Topic: Hyrule Warriors (& Legends) - OT

Yeah, I like how it looks like a mix of OoT and TP Link. And it's so stylish~

Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors games get repetitive. Does that mean they get boring? Maybe to some people. Me, I like the repetitive button mashing u__U

Yeah, Link looks pretty awesome in this one (as others have said, a cross of OoT & TP styles).

With the visible chain mail, lone shoulder guard, and epic blue scarf, he looks just a little more war torn than usual, which is a cool design.

Dang, this looks intense. I've been a Warriors fan since early PS2 days and put an embarrassing amount of time into DW7 and DW7:XL, so I'm definitely excited for this.

It better let me play as Sheik though.

Dynasty Warriors 7 is much more detailed than this trailer was, and it was on a last-gen system.

Hopefully they make him talk.

@CavierMeths
I disagree. I just looked at DW8, and the textures and animations aren't as good as the ones in this Hyrule Warriors game. There might be more textures and such, but those textures aren't as good.

I'm using this as reference:

Anyone expecting anything other than a Dynasty Warriors game in the Zelda universe is going to end up being disappointed. That being said, I think the game looks pretty cool so far.

Like someone else said though, a Fire Emblem version like this would be pretty interesting.

I think it looks awesome to be honest. I'm aware it'll probably be repetitive and shallow to a degree, but it looks fun either way. If there are plenty of moves, weapons, levels to unlock, I could really enjoy this.

Really, I'm just glad Tecmo Koei is making something for the Wii U.

I still don't want Link to speak. Link is great silent, why would anyone want a voice for him?

There will probably be tons of weapons and characters, if games in the Dynasty Warriors series is anything to go by.

Weapons:
Fairy Sword
Iron Hammer
Maybe the Kokiri Sword and Gold Plated Sword(from MM)
Bow and Arrows
Maybe the hookshot
Bombs(as seen in video)
Boomerang
Biggoron Sword
Mirror Shield
Ice/fire rod in vid
etc.

Characters:
Link
Zelda
Maybe Sheik
Ganondorf
Epona(?)
etc.

Just some of the things in consideration, maybe. There could be a ton more characters, but who knows. We don't know if this takes place during the timeline, or if it's a "throw everything in there" type of game. My guess is that it will be part of some sort of story, but they'll just let players use whatever they want anyway. This is just speculation...

The average DW game has upwards of 50 characters, so hopefully we get a fairly extensive roster in this. I'm not expecting 50, but a good variety of characters and races from across the series would be nice. Link, Zelda, Sheik, Ganondorf, and all of the sages would be a good start.

As for characters, I'm guessing:

• Link
• Zelda (Sheik?)
• Ganondorf
• Vaati
• Dark Link
• Ashei
• Nabooru
• Girahim
• Demise
• Zant
• Midna (true form?)
• Anganhim
• more.

King Zora XVI for Hyrule Warriors please.

Is it just me or when people say DW my first thought is Doctor Who lol.

For playable Characters I would like to see: Link, Goron, Zora, Deku. Kinka like the different masks in Majora's Mask. Each Mask had a different way of playing and could translate to different playable character very well. I am not against a Sheikah but maybe not Sheik because if Zelda is playable it would be hard to make sense that both Sheik and Zelda could be there.

The only thing I don't care for are the knights fighting alongside Link (which can be seen during the clip with King Dodongo, I believe).

Not only do they not look anything like any incarnation of the Hylian knights, but they look awfully generic to boot.

I may be looking too much into it, since it's still early in development, but with every single enemy type being easily identifyable, I can't help but think they could have done the same for the Hylian guard. Heck, their current design doesn't even look "Zelda-ish" in any way.

@RR529 As you said, it's probably just because it's early in development. When you think about the importance of the Guards, it makes sense that they would be after the enemies in the grand scheme of things. The environments are also looking rather bland, but after the jump we've seen in 3D World, I'm betting that won't be a major issue.

@SCAR392

I think the developer knows this is the Zelda franchise, but you have to remember in Japan Zelda isn't as big or as popular in the west , one of the reasons why Wind Waker and Skyward Sword look the way they do, but when its one main developer making all of these games usually mutiple ones at a time its hard to really make a game that's above and beyond the others. I know some people are saying the story of this game will either be the imprisoning War (something once thought to be OOT) or the difrect aftermath to the ending of skyward sword.

Not to be outdone Tecmo just annouunced the other Dynasty Warrior's games coming to the west.

@shingi_70 Didn't... didn't the last Dynasty Warriors game bomb and got slammed in reviews nearly everywhere?

One of my favourite party games on Wii was Link's Crossbow Training. I think they should make a sequel for the new Wii U Zapper.

Before yesterday, my main wish (other than the obvious stuff) was for Nintendo to make a Link's Swordplay Training that had nice HD graphics, motion plus controls and almost no plot or puzzles to bog it down. This looks like it could be it but it also worries me that the graphics and gameplay look awful. I know it's an early trailer and Nintendo wouldn't let a 3rd party degrade Link by making a terrible game so my hopes are still high but I am a bit worried.

I would like to add that I think games like Dynasty Warriors and Ryse get bad reviews that put people off when they're actually very fun despite being 'shallow' in the eyes of certain reviewers. I get the feeling this game might suffer similar reviews so I say ignore the reviews and go play another poorly reviewed action game. Ninja Gaiden 3. Mindless fun that tests your thumbs more than your brain.