A pretty great spinoff. Not a great prequel. Age of Calamity shares a lot of similarities with the first Hyrule Warriors where it feels like fan fiction but with pretty great but repetitive gameplay. It does feel like an evolution though, it feels a bit more complex this time with the dodge mechanic and the runes. But the story isn't exactly amazing, it's basically a prequel but with time travel shit where it removes all the character deaths and stakes so you can play as more characters, which is fine, but it's not a very good prequel to BOTW. Which is fine because I never expected that of it, like BOTW I suspected the marketing would be a bit misleading and here we are, I expected awesome but repetitive gameplay and it definitely delivered on my expectations and even surpassed them. Wish the camera and framerate was better but it's still great.