 Holy crap. I get to talk about Age of Calamity. I have been So pumped for this game since it was announced by Nintendo and Age of Nomu It is a prequel to Breath of the Wild and there is a free demo out You can play it right now and I have to say it's quite an extensive demo They essentially gave you the entire beginning of the game. See I went into the demo thinking Oh, yeah, you'll get like the first mission and that's it But you actually get to do a bunch of side missions and other things you get to get into the cooking You get to explore three different playable characters And they all play very differently and we'll get into this I get to see a few of the cutscenes you get to see part of the story You get to learn about the little mini guardian like there is so much packed into this demo It is I my mind is kind of blown. I that This is just the demo. This is just like the opening area of the game My word how long is this single-player campaign going to be? Now I am really really excited and I want to say my general takeaways You know if you don't want any of the fluff you don't want any of the details my general takeaways are this is awesome This is exciting if you are a breath of the wild fan like me You are going to love this game the scenery I mean, I know you're zipping around fighting the model ends and all but like the Zalfos, but the scenery man There is so much scenery in this game seen Hyrule before it was destroyed So much stuff from May Village to Hyrule Castle and in the very first stage just so much more I can't wait to explore the rest of Hyrule Even in these corridor off sections, which they put up the right kind of scenery to make the corridor off sections make sense I can't wait to explore the rest of the world But my word is an amazing are the cutscenes great King Roan Actually acting like a real King like we haven't seen a King in a Zelda game Really stand out or act like a King in the past You know, we've had some fringe Experiences with the King of Hyrule back in Ocarina of Time and he's been mentioned here and there obviously in Breath of the Wild We see him after Hyrule has fallen and there's King of the Red Lions again after Hyrule has fallen in the Wind Waker But we don't really get to see a King being kingly and in this game You get to see it in this demo you get to see King Roan being kingly You get to see him with his badass sword dude He's got a sword that is just makes the master sword look like a little puny piece of crap if I'm completely honest But yeah, you get to experience a lot So my grand takeaway is if you enjoy Breath of the Wild you are going to love this game Even if you're not into the combat and I think that's one thing I want to mention is that you know The combat won't be for everyone now Let's get into some of the nitty-gritty because this is I've been waiting seemingly forever to make this kind of video You start off obviously as Link you're There's an opening cutscene that kind of takes you into your opening battle where you need to defend Hyrule and You're just a normal soldier, but obviously you clearly have a skill set beyond the normal soldiers And these yes, you know, I remember when I when I first live streamed this when it came out So people were like, I don't remember Link having those moves in Breath of the Wild Well, because of course he doesn't have those moves in Breath of the Wild. So when we does like you could shield surf You could paraglide There is a slowdown animation where you could shoot arrows if you jump off of things You do have some of the Sheikah Slate abilities actually have all four of the Sheikah Slate abilities So there are there is some familiarity in some of the movesets, but obviously there's also a lot of you know It's a hack and slasher. That's what this game is. It's a Musso game. It's hack and slash That's not the kind of gameplay Breath of the Wild offers So there's gonna be fundamental gameplay differences Link's not gonna exactly have the exact same moveset that he did in Breath of the Wild Plus you have to consider that while Link was asleep for a hundred years It's possible that he's not quite the warrior he once was in Breath of the Wild It isn't highly possible that Link has forgotten a bunch of his moves just something to consider I think what's more interesting is later when Zelda's playable, but anyways in this first opening stage You are right smackin' up in the middle of Hyrule Field and Hyrule Castle and having a lot of fun Taking out Moblin. It's kind of learning how to play the game. Taking out a whizrobe You get to play as Impa as well So Link is basically all about the sword play plus a bow that you can use the ZR And then there's a whole bunch of slowdown combat and in different combos and stuff you can learn Including when you like take out a whizrobe you actually can use those abilities Then you know whether it's a fire rod or ice rod or electric rod doesn't matter You get to use those abilities as well as you pick them up on the battlefield just like you can in Breath of the Wild So that's really cool, and you can do that with all the characters not just Link But then you get to then you meet Impa and you get to play as Impa and I think what's really cool in playing as Impa is that Impa has some really kick-ass abilities That make you wonder why the Moblins were chasing her and why she was afraid in the first place of course I get that it's just a cutscene, but whatever Impa just kicks a mage rash. She uses a lot of She does do like close range combat like Link does with a sword But the combat's a little different. You have this ability to make copies of yourself by powering up runes And then you can obviously have her ultimate ability as well You know where you have your power everything up, and then you hit a all characters have that ability It's just a different ability for each one The bigger characters like Moblins or the really big Boko Blins That have health bars above them, you know They have breakpoints and different strategies you can use as well And yes, you know she has the ability to use The Sheikah Slate abilities as well which by the way for those who want to know how can all these characters use the Sheikah Slate abilities Well one Impa have the Sheikah Slate at one point and then Link picked it up for a moment And then as later goes to Zelda, but beyond that there's this little mini guardian that's introduced very early in the game I think in the opening cutscene actually And the mini guardian is around when Hyrule's being destroyed and In the ruckus is somehow able to time travel Now this is the first time we have actually seen time travel in the Breath of the Wild universe Obviously it's existed in the Zelda universe, you know Ocarina of Time Hello people But with it's kind of interesting it opens a portal and it's just able to go through that portal And I'm curious why this guardian has the ability to time travel and if that ability is going to come into play Later on in the story also in Breath of the Wild 2 It is entirely possible this mini little guardian character is going to end up in well, you know Breath of the Wild 2 so something that then possibly consider as we explore unless unless the guy ends up getting destroyed During all the ruckus here, which I guess is possible. It creates a timeline conundrum, but whatever Technically could get destroyed. We'll see what happens. I just know that I'm really really excited to see How that particular little character progresses Honestly, it kind of reminds me of R2-D2 Anyways, so Impa plays plays really really really really really fun. The character I find clunkiest was Zelda So you have to play with Zelda not in this stage But in a later stage because you meet Princess Zelda after this battle. There's a whole cutscene about it and Princess Zelda is very very I I just not fun I guess is the way I would describe her combat so in her combat abilities You're able to use you know all of the Sheikah Slate abilities But that's it and you don't get to use them in the same way that Link and the other characters do It's your main button like see hit X right and it's like you know throwing that's your main attack button And you're just kind of whipping a magnet around hitting people pulling up a brick or a block or whatever a barrel out of nowhere You can then you know do combos and bring up the ice pillars You can do the coolest ability She has where you roll the giant bomb and it's a remote bomb then he hits the yard of the detonated That's a really neat ability, but she's really slow and Really clunky. I did not like how she controlled at all, but to be fair Zelda isn't supposed to have combat like training or any combat abilities So it almost makes sense from a story perspective that Zelda would be clunky and so I kind of I was Appreciating the clunkiness of playing with Zelda. Yeah, she can still kick some ass But honestly if you're playing on the hardest difficulty, which I did for a while Yeah, she's not gonna be a lot of people's favorite character to play with She's just a little slow a little clunky a little more difficult to pull off things She has no close range melee ability so enemies get really tight on her it can be a little difficult But I mean she's got her own unique movesets and and she's an interesting character to play with but she's Clearly in my opinion one of the least powerful characters of the at least the three we could play so far Obviously links pretty OP obviously inputs pretty OP Zelda's kind of the weak link of the three, but it makes sense. She should be the weak link of the three in fact Well, one of the one of the scenes you do you're running away from a guardian And you're trying to activate two other guardians that'll help you out And like there's a scene for where a majority that battle link is kind of or link Zelda is kind of like a damsel So like you're trying to protect her and everything and then she finally decides to help out with combat But again, she's not that great at it. So it is what it is I actually barely survived that full-stage encounter and I only played it on normal difficulty I can't imagine when I go to very hard on that one because I like to play through other warriors I'm very hard How difficult that battle is going to be because the guardians are no joke man I don't know how many more guardians you face off against but they are no Joke they're almost harder than they are in Breath of the Wild So like don't you don't want to mess with guardians in this game if you if you can avoid them I don't know how often you'll be able to avoid them There's probably gonna be maps later where you have to face off against multiple of them But who knows maybe the other champions have better abilities are working and some when you get to finally play as them Because it seems like the next stage after this demo is to choose one of the champion areas to go to or you're obviously Going to be unlocking one of the champions to play with as you're going on your recruiting spree because Zelda is told to go recruit people to run The divine beast now again King Ron is very kingly throughout all of this kind of reminds all the hey Don't get sidetracked don't do this you do what I tell you to do you guys all do what I tell you to do He's very like yeah, like I'm in charge I just want to reassert that I'm in charge because I'm in charge. I'm the king Which is exactly what a king does especially in a time of crisis in a time of war Hyrule is that war in this game guys, you know, they call it Hyrule Warriors. It's literally a war There is a war happening and you're a smack dab in the middle of it from the get-go And I really like that now When you talk about specifics one major criticism that's come out about this game is the frame rate The resolution as well now I played this on a giant I did play a little bit in handheld to get to get a grasp of the experience I did play this on like a giant 60 inch or 65 inch TV or whatever 4k TV at that And it's definitely not 1080p. I think the official numbers are out there. I think the top end it hits is 720p And it dips as low as 540p in Doct mode and then in handheld mode like it tops out at 540p and dips as low as 360p whatever those are kind of like resolution numbers Those don't matter to me as much as say the frame rates So right now this game targets 30 FPS. That's what the demo targets You're unable to toggle anything on and off. There's no performance mode again Just a demo the final game might have a performance mode that lets you hit 60 FPS or unlocks the FPS because your lower resolutions I'm not sure. I bring this up because fire emblem warriors ran very very well You were able to run it at close to lock 30 or close to lock 60 and you would you know just change it Which mode you prefer do you prefer prettier visuals lower frame rate or do you prefer higher frame rate and lower resolution? So I don't know if that's gonna be an option in the final game So I do need to note that about these impressions, but it does have frame rate issues It frequently dips down to 20 FPS And I don't just mean like when you're doing the purposeful slowdown animations where like you can jump off a cliff or jump off You know an ice block or whatever You know to you know do your little slow motion firing arrow trick or whatever attack you're using with the way whichever character You're doing it with but I the frame rate is a problem. It's a problem in so much that If you can't handle gameplay at 20 FPS This is going to really frustrate you you I hit 20 FPS minimum all the time Every single I don't think there was a single battle. I was in the way I didn't dip down to 20 FPS at some point. I could just you could feel it now. Does this bother me The thing is Hyrule Warriors originally back on the Wii U had a lot of issues And if you've ever played Dynasty Warrior games, you would know that most Dynasty Warrior games have a ton of frame rate issues This is extremely common and I've seen some people walk around like oh is Nintendo being lazy Nintendo didn't make this game Koei Tecmo in this game Nintendo assisted the way Nintendo assisted wasn't with gameplay gameplay was all done by Koei Tecmo and they just have a horrible habit with Musou games of Not nailing frame rate now I hoped they learned their lesson with Fire Emblem Warriors because we got really great frame rate But now we're back to Zelda a new Warriors game for Zelda and the frame rate is back to being really bad So I don't know if it's Zelda specific. I don't know what's happening again We have the caveat. This is the demo The final game could have options in it that do not exist in the demo currently I would feel like those options should be in the demo since you're literally playing part of the game and you know Good news your save data transfers over so everything I've done in this demo Literally I could just continue it once the full game comes out, but I'm still I can't sit here and pretend I'm not frustrated because I am and I just hope this is something that gets addressed over time You know with updates or whatever what was weird with the original Hyrule Warriors Is it had less frame rate issues on the new Nintendo 3ds when they made the legend version version? Then they did on Wii U and the switch is more powerful than all these platforms, so I Honestly it is something that I wish would get fixed, but you know, that's pretty much my only complaint I was very shocked at how long this demo was It's literally the entire first area all the side quests all the back you can even unlock things and other You know you could replay battles and gather materials and unlock things on other sections of the map You can't visit so like you can unlock stables on other sections of the map You can unlike recipes on other sections of the map that aren't just in your main area You just can't do the big main story progression battles in those areas, so it's just it's a lot There's a lot here. It took me probably an hour and a half. I would say a normal to get through everything You know everything I could possibly do on the mini-map and even then I know there's some hidden Koroks because that they hid Koroks in this game again If Korok seeds and I know the whole purpose, you know what like the Koroks are giving us Korok seeds I haven't figured out what the purpose of that was because before it was all about you know Stuff that happened in the Lost Woods and Hetsu needing his seeds back. I'm like, okay, but now then You know that happened then why are we collecting seeds now? What what's the excuse now? Are we gonna find out I assume we're gonna find out because the game does tell us we need to go to the math Go get the Master Sword, but that the Lost Woods is entirely taken over by the bad guys right now So we get to see Lost Woods pretty much in a destroyed state So that's gonna be interesting to see and try to try to win Lost Woods back Yeah, I'm and obviously see the Great Dacotree Great Dacotree's gotta be involved somehow in this especially with the Master Sword involved So this is going to be a very interesting quest. I'm as a Zelda fan I'm you know my the whole time I'm playing I'm just in awe of seeing Hyrule the way You know that we haven't seen it before in Breath of the Wild. I'm in awe of the story every cutscene that comes up I'm just smiling And the thing is we know there's a bad ending to this or at least we presume it unless they wreck on it I have no idea, but I'm I'm just I want more I didn't want to stop playing and Theoretically, I could keep playing because you can replay battles and collect materials and farm materials Which is something you might want to do anyways because there's an entire upgrade system in here You can level your characters up Links obviously my highest level character because there's certain You know battles and situations you can only use link for but yeah, you can level your characters up You can level your items up You know you collect different items and you know I actually had to sell some I collected too many swords for links So I had to sell off some of my weaker stuff, but yeah, it there's you know changing out a weapon changing out There's just a lot a lot to take in and I implore you it's free Go give it a try you don't have to take my word for it If you want to switch you have no reason not to try it if you're not interested It's because it's free to do if it's not for you I totally get it Musou games are not for everyone, but when it comes to Zelda Dude the story alone makes me want to play and the gameplay is pretty enthralling at first as well Then there's there's something satisfying about taking up hordes and hordes of bokehblint and laselfos Moblins and all that like there's just something Satisfying about something that felt so much more difficult in Breath of the Wild just being able to take him out Like you're this grand master champion that could just dominate basically like you're as good as Ravalli Claims that he is in Breath of the Wild Back in those old cutscenes anyways, you know what you think about it if you tried out the demo I think later today. I might even upload If the news continues to be a little slow today because it was slow this morning I might upload even all of my gameplay. I have recorded for Hyrule Warriors age of calamity I don't normally do that, but man am I excited for this game So giving you guys like an hour and a half of a straight footage, you know, no commentary or anything I think could be a value to some of you guys So let me know what you think down in the comments below I am Nathan Roblijans from Nintendo Prime and I will catch all of you guys in the next video