Age of Calamity: Poopy Koroks

 

Yihaha! They are back. You can find Koroks during the scenarios of Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity and collect their Korok Seeds, just like in Breath of the Wild. Finding them is a little bit more simplified here, where you don't have to solve any puzzles, but instead it's enough to destroy a balloon or to interact with the environment by pressing Y.

As someone who had a good time looking for all 900 Koroks in Breath of the Wild, I was really looking forward to doing the same in Age of Calamity. And in theory this is a much better collectible than the Gold Skulltulas used to be. You don't have any weird requirements to make them appear and they don't appear at the other end of the battlefield for a limited time. It's just something you find at the sidelines, where the battles often provide these moments where you are free to explore without any hurry, even if a Guardian is supposedly chasing you.

But... I really didn't enjoy searching for them so far. Apparently, there are 13 Korok Seeds hidden within the demo and I was having a hard time finding them all, where I'm still missing one in the first mission, because the battlefields are not only very large (much larger than in the first game), they seem really messy on certain ends, where sometimes I couldn't even tell where to go. There is so much clutter everywhere, it's hard to make out when there is something of relevance around. So, the Koroks don't stick out as much as they've used to do in Breath of the Wild. Also, since the frame rate isn't the best, paying close attention to the environment can be quite stressing.

On top of that, there doesn't seem to be any way to track what Koroks you've found already. They don't get marked on the map and it doesn't even tell you how many Koroks you've found in each scenario. This is even worse than in Breath of the Wild, where looking for all 900 Koroks wasn't exactly easy at the end because of the lack of any segmentation. But with absolutely no indicators in Age of Calamity, it would become a completionist nightmare to do it all without guides, because you would have to replay all the missions over and over again with no clue where to look.

Yes, yes, you're probably not supposed to find all of them, maybe just half of them like in Breath of the Wild, but I personally like these type of collectible quests and I also like to complete them. I just hope that there will be some indicators here, maybe once you've met Hestu. Maybe it shows you the total of Koroks then. Maybe there will also be the Korok Mask, which works the same as in Breath of the Wild. Anything would be helpful, so you don't have to rely on online guides for this...