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Hyrule Warriors will include six playable characters when it’s released this September and Koei Tecmo Japan has released five character-specific trailers thus far. Today, they unveiled the final trailer, which stars Midna of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

Midna can ride a wolf and use its powerful jaws to bite through the hordes of enemies in Hyrule Warriors. And if she’s feeling bored, she can scoop up the wolf and throw it into a group of monsters. The Twili will also be able to grow a “hair hand” and use it to smack around her enemies.

Hyrule Warriors will be released exclusively for the Wii U on September 26.

Koei Tecmo Japan has released a fifth character trailer for Hyrule Warriors. This time, we get to spend a few minutes with Agitha, the “Bug Princess” from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Agitha uses her parasol as a club, but her real power is in summoning giant insects to dispatch the mobs. Death by butterfly!

Hyrule Warriors will be released exclusively for the Wii U on September 26.

Koei Tecmo Japan has released another character trailer for Hyrule Warriors. This time we’re introduced to Lana, a new character created exclusively for the game.

Lana is a magic user who can blast enemies with magic bolts. In addition, she can create glass walls to keep enemies back, but they also serve an offensive purpose as the walls can be pushed into groups of enemies or shattered to shower the screen in sparks.

Hyrule Warriors will be released on September 26 in North America, though Japanese gamers (where it is known as Zelda Unrivaled) will get a chance to purchase it a month earlier on August 14.

Does anybody else remember when Impa was a frail old woman who collapsed after sending Link on his way to rescue the Princess in the original Legend of Zelda? Yeah… that’s not the Impa we’re going to get in Hyrule Warriors. Like the Link trailer they released last week, Tecmo Koei Japan has given us a glimpse of this Impa in a brand new trailer for the game. Between using a sword that’s taller than she is and the jagged scar across her face, this Impa is wicked intimidating.

The publisher has also released a new trailer featuring Zelda herself. The Princess uses magical light abilities to vanquish the monsters threatening Hyrule including a phantom bow and a portal that rains down meteors. She is no damsel in distress.

Hyrule Warriors will be released in Japan on August 14. We in America will get a chance to hack and slash our way through Hyrule on September 26. Both trailers can be found after the break. (more…)

This beautiful new trailer for Hyrule Warriors, released by Tecmo Koei of Japan, should get your sword hand tingling. It’s got Link wiping out scores of bad dudes. I especially loved his use of bombs!

Hyrule Warriors will be available for the Wii U on September 26.

We still don’t know much about Hyrule Warriors (Princess Zelda gets kidnapped again is about it), but it looks like Nintendo and Tecmo Koei have built an all-star team to develop it.

Omega Force, Tecmo Koei’s internal team that’s assigned to the Dynasty Warriors series, is handling the bulk of the game’s development. But according to the latest issue of Famitsu (via Siliconera), Team Ninja’s Hisashi Koinuma and Yosuke Hayasahi will also be involved in the game’s creation as producers. Hayashi has been the driving force behind the Ninja Gaiden series since Tomonobu Itagaki left Team Ninja in 2008 as well as one of the producer of Metroid: Other M. And as expected, Eiji Aonuma, the Series Producer of the Zelda franchise at Nintendo, is supervising the development of Hyrule Warriors to ensure it lives up to the Zelda name.

Hyrule Warriors (which is known as Zelda Unrivaled in Japan) will be released in Japan on August 14. The game will also be released in North America and Europe by the end of the year.