Guide: Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment: Walkthrough Guide, Tips & Tricks
By Greetings, comrades Gibdos, Moblins, and Chuchus, and welcome to our Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment guides hub.
Koei Tecmo’s newest installment of Hyrule-influenced musou adventure is available on Switch 2, and since we awarded it a 9/10 in our rave review, we have put together guides that cover Korok Locations, All Playable Characters, and Sync Strike Combos, along with a collection of Beginner Tips & Tricks and amiibo Extras below.
Are you struggling to find a collectible item, wanting to understand how combat functions, or just wish to browse through several maps for a game you inexplicably don’t have? You’re in the right spot! Now, let’s dive right in, shall we?
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Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment Guides
All Playable Characters
This game features a vast array of fighters, each possessing their own unique moves and abilities, waiting for you to unlock in Age of Imprisonment. Ensure to consult our comprehensive guide.
Korok Locations
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is filled with adorable (kute?) Koroks for you to seek throughout its campaign and challenge maps. They are mostly tucked away in the earth — you’ll catch the distinctive sparkle and/or tiny windmill from a fair distance — but can also be concealed within floating balloons and the occasional crate. Our guide includes maps to assist you in locating them all:
Sync Strikes
Sync Strikes are introduced in this latest installment of Hyrule Warriors, enabling you to collaborate with other characters for significant damage. Thus, we’ve assembled a guide specifically for you!
Age of Imprisonment – Beginner’s Tips & Tricks
Having already battled our way across Hyrule in the game’s primary campaign, we thought we’d take a moment to share a few valuable tips for newcomers just starting out. You know, the kind of insights we discovered to be beneficial along the journey.
Ganondorf and his legions of filth are no easy adversaries, particularly on elevated difficulties, so here are some aids!
Frequent character switches during combat
This advice is mainly for Musou novices, but it’s worth reminding the veterans too that altering your characters during battles is crucial to maximizing enjoyment.
At times, you might find yourself heavily relying on a single character, whether it’s due to their appeal or ease of movement, and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment allows you that freedom, thus bad habits can form.
As battles unfold and meters fill up through assaults, rotating your squad at key moments will help ensure you get the elemental attacks you need, as well as guarantee that special attacks and the game’s novel Sync Strikes are executed at optimal times.
Button mashing, but with intention
Button mashing. Critics of Musou titles tend to harp on about the button-mashing aspect, and although it may hold true for beginners (you can smash through these foes on lower difficulties), the key is understanding your combinations, utilizing all your skills, and employing Zonai devices at precisely the right moments.
Though you might manage by mashing until you reach some of the later bosses, why settle for just managing when you could refine your style, embrace the training arena, and master your attack patterns, timings, parries, and dodges?
Equip elemental Zonai Devices according to boss types
Any formidable enemy will have its vulnerabilities indicated on its health bar (once you strike it with something it’s weak against), so using your elemental gadgets and abilities is recommended, particularly if you aim to shorten the time taken in a level or challenge.
The usual principles apply here: fire emitters will create chaos on icy chuchus, fire is countered by water, making hydrants useful for battles around volcanoes…all that good stuff.
Get cooking!
They have truly gone above and beyond by incorporating numerous facets of…
Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom transform into Age of Imprisonment, with one of its standout features being the unique cooking.
It’s wise to ensure you prepare meals at camps to maximize any XP, movement speed, or cooldown enhancements. Delectable ore and monster arm salad for you, good sir.
This tactic is immensely beneficial against troublesome airborne foes, or those frustratingly elusive Octorocks. Some of these creatures (particularly the electric Keese) approach you with great speed, and they are frequently the type of enemy that consistently lands hits on us.
However! By pressing and holding the ‘R’ button to access your item menu, you can slow down time during the current action without completely pausing the game, so take advantage of this to prepare and launch a counterattack against your opponent, preventing what would have surely been a hit.
Utilize your special gauge
Alright. This may seem quite apparent, but the special attack gauge — the large yellow bar at the top left of your display that fills as you engage — doesn’t receive much attention in the early stages, resulting in us rarely using our most powerful attacks for several hours until we remembered to activate them.
It’s incredibly easy to become completely focused on accumulating your Sync Strikes and then demolishing enemies with those, along with follow-up and weak-spot assaults. So please, keep in mind that the special gauge exists.
Old Save File data grants you complimentary weapons
If you possess previous Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity save data, the game will detect it, and you’ll receive a High Guard’s Claymore as a reward.
Conversely, save data from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom net you a gleaming new High Guard’s Sword.
Sync Strikes are formidable additions, so keep your allies close
We usually prefer to send our team members out individually around the map in these games (see the next tip!) to achieve tasks more quickly. However, here, Sync Strikes are so impressive, and they can change the tide in intense encounters, that you’ll want to consider keeping some teammates together until their gauges are full.
This feature becomes particularly advantageous on higher difficulty settings, as on Normal or below, you should have no trouble defeating most bosses solo. On harder levels, these choices become increasingly significant.
Guide your allies using the Map Screen
Don’t forget to reposition units and make sure they are joining you when necessary, as they can sometimes end up standing idle.
Simply access the map screen and choose whether you want to direct one or all members to a specific location on your map.
Zonai Balloons simplify fast travel across maps
Another detail that’s easy to overlook is that you don’t have to traverse entire levels endlessly, friends. No, once you unlock a control point, you can then utilize a Zonai Balloon from your device menu to instantly move closer to where you need to be.
Auto-Use Rations and Auto-Use Batteries for the win!
We find the constant interruption to access our quick menu for batteries and health items a bit tedious, so instead, we suggest delving into the game’s settings and enabling Auto-Use for both rations and batteries.
We understand you might prefer to turn this off for better control of these items on higher difficulty settings, but generally, up to at least Normal, you won’t need to stress too much about this.
Refine your dodge and parry techniques
Two methods to counter in style and decelerate the action to land stealthy hits.
It’s easy, particularly with the parrying, to forget it’s even an option, but refining your timing will help you escape most tight situations – while also allowing you to look effortlessly cool as you pummel Moblins with flurry attacks.
Enhance your favorite weapons to unlock new attack traits
Weapons in Age of Imprisonment can be upgraded using collectible parts that you obtain from your foes.
Once again, this part of the game is entirely up to you after the initial tutorial, so ensure you take the time to engage with it; otherwise, you’ll miss out on numerous nice bonuses and enhancements for your preferred weapons!
Utilize bonus tickets to uncover Korok locations and Treasure Chests
Once you activate the option at camps in the game, you can spend bonus tickets — which you’ll earn by completing on-the-fly challenges — to unveil all Korok and treasure chest locations on your map.
Auto-loot spares you the hassle of opening every chest or running to collect drops
There are so many adversaries and loot drops in this game that you’d drive yourself mad trying to collect them all by hand.
Fortunately, you needn’t worry, as any loot that drops from enemies or from chests will automatically be added to your inventory. No need to pause the combat. Not even for a moment.
Complete Service and Battle Aside Missions for fantastic extra functions
Explore missions in the game’s menus and you’ll discover that some are both character and technology-specific.
Therefore, make sure to complete all support and technology missions as soon as they become available, thereby leveling up and enhancing your sensor and any other helpful gadgets.
Age of Imprisonment supports amiibo for The Legend of Zelda and other figures. Scanning amiibos rewards you with random materials for use in the game, and you can only scan one amiibo per day, up to five amiibo.
Zelda universe-specific amiibo provide slightly more items than regular non-affiliated ones, but thus far we haven’t noticed any rewards more significant than typical materials and items you’ll find abundantly in the game anyway.
And that’s all our Age of Imprisonment tips and tricks for now! Do you find our guides beneficial? Make sure to inform us in the commentss. And if you somehow overlooked it, take a look at our comprehensive 9/10 review of this latest installment in the Hyrule Warriors series.