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Zelda fans can rest easy knowing that Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment will address two major pain points that the previous installment had, according to a new video featuring the developers. Age of Calamity, which released on the original Switch in 2020, was riddled with technical issues, and the plot introduced a time travel element that players found controversial, given how the game was initially advertised.
Age of Imprisonment appears to avoid those two pitfalls, if Koei Tecmo and Nintendo are to be believed. In a new"Creator's Voice" video on the Nintendo of America YouTube channel, Koei Tecmo developers Ryota Matsushita and Yosuke Hayashi stated that the game's story will be canonical to Zelda lore, and the gameplay will feature high frame rates. Matsushita states in the video that Age of Imprisonment"tells the history of the Imprisonment War" from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, while Yosuke says that it was"important" to the studio that"you could play with higher frame rates than the Nintendo Switch system," and the developers"were able to achieve that with this game." The Switch 2 Is Better Suited For Musou Games 1 vs. 1000 Gameplay Works On Beefier Hardware Close The Dynasty Warriors-style of pitting one player against mass hordes of enemies, also known as a"Musou" game, can be taxing on any hardware due to the sheer density of characters put on screen at once. Players certainly felt that while playing Age of Calamity, which often suffered from frame rate drops. Those technical hitches apparently won't be present in Age of Imprisonment due to the Switch 2's superior hardware and specs, at least the developers claim. The official gameplay footage in the Creator's Voice video featured snippets of gameplay running at 60 FPS. Related Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment Could Finally Answer My Biggest TOTK Questions The newly announced Age of Imprisonment would be the perfect game to reveal the answers to some of Tears of the Kingdom’s lingering mysteries. Posts However, we've yet to see direct feed footage of Age of Imprisonment, so the jury is still out on whether the game can hold a consistent high frame rate. There could be sequences in the game that strain the hardware that could lead to frame drops, though the fact that Nintendo's upgrades to Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom appear to be super smooth in areas like the infamous Korok Forest gives hope that Nintendo helped Koei Tecmo wrap developers' heads around the new hardware. Whatever the case, Switch 2 can handle this type of game better.Your Rating close 10 stars 9 stars 8 stars 7 stars 6 stars 5 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars 1 star Rate Now 0/10 Your comment has not been saved Like Follow Followed Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment Action Released 2025 Developer Koei Tecmo Publisher Nintendo Sequel The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Franchise The Legend of Zelda, Dynasty Warriors
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