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Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity | Review Thread
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Seems like if you can handle the story not being a true, exact re-telling of BoTW its a solid 8.5 / 9. Awesome. Hopefully the frame rate sees some improvement patches (much like the original BoTW did)
From the Eurogamer review:
Hopefully DF actually finds time to look at it. And if the Switch Pro exists, this should be one of the first games they test.
Hopefully DF actually finds time to look at it. And if the Switch Pro exists, this should be one of the first games they test.
They have some of the most solid gameplay in the genre so that helps a lot
He likes musous if I remember right so I wouldn't rule it out
The Kotaku review is a trip.
Yeah maybe if we get a more powerful switch id be interested in it. But the performance is abysmal.
The Kotaku review is a trip.
Thats all I needed to read tbh
Though their thoughts on Zelda as a playable character just show that they don't actually understand how to play her and gave up on trying and just said "bad character, unplayable" (they literally said unplayable)
Without reading spoilers and simply based upon my playing the demo, watching some of the Nintendo promos, and YouTube Zelda theory I'm thinking this game is going to both explain things about the state of the kingdom pre and mid calamity forever lost to time/legend while setting the stage for much to come in the botw sequel, theme and character-wise. I guess I mean that it will provide player context that characters in BoTW 2 might lack initially.
Time manipulation is not some cop out, it is integral to the history of the Sheikah and Demise's curse
the reviews are as expected
Time manipulation is not some cop out, it is integral to the history of the Sheikah and Demise's curse
the reviews are as expected
Saw some videos online and it seems the framerate is still very low. The demo legit gave me headaches, I wish I was less sensitive about this, but I can't buy this game in this state.
Hopefully the switch pro is real and I can play this there, because this game really interested me as my 1st musou game.
Hopefully the switch pro is real and I can play this there, because this game really interested me as my 1st musou game.
I'm not sure what he means by "best in its genre" though. Especially as he references fanservice, plot thingies and stuff.
Also he's not exactly the most severe reviewer of this site :p
Anyways, looks like a solid game alright.
Kinda bummed that it appears to be a non-cannonical take on the events from 100 years ago. I was really hyped for a prequel in the traditional sense, and seeing them resort to time travel shenanigans to justify a happy ending hurts a bit because it kept us from getting a tragic masterpiece that would've worked incredibly well with BotW and its sequel, making it a legendary Zelda trilogy.
yeah, seriously. What the hell. This severely undermines my excitement for this game. I'm not even sure I want to play it anymore.
I can't tell if they didn't want a torna ending or they needed more playable characters and adjusted story to accommodate.
But lots of the reviews praise / like the story? The fact that some dislike it for straying too far from an exact re-telling of BoTW lore doesn't mean its bad, some people are just so invested in that story and are annoyed its not been followed - many others don't mind it going off path and like it.
Or maybe they just went with the story because they preferred it / thought it was better and more interesting? Not everything is some conspiracy
Many like it - many dislike it because it strays away from the events of BoTW
I'm confused as well.
Some say it's not what we were expecting, some say it's just a re-telling of those flashbacks in BOTW, there's opinions all over the place.
Im guessing it sits in the "good for Zelda" territory like Skyward Sword.
I love BOTW along with the lore and I am okay with a Non-Canon story. It is a musou game. I do not play them for the story, but having a decent story is a bonus.
All we can really tell right now is that it seems to be divisive.
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Work on what, dude? I'm answering the question presented by the thread and giving the reasoning for my answer.
What's the deal with the story then?
Is there an ending which leads to BotW or just alternate endings?
Is there an ending which leads to BotW or just alternate endings?
Well I guess I shouldn't have said 'much to come', but that light will be shed on stuff that character's journals and Link's memories didnt touch or never could have touched in botw
if they are actually putting forth an alternate history where champions survive and there's no need for a Breath of the Wild because the root of the conflict is taken care of without need for putting Link in a 100 year stasis... well then I'd be confused why they called it age of calamity or why Aonuma talked about how it tells the story of what happened before breath of the wild. Whatever I don't want to derail a review thread, but if it effectively resets itself by the end and implies 'wow look at how bad it COULD have been. Good thing all this crazy stuff happened that nobody will ever remember' yea I will be disappointed
Basically the consensus seems to be the story is great until the ending where it's pretty much a cop-out, because Nintendo.
I feel like we should be careful when talking about the story in this thread. Even if you don't explicitly say what happens, saying things like non-canonical or cop out or happy ending can be a spoiler, IMO. Maybe use spoiler tags?
It is a good story that punishes people who care about zelda canon which is not a surprise because... when those people were NOT punished ? =P
The Kotaku review is a trip.
Boy that's some hyperbole.
I must be one of the few people perfectly happy it its own story - I already know what happened in BoTW, saw a lot of it in flashbacks or through enviromental story telling / journals etc. Your imagination can fill in those blanks.
Also the characters are the big appeal for me and it sounds as though they feature very predominantly, it being more Zelda's story than Links. Sounds kind of like what most people complain about with Zelda being sidelined have been very much corrected here. Sadly it seems to be getting downplayed because its not the story some people wanted. Can never win when it comes to Zelda lore / story lol
So I'm reading stuff from the other thread that seems to indicate events in this game contradict BotW's memories and its DLC. So the whole plot is essentially an alternate story to begin with.
Mine:
https://www.gamereactor.es/hyrule-warriors-la-era-del-cataclismo-analisis/
Never been this hooked to a musou, great integration of BotW lore and especially mechanics.
Gamereactor ES, 8/10
https://www.gamereactor.es/hyrule-warriors-la-era-del-cataclismo-analisis/
Never been this hooked to a musou, great integration of BotW lore and especially mechanics.
Gamereactor ES, 8/10
Is there someone on the internet who broke down the story completely? I don't care about spoilers; I want to know everything about this game's story.
thanks
thanks
...Sarcasm? This is a review thread. Reviews have said as much as that person did. If you don't want any inklings of story consensus, stay out of review threads.
That AoC isn't strictly speaking a prequel was already obvious from the demo. The question has always been how they resolve those deviations. Some seem to like it, others don't.
So in the end, this isn't canon to the main game's story? Well that's a shame, more if it's for the reason mentioned in this thread. Will wait and see if performance was improved because that demo was hard to play, if not then maybe the rumored Switch Pro may help.