Monday, January 26, 2015

Hyrule Warriors is due for a name change.

How about Darkness Warriors? Because Young Link is Darkness. YOUNG LINK IS FUCKING DARKNESS.

Now it's just utterly silly. Counting the Hylian and Master Swords together, this means darkness has no less than NINE movesets, while everything else has five. Now I'd be a little bit more okay with this if Darkness movesets sucked overall, but it's already the most uber-stacked element, no contest. Whereas I'd kill for a good Water moveset. At least Tingle is that, so the element has one last chance to redeem itself.

Edit: I should also mention, out of 19 characters, eight have access to a Darkness weapon only (the other such weapon being Zelda's Dominion Rod, which should've been LIGHT because it puts LIGHT in statues). Yikes.

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  1. I was afraid of that. He could theoretically be Light or Dark, I couldn't see anything else. I think they wanted to avoid another Light Link moveset, even if YL is counted as a separate character. Then again, if Skull Kid was in, he would certainly be Dark as well.

    I guess Tingle is Water because of Wind Waker and the lack of good Water movesets. I expected him to be Lightning, though.

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    1. Maybe it's just the Pokémon nerd speaking, but I never considered something that allows you to float in the sky to be lightning-elemental. I literally had no idea which element they were going to go for. At least they went for the (currently) crappy one.

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    2. Some games use the lightning=wind logic, and this game has a precedent of that in the Wind Waker weapon. Then again, they use it for the Gauntlets, too. It seems like they make a weapon Lightning when they have no idea what else to give it. The Book of Sorcery makes some sense since it could really be any element, but then there's the Harp, the Gauntlets, the Wind Waker and the Spinner.

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  2. I must be stupid, but what do you mean Master sword and Hylian sword are darkness? Aren't they light?

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    1. They are, I meant I'm counting them together as Light weapons.

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  3. And here I was, actually trying to use the over-saturation of Darkness characters as an excuse to not feel slightly disappointed about not including Skull Kid...
    I think Young Link could have been Lightning as well. It might be weird since it's clearly stated that the Fierce Deity Mask contains dark powers and all, but the attacks it gives in Majora Mask seem energy-based as far as I've seen, so it wouldn't be that far of a stretch...

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  4. You don't like the Giant Blade Slowflake?

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    1. It's meh. Certainly the best Water weapon, but still meh.

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  5. It's even worse seeing that the only reason to play as Young Link (FDL) is apparently going to be the MM map's Alternate costume for Link anyways... What a waste.
    http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/745183-hyrule-warriors/71102939
    And yes this was posted by a hacker.

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    1. It was the same for Twili Midna, so no surprise there. Oh well, there's always stuff like Network Links, redoing missions for items and such, etc.

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    2. No I mean there are two Fierce Deity Links one as a costume for regular Link and Young Link turns into him and they look almost identical if not identical. Then again there was the guardian of time costumes for Lana and Cia...

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