Today Nintendo aired their Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Direct and as quite a surprise they announced new armor for Breath of the Wild based on the character Rex from the game:
This will be distributed on November 9th as a free update that contains a new side quest, which will lead to the outfit. Supposedly, the same update will also support the four new Champion amiibo, which will be released on November 10th.
I don't expect too much here - the new side quest will probably be on the same line as the armor pieces gotten from "Misko's Journal" in the Master Trials DLC, so some randomly dropped chests somewhere with armor pieces that can't even be upgraded...
But this is nonetheless a nice promotion and a nod to the fact that Monolith Soft, the developers of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, helped out with creating the world of Breath of the Wild. This outfit also fits the game surprisingly well thanks to the new tech theme in Hyrule.
However, this also opens the door to similar promotions, where the costumes might not look as integrated as this one. With non-Nintendo games on Nintendo systems we get these kind of costumes all the time, for example there is Link's gear in Skyrim now, but it never really has been the other way around for Zelda. Breath of the Wild is certainly a popular game and seemingly predesignated for such promotions, but hopefully Nintendo won't overdo it in the future, where we could end up with Link crossdressing as Bayonetta instead of the other way around.
On a side note, if you now collect all the armor in the game, including this new Rex costume and the four Divine Helms, the Armor inventory should be filled except for three slots. Two, if the Rex costume comes with an additional helmet or head gear. It's hard to tell from the pictures, whether the helmet on the back is a separate piece or a part of the body, but in any case there's not much space for additional armor left. There will also be more armor in the Champions' Ballad DLC, where we've already seen one piece, so hopefully Nintendo will expand the Armor inventory by one page in one of the upcoming updates or otherwise it won't be possible to collect everything anymore.
This will be distributed on November 9th as a free update that contains a new side quest, which will lead to the outfit. Supposedly, the same update will also support the four new Champion amiibo, which will be released on November 10th.
I don't expect too much here - the new side quest will probably be on the same line as the armor pieces gotten from "Misko's Journal" in the Master Trials DLC, so some randomly dropped chests somewhere with armor pieces that can't even be upgraded...
But this is nonetheless a nice promotion and a nod to the fact that Monolith Soft, the developers of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, helped out with creating the world of Breath of the Wild. This outfit also fits the game surprisingly well thanks to the new tech theme in Hyrule.
However, this also opens the door to similar promotions, where the costumes might not look as integrated as this one. With non-Nintendo games on Nintendo systems we get these kind of costumes all the time, for example there is Link's gear in Skyrim now, but it never really has been the other way around for Zelda. Breath of the Wild is certainly a popular game and seemingly predesignated for such promotions, but hopefully Nintendo won't overdo it in the future, where we could end up with Link crossdressing as Bayonetta instead of the other way around.
On a side note, if you now collect all the armor in the game, including this new Rex costume and the four Divine Helms, the Armor inventory should be filled except for three slots. Two, if the Rex costume comes with an additional helmet or head gear. It's hard to tell from the pictures, whether the helmet on the back is a separate piece or a part of the body, but in any case there's not much space for additional armor left. There will also be more armor in the Champions' Ballad DLC, where we've already seen one piece, so hopefully Nintendo will expand the Armor inventory by one page in one of the upcoming updates or otherwise it won't be possible to collect everything anymore.
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