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Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Switch)
Nov. 7th, 2022 02:24 pmA tiny robot returns from the doomed future to a Hyrule right of the cusp to calamity. Will the small changes to the timeline it makes be enough to prevent Calamity Ganon from creating the Hyrule of Breath of the Wild? You’ll have to smash thousands of monsters in order to find out!
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Overall: We only played 30-someodd hours of this (and went through several dry spells), compared to the insane 70+ hours of the first game. I suspect that’s a combination of fewer family game nights this year and ARR getting into Breath of the Wild on his own and getting his Zelda fix from that. One could argue that this has a someone more “serious” plot, but the mechanics are similar enough that I wouldn’t put one game above the other; and I appreciated the different modes and more straightforward approach to collectables and upgrades that the first game had more.
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Overall: We only played 30-someodd hours of this (and went through several dry spells), compared to the insane 70+ hours of the first game. I suspect that’s a combination of fewer family game nights this year and ARR getting into Breath of the Wild on his own and getting his Zelda fix from that. One could argue that this has a someone more “serious” plot, but the mechanics are similar enough that I wouldn’t put one game above the other; and I appreciated the different modes and more straightforward approach to collectables and upgrades that the first game had more.
