On the morning that I committed to finish The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild—which launches alongside Nintendo's new Switch console tomorrow, and which is also available for the Wii U—I set out from a small stable in one of Hyrule's most picturesque regions, a forested stretch of hills up against the eastern sea, caught in a permanent autumn. My goal was to find a few final secrets before heading towards the center of the continent where I'd find the ruined and corroded skeleton of Hyrule Castle, and face the game's ultimate challenge.
Instead, as I pulled my horse over a ridge westward, my eye caught something on the top of a low mountain across a valley. There was movement I hadn't seen before. I checked my map, and found an oddly shaped pond marked on the flat top of the summit, and something about the shape resonated with me. Maybe a short detour?
My curiosity was rewarded—as soon as I reached the peak and saw what was there, I realized that the shape of that pond sounded familiar to me because a dozen hours earlier, in a town on the other side of Hyrule, another character mentioned her desire to come to this exact place. And now there were two people here, staring at each other from across the water, and it was my job to… well, I'm trying to avoid spoilers.
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