Here’s what’s in the New Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity Expansion Pass

Nintendo unveiled an upcoming Expansion Pass for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity today during the Nintendo Direct presentation in February 2021. Although the announcement was light on a meaty trailer showing off some of the new features, Nintendo outlined the content in two “Waves” “of content coming later this year, both of which can be purchased for $ 20 starting May 28th. If you buy the extension, you also get a purchase bonus on two new costumes for Link.

The first wave of content was released in June, and includes an expanded list of characters, new weapon types, new challenges in the Royal Ancient Lab, and new enemies to fight for.

The second wave, coming in November, will provide new character vignettes, new scenes, a further expanded list and new combat skills for existing characters.

At the moment, it does not appear that this expansion adds to the existing history of the game in any way.

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is a musou title in the same direction as the original Hyrule Warriors game, and was developed in collaboration with Dynasty Warriors producer Koei Tecmo. Launched last year for the Nintendo Switch, our review found the games compelling, its progression fun and character and the newly developed version of Hyrule a joy to play and discover.

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Today’s Direct also had more for musou fans, with the announcement of the Samurai Warriors 5 coming to Switch this summer.

Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.