The 5 best reasons you should play the incredible new 'Legend of Zelda' game

In the late 1980s, a bizarre video game from Japan arrived in the United States and became a near-instant classic.

It starred a boy named Link, on a quest to save a princess named Zelda, in a mysterious, massive open world called Hyrule.

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"The Legend of Zelda" for the Nintendo Entertainment System is now regarded as one of the best games of all time - a masterpiece work from Nintendo. What "Cinderella" is to Disney, "The Legend of Zelda" is to Nintendo.

And it looks like Nintendo - long-regarded as the Disney of video games - just topped that original accomplishment with "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild."

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The game just launched on Nintendo's new Switch console, as well as the Wii U, and it's receiving near-universal praise from critics and fans alike. There's good reason for that - it's an incredible, memorable game that everyone should play.

Here's why!