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The Legend of Zelda: BotW let's you skip/avoid story and go right to the end...if you want

by rawmeatcowboy
15 June 2016
GN Version 5.0

Coming from a Polygon interview with Eiji Aonuma...

"Users may not actually get the full story depending on how they play this game and how they strategize and solve puzzles. Users are able to go to the very end goal without revealing why Link woke up the way he did and where he did. Whether you want to reveal the storyline and find out why Link woke up, or you want to just go straight to the goal, that's an option totally up to the user.

Anybody who can go straight to the goal without doing anything else — there's two possibilities. Either they're a really good gamer, or they could be somebody that's a little bit crazy. But it's not impossible. I created the game like that. Maybe it might be fun for fans to compete in a challenge for who can clear it first."

Just to be clear, Aonuma is saying that players can go directly to the final boss of the game from its opening moments. That said, Aonuma didn't find this to be the best way to play.

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