 Hey everyone, today Nintendo surprised dropped a brand new Zelda game. Oh my God, I can't believe we're actually talking about this. This is insane, it's arriving later this year. But before we get into it, I gotta remind you of a couple giveaways we have going on because these giveaways are super exciting. We're giving away a Nintendo Switch Lite and then two second place winners will get a Switch Game of Choice. To enter that giveaway, one thing you can do is go to patreon.com slash Nintendo Prime. Join for as little as $1 and you get 15 entries into that giveaway and also into our second giveaway. Also, if you go down to the description, there's other ways to enter the giveaway as well. It includes liking the video, commenting, subscribing, joining our Discord server, following on Twitter, all that jazz. Also, we have a second giveaway for three copies of Super Mario 3D All Stars. If you would like to win those, we have a Gleam.io link down in the description. Also, joining our Patreon again gets you an additional 15 entries into that giveaway. All right, this is crazy. Let's just get into it. There's a brand new game coming. In fact, I'm just gonna play the raw six minute video for you guys and then come back and talk about it after. Hello, everyone. I'm Ajiya Onuma, the producer of the Legend of Zelda series. We mentioned in the June 2019 Nintendo Direct presentation that we had started development on the sequel to the Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. Many people around the world are still playing Breath of the Wild, so I'd like to thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Everyone, thank you so much. Regarding the sequel, in order to make the vast world you enjoyed exploring in the original game even more impressive, the team is working hard on its development, so you'll have to wait a bit longer before we can provide more updates. In the meantime, we've prepared a different way for you to experience the world of Hyrule and we have a video to introduce it. Please take a look. The history of the royal family of Hyrule is also the history of Calamity Ganon, a crime or the evil that has endured over the ages. I think you are now ready, ready to hear what happened 100 years ago. What you just saw is the game that Koei Tecmo Games is developing, Hyrule Warriors, Age of Calamity. This game takes place 100 years before the events of the Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. In that game, the great Calamity that occurred 100 years prior was mentioned, but the actual event itself wasn't shown in full. In this game, you'll be able to experience the events of the great Calamity. So now, I would like to invite Koei Tecmo Games producer, Mr. Hayashi, to join me here. Hello, everyone. I'm Yosuke Hayashi from Koei Tecmo Games and the producer of this game. Hyrule Warriors, Age of Calamity, began when Mr. Aonuma approached us saying, I think it would be interesting to create a Warriors game telling the story of the great Calamity. What do you think? The battles between the Kingdom of Hyrule and Calamity Ganon would complement Warriors style gameplay against large armies. The previous Hyrule Warriors games were filled with Zelda conventions. The Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild, broke these conventions entirely, and perhaps it's the same for everyone here, but for someone like me, who's been playing Zelda games for a long time, this was an extraordinary experience. It's a new special title for me. Unlike the previous Hyrule Warriors games, Hyrule Warriors, Age of Calamity, was developed by working closely with the Zelda team in every step of the process, including gameplay direction, graphics, world, and all dialogue. And while we maintained the distinct gameplay style of the Warriors series, with exciting one versus 1,000 battles and a wide variety of playable characters, this became the only game that will let you experience the world 100 years prior to the events of the Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild firsthand. Thank you, Mr. Hayashi. During the development of the previous Hyrule Warriors games, I was impressed with how the Warriors development team, led by Mr. Hayashi, had a deep understanding of the Legend of Zelda series. This time around, they made it possible to create this new experience by combining the well-detailed world of Breath of the Wild with Warriors gameplay. Therefore, I believe this game will offer the experience of the great Calamity battles that weren't fully shown in the original game. I hope that both those who played the previous Hyrule Warriors games and those who played the Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild, can experience this game. Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity will launch on November 20th. Thank you for your continued support for the Legend of Zelda and this game. That's right. Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity. And what's crazy about this is they even mentioned, you know, unlike the prior Hyrule Warriors game, which is fantastic, and if you haven't played it, you should pick it up on Switch. This game looks like it's going to be officially part of the Legend of Zelda timeline. This is very, very important because the Zelda team worked closely with the dialogue and the story. It's got voice acting. It sounded like the original Zelda voice actor, so it's gonna probably have the original voice actors from Breath of the Wild. This is going to be part of the game, part of the franchise. Now, this also confirms to me, obviously, that Breath of the Wild 2, which they do briefly bring up, we'll talk about that, Breath of the Wild 2 is obviously next year. This is the next year's game because we've had a Zelda game come every single year since the release of The Link Between Worlds back in 2013, and I thought we were done. We weren't gonna get a Zelda game this year. And here we go with Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity. So it's a prequel to the games, it's 100 years before the Calamity. And that's pretty crazy because the Calamity's talked about, but we don't actually know much about the run up beyond the cut scenes. If you remember all the cut scenes from Breath of the Wild, we see little bits and pieces, but we don't actually see exactly what happens. And now we will, and there's gonna be these giant epic battles, which of course that's what happens in Musou games. And I'm just, I'm so stoked and all the different playable characters, you'll be able to play as Zelda, you'll be able to play as Link, you'll be able to play as I'm sure the three different champions back in their heyday. You'll be able to play as a bunch of different characters I'm sure, even well beyond that. There's like 18 or something playable characters in the original Hyrule Warriors. So yeah, this is, it's gonna be awesome. And I loved the hell out of it. There's a couple cool things with this game. It's not only, is it the prequel? Guys, guys, listen up. This is Nintendo's holiday game. It's coming out November 20th. It is officially Nintendo's holiday game. People are wondering, what the hell does Nintendo have going on this holiday? It's Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity, an official prequel, an official prequel to Breath of the Freaking Wild 2. Are you kidding me? Remember, this is happening. So we're getting a sequel and a prequel. For story reasons alone, I have to buy this game. Let alone that I love the hell out of Hyrule Warriors. But see, the original Hyrule Warriors isn't part of the official Zelda timeline. This game most definitely is. I'm, yes. Yes! Zelda, 35th anniversary, starting early, folks. It's starting freaking early as they keep the one Zelda something per year going with the Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity. I'm so, well, I'm so hyped. I'm gonna have to analyze the footage later and see what I can draw out of it, different enemies, all this crap. The visuals were worked on in conjunction with Nintendo to try to match it up, probably with what we're gonna see potentially in Breath of the Wild 2. Oh, and by the way, there was a development update. I don't know if you guys saw it. There was a development update on the Breath of the Wild 2. They're not ready to show it again yet because they're working a little harder to make it more visually impressive. They are trying to up the ante with the extra switch power to make Breath of the Freaking Wild 2 look even better. This is just, yes. All right, Nintendo, I see what's happening. I see what you're doing. Mario 35th anniversary stuff, 3D All Stars. Now, Hyrule Warriors, Age of Calamity. I presume there's gonna be a pre-order links out there already. So if there are pre-order links, I'll have an Amazon affiliate link down in the description as well. If you would like to use that Amazon affiliate link, obviously it's a small kickback to me, but it doesn't cost you anything extra. But goddamn, I'm so hyped right now. I'm a Zelda guy. I went to bed in this shirt. I went to bed wearing the Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild shirt from E3 2016. And I even put up a tweet last night. It almost feels cryptic, pretty cryptic at this point where I said, I'm gonna go to sleep dreaming of a legend. And here we go. The legend is here. All right, folks. I'll catch you in the next video.