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Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Nintendo Switch Digital Download Code)

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Walmart has Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Nintendo Switch Digital Download Code) on sale for $39.99.

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About this game:
  • Experience the events of the Great Calamity 100 years before the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild game
  • Dozens of gripping cutscenes shed new light on characters like Zelda, the four Champions, the King of Hyrule, and more
  • Play as characters like Link, Zelda and more and learn their distinct attacks and combat styles
  • The four Champions are playable for the first time
  • See a lively Hyrule before it was ravaged by Calamity Ganon

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  • About this deal:
    • Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Nintendo Switch Digital Download Code) is priced $20 lower (33.3% savings) than the $59.99 list price.
    • Redeem your code in the eShop app on your Switch console or via your account here at Nintendo.com.
  • About this product:
    • This has a 4.7 out of 5 star overall rating on Amazon based on over 800 reviews.
    • Rated 7.9 / 10 on Metacritic.
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Walmart has Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Nintendo Switch Digital Download Code) on sale for $39.99.

Thanks to Deal Editor RevOne for finding this deal.
  • Note: A free demo is available here.
About this game:
  • Experience the events of the Great Calamity 100 years before the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild game
  • Dozens of gripping cutscenes shed new light on characters like Zelda, the four Champions, the King of Hyrule, and more
  • Play as characters like Link, Zelda and more and learn their distinct attacks and combat styles
  • The four Champions are playable for the first time
  • See a lively Hyrule before it was ravaged by Calamity Ganon

Editor's Notes

Written by SlickDealio | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Nintendo Switch Digital Download Code) is priced $20 lower (33.3% savings) than the $59.99 list price.
    • Redeem your code in the eShop app on your Switch console or via your account here at Nintendo.com.
  • About this product:
    • This has a 4.7 out of 5 star overall rating on Amazon based on over 800 reviews.
    • Rated 7.9 / 10 on Metacritic.
  • About this store:
Expired:

Amazon has Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Nintendo Switch Digital Download Code) on sale for $39.99.

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This game is a great entry in the dynasty warriors crossover series with hyrule.

Way better in difficulty/mechanics than Hyrule Warriors 1.

However, much shittier in terms of amount of content AND performance. Holy hell.


Its such an obvious problem too - the item drop notification absolutely murders framerate. If they tweaked the overlay, or let you turn it off, the problem would go away... Instead... they don't care. So


Good game, marred by bad performance on a platform that isn't really up to snuff (the switch).


Now, Hyrule Warriors 1 (Definitive edition) has none of these performance issues... because it was developed for the Wii U, ported to the 3DS, and finally ported to its final form on the Switch.

If i had to pick between recommending one Hyrule Warriors Game, it would always be HWE. AOC is great in its own right, but DE is a more polished experience.
As a huge Zelda fan I was disappointed by this. Lots of boring arcade style fighting. I'd rather just watch a streamer play it. And the story really doesn't tie to BOTW like people thought it would. It's just another timeline.

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This is tempting.. I want to get Breath of the Wild first. I need that digital, and it's not even for sale on Amazon anymore!
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As a huge Zelda fan I was disappointed by this. Lots of boring arcade style fighting. I'd rather just watch a streamer play it. And the story really doesn't tie to BOTW like people thought it would. It's just another timeline.
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This game is a great entry in the dynasty warriors crossover series with hyrule.

Way better in difficulty/mechanics than Hyrule Warriors 1.

However, much shittier in terms of amount of content AND performance. Holy hell.


Its such an obvious problem too - the item drop notification absolutely murders framerate. If they tweaked the overlay, or let you turn it off, the problem would go away... Instead... they don't care. So


Good game, marred by bad performance on a platform that isn't really up to snuff (the switch).


Now, Hyrule Warriors 1 (Definitive edition) has none of these performance issues... because it was developed for the Wii U, ported to the 3DS, and finally ported to its final form on the Switch.

If i had to pick between recommending one Hyrule Warriors Game, it would always be HWBig GrinE. AOC is great in its own right, but DE is a more polished experience.
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Fire_Thief_
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I've got the first game digitally, so I am good on passing on this one for now. I still need to get BotW when it goes on sale digitally again. I'm ready for it!
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Glad to see I'm not the only one who loved the first Hyrule Warriors game, but was not impressed with Age of Calamity. The storyline just didn't resonate for me at all. I had an overpowered team by the end with a select few characters including terminator Zelda that could destroy anything without much difficulty. I have zero desire to go back and re-play it, whereas the original Hyrule Warriors has great nostalgia and re-play value for me.
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Quote from mastermc54 :
Glad to see I'm not the only one who loved the first Hyrule Warriors game, but was not impressed with Age of Calamity. The storyline just didn't resonate for me at all. I had an overpowered team by the end with a select few characters including terminator Zelda that could destroy anything without much difficulty. I have zero desire to go back and re-play it, whereas the original Hyrule Warriors has great nostalgia and re-play value for me.
Repped for using the term "terminator Zelda" lol!
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Quote from Fire_Thief_ :
This is tempting.. I want to get Breath of the Wild first. I need that digital, and it's not even for sale on Amazon anymore!
The two games aren't comparable. They just look like each other.
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Quote from RockPasta :
This game is a great entry in the dynasty warriors crossover series with hyrule.

Way better in difficulty/mechanics than Hyrule Warriors 1.

However, much shittier in terms of amount of content AND performance. Holy hell.


Its such an obvious problem too - the item drop notification absolutely murders framerate. If they tweaked the overlay, or let you turn it off, the problem would go away... Instead... they don't care. So


Good game, marred by bad performance on a platform that isn't really up to snuff (the switch).


Now, Hyrule Warriors 1 (Definitive edition) has none of these performance issues... because it was developed for the Wii U, ported to the 3DS, and finally ported to its final form on the Switch.

If i had to pick between recommending one Hyrule Warriors Game, it would always be HWE. AOC is great in its own right, but DE is a more polished experience.
I feel like the fighting mechanics were much deeper than the first Hyrule Warriors. Though maybe I didn't put that much time in on the first one
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szetoa
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The first Hyrule Warriors was pretty fun, Upon playing the first 30 minutes of AOC, I was fairly disappointed in the mechanics of the game plus the frame rate issue.
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booyabojangles
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Loved this. Have 110 hours and counting put in. Certainly not for everyone but it's mindless and lots to grind
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Quote from RockPasta :
This game is a great entry in the dynasty warriors crossover series with hyrule.

Way better in difficulty/mechanics than Hyrule Warriors 1.

However, much shittier in terms of amount of content AND performance. Holy hell.


Its such an obvious problem too - the item drop notification absolutely murders framerate. If they tweaked the overlay, or let you turn it off, the problem would go away... Instead... they don't care. So


Good game, marred by bad performance on a platform that isn't really up to snuff (the switch).


Now, Hyrule Warriors 1 (Definitive edition) has none of these performance issues... because it was developed for the Wii U, ported to the 3DS, and finally ported to its final form on the Switch.

If i had to pick between recommending one Hyrule Warriors Game, it would always be HWBig GrinE. AOC is great in its own right, but DE is a more polished experience.
Thanks buddeh, your fwend just saved $40!
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jaytalent
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The physical version is the same price as well.
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RockPasta
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Quote from DonoTreplyOhNo :
I feel like the fighting mechanics were much deeper than the first Hyrule Warriors. Though maybe I didn't put that much time in on the first one
Definitely untrue.

HWBig GrinE... basically every commander is "at most two combo strings are useful, never use anything else"

Young Link is the token "spam magic power"

and uhh... let me think.. literally nobody else is even unique. Its just different flavors of essentially the same core mechanics.

HW: AoC some characters play wildly different than the others. Weapons and weapon choices are more.. interesting, but the weapon grinding system is 10000% worse than HWBig GrinE.

Big example of the characters playing wildly different are... the two spoiler characters in AoC are not merely combo spammers.

The birbs have a whole stance thing going for them.

The "giant" levels are more interesting.

The one uhh bad faction guy plays basically exactly like Zant in HWBig GrinE tho.


Basically... HW: AOC has more interesting character play but the farming, weapon system, and lack of overall content (HWBig GrinE has so many adventure maps) push it below HWBig GrinE for me. The performance being horrible is a kicker - but it DOES look much prettier than HWBig GrinE.

If I could play AOC on PC, I would. I sank... 700? hours into HWBig GrinE and its original version on the Wii U Combined. Without the DLC, AOC only took~150 To clear all the content in the game AND put everyone at max level (something I still havent done in HWBig GrinE).

EDIT also:

The encounters in AOC are typically much more difficult to get throough than they are on HWBig GrinE.

HWBig GrinE is so so so much "spam dodge and overlevel the content in order to A rank"

AOC was... well.. there are no ranks IIRC, just clearing stuff is gated by equipment, level, and mastering each boss fight (which are much harder bosses than HWBig GrinE has in it).

Another tradeoff for AOC, which can go either way for you, is that you very infrequently fight any of the playable characters. SO SO SO much of HWBig GrinE is just "fight an ai version of a playable character with buffs and sometimes a giant monster" and those fights are basically always slogs in HWBig GrinE because playable character WPG baiting is awful. The giant monster fights in AOC are frustrating, but only because they offer some level of mechanical challenge.

Put it this way: if you are able to clear AOC because you get mechanically good at the game, every other dynasty warriors game will be a joke to you. But thats what that franchise is all about - fanservice, easy, mindless gameplay. AOC diverges from this by having lots of QTE-ish prompts for killing things, and virtually no other way to expose WPG when you need em.


of the 3 'nintendo' dynasty warriors games, on switch i rank them as follows from best to worst:
HWBig GrinE because so much to do
HW: AOC because so well crafted, but awful performance
FE:W - because the game is a joke in difficulty (every character has an easily spammable combo that force exposes the WPG), the source content is not well transferred, there is only one big boss enemy,.... and it was way way way too easy to max out every character.
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Quote from Fire_Thief_ :
This is tempting.. I want to get Breath of the Wild first. I need that digital, and it's not even for sale on Amazon anymore!
Other than art this game has nothing to do with BOTW.

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