Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment
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Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment (Switch 2): all the updates (latest: Ver. 1.0.3)

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On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various updates for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment on Nintendo Switch 2.

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Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment – Ver. 1.0.3

  • Release date: December 17th/18th 2025
  • Patch notes:

Features added

Phantom Ganon:

  • Phantom Ganon is a new feature that randomly triggers in battles that you have completed. In battles where Phantom Ganon has triggered, a portion of the enemies that appear will have transformed into Vicious Enemies or Gloom Spawn.
  • In addition, when you defeat powerful enemies, there is a possibility that Phantom Ganon may appear. You will be able to acquire more Pure Zonaite Steel than in normal battles.

Forbidden Difficulty:

  • In the new Forbidden difficulty level, you can experience high-difficulty battles that are more challenging than the battles in Very Hard difficulty.
  • If you complete a certain number of battles on Forbidden difficulty, you will receive special rewards such as Pure Zonaite Steel or an increase in the number of Special Rations that can be held.

New challenges and quests added:

  • Similar to the first free update, this second update also adds multiple new challenges and quests to the Hyrule Map after the main game has been beaten.
  • Lizalfos and Chuchus appear as new Vicious Enemies.
  • The Tanagar Meditation Hall on the sky island is unlocked, and you will be able to perform a sync strike if you enter with two characters.

New Unique Skills added:

  • New unique skills have been added to the Mysterious Construct for its one-handed weapons, two-handed weapons, and spears.
  • With the one-handed weapon unique skill Shield Charge, you can break through dangerous attacks from charging enemies by raising your shield and stepping into them. Also, with correct timing against an enemy attack, you can deal a powerful spinning slash.
  • You can learn these skills by completing the challenges and quests that are added in this update.

New weapons added:

  • The Forbidden Blade, a one-handed weapon that was touched by Gloom and ominously transformed, was added. The Mysterious Construct and warriors of various peoples are able to equip it.
  • You can acquire this weapon by completing battles that are added in this update.
  • The battles below will be added as well:
    • Battles focused on the warriors.
    • A life-or-death struggle with a certain powerful enemy.

Improved Features

  • Aside Quests that involve sync strikes as a condition have been changed so that they can also be achieved by characters you are not controlling while performing sync strikes.
  • You can back out of bonus conversations in the Gallery with B Button.
  • Adjusted display conditions and frequency in Tutorials for Dodge and Guard.
  • When you have hit the upper limit of Zonaite Steel you can possess, you will be able to use the weapon enhancements below at the end of combat:
    • Raise Weapon-Level Limit
    • Remove Seals

Fixed Issues

  • Fixed an issue where, when assigning Electric Lizalfos parts to the Material Sensor, a battle in which Electric Lizalfos don’t appear (“Terror of the Sands”) could be tracked.
  • Fixed an issue where the Challenge “A Flash of Steel in the Desert“ would not appear until a number of other battles had been completed, even after all displayed requisite battles had been completed.
  • Fixed an issue where, during two-player split-screen play, the second player’s attack sounds and other sounds could not be heard.
  • Fixed an issue where, when assigning necessary materials to the Material Sensor (Assign to Sensor in Unlock Weapon Arts) a player would only be able to remove them from the sensor via the Materials screen.

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment – Ver. 1.0.2

  • Release date: November 26th/27th 2025
  • Patch notes:

Features added

New quests added:

  • Multiple challenges and quests were added as an element of clearing the main game.
  • New “Vicious Enemies” for Bokoblin and Sludge Like now appear. “Fuse Attacks” like “Boko Rapid Spin” that are performed using materials from “Vicious Bokoblins” will be incredibly powered up compared to past materials.

New weapons added:

  • Added the Longsword of Light, a special long sword that Rauru granted the protection of the power of light to, and the High Guard’s Spear, a spear issued to the bravest warriors serving the king of Hyrule.
  • You can acquire these by clearing battles that are added in this update.

New exclusive Sync Strikes:

  • Exclusive Sync Strikes added for Zelda and Calamo.
  • Zelda will return a boomerang that Calamo throws using the Power of Time and follow up. If the player can press the X Button with good timing, she will catch the boomerang and the attack will become powerful.
  • You can learn these by clearing the quests that are added in this update.

Fighting alongside Flux Construct:

  • You will now be able to perform Sync Strikes with Flux Constructs. These powerful spin attacks will scatter minor enemies, and chip away at the Weak Point Gauge of powerful enemies.
  • You will be able to perform this in existing battles where Flux Constructs appear in addition to the battles that are added in this update.

New battles added:

  • “Eve of the Final Confrontation”
  • “In Search of Poes”
  • “The Struggle for Ash Swamp”

Improved Features

Actions:

  • Special actions for the mysterious construct can now be saved for each weapon type.
  • Added a warning sound before the effects of the unique skills “Power Surge” and “Boundless Energy” end.

Battles:

  • You can now select characters and weapons in “The Tanagar Meditation Hall.”
  • A preview of the health recovery amount is now displayed when selecting “Special Rations” or “Battery.”

Deployment Preparations Screen:

  • From the “Allies” screen during deployment preparation, you can now press the Y Button to jump to the “Aside Quests.”

The Hyrule Map:

  • Added tutorials displayed on the Hyrule map to the list.
  • You can now visualize how ground areas are divided on the Hyrule map.
  • When hovering over a battle, a preview of the area you can reclaim is now displayed.

Quests:

  • Changed the color of the text on the quests list to yellow for items that can be cleared. Adjusted the clear status display of quests.

Fixed issues

  • The Unique Skill “Construct Launch” would not gain the effect of some special effects or enhancements.
  • Aside Quest “Defeat — enemies using Zonai device” would not be counted even the player fulfilled the conditions for strong attacks using Zonai gear or aerial combat.
  • Even if the weapon art “May Guard Automatically, Shocking/Freezing/Burning Enemies” was triggered with the Frox’s attack and the player guarded automatically, the enemy would not go into the elemental state that would be expected.
  • If the player does “Control Character” from the Pause Menu, there were times when the enhanced state would be undone.
  • When selecting “Retry” after particular control actions, there were times when the background music would no longer play.
  • It would be impossible to progress when using GameShare.
  • When communication would stop while using GameShare, attacks would not land on particular enemies.
  • When playing two-player split screen, there would be times when the player would return to “The Hyrule Map” when selecting “Retry” after particular control actions.
  • When playing two-player split screen, the camera controls would go in reverse when performing a Sync Strike with Pinnec.
  • Issues with certain screen displays.

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment – Ver. 1.0.1

  • Release date: November 5th/6th 2025
  • Patch notes:

Fixed Issues

  • Fixed an issue where progress would stop when player discovered a Korok under specific conditions when playing two-player Split Screen.
  • Fixed an issue where the screen would go dark and it would be impossible to progress when quitting a battle during the animation for “Temporal Counter.”
  • Fixed an issue where progress stopped sometimes when trying to start a battle, when quitting the communication for GameShare.
  • Several other issues have been fixed.

Feature Added

  • Added shortcut feature (Y button) to the Aside Quests on the map screen.
  • Additional notes: none
  • Source: Nintendo

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment – Ver. 1.0.0

  • Release date: October 30th 2025
  • Patch notes:

No patch notes available. This is the base version of the game.

  • Additional notes: none
  • Source: game

How to download updates for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment on Nintendo Switch 2?

To download the updates for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, you have three options:

  • let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off

If not…

  • try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;

OR

  • select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.

To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.

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