Nintendo and Koei Tecmo explain how Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment came to be
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Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment producers Yosuke Hayashi and Ryota Matsushita recently spoke about the origins of the game, explaining how it came to be.
Rather than Nintendo approaching Koei Tecmo, it was actually the other way around. Hayashi and Matsushita both felt that the Imprisoning War would make be a good fit for a Warriors title. Nintendo had its own interest in making it happen, with Tears of the Kingdom director Hidemaro Fujibayashi wanting to make something happen, but Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma wanted Koei Tecmo to reach out.
Hayashi, Matsushita, and Aonuma said the following in a 4Gamer interview:
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity devs talk a bit about the game’s DLC
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In an interview with Dengeki Online, the developers of Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity commented on the game’s DLC.
According to co-producer Masaki Furusawa, the decision to make DLC was decided early on. He told the site:
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity team on how playable characters were decided, devs had split opinions on Zelda and Divine Beasts
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Dengeki Online recently published a lengthy Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity developer interview. Producers Yosuke Hayashi and Masaki Furusawa, along with director Ryota Matsushita, were all involved with the discussion.
At one point, there was some interesting discussion about the game’s characters. The three first shared the following when asked about how the playable characters were chosen, as translated by Nintendo Everything:


