Is this game worth it over Age of Calamity or waiting for the new Age of Imprisonment? The art style is nostalgic for me. I have never played any of the Hyrule Warriors, and I also do not like the look or lore of nu-zelda.
But is the game worth the $60 in comparison to the other options, and how does it run on the Switch 2 for you? I mainly play docked.

I'd say it's worth it, yeah.
Game has a fuckload of stuff to do, easily hundreds of hours of playtime if you go completionist.
On the Switch 2 it runs locked 1080/60 docked as far as what I tested. It also runs at 1080 on handheld which is neat.

Buy the original on the Wii U. The Switch game is poorly optimized and has a memory leak. The extra shit isn't worth it, but I remember that the Wii U DLC is gone now, so I'd recommend you emulate the Wii U game. Be aware of the excessive padding.

Don't listen to this guy it runs fine, even well if you have a Switch 2
>>716494845

>>716494845
>The extra shit isn't worth it
Compared to the Wii U version, the Switch one has all the 3DS content, which is like 10 different characters, the Wind Waker and Linkle stories, and a couple extra adventure maps.
It essentially doubles the amount of shit to do in the game.

>>716494845
>memory leak
Wait what do you mean? Like it is broken?

>>716495105
I got the characters and the extra story stuff didn't wow me. Linkle also sucks shit so I had no reason to buy the 3DS and Switch games and I had my fill after the Master Quest adventure map. With the Wii U eshop being dead, you more or less have to play the Switch game and by the time it released, I was pretty much burned out on the game.

AoC and AoL really piss me off, because I wanted a proper sequel with more games represented.

>>716495029
Anon, the memory leak was never addressed. For a Nintendo-published game, that's a huge red flag, something they'd fix immediately.

this game is much better than slop of calamity and age of improsnment looks like its going to be garbage

>>716494845
just restart the game every few week and you shouldn't care about the memory leak (but it's still kinda fun to see the floor surface multiplying)

>>716495539
>Anon, the memory leak was never addressed. For a Nintendo-published game, that's a huge red flag, something they'd fix immediately.
How bad is this memory leak?
please elaborate

Legitimately no idea what you people mean by the memory leak, and that's with me having over 200 hours in the game.
I know that the game had the 1080 handheld bug that never got addressed, which eventually got turned into a plus when playing it on the Switch 2.

>Ghirahim has turned traitorous!

>>716495782
i have 250 hours in DE and have never heard of this issue

>>716495782
if you have no other game and never close it the game start going whacky

Post your battle theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6IuFApSeo4

>>716495332
>>716495782
After a few hours, the game starts showing graphical and lighting glitches and eventually it crashes after you leave a level or even start a level. This issue wasn't present in the Wii U game, so for anyone who wants to pick up the Switch game, it can be a dealbreaker and shows how rushed of a port it was. You shouldn't have to turn off the game to 'fix' the problem. That's coping.

Now if the issue is 'fixed' on the Switch 2, fine and well. But do you want to buy a whole new console for a game released eight years ago?

>>716496094
>But do you want to buy a whole new console for a game released eight years ago?
The OP literally mentions he'd be playing it on the Switch 2.

>>716496094
got footage of this glitch? as i haven't ever seen it.

the rebalancing DE has over the Wii U version makes it worth alone. the only loss is the Argorok rupee glitch, but the fairy system far, far exceeds it

I would wait, as it's likely the new game will be an improvement.

>>716495782
I have about 100 hours in it. Never noticed a thing and to be real with ya, this is the first time I heard about it

>>716496094
lol you played with ryujix, didn't you ?

>>716494102 (OP)
I heard HW DE plays lile a dream on the switch 2, it's true?

>>716496168
His money, then.
Be aware of the excessive padding and Lana/Linkle being insufferable characters.

>>716496482
Wii U version. Didn't buy the 3DS and Switch version.

>>716496786
> Didn't buy the 3DS and Switch version.
The state of switch memory leak schizo.
it never crashed even when the floor showed on everyone face and you can save anytime while playing if your scared of crash

>>716496962
That's bad, dude. You don't let your game fuck up like that regardless of if it doesn't crash. No way in hell was I buying a New 3DS for that version, let alone a poorly optimized version of the game I was still playing on the Wii U. Stop making excuses for KT's poor optimization.

>>716494845
Runs great on switch 2. Youre retarded if you want to play it on wii u unless you're poor and need to pirate it. De is like 2.x the content of base game. The memory leak is real though but just restart it once a day to avoid the game crashing randomly on you at a terrible time. Put it on your wishlist and wait for a sale

>>716494102 (OP)
>Is this game worth it over Age of Calamity or waiting for the new Age of Imprisonment?
Obviously we don't know about Age of Imprisonment yet since it's not out, but there are many people who think that the original Hyrule Warriors is better than Age of Calamity, and I'm one of them. They're also surprisingly different games in that the characters are obviously different and the tools are different (no slate weapons, etc.). Hyrule Warriors is a great game and it's definitely worth a play. I'm typically the kind of person who follows "the bigger the better" when it comes to games, but the one bad thing I'll say about Hyrule Warriors is that it's the rare example of a game that is almost "too" big. There's just too much content, which you'll see once you complete the main story mode and dive into the Legends mode or whatever it's called. You'll need to drop hundreds of hours just to beat Legends mode, not 100% it, just complete it. I can't imagine how much time it takes to actually 100% Hyrule Warriors.

Will I like this game if I haven’t played all the Zelda games? Only played a few so I probably wouldn’t recognize 90% of the characters and enemies

>>716494845
>memory leak
Such a meme answer. I have over 1,000 hours in Hyrule Warriors on Switch 1 and never had a problem with it. I didn't even know about it until read about it here on /v/. Unless you're leaving your console on for days at a time with the game running, you won't have a problem with it.

>>716496312
https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/u5j0y3/i_think_my_copy_of_hyrule_warriors_is_cursed/
inb4leddit

>struggle on a map
>"fuck this"
>go to bypass it by going around
>end up on a giant detour since it requires characters I rarely play and have to hunt for their higher level weapons which requires trailblazing to a separate corner of the map
It can be kind of fun from an order of operations standpoint but it's also very easy to burn out on.

>>716497163
i don't even remember if my memory leak problem was from the switch or wii u version but im pretty sur it was wii u

>>716497624
>can't beat enemy 50 level above him
outskilled

I fucking hate this cunt so goddamn much
>the mission where you have to fight both him and ganondorf in a tiny boxed in fort
>as Ruto
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Officer fights in this game are crap, not even getting into how shitty the bosses are. If they didn't have the break gauge it would be a goodish HD musou but as it is it's middle of the pack.

>>716497186
>Youre retarded if you want to play it on wii u
I brought it on launch. The base game is the same as the 3DS and Switch game.
>De is like 2.x the content
Dressing up fairies and a few new levels doesn't address the game's original problems alongside the excessive padding and repetitive missions.
>Put it on your wishlist and wait for a sale
I beat the Wii U game, and did just about everything in it, adventure maps, upgraded weapons, you name it. I'm completely burned out on it and was hoping for a proper HW2. Still waiting for it.

>>716497927
Break gauge is what makes this tolerable what are you talking about? If you don't have an elemental advantage, chipping away at some asshole takes forever and the break gauge is the best way to do consistent damage.

HW is better as a celebration of the franchise with tons of fan service. As a musou it is better than AoC. It has a ton of content but it isn't very deep.
AoC has better characters (in terms of movesets), but the general gameplay is worse. It suffers from being focused entirely on the BotW setting. It's more repetitive and boring, but has less content bloat.
AoI will likely be identical to AoC.

>>716497927
>bosses
>break gauge
This is ultimately what made me drop the game after 300-400 hours. I got tired of grinding out the same small handful of bosses over and over again and having to sit around and wait until each boss decided it was time for me to attack them.

>>716497901
Depends on the character. Agitha or Stick Lana or something? Fuck that. Ganondorf or Volga? Probably fine.

>>716498087
The chip damage shit is a symptom of the gauge existing, they funnel you into a shitty reactive playstyle which is the complete antithesis of usual musou officer fights where you can freely interact with an enemy.

Did DE make A rank a bit more forgivnig? Nothing is worse than
>15 minute missoin
>right at the end
>grazed by projectile offscreen
>GG fag here's a B.

>>716498450
KO requirements are actually higher, 1600 is the norm
Damage requirements feels more lenient.
Time is the same.

>>716497384
There's lots of references to various Zelda games, but you don't lose much by not getting them.

>>716494102 (OP)
Hyrule Warriors proves that there can be too much content in a game. Like holy shit, the devs didn't need to go that hard. It's one of the few games in my collection that I gave up on completing. There's just too much shit to do.

>>716498087
The break gauge being required for Manhandla and Gohma is tedious and at a higher level, you can actually do decent damage to King Dodongo without relying on it, until you realize each boss has that pushback mechanic that forces you to use the respective item to reveal it. Using items to reveal the break gauge to do damage when you're at a lower level is ideal, then when you get to a high enough level, you won't need it, but can still use the gauge to stun bosses, not as a requirement to beat them.

>>716494102 (OP)
one of the best games of all time

>>716498450
damage requirement is % of heart so if you don't heal your character you will alway get max rank.
Wii u was garbage for this btw, for the schizo playing only this version

>>716499203
>for the schizo playing only this version
Nigga I'm not double and triple dipping for features that should have been added in the original game. I had my fill, deal with it.

The item shop being added in the later editions is an unfathomable godsend.
You would have to unironically backtrack to find a square that gave like a raft, and often times even getting to that spot was a giant quest in of itself requiring several branch off points to find other items or avoiding hair pulling missions needed to pass through tiles.

>have something like 90% done on 3DS
>no save transfer to Switch
>can't stand 3DS version anymore
hurts just a lot

>>716499836
yeah never touched the legend map in Wii u version when i saw how retarded everything was

>>716498026
Not happening anytime soon. The reason there wasnt a direct sequel was that there simly not enough new zelda content since the wii u to warrant it. The only new games since then, link between worlds, botw, totk, and eow. They used the first for dlc, and the next two they milked for all they're worth leaving only eow untapped. Maybe after the next 3d zelda game but still wouldnt be enough new content

Age of Calamity had more diverse character mechanics but it had like, no strategy elements at all, everything is just about going forward and smashing your face against bloated HP bars. At least in HWDE you sometimes need to pay attention to the map and the keeps and it kinda helps it's not literally just BotW content stretched extremely thin.

>>716504917
>that there simly not enough new zelda content since the wii u to warrant it.
They have Zelda I, II, AlttP, LA, the Oracle games, MC, FS/A, PH and even stuff from the represented games that could still be used. That's bullshit on your end. There's plenty to use in terms of characters, enemies, mobs, bosses, commanders and so on. Never mind OC's like Lana, Wizzro and Volga.

>>716504917
I'd much rather nintendo just let them make a completely original zelda musou, though my dream would be a pokemon conquest type game with 3 kingdom themed characters showing up

>>716494102 (OP)
Not only is it the better game, it runs perfectly on switch because it was made specifically for WiiU unlike the others and still manages to look better.