{"id":119903,"date":"2020-10-27T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/10\/rumour_hyrule_warriors_age_of_calamity_may_be_getting_a_playable_demo"},"modified":"2020-10-27T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T16:30:00","slug":"rumour-hyrule-warriors-age-of-calamity-may-be-getting-a-playable-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/27\/rumour-hyrule-warriors-age-of-calamity-may-be-getting-a-playable-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity May Be Getting A Playable Demo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2cc896c7ebe4e\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2cc896c7ebe4e\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Hyrule Warriors Age Of Calamity\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2cc896c7ebe4e\/hyrule-warriors-age-of-calamity.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2cc896c7ebe4e\/hyrule-warriors-age-of-calamity.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Hyrule Warriors Age Of Calamity\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/hyrule_warriors_age_of_calamity\">Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity<\/a><\/strong> is out on Switch in less than a month, but a tweet from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeliosFR\/status\/1321110891379740681?s=20\">Kelios on Twitter<\/a> (thanks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamerevolution.com\/news\/663868-hyrule-warriors-age-of-calamity-demo-coming-nintendo-switch-eshop-korea\">Game Revolution<\/a>) \u2014 which features apparent screen-grabs of a page from Nintendo&#8217;s Korean website suggests that a playable demo of the game is incoming.<\/p>\n<p>According to the page (which now leads to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.kr\/news\/view.php?no=541\">an error message<\/a>), the demo will be released alongside a new trailer for the game and a bunch of new details about the return to the Hyrule of the past \u2014 one we first visited in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to online translations and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nintenleaks\/status\/1321094786376437763?s=20\">further investigation<\/a>, you&#8217;ll be able to play through the title&#8217;s prologue and carry your progress over to the full game should you decide that, <em>yes, I do want to explore Hyrule again, thank you.<\/em> Take a look at the relevant tweets below, along with the rather amusing (<strong>and potentially spoiler-y<\/strong>) translation courtesy of Google:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Et via Google Translate (depuis le cor\u00e9en) pour celles et ceux qui souhaitent <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2y9y8oiN0b\">pic.twitter.com\/2y9y8oiN0b<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Kelios (@KeliosFR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeliosFR\/status\/1321110891379740681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Nueva informaci\u00f3n de Hyrule Warriors la era del cataclismo filtrada con una Demo del juego que llegar\u00eda a las eShop y un mont\u00f3n de informaci\u00f3n nueva <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KXnGUuKElq\">pic.twitter.com\/KXnGUuKElq<\/a><\/span>\u2014 \ud83c\udf83Nintenleaks\ud83c\udf83 (@nintenleaks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nintenleaks\/status\/1321094786376437763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>While none of this has been confirmed officially, it certainly seems a solid sales tactic to employ and would likely hook people back into the world of Breath of the Wild who may have been sitting on the fence until Koei Tecmo&#8217;s game is out. People seemed to enjoy the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pikmin_3_deluxe\">Pikmin 3 Deluxe<\/a><\/strong> demo which became available without warning \u2014 and this is <em>Zelda!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If a demo for HWAOC (the acronym that nobody&#8217;s using) is going to drop before release, we&#8217;d expect to see it soon; Age of Calamity is launching in less than a month&#8217;s time on 20th November.<\/p>\n<p><em>Would you be up for dipping your toe into Age of Calamity with a demo? Is a taster pointless to you because you&#8217;ve had your pre-order in since it was first announced? Let us know with a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is out on Switch in less than a month, but a tweet from Kelios on Twitter (thanks Game Revolution) \u2014 which features apparent screen-grabs of a page from Nintendo&#8217;s Korean website suggests that a playable demo of the game is incoming. 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