Hyrule Warriors Legends pre-loading now available (Japan)

Hyrule Warriors Legends is releasing in Japan today at 12am JST and now fans can pre-load the game onto their system to be able to play right away when it launches. Here are some technical details of the download:

• Filesize: 16 101 blocks / 2GB
• Genre: Action
• Players: 1 (you can control up to 4 characters)
• Save data file: 1
• Internet play: special battles
• Local play: trading Renting Skills for your fairy (2 to 4 people), special battles

Nintendo has also confirmed amiibo compatibility for the game which whill work similarly to in Hyrule Warriors on the Wii U:

• the amiibo from The Legend of Zelda series allow you to get rare weapons, once a day
• all the other amiibo allow you to get materials or rupees at random, once a day

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