Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity Demo out today! (Save carries over to full game)
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I didn't have much of a problem with the performance, but my game completely froze when I nearly had mission 2 completed and god damn, I wasn't going through all that again.
if you have a musou with a stable framerate you don't have enough enemies on screen
(I'd love a stable framerate but its just something you live with)
Having played a ton of HW1 I like the small changes they've made to the gameplay here. The slate abilities are a huge step up from the items in the first game that you would pretty much never actually use for combat unless a boss or environmental puzzle required one. The only downside is that the performance kinda sucks but it's probably just an old build, and even if it isn't I can easily look past it.
Hw was a small change to the classic Warriors formula
Probably Persona S is the next step
Hw AOC clearly is the evolution imho
So after being apprehensive about this with the earlier talk of bad performance I played the demo and........I'm a bit taken aback with calling this unplayable. It dosn't run great but to me its perfectly playable. I might have a higher tolerence for bad performance though.
Havnt played a musou in a very long time, this seemed like a lot of fun and I am interested where they are taking the story. Hope we get to see the calamity as how it happened and not some alternate reality though.
Havnt played a musou in a very long time, this seemed like a lot of fun and I am interested where they are taking the story. Hope we get to see the calamity as how it happened and not some alternate reality though.
I'm not happy with those character icons... I'm now convinced this means the game is not a canon prequel, ugh... Get ready for the time travelling young champions to save the day and give us all the happy ending no one asked for. :/
The framerate didn't bug me too much, maybe I'm just used to it from Hyrule Warriors. What does bug me is how blurry the game is, the anti aliasing makes it look worse than BotW and Hyrule Warriors.
Yeah I can see some characters being post game/story content.
ohhhhh....wow
looked at the opening again and you are correct, they all have two champions on them each
also the egg guardian was added to the tapestry as well
also the egg guardian was added to the tapestry as well
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Agreed, it feels like 20-25fps paired with seriously horrible frame pacing.
If this actually happens then Aonuma weirdly doesn't understand why people wanted to see the events 100 years prior to BotW. Seriously, if they are trying pull a fast one and this is an alternate timeline I wouldhave rathered they just make a sequel to Hyrule Warriors than get our hopes up like this.
Nobody having ever seen the little guardian before but it being in a box in Zelda's room when Ganon returns coupled with the evil little guardian makes me hopeful this isn't the case and we just have a time loop.
Nobody having ever seen the little guardian before but it being in a box in Zelda's room when Ganon returns coupled with the evil little guardian makes me hopeful this isn't the case and we just have a time loop.
Till now the demo ist just amazing! So fluid, awesome design of hyrule, great movesets!
I'm no hardcore gamer...i dont see how many frames there are or whatever...i just enjoy it. My girlfriend is playing it on her Switch to, and she loves it to right now!!
I'm no hardcore gamer...i dont see how many frames there are or whatever...i just enjoy it. My girlfriend is playing it on her Switch to, and she loves it to right now!!
wrong fire emblem warriors is the evolution. AOC picked up some of the good stuff from fire emblem warriors though. too bad that there are no mounts so far
Hmm, so the box that fell off the shelf containing the small egg guardian, I wonder if that's an actual place/room you can visit in BotW.
With the character icons we've got, it looks like there won't be a mission for getting Link's body to the Shrine of Resurrection (since that would be a Robbie & Purah mission, and there's no icons for them), unless they do a major retcon of how that happened. So that's one late game BotW event that we probably won't be getting. Unless that's a villain chapter and we're Kohga and we're trying to stop them?
It's yes, you can, there's a memory right near there and one of Zelda's journals in there.
It honestly seems more likely to be a time loop. Either that or BOTW's memories was what happened originally, with AOC being the version with the Egg Guardian that tried to fix things, only to end up doing the complete opposite and worst
With the time travel and there being 2 guardians on each divine beast in the tapestry in the opening it looks like this game is actually going to be an alternate timeline anyways...
The fact we're everywhere from 20 to 60fps here makes me even more convinced all these unlocked framerates are indeed because of an incoming Switch Pro.
ill probably still love the game and should trust them, but yeah, this wouldn't be why this appealed to me so much at ALL. I really look forward to that Purah and Robbie scene :(
we have map icons for upgrades and armor separate of that though, just like how Hetsu has his marracas separate
or just an epilogue
As for the 2 champions on the tapestry, I wouldn't worry about that. That could just be a reference to the original anonymous champions from 10,000 years ago and the AoC Champions. It doesn't have to be referring to the BotW characters, who are never called Champions, or even Champions-in-training, by anyone, even themselves.
But unlike Fire Emblem Warriors, they haven't implemented a separate mode that locks to 30fps. And I've played plenty of Musou - this is a bad one performance-wise.
To be fair, this game being advertised as a canon prequel to a game that left a lot of its backstory to the player's imagination is a valid reason for people to be upset when it looks like the prequel won't match with what they know/were expecting.
To be fair, it can still be that, in a "the future refused to change" kinda way. The information we have so far is limited.
The tapestry at the beginning has two champions per Divine Beast, it seems they really are going the alternate timeline route...
Did they ever say it was canon or we just collectively assumed, though?
Hyrule Warriors had very varied objectives so maybe it's not being mentioned much because it was expected?
I expected it personally, since it is a sequel of sorts.
They said the Zelda team wrote it and that it was the events 100 years before BotW, the implication seems clear.
I just thought it was worth noting given it's a first-party-published title and there's been a trend of unlocked framerates that aren't quite stable, Link's Awakening for example. I get what you're saying though - I didn't expect smooth for a Musou, I just expected better than this.
Oof, this feels really bad to play due to the performance imo.
At times there seems to be like half a second of Delay after button presses.
I really hope the performance will be better In the final game or I'll pass.
At times there seems to be like half a second of Delay after button presses.
I really hope the performance will be better In the final game or I'll pass.
DQH2 is probably my favorite musou and imo the best battle system.
but maybe it doesn't count as classic warriors formula actually, so disqualified lol. It's close to Team APRG
So you're saying that all games with unlocked framerates are because of Switch Pro?
Not necessarily, people have just been noticing a trend lately and there was a report that claimed that developers were asked to leave framerates unlocked.
I didn't expect to be reminded of that awesome Return of the King game from the PS2 by this, but it definitely gave me similar vibes.
I was mildly interested before but now I'm getting it for sure. I'm not even that much of a Zelda fan except for Breath of the Wild but all the fan service got me good.
I was mildly interested before but now I'm getting it for sure. I'm not even that much of a Zelda fan except for Breath of the Wild but all the fan service got me good.
I don't think any word in any language causes Nintendo to quake with fear more than "canon," so, no, I don't recall that they ever used that word. But the implication was pretty clear.
Well, they always said "based on the events 100 years prior to BotW", so even though it's the most logic interpretation, they never outright said it was supposed to be exactly what happened.
