Age of Calamity: Expansion Pass Bonus Revealed

On May 28th we're getting the first bit of DLC for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, a sword and a costume for Link as a bonus for purchasing the Expansion Pass. There have been many speculations about what those could be, but today Koei Tecmo revealed the set on Twitter:

It's the Ancient Short Sword and Ancient Armor... or at least some prototype of these items, because there are some clear differences compared to the variants from Breath of the Wild. You can see some cables around the thin handle of the Ancient Short Sword and the Ancient Soldier Gear looks like it was fused together with the Stealth Set. Link is also wearing a Shield of the Mind's Eye, instead of the Ancient Shield. According to the tweet these items even have "prototype" in their name, so they are probably called like the following:

• Prototype Ancient Short Sword
• Prototype Ancient Helmet
• Prototype Ancient Cuirass
• Prototype Ancient Greaves
  

This does make sense, because Robbie didn't develop the actual ancient weapon and armor set until the events of Breath of the Wild. So, it's cool to see some sort of prototype set here. At the same time this is an alternate timeline, where Robbie could develop these items much earlier, and the first DLC Pack will most likely revolve around Robbie and Purah, where it's possible that we will be able to unlock the real deals there. Or else it would be kind of weird to get these items out of context.

In the very least it's not exactly the same bonus as for the second Fighters Pass of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which has been the Ancient Helmet and Ancient Soldier Gear Mii costumes. Well, it kind of is, but not exactly...

Today version 1.1.0 of the game has been released as well. It probably already contains these bonus items as a preparation for next week (or else there has to be a version 1.2.0 next week) and also lets you check out the Expansion Pass from within the game. This now gives an English title to the two DLC waves:

1. Pulse of the Ancients
2. Guardian of Remembrance
   

In addition they've fixed some parts of the English and Dutch narrations. I decided to check this out and they've actually fixed the part where King Rhoam says that Zelda's party is going to "Purah's research facility in Hateno" in the first chapter, which obviously was a mistake, since they are going to the Royal Ancient Tech Lab to the west of Hyrule Castle. If you now start the "Road to the Ancient Lab" scenario, he only says "Purah's research facility". There might be other fixes for the English narrations, but this is the one that came to mind immediately.