The Hyrule Warriors games have steadily becoming an important part of Nintendo’s release strategy for the Zelda series. The first Hyrule Warriors was an interesting experiment by Koei Tecmo and Nintendo that released on the Wii U. Subsequently, Nintendo has followed the release of a new 3D Zelda game with a connected Hyrule Warriors game. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (connected to Breath of the Wild) was released in 2020, and Age of Imprisonment (related to Tears of the Kingdom)...

Throughout the better part of this past decade, Breath of the Wild and its follow-ups have been the Zelda series’ primary focus. Certainly, we’ve had the occasional Cadence of Hyrule or Echoes of Wisdom, but for the most part, we’ve been with the same iteration of Hyrule for almost ten years – even longer if you count the near-three-year marketing buildup to Breath of the Wild! I’m not disappointed by this, though, as this era has continued to uphold Zelda’s...