 Guys, Age of Calamity comes out next month. It comes out on November 20th. You know we'll be doing some special giveaways and celebrating it and live streaming it over on Twitch at twitch.tv slash Nintendo Prime TV. We're gonna be going nuts about this game. In fact, I'm so excited about it. God knows I'll end up dual streaming it over on YouTube and risking my entire Twitch channel. No, I'm just kidding. Not gonna do that, but here's the thing. The reason that we're so excited about Age of Calamity isn't the gameplay, although it's gonna be really exciting to play as Impa and Zelda and all the champions and it's gonna be great playing in that Musso style like we got to do in Hyrule Warriors and Fire Emblem Warriors before it. And obviously all the Dynasty Warrior games and there was a One Piece one and all this stuff. There's been a bunch of Musso games. But what makes us excited about this game is the story. The fact that this is an official prequel to Breath of the Wild and how we get to find out what happened 100 years ago. But did you know that what Age of Calamity is actually doing is highlighting just how story and lore driven Breath of the Wild really was because one of the number one criticisms of Breath of the Wild is that it kinda has a simplistic story, right? There's hardly any story, but actually, Breath of the Wild has the most lore and story in any Zelda game ever and maybe any Nintendo game ever. It's just, it's there if you want it. It's kind of a, you get the story, if you care to get the story. So, how Breath of the Wild works is, it's a completely open world. It doesn't force a lot of story upon you. It gives you the basic elements of the story as a requirement and if you want any additional details you need to dig through the game to find it. And some people really like this approach. Other people were kind of like, I'd rather have the story kind of forced fed to me instead, you know, even the memories, you know, you have to go out and find those memories. They're all optional. But think about this, you know, we get to see the journey of Zelda discovering her powers and meeting the champions and Zelda and Link's relationship and obviously Link's relationship with the champions but like all of this was already explained in the diaries that exist in Breath of the Wild. Like the story in Age of Calamity isn't actually new although there'll be a couple of new elements but it's actually the primary story of Breath of the Wild. Like the writers were able to take the story and craft some lore and it ended up so well like that people can actually analyze and theorize it for years even to this very day. Now we're breaking down new footage from Age of Calamity and from Breath of the Wild 2 talking about, oh man, what's gonna happen? How does this connect to things we already know about? But now we get to see these stories on screen and the story events actually have exact locations in the world where they happen and it's gonna be represented one to one with amazing consistency. Many of the runes in the game actually even have unique stories as to which battles cause them to even become runes and the detail that the writers put in the Breath of the Wild have actually set up Age of Calamity to convey them with extreme precision. And the thing is, even areas that aren't directly tied to the main plot have a detailed history written about them and elaborated if you would just want to explore and find it. We've already seen what's going to happen in Age of Calamity and probably even more so in Breath of the Wild 2. It's actually one of the most lore rich games in Nintendo history. And I find it interesting because we often hear people talking about this game as if Breath of the Wild is just this simplistic thing. But it's really complex with layers upon layers upon layers waiting for you to discover. You could quote unquote 100% Breath of the Wild and still miss out on all the story details because 100% in the game doesn't involve reading all the diaries. It doesn't involve reading all the stones. Like if you guys remember out in the Zora area there was these stone tablets that talk about the history of the Zoras and it is in this lore, it is in these diaries, it is in this additional detail that you start to realize why I still to this day firmly believe that Breath of the Wild is the culmination of the entire three branching arcs of the timeline coming back together. It's not just about the races in the game. It's not just about some simplistic facts. It's about the lore. And when you dig into the lore, it describes events that happen uniquely in each of the three timelines that only happen in those timelines. And because of the description of this lore, it's very clear that the timelines have converged. Whether it was through a dragon break or like we theorized in the past or whatever, the point is this game is so lore rich. It is now the new foundation for all Zelda games moving forward. Guaranteed almost every new game made moving forward will not even go back to what this all the timeline used to be. It's all gonna be in a post-Breath of the Wild world. It doesn't mean it's always gonna use the Breath of the Wild, you know, the Breath of the Wild gameplay or the Breath of the Wild story or the Breath of the Wild world. Obviously the Breath of the Wild visuals, they could change all that up over time and do different crazy things. But I definitely feel like this game set things up for the future of the franchise. And Age of Calamity is such an exciting prospect because we get to see events that are actually already described in full detail. Of course, there's some gaps here and there. There's some presumptions made about some of it. You know, like the person who tells the king to dig up, dig up the ancient stuff to battle against Calamity Ganon because Calamity Ganon is gonna be coming back. So we need to get this ancient Sheikah tech out of the ground and ready to go. And then obviously those Divine Beasts and those Sheikah tech, all of it kind of backfires and Calamity Ganon takes it over there are some gaps in that story where we aren't really sure, like was that person actually already working for Ganon? Like we don't know. And so there's gonna be a few little details sewed and tied up and taken care of in this game. But for the most part, we technically already know the story of Age of Calamity. I know we've said, oh, we know how it ends. Of course we know how it ends. But we also kind of know how it begins. And we kind of know about the entire journey along the way because that time period was described in extreme detail in Breath of the Wild. Not only that time period, the 100 years that Link is sitting there sleeping in a cave is described as well. Like this game is so, so rich in lore, so rich in story that I've grown over the years to really appreciate the approach Nintendo has given to Breath of the Wild to the point that I kind of like it better than the forced story elements of say Ocarina of Time or really all Zelda games. Traditional stories or more story heavy games in the Zelda series have always been a bit linear so it can continue to follow down a set story path. But here's the thing, the ending of Breath of the Wild is set in stone, but how well you understand the world is up to the individual. You know, when I need to be able to say, I mean, I finished Breath of the Wild, you know, I don't really get it. The story wasn't that great. That's cause you didn't bother to discover it. That's the beauty in Breath of the Wild. Being this open world game, it's not just open world in the sense of gameplay and that freedom and exploration and trying to figure out how you wanna defeat Calamity Ganon if you wanna make it super difficult, they're super easy. You wanna handle the Divine Beast or if you don't, it's not just about that. It's also about discovery, discovery of characters, discovery of character history. Like even all the NPCs in the game have a backstory. There's more than meets the eye. Whether they have a side quest attached to them or not, there is more than meets the eye. You can glean so much about them just visiting their homes and finding out little details about their personalities and quirks in their homes or seeing them, you know, out there picking pumpkins or whatever the heck they're doing out in garden areas. I can Kakariko. It's amazing to see what these people are doing. What has happened? We get to also see Hyrule before it was destroyed. Another amazing aspect. Like we have an idea of what it looks like but we don't know everything and now we get to see it before it was destroyed. We get to see events that we technically already know about happen. It's going to be such an amazing experience. I can't wait. And fundamentally, if people don't understand why people are excited for Age of Calamity, this is it. Because of how deep Breath of the Wild truly is. So, what's Age of Calamity about to do in a month? It's about to be the best selling Musou game ever made. It's about to potentially be a 10 plus million seller on Nintendo Switch. And conversely, it's going to remind everyone how appreciative we should have been about Breath of the Wild's story and how it told it in the first place. And, or it's going to show that people didn't pay attention in Breath of the Wild, didn't do the exploration and they assume, oh man, this story's better than Breath of the Wild when the entire story was already told before. All right, folks. I am Nintendo RoboJets from Nintendo Prime. This is just me showing even more appreciation of Breath of the Wild. Big shout out to Fen Drift, who brought up this topic over on Reset Arrow. I'll have a link down to his thread because I used a lot of his words in the beginning of this video. So, I gotta get proper credit there. I'm not here to steal anything. It just made me really want to talk about this. Talk about Breath of the Wild because my lordy, lordy, lordy, any excuse to talk about Zelda is a good excuse in my mind. All right, guys. Be sure to enter those giveaways that we have going on for a Nintendo Switch, a Nintendo Switch, a PlayStation 5, an Xbox Series X, also two copies of Pikmin 3 Deluxe. I'm just gonna stop gushing here. Move on to my next one. You guys have a good night.