Hyrule Warriors: Legends (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Hyrule Warriors: Legends

Cut down entire legions of enemies using over-the-top powerful Dynasty Warriors -style moves as Hyrule Warriors comes to the Nintendo 3DS family of systems. In the portable version, experience new story…

71 21 January 2016

What Hyrule Warriors: Legends is

Hyrule Warriors: Legends is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Koei Tecmo Games and released in 2016. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Hyrule Warriors is a 2014 hack and slash game developed by Omega Force and Team Ninja and published by Nintendo for the Wii U. The game mixes settings and characters from Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda franchise with the gameplay of Koei Tecmo's Dynasty Warriors series, and features an original story following numerous Zelda characters as they team up to stop the resurrection of Ganondorf.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series

Hyrule Warriors: Legends is the 84th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD in 2016. Its critic score of 71 is 15 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

Hyrule Warriors: Legends holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 3 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Hyrule Warriors: Legends launched on 21 January 2016, within three weeks of The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2 and Yakuza Kiwami. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2, Yakuza Kiwami.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Hyrule Warriors: Legends yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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