Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment reviewed in 60 seconds

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment manages to find exciting stories to tell as a Tears of the Kingdom prequel on Nintendo Switch 2.

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00:00Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment shows it's Zelda's era, and we're just living in it.

00:05Not only did the titular princess take over from the green-garbed hero Link in the top-down The

00:10Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom last year, she's back to do it again in this lavish prequel to

00:15The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. Where Echoes highlighted her book smarts with a copy

00:20wand to solve puzzles, here in Age of Imprisonment she's handed a light-powered beam saber and told

00:26to get slicing. On the upside, Zelda is an excellent lead character, game performance is great,

00:32and the story additions work well. Negatives include boring battlefield design,

00:37overly linear missions, and the shooter sections are an odd addition. Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment

00:43manages to find exciting stories to tell as a Tears of the Kingdom prequel, with Princess Zelda

00:49taking the lead to spend plenty of time with some all-timer characters old and new. But while action

00:55and performance is an upgrade from the last Hyrule Warriors, strangled battlefield and mission

00:59designs become dull, holding this back from true magic.