Koei Tecmo gave their fans a sales update about their Zelda-themed musou title Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, detailing the title has pushed through 4 million sales and bound to ensure a sequel later on down the line.
Koei Tecmo posted a tweet announcing that Age of Calamity passed 4 million global digital and physical sales:
Taking place in a new split in the Breath Of the Wild timeline, the white guardian Terrako goes back in time to warn the heroes about the coming Calamity.
3.7 million sales were made in March 2021, 3.5 million in December 2020, and 3 million copies within its launch week, making the title the best-selling crossover musou title in Koei Tecmo’s lineup.
One of the more astonishing aspects of the game involved the developers having trouble with the grass, and even with Nintendo’s help, it took half of the development time to finish it:
Matsushita: Initially the plan was to go with something a little different, but it ultimately ended up being quite a faithful reproduction. The atmosphere of BotW’s world really made its way onto the battlefield. With that said, there were also parts we inevitably had to change up as well.
It really gives the impression that even grass grows the same way.
Oohoshi: Yeah… That grass took ages!
(all laugh)
Furusawa: It was a real pain, wasn’t it?
Oohoshi: It took about half of development time to finish touching up the grass in the game. We really struggled to recreate the atmosphere of Hyrule Field.
Furusawa: We asked the Zelda team at Nintendo how they made the grass in BotW and even though they shared everything down to the finer details of their methods, there was still uncertainty about whether we could reproduce it. The game has a lot of grass, so we also considered if there were other methods available to us.
Oohoshi: We experimented with a bunch of different options to make the grass stand out as one of the strong points of the game.
Matsushita: The whole company got dragged into the grass mess, didn’t they?
Oohoshi: How many hundreds of people was it? (laughs)
Matsushita: It’s no exaggeration to say we were in talks with development staff, CG departments, background and technical support the whole time.
Impressive. The game was alright but this version of Zelda continues to be pretty annoying. At least the story is more complete than in Breath of the Wild and you get to see more of the Champions.
Twilight Princess Zelda is still my favorite
I think they should go back to old style Zelda games rather than BOTW open world. I miss the dungeons you could get lost in for hours. Now they’re just tiny micro shrine things copy pasted across the map.
Another Hyrule Warriors game would be kinda fun, but what they really should do is one for Kid Icarus. The cast, the comedy, the stylish moves, they’d all fit like a glove.
Here’s hoping that this happens one day, they could easily make a quality musou game with it.
Musou are unable to be of good quality, it’s just a re-skin for all of them where the EZ mode is just spamming the same move and cornering the level boss
Coming from someone that’s never played them all obviously, some mechanics are practically universal so of course there’s going to be some similarities.
@7:17 Imagine defending copy paste, Nin fanboys are really dumb
Its really too bad that they killed the Dynasty Warriors franchise. They need to go back and create a new engine for next generation machines and return to their roots. Hell call it Dynasty Warriors Kiwami(Ultimate) and do a new numbered series from there.
Oh and hire some writers and do a proper story mode.
@ 06:53
It’s not copy-paste you dishonest faggot
A measly 4 million? What a joke.
I don’t get why people keep being surprised by s♥♥t like this.
Every Switch game will sell millions, they could sell literal s♥♥t or an empty game file and it would be the best selling Switch game yet.
Just look at Pokemon. And most people don’t even play the games they buy, they just show off their collection on twitter or reddit and never touch them.
Nintendo could do a jacking off simulator and sell ten million copies.
Nintendo could do a grass growing sim and sell ten million
Nintendo could even do a bus simulator and sell ten million
Too many Nintendrones who would buy anything and I mean ANYTHING!
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