hyrule warriors musings
it's really weird to return to hyrule warriors 1 after playing Age of Calamity a lot recently. they're so fundamentally differently designed despite being the same series. they're both good games (especially the definitive re-re-release of the former) but calamity improved so much on the formula that by comparison hw1 just... oof. sucks to play somewhat.
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@zaradragon the thing we disliked the most about playing the original after age of calamity was how all the outposts felt Really Obvious and incongruous with the rest of the level, all these perfectly square rooms
where age of clam has them as just designated areas of the map, whatever shape they might be, and they frequently have lots of like, boxes and training dummies and watchtowers and stuff that an actual military outpost might have
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@Felthry oh yeah that's absolutely a massive improvement, allows battles to feel more... connected to a place. Defenses setup in what little narrow alleys they can hold throughout a city, storerooms garrisoned to prevent the supplies going missing, etc etc.
also the combat just, *feels* better. Attacks feel more weighty and impactful, non-grunt enemies aren't sent flying by every attack, dodges feel better (and the payoff of a flurry rush makes them more worthwhile)
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@zaradragon also age of calamity has a story that's not an excuse plot, too, which is nice
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@zaradragon fair enough! we just like games having good story with a lot of work put into it
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@Felthry but also yeah the story in calamity is so, so much... stronger and more enjoyable. the characters are a lot stronger too.
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@Felthry (speaking of good characters; wow the champion's writing is on par. we did the one side mission that's the descendants facing off against the champions and Mipha tells Sidon after their fight "I've never been happier to lose" or something like that in just, that extremely older sibling pride tone and it's just Good. Pure.
also it's nice seeing Teba acting to take the edge off of revali.
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@Felthry that personally doesn't bother us all in the original tbh. it's transparently a noncanon what if excuse and, it's not trying to be anything more than that it's just having fun with it. Honestly, we enjoy seeing people get the chance.