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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - First Score for Hyrule Warriors - 87%

SJReiter on 16 September 2014
Dunban67 said:
Did Hyrule Warriors sell less than expected so far in Japan? Wasn t that supposed to be its biggest market or am I wrong in thinking that? Maybe it will get more Zelda fans in the West interested in Muso than it will get Muso fans In Japan interested in Zelda?


Basically, the way I understand it is that in Japan, the Zelda franchise is not as popular as in the US. On the other hand, the Dynasty Warriors franchise is much more popular in Japan than in the US. The problem is that most people in Japan who are fans of the DW games don't have a Wii U since most of them likely wouldn't be Nintendo fans. Therefore, even though they'd like to get HW, they won't get it because they don't have a Wii U. Nintendo has to hope that people in the US who are Zelda fans get this game despite the fact that it's not really a Zelda game.



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Naum on 16 September 2014
kupomogli said:
RolStoppable said:
Should be a good game. Certainly a more appealing product than a Dynasty Warriors port would ever be.

Of course it is.  It's based off a Nintendo franchise.

*edit*

You know my opinion.  Nintendo franchises are rated more highly for no other reason than them being Nintendo games. 

That's  crap and you know it. even if they did get some small favoritism it's nothing compared to some 3rd party games get.



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Dunban67 on 16 September 2014
SJReiter said:
Dunban67 said:
Did Hyrule Warriors sell less than expected so far in Japan? Wasn t that supposed to be its biggest market or am I wrong in thinking that? Maybe it will get more Zelda fans in the West interested in Muso than it will get Muso fans In Japan interested in Zelda?


Basically, the way I understand it is that in Japan, the Zelda franchise is not as popular as in the US. On the other hand, the Dynasty Warriors franchise is much more popular in Japan than in the US. The problem is that most people in Japan who are fans of the DW games don't have a Wii U since most of them likely wouldn't be Nintendo fans. Therefore, even though they'd like to get HW, they won't get it because they don't have a Wii U. Nintendo has to hope that people in the US who are Zelda fans get this game despite the fact that it's not really a Zelda game.


Thank you - that makes sense.  Hopefully it will pick up some extra fans from both East and West 



MegaDrive08 on 16 September 2014

I thought the challenge mode looked really interesting after watching a couple of videos on wiifolderjosh.



 

ganondorf7799 on 16 September 2014
TheMagicMax said:

damn, 87 indeed is low.. didn't expect anything less than a 95...
edit. The score of the N-Zone (german magazine) isn't bad either but i'm not gonna spoil it here


Please spoil me ;)



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NintendoPie on 16 September 2014

Kupo cracks me up. If only I was able to also crack up at the title, but ConeyG sucked the fun out of that.



MTZehvor on 16 September 2014

I'm honestly a bit surprised it's this high. I was expecting a low 80s metacritic at best.

Guess we'll see.



TheMagicMax on 16 September 2014
ganondorf7799 said:
TheMagicMax said:

damn, 87 indeed is low.. didn't expect anything less than a 95...
edit. The score of the N-Zone (german magazine) isn't bad either but i'm not gonna spoil it here


Please spoil me ;)

Just sent you a PM with info ^^



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PotentHerbs on 16 September 2014

Good start even if it's lower then the usual Zelda standard.



amak11 on 16 September 2014
fleischr said:
amak11 said:
fleischr said:
Hyrule Warriors. Not the Zelda game we deserve, but the Zelda game we need.


I hope this is sarcasm


We deserve a true, next-gen canonical Zelda game.

But Hyrule Warriors remains a pretty fun game all the same.


Much better explained.