I had to stop playing this because I realised I just wanted to get to the end, and couldn't justify continuing.

This is definitely a huge improvement on the last one, the story is more engaging and the characters are more interesting, but only because they're taken directly from BOTW, and are on the exact same level as them, which isn't exactly indicative of a writing powerhouse. In a way that's impressive seeing as this game has about a million hours of cutscenes. You'd think purely through sunk cost they'd end up accidentally adding character depth, but no, not in any meaningful way.

The combat is at least flashier in better ways than the previous hyrule warriors game, the characters feel like they do have meaningful, if minor differences in how they play. However it's still boring and lame and after a point turns from mind numbing to frustratingly tedious. That's a holdover from the previous game, I don't know if you can tell I haven't played any other warriors games, and I don't see why it matters, but I thought it could be worth mentioning.

Nothing else to say, I've had my fun, I won't be coming back.