{"id":316,"date":"2025-08-27T22:38:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/the_first_review_for_hyrule_warriors_age_of_calamity_is_now_in"},"modified":"2025-08-27T22:38:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:38:41","slug":"the-first-review-for-hyrule-warriors-age-of-calamity-is-now-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-first-review-for-hyrule-warriors-age-of-calamity-is-now-in\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Review For Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity Is Now In"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Hyrule Age Of Calamity\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6728e48773eb0\/hyrule-age-of-calamity.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/the-first-review-for-hyrule-warriors-age-of-calamity-is-now-in.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Hyrule Age Of Calamity\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The very first review of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/hyrule_warriors_age_of_calamity\">Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity<\/a> has now been published by Japanese publication, Famitsu. The review arrives just over a week ahead of the game&#8217;s official release.<\/p>\n<p>Famitsu&#8217;s scoring system has four different reviewers rate the game out of ten; in this case, the magazine&#8217;s reviewers each awarded the game a 9\/10, resulting in a final score of 36\/40 (thanks, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/2020\/11\/famitsu-review-scores-issue-1667\">Gematsu<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>As highlighted by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/hyrule-warriors-age-of-calamity-review\/\">VGC<\/a>, the 36\/40 score means that Age of Calamity has received Famitsu&#8217;s joint second-highest score for any Switch game so far this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a> scored higher, while several other titles including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/paper_mario_the_origami_king\">Paper Mario: The Origami King<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/xenoblade_chronicles_definitive_edition\">Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition<\/a> also earned 36\/40.<\/p>\n<p>VGC reports that Famitsu&#8217;s review praised &#8216;the variety of attack styles attributed to each character,&#8217; noting that the game features a &#8216;strong blend&#8217; of elements from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a> and the <strong>Dynasty Warriors<\/strong> franchise.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have our very own review of the game for you a little nearer to the game&#8217;s release. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity launches exclusively on Switch on 20th November.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/the_first_review_for_hyrule_warriors_age_of_calamity_is_now_in\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very first review of Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity has now been published by Japanese publication, Famitsu. The review arrives just over a week ahead of the game&#8217;s official release. Famitsu&#8217;s scoring system has four different reviewers rate the game out of ten; in this case, the magazine&#8217;s reviewers each awarded the game a 9\/10, resulting in a final score of 36\/40 (thanks, Gematsu). As highlighted by VGC, the 36\/40 score means that Age of Calamity has received Famitsu&#8217;s joint second-highest score for any Switch game so far this year. Animal Crossing: New Horizons scored higher, while several other titles including Paper Mario: The Origami King and Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition also earned 36\/40. VGC reports that Famitsu&#8217;s review praised &#8216;the variety of attack&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-first-review-for-hyrule-warriors-age-of-calamity-is-now-in\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo-life"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The First Review For Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity Is Now In | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The very first review of Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity has now been published by Japanese publication, Famitsu. 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