Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring the Legend of Zelda

Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring The Legend of Zelda is a rhythmic action-adventure game where you can enjoy the gameplay of Crypt of the NecroDancer in the setting of The Legend of Zelda…

82 13 June 2019

Adventure Music Action Fantasy

Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring the Legend of Zelda is an adventure developed by Brace Yourself Games, released 13 June 2019 on Nintendo Switch.

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What Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring the Legend of Zelda is

Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring the Legend of Zelda is an adventure game developed by Brace Yourself Games and released in 2019. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In the Kingdom of Hyrule, a mysterious man named Octavo uses a magical Lute to put Hyrule's king, as well as Link and Zelda, to sleep, before using the Triforce of Power to turn his Lute into a Golden Lute. In this time of need, Cadence is mysteriously transported to Hyrule by the Triforce and manages to wake up Link and Zelda. While Cadence goes off to try to find a way home, Link and Zelda travel across Hyrule to find and defeat Octavo's four champions, who each possess enchanted instruments containing musical power. After Link and Zelda, soon rejoined by Cadence, obtain the instruments and enter Hyrule Castle, Octavo reveals that he and his champions were meant to be used to battle…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.

Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series

Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring the Legend of Zelda is the 108th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. It arrived 6 months after Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The next entry was The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening in 2019. Its critic score of 82 is 4 points below the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at 100.

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How it was received

Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring the Legend of Zelda holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 78, across 61 votes.

What it launched against

Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring the Legend of Zelda launched on 13 June 2019, within three weeks of Outer Wilds, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Super Mario Maker 2 and The Sinking City. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Outer Wilds, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Super Mario Maker 2, The Sinking City.

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