Walmart has
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Nintendo Switch Digital Download Code) on sale for
$39.99.
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- 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
Top Comments
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 HW
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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 HW
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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 HW
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 HW
HW
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 HW
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 HW
Basically... HW: AOC has more interesting character play but the farming, weapon system, and lack of overall content (HW
If I could play AOC on PC, I would. I sank... 700? hours into HW
EDIT also:
The encounters in AOC are typically much more difficult to get throough than they are on HW
HW
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 HW
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 HW
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:
HW
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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