The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild offers players a remarkable amount of freedom in terms of gameplay. For the moment, however, I’m completely obsessed with taming the prettiest horses.
The huge world of Breath of the Wild is dotted with wild horses you can tame to get around on. In order to tame them, you have to sneak up on them, soothe them by petting their manes, and feed them apples. If you register them at the various stables in the game, you’ll be able to name them.
It’s a part of the game I’ve found myself getting lost in. As soon as I name a horse I ascribe them a personality and feel affectionate towards them. They have just gone from almost bucking me off their backs to eating apples out of my hands. Now they’re my precious babies and I love them.
My first horse is a beautiful lady named Marnie. I found her pretty early on. It was love at first sight: All the horses have different colourations, and while spotted horses are explicitly stated to have worse stats, I loved her little polka-dotted behind.
Unfortunately, Marnie was a bit slow. That’s when I found Bert, with his chestnut hide and ivory patches. What a handsome boy — and just fast enough to justify stabling Marnie for most of the game. I’m so sorry, girl.
While not everyone at the Kotaku offices is as horse crazy as me, Luke Plunkett and Kirk Hamilton also got into the whole horse taming business. Luke, in fact, reminded me last night to include his horse Patchy in my forthcoming post.
this is patchy and we are best friends pic.twitter.com/wdOidxYBrW
— Luke Plunkett (@LukePlunkett) March 5, 2017
Kirk has a variety of horses, including the wild Mad Jack and kindly Blackie, but I think my favourite of his is Mr Nubs.
While I love Marnie and Bert, my own private goal was to find and tame a blue horse. My co-worker Jason Schreier has told me that Breath of the Wild has a bunch of horse secrets I haven’t uncovered yet, but I can’t imagine anything more tantalising than a blue horse. Fuelling my obsession further was the fact that Kirk and my other co-worker, Heather Alexandra, have blue horses of their own, named Blue and Azure respectively.
Kirk’s creatively named horse, Blue
We got a blue horse! pic.twitter.com/LEuXLWnJEU
— Heather Alexandra (@transgamerthink) March 11, 2017
I need to stress that there’s nothing special about blue horses. These were not the horse secrets to which Jason had alluded. But look: They’re blue. And I need one.
@ali_west this is my dude pistachio pic.twitter.com/DleXyQnnkM
— Keith (@KeithJCarberry) March 9, 2017
The problem was that I was only seeing solid-coloured blue horses, and I wasn’t able to tame them. While solid-coloured horses have better stats, they’re much, much harder to tame and usually buck you off before you can ride on them. So I stocked up on stealth potions and food and stalked a pretty, deep blue horse across a plain for about a half hour of my real life time — only for it to kick me in the goddamn head.
I turned off the game, dejected. All I wanted was a blue horse. Was that too much to ask? No joke, while I love Breath of the Wild in a way that I haven’t loved a game in a long time, it made me reconsider why I’m spending hours of my life within it. My horse search had me so stressed out that I felt that maybe I needed a break.
And then the next day, I found her.
Raincloud is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen. While I’m still on the hunt for Jason’s horse secrets (I love that this game has horse secrets), I’ve found the love of my life. It’s you, Raincloud. At least, until I can catch one of those pink horses I’ve seen around.
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9 responses to “My Quest For The Prettiest Horses In Breath Of The Wild”
Great article Gita – but goddamit get rid of the vids at the conclusion!!! I just saw “a crappy reward for finding all
900korok seeds.Please for the love of sweet baby Jesus stop spoiling things with those stupid fkn vids. I only scrolled down and read the spoiler title because the screenshot was Zelda and I thought it was pertinent to Gita’s article.
Come on guys, please act on this. Can we put a massive page break or some form of delineation to differentiate between article and advertisement?
Use adblock plus. Choose Block Element then click on the video.
Royal stallion is best. Pure white goodness
Directly south of the Plateau in the Taobab Grasslands there is a horse that is two times the size of all the rest. It has no stamina or spurs, but it moves naturally fast and has all its stats in strength and speed. also the harness and saddle for it are unique (it seems to be so far the only non regular mount that you can register)
http://www.polygon.com/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-guide-walkthrough/2017/3/9/14859942/how-to-giant-horse-breath-of-the-wild
i find myself not even using a horse and just running
Same – except for the little tutorial near Dueling Peaks, I haven’t even tried to nab a horse. I need to get dem korok seeds!!
Same. I use it very rarely.
I named one Glue. I may feed it to a Hinox.
if you like the horsing around
black desert has breeding and training/breaking in capturing
I have the best stable. All my horses are named after candy.
Liquorice is a beast, 4/3/4. I was so disappointed when the path to Zora’s Domain blocked me from taking him along. But now I’m done with that area and we’re BACK.