Rating: ★★★★☆
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is a hack-and-slice game for the Nintendo Switch created by Omega Force, distributed by Koei Tecmo in Japan and by Nintendo around the world. It is a portion of Hyrule Warriors, a hybrid between Koei's Dynasty Warriors and Nintendo's Legend of Zelda. The game goes about as the prequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Period of Calamity is set for a worldwide release on November 20, 2020.
One thing we already know is that Princess Zelda and Link lose the war against Ganondorf and the Four Champions die in battle. But this game explains each and every one of their story.
You can place as several races, Gerudo, Goron, Rito, Hylian, Korok and specially the Sheikah who in previous games were unplayable. Not counting Sheik as that is Princess Zelda in disguise or the first Hyrule Warriors series as that wasn't a prequel to any existing Zelda franchise like the Age of Calamity is.
It has been given a 4 star rating, because of the lack of character customization for all other characters apart from Link, who you are unable to customize. The best thing about this game is weapons are invulnerable and won't break over time, unlike in Breath of the Wild which is what ruins the BOTW series and makes it irritating.
Breath of the Wild is the only game in the Zelda series to feature weapons that break. Even the Master Sword loses its power at times and makes the game terrible to play. Previous Zelda games were nothing like that. Which sucks in Nintendo's favor. Because they have stolen that idea from other leading games including MMORPG types.
The breaking weapons in the BOTW series are a problem.
Yes, breakable weapons actually ruin the Zelda franchise. Luckily this is not featured in the Age of Calamity feature, but will probably return in Breath of the Wild 2.
The best thing about this game is that it has been dubbed into multiple languages. So you can remove the terrible English dubbed voices, that do not match the Japanese counterparts.
Say goodbye to Princess Zelda's awful British sounding voice with the Japanese language pack, that you Nintendo.
Characters:
Link
Princess Zelda
Impa
Purah
Daruk
Mipah
Urbosa
Revali
Daruk
