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Ep. 277: ‘Achievement Oriented’ - 'The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild' and the Nintendo Switch

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4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Jason Concepcion bring on Kotaku news editor (and author of the forthcoming book 'Blood, Sweat, and Pixels') Jason Schreier to discuss reviewing great games (1:00), how 'Breath of the Wild' departs from and improves upon previous 'Zelda' installments (8:30), what lessons developers can take from the game's open-ended structure (34:00), and the Switch's post-launch outlook (40:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.1

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0:07.8

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0:11.2

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0:15.3

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0:19.0

adventure, so quest on.

0:30.0

Hello and welcome to Achievement Oriented, Ringers official video game

0:43.4

podcast. My name is Ben Lindbergh, and I'm a staff writer for the Ringers.com.

0:47.2

And on the other line, huddled in his Brooklyn apartment without an

0:51.6

Nintendo switch where he's feeling the FOMO and trying to convince himself

0:56.0

desperately that Zelda isn't actually that good. It's my colleague Jason

1:00.1

Concepcion. Zelda is bad. It's original take. Yeah, I haven't heard that one.

1:05.4

No one's saying that. I'm here. I'm going to say that. So it's bad.

1:08.7

No one is asking these questions. All right. So thanks to everyone who has

1:13.4

followed us on our new feed at Achievement Oriented. If you're not already

1:17.4

subscribed, you should be thanks to those of you who have left ratings and

1:21.7

reviews and followed us on Twitter at the watch pod. We have a lot to talk

1:26.7

about. I know that you've been enjoying Horizon Zero Done even more than

1:30.6

you were when we discussed it last week. And you've got Ghost Recon takes. So

1:35.7

we might have to do multiple episodes next week. A lot of people we want to

1:40.0

talk to, but we are going to devote this entire episode to the Legend of Zelda,

1:45.0

Breath of the Wild, and to the Nintendo Switch. So are you ready to talk about a

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