wild was calming she must’ve never heard the guardian music

[devilmaycrydante]

She is becoming dangerously competent as a gamer now

[jackmcnulty]

The Lock On feature actually was an early way of controlling the camera before the C Stick was ever invented! Ocarina of Time invented this feature to make traversing 3D spaces easier for people. It’s cool how 20 years later this feature is still a valid option for newer players.

[WtbgoldBlogspot]

"Why would I talk to the old man again? I already talked to him." I hate how much sense that makes, because it highlights how much I'm conditioned.

[maddymcmaster]

i heard someone say once “when playing botw there is no bad ideas, just ones that can go horribly wrong” and i’ve never heard something more true

[MattyStoked]

The day your wife buys Doritos and Mountain Dew is the day you realise you've created a monster

[DavidSedano]

This honestly made me so happy to watch. My gf was on the exact same field as your wife where she was having the same difficulties but after basically telling her that the game is free for you to go wherever and do whatever, she slowly got the hang of it. My favorite part of the entire experience has been that not only is she finally on the last divine beast, but her daughter was so invested in watching us play that we bought her, her own copy and now we can't pull her away from it lol

[Liminally_ill]

Pushes rock, Bokoblins die.
"This seems like really violent"
Proceeds to push another rock.

[spyrozombies]

His wife: "I WON!"
Him: "no"
Her: "oh". 😂

[JonJaded]

*"That sounds like really violent"
*
"For good measure, she pushed down the other one as well"

[skibblears]

my favorite thing about this game is that you can play the game without getting stuck because it won’t let you “move on”. i love linear exploration games, and as a relatively inexperienced, and extremely unskilled, gamer, i love that this game seems to be good for newcomers, even if it’s more difficult than some “easy” games.