Hyrule Warriors-Hype GOTY Out in Japan 33 Minutes Gameplay

That would be awesome, but I don't expect a demo for other regions at least until September... wait was the W101 demo released for all regions at the same time?

Great choice for the avatar. Ruto is the character I'm most excited for. :D

@Bigboi500: You don't like rainbows, big boy?~ <3

A demo would be nice. I just wish the Direct wasn't at 11pm for me. I have work early in the morning... I'll probably still watch it and be really pissed if no demo or limited edition aren't announced.

On wonderful 101 Japan and Europe got it at the same time and NA got it later. This reminds me that I need to try out wonderful 101 demo.

Yeah I really like screenshots that they showed of Ruto couple weeks ago. I haven't seen the trailer of her yet just the screenshots. I'm decided to go blackout after the they showed the screenshots and wait for the release.

Are you guys getting music in the first page?

I'm trying to test something out.

You could watch it tomorrow, but where's the fun in that. :P

That would be great.

I have seen some of the videos. Don't have the will power. :(

The final minutes are upon us. Get hyped :D

Direct is live, people!

The Direct has started!

Gohma now looks like the infamous "Giant enemy crab"

cucoos! :D

Link looks dreamy.

@93BlackHawk93:

My post disappeared... Ghira is playable. Chain chomp is in it as a weapon.

You can also fuse weapons.

GHIRAHIM?!?!?!?!?

0_0

Ganondorf playable...

Where's mah Debbie?!

Ok, so Sniper? Gotcha.

Ganondorf looks awesome..

Was that Ganondorf as Demise?

Special costume for those that register the game on club nintendo.

Nintendo, nooo! Retails pre-order dlc, & no treasure box(at this moment). :[

Game looks sweet. Glad Ganandorf is a playable character. I just hope Amazon gets the Ocarina of Time or Twilight costume sets. I don't want the Skyward costumes haha.

Slightly disappointed no demo or limited edition was announced though. Grrrrrrr.

The added Zelda elements give it more flavor than a straight up DW game, and I like the crazy over the top moves. But the combat engine is still very much Dyanasty Warriors. A whole bunch of dudes just sitting there, waiting to have their asses kicked. Boss fights being formulaic like a Zelda boss isn't exactly a positive either.

We got the demon lord of fab. :]

Still very skeptical about this game, but the fanservice is awesome.

I hope all of the dlc can be purchased on the eshop. I don't want to miss two of the sets. :(

The treasure box, I'll never forgive them for that.

Adventure mode actually looks pretty cool

Ganondorf and a Great Sword trailer

Link

Thanks! ;)

Embedded the videos.

@93BlackHawk93: He did look like a combination of Demise and Ganondorf it was probably intentional though since they are connected.

O schnap, you can play as Debbie?

GOAT

Demiganondorf and Debbie killing their own subordinates?

I was wondering who the f*** is Debbie? I had forgotten about that Ghirahim joke.

Here is how Ganondorf is depicted in Hyrule Warriors:

^ Can they please confirm him for Smash already? kthnxbai

The more I see of this game...the more I want it -.-

Exclusive preorder DLC per retailer, wtf Nintendo?

Everything looks pretty good...except the actual game, i mean Jesus, those gameplay vids are kind of boring.

Ummm.... Zelda has always been about combat since Zelda 1? You might ask why? Well, since the first game, you have Link traveling all over an open world map and you have moblins coming at you left and right (up and down as well) and with many of them, it's hard to stay alive with just 3 hearts. With the dungeons, there were little puzzles as some rooms require you to defeat enemies to get keys and items and Link has to fight his way to get treasure and artifacts through a maze.

Same as Zelda 2, I honestly don't understand why everyone hates it as there is only a few that enjoy it, you always had to fight your way through a maze and level up to get even further through the game.

LTTP is the first Zelda game that added more puzzles in the dungeon design, but still, you had a lot of tougher enemies in the Dark World than the light world, plus it introduced the spin attack and pegasus boots.

I could continue on but I don't want to make a long post about it. Plus I don't want us to ruin the special moment we have over different opinions.....

So it has Nine Inch Nails in it or what?

Ganondorf looks like a fatter Lu Bu. I like it.

Is North America getting a Special Edition?

That was an enjoyable article, but I disagree with just about everything in it. It completely ignores what makes Zelda 2 a bad game, which is the terrible side-scrolling combat with floaty jump mechanics. There were good games with side scrolling combat on the NES (Double Dragon, Battletoads), but Zelda 2 was just a horrible game. I didn't think Zelda 1 was anything special, but it was at least fun to play. Zelda 2 was not.

I think you need to re-read the article again as he already pointed it out. Its not a bad game at all and was never suppose to be about jumping when its only to get to higher places. Which he made a point being that it was never a plat-form style game

Yeah, I saw that, and "yes, the jumping is bad, but the game isn't about jumping" isn't really a valid excuse. Battletoads isn't about jumping, but it had excellent jumping mechanics and was a ridiculously fun game. Same for Ninja Gaiden. Zelda 2 was just a really weird game that required a lot of grinding, aimless exploration, and side scrolling combat with a character that should be smaller and a sword that should be larger. The RPG mechanics were a lot worse than Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior. The combat mechanics were just not good enough to make it a good game.

Boring as balls.

You're comparing to games that are a different genre you know, as battletoads and Ninja Gaiden are side-scrolling beat'em ups while Zelda 2 is different compared the two. The RPG mechanics are fine, as you ACTUALLY can escape from a skirmish better than just have a random pop-up in FF and DQ. What are you talking about? The combat system was good, especially with spells at your hand!

Is the lack of Majora's Mask content a sign that Nintendo is saving references/content from that game for a remake?

It's totally a stretch, but who knows?

@LegatoSkyheart: North America isn't getting jack s***. I swear Nintendo of America doesn't even need to try to be the worst of the branches of Nintendo.

Looks cool. I'll be buying it next month.

Europe,Australia, & New Zealand getting a special edition.

Over the past few weeks we’ve seen several additions for Hyrule Warriors inside Japan, but no information about these special editions releasing outside of Japan. Today Nintendo of Europe has confirmed that a special edition will be released for Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. The bundle features Link’s Scarf we saw in one of the Japanese bundles. If you want to purchase this limited edition bundle, you can do so from Nintendo UK’s online store.

There’s no word on a special edition for the United States just yet, but we expect to see confirmation on whether or not North America will be getting a special edition soon, as they’re typically announced after the European bundles.

I want the treasure box, but its better than just the regular edition.

No word yet, could be announced soon.

"WTF" is quite appropriate.

They're getting punished for failing to stop Link on all previous games.

That is a pretty shitty "Special Edition". No soundtrack CD or even a 20 paged artbook? Terrible, Nintendo always makes the worst collector's/limited/special/bullshit plastic editions.