The idea of centering an endgame challenge around combat - one of Breath of the Wild’s most simplistic features - might seem antithetical. This is truly something for Breath of the Wild’s endgame. Depending on your speed, that can mean anything up to a couple of hours’ progress can be lost if you’re not careful. Die before you hit one of three checkpoints and you have to do it all again. You’ll begin with no armour, no weapons and no Divine Beast powers, scavenging what you can along the way. Provided you’ve earned the right to hold the Master Sword, you’ll have the option of plonking it right back into its pedestal and progressing through a series of 45 one-shot rooms, most of which are specific combat trials.
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Trial of the Sword is Eventide on a grand scale. Utilising Breath of the Wild’s many overlapping systems became the key to surviving (and winning little more than the pleasure of a save point at its final Shrine). It challenged players to forget about the things they’d earned and engage purely with what they’d learned. Eventide is magnificent, somehow cramming ideas from survival games and XCOM’s Iron Man mode into the game’s already near-perfect structure. That tantalising landmass draws most players, siren-like, across the sea to its southeastern shores, before promptly stripping them of all their items, and facing them against a series of challenges, without the opportunity to save. A new challenge mode of sorts, the Trial draws its primary idea from Breath of the Wild’s best challenge - Eventide Island.
The headline act, without any doubt, comes in the form of the Trial of the Sword. It may not be precisely what fans are clamoring for, but that might be its strength, as The Master Trials offers a couple of very pleasant surprises. With several months to go until the Champions’ Ballad DLC, however, Nintendo’s offered something of a stop-gap in the form of a grab-bag set of additions to its bucolic masterpiece. Anyone who bought Breath of the Wild’s Expansion Pass likely did so on the promise of its second, story-focused installment.
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