![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Game Review: Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition
2019-Sep-11, Wednesday 20:14
I have almost no experience with musou (無双, "peerless, unrivaled," referring to the skill of the warriors) games, other than playing Dynasty Warriors 3 with my high school friends. I had a soft spot for Pang Tong and played him in multiplayer a couple times, and the phrase "Humble the rebels!" is a meme among us to this day. But that's about as far as it went. Some of them continued further in the Warriors series, but I never did.
That means that I came into Hyrule Warriors without any preconceptions. I knew that I would be fighting enemy lieutenants and generals, that I'd be running around accomplishing objectives, and that I'd be killing thousands of enemies. And all of that definitely happened! I saw a stream of the game before I bought it and the streamer was complaining that it didn't feel like a Legend of Zelda game, and I can see that. There's no puzzles to solve. There's no dungeons to delve into. But Hyrule Warriors is a Koei game, and thus a musou game first, and it actually had more Zelda in it than I was lead to expect.
I mean, I was constantly throwing bombs at everything. That's quintessential Legend of Zelda.
I had originally planned to play this game in Japanese, but after I bought it on the eShop, I learned that, bizarrely, Koei games often have Western and Eastern versions and I had bought the Western version with only European language support. It's not a mainline Zelda game, so it doesn't really bother me, but it was a bit surprising. Had I played it in Japanese, the title would have been ゼルダ無双 ハイラルオールスターズ DX, "Zelda Unrivaled Hyrule All Stars DX."
It's okay. I can take them.
( Read more... )
That means that I came into Hyrule Warriors without any preconceptions. I knew that I would be fighting enemy lieutenants and generals, that I'd be running around accomplishing objectives, and that I'd be killing thousands of enemies. And all of that definitely happened! I saw a stream of the game before I bought it and the streamer was complaining that it didn't feel like a Legend of Zelda game, and I can see that. There's no puzzles to solve. There's no dungeons to delve into. But Hyrule Warriors is a Koei game, and thus a musou game first, and it actually had more Zelda in it than I was lead to expect.
I mean, I was constantly throwing bombs at everything. That's quintessential Legend of Zelda.
I had originally planned to play this game in Japanese, but after I bought it on the eShop, I learned that, bizarrely, Koei games often have Western and Eastern versions and I had bought the Western version with only European language support. It's not a mainline Zelda game, so it doesn't really bother me, but it was a bit surprising. Had I played it in Japanese, the title would have been ゼルダ無双 ハイラルオールスターズ DX, "Zelda Unrivaled Hyrule All Stars DX."
It's okay. I can take them.
( Read more... )
