Daily Debate: What Did You Think of the New Story Footage Shown in the Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity Demo?
Posted on October 29 2020 by Emi Curtis
Watch out! Spoilers ahead. If you haven’t played the Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity Demo yet and want to be surprised, click away now!
As per the Nintendo standard, we were hit with a demo for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity with very little warning Wednesday morning. As those excited for the release have gotten to play it, early story details for the game have begun to emerge. This has lead to quite a few questions being asked about a particular detail in the opening cutscene. It’s a fairly big spoiler for the game’s plot, so if you want to remain spoiler free, now’s the time to look away.
In the very first scene, we are introduced to the Diminutive Guardian– Or Egg/Baby Guardian as many fans have dubbed it– in the midst of the aftermath of the Calamity. Emerging from a box in Hyrule Castle after Zelda activates her powers of the Goddess, the Guardian then almost immediately opens a portal into the past. After a brief tutorial segment, the Guardian finds itself in Link and Impa’s company just in time to witness Link’s rise as Zelda’s personal knight. What follows is the slow reveal that Age of Calamity may not actually be the plotline we were expecting it to be.
Since Age of Calamity‘s reveal, we as fans had been operating on the assumption that this would be the retelling of the Calamity: a playable prequel to the events of Breath of the Wild. However, with this time traveling prologue twist, there now hangs the question of whether this may in fact be a completely different timeline altogether. One in which the Calamity is prevented entirely using the knowledge of the Diminutive Guardian. With only the first chapter available for play, it’s hard to say what the greater implications at hand here are, but it’s certainly not what many were expecting. Personally, I think this is an incredible way for the developers to have the ending remain uncertain, even with the game being a prequel.
What do you think of this sudden twist? Do you think this will potentially lead to a branching timeline? Let us know in the comments below
Emi Curtis is an associate editor with Zelda Dungeon, having originally joined the team in late 2020. She is a freelance artist, programmer, and streamer with a healthy love of both the creative and analytical. She can frequently be found playing RPGs and Adventure games, her favorite of which being The Wind Waker. She is also quite fond of playing Zelda Randomizers. Currently, she hosts a tabletop RPG series on Twitch and operates a freelance illustration business. She can be found on Twitter and Twitch as her VTuber alter-ego Gwen Myoty, creating nerdy artwork, dungeon mastering tabletop games, and playing RPGs.
