\n\n{"id":94509,"date":"2020-11-24T14:08:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T22:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/?p=94509"},"modified":"2020-11-24T14:09:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T22:09:04","slug":"hyrule-warriors-age-of-calamity-announced-to-have-already-sold-more-than-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/hyrule-warriors-age-of-calamity-announced-to-have-already-sold-more-than-3-million-94509\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity Announced To Have Already Sold More Than 3 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official Twitter account for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/nintendo-offers-new-trailer-highlighting-abilities-for-upcoming-hyrule-warriors-age-of-calamity-84195\/\"><em>Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity<\/em><\/a> has made an interesting note: the newest iteration of\u00a0<em>Hyrule Warriors<\/em> that flesh out the story line of precisely what happened a century before <em>Breath of the Wild<\/em> has already managed to sell over three million copies.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity\u00a0<\/em>released on November 20, 2020; four days prior to the announcement that was made in Japanese on the official Twitter account where they boast the &#8216;cumulative worldwide shipment&#8217; numbers with comparisons to the previous LoZ <a href=\"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/koei-tecmo-is-seeking-samurai-warriors-player-opinions-in-new-survey-91057\/\">Musou<\/a> title.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u300e\u30bc\u30eb\u30c0\u7121\u53cc \u5384\u707d\u306e\u9ed9\u793a\u9332\u300f\u306e\u5168\u4e16\u754c\u7d2f\u8a08\u51fa\u8377\u672c\u6570\u304c300\u4e07\u672c\u3092\u7a81\u7834\u3044\u305f\u3057\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002<\/p>\n<p>\u7686\u69d8\u3001\u8aa0\u306b\u3042\u308a\u304c\u3068\u3046\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u3059\u3002<\/p>\n<p>\u5f15\u304d\u7d9a\u304d\u4f53\u9a13\u7248\u306e\u914d\u4fe1\u3082\u884c\u3063\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3059\u306e\u3067\u3001\u305c\u3072\u3053\u306e\u6a5f\u4f1a\u306b\u30d7\u30ec\u30a4\u3057\u3066\u307f\u3066\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\u3002<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NnjyA02iiq\">https:\/\/t.co\/NnjyA02iiq<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%82%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%80%E7%84%A1%E5%8F%8C?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30bc\u30eb\u30c0\u7121\u53cc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%82%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%80%E3%81%AE%E4%BC%9D%E8%AA%AC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30bc\u30eb\u30c0\u306e\u4f1d\u8aac<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Zelda?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Zelda<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DmMeJcwsIX\">pic.twitter.com\/DmMeJcwsIX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u300e\u30bc\u30eb\u30c0\u7121\u53cc \u5384\u707d\u306e\u9ed9\u793a\u9332\u300f\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30ab\u30a6\u30f3\u30c8 (@zelda_musou) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zelda_musou\/status\/1331191548176785409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Granted, Musou style games are generally strong sellers; the one versus many genre where feats of strength come quick and easy to the player while offering players a unique sense of strength and competence. There&#8217;s simply something to be said for swinging a weapon and having a dozen enemies flail about from your might.<\/p>\n<p>When you take that, and add to it the idea that what actually led to Link needing to heal for a full hundred years while Princess Zelda single-handedly battled <a href=\"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/how-to-get-the-legendary-master-sword-in-the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-66401\/\">Calamity Ganon<\/a>, only for Link to awake and explore the merits of shield surfing down any slope plausible while searching out for Koroks.<\/p>\n<p>Makes for awkward conversation once Princess Zelda is saved, pertaining to precisely what Link opted to do with his time while she was locked in a life or death battle for Hyrule for a <a href=\"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/obtaining-the-dark-link-armor-set-in-the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-66431\/\">full hundred years straight<\/a>, but thankfully we don&#8217;t see that conversation taking place.<\/p>\n<p>What we do see, however, are the champions of Hyrule beating back the forces of Calamity Ganon across a wide medium of maps that offers an estimated 22 hours of gameplay; admittedly a far cry from the original\u00a0<em>Hyrule Warriors<\/em> that readily boasted an obscene amount of content.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, the heft of that content came from replaying maps with new challenges or as different characters to experience all character arcs (some of which were interesting) through\u00a0<em>Hyrule Warriors<\/em>: completionist playthroughs for the original title estimates roughly 300 hours.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve a completionist playthrough of\u00a0<em>Age of Calamity<\/em>, you&#8217;re looking at an estimated 32 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Bigger doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean better, however, and\u00a0<em>Age of Calamity<\/em> has received generous reviews thus far in spite of the overall content coming in at a fraction of its original you&#8217;ll experience massive plot arcs hosting many familiar faces that you didn&#8217;t experience too in-depth in the playthrough of\u00a0<em>Breath of the Wild<\/em>; namely because, and here&#8217;s a spoiler, they&#8217;re already dead at that time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity<\/em> is, as is tradition, a <a href=\"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/in-the-latest-data-from-npd-madden-nfl-20-is-august-2019s-best-selling-game-26272\/\" title=\"In The Latest Data From NPD, Madden NFL 20 Is August 2019&#8217;s Best-Selling Game\"><strong>Nintendo<\/strong><\/a> exclusive for the Switch; it fares well as a Musou title and helps flesh out the storyline of\u00a0<em>Breath of the Wild<\/em> while we idly wait for a surprisingly quiet sequel.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official Twitter account for\u00a0Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity has made an interesting note: the newest iteration of\u00a0Hyrule Warriors that flesh out the story line of precisely what happened a century before Breath of the Wild has already managed to sell over three million copies. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity\u00a0released on November 20, 2020; four days prior to the announcement that was made in Japanese on the official Twitter account where they boast the &#8216;cumulative worldwide shipment&#8217; numbers with comparisons to the previous LoZ Musou title. \u300e\u30bc\u30eb\u30c0\u7121\u53cc \u5384\u707d\u306e\u9ed9\u793a\u9332\u300f\u306e\u5168\u4e16\u754c\u7d2f\u8a08\u51fa\u8377\u672c\u6570\u304c300\u4e07\u672c\u3092\u7a81\u7834\u3044\u305f\u3057\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002 \u7686\u69d8\u3001\u8aa0\u306b\u3042\u308a\u304c\u3068\u3046\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u3059\u3002 \u5f15\u304d\u7d9a\u304d\u4f53\u9a13\u7248\u306e\u914d\u4fe1\u3082\u884c\u3063\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3059\u306e\u3067\u3001\u305c\u3072\u3053\u306e\u6a5f\u4f1a\u306b\u30d7\u30ec\u30a4\u3057\u3066\u307f\u3066\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\u3002https:\/\/t.co\/NnjyA02iiq#\u30bc\u30eb\u30c0\u7121\u53cc #\u30bc\u30eb\u30c0\u306e\u4f1d\u8aac #Zelda pic.twitter.com\/DmMeJcwsIX &mdash; \u300e\u30bc\u30eb\u30c0\u7121\u53cc \u5384\u707d\u306e\u9ed9\u793a\u9332\u300f\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30ab\u30a6\u30f3\u30c8 (@zelda_musou) November 24, 2020&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":94514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[12133,12132,172,3810],"class_list":["post-94509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","tag-hyrule-warriors","tag-hyrule-warriors-age-of-calamity","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}