Hopefully they smooth out the frame rate, it's kind of rough.
Other than that, I like what I'm playing so far.
Other than that, I like what I'm playing so far.
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Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity Demo out today! (Save carries over to full game)
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I don't know how long is it. I just got the Gallery music playing now lol
It's a lot of fun! Same-old mindless Musou fun, but fun nonetheless. REALLY digging Impa's gameplay, and I like how so far the two characters we have play somewhat differently in terms of their unique abilities and the ways they can make combos. Stopped after beating the first mission, but looking forward to tinkering around with whatever else the demo has to offer. Hopefully the additional systems (cooking, leveling up characters and weapons apparently, etc.) will add enough little flavoring to the core game to keep it from being too much mindless Musou gameplay. If not, well, at least I get to watch Link and co. look super badass.
Thinking about how frequently
time travel
shows up in the Zelda timeline, it's entirely plausible that they always tried to use that to win the war once it was obvious they were losing.
Something like the Time War from Doctor Who, where once the Time Lords started losing they went into their vaults and started trying everything they found there. Something like that wouldn't be out of place here
this being Hyrule Warriors and BotW smooshed together is kinda tripping me out lol
The music is great so far. Fits well within BotW, while being a bit more action packed
The music is great so far. Fits well within BotW, while being a bit more action packed
they totally did this time travel thing so they can end the game with an alternate future where Hyrule is saved, right? So the game can have a "happy" ending that doesn't involve everyone dead
This is fantastic. I'm having a blast with the demo. Every character is very unique and the attacks feel super powerful, which is what I want in a musou.
My only issue is the framerate is a bit... wonky sometimes, but it's probably because it's a demo. Hopefully it's less noticeable/frequent in the final build.
My only issue is the framerate is a bit... wonky sometimes, but it's probably because it's a demo. Hopefully it's less noticeable/frequent in the final build.
Yeah if all or most of what we're imagining turns out to be true, I'll be pretty pissed. If it had just been revealed as a BotW fanservice sequel from the start I wouldn't care, but why lead us to believe it's a canon prequel only to change events for fanservice? They could have made a story between BotW and BotW2 with dimension hopping Champions having to defeat the Yiga and Mystery Sorcerer and been much more straightforward about it. Instead I fear we won't get those moments everyone was excited about: the Champions might live, Link might live, Zelda might not get to fight Ganon... I hope I'm wrong.
That can actually balance the time travel, as both sides got something to travel back in time
Nah. I still think it's gonna follow everyone dying. Just it's gonna be a bit more convoluted which I didn't want.
in fact. The new time travel stuff actually leads me to believe it's somehow will tie to BOTW2 which I didn't think it would before.
Thank you
i've been trying to place why this theme sounded familiar since the demo but couldn't figure it out.
They're absolutely not missing a chance to throw in some BotW2 stingers. Even I thought that and I've always thought this game would be extremely faithful
I don't really see the problem with it given that time travel in general is a staple of the franchise and used heavily so often that this is just an extension of that.
We haven't seen any data thus far to insinuate that there's going to be "happy" endings for everything but the short answer to that is this is not canon (or is it? Who knows.)
If they change things in the plot to fit this new scenario at least it's established from the first cutscenes what's going on versus FF7R's approach of "Hey here's some spoopy ghosts but also lol here's a bunch of random extra shit."
I think the "tone" of the first scene was such that we'll still have either heavy moments or bad ends for everyone involved, and even if we don't, we know it's not canon due to the way BOTW plays out. If I end up being wrong and they cancel out BOTW then yeah we can talk, but I don't think they're stupid enough to do that.
If anything this will be used to bring in more characters and more things into the game to play with and more spinoff chapters, which I don't see as a problem so long as there's a "true" ending that matches the original intent.
I hope this is the case, would explain why it's in a box in Zelda's room yet nobody has ever seen it before.
There's still some inconsistencies with BotW that really bug me, likr the central tower and him being appointed Zelda's knight in a different way than described in BotW. I really hope that this game isn't too retcon happy or even worse, not the canon prequel we were lead to believe it was.
I don't see how it's not canon when the website for the game says stuff like "this is the only way to experience first hand what happened 100 years ago"
I mean "this is the only way to experience it" still doesn't equate to canon and/or doesn't equate to alternate timeline of events.
We'll just have to see in the main game. Compared to FF7R redoing an entire story I know and character beats and motivations, adding in some runes and towers and slightly altering events (as of now) is far less of a transgression to me, especially in a franchise that uses time as often it does.
Even if this is "canon" it being an alternate timeline by way of time travelling eggbot still leaves them with a completely separate group of events to play with that will be similar to the canon events (hopefully) in the big beats.
I mean we know Akkala at least gets wrecked. Even if there's a "good end" and "true end" to all the missions I'll still enjoy it. Having bad guy missions and alternate "bad guys win" scenarios isn't a deal breaker for me personally.
The attachment to "canon" in a series that constantly stomps on and/or changes its canon was long since lost on me.
And FF7R was advertised as a remake. I hope Nintendo isn't pulling a fast one on us here, would really make me wish they didn't bother and just made a Hyrule Warriors 2 if they did that.
Oh yeah, if there's alternate endings and stuff that's fine. But I want the original story chronicled here at least
from that first teaser FF7R definitely seemed like it was going to reimagine a lot. The tone of AoC has always been "you know that story in the background of BotW? We're gonna show it to you"
Just jumped into the thread - wait, what?
so this isn't the canon prequel we were expecting? It's some alt reality thing?
so this isn't the canon prequel we were expecting? It's some alt reality thing?
Just played the first mission. Gameplay was super fun! Especially Impa. Just wish it ran a little better. It's definitely framey. But after a bit my eyes ajdusted so I guess it's alright.
The music in the map menu is so good!!
Also a lil story observation:
The music in the map menu is so good!!
Also a lil story observation:
was it known that the little guardian was a time traveler? Unsure how I feel about that. I hope this doesn't end up being a side story where the heroes win in the end.
Has anyone tried to overclock the Switch to see how it runs? Good fucking lord what an atrocious framerate, I still have a launch Switch so this game may finally be the one to get me to look into it.
They need to work out the frame rate personally, it's rough.
Very fun and a instant buy for me. I walked in with low expectations and had fun. I need a game like this. This also shot my desire for BOTW2 like crazy lol
I thought this would suck - last mousou I played was ages ago and I didn't like it.
Ended up loving this despite frame rate issues. A large part is the Zelda fan service, but whatever.
Ended up loving this despite frame rate issues. A large part is the Zelda fan service, but whatever.
One can hope, it's playable but sometimes frame rate tanks when chests appear or too many things going on screen.
Possible, but the only the time I know of a game on switch where the final product had noticeable improvements over the demo(s) was Daemon X Machina.
We don't know. There's several ways to pull of a time travel story(one being alt timeline, another is it already happened and the main results cannot be changed). Too little to know for sure
Oh man, I'm super impressed with this game. That opening is unexpected. I can tell they're going to get the tone right with this game.
I'd assumed they would do Hyrule Warriors with a BOTW skin, but it's not.
there's so many little changes and thoughtful pieces that's cearly built from the ground up.
The Koroks, Cooking, Skull Chests, the Shiekah Slate.
I must admit I have no idea how Impa plays or WTF i'm doing, but I'm winning (it's awesome too!).
I suppose that's one complaint. A lot of casual gamers enjoyed BOTW and its chill pace. This game is a bit mad with what it throws at you, hopefully doesn't turn anyone off.
But that's the nature of an action game I suppose, it looks like a lot is going on but you can coast through it with little worry.
I'd assumed they would do Hyrule Warriors with a BOTW skin, but it's not.
there's so many little changes and thoughtful pieces that's cearly built from the ground up.
The Koroks, Cooking, Skull Chests, the Shiekah Slate.
I must admit I have no idea how Impa plays or WTF i'm doing, but I'm winning (it's awesome too!).
I suppose that's one complaint. A lot of casual gamers enjoyed BOTW and its chill pace. This game is a bit mad with what it throws at you, hopefully doesn't turn anyone off.
But that's the nature of an action game I suppose, it looks like a lot is going on but you can coast through it with little worry.
Why are people thinking it's non canon? I haven't touched the demo.
If it's not canon I won't be picking it up, as I've had my fill of HW with the first one
If it's not canon I won't be picking it up, as I've had my fill of HW with the first one
time traveling egg guardian that travels from at the peak calamity to pre-calamity. There's nothing to say this is non-canon just makes some believe it won't be
