I don’t know why people are so surprised that a reskin of Dynasty Warriors doesn’t really have anything to do with The Legend Of Zelda or that any hack n’ slash action game no matter what franchise it is from doesn’t have a compelling story or characters to it.
People don’t play those games for the story or characters. They only play them for the gameplay mechanics and the combat system and - in which this game and its previous actually excels at in terms of it feeling like a Zelda game.
Honestly all I really care about in playing Hyrule Warriors is that I finally get to play as Princess Zelda in a 3D game.
Other than that - I actually love that we find out who the masked ancient champions are and what they’re all about in joining King Rauru’s cause.
I’m actually having a very good time playing this game and I don’t really care if it’s not worth the money I paid for it because at this point - all the games are this much regardless whether they’re first party or not. We haven’t really got a choice on that except not to buy it and save our money for something else.