Hyrule Warriors
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North American packaging artwork featuring (from left) Princess Zelda, Link, and Lana
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| Developer(s) | |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Masaki Furusawa |
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| Designer(s) | Takahiro Kawai |
| Programmer(s) | Takanori Goshima |
| Artist(s) | Mariko Hirokane |
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| Series | |
| Platform(s) | Wii U, Nintendo 3DS |
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Wii U 3DS |
| Genre(s) | Action, hack and slash |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| Metacritic | Wii U: 76/100 3DS: 70/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| CVG | 8/10 |
| Destructoid | 8.5/10 |
| EGM | 8/10 |
| Eurogamer | 8/10 |
| Famitsu | 36/40 |
| Game Informer | 8/10 |
| GameSpot | 8/10 |
| GamesRadar |   |
| GameTrailers | 7/10 |
| Giant Bomb | |
| IGN | 7/10 |
| Joystiq | |
| Nintendo Life | 7/10 |
| Polygon | 5.5/10 |
| The Escapist |  |
Hyrule Warriors, known in Japan as Zelda Musō (Japanese: ゼルダ無双 Hepburn: Zeruda Musō?, "Zelda Unrivaled"), is a hack and slash action video game developed by Omega Force and Team Ninja for the Wii U video game console. Hyrule Warriors was released in Japan in August 2014, and internationally the following month. The game is a collaboration between Koei Tecmo and Nintendo, and is part of both Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda and Koei Tecmo's Dynasty Warriors series. It is one of the best-selling games on the Wii U. An updated port for the Nintendo 3DS, titled Hyrule Warriors Legends (Zelda Musō: Hyrule All-Stars (ゼルダ無双 ハイラルオールスターズ Zeruda Musō Hairaru Ōru Sutāzu?) in Japan), was released in Japan in January 2016, and worldwide in March 2016.
Hyrule Warriors mixes the hack-and-slash gameplay of Koei Tecmo's Dynasty Warriors series of video games with the settings and characters from Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series. Amongst many other characters, the player controls an original iteration of Link in melee combat to take on large numbers of enemies from the Legend of Zelda series. While there is a much stronger emphasis on combat than other games in the Legend of Zelda series, the player may use common weapons from prior games in the series, such as a sword, bombs, and Link's signature spin attack. Enemy targeting also returns, in combination with elements from the Dynasty Warriors combat system. Obtaining items through discovering and opening chests is retained as well.
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