Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment In-Store Demos Now Available (North America)

Also got to try it out, and really was impressed by it!

The music sounds good.

Nice, good to see that they did this just like with Age of Calamity.

Edit: Oh wait, it's just in-store demos. Guess I won't be trying it before buying it then...

If there's an in-store demo, then there is a solid chance we get an eShop demo a few months later down the line, much like Bananza. Of course, MKW didn't get this treatment, so it doesn't come as a guarantee, either.

Don't get it why they just can't release a demo in the eShop in 2025.

@1UP-HUSKY Agreed. Every big game should have a demo. I don't plan on buying it, but a demo could have changed my mind.

@Rhaoulos @1UP-HUSKY I assume retailers paid Nintendo for the rights to have the demo in their stores before it comes to the eShop, in an attempt to entice people to actually go to a physical store in 2025.

Surprised there isn't a demo on the eShop, like Age of Calamity had. Not that I really need one.

Seems fair and makes sense: it's always good to remind people that physical stores do still exist. It's easy to forget and you can't easily tell anymore from walking through the inner city either.

That said, I don't know of any store in my area that ever had Switch demo station and I'd would like to try the game for sure. Hence I hope there'll be a demo on the eshop eventually. Even a short one would be fine as long as we get some representative content so we can have a feel for the game and the technical side of things.

"The full game will once again arrive next week.."

I find it very hard to belive that in 2025 the FULL of any game will arrive next week. The base game, first part, opening section, whatever you want to call it, but full ain't it. Heck a very single player game like DK Bananza had a big part of that released a few months after release and who knows how long they'll be adding content to that before the full game is done.

Full game.🤣

I'll buy this next year when hopefully by then I can get the full game.👍

Anyone got any feedback on this on switch 2

Tried it out a couple of days ago. The game looks so good undocked! Nice to see a new Warriors game running this well on Switch 2!

Played at Target Monday of last week, fans of the Warriors series will definitely enjoy this entry. Confirmed 10 min playtime

@rjejr Dude. I'm getting real tired of people making this ridiculous notion.

"There's any DLC at all, therefore it's not the full game!"

If there's a whole game that has a beginning and an end and the credits roll, it's a full game, for god's sake.

Yes, some games have had day one DLC, or had DLC on disc or cart, if you don't need it to complete the main bulk of the game, then it doesn't take away from it.

@MegaVel91 Agreed. DLC doesn’t mean the original game was missing anything, it just adds more to it. A game can be full and finished even if it later gets extra content because the additional content is usually optional and not necessary to complete a game.

It's possible the person who argued against this is actually referring to how some early access games operate, I think. But that's not Nintendo.

I am very excited for Age of Imprisonment! Getting to experience Zelda's side of the story in one of my favorite LoZ games has me very hyped! Can't wait to play this with my partner using GameShare on day one! We were big fans of Age of Calamity.

@rjejr Yes, they're just releasing the "opening section" or "first part" now for 70€ and the other 98% of the game are a 20€ DLC next year.
That definitely happens regularly. Oh wait, it doesn't.
A DLC expansion or add on content doesn't mean the fully complete story this game is telling is suddenly just the "opening section".
It doesn't make any sense to act like anyone would ever call it like that.
Or what do you think is gonna happen? Only the first battle is available at launch?

DK Bananza's DLC is just inconsequential add on content that you don't need at all. It's not necessary and not really worth the money anyways.

@Liam_Doolan Oh sure blame the company PR. 😉 (I mean why wouldn't they call it full when they have so many people defending them. Could only be half, see MK8D before the $25 season pass. I mean Amazon offers FREE shipping for $140. 🤑 Words don't matter anymore.)

@BTB20 See the HW dlc below. Much more than what DKB was. Well so far. Also these days plenty of $60 or $70 games get pricey dlc. I mean season passes are a thing.

@MegaVel91 Dude, a baseball game is 9 innings. They played 9 innings tonight and everyone should have just gone home, why keep going. You bought a ticket for 9 innings, you got 9 innings, go home.

Do you know what they call the edition of a video game when they release it post launch including the dlc? "Complete edition". If the game is complete at launch how is it also complete when it includes the dlc? Schrodinger's video game.🤷‍♂️ See Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition and The Witcher 3 Complete Edition as examples.

For a website where so many people lose their minds b/c game key carts don't contain the complete game you want to argue that a part of the game is the full game?

To be fair to HW: AOC it might be full. Or full enough that it wouldn't matter. In that case fine, I waited for nothing. But the dlc for the 1st HW was significant. I'm glad I played. So I'll wait for the full game.

Look at all the extra content for HW. Do you still consider that launch part to be the full game?

https://koei.fandom.com/wiki/Hyrule_Warriors/DLC

Hyrule Warriors Master Quest Pack
Was released in October. Includes:

A new weapon for Link: Epona
A new, 5-part scenario: Cia's Tale
A new Adventure Mode Map
Comes with new 8-bit weapons for select characters as well as palette swap costumes for the whole cast.
2 new costumes: Pre-corrupted Cia & Lana Variation
Twilight Princess Pack
Was released in November. Includes:

A new character: Twili Midna
A new weapon for Princess Zelda: Dominion Rod
A new Adventure Mode Map
Comes with new 8-bit weapons and palette swap costumes for select characters.
2 new costumes: a Postman costume for Link and an Ilia costume for Zelda
Majora's Mask Pack
Will be released in February in the Americas, but in January everywhere else. Includes:

2 new characters: Young Link & Tingle
A new Adventure Mode Map
Comes with new 8-bit weapons and mask costumes for select characters.
3 new costumes: Ocarina of Time costumes for Sheik and Impa as well as a Skull Kid costume for Lana.
Boss Pack
Will be released in North America on March while other regions receive it one month earlier. Includes 2 new game modes: Boss Challenge and Play as Ganon.

Beating Boss Challenge Mode for the first time unlocks new costumes for Link, Zelda, and Lana.
Beating Play as Ganon Mode for the first time unlocks new costumes for Ganondorf and Cia.

@rjejr ‘Schrodinger's video game…’ very good 😆

@AmplifyMJ Thanks. I'm glad someone got it. 👍

@Liam_Doolan Considering it's a video game in 2025 I'd be more surprised if it didn't. The only game releasing in 2025 not getting dlc is MKW for some reason. Other games not getting dlc don't count b/c they're Switch games w/ dlc already added. 😎

Man, why are you dealing w/ my nonsense on the weekend. You guys at NL need to form a union. No nonsense on the weekends. 😁

@rjejr It certainly never hurts to wait for a price drop or an ultimate release, but you could be waiting awhile. That’s why I appreciate Sakurai-san outright saying there are no plans for Kirby Airriders DLC; you know there’s no point waiting on that one

@Antraxx777 Yeah I'm probably picking up Kirby before the holidays, I feel pretty good about that one, despite the $250 worth of hardware dlc in the form of amiibo. They don't seem to unlock anything in game. Though for $250 those 5 amiibo should unlock the entire game.

Though Sakurai also once said no dlc was planned for Smash, so there is that.

@rjejr Yes, I do, for the original HW, because it was a complete experience on it's own. Everything else that came after, no matter how massive the overall game is, is extra. The Definitive Edition having everything from the Wii U release, on the Switch is just an even bigger reason to double dip for it. Especially since on Switch 2 it runs at a full 60fps. Which looks and feels very nice.

It's wasn't stuff picked up off the cutting room floor. It was stuff planned to be added after launch for the Wii U release, to give people incentive to keep playing well beyond the original release and the original stuff the game had. So the idea that the existence of DLC makes a game "incomplete" is complete nonsense. You can finish the game with, or without it. It's entirely a choice driven decision.

Example, I have beaten the main story of DK Bananza, but I haven't bothered getting the DK Island DLC, because as cool as a modern reinvention of DK Island is for a modern DK game, what it comes with doesn't interest me. And I already paid a sum of money for the game as it is.

Also your baseball analogy makes no sense at all. You stay for the extra Innings because the game isn't finished, but that's because of rules and reasons that are inherent to the game itself, for example, a Tie Game, and the need for a tiebreaker.

That's nowhere near the same for video games. Let alone ones like Hyrule Warriors as a series. The stuff the game has all packaged in at launch, is the original, complete experience. Any DLC afterwards, is an add-on that is completely optional. Unlike extra Innings in baseball.