Thread 724895868

>not a single leak
>complete lack of marketing despite being a Switch 2 exclusive
>no hype whatsoever
The damage BOTW fatigue has done to the Zelda franchise is irreparable, have you ever seen a Zelda game (and one that is canonical no less) have so little talk and hype around it? How do we fix this?

>>724895868 (OP)
I can't afford a switch 2, aoc story sucked, and totk story was mediocre. There's a REALLY limited demographic for this game. I'm just going to watch a streamer play it and look at the lore analysis on youtube later.

>>724895868 (OP)
>BOTW fatigue
Shut the fuck up, Mario has the same fucking art style and he can consistently sell games for 40 years. You're only admitting that BOTW and especially TOTK cannot maintain fan support because they royally fucked TOTK up. If TOTK had been even as good as BOTW, this franchise wouldn't be in a zombie state. BOTW discussion lasted for years, content creators thrived off making bullshit theories and videos about the game until TOTK came out and ruined everything.

>>724896460
Botw was bad too

>>724896460
BOTW was also bad thoughbeit

>>724896460
They're both really good and are the highest rated games of this year lol

>>724896460
>WAAH SKYWARD SWORD IS BAD IT'S TOO LINEAR
>WAAH TEARS OF THE KINGDOM IS BAD IT'S TOO OPEN WORLD
what do you guyes even want?

the truth is that zelda only had one good game (majora's mask)

>>724897457
Alttp style where it's still the old zelda formula but it's also non linear. People have it in their head that it's some binary, and old zelda has to be linear and they had to abandon the old style to go non linear, but that was never true, it was a false dichotomy.

>>724897768
>Alttp style where it's still the old zelda formula but it's also non linear
This game already exists and is mid

I just preordered it, what a coincidence to see this thread

>>724897838
Are you talking about albw? That's not the old zelda style, that was the first sign that they wanted to abandon the series core aspects after everyone complained about SS.

One of the biggest Zeldie cocksuckers I know told me he wasn't interested in getting this game, something about the lore not being interesting or something.

Nigga it’s a dynasty warriors game. Only tendies would be hyped for one of those. Fucking cultists.

>>724895868 (OP)
I already wasted my gaming budget for the month on the Sega sale without realizing this game was coming so soon.

>>724895868 (OP)
It’s Nintendo’s fault for releasing it the same month as yakuza kiwami 1&2. I’ll get to it when I get to it.

>>724897457
Hello, Fujibayashi

>>724896460
BOTW and TOTK can't maintain support for the exact same reason why Ubisoft's 20th AssCreed or 30th Far Cry can't. They're both just more of the same disposable open-world slop that's been rolling off the assembly line every month since 2007, soon to be replaced by the next identical walking sim in an empty grass field. At some point they all run together for anyone who isn't deeply invested in one of the IPs.

>>724897928
>maplecuck dollars
I hope the Jeet delivering it sprays some curry diarrhea in the box for you

>>724897928
>New Zealand
What’s it like there?

>>724895868 (OP)
You’d think there would be more enthusiasm since it’s one of the few Switch 2 exclusives we are getting this year.

>>724895868 (OP)
reviews are tomorrow anyway, I'll also get my copy tomorrow.

>>724895868 (OP)
>not a single leak
How do you leak a game for a system that's not cracked?

>>724898428
>reviews are tomorrow
Finally, now we can actually see what the game is like. Nintendo hasn’t shown it off enough.

>>724896460
If TOTK had taken place in a whole new world, it would have renewed much of the hype that BOTW generated, and the franchise would be in a much stronger position in videogame culture right now.
People want to delude themselves into thinking that TOTK was a huge success because it sold 20 million copies in the first week, but after 4 months, it was selling LESS daily than the fucking BOTW that came out 6 years earlier. That just doesn't happen. You don't see Doom Eternal selling less than Doom 2016, even five years after Eternal's release. But you do see Kerbal 1 selling more than Kerbal 2, or Cities Skylines 1 selling more than Cities Skylines 2, and these were examples of games whose sequels were completely rejected by their fan bases...

Sure, Nintendo will be able to continue selling TOTK in the long run because normalfags consume based on brand recognition, but they are definitely not in the best position with the franchise right now, and it'e because of TOTK, that cloned souless piece of shit of a cashgrab.

>>724895868 (OP)
>w-we SWEAR it's canon this time!!!
You can't swindle me twice. I'll just get the Twinrova scenes off Youtube and then continue acting like 3D Zelda went on hiatus after the Champion's Ballad.

>>724898496
The same way bananza leaked, a physical copy ships early and someone records gameplay

>>724895868 (OP)
it will still sell a trimillium copies

>>724898348
It's just releasing at an unfortunate time. Pokemon, Zelda and Kirby are all "girl" franchises and they're all are getting new games released within the same month. Casuals who don't beat entire games in one sitting are still playing Pokemon ZA and aren't interested in getting another game so soon. Honestly it feels like Nintendo is sending this one out to die which is a shame since it looks like a lot of effort was put into it
>>724898293
fairly dire but that seems like the norm worldwide nowadays

>>724897457
>WAAH SKYWARD SWORD IS BAD
It's not. It's unironically my favorite Zelda.
>WAAH TEARS OF THE KINGDOM IS BAD IT'S TOO OPEN WORLD
Goomba fallacy.

>>724896460
No, it's all nostalgia. Really, it's the players' fault. Nay, it's the fault of the games themselves.
You know what? It's EVERYONE'S FAULT...except for the people who make the games, they are forever blameless and that will never change.

>>724895868 (OP)
Tendies don't want to admit it but overal enthusiasm for Nintendo has died down a lot. Nintendo's latest business practices, their lackluster releases and that one direct really soured things for a lot of people.
And this isn't even an actual Zelda game to begin with it's a Zelda themed musou game. Musou games are niche and only for a small group of people with refined taste. Most of the people who will buy musous are not on Nintendo platforms.

Do you retarded faggots just beg for every Nintendo game to release early on reflex now? Why are you begging for a Switch 2 exclusive you can't even play?

>>724899539
>Tendies don't want to admit it but overal enthusiasm for Nintendo has died down a lot. Nintendo's latest business practices, their lackluster releases and that one direct really soured things for a lot of people.
Nintendo makes videogames for first worlders, the opinions of thirdies online literally do not matter and has zero affect on their sales. Just having this on shelves for black friday will carry it home, people will go to buy a switch 2 and see a new zelda game they haven't played

>>724899539
The most popular musous are Nintendo ones. All of Nintendo's sold over a million. Age of Calamity is (unfortunately) by far the beat selling musou ever.

>>724899539
>Tendies don't want to admit it but overal enthusiasm for Nintendo has died down a lot.
I made a graph explaining the phenomenon. It turns out that, like the Nintendo Wii, the Switch had an extremely strong start, but it peaked relatively early and was already on a downward trend, until... the collective panic caused by a fucking flu.
COVID changed everything, causing an unprecedented number of normalfags to buy Nintendo Switches and their games. Animal Crossing selling 50 fucking million copies is the best example of this invasion of normalfags (many of them women).
But guess what, normalfags don't stick to their habits for long. I predicted a sharp decline in normalfags' interest in Nintendo around 2027. Nintendo is still selling a lot of consoles, so normalfags still see it as something interesting, but that won't last long.

I do not care for botwshit
Give me Hyrule Warriors 2 instead please. The real one.

>>724900207
Why? What could you possibly add to it that would make it different from Hyrule Warriors 1?

>>724900493
I wish Nintendo had thought the same thing before shitting out TOTK

>>724900547
True, but that's not an answer to my question.

>>724899539
Yeah Nintendo enthusiasm has died. That's why the Switch 2 has failed.

>>724895868 (OP)
>>not a single leak
Switch 2 hasn't been hacked. No one knows how to dump the games.

>>724901371
Pretty much. I've already seen some posts about people getting early copies, but they’re not sharing anything.

>>724902842
Cuz they're playing the fucking video game.

>>724902842
In that case I'm surprised we haven't seen either some smoothbrain attempting to stream it to shill their channel, or some attention seeking 'journalist' who's posting vague details on reddit

>nintendo
>advertise
nigga what the fuck

>>724898603
>it was selling LESS daily than the fucking BOTW that came out 6 years earlier.
Last year TotK sold 1.2 million copies while BotW sold 0.9 million, schizo.

Are we still pretending 22 million units is a flop?

>>724903925
Did you miss the 2 hours of Kirby directs about a fucking racing game?
The only things we know about this game is it plays exactly like AoC but with zonai devices instead of runes, there's a mysterious construct that clearly replaces Link and the Gerudo sage will be the only relevant OC to the plot. That's literally it.

Bump

>>724898603
Most of the “hype” was invested in the sky islands. However, Nintendo made similar mistakes with Skyward Sword’s sky and somehow made them even more barren and devoid of meaningful content.

>>724899039
I liked that Skyward Sword had a lot of sidequests.

Someone just fucking tell me if it has side modes, neat unlockables, and keeps or outposts you actually have to pay attention to. AoC was so much weaker than HW. Walk and talk segments or Zonai items aren't going to fix it.

>>724900493
Another sexy Link model for Fugtrup to make porn out of.

>>724895868 (OP)
>have you ever seen a Zelda game (and one that is canonical no less) have so little talk and hype around it?
Yeah, Triforce Heroes

>>724907315
From the VERY limited gameplay we've actually seen, it looks exactly like AoC. Probably will be really lazy and use the same world map and mission format as that game, or something even worse with the walk and talk segments being hub areas before missions, kinda like what DW8 did but more cinematic and worse in every way

>>724907243
>TFW there were originally a lot more Sky Islands, but the devs were told to remove them because it was making the sky too cluttered
>TFW 80% of the sky is just barren

>>724907610
I honestly find it difficult to say why I liked HW so much more. Maybe because I don't want to sound like an idiot? But fuck it, man, I'll be honest: I think HW just felt better because it wasn't trying to pretend to be important. You did a lot of mashing, but some of the missions actually had you watching your allies and the map unlike AoC which was you pushing forward and pushing forward and . . . pushing forward. But aside from that, it had side content that was just a reference and a call to nostalgia. It had challenges that could actually warrant a few tries and gave you neat recolors that referenced all kinds of stuff including characters that couldn't make it to the roster. AoC had one mode if you (wisely) forget the divine beast segments, only really gives you weapon tier unlocks, and has higher difficulties thst make killing big enemies take longer while still not making allies or morale matter. AoC tried to tell a story, which is worth praise even if it sucked. Except the storytelling should be in the main game, and the Warriors games should be celebratory, preferential fluff games. It's okay to be a fluff game. It's okay to play and enjoy a fluff game.

>>724895868 (OP)
Botw/totk legit has the one of the most boring stories out of any Zelda and sadly it's the one that got most development

>>724898541
It's a TotK themed musou. What more do you need to know?

>>724895868 (OP)
I'm waiting for the BotW slop to be a distant memory and for Zelda to go back to its roots.

Also, you'd have to be a low-IQ retard to support current-day Nintendo.

>>724909053
The little things like how character progression works and what you can do to enhance your characters. If there is a hub world or not. Those sorts of things.

>>724898603
>that cloned souless piece of shit of a cashgrab.
Sad thing is, I doubt it was a cashgrab. I think they wanted a quick turnaround title but hit a total road block with getting the gmod mechanics to function without major bugs, causing delay upon delay. If it were a cashgrab, they'd just have dropped the features and started from scratch.

Funnily this seems to be the story with several Switch 2 launch games, too. MKW and Bananza both wanted to do things that were technically too ambitious for the Switch to handle and both games were held up waiting for stronger hardware.

>>724898428
>reviews are tomorrow anyway
confirmed shit if embargo is on release day

>>724907727
I think that's just a lie to cover themselves since they knew people would be disappointed at the lack of sky stuff to explore.

>>724908136
HW felt like a celebration of the series and within their capabilities they tried to include a bunch of things about it that were cool and memorable. AOI is stretching thin an existing premise to quickly flip the work that was already done for AOC and TotK into a new cash grab. Nobody's excited about this dopey Zelda that got stripped of what little made her interesting in BotW. Nobody is excited to play goat king's gypsy waifu. Nobody's excited to play as Link but clanker. And nobody's fucking excited to play as an assortment of John McNobody Hyrule. Dynastry Warriors was supposd to be about big damn heroes mowing down file and rank, not file and rank joe shmoes that don't even have names worth remembering. Fuck.

>>724895868 (OP)
What the fuck is there to leak?
>ANOTHER prequel
>last game made up some split timeline bullshit because we knew how things would actually end and they needed a happy ending
>this one will most likely do the same shit

The original Hyrule Warriors sucked and really felt like it was made by an outside company. Omega Force injected too much of their house style into it which made it feel jarring. Like it was an outsider's take on the franchise instead of an actual celebration. Age of Calamity and Three Hopes having a style to pull from directly was much better and they were better games for it.

>>724909528
>Nobody's excited to play as Link but clanker
speak for yourself, robo-link is by far the most interesting thing about this game

musoushit

>>724895868 (OP)
Female in center, my interest is gone.
They even made her do a stronk pose, my interest is negative.

>>724909528
I saw a comment somewhere that summed it up as "Why should I care about the story you want to tell with TotK in this game, when you didn't care enough to put it in TotK in the first place"

>>724909839
I feel differently. This is a different series, and it is a different developer. I don't need it to feel like Zelda.

>>724909528
Yeah, I don't really want to know every character before release but I'm still wondering, three days before release, who the fuck I'm supposed to be excited about in this game. The marketing for it has seriously been all about the story. Fine. A canon story. Whatever. Forgive me for not trusting that the literally faceless characters are going to hook me though. If the actual game this stems from didn't even try then it's an uphill battle.

>>724895868 (OP)
I'm usually excited for this. I really liked the weird sky goats and always go for fish out of time stories. And I want to see more of TotK Ganondorf. The cast outside the main five in Zelda, Raru, Sonia, Mineru, and Ganondorf seems kinda bland though. Hopefully they'll pick up some slack.

>>724909445
Nah, you can see numerous sky islands in the second trailer (the one from 2021) that aren’t in the final game.
What likely happened is that they made a bunch of sky islands that were added new lands to explore but the way sky islands works in TOTK is that they’re all pretty much puzzle boxes that you need to solve by getting to their shrines. They didn’t want sky islands to have the same gameplay loop as the surface, hence why they removed the sky islands that were just there to add more land to explore and nothing else.

is OP the seething Three Hopes fag? I remember him making shit up like how "AoC is the most hated Musou" or some shit.

>>724910436
I'll just never understand the choice to use so much of the same map for TotK and to just pretend BotW didn't happen prior or to just hand wave shit. I sincerely loved BotW and TotK. Heckle me if you want. Don't care. Doesn't mean I don't sorely miss the previous Zelda template as well, but what the fuck, man? We all have heard Nintendo comes up with a game idea first and then grafts an IP onto it, but if the game is a direct sequel to the last one then they normally try to make it a logical follow up.

Genuinely and honestly though, how big do you actually expect this roster to be? I know we have some extra fluff apparently with some donut steels of all the races but it is still fairly hard to guess or gauge what they plan on doing entirely.

>>724911006
At the risk of getting called one of the boogeymen, the story in BotW was festering dogshit best left forgotten. TotK’s wasn’t the best, but it was at least decent. There is literally no reason for BotW to even exist anymore, or to be played by anyone ever again. It’s completely irrelevant and TotK improved upon it in every way.
So if Nintendo is pretending it didn’t exist, good for them.

>>724895868 (OP)
It's a fucking Musou, you stupid retard. Nobody except hardcore Zelda consumers or hardcore Musou fans give a fucking shit.

Plus Hyrule Warriors 1 was better because it wasn't just BotW slop.

>>724911614
It's the same goddamn story. Zelda is stuck in a standoff with Ganondorf and Link has to help four assorted peoples to ultimately unscrew the pooch. That's the extent of both of them. Except where BotW was intrinsically crafted around its premise and content, TotK had to work around being forced to make things same but different. And the end result of the story in TotK is that nothing changed! Everything resulted in a net zero result for Hyrule! Except I guess the castle is still floating for some reason. How is that a decent story at all? Both games did bare minimum but at least BotW doesn't hoist itself with a whole bag of extra contrivances and at least the Champions all felt like different people whereas the sages are the same and their descendants basically go through the exact same beats in their scenarios. You can't unnotice it and it's not even hard to notice. TotK may be a bigger game but BotW as an experience is a lot more holistic.

>>724909180
Even if the next Zelda doesn't have BotW aesthetics, you just know it will use the same template

>>724911243
>Link Construct
>Zelda
>Sonia
>Rauru
>Mineru
>Zora Sage
>Gerudo Sage
>Goron Sage
>Rito Sage
>Korok Musketeer
>Ganondorf
>Twinrova (Or Koume and Kotake separately)
That's at least from the ones we know so far. The fatso is Zelda's archivist and I don't expect to see her fight. Maybe we'll see the Great Fairies again.

Comparatively, Age of Calamity had
>Link (Sword and Shield/Greatsword/Spear/Nunchucks)
>Impa
>Zelda (Slate/Bow/Master Cycle)
>Mipha
>Daruk
>Revali
>Urbosa
>Hestu
>Great Fairies
>Monk Maz Koshia
>Sidon
>Yunobo
>Teba
>Riju
>Master Kohga
>King Rhoam
>Terrako
>Calamity Ganon
>Battle-Tested Guardian
>Purah & Robbie
>Sooga
Notably, Astor was never made playable despite being the main antagonist.

going from the goofy BOTW/TOTK Link armour to something cool like this is pretty jarring
I like it though

>>724912209
Man I just can't get behind the Zonai beam weapons, the Shiekah tech was way cooler. Ancient Broadswords actually looked like plasma floating in the air, smoke would rise from the blade and you'd see the undulating wave effect in the air from looking at a heat source. It felt lethal, like technology far beyond Hyrule, something that belongs in a dystopian future instead of a medieval-era kingdom.

Zonai stuff just doesn't have the same effect.

>>724912126
There have to be more (good) characters. There just have to be . . . Also, people keep bringing up Twinrova. What did I miss? Because I haven't seen shit about those two.

>>724912416
In TotK some of the flashbacks with Ganondorf show two Gerudos flanking him who wear the names "KOUME" and "KOTAKE" in Hylian on their belts. They amount to nothing but a reference in the game, but since AoI takes place around that era they'll be given a larger importance as enemy commanders.

>>724912416
Ganondorf needs officers so they're just making guesses based on that
A sorcerer character isn't out of the question, neither is some kind of yiga/sheikah

Will Astor ever come back? If he died in a fanfic game wouldn't that mean he could still pop up in this "canon" game?

>>724895868 (OP)
Early Switch 2 game leaks will never happen again anon. Shitendo has made so physical Switch 2 games wont start without the Day 1 patch update.

>>724912369
Zonai weapons are cool, but they're stuck in totk so they break in 10 hits lol. If any other Zelda game they'd be end game weapons like great fairy or biggoron swords.

>>724912580
There shouldn't be any Yiga around that time, because they were founded when the royal family gave an ultimatum to the Shiekah clan after sealing away Calamity Ganon: "Abandon the technology or be exiled from the kingdom". The Yiga are Shiekah who refused and subsequently turned on the royal family for their betrayal after everything they did to save the kingdom from Calamity Ganon.

>>724912735
It was totally okay for cheap flying to destroy traversal in totk but god forbid you slap something useful on your shield, it breaks in five seconds. This is the great creative sim Zelda btw

>>724912870
Okay...? I don't get what that has to do with my post.

The difference between how much they showed of AoC vs this game is really fucking weird.

Have we even seen footage of the mission select or what the upgrade system is like? Are they just lifting the same structure from AoC?

I get that Nintendo is super anal about not spoiling stuff these days but it's really biting them in the ass with this game and Prime 4.

>>724913019
Metroid Prime 4 on Switch 1 will get spoiled and leaked before release because the switch 1 does not require day 1 check to start the game as Switch 2 only games have.

So is that construct guy just a rerig of Link from the previous game?

>>724913223
Yeah I'm fully prepared to go cold turkey on this site when this happen. I did not wait 18 fucking years just to get spoiled by some fags on /v/.

Kinda sad Monicafag won't be able to dump the cutscenes for AOE though. Those were fun threads when the AOC demo dropped

>>724913223
Which is why I'm avoiding the internet come the 16th.

Any metacritic bets for reviews tomorrow?
Expecting a 76 like the original HW

>>724913392
Pretty much. This game is considered canon instead of retroactively declared noncanon like AoC (retarded decision because it fits fine), so Link can't be in the Founding of Hyrule era. But it wouldn't be a Legend of Zelda game without Link of some kind, so instead Zelda gets this hyper-competent Construct Link.

>>724913562
It's only being called canon because it's the final game of the BotW era so being canon means nothing.

BotW has both the Ruto and Zora in one game, Nintendo does not give a shit about canon.

>>724913530
I'm more looking forward to Nintendo's financial reports tomorrow. The fag who made this thread is gonna have a big melty tomorrow.

>>724913871
It's called canon because it's the true depiction of events in the BotW storyline, not a what-if, you dingbat.

>it's like all the other dynasty warrior games except it's with none of the characters you recognize and all the TOTK OCs you never heard of

Who asked for this? Literally.

>>724913019
MP4 still has ways off
As for this one I feel like NoA is just bringing whatever KT is advertising

>>724913991
Which means nothing because there won't be anymore BotW era games after this so this spin-off can do whatever so it's purely marketing.

>>724914149
Are you sure? That's what people said after BotW, but then AoC came out. And then TotK came out. And now this is coming out. Unless your name is Aonuma you can't make that guarantee.

I'm playing through Age of Calamity first since it doesn't run at 10 fps on switch 2

>>724914229
It's a spin-off Warriors game that feels the need to market CANON is how.

>What if I attack the lush, green mainland... with sandwhales
Unironically what in the fuck was going on in this cutscene? What was the next step of his master plan, using giant snowballs to attack the Gorons at Death Mountain? Who the hell wrote this shit?
>Ganondorf standing like a big guy with a fuckhuge party and making a shitton of noise
>Rauru and Zelda somehow can't see or hear him
>He sees them, and Catdog's tiny stone, and somehow deduces that the gem is the key to all of this
My nigga WHY would you make a pre-seuqel to the dogshit story that was TotK? Holy fuck Nintendo is pants-on-head retarded.

>>724913991
It's called canon because Western players complained AoC went with an alternative ending. It's all smoke and mirrors, possibly even lies.

>>724895868 (OP)
No one gives a fuck about warrorslop.
Even worse is that theyre giving us this shit instead of a cleaned up TP while they work on the next real game.
Im fucking tired of how bad shit is, I am so fucking tired that Ill go back and play Skyward Sword...AGAIN

>>724898159
It's CAD$99 here. Get your regions right anon. Canucks use the ESRB in the lower left corner, not that massive crap that Europe/Aussie do.

>>724913562
>so Link can't be in the Founding of Hyrule era.
The "rumors" and trailer break downs show that they are going to do some kind of ass pull and make a copy of Link for this game. It's not the real Link, but some kind of robot made from Zelda's memory and I believe it

>>724914385
Unironically ghost writers, team was too busy fucking around with their GMOD Lite tools to come up with anything.

>>724914385
>What if I attack the lush, green mainland... with sandwhales
Sandwhales that managed to pass through the rocky canyon and so could have went though Hyrule Field without problems.
>Ganondorf standing like a big guy with a fuckhuge party and making a shitton of noise
>Rauru and Zelda somehow can't see or hear him
He's standing hundred of meters away from them and they’re already getting distracted by the sandwhales in the first place, so yes it makes sense for him to not be immediatly noticed.
>He sees them, and Catdog's tiny stone, and somehow deduces that the gem is the key to all of this
Hmm, I wonder if the big glowing rocks that shined when Rauru was preparing his laser are the source of his power. No, it’s probably just a coincidence.

>muh zelda lore! not canon!
this is one guy, right? No one could possibly care about this when every Zelda game is more or less standalone and the only connection between them is reusing the same cast of characters and imagery

>>724914648
Hey Dumbass, KOEI TECMO is developing this game.

>>724914385
It's such a fucking sadness and retarded. Just like those ugly bald ass twinrova designs. I hope their transformation is good looking visually.

Also, mobile game writers wrote for TOTK, fucking Qualia Writers Inc. They didn't have an ounce of interest in writing for their own game.

>>724914385
>What was the next step of his master plan, using giant snowballs to attack the Gorons at Death Mountain?
Unironically, why wouldn't that be a good plan (assuming that the mountain was in a non-errupted state like in TotK)? Ice arrows oneshot fire type enemies. And MM showed that Gorons really can't handle the cold.

>>724915445
I wouldn't be bringing this up if Nintendo hadn't brought this up multiple times with both Age of Calamity and Age of Imprisonment's marketing. Don't be deliberately obtuse and pretend people didn't kick up a fuss about it.

>>724915498
I dont give a fuck who's taking a shit on my table I care about there being shit on my table.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjPQlgVLHII

They have commercials airing on tv in Japan

>>724915445
A lot of the BotW/TotK bitching feels like one guy.

Just posting to say I hate the name "secret stones" more than anything else in TotK's writing.

It sounds so fucking stupid - "Sacred Stones" was right there

>>724896460
Listen here you little shit. I fucking hate this anime weeb shit Zelda is doing with botw. I just want more OOT sequels.

>>724915661
>Fight the war for ancient Hyrule! Step on to the battlefield as Princess Zelda, King Rauru, and other legendary heroes as you fight to reclaim your homeland – and live the story of the Demon King Ganondorf’s invasion.
That's enough to set you off?

>>724895868 (OP)
It will sell millions.

>>724915751
It’s called "Occult stones" in french, so it’s really just the english translation being shit.

>>724915912
This part you disingenuous fuckwit. Why specify canon if it's not important?

>>724908408
she didn't deserve to be in such a horrible game...

I hope there are non-canon bonus characters in the postgame - I just wanna play as my girl.

I didn't like how she was a glorified weapon in AOC.

>>724898603
>normalfags consume based on brand recognition, but they are definitely not in the best position with the franchise right now
Feels like most of their IP are in this position right now. Kirby, Metroid, and (maybe) Pikmin are exceptions, but I couldn't be less interested in Mario, Zelda, Smash, Splatoon, Animal Crossing, etc. right now.

>musousluppers are tired of the same slop
lol

>>724916402
i don't get it.
we already know this is going to be a bad end and no one really fucking cares about what else happened back then, we already got all vital informations.
such a stupid decision

>>724916402
what's the source on this? Mine was the game's page on the Nintendo eshop
also you get bonus weapons if you have save data from the other games

I'm more excited for Mindru villager in NH, than in AoI. AoC was shit.

>it's been out in the wild since at least last night
>still no leak
Come on already!

>>724916798
>out in the wild
say that one more time

Why is this even switch 2 exclusive? This could easily run on the switch one

>>724916727
It was part of the Switch 2 press release.

https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/nintendo-switch-2-launches-june-5-bringing-new-forms-of-game-communication-to-life/

>>724917095
Because Age of Calamity ran like dogshit and there must be exclusives to sell the new console.

>>724915445
>>724915661
>>724916402
People went apeshit and claimed AoC was false advertising because it claimed to tell the true story of Breath of the Wild's past when in reality it had a fanfic non-canon happy ending. Of course they obviously saw a lot of that and are responding in kind by underscoring canon here because they knew if they *didn't* then the same people would claim "oh it's just gonna be another fanfic fool me once, etc. etc."

People claim they don't care about Zelda lore or canon or timelines bullshit, but that response says otherwise.

>>724917176
I really doubt people will buy a switch 2 for this game. There isn't even a bundle

I wanted Xenoblade Warriors...

>>724917382
No shit. But more exclusives help to sell a console anyway. Not everything has to be a killer app.

>>724917095
>This could easily run on the switch one
are you sure about that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkO1hRJqJik

>>724917095
Get a job

>>724917492
As fun as I think it would be, I don't think I'd want it if it's a canon story.

Just make it some Nopon archsage bullshit. It would be pretty cool to see how KT would work affinity and chain attacks into combat

>>724917538
Bad performance on the switch didn't stop Nintendo from releasing ANY game. Why care now?

>>724917643
>Non canon
Fuck off, we need something to fix the "Chrono Cross feeling" fucking Xenoblade 3 left.

>>724895868 (OP)
Zelda fans are genuenly a bunch of mouth breathing retards that prefer basically uncharted slop to actual videogames. The moment you put more game into the game they whine.

>>724908136
Yeah it's just silly game. Instead of being like Dynasty or Samurai Warriors it's basically Orochi Warriors. Also the attention to the different extra adventure maps mixed with the different era music was great.

Meanwhile the next two Hyrule Warriors are just canonical tie ins to the main game. Fuck that. Not to mention that they run worse and look worse than HW1.

>>724917695
>a series-spanning crossover spinoff (with the explicit purpose of fanservice) helmed by a separate studio with oversight from maybe a handful of MonolithSoft creative directors would fix my issues with Xenoblade 3
Come on now, friend

>>724917492
No one would buy that slop. Age of calamity sold 4 million copies in 2 years. A xeno warriors would struggle to hit 800,000 units sold lifetime

>>724897457
>what do you guyes even want?
I want more Lttp and Link Between Worlds, 3d zelda fucking sucks and I am sick of pretending

>>724917953
We need a Xenoblade 4 that finally puts the past to bed at this point first.

>>724918053
Future Redeemed already did that pretty conclusively

>>724908136
>anon's first musou game are licenses

>>724917953
My issue with Xenoblade 3 is how it "ruined" the previous characters happy endings and even though the ending of it is supposed to fix everything it has to be "VAGUE" and don't show you anything JUST LIKE THAT PIECE OF SHIT CHRONO CROSS DID. So no, fuck you again, make Xenoblade Warriors be post xbc3 with EVERYONE in the new fused world, fuck vagueness, fuck "leave it to the player imagination", SHOW THE CHARACTERS RESTORED IN THE FUSED WORLD.

Hyrule Warriors games are bad because combat is the least interesting and least engaging part of zelda games

>>724917953
why don't we have a xenoblade warriors game yet?

>>724918086
Yet you have faggots that refuse to accept that the two earths just fused.

>>724918164
I don't know why you're so mad at me over this.

Your fanfiction does sound pretty lame though.

Fuck xenoblade, this is a zelda thread

>>724918246
Because they were making another BoTW HW! It's fault of the very game this thread is about.

>>724918174
but it's pretty addictive to just run through stages and destroy thousand of soldiers

>>724918246
>>724917973

>>724918257
I don't think a small handful of retards misunderstanding a game for teenagers is enough to justify an entire entry.

This happens with every game (see the dipshits yelling about Ontos not being Alvis when 2 came out). Your average Blade-onlyfag would shit their pants if they ever read perfect works

>>724918246
Because it would only sell like two copies. Xenoblade is niche as shit. The only game to break from that cage is 2 and that's largely because of porn/smash.

>>724918269
Didn't the mention of Chrono Cross tipped you off? In case you didn't know that game infamously killed all your favorite characters from chrono cross (except for Ayla because she is the ancestor of the princess and has to live) and basically said undone chrono trigger's happy ending as a massive "FUCK YOU!" to the players, then it was so fucking vague about everything that nobody understood that the ending fixed the ruined happy ending by using the chrono cross ro merge the timelines because it was so fucking vague that it went though almost everyone heads. Then Xenoblade 3 does the same, "hey remember the characters you liked from xbc1 and xbc2? They all got fucked by some asshole with a retarded one letter name just 10 years after the end of their games! FUCK YOU!" and then they are also vague about the ending although I give them that is not as mindfuck confusing as Chrono Cross was although we still have retards that still can't understand the two earths became one at the end even after future redeemed literally showed the fusion.

>>724899947
But AoC was loosely-connected to a Zelda game people actually liked. This is connected to TotK, and specifically the characters even people who liked TotK did not give a single fuck about.

>>724917984
As much as I love ALttP and ALBW, part of the reason I keep coming back to the series is because it doesn't feel like I'm playing the same game that I already played six installments ago. I like that playing AoL feels nothing like playing MC, which feels nothing like TP, SS, or EoW. I get that not every title is going to hit it off with everyone (the time limit mechanic of MM really pisses me off), but I'd rather they take chances and keep the formula fresh instead of stagnating in an ouroboros loop.

>>724918764
*From chrono TRIGGER
goddammit.

>>724918764
I know how Chrono Cross ends - I just don't think it applies here.

You said it yourself, we know what happens to the characters after the worlds split at a surface level. We don't need to know anymore. Being okay with uncertainty is the whole point of the game - showing anything after that point would be a complete betrayal.

Xenoblade wears its message on its sleeve very explicitly and makes what will happen to the party pretty damn obvious. It's a bittersweet ending but it isn't a bad one. Honestly it's pretty happy given the circumstances the characters are in.

>>724918086
Eh... I'll let it be when I see them actually concretely commit to the idea. For now I'm on the fence about whether or not Takahashi thinks the shit he preaches about moving forward actually applies to himself. For all i know, we could just get more "Remember thing from other game? Please clap for thing!"

>>724919010
Supposedly the fusion of the xenoblade worlds finally happening at the end and the origin machine completing its mission restores everyone to the point in time everything got fucked, namely Melia's birthday 10 years after the endings of xbc1 and xbc2 but they refuse to show the characters which is what pisses me off. This is why I want a Xenoblade Warriors.

>>724919247
Wait, it was 18 years after the endings, it was Melia's 100 birthday and she was 82 in xbc1.

I hate xenotrannies

>>724919091
>Takahashi thinks the shit he preaches about moving forward actually applies to himself
To me 3 felt like Takahashi and the Xeno writing team having an honest conversation with themselves about the state of their ideation and the perfect works blueprint as a whole. Other games have touched on the idea but 3 (and especially FR) felt "meta" in a way I haven't really seen from them before.

I expect elements of perfect works/saga to still show up every once in a while (see XDE) but I hope they make an honest effort to break from tradition.

Honestly I wouldn't mind if the series ended entirely with 3, but god knows that wouldn't happen. Hopefully they put it to bed whenever Takahashi retires. I don't want it turning into another FF.

>>724895868 (OP)
What did you expect it’s more sloppy mosou shit nobody asked for, hopefully it sells like shit to send a message.

Let's be honest, anons, the average Zelda player wouldn't have liked a "Objective: SURVIVE" ending for AoC. Hell, most of them don't fucking know Halo to begin with.

>>724895868 (OP)
No one gives a fuck about the Imprisonment War and people also feel burned by Age of Calamity since it was worse than the first Hyrule Warriors and also marketed as a canon prequel only for it to not be so even storyfags were mad

>>724919568
Fuck you, the original HW was godlike.

>>724895868 (OP)
>Tranny warriors
FUCK NU NINTENDO
Switch 2 is overpriced garbage
LITERALLY ZERO GAMES
MARIO KART DOESN'T EVEN UTILIZE THE 120 HERZ
WHAT THE FUCK
THEY HAD ONE JOB MAKE IT 120HZ

>>724895868 (OP)
I just detest the BotW and TotK lore and world. If this had been based on the other timelines, I would have been down for it. But the BotW and TotK art style and characters are genuinely revolting to me.

>>724895868 (OP)
>>complete lack of marketing despite being a Switch 2 exclusive
I've seen tons of ads for it

>>724919704
Funny you post a (super shitty) halo image. All the problems started because AoC didn't end like certain Halo game.

>>724919757
>Most soulless, boring and empty Zelda ever
The graphics being horribly outdated doesn't help it either

>>724919560
I feel like it could've been handled well if they committed to making the first encounter a guaranteed loss while a replay would give a new option and essentially continue as the original AoC does. Not a perfect idea mind you, but it would've made small "Ah ha!" moment.

>>724919413
We'll see.

I guess I just look at it from the perspective of someone who already KNOWS these stories are just supposed to fucking end, because I've seen the results of Square's lack of willingness to let go of FF7's story for over two decades. So having seen, that the half-hearted bits and crumbs that try to say "And then what happened?" with 1/2 in 3's story ring hollow with me, and the desperate need XDE showed in trying to mash everything together as quick as possible has me more than a little apprehensive that they're just gonna make the same mistakes. "Look at thing! You like thing, right? Give money."

>>724919818
Xbox is dead and useless, too
I just like Trump

Even Nintendo is finally shit and just turned into literal tranny grooming crap with poc chars everywhere

>>724912126
I think it's very likely that Link, Sidon, Riju, Tulin, and Yunobo will all be in.

>>724912690
That's what I hate about Zonai shit. They're hyped up as some advanced super powerful race and yet their weapons are awful.

>>724920003
yeah I wouldn't be surprised if Link and the popular totk characters (Purah, Sidon, Riju) show up in the past thanks to Purah doing le super speshul j̶a̶p̶a̶n̶e̶s̶e̶ sheikah science folded 1000 times

>>724920406
I hate that BotW built them up as high-fantasy barbarians and mages, and then just made them another cult of techno monks with the same Ganon contingency that the Sheikah had.

>>724920486
>le super speshul j̶a̶p̶a̶n̶e̶s̶e̶ zonai magic folded 1000 times
Fixed.

>>724916526
Don't worry, she's also in TotK, a good game.

>>724908408
Thank Ganon she's gone for good.

>>724915535
>It's such a fucking sadness
HELLO SAAR, DO NOT TO REDEEMING THE ZELDA

>>724920503
Rauru and Mineru are the last of their kind and their entire kingdom is run by automated robots, I don't think you can fairly say they're representative of all Zonai ever in history. They're clearly in decline and have no real defense for when someone like Ganondorf came along

Also isn't Zelda meant to be Rauru and Sonia's descendant? How are they going to handle that can of worms

>>724921280
>How are they going to handle that can of worms
They won't.

>>724895868 (OP)
I don't want the Zonai Imprisoning War. I don't care about the secret stones. I don't care about Demise/the Demon King/Skyward Sword shit.
I don't want to play a musou about a knockoff.

I love Kass!

>>724921823
What the fuck is going on in your pic? I take that a group of warriors, at great cost, managed to capture Ganon inside a triangle?

Won't this game have the same problem Totk had by reusing the same maps from the last game and feeling like DLC to AOC than a sequel? Did they not think this through, or just don't care because it's cheaper?

>>724922623
Ganon has a vacuum bed fetish.

>>724922623
The Imprisoning War in Link to the Past's history. The manual says this:

>I do not know what Ganon wished for from the Triforce. However, in time evil power began to flow from the Golden Land and greedy men were drawn there to become members of Ganon's army. Black clouds permanently darkened the sky, and many diseases beset Hyrule. The lord of Hyrule sent for the Seven Wise Men and the Knights of Hyrule, and ordered them to seal the entrance to the Golden Land.

>The Triforce, being an inanimate object, cannot judge between good and evil. Therefore, it could not know that Ganon's wishes were evil; it merely granted them. Suspecting that Ganon's power was based on the Triforce's magic, the people of Hyrule forged a sword resistant to magic which could repulse even powers granted by the Triforce, This mighty weapon became known as the blade of evil's bane, or the Master Sword. It was so powerful that only one who was pure of heart and strong of body could wield it. As the Seven Wise Men searched for a valiant person to take up the Master Sword, Ganon's evil army swarmed from the tainted Golden Land into Hyrule and attacked the castle. The Wise Men and the Knights of Hyrule combined forces to wage war on this evil horde.

>The Knights took the full brunt of the fierce attack, and although they fought courageously, many a brave soul was lost that day. However, their lives were not lost in vain, for they bought precious time for the Seven Wise Men to magically seal Ganon in the Golden Land. All of Hyrule rejoiced at the victory that upheld peace and order over Ganon's evil and chaos. This war, which had claimed so many lives, became known as the Imprisoning War in stories told in later centuries.

Tears of the Kingdom would have its own Imprisoning War again when Ganondorf reincarnated, to be sealed away and slowly coalesce Calamity Ganon through the seal.

>>724922024
Who?

>Dude what if we made a bad Dynasty Warriors game with Zelda TotK assets!?!?!
Who the fuck cares?

>>724895868 (OP)
It's not fatigue with Wild Era Zelda, it's everyone correctly calling Koei Tecmo out on their bullshit and expecting yet another noncanon fanfic game that's only quasi-canon if you consider it to be a part of its own timeline split that'll never be elaborated upon because these aren't the versions of the Wild Era Characters everyone knows and loves.

>>724925126
My husband and the best character from BotW, the 3rd worst 3d Zelda!

>>724895868 (OP)
>BOTW fatigue
It has nothing to do with this. (In fact, open-world Zelda fatigue hasn't even happened yet, both games are by far the best selling ones in the entire series. This idea is a meme.)
The reason this has no interest or hype behind it is simple: TotK's story was just shit. It copied BotW's structure, to its detriment, and it failed to keep continuity with BotW even though it was a direct sequel. People aren't interested in another story like that or even one related to TotK.

>>724897457
a good game? games can fail or succeed regardless of genre, totk and SS were both shit regardless