#they know how beloved these characters have become and if anything hyrule warriors sales REINFORCED the demand for these characters. so

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i miss the champions so much i know there's like no logical reason for them to come back in totk but i wanna see my guys again even if it's just more memories or something. do you think there's any way they could pull that off based on what we know about the game already?

i really hope so! at the very least i hope the abilities you get in botw won't be removed bc i cant navigate that fucking map without revali's gale. even the lack of expedited cooldowns from the dlc starts to get to me after a while at this point LMAO. in terms of actual implementation i'm trying to think if there's an easy way to give us more champion content in totk. In theory, we could continue to recover link's memories and see more of the champions that way, but from a writing standpoint that might feel clunky & at odds with the rest of the story unless it's VERY carefully implemented. My honest answer from a writing & game dev standpoint is that i don't think we're likely to get many more memory-style cutscenes, especially with the release of hyrule warriors a few years ago sort of serving as an extra source of champions content already. that might have been the point of hyrule warriors from a game dev standpoint, actually, if they realized while in production that totk wasn't going to have a lot of room for champion-centric content, hyrule warriors would have given them an easy way to satiate fans who really loved those characters without compromising the integrity of their already-written story in totk. tldr realistically i don't think there's going to be a whole lot of champion-centric content in totk but for now we can pray that i will have to eat these words in 3 months

#a lot of this speculation is also based off my own speculations about what the story of totk will be too so. take this with a grain of salt #but the existence of hyrule warriors at all suggests to me that we're going to get a lot less pre-calamity content in totk if any #because like. they wouldn't have made that game if they knew that precalamity cutscenes were gonna be a heavy feature of totk #hyrule warriors' draw from a narrative standpoint is that it occupies a space in the timeline that no other game can fill #and if they knew that within 2 years they were going to release a game that DID fill that space with the potential to retcon whatever they #wrote into hyrule warriors then they would have given hyrule warriors a different story/place in the timeline imo. #releasing 2 games back to back whose stories sit so close together without directly interacting with each other isnt a smart business move #so tldr i do not think we will see much of the champions in totk. HOWEVER i dont think theyll be gone entirely!!! the writers arent stupid #they know how beloved these characters have become and if anything hyrule warriors sales REINFORCED the demand for these characters. so #i think we will see them again in some capacity just probably not memory-style anymore #asks #totk predictions