Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Switch 2020) - BEAT - I really dug Hyrule Warriors back when it first came out, getting spinoff Zelda games are so rare, let alone a Zelda game that lets you play as more than just Link. This game continues that by letting you play as all the Champions and some other characters and its just nice to jump back into Breath of the Wild and get more fun story stuff. Not that it gets any particularly great character stuff, Zelda is sorta the only one with an arc to her, but it's still just nice to see more of them. There's some fun stuff with the story too that works great for a spinoff game. I do wish this game had villain characters to play as like you could in the previous Hyrule Warriors, there's only two you get, one I haven't unlocked, but I feel like there should be more, and for some reason it makes me feel like they are gonna have a villain DLC pack that is hopefully free because it should be of characters that already exist in the game.
I do really like the world map in this, it doesn't have that nostalgic charm of the Adventure Map from the previous game, having sprite based characters running around old school overworld maps based on Zelda games, but functionally it's better than that. Everything is on one map, you can pick or choose way more of what you want, and it makes it feel like part of the game, rather than a separate mode.
Don't have any real complaints other than performance, it of course runs pretty poor, the first game didn't run great either, but it bothered me less than I expected, mostly because I was just having fun with the game. It's mindless and grindy, but having all this big action in a Zelda game with all these characters, I love that and I'm gonna keep playing it also, working to max out my characters, unlock more costumes, and I still have 2 post-game characters to unlock and I just hope they add some DLC later on. Heck, I'd love it if they just outright added Hyrule Warriors characters back into the game. Bring back Linkle! lol