Should you play Hyrule Warriors?

Should you play Hyrule Warriors? 

Attention! This review comes from someone who has not played a great deal of Zelda games, I'm literally just analyzing it as a game.

Hyrule Warriors, for what it is, is an all round damn fine game, bursting with character and addictive gameplay. It's a spin-off mash-up hybrid thing combining the wonderful world of Zelda with the huge-scale battlefield of Dynasty Warriors. Its not an actual cannon Zelda game, but eve if it was it'd stand out for being the only one where Link receives any form of military training. The plot is simple enough, an evil witch named Cia is being manipulated by Ganondorf to steal all the pieces of the Triforce. Cia is motivated party by power, and partly because she has a colossal crush on Link. Seriously, when you get to later levels you find her castle and its full of statues and paintings of Link. Ugh I don't even want to know what she does to those. On a side note there are some pretty cool easter eggs in there, for example you can find a statue of wolf Link from Twilight Princess. There's not of nice little details and funny moments, and the overall look of the game is beautiful. The WiiU really excels past competitor consoles when it comes to graphics, and Hyrule Warriors is no exception.

Plus did I mention you can play as Tingle? 10/10! 

The gameplay, visuals and soundtrack are what make this game a pleasure to play. You can pick your warrior from a huge range of characters from Zelda lore (spanning multiple games), which is satisfying to see old favorites. I'm just a little annoyed there wasn't any from the Windwaker-style Toon Link timeline, how come you can play as the goddamn postmaster but not Linebeck or maybe the Phantoms? I suppose the art style wouldn't have suited the game's own style, but hey it worked for Super Smash Bros! 

Aside that, the gameplay is super easy to learn and very satisfying to do. It's a bit of a button-masher, but don't let this fool you. The mechanics of capturing enemy keeps so your troops spawn there is pretty easy to get a hold on, but in the later levels taking your eyes off the mini map is fatal. Each level consists of you wiping out huge armies of tiny enemies, with occasional unique bosses and mini-bosses. Its ridiculous addictive, only looking at the timer do you realize just how many hours you've been sucked in for.

The soundtrack is a thing of beauty, I happily listen to it out of game, with many re-visitations of old nostalgic tracks. I especially like the new Skyloft theme, slaughtering thousands of tiny monsters doesn't feel so bad when you're rocking out to some fast paced tunes.

So, should you play Hyrule warriors? I would say yes! It's a quirky, fun and addictive little morsel to chew on until the must awaited release of the upcoming open-world Zelda game for the WiiU. So if you think that being a total boss and mowing down armies and saving Hyrule is all cool? Then you should be playing this game.

Plus get the Tingle DLC. Tingle is a lad.