After a century of hibernation, Link reawakens to once again save a ruined Hyrule from a great evil. (This is a chronological movie made from CUTSCENES / MEMORIES / BOSS / ENDING from the video game.)
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there is a shrine quest where you have to follow a creature through the forest without them seeing you, though your intention is to make sure they reach their goal safely
Arguably, yes. In flashbacks, a teenaged Zelda is forced to train continually by her father and she is reprimanded for relaxing/having fun/pursuing other interests. She does not appear to have any friends her own age.
There is one character who is implied to be a heavy drinker, but it is not shown to be detrimental to her (in fact, her desire for her favorite drink saves her life at one point).
There are no animal deaths in cut scenes or as part of the storyline. However, various animals may be killed for resources and it is difficult to get through the game without taking advantage of this. Animal products are used to make food for healing, elixirs for healing or status effects, armor upgrades, and to complete some side quests. If you come within visual range of wolves, they will hunt you until you either kill one of them or manage to move out of range. Other animals will sometimes run or sometimes charge you, including bears, boar, deer, moose, rhinos, and goats. Some animals only flee - foxes, horses, various birds, and squirrels. Fish, insects, and frogs can be collected, but their death is not shown. Domestic animals in towns (horses, donkeys, goats, sheep, chickens, dogs) cannot be killed, but may react if struck.
Throughout the game you can hunt animals for meat, but they disappear in a puff of smoke with no blood or gore after. The only exception are horses, whose dead bodies will remain after death.
There is a blue rabbit you can run into, if you shoot it with a arrow it'll drop Rupees and run, the more you hit it the more it can drop, but it will disappear rather fast. It is option to attack it. There's a chance you can get close enough and hit it with a weapon like a sword, but in my experience it's been too fast to try and hit with anything other then a arrow.
There are dragons you can shoot at if you wish, and you need the stuff that it gives you in order to upgrade certain items. But it's ultimately optional, and the dragons don't die either way.
To those with extreme arachnophobia the guardians may resemble spiders, they are robots with multiple legs that they crawl with. They look more like the robots from the Incredibles than spiders.
Various insects can be seen, collected, and used in cooking to craft elixirs. Includes beetles, dragonflies, crickets, butterflies, and lightning bugs. fairies are also small, flying creatures that may be thought to resemble insects.
There is a sidequest "Special Delivery" where some Zora kid sent a love letter down stream with an adult Hylian male which ends up with the guy calling the kid his "Darling" Of course I should mention this was a Mistranslation.
Link is sexually assaulted throughout the game, particularly by the Great Fairies, both physically and mentally. When you choose to upgrade Link's clothes (which can be done 4 times), the Fairies perform increasingly sexual acts on Link, to which Link always appears heavily distressed and embarrassed about. The Great Fairies also make sexual remarks about his looks as a part of many of their regular dialogue. The upgrade cutscenes can be skipped, but the general tone is still there.
If Link runs out of stamina while in water, he will be shown drowning with sound effects. It will only kill if Link is at low health, but it isn't graphic.
It is possible to cut off the legs of a guardian (a robot-like enemy type that can crawl around on 6 long thin spider legs), but other than that, there is no injury of this kind.
you can drop heavy objects on enemies and npcs but it kind of just slides off of them. it can cause damage to enemies, and if something falls on a korok they say ouch but are not visibly harmed. overall not very graphic.
The player character will ragdoll when hit and when going down cliffs it can look quite gruesome if the person watching doesn't understand how ragdoll physics work and some of the impacts would very badly damage bones in real life (there are no bone snapping sound effects). Anyone who understands game physics will just see it as a body going floppy.
There is no mutilation, however some monster drop claws when slain and it is possible to collect dragon claws by shooting passing dragons near their claws. The dragon has no reaction to this and does not appear to be injured.
Link takes damage from falls beyond a certain height. If a fall is sufficient to cause fatal damage, he makes a choking sound and falls over, dead. If a fall is bottomless (edge of map, from divine beast) he falls away from the camera, yelling. Enemies also die if pushed from a great height.
there are enemies you fight where it is important to aim at and hit their eyes with arrows. there is no animation depicting eye mutilation, but the player will probably have to shoot an eye
You can attack enemies with many different sizes of swords, but it's always a swipe sorta motion, there's never a stabbing motion and you don't actually ever see a weapon go inside a enemy.
Although Link has technically been around for 117 years, he was put into a sort of stasis and is still physically and mentally 17, and there are a number of characters who make sexual remarks towards him, or even assault him, in the case of the great fairies.
Yes, there are many monsters that are non human that you have to kill, but also the four main champions have their backstories on how they died, non or them are humans.
a mother to two children in kakariko village passed away and her grave is up near the top of the village. that storyline is expanded upon in a late-game sidequest and the details of it could be very... upsetting to some.
Zelda is trapped in the castle with Ganon, but this is because she is using her magic as a seal to hold him back. Additionally, the royal guard of the Gorons has been captured by the Yiga Clan and you need to go save her.
Octorocks come in many forms, including those that hide underneath the ground. They look like a plant or treasure chest at first, but when you get too close they suddenly jump out and shoot a big rock at you, like a cannon. It surprises me almost every time.
Near the beginning of the game, Link encounters a dragon that has been possessed by malice - an evil, semi-sentient goop found around Hyrule. It causes the dragon to be in pain and to behave erratically.
There are some enemies that are able to fire shock waves and it is possible to be struck by lightning. Some weapons and artifacts can shock the surroundings, but none of these things are specifically used for torture.
In one of the memory scenes, Zelda has a breakdown and cries and wails in Link's arms. This is on screen for a few seconds, but the buildup to the meltdown takes place over the whole scene which is around 2 minutes
It is possible, but not necessary, to crouch Link beneath huts or into other low spaces. There's one area in the game that is completely dark, which may feel claustrophobic to some.
He is shown to have many times eaten rocks, and many in-game recipes (I.e. elixirs, rock hard food and dubious food) must use inedible items such as gemstones, horns and teeth. Not necicarily triggering, but just in case, to mention a possible interpretation of pica
in a main/mandatory quest to enter gerudo town, you must interact with a person that presents femininely akin to a gerudo woman. immediately, link has dialogue options to accuse the character of being a man. many argue that this character is simply "disguising" herself so she can enter gerudo town, but the character explicitly refers to herself as a woman several times. at the end of the exchange where she sells link feminine traditional gerudo clothing without explicit intent to sneak link into gerudo town, a gust of wind blows at her, causing her veil to lift, and link facepalms as she sheepishly lowers it, which is a very clear "man in a dress" joke.
There is a character in the game who chooses to dress as and pass as a woman, but whom others continue to refer to as a man (misgendering). Link obtains female clothing from this character in order to disguise himself and get into Gerudo town (this is not misgendering).
An optional sidequest, 'Special Delivery', involves a relationship between an adult Hylian man and a young Zora woman who still looks like a child. Zora age much more slowly than Hylians, and while the specific ages of both characters are never made clear, it's likely that they're in the same age range. However, it does still look like a relationship between an adult man and a child, which may prove uncomfortable. (Edit: the romantic subtext between these characters is apparantly not in the original Japanese version, and the characters seem to be no more than close friends in the sequel, Tears of the Kingdom.)
There is a character along the main quest-line who refuses to recognize Link without checking him for scars he remembers. You are unable to proceed until you unequip all clothes and stand in front of him in just underwear. It’s not full nudity but still (kinda creeped me out too ngl). There are also multiple species within the world that rarely/never wear clothes beyond jewelry, but their anatomy is not human (birds, fish/shark people, etc)
Several characters (namely the Great Fairies) will objectify Link, make comments and kiss/touch him in ways Link is clearly not fully comfortable with. Other characters flirt here and there but to a lesser degree.
There are quite a few sexually abusive lines and acts, especially by the Great Fairies, especially given that Link is always heavily distressed and embarrassed by it.
This game takes place Post-Calamity, like a post-apocalyptic setting. Lots of houses are in ruins, and aome travelling characters tend to reside in little tents or inns.
You can run over enemies with a motorcycle if you have the champions ballad dlc (or with a horse in the normal game) but they don't go flying or react realistically, they just flop around like a ragdoll as if you've hit them with a heavy weapon, or alternatively flinch a little. Running over enemies just does a bit of damage to them.
Link has a stamina meter when swimming and it is possible to die by drowning (he struggles and sinks, grabbing at nothing). Most enemies also struggle and die if they are knocked into water.
Not really, no.
There are a few cutscenes following the defeat of certain major boss enemies where a blood-like goop explodes from their bodies. Safe to say this isn't supposed to be blood (rather a toxic substance known as "malice," which you can find scattered across certain areas in the game in different forms, including the form of living creatures), however the resemblance is kind of there.