Release Date: November 6, 2025
The third installment of the musou-type slasher subseries, serving as spin-offs for The Legend of Zelda. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is a prequel to Tears of the Kingdom, allowing us to learn Hyrule's distant past. We participate in dynamic battles with dozens of enemies.
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is the third installment of the musou-type slasher sub-series. They are all spin-offs of the highly popular The Legend of Zelda series. The game, set before the events from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, was developed by the Koei Tecmo-owned AAA Games Studio, in collaboration with Nintendo.
In Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment the action is viewed from a third-person perspective (TPP). The gameplay does not deviate too much from what the previous part of the series and other games of this type have accustomed us to. We mainly engage in dynamic battles with opponents, during which we face dozens of enemies at the same time. The locations we visit are also a home to powerful bosses that we have to face.
The game provides us with characters that vary in terms of fighting style, preferred weaponry, and combat skills. The characters from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom appear in the game, led by Princess Zelda and King Rauru.
The graphics of Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment were created using cel-shading technique and maintained in the style known from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
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Maintained in a fantasy climate, the game series combines elements of adventure, RPGs, action and puzzle games. The brand was created by the Nintendo corporation and is counted among the most important products in the Japanese publisher's portfolio.
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment review: Musou mayhem meets Zelda magic
While it suffers from occasional repetition and blandness, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment stands as the best Hyrule Warriors entry to date—and one of the most enjoyable Zelda spinoffs we’ve gotten so far.
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Matt Buckley
July 31, 2025
From the creators of Dynasty Warriors comes another entry in the Hyrule Warriors series, following Zelda's journey through the past in Tears of the Kingdom.
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Game Ratings for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment Video Game.
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment review: Musou mayhem meets Zelda magic
While it suffers from occasional repetition and blandness, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment stands as the best Hyrule Warriors entry to date—and one of the most enjoyable Zelda spinoffs we’ve gotten so far.
Metro GameCentral: 4 / 10
Insanely repetitive, horribly shallow, and pointlessly easy – this is the absolute least interesting thing to do with Zelda on the Switch 2 and bad even by the low standards of the Dynasty Warrior franchise.
DualShockers: 8 / 10 by Maddie Fisher
But if you're a Zelda fan looking for a fix until the next mainline entry comes along, Age of Imprisonment is a worthy adventure worth undertaking.
Output Lag: 9 / 10 by Steven Mills
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is the most polished entry in the spinoff series, delivering canonical Zelda storytelling that actually enhances Tears of the Kingdom rather than undermining it. The combat feels genuinely tactical thanks to Zonai devices, elemental reactions, and interactive Sync Strikes that demand more than button-mashing. It’s the rare spinoff that makes its source material better just by existing, and that’s worth celebrating even when you’re mashing buttons as you capture your tenth outpost of the day.
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