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One hundred years before the masterpiece A whole new musou? Certainties and Doubts The controversial musou genre seemed like a closed chapter for
Nintendo. After the Hyrule Warriors and
Fire Emblem Warriors experiments, it didn't seem like anything else was in the works. Instead, on a hot September afternoon, Nintendo came out with an announcement that no one expected. Seeing Eiji Aonuma appear, we immediately thought of the highly anticipated Breath of the Wild 2, who disappeared from the scene after that first trailer last year. We have come close, because Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity will be the official prequel to Breath of the Wild and will tell the events that took place a hundred years before Link woke up
on Nintendo Switch.
One hundred years before the masterpiece
Breath of the Wild only hinted at the war that brought Hyrule to its knees a hundred years before the game started. Link woke up without memory and it was up to us to find out what had happened slowly, finding the places of his most important memories or talking to the inhabitants of the kingdom. Nintendo had chosen a visual approach to storytelling: it was the game world that told us the story of Hyrule through the abandoned battlefields, the ancient ruins, the monuments disfigured by time. The short cinematics and fully voiced dialogues suggested a great story upstream, perhaps the most adult, epic and dramatic that a
The Legend of Zelda has ever told, and not all players appreciated its fragmentation: some would have preferred a more cinematic, less indirect storytelling. Hyrule Warriors: The Age of Calamity should
make up for this lack.
