Breath of the Wild prequel makes a strong first impression.
Silence, they say, is golden, and while Hyrule’s own golden boy hasn’t had much to say for many years now — beyond the odd ‘hyaaa!’ or ‘eurghhh!’ — the motormouth cast of Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity highlight Link’s stoic silence all the more. These characters spoke a lot in Breath of the Wild, of course, but the density of cutscenes we’ve witnessed in our brief time with the game so far makes their voices (and Link’s silence) all the more noticeable.
Thankfully, all the dialogue is universally well-delivered. Set a century before Breath of the Wild, there’s a surprising amount of narrative to get through in this prequel tale considering the end Age of Calamity is a foregone conclusion (we’re going to assume 99.9% of you played Breath of the Wild already — if you’re the 0.1%, off to the eShop with you). While the story we’ve seen up to the end of Chapter 2 is fairly predictable fare, it’s well-told and helps give some welcome context to the endless cans of whoop-ass being opened otherwise.
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