GamesBeat’s E3 nonawards: The craziest deaths in a Zelda game ever

Nintendo is going loosey-goosey with its latest entry in The Legend of Zelda series. It’s not making this buttoned-down iteration of Ocarina of Time where everything has place. Instead, the publisher is trading in some of its polish for complex systems.

That’s why The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is GamesBeat’s E3 2016 nonaward winner for craziest death physics. In previous Zeldas, Link’s death would often mean a quick fade to black or a canned animation. In Breath of the Wild, however, Nintendo is using a rag-doll physics system that causes Link to crumple up in ways I’ve never seen before.