Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment hits the Switch 2 this winter

It wouldn’t beryllium a caller Nintendo console without a large Zelda release, and the franchise’s adjacent introduction is sending the princess to war.

During today’s Switch 2 Direct, Nintendo announced the forthcoming accomplishment of Age of Imprisonment, a caller installment of Koei Tecmo’s Zelda-inspired Hyrule Warriors series. Like Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, Age of Imprisonment is different prequel whose communicative connects straight with the larger communicative unfolding successful Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. But this clip around, the crippled looks adjacent farther backmost into the past to absorption connected the conflict Princess Zelda fought alongside King Rauru against Ganondorf.

A little trailer for the crippled highlighted however Age of Imprisonment will let you to play arsenic Zelda and Rauru arsenic you combat against hordes of Hylian monsters. Nintendo didn’t uncover overmuch astir the caller game’s plot, but announced that it’s acceptable for merchandise this winter.

The Zelda franchise played a cardinal relation successful the archetypal Switch’s success. Breath of the Wild, which was besides 1 of the past Wii U titles, rapidly became 1 of the handheld console’s bestselling games and a captious darling that kicked disconnected a new epoch of open-world gaming. The Switch gave Nintendo a accidental to treble down connected Zelda spinoffs similar the Hyrule Warriors series and Cadence of Hyrule.

The institution kept its Zelda momentum going with updated versions of classics similar Link’s Awakening and Skyward Sword. And adjacent though the archetypal Switch was nearing the extremity of its beingness cycle, Nintendo pushed the bid adjacent further into the aboriginal with Tears of the Kingdom and Echoes of Wisdom. The mode Zelda flourished connected the Switch is undoubtedly portion of wherefore the franchise is being adapted into a live-action movie and seemingly getting the taxable parkland treatment. And present we cognize a spot much astir however the princess’s fable volition proceed with the Switch 2.