8 Genius Ways Video Games Don't Let You Escape
4. The Great Plateau - The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
When you start Breath Of The Wild for the first time, you’ll be greeted with one of the most breathtaking openings in a video game; exiting your slumber as you witness the vastness of Hyrule for the first time. However, you won’t be getting out any time soon.
At first, a simple cliff preventing you from exploring the central area of the game seems basic and not especially clever, but there’s more going on than you might realize.
By presenting this seemingly impossible way to get out, players will start to come up with whatever way possible to reach the other side without attaining the paraglider, introducing experimentation and outside the box thinking, which is what Zelda is all about at its core.
Clever speedrunners and Zelda players have even discovered ways to make it past this point by using a variety of tricks and techniques learned over the years to get over the cliff. Only... they hit a trigger that takes them back to where they were.
It might be disappointing that you can’t skip the Great Plateau entirely, but this genius blocking from the rest of the world encouraged players to keep playing more than anything else.