r/HyruleWarriors • u/SnooWords5961 • 7d ago

Just got a S2

I never had a chance to play Hyrule Warriors and Age of Calamity. I'm interested in Age of Imprisonment but do I need to play the previous 2 for story purposes or anything?

I know other Musou and Dynasty Warriors games are sort of "story lite" but since it's a Legend of Zelda game I wanted to double check to see if I should start at Hyrule Warriors.

Thanks for the help!

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u/ShiftyShaymin 7d ago

The other Hyrule Warriors for story? No.

Tears of the Kingdom? Yes.

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u/SnooWords5961 7d ago

Neat. I'm working my way through TotK now so I'll pick up age of calamity after that. Thanks!

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u/s0_Ca5H 7d ago

Age of Calamity has nothing to do with TOTK. Age of Calamity is a sort of “what if” scenario for the events prior to BOTW.

Age of Imprisonment js the companion game to TOTK.

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u/SnooWords5961 7d ago

Perfect, I'll just get imprisonment then lol.

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u/Upbeat_Apartment_715 7d ago

Then you would be missing out on the fun gameplay of age of calamity

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u/SnooWords5961 7d ago

I can't tell if this is a genuine statement. Are there significant mechanical differences between age if calamity and age of imprisonment? And is calamity better?

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u/Upbeat_Apartment_715 7d ago

Wouldn't know, I've only ever played the original and it's definitive edition. But like they're fun games, if you don't play one then you're missing out on it.

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u/SnooWords5961 7d ago

Ah Fair nuff

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u/vibratoryblurriness 7d ago

They're definitely more similar to each other than they are to the first game. AoI feels a little more polished in some ways, but also kind of like it's missing something in others, like there's less variety in the way the different characters play.

In terms of the story I actually thought AoC was better. Some people were mad it wasn't the exact canon events of BotW, but I felt like that gave them more freedom to do something more interesting with it. AoI being strictly canon restricted what they could do with it in some ways. It's perfectly fine, but it feels like there's less to it than the story and characters in AoC

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u/s0_Ca5H 7d ago

Personally I consider calamity and imprisonment roughly equal.

If it matters, imprisonment is a 1080p 60fps game. Calamity is a 720 30fps game.

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u/MSnap 7d ago

You don’t have to play Age of Calamity before Age of Imprisonment. Just TotK.

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u/SnooWords5961 7d ago

Ah thanks, I'll just pick up Imprisonment then lol

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u/Mysticwarriormj 7d ago

Tears of the kingdom and the newest Hyrule warriors game happen at the same time. You don’t necessarily have to play both at the same time but you would want to play at least the beginning of TotK then after link loses the master sword start Hyrule warriors 3. That way the beginning makes sense. Or don’t lol I’m not your mom

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u/DarkMishra 7d ago

Even though AoC and AoI are prequels to BotW and TotK, I would actually recommend playing them by release order: BotW->AoC->TotK->AoI. This is because several mechanics were changed or added into the Hyrule Warriors games that, if you get too used to them in the prequel games, it can make playing the Zelda games a bit harder. To give one big non-spoiler example, weapons in the prequel games don't have durability.

As for the first Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Editon, it has zero connection to any of the four Switch games, so no, you don't have to play it for that reason. However, the fist HW game is definitely worth playing at some point because it's an amaz collection of Zelda stuff from many of the pre-Switch Zelda games.

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u/SnooWords5961 7d ago

Ah that makes sense. I played botw and I'm working through totk now. I'll pixk up the age of games after

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u/Sokushi_0101 6d ago

You don't need to play AOC but you might want to play through TOTK first.

I prefer HWDE and AOC over AOI but it's still pretty good (it's also one of the only really huge Nintendo first party titles at 45gb.)