Muse

man, the time just melts away playing hyrule warriors, huh

game feels like a relaxing brain massage

the Definitive Edition on Switch is so nice, too; the 3DS version served me well back when I was commuting by train every day but they really cleaned up my major complaints with it and put out a great, cohesive package here. this lovable cast of weirdos has never looked so good kicking so much ass

there was a time I'd have said I was disappointed in Age of Calamity not firing the good brain neurons for me the way HW did, but it's no big deal if I can come back to HW proper and find that I still just cannot get sick of it

this is a fun glitch to run into, and find out hasn't been removed in the definitive edition of hyrule warriors, some thousand hours into my 100% grind. hmm.

what's interesting though is my experience is that its not the dark gohma that's causing the problem, its a wizzro that spawns in wave 3 (this seems to be the majority opinion wrt this issue I've seen online?). and what's interesting about that wizzro, is that as any other character in this mission, the character that spawns here isn't a wizzro, its a ghirahim, which the game turns into a wizzro dynamically if you're playing as ghirahim. The game subtly does this all over the place and its never caused an issue before now. I mean invisible enemies that aren't supposed to be have definitely been a thing but they've all been contained to one level that fixed itself pretty quickly. so idk what's going on exactly or how to fix it, but by god I'm going to try

so, problem was the unloaded/invisible/invulnerable wizzro spawn in wave 3. the spawn was originally a ghirahim that got dynamically turned into a wizzro, so maybe that was the problem. my solution to this: load up in co-op, with player 1 playing ghirahim, and player 2 playing wizzro. the ghirahim spawn can't be ghirahim, because player 1 is ghirahim, so it turns into a wizzro, but it can't be wizzro because player 2 is wizzro, so it turns into a generic darknut. this generic darknut caused no problems and I was able to win. awesome