Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity has done something that most Musou games haven’t done before, and that is to truly expand the limits of the genre. Each Dynasty Warriors game and its spin-offs are standard hack-and-slash affairs at this point, with each game even boiling down to the same conclusion of historical events.
The crossovers that Koei Tecmo’s Musou games have been making in the past few years saw some variation, though they still mostly functioned as Dynasty Warriors…