"If you're a fan of Zelda, you'll find tons to love in this game." © 2018 Nintendo, Omega Force, Team Ninja, Koei Tecmo. All rights reserved.

Facing "captains" resembles classic Zelda combat; plenty of Zelda references for your enjoyment; wide selection of unique characters to play as; extra side stories help beef up the otherwise shallow story; great remixes of some of the best Zelda music

Controls show their age; letting AI handle your playable teammates doesn't work well; infuriating mission multitasking; lack of voice acting makes it hard to follow battle missions

is a good-quality port of the Wii U game, but outside of much more stable performance and better local co-op it doesn't add enough new content to make replaying the story mode interesting again if you've already tried it.

If you're the kind of person who likes shorter games that you can get through in a manageable amount of time, then

Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition follows the trend of Wii U games resurfacing on the Nintendo Switch. The new version combines nearly every element of the original Zelda -themed hack-and-slash game Hyrule Warriors and its updated 3DS port Hyrule Warriors Legends , creating a complete package and...

I may have fallen too far into the world of musou. The genre has been the primary production of Koei Tecmo's Omega Force for many years now, but I didn't jump in until relatively recently with 2016's Arslan: The Warriors of Legend .

Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition is classic Musou that in turn creates the Zelda Wars!

Definitive Indeed

A superlative Warriors game; Raises the bar in terms of content packed in; All enhancements and DLC from previous versions; An absolute blast to play throughout

No online co-op; Some performance issues docked

It was really great. The 4 stars is because level 1-2 were easy, and then all of a sudden level 3 got really hard.

Hyrule Warriors was one of a number of gems from the last generation of consoles which sadly lost out on an audience for one key reason - it came out on the Wii U. There was also Hyrule Warriors Legends on the 3DS, which came with more content and characters, but was sadly held back by the...

When Nintendo first unveiled Hyrule Warriors , people didn't exactly know what to expect. The company had seldom handed over the keys to one of its cornerstone franchises before, and the proposed concept was odd, to say the least.