Zelda: Breath Of The Wild: 10 Best Overworld Bosses

10. The Great Plateau's Stone Talus

Breath of the Wild’s tutorial is relatively simple: go to all four shrines on The Great Plateau to obtain the Old Man’s paraglider and begin your adventure. It ingeniously teaches the player about Breath of the Wild’s main game mechanics, including environmental obstacles, basic combat, and how each Sheikah Slate’s rune works.

Enemy-wise, The Great Plateau doesn’t overload the player, throwing in a few Bokoblins to dispatch in a variety of creative ways. However, things can become fiercer if Link ventures too far into the Forest of Spirits and awakens the Stone Talus.

While not precisely the most difficult boss, putting an overworld boss so early into the game can give new players quite the fright. One minute Link’s happily picking Hylian Shrooms, and the next a gigantic boulder is preparing to body-slam him into the ground.

The Talus’ weakness is the ore deposit on the top of its head. However, if the player is without a heavy weapon to swing, it can take a good few minutes to whittle away the Talus’ sizable health bar. Despite this, the fight doesn’t feel particularly unfair due to the Stone Talus’ slow movement speed, and the player can always run away to fight later when better prepared.