Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity: I Loved It, and I Feel Cheated
Image: Nintendo This critique contains spoilers for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild . I had not played video games for 25 years. Then came The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild . The Legend of Zelda premiered in 1986 as an eight-bit top-down style adventure game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It involved an elf-like warrior named Link wandering through the land of Hyrule, seeking out eight pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom in order to rescue Princess Zelda. Critics lauded the game for its open world style of play, which took Link through mountains and forests in search of his objectives. Over the decades, The Legend of Zelda would form a series with a cast of familiar characters and its own lore. Breath of the Wild (2017) set off an earthquake in the Zelda franchise. It took the open world concept of the first Zelda and turned it into a 3D experience where Link could climb on nearly every surface and any point o