9 Video Games You Didn't Realise Stupidly Broke Their Own Rules

7. The Hylian Shield Breaks, Despite Being "Indestructible" - Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild

The Rule:

As the latest game in the timeline (according to both the Hyrule Historia and Legend of Zelda: Master Works), Breath of the Wild exists WAY in the future, when all the events of past titles and their heroes are essentially "tales" to the current populace of Hyrule.

Equipment passed down across millennia, then, from the Master Sword to anything once denoted to be indestructible, should stay the same, no matter how much the characters and events change or get embellished.

Whereas the Master Sword has never been referred to in-game as unbreakable, the Hyrule Shield was "imbued with heroic power, making it completely indestructible" in Skyward Sword - the latest official retcon of Zelda canon, being it's a prequel to everything else.

But Wait...

The Hylian Shield straight-up breaks in Breath of the Wild. Did Hyrule's finest smiths just forget how to make un-shatterable shields?

At least the Master Sword is a mythical, heavenly item given power through magic, and can be said to wax and wane as the games see fit. It's plausible ENOUGH that it could "run out of energy", but Hylian Shields?

They don't break, and never have before, so why now?