Earlier this week, Nintendo and Koei Tecmo surprised Zelda fans with the announcement of Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. It's a game set 100 years before the events of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
While we got some information about what to expect from this new Musou-style game, later this month Nintendo plans to reveal a lot more. It's now sent out a reminder tweet, telling everyone to tune in on 26th September:
What we do know about this game so far is that it will allow players to take control of the Champions and even Princess Zelda as they hack and slash their way through swarms of enemies to defend Hyrule. There'll also be environmental puzzles, weapons and skills to unlock, materials to craft, shops to visit and more.
Hyrule Warirors: Age of Calamity arrives on 20th November. Will you be tuning in to find out more? Tell us down below.
Comments (18)
Good, I want to see more on this.
Please let it have more of a Zelda feel.... Hyrule Warriors was repetitive AF after a few missions. It felt more of a spectacle than a good game. Hope they improve on it, because I feel I kind of wasted 150 hours of my life in those infinite 8bit boards just grinding.
I'd like to know if there is an online coop in this game, if the maps are more realistic and open than the flat corridors and room design of the previous one and how close it will be to BotW in terms of feeling. I'd love to visit Hyrule between missions and have some Zelda like puzzle elements. So basically I'm hoping for BotW with musou elements
@fafonio I felt exactly the same, and I didn't finish the game on the tiny 3DS XL screen.
@Rhaoulos i would love that idea really excited for this game 😄
Koei Tecmo will, not Nintendo. KT is the publisher in Japana nd the game will be on TGS.
@fafonio It was "repetitive AF" and you still put in 150 hours? Not sure if that's dedication or madness.
@blockfight haha well.. a bit of both. I've always been a huge Zelda fan since the NES, so I've always 100%'d every Zelda ever. So, why would this be different? I started doing it... enjoyed the main campaign but well.. it was meh.... then I decided to go for the boards.
"Ok this was repetitive, maybe the next board is better" and so I went for around 100 hours.... (maybe its less, but it was still a lot) and then decided that this would be the ONLY ZELDA I would never finish because it was a chore and a torture... not a game.
I realized it too late. Since then I stay away from every Warriors game. This will be the first Zelda I won't buy day one, but I'd like to be proved wrong by Nintendo.... just put more effort into the game and supervise whatever the hell Tecmo is thinking about this game. It hurts to say it... but I'm not excited about this game
I prefer this so much to not knowing. It's still torture, but at least there's light at the end of the tunnel.
@blockfight Thats the warriors curse. They are very shallow and repetitive by design but they are extremely addicting.
@fafonio
I doubt it but it would be funny if they keep hiding the base claiming structure of the game so people will keep acting like this is a legit prequel to Botw rather than a spin-off inspired by it. Nothing in the first game makes me excited for the story segments unless they’ve been vastly changed to match the feel Botw instead of a bunch of text pops up with character artwork.
Dont need to see anymore, thanks, just GIVE IT TO ME!!
Anyone who is hoping for a Zelda game with musou elements is not managing expectations correctly. This is a KT's musou game through and through like the rest, with Zelda elements and story.
Really looking forward to this, the maps do look more interesting then the first game and I'm hoping for a bit of actual Zelda style gameplay thrown into the mix too
Nice! Treasure Box Edition:
https://twitter.com/GrayTendo/status/1304320117040467969?s=19
@Ardisan In that case I look forward to being addicted to this one.
@fafonio This is the first "Warriors" style game I will have played. And BOTW was the first Zelda game I ever played. So I'm coming at it from a very different angle to you.
BOTW is my favourite game so anything that allows me to jump back into that world is welcome news. Hopefully I find this game exciting to play, would hate for it to turn into a chore to complete.
@blockfight Hopefully you enjoy it. Just don’t go in expecting a Zelda adventure. And grinding... lots and lots of grinding.
We know it's release date, we know if we are getting it. Subject to reviews maybe. We don't need drip feed parts of the game.
I've got three Super Mario games arriving next week, which will keep me ok until Christmas, when God's and Monsters or what ever the new name is, arrives, if Santa got my letter.
So Pikmin, Hyrule Warriors and Super Mario 3d will all have to take a back seat.
Nintendo have not planned their release dates very well this year and the spanner in the works is the limited on sale time for Mario all Stars and the full asking price for what are essentially old games, Pikmin, and the two Mario releases.
Tap here to load 18 comments
Leave A Comment
Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...