When you acquire this mask in the Master Trials and equip it, it has the effect of making minor enemies
like Bokoblins, Moblins, and Stal enemies think that Link is part of their group, so that they won't attack Link.
Like the Bokoblin's expression.
Not exact matches
You will always be crunching through hordes of
Bokoblins and Stalfos, with greater rewards
like health hearts (a Zelda staple) given for taking out bigger groups.
And besting harder foes —
like armor wearing
bokoblins — requires some strategy.
Classic baddies
like Oktoroks and
Bokoblins are back, and they're rendered in higher detail than we've ever seen before.
Lots of meaning get lost / changed by this,
like when an interviewer said Aonuma said the
bokoblins were cute, when he actually said they were kawaisou («pitiable in a non-negative way»), which is a word both without a clear one - word equivalent and very close to kawaii, the word for cute.
The
Bokoblins and Moblins look too goofy and stupid to be taken as deadly enemies in a series
like The Legend of Zelda.
Instead of being required to explore a dungeon to find a bow and arrows
like in previous titles in the series, you can pick those items up from a defeated
Bokoblin in the first 10 minutes of gameplay.
The AI is supposedly much better now, with
Bokoblins like the ones here acting more life
like than ever.