Boat Loads of New Hyrule Warriors Information from Nintendo Treehouse, Footage (UPDATE 2)

UPDATE 2: We now have footage of the entire demo, which shows off playing as both Midna and Link!

UPDATE: We now have footage of playing as Midna! Midna is not playable on the show floor, so this video of the Nintendo Treehouse demo is the only place we’ll get to see our favorite Twilight Princess in action.

Nintendo Treehouse had what amounted to roughly an hour long session with the E3

Hyrule Warriors demo and we learned a lot of new details. The footage itself isn’t available online yet, but we’ll include a few looks at some off-screen stuff to give you a feel for the details we discovered.

• Demo: Playing as Midna.
• Palace of Twilight-inspired level
• Midna: creates a Twilight-magic-wolf to run around on and attack enemies; yellow meter is Special Attack; Midna’s Special Attack creates huge ball of Twilight energy to attack with; major Special Attack: Fused Shadow Beast
• Redead Knight – enemy captain; captains require you to deplete their “Weak Point” gauge to attack them
• Keeps – want to get your army to control the keeps; defeating enemies lowers the Keep Gauge and makes the Keep Boss appear; defeat Keep Boss to take control of the Keep
• Outpost – defeat outpost captains and allies will eventually spawn with each outpost captain defeated
• Demo’s Chest contains Hookshot
• Argorok – title appears (“Twilit Dragon: Argorok”)
• Use the hookshot to attack the Argorok
• Leveling up is a thing
• Link is faster and more combo-based
• Enemy morale can be higher, which makes enemies more difficult to defeat
• Zelda activates a magic circle to take out Argorok; he reappears later
• Fairy Fountain – has Great Fairy, who will upgrade your items
• Improved Hookshot pulls the Moon down to knock Argorok down to where you can attack him directly.
• Arrow above character to show where to main objective is
• Argorok chases you around the level, whether you want to fight him or not
• Fail if your base falls
• 9 character slots
• Demo, Attempt 2: Playing as Link
• Tecmo-Koei approached Aonuma to make a dynasty warriors crossover game with Zelda universe
• Link attacks are much closer range
• What are the essential things we need to include to keep true to the Zelda series? Approach was to stay true to it, but Aonuma gave freedom to not be too tied to those, strike balance between Zelda and Warriors
• “Game is like a love letter to Zelda fans”
• Playing field is a huge battlefield, and you aren’t the only one fighting. Up to player to decide how to claim areas of the battlefield. Adds sense of urgency and chaos. Boss battles take place in same battlefield, can start on and move around the field
• Loading screens contain NES Link capturing Triforce
• Fire Rod gameplay: Fire Rod magic attack shoots a blast of Fire at enemies; special attack blasts enemies with spiral of flame
• Some puzzle solving, but main focus is on the feel of Link swinging his sword around all those battlefields. “Blows puzzle solving out of the water”
• Characters move fairly quickly to be able to get to endangered areas faster
• There are several more yet-to-be-announced playable characters