We can finally see what happened in the century before Breath of the Wild.
A new Hyrule Warriors game is going to tell the story of the Great Calamity later this year.
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is now available for preorder with a launch date of November 20. Designed to tell the story of the events that led to the state of Hyrule in Breath of the Wild, this new adventure is developed by Koei Tecmo in association with Nintendo.
Link, Zelda, "and more" are listed as playable in the game, including the four Champions from Breath of the Wild. Preordering the game digitally will unlock the "Lucky Ladle" weapon.
The standalone trailer indicates more information about the game will be available on September 26.
Even with playable Urbosa,
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This seems like the exact sort of game that a company makes when they realize they need something for the holidays and still have enough time to get something ready.
But it really does feel like after a strong start with the Switch, Nintendo has fallen into their old routine of infrequent releases. A Musou game is a good compliment to a strong lineup, not a high profile game in itself. The Switch benefits a lot from attracting decent third party support (which is a very good thing) and from Nintendo being able to recycle Wii U games that are "new" to most Switch owners. But shouldn't Nintendo have figured out this release schedule stuff by now? They've effectively run out of Wii U ports and the competition is starting a new console generation. This was the time to fix this problem and I feel like they've not taken that seriously because the Switch was so successful. Hey, didn't Nintendo rest on their laurels and not improve their deficiencies that LAST time they had a successful console?
But it really does feel like after a strong start with the Switch, Nintendo has fallen into their old routine of infrequent releases. A Musou game is a good compliment to a strong lineup, not a high profile game in itself. The Switch benefits a lot from attracting decent third party support (which is a very good thing) and from Nintendo being able to recycle Wii U games that are "new" to most Switch owners. But shouldn't Nintendo have figured out this release schedule stuff by now? They've effectively run out of Wii U ports and the competition is starting a new console generation. This was the time to fix this problem and I feel like they've not taken that seriously because the Switch was so successful. Hey, didn't Nintendo rest on their laurels and not improve their deficiencies that LAST time they had a successful console?
Seriously, look at the movie industry. Everything that wasn't either already finished or closed to finished has gotten delayed until 2021. Just being forced to stop production a few months, doesn't mean it's a clear few month delay either. There's still rules in place to limit the amount of time and people that can be around each other, as well as other safety precautions that have to be made as well. All of this can cause things to take longer to produce as well. So not only was development on major projects outright halted for 2-3 months, but current production is slower then it was before covid as well. So for some of the larger projects, it's very realistic that covid pushed them back at least 6 months because of the outright delay, and the slowing of development after.
Breath of the Wild is fantastic and I love these characters. Hope we get to play as Zelda and the Champions, which seems to be the case. Art style looks perfect too. Do these Musou games usually have co-op?
Wow, I didn't think Nintendo could possibly find a way to make Breath of the Wild's story any more inconsequential and boring. They sure proved me wrong.
Wow, I didn't think Nintendo could possibly find a way to make Breath of the Wild's story any more inconsequential and boring. They sure proved me wrong.
How many Zelda games/years until Nintendo breaks ya off completely. Or are we still in a bitter end mentality.
...Nintendo currently sits at 2 terrible Zelda games in a row (not counting the handheld games) with Skyward Sword & Breath of the Wild.(Note: I'm not arguing so much as conversing here, so take my thoughts with the grainiest of salts.)