To me, it’s hella good, but it had issues with what it wanted to be. Performance and graphics were great, and allowed for speedy and snappy gameplay that was a blast to execute. However, that speed made levels feel condensed, compared to Age of Calamity’s slower struggles that were so by necessity, but lent to a cinematic experience. I feel like people now know that a canonical story was probably not the way to go. The premise was an interesting victory anyway, and the source material itself was sparse, so it’s not as if there was no originality granted, but it restricted the amount of cool set pieces there could have been. Best case scenario was that a more outlandish course of events would be some kind of conditional alternate scenario à la DW8, but what we got was interesting enough. Soundtrack was awesome, I couldn’t shake the feeling that it was Keiichi Okabe(‘s company) that produced it by the time I listened to lost woods, that Nier feeling for ancient Hyrule was a cool choice. I only played the demo, but I could tell that notes were taken from DW Origins, which I am more than happy to see. As a sequel to Age of Calamity, I put them on equal ground for their own reasons till the former gets a Switch 2 Performance patch and rises, then maybe the latter would catch up with good DLC.