'Do you really remember me?' — The traumas of memory in Breath of the Wild

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By Hernandez in Technology
Updated 3 years ago

These are the first words that Link and the player hear in the opening moments of Breath of the Wild. Breath of the Wild is a game that is many things to many people: an open-world game, a combat game, a reinvented Legend of Zelda game, and so on. At its heart, however, Breath of the Wild is a game about memory. Most significantly, it is about how memories can be affected by severe trauma, how those memories can be recovered, and how it can be painful to recapture those memories.

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