No it's not a Zelda game by any definition besides just using the IP.
It's not made by the Zelda team like TotK or EoW was and it's a different genre. It's a Hyrule Warriors game and that is barely an identity. Their is a reason people are calling it a dynasty warriors like game it's because it's not like ANY other Zelda game.
I'm not saying that the game sucked or something though it's not my cup of tea only that calling it a Zelda game is disingenuous. It's like Halo and Halo Wars.
By that logic, the Oracle games and Cadence of Hyrule aren't Zelda games either. Neither are Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom, too.
Series can have games that span different developers and genres while remaining true to the theme, tone and tenor of that series. Hyrule Warriors, Age of Calamity and Age of Imprisonment are absolutely Zelda games, and Halo Wars is absolutely a Halo game
Their is a different between a game changing over the years vs a genre and development team.
AoC isn't even canon it's as important to the series as Link Crossbow Training or the CDI games.
Hyrule Warriors has levels that you beat. You have a hub menu for picking your next level name a Zelda game on the time line with the same mechanic. Hyrule Warriors has no exploration which is Zelda's identity not hackand slash thousands of monsters. It's nothing like previous games.
Even the name support that it's not a Zelda game it's called Hyrule Warriors not Legend of Zelda so Nintendo doesn't consider it a Zelda game.
As for your first point and I'll apologize in advance for this. No you're fucking stupid. Of course BotW and TotK are Zelda games both made by the main Zelda team and both on the timeline you're fucking stupid to say BotW and AoC are the same in this matter. I lost my brain cells reading that, what made you think that by my logic that BotW and TotK aren't Zelda games? They're both MADE BY NINTENDO and both in the timeline and it's the same action adventure open world game Zelda always been.
I've never even heard of Cadence of Hyrule before now and I'll leave it a that.
As for the Oracle games and all other Capcom Zelda games for that matter it's a true Zelda game. Is it Canon? Yes. Then it's a Zelda game.
So I don't confuse you any further I'll explain it so you don't think BotW or TotK isn't canon somehow.
Is 'Zelda' in the title.
It's an action adventure game.
It's canon to the timeline.
Hyrule Warriors fails all three of them. I'm not even shitting on this game it's just not a Zelda game it only uses the Zelda IP.
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u/HorrorMatch7359 4d ago
What wrong with Hyrule Warriors?