History TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild / TropesUToZ

** Tarrey Town's music gains elements of the music from Rito Village, Goron City, Hateno Village, Zora's Domain, and Gerudo Town, respectively, as Link invites denizens of those regions. This also extends to the wedding at the end.

* undignifiedDeath: Compared to the Blight Ganons, various monsters, or even Ganon himself, Master Kohga of the Yiga Clan doesn't go down in an epic battle against Link. Rather, when he attempts his "ultimate move", which is just a giant spiky ball, he's too busy figuring out how to use it to notice it rolling toward him. He ends up falling into the pit, with the spike ball landing on top of him. Link doesn't even do a single thing, like pushing the ball in the first place. [[TooDumbToLive Kohga met his end due to his own stupidity and absentmindedness.]]

* WaveMotionGun: Each of the Divine Beasts is armed with one, which each Champion pilot takes aim with at Calamity Gannon's lair inside Hyrule Castle, awaiting Link's move to storm the castle. When fired simultaneously, they become a ConvergingStreamWeapon that will blast off up to a half of Calamity Gannon's health bar before the boss fight. You can also spot the consequences of a test fire gone awry aeons ago when the ancient Hyruleans were building the Divine Beasts: Hebra Mountain has a giant circular hole cored through its side.

* WaveMotionGun: Each of the Divine Beasts is armed with one, which each Champion pilot takes aim with at Calamity Gannon's lair inside Hyrule Castle, awaiting Link's move to storm the castle. You can also spot the consequences of a test fire gone awry aeons ago when the ancient Hyruleans were building the Divine Beasts: Hebra Mountain has a giant circular hole cored through its side.

* UnderwearSwimsuit: Link can ditch all his clothing down to a pair of boxers, and swimming in just them gives him slightly faster swim speed than swimming with clothes on (save for the Zora Armor and the Salvager Set.)

* ViolationOfCommonSense: If you're planning on [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Perfect Parrying a Guardian's laser]], it can be more beneficial to stand at point blank range; the laser isn't hitscan, so the closer you're standing to the Guardian, the easier it is to time the parry due to the laser having almost no travel time from the very brief startup animation. This only works on Decayed and Turret Guardians, as well as Stalkers and Skywatchers that you've disabled by slicing a leg off or destroying their propellers, respectively.

* WarpWhistle: The Sheikah Slate allows Link to instantly warp to activated shrines, towers, and a few other select locations.

* WhamLine: A small-but-effective one comes at the end of the of the Champion's Ballad [=DLC=], especially for those who thought they were finally finished with it [[spoiler:and hadn't been spoiled on the duel against the [[AwesomeBosses/TheLegendOfZelda Shiekah Monk Maz Koshia]]]].

* WideOpenSandbox: An explicit goal for this particular game is to give players the kind of freedom that hasn't been present in the series since [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI the original game]]. To further emphasize this, Aonuma even stated that it's possible to reach the Calamity Ganon ''as soon as the opening segment is over'', before doing a single thing (though he obviously advises against this, as you're ''way'' underequipped at that point and you'd miss the whole story). Hyrule is stated be 140 '''square miles/362 kilometers''' in size. In comparison, the overworld in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' (a game famous for its huge size) is merely ''16'' square miles/42 kilometers. It's still slightly smaller than ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'', which is 154 square miles/398 kilometers in size. Many of Xenoblade's developers worked on this game, so a wide open world is assured. [[http://www.zeldainformer.com/breath-of-the-wild-map-size-comparison-shows-larger-world-than-skyrim/ This article]] shows the world map's size in comparison to Skyrim, and shows that the entirety of ''Twilight Princess'' almost fits inside the starting area.

** The Magnesis power exists pretty much exclusively for this purpose. Using it, you can even pick up dropped weapons and just beat enemies with them.

* VagueHitPoints: While Link's hitpoints are evident by his heart meter, the hitpoints of his weapons are not. The only visible indicator of how much durability his weapons have before they shatter is a sparkle on the inventory screen when they're brand new and a red flash on that same menu when they're a hit or two away from breaking.

** If Link or any enemy gets electrocuted, they'll drop their weapon and shield.

* ViolationOfCommonSense: If you're planning on [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Perfect Parrying a Guardian's laser]], it can be more beneficial to stand at point blank range; the laser isn't hitscan, so the closer you're standing to the Guardian, the easier it is to time the parry due to the laser having almost no travel time from the very brief startup animation. This only works on Decayed and Turret Guardians, as well as Stalkers that you've disabled by slicing a leg off.

** Attacking the Goron leader with a weapon will have him uppercut Link and knock him flat on his ass.

** Fighting monsters has so many ways you can utilize: [[MadBomber blowing them up with Bomb Arrows or Bomb Barrels,]] [[FireIceLightning shooting elemental arrows at them,]] [[ManOnFire setting them on fire with a torch,]] [[BlowYouAway blowing them]] [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou off a cliff with a Korok Leaf...]]the possibilities are endless! But what takes the cake is what you can do to Stalmonsters: You can beat one with its own arm (or explode it with a Remote Bomb or scatter it with a Korok Leaf), then ''steal its skull'' and run away with it while the rest of the Stalmonster desperately tries to take it back, and finally ''kick the skull off a cliff,'' after which the Stalmonster throws a fit in rage before collapsing into a pile of bones.

* WhereItAllBegan: In "The Champions' Ballad" DLC, it begins by completing four Shrines on the Great Plateau, like the start of the game, and [[spoiler:the Final Trial is accessed by using the Shrine of Resurrection as an elevator down into the dungeon. The subsequent boss fight against Maz Koshia takes place on a platform levitating over the Shrine's entrance. And the last bit of story for the DLC, with Kass completing the eponymous song and giving Link his final flashback to the inauguration of the Champions, takes place on the outcropping overlooking Hyrule Castle that was the first place Link stood upon exiting the Shrine of Resurrection at the start of the game.]] It's an unusual example of this trope, because while the DLC is the last bit of content released for ''Breath of the Wild'' and wraps up in such a climactic fashion, Zelda chimes in immediately afterward to remind you that [[EndGamePlus Calamity Ganon still kinda needs to be defeated]].

* UndeadCounterpart: There are skeletal Stal-variants of most of the game's humanoid enemies -- Stalkoblins (skeletal Bokoblins), Stalmoblins (skeletal Moblins), Stalizalfos (skeletal Lizalfos), and Stalnox (skeletal Hinox). They're only encountered at night, [[WeakenedByTheLight as daylight destroys them]], and are {{Glass Cannon}}s compared to their living counterparts -- any blow will cause them to collapse into a pile of bones, although they'll keep reforming until their skulls are destroyed.

** In high temperature areas, wooden items and weapons will smoke and burst into flames. So will plants, animals, and other flammable materials.

* VendorTrash: Unlike previous games, there is very little liquid cash just lying around in the field. Most of your rupees will come from selling items, and the vast majority (other than weapons and certain pieces of armor) can be sold anywhere. However, basically every item has some use in crafting, so this tension provides incentive for turning in sidequests for some extra income. Special mention to the various precious stones--while they can be crafted into jewelry in Gerudo Town, they are fairly expensive to enhance, and none of them carries unique effects. Better to find other equipment (which will likely confer {{Set Bonus}}es as well, unlike the headgear-only jewelry) and sell off the stones--unless the gems are needed to upgrade particular armor sets to maximum potential (for example, the Snowquill Armor requires a total of ''fifteen'' Rubies to reach Level Four defense). Diamonds are unique here, since they can be used to craft new Champions' weapons, preventing them from being TooAwesomeToUse. The real vendor trash is the extremely common and conspicuous luminous stones; their only use is crafting the Radiant Set, and beyond that can be sold for a bit of cash or converted to diamonds at a rate of ten-to-one in Zora's Domain. This is a financial loss, but it provides an easy source of diamonds for Champions' weapons.

* UniqueEnemy: In Master Mode, because all enemies are scaled up a color to up the difficulty, the base form of the various enemies become this to enable players to still complete Compendiums with personal pictures. There's only one Red Bokoblin on the entire map for example.