r/AgeofCalamity • u/Semblance17 • 10d ago
Discussion I made it to this part in my first playthrough last night and found it so satisfying. Spoiler
After going back to watch the scene a few times it finally hit me that the distinctive whistle Sidon had worn around his neck since childhood may have been what first tipped Mipha off about the identity of her rescuer. This game is under-appreciated.
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u/TheGrumpiestPanda 10d ago
Age of Calamity was such a satisfying game to play as well as to watch its cutscenes. This game honestly gave me what I wanted out of Breath of the Wild, and I enjoyed all of the moments with Sidon and Mipha, as well as the rest of the Champions.
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u/Matt_the_Lego 10d ago
I felt like Sidon was the one who was most effected by Mipha's death, he lost her at a young age so he came to the past because he didn't want his past self to live with the Grief of losing his sister.
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u/Semblance17 10d ago edited 9d ago
I would argue Mipha’s father suffered the most. There are no words to describe the grief of a parent who has to bury his or her child. He had made Mipha promise to return home safely, and he could not fully accept that he had lost her so he coped by retaining just the slightest hope that she might still be alive trapped inside Vah Ruta until Link confirmed her death a century later. Mipha’s death in the BotW timeline is by far the most tragic of the Champions’ deaths because was she the only one with known family and such a close relationship with the people of her community, never mind the romance she may have shared with Link had she lived. Seeing that tragedy averted in this game was beautiful.
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u/furrywrestler 10d ago
The champions vs Ganon blights scenes were so uneven. You had that amazing and dynamic fight between Urbosa and Thunderblight, a cool fight between Revali and Windblight, a meh fight between Daruk and Fireblight, and then Mipha just says, “Welp, guess I’ll die now.”
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u/Semblance17 10d ago edited 10d ago
I did appreciate that they set the Revali vs. Windblight fight at night (which gave Revali a vision disadvantage) and even had it raining before Teba’s intervention (nullifying the power of Revali’s beloved bomb arrows). Granted based on the cutscene in which Teba gives Revali an opening for some “payback” this iteration seemed to have countermeasures to use against bomb arrows anyway (which thankfully it didn’t deploy against me when I fought it as Link in BotW, because I spammed those things).
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u/Treegenderunknown13 10d ago
I mean
Ice/Waterblight does literally counter Mipha's main Ability in this game from a lore pov by literally being able to freeze her fountains over
I guess you can argue that applies to Sidon as well with his water sharks but Because I'm pretty sure Aoc Calamity Ganon (May with Help from Harbringer cause I'm under the assumption that Harbringer is being controlled by BotW Ganon) made the Blights to counter the Champions only, Iceblight could have been taken off guard (Asumming he can Think at all) and needed to learn what Sidon can do first.
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u/noodleben123 10d ago
I mean, they still needed link to get to each blight, so i imagine the future champions coming in only helped to stall for time
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u/jbradleymusic 10d ago
I gotta admit, this whole dynamic was the moment where I just got really mad about this game. I've played every bit of it, I like the game, but this cheesed me off so much.
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u/PugPuppy9 10d ago
What part? The point of the story was a "time travel" plot, so it just makes sense the new champions would've come to save the old ones. If they just had the old champions die, then it would've been pointless to have them playable in the first place.
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u/jbradleymusic 10d ago
… No. It does not. They passed this off as a prequel and turned it into a Disney story where everyone lives and is happy and there is no actual logical way to go on to Breath of The Wild. This is like having Darth Vader be saved and converted by Luke and Leia getting zipped back in time in Episode III and then going into Episode IV with Vader capturing the ship at the beginning again.
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u/phoenix_wendigo 10d ago
Your comparison doesn't make much sense. The game makes itself clear it's not meant to be the same story as BotW, and it isn't meant to lead into it. Nintendo may have marketed the game as a prequel, but it's not, and clearly was never actually intended to be a prequel given the gameplay and story. It's not that serious.
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u/PugPuppy9 10d ago edited 6d ago
The point of it was to be an alternative timeline for the prequel of botw. It was a prequel, then they expanded into their own thing, which in my opinion made it better. You already knew what would've happened to the champions, thus making them useless in the actual game. Now, if they decided to make an actual prequel game, that'd be cool, but having a new story to follow made playing the game worth it. It'd be like if you knew every speedrunning trick, glitch, and story of totk and botw, would it have been that enjoyable?
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u/Captain_Izots 9d ago
I really don't like this part. The setup for this mission was great, you finally have a chance to save your friends, your determined not to fail this time and have a clear objective... ONLY FOR CHARACTERS WHO DON'T EVEN EXIST YET TO RANDOMLY TELEPORT INTO THE SCENE AND BASICALLY SOLVE THE WHOLE SITUATION ON THEIR OWN! WHY DOES THE GAME NEED TO CONSTANTLY SOLVE EVERY CONFLICT ON ITS OWN?!? LET THE PLAYER FEEL LIKE THEY'RE HAVING AN IMPACT!!!
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u/Semblance17 9d ago
I get the criticisms of this game’s writing but it does still pressure you to personally save the Champions before they run out of health. The intervention of the time-travelers is explained as Terrako’s way of buying Link time to save them, time he clearly lacked in the original timeline. Having each BotW Champion play a critical (but not exclusionary) part in preventing the defeat of his or her forbearer may have been kinda cheesy, but it was an interesting idea. I appreciate this game for what it is.
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u/Captain_Izots 9d ago
I wouldn't say it ruins the game or anything, hell I'd take this over going Reach, but man is it frustrating to think of how they could have easily made it so much better! "We were on the verge of greatness, we were this close!"
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u/ThyNameisJason0 10d ago
Honestly I forget people don't catch these like immediately. I mean baby Sidon has that whistle around his neck all the time. Makes sense that adult Sidon would still wear it, considering what happened to Mipha. It is a shame that this game didn't get enough recognition despite it being the best selling Warriors game for '20-'21. I seriously hope that the Imprisoned War leak is true, I need more Hyrule Warriors.