Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, known in Japan as Zelda Musou: The Calamity's Apocalypse, is a hack-and-slash game released in 2020 for the Nintendo Switch, developed by Omega Force and published by Koei Tecmo in Japan and by Nintendo internationally. Like the original Hyrule Warriors, Age of Calamity mixes the world and characters of Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda franchise with the gameplay of Koei Tecmo's Dynasty Warriors series.

A Prequel set 100 years before the events of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Age of Calamity features Link and Princess Zelda, who must gather allies across Hyrule to fend off forces led by the evil Calamity Ganon, who is attempting to revive himself and destroy the kingdom.

At the start of the story mode, an unnamed guardian of the future time travels to the present, seeking to stop Calamity Ganon of winning the war. He meets Link and Zelda in the past, though his inability to communicate verbally makes his mission difficult. The heroes however eventually learn of what happened to Hyrule by examining his memory and try to somehow stop things of going wrong.

Like the previous game, Age of Calamity is a Hack and Slash, with large-scale battles against enemies and strategy elements involving capturing basic enemies and commanding troops. You also have systems that allow the player to craft materials and upgrade their weapons, and the addition of certain puzzle elements.

Directed by Ryouta Matsushita.

Tropes used in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity include:

Bunny Ears Lawyer: Robbie. He tends to make dance moves while explaining things.
Cute Clumsy Girl: Impa's introduction involves her tripping over nothing, and she is a very cute girl.
Hot Scientist: Purah is seen here in her adult form, that is well curvier.
Identical Granddaughter: Impa looks exactly like her granddaughter of Breath of the Wild, Paya.
Mechanical Abomination: Harbinger Ganon possesses the inactive time-traveled Guardian Terrako, turning into one of these. Later, Calamity Ganon pulls his chief servant Astor into a horrific and unwilling Fusion Dance as punishment for his repeated failures, assimilating the mad prophet's body into his being. The result is a gigantic humanoid form that looks like a feral, monstrous Ganondorf comprised from Malice and Sheikah tech.
Prequel: Played with. The game is indeed set on the past of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but the unnamed guardian's actions quickly change the scenario of a Hopeless War to Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
Recycled Premise: A bunch of machines turn against their masters, and almost extinguish them, but are stopped. Regardless of that, one of those machines is sent back to the past to stop the almost-extinction of ever happening. It's basically Terminator 2.
Smart People Wear Glasses: Both Purah and Robbie, stated to be the smartest people in the setting, wear glasses.
Younger and Hipper: The Impa seen here is only five years older than Zelda and Link, when her antecessors usually are twenty years older than them.