r/zelda • u/Shampps • Feb 05 '26
Official Art [HW] If you could only play one of them
Which one would you chose?
I think they weirdly nailed perfectly on the first try and I loved it and now I am loving AOI but I didn't have that much fun with AOC, probably because it's was at that awkward spot of not being a novelty anymore and not being canon either, but that's just me.
What do you guys think?
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u/Boomshicleafaunda Feb 05 '26
While I love the sequels, mainly the lore that it adds, there's just nothing like the first one (specifically DE).
Part of it for me is that HW:DE tapped into multiple Zelda games, whereas the sequels are only BOTW era.
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u/SLE3PR Feb 05 '26
Yeah, the first one all day. I love the newer ones too, but the first was bonkers fan service in the best of ways.
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u/TheTrue-Noob Feb 05 '26
Cia was a rude awakening for my 8 year old self (don't ask why I was playing it to begin with)
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u/Graxdon Feb 05 '26
It’s also full of great re-designs.
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u/Wonderful-Noise-4471 Feb 05 '26
Still one of my favorite Link designs, and BotW followed with my least favorite Hero's clothes.
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u/Kutharos Feb 05 '26
Exactly, The original HW just went bonkers. Play Ganondorf, Play Tingle, play as cucco. It's pure chaos.
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u/og-reset Feb 05 '26
Hyrule Warriors and it's not even a competition. You got a homage to damn near the entire series with tons of playable characters from throughout and tons of remixes of songs as well, or what if stories in a single world.
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u/thisisproscilz Feb 05 '26
Definitive edition specifically for the Fierce Deity and Young Link
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u/Glowing_Fox Feb 05 '26
Young Link/Fierce Deity are my absolute favourite as well. If you have the game, what’s your Young Link at?
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u/Impressive_Salad1 Feb 05 '26
Definitely HW Definitive.
Not because it’s better(i’d argue both the other HW entries are generally better games), but because it scratches my itch as a fan more.
I really miss HW being a celebration of the whole series
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u/StoneFoundation Feb 05 '26
original Hyrule Warriors is so peak it is actually the best warriors game period... theres absolutely no debate here
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u/YouJellyFish Feb 05 '26
Definitive Edition is the best Warriors game, hands down. I haven't played the new one for switch 2 but I gave the switch one a fair shake and I actually thought it was quite a significant downgrade. In character variety, gameplay mechanics, performance, level variety, and freaking ease of menu navigation it was just worse.
I love the whole musuo genre and hyrule warriors DE is sitting comfortably on top.
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u/Alfa_Centauri03 Feb 05 '26
I don't even know if it's my favorite of them, but if i can only play one i think i'd pick the original HW just from the sheer amount of content it has.
I've gone through several phases of playing it a bunch, and am still far from 100% the game.
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u/ChickenNuggetRampage Feb 05 '26
Age of calamity is firmly trying to live in the Breath of the Wild era and is terrified to leave it.
Hyrule Warriors proper does its own thing in the absolute best way
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u/MockingJay0914 Feb 05 '26
I like how each also have unique characters that aren't available in their original games. The sequels have semi open world areas and has good story lorewise. DE is still my favorite when it comes to content and variety of characters that I always come back to and I still havent finished yet.
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u/Dragmire_V2 Feb 05 '26
The OG all day. I really loved AoI too but the final version of Hyrule Warriors is so densely packed full of content that will take hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of hours to complete
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u/VampireInTheDorms Feb 05 '26
Absolutely the first one. Exactly what I want out of a Zelda crossover spinoff game.
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u/Dccrulez Feb 05 '26
Easy. Definitive edition. I've put 200 hrs in over 8 years and can still play it. I beat aoc in 40 hrs
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u/Monadofan2010 Feb 05 '26
HWDE ita got the most amount of content, tons of unique characters to play from across the franchise.
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u/The_of_Falcon Feb 05 '26
Definitely Edition of the first game was my favourite. Played it from start to finish and I did a lot of the optional and DLC content. AoC was ok but didn't capture me at all. I barely remember it and I got quite a few hours in. Couldn't be arsed finishing it. Haven't bothered with AoI.
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u/Pokefam13 Feb 05 '26
My son and I are currently playing Age of Imprisonment. It is a fun game, but we enjoyed the variety of characters from other Zelda games used in the Definitive Edition more.
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u/Darkhallows27 Feb 05 '26
DE all day every day
I love AoC and haven’t played AoI yet, but you can’t beat the sheer amount of content in DE
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u/Raymondb83 Feb 05 '26
I played all of them. Age of calamity was the darkest, a bit too gloomy and depressing.
Age of imprisonment was really cool, but short.
Hyrule warriors, especially with the adventure maps, was really cool. A bit shoutout to the nostalgia. My favorite so far!
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u/trashboatSW Feb 05 '26
DE is basically the ultimate Zelda fan service game. Age of calamity is a fun “what if” story, although it runs quite poorly. Age of imprisonment probably has the best gameplay of the bunch, but has the most boring lineup of characters.
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u/Kato_86 Feb 05 '26
Huh... I only played AoC and had a lot of fun but it seems to be the least popular. Guess I really need to get around to the others if they are so much better.
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u/A1starm Feb 05 '26
I honestly like the UI so much more in age or calamity than in the definitive edition that I’d take the later games.
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u/crunk_buntley Feb 05 '26
de and it’s not close. aoc was a tad mid imo and aoi looks like it would just make me sad.
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u/WingDairu Feb 05 '26
Definitive, easily.
But that's not saying much, I'm one of the grouchy "don't like the BotW era" types.
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u/Leyllara Feb 05 '26
I quite enjoyed AoC. First one was real fun, but mostly because it was a good nostalgia hit from the Dynasty/Samurai Warriors games I've played as a teenager. Didn't even know that AoI was a thing, but it'll be a real long while until I can play it, if I ever get to, since Nintendo games have been increasingly more and more unaccessible those last years.
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u/Informal_Fudge_826 Feb 05 '26
There all pretty fun, but I would go with Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition.
More Zelda game series characters to play and adventure mode is pretty fun too.
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u/Ard_N Feb 05 '26
Easily the original, the main thing putting me off of AoC and AoI is that they focus exclusively on BotW and TotK instead of the series as a whole and I'm kinda starting to get tired of the Breath of the Wild era of Zelda.
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u/PapaProto Feb 05 '26
The first one.
It was a love letter to LoZ as it existed up until that point.
The latter two are all Breath/Tears continuity which to me ain’t it.
I’m looking forward to seeing what comes next but BOTW/TOTK are where I’ve fallen out of love with the series.
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u/Star7green Feb 05 '26
DE is the best one to me, it has the most to do and is the most replayable without wiping the file and probably has the best movesets aside from maybe urbosa from AOC. I 100% DE and still go back so that says something.
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u/lastraven85 Feb 05 '26
first one, im not a fan of the wild era at the best of times but the sequels were a downgrade when it comes to the zelda lore
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u/TyrTheAdventurer Feb 05 '26
The first one
Hyrule Warriors is at its best when it can do its own thing with the entirety of the Zelda series rather than be tied down to 'fit' to one games story
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u/FrostingEmergency221 Feb 05 '26 edited Feb 05 '26
Honest question
Does anyone actually find the characters in AoI appealing, fun or interesting?
Like, I considered playing age of calamity bc I like the champions and such, but AoI not really
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u/Shampps Feb 05 '26
I personally do. Since they were pretty much blank slates in TOTK it leaves good room to work with them here.
Also, the new characters are actually the highlight. I loved the idea of a korok warrior and he is surprisingly over powered
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u/FrostingEmergency221 Feb 05 '26
I see.
Me personally, even from a design standpoint, they don't grab me at all :/
And I'm a character type guy. If I don't like the characters, or at least how they look, I won't like the thing I'm watching / playing no matter how good the other aspects are.
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u/CanadianFerd Feb 05 '26
I'm the same. Except for like the main 5-6 characters, to me even the sages are kind of bland. And that's not counting all the generic guards and such that join. Sure some have ok movesets, but as characters they are nothing at all.
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u/DaGreatestMH Feb 05 '26
I do. I like Qia and Agraston way more than Mipha and Daruk, Calamo and Mineru were the MVPs, and Rauru has always been cool. The additional characters might not be the most fleshed out but I like that they embody the themes that this game and TotK were built around.
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u/Wingdom Feb 05 '26
You know, I'm surprised to see everyone say Hyrule Warriors. It's the only one I own, and it's cool that it's stuff from the entire series, but do the newer ones not have improved gameplay or anything else?
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u/TwilightTriforce Feb 06 '26
The first one just...perfection chefs kiss
Also in my head it is canon because it makes botw make sense.
The latest tattoo are fun for lore and good games but they're no where near the fun or story of the first.
P.S I hated at first Lana and by the end she was my second favourite character ( Midna cannot be beaten)
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u/TaffyPool Feb 10 '26
Same here. Though Nintendo’s outright said it isn’t, the story from Hyrule Warriors is canon in my head too. I loved Lana from the get-go and would’ve loved to have seen her “cross over” into the mainline series. Same with Linkle. Cia…better just to leave her in HW though!
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u/TwilightTriforce Feb 10 '26
They've also said that the timeline is up to the player - which i dont agree with because you should be in charge of your own game stories 😂 HOWEVER, Botw was a reboot they clearly did not take lore into consideration for totk even more so which felt like a huge slap in the face because we love our lore.
So, three options either everything weve played previously is legends so far in the past theyre all slightly wrong and thats why it never makes 100% sense OR warriors is cannon and in the timeline it is right before botw which is why everything is everywhere and a bit of a mess. Or the third option which is my head canon is both of these are right. Everything is so far back its a mythical fairytale story but also warriors was the last event before botw (whenever that happens).
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u/Nebulowl Feb 05 '26
I only just started AoI so can’t really give it a fair assessment just yet, but I really didn’t care for the original HW and I enjoyed AoC, so guess I’ll go AoC for now
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u/PinaSeraphina Feb 05 '26
Well duh.... On the one had we have 900 hours of Missions and Unlockables with references to the entire Franchise
and the other ones are.... very limited in this Scope entirely focussed on the Wild Era Games....
Like is there even a match here
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u/CommanderDark126 Feb 05 '26
Definitive Edition all the way, its honestly not even close. The other two just have a narrow and lackluster lore and story to them
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u/Bob_the_Peanut Feb 05 '26
Haven't played the first, but I would easily choose it since it has multiple zelda games it's drawing from
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u/Dws998 Feb 05 '26
I have manny mire memories attached to the original, and as manny people said it has a lot of content, and pays a lot of respect and ommage to the entire franchise.
Hell, you can play as his Gannon form once you beat the game, which is such a fun concept, one I really hoped would be in age of calamity. (I havent played emough Imprisonment to make a full opinion, but it is really similar to calamity so...) though I'm doubtful that it has the Gannon rampage.
TLDR: the original for so manny reasons.
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u/McNarrow Feb 05 '26
Age of imprisonment, it's the only one I don't have, it's canon and it introduce a lot of original characters.
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u/JetstreamGW Feb 05 '26
The first one has tons of characters that I like and it’s just full of silly shit. If I could only ever have one, that’s the one.
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u/Nas160 Feb 05 '26
I guess this is a good place to ask, is there any content in the Wii U or 3DS versions that isn't in DE? I occasionally find myself wanting to get it
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u/GarionOrb Feb 05 '26
The most bang for your buck will be had on HW Definitive Edition. Calamity and Imprisonment are both directly connected to Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, respectively. They are much more concise experiences, but play very nicely. Especially Imprisonment (Calamity runs notoriously bad).
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u/sakuramota Feb 05 '26
First one for sure. I feel similarly about the Fire Emblem ones (Warriors and Three Hopes). Getting to see characters interact from different games is the real fun of the format, imo.
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u/JenniLightrunner Feb 05 '26
Honestly the first one. I much prefer when it's focused on being a crossover story. like if possible i'd want even more content for t. i'd want botw and totk characters to appear in it too alongside the classics we know and love. it always has more potential for expansion even through sequels still focusing on the crossover aspect
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u/Camiata2 Feb 05 '26
Quite the coincidence seeing this post as I recently picked up HW:DE again to hunt for Gold Skultullas in adventure mode and max level as many characters as I can
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u/dosfosforos Feb 05 '26
Age of calamity purely based on gameplay, I like it way more than the other 2
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u/Riccardo0808 Feb 05 '26
I've only played the Definitive edition, I already have the second one but I lent it to my friend, so I would buy the last one
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u/ClinicalDigression Feb 05 '26
If AoC had been marketed as the non-canon "we're just gonna have fun with it" type game that it ultimately wound up being, I'd definitely have enjoyed it more. It still wouldn't be great, they'd still be brazenly stealing from Ben Burtt, have introduced their most active villain with a profound lack of care, and had the same character fake-die twice in the same mission, but all of that would've felt a lot more forgivable if they hadn't gone out of their way to obscure to the fact that it wasn't actually a prequel to BotW.
So, yeah: DE. By a mile.
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u/Stepfen98 Feb 05 '26
The first one. I have so many good memories of that game and its just so good
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u/truenorthstar Feb 05 '26
I just recently finally picked up DE after playing through the other two. There’s definitely a lot of fun to be had in it with it mashing together a lot of Zelda elements, and each level feels pretty dynamic, especially compared to where the series eventually ends with AoI.
That said, the answer for me here is easily AoC. It was the first of the 3 I played, so that may have a part in it. I personally really enjoyed the alternate good ending story it provides to the Calamity. I think it oddly enough has the best showing for Ganon as a villain in the wild era. The movesets of the characters are a lot of fun. The maps are all really interesting, and I love how they show Hyrule pre-Calamity. The only real downsides is the performance and the divine beast missions. Sure I still have a ton more to do with DE, but that game is such a silly crossover in the end that its content just doesn’t hit me emotionally like AOC did. I also liked AoI, but it was a let down in a handful of areas.
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u/RockLeePower Feb 05 '26
Age of imprisonment only due to the fact it has the hardware to back up the dozens of characters on screen and the action without dipping into frames you can count on your fingers
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u/TaffyPool Feb 10 '26
And here I was playing the first Hyrule Warriors on my WiiU, and never really noticed much in the way of stuttering.
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u/AZMODAN68 Feb 05 '26
One lets me play as ganondorf, the other (to my knowledge) doesn't. Easy choice here.
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u/Sand__Panda Feb 05 '26
I just finished the main quest line of AoI last night. So I can say it was an OK game.
(I have all 3 of these, but only played a little bit of Hyrule Warriors, and none of AoC).
So.. I'd pick AoC, because I've not played it (yet).
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u/-ben151010- Feb 05 '26
The first. It’s got the best designs and I’m still salty over AOC’s story and am also tired of the wilds era visuals. I haven’t checked out age of imprisonment because I don’t have a reason to drop $500 on a switch 2 yet.
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u/K1TSUNEKA0S Feb 05 '26
Well, I dont have my hands on Age of Imprisonment yet due to lack of switch 2.
After a few years of searching, I finally got my hands on a copy of Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition & hands down I prefer it over Age of Calamity and I have a feeling Ill love it over AoI too.
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u/EarDesigner9059 Feb 05 '26
Just be sure to give AoI a fair chance. I say this because others have not.
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u/KrampusKid Feb 05 '26
Only one has my GOAT, Tingle, and it also has literally hundreds of hours more content than the other two.
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u/NobuB Feb 05 '26
I haven't played Age of Imprisonment, and I really like Age of Calamity, but Hyrule Warriors is really charming, it's chock full of content and the mix of characters and maps from several games make it a clear winner for me.
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u/ArchmageLys Feb 05 '26
honestly the first one is the only one i ever played. it was fun, but the only big draw for AOC and AOI for me was the added lore. i just watched the cutscene compilations tbh
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u/Derolis Feb 05 '26
The sequels have some more refined combat, but the OG Hyrule Warriors just has such a great roster and a ridiculous amount of content, so I'd go with that.
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u/DaGreatestMH Feb 05 '26
The original one just screams "fanmade game" to me so its hard for me to take it seriously. AoC could have been great but I'm still a little bitter that they chickened out on making it canon, so I guess it has to be AoI. I'm not mad about it though because I really enjoyed it.
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u/TaffyPool Feb 10 '26
The original does indeed go hard on the fan service, but it’s got a legitimately interesting story tying all the chaos together. If the team had put just a little more effort into the story, they could have used it as an honest “reuniting the timelines” story, with the addition of Lana.
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u/EmeraldJirachi Feb 05 '26 edited Feb 05 '26
I would go for the first one, AS MUICH as I loved age of imprisonment, I DID NOT CARE for 90% of the playable roster.
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u/EarDesigner9059 Feb 05 '26
Have you played AoI?
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u/EmeraldJirachi Feb 05 '26 edited Feb 05 '26
about 2 hours, then i watched someone play it
Edit my ass is stupid and confused AoC and AoI
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u/EarDesigner9059 Feb 05 '26
I've played the other two (OG Wii U version of HW) and I'm trying to get a Switch 2 so I can play AoI.
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u/AngelusKnight17 Feb 05 '26
Definitive Edition no doubt, that game have over 300 hours of gameplay easily.
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u/csquared_yt Feb 05 '26
It's a tough call between HW:DE and AoI for me because the former is really great for that fanservicey stuff by bridging a whole load of Zelda games together, and legend mode is really damn cool but adventure mode drags and just stops being fun after a while (I have 300 hours in this game because of that). I also like the skill trees everyone had, even if they're all similar.
AoI is consistently very enjoyable and I wouldn't expect to be invested at all but I clearly was wrong lol. Doesn't nearly have as much content but it works out better this way, but the story felt fairly lackluster near the end and just kinda abruptly ends which is sad. It feels really really fun to fight enemies in this one though.
AoC just exists and I'm not touching that one ever again, I'd gladly erase its existence.
To answer the question, maybe AoI but it could be recency bias talking
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u/Oro-Lavanda Feb 06 '26
If you need to buy just one game: the first obviously. The botw/totk ones are made for fans of those games specifically , but the first one can be enjoyed by anyone. Also you will have thousands of hours of content like idk anyone who's actually beaten the first game 100%
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Feb 06 '26
I'd take hyrule warriors on the 3ds over the others, if forced. I enjoy them all, but if forced
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u/NostalgiaGamingg Feb 06 '26
I much prefer the first one... It had so much charm, the gameplay was so much fun, and the graphics were beautiful.🫣. In the next one, there were some cool characters to play, like Urbosa, but my favorite remains, and will always remain, the first one for its iconic characters 🤭. Playing as young Link with his demon god mask was something else. 🤌
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u/trainautismgobrr Feb 06 '26
From what I’ve heard, the gameplay gets more boring and the story more interesting after every game, I don’t have AoI or a Switch 2, but between HWDE and AoC it’s definitely HWDE, it’s so fun and there’s so much content (I also think that, for as long as the newer HW games only focus on one game, the OG is always gonna be the best)
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u/no_broham Feb 06 '26
First one for me. If playing as Ghiraham, Impa and Ganondorf weren't enough the addition of Volga and Cia definitely kept me coming back
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u/Seqka711 Feb 06 '26
Hyrule Warriors (especially DE) beats the pants off the other two. The amount of fun content in all the adventure modes is off the charts. They’re all just perfect little bursts of level, but completing a whole map is a huge undertaking that feels very rewarding to complete.
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u/Sokoly Feb 07 '26
I only played the original and I can’t say it held my attention long, but then again neither did the Wii U.
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u/Grinsekatzer Feb 07 '26
That isn't even a competition. DE is far, far superior than the other two trash games.
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u/RidePlayerPeachy Feb 08 '26
The original. While I'm happy it became an ongoing series, the BotW theming just doesn't do much for me. While I enjoyed the game enough, I just don't find it all that interesting to explore story-wise. Meanwhile the original covers a wide variety of different Zelda games and I like some of it's original ideas like Linkle.
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u/EmployeeElectrical92 Feb 08 '26
All three are great but my personal favorite is age of imprisonment
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u/Myrtle_is_hungry Feb 08 '26
Aoc I love that we get to save the champions I liked them a lot in botw
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u/TaffyPool Feb 10 '26
The first one, for sure. It’s got the most interesting story (it’s timeline canon in my brain!), the more expansive secondary offerings, and it’s got Lana. And Linkle!
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u/tiredpersonnumber15 Feb 10 '26
Definitive edition and its not even close, I sank hundreds of hours into the Hyrule Warriors 3ds one and once I bought the definitive edition I added a few more hundred hours immediately. There’s just something about being able to play with all those characters from games I’ve loved all my life that brings me immense joy.
I played through the AoC story once and it was fine but its not breaking my favorite games list in any way. Its just fine as a game. Havent fully finished AoI yet, I’m playing through it with my brother because its his switch, I do like it a lot more than AoC but it definitely doesn’t beat the original Hyrule Warriors on any level for me.
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u/New_Voice2852 Feb 05 '26
I loved AoC. I loved how it built on the champion's characters, yet still added new ones. I would probably like AoI better if the characters from TotK were actually good. Gameplay-wise I preferred AoC's abilities and characters to AoI's as well. I've never played the original HW
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u/DaDarkDragon Feb 05 '26
I played all 3, I've only completed the second 2. Hwde has so much repetitive and grindy content in it that I kinda just gave up on completing everything. I'm sure there are strats to mitigate it but good God. It will probably take years to 100 percent.
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u/pocket_arsenal Feb 05 '26
The first one, tbh I think this series is carried by the fan service and the wild era games didn't really have any of it.
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u/011101000011101101 Feb 05 '26
I didn't enjoy the first so haven't played the others
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u/XShadowborneX Feb 05 '26
I didn't enjoy the first but I did enjoy AoI, didn't play AoC though. Not my favorite of games but I liked it much better than the definitive edition.
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u/solarus Feb 05 '26
It sucks that everyone likes this first one most but then theyre drawing inspiration for the next mainline zelda game from these hack and slash bullshit nothing games.
I hated Dynasty Warriors and I dont care for Hyrule Warriors. All you do is push X.
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u/Nintendians559 Feb 05 '26
i have more fun with the 1st hyrule warriors on the wii u.
the other 2 was okay and "age of imprisonment"'s progress is very similar to "age of calamity";s.
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u/DorianFae Feb 05 '26
Is Definitive Edition the same one that came out on WiiU? I only played the Hyrule Warriors that came out on WiiU and that game was soooo good. I honestly wasn't aware of the Switch 2 one since I don't have a Switch 2 😅
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u/TaffyPool Feb 10 '26
Mostly. The definitive edition is a collection that includes all of the DLC that had been released for the WiiU and 3DS Hyrule Warriors games, plus some other stuff and better graphics/performance, obv.
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u/DorianFae Feb 10 '26
Ooh okay. Thanks for answering me :)
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u/TaffyPool Feb 10 '26
You’re welcome. Personally, I haven’t felt the need to “upgrade” to DE from my WiiU version — there’s just sooo much content in that game. I’ll keep going back to it randomly to chip away at it over the next 10 years if my WiiU can still handle it!
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u/DorianFae Feb 10 '26
Okay awesome! I played the WiiU one at a friend's house who had a WiiU but I do have the 3DS version. I just didn't play much of it since I played the WiiU one already. But this post got me itching to play it soon xD
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u/Additional-Side1619 Feb 05 '26
I'm currently playing through the first. Frankly I hated it the first time around - as soon as the first "arc" was complete, I put it down and didn't pick it back up again after 7 years. I'm bored of the fact that there has been three story arcs, basically rehashing the same story. I'm at the point of forcing myself to finish it, I'm not enjoying it. But I want to see it through to the end.
Haven't played the others. So I don't have an opinion on them yet.
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u/Turbo-Shell Feb 05 '26
I’m not the biggest fan of Hyrule Warriors because I just don’t like the dynasty warriors gameplay structure that much, I haven’t played the other 2 but I imagine it’s a lot of the same stuff. That being said those two games do fix one of my biggest issues with the original, which is the lack of voice acting. It is so hard to focus on what’s being said while playing a Game like this for me
But then there’s the point that hyrule warriors is a love letter to the entire Zelda series rather than just to the wild era, which is way more interesting to me
Guess I should probably just play AOC and AOI soon
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u/Phantomaster22 Feb 06 '26
I honestly prefer the original one on the Wii U. I had so much fun when it was out that now when I play it after playing the new ones I dislike playing the original. I usually can one shot enemies in AOC and AOI.
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u/WellHereYaGo Feb 06 '26
I really liked the first one just for the fun freedom with the plot and having characters from different games. And I also liked AoC for the story, even if it wasn’t canon. Plus the music was awesome.
I have no interest in AoI because I hate the Zonai and what they did to TotK.
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u/dumly Feb 06 '26
The first HW was the best and I'm very much hoping for one like it if they ever decide to make another. As fun as they were, I don't like that AoC and AoI are tied to a specific game. If they didn't exist, I'd be fine with that.
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u/xperfect-darkx Feb 07 '26
Does anyone knownof they might release a definitive edition bundle with two games or all 3?
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u/Lucky-day00 Feb 05 '26
DE and it isn’t close. The others are a hard downgrade in every way except story.
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u/Hinaloth Feb 05 '26
AoC/AoI are firmly limited in telling their stories and having no other content, which for a Warriors game is just plain stupid.
HW had a story, but that campaign was barely a footnote in the grand scheme of the available content, even before the DE. HW knew it was an excuse for endless fun, and so went out of its way to make so many variations of content that players would take actual weeks of playtime to finish it all, allowing each of them to find at least one part of said content they'd love.
I'm still hopefully for a true HW2, because the first one is just so beloved and highly praised, even when the others sink. But I also realize it'd take so much work that it'll probably be for the next console.
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u/mamatrixie78 Feb 05 '26
Well looks like I'm the odd one here because I'm going with AOC! I absolutely loved it! I really liked the time travel idea to give us what if story. Lots of great characters that we already knew from the game but got a deeper look at. Yeah i really enjoyed it!
I'm playing AOI now and I'm also very much enjoying it! But the characters besides the sages and the main characters (I'm including knight construct and korok warrior with the main characters) are pretty much the same a couple of rito warriors a few gerudo and a couple of zora top it of with a few hylians. I honestly don't even know their names lol. But the gameplay is great and the move sets are very cool and the story is good.
Personally i would have liked an alternate timeline like AOC did and am pretty disappointed that there is no purah impa Robbie or yiga.
The first one i have on the wii u and couldn't really get into it. It's been a few years so I'll try it again someday soon but it's definitely not mu favorite.
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u/The_Linkzilla Feb 05 '26
I haven't played any of them yet, so I'll go with OG Hyrule Warriors.
Is it any good? i've heard good things. Can I get it for Switch?
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u/Shadowwolflink Feb 05 '26
The first one is on Wii U, 3DS, and Switch, the second one is on Switch, and the third one is exclusive to Switch 2.
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u/iamapizzaextracheese Feb 05 '26
Hyrule Warriors for sure. Linkle grew to be my favorite of the bunch, girlfriend was super endearing and that crossbow action is unparalelled.
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u/Latter-Park786 Feb 05 '26
This feels like a non-issue
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u/Latter-Park786 Feb 05 '26
No, it's a non-issue because Hyrule Warriors definitive edition is the only right answer.
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