Topic: Hyrule Warriors (& Legends) - OT

Man, this is all great news for the game

The reasoning behind this news is obvious: to convince prospective new Wii U owners to make the jump with MK8 by alluring them with a near release of Hyrule Warriors. Appears to be a smart move.

It's likely Hyrule Warriors would be somewhat overshadowed by internal Nintendo projects, anyway, which isn't ideal for Tecmo-Koei/Koei-Tecmo as the publisher. Also, since it's releasing this summer, the time is ripe for building hype.

Good thinking...

The real reason is because Japan is an entirely different market than America/Europe and most of the big Japanese pubs save info for TGS. The game is coming out in August in Japan and Warriors is the equvilent of call of duty for Japan.

I think this serves as enough proof that this is the official title of the game.

More concept art:

The full official name of the game is

Hyrule Warriors: Name Not Final

Perhaps those last three pictures are part of a story intro?

Makes sense. Shia could offend Shia Muslims, a group Zelda has had controversy with before.

Whoa Eldin Volcano looks sweet in this art style in HD.

That's effectively the same reason. They could have waited a month and dropped this info around E3, but it still wouldn't have gotten the sole, focused attention of consumers (even in Japan, with all the new game info culminating around E3). The reason to do it now is partially to capitalize on the hype for Mario Kart 8. In most cases they might have revealed some of this stuff sooner, but I believe they waited to build momentum for the summer. It's smart marketing.

The hype helps but these magazine reveals are usually planned well in advance.

Since KT are the ones publishing the game in Japan it was probably their decision to release details to Famitsu and so NoA had to follow.

Edit: I've updated the original post with the new logo.

Cia is a total bunny boiler. Would not recommend.

Been there, done that.

I like the logo, it even has the beautiful blue scarf in it! Everyone seems to love the scarf, and the Japanese "treasure box" version comes with the scarf so I think that will sell quite a bit! In fact, this game could quite be a succes in Japan! That's why Nintendo probably chose to do it! I am not so sure about Impa using such a big sword. But I know that Warrior titles (or Japanese games for that matter) always have big swords. On the other hand: I love Ganondorfs big sword. So if he is in it, he should use that sword!

The English press-sheet talks about "Hyrulean". Shouldn't that be Hylian? I know that Hylians (Link, Zelda, maybe Impa) have pointy ears, while other humans have normal ears. Or thats what they say. So if most of the army consists of normal humans, is that why they call it Hyrulean?

I hope that scarf comes to America someway. Please, oh please! Preorder bonus or limited edition of the game.

The scarf. I would probably never wear it, but man does it look good!

@henmii: Hylian is a race of elf-like people, hyrulean probably refers to every citizen of Hyrule.

from what i hear this game only has a Japanese Release.....so far