Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity

released on Nov 19, 2020

See Hyrule 100 years before the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild game and experience the events of the Great Calamity. Join the struggle that brought Hyrule to its knees. Learn more about Zelda, the four Champions, the King of Hyrule and more through dramatic cutscenes as they try to save the kingdom from Calamity. The Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity game is the only way to see firsthand what happened 100 years ago. Battle hordes of Hyrule’s most formidable foes. From barbaric Bokoblins to towering Lynels, menacing monsters have emerged in droves. In addition to Link and Zelda, take control of characters like the four Champions and a young Impa. Use their distinct abilities to carve through hundreds of enemies to save Hyrule from the impending Calamity.


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I think I enjoyed this game a lot more than most people in part because I wasn't that into Breath of the Wild and its lore so this game's more divisive writing decisions didn't bother me as much and in part because I'm just generally a huge Musou sucker and this game, mechanically speaking, is a very, very solid Musou game. Not as good as the original Hyrule Warriors but then few Musou games are. The movesets are largely great, there's a huge amount of content, and the system mechanics include a lot of super nice touches, like every character getting their own variations on the Sheikah Slate runes, and shield-wielding characters like Link and Urbosa getting to use the parry/reflection straight from BotW. There's just a lot to chew on and experiment with for fans of the genre.

That said, while I didn't consider it a deal breaker like some people, the performance definitely isn't ideal. I don't think it's a controversial statement to say this is like, the #1 game that would benefit from the existence of a Switch Pro. But it's also pretty old at this point so knowing Nintendo and Koei Tecmo they probably wouldn't even update this game to make use of the hardware lol

I don't know know what i really want to say about this game i was really hoping it would be an actually retelling of the events that had occurred 100 years prior to BOTW and was really enjoying it until its "fanservicey" parts. Was hoping this would be the crisis core to BOTW.

Seriously who the fuck likes these games? Why do they keep getting made? Is there a game behind the performance issues?

This would go up an entire star if it just followed the canon of BOTW and TOTK. They should’ve had the guts to have the ending be the champions dying, with Link and Zelda losing. The gameplay is pretty fun otherwise.

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huge disappointment they could have made one of the best zelda in terms of story but preferred to make an alternative story not canon to BOTW
despite this, it's still a very good hyrule warrior.