Thursday, February 1, 2018

Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition - Level 4+ Dual-Elemental Weapons!

This week's Famitsu magazine has another article on Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition for Nintendo Switch and the official Japanese website for the game was opened. There are two interesting images in all of this, which indicate new stuff. The first one was an artwork of Zelda with the Sheikah Slate, but there's also a screenshot with new content:



This screenshot shows that not only the 4+ dual elemental will be in this version as well, they will get new looks and there will also be variants for previous DLC weapons, like Linkle's Shining Boots in this case. So, there's already more new stuff!


8-Bit Weapons?


For the sake of completeness they should also bring back the 8-Bit weapons and put them at least on par with the level 4 weapons. They could even add more 8-Bit weapons based on classic The Legend of Zelda items that originally didn't make it into Hyrule Warriors as weapons, like the Blue Ring, Potions, the Letter and so on. The Blue Ring could go to Wizzro, while Tingle could get 8-Bit Rupee Balloons for example.


Balance


Also, in the previous Famitsu, producer Yosuke Hayashi shared a message with the fans, where he said the following (source):

We’ve tuned the game for Nintendo Switch, upgraded the graphics to full HD, and adjusted the balance so that the game becomes easier to play.

Even easier? The Nintendo 3DS version already was pretty good, most of the Adventure Mode was balanced towards level 99, instead of 255, which was a good thing and made playing through everything much more enjoyable, because less grinding was needed.

But hopefully they will make similar adjustments to Ganon's and Cucco's Fury modes. Those have been extremely unbalanced and take an eternity of dull grinding to complete. Ideally it will be also scaled towards level 99. In fact this version could simply set the level cap back to 99, but they probably won't do this, because this seemingly is supposed to have all the things from the previous versions.

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