Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Age of Imprisonment – Creator's Voice

huuuuge army of monsters in dark red tones

Nintendo has released the newest episode of Creator's Voice, where 3rd or 2nd party developers talk about their upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 projects. And today it was the turn of Koei Tecmo and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment.

They do confirm a number of things that we have already been speculating about... You will get to know the masked sages. You will be able to combine items (like with Fuse or Ultrahand) and you can also team up with allies. Nothing surprising here.

But there is also a brief amount of new footage, mainly of Rauru fighting, expanding what we had seen in the announcement trailer. And it looks much smoother now, almost as if the original trailer footage ran still on an old Nintendo Switch. It probably didn't, but it was an immediate concern that they will prioritize having as many monsters and effects on the screen as possible over performance. The difference may also come from resolutions, where the trailer was in 4k. They do explicitly mention having higher frame rates than on Nintendo Switch, which is to be expected... And having a higher frame rate than Age of Calamity would be great...

It also would be great if they were to release a Nintendo Switch 2 upgrade of the predecessor, so it can profit from higher and smoother frame rates as well. That was by far one of the biggest points of criticism about it.

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