Zelda may have inspired one of the best Dynasty Warriors games to date but the end result is still well below average by any other standard.

Slightly more complex combat than usual for a Dynasty Warriors game; Playing as other characters is fun for a short while; Co-op options for all modes

Instantly repetitive and horribly shallow gameplay that has very little in common with a real Zelda title; Terrible artificial intelligence and graphics; Short, poorly scripted story campaign

With Hyrule Warriors, this was the first time that I gave more than a passing glance or two to the Dynasty Warriors-like formula. Beyond the obvious melee whacking of 50 enemies at once, it was great to experience the feeling of fighting in a large-scale war and little skirmishes across a...

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

The third version of Hyrule Warriors is certainly the best version. The tweaks made to this version help it to be more enjoyable than the original and with all the DLC included, this is an incredible amount of content to work through.

"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.

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 .

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.