History YMMV / HyruleConquest

* FanPreferredCouple: Tetra/Link, Ralis/Saria, and multiple others.

* UglyCute: Kid Ganon.

* HilariousInHindsight: ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', an official ''Zelda'' game by Creator/{{Nintendo}} and Creator/KoeiTecmo, is full of similar large-scale background battles. Numerous design and lore directions in later games such as ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' have led to a recurring joke that Nintendo leaves the mod alone to steal ideas for future Zelda titles.

* HilariousInHindsight: ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', an official ''Zelda'' game by Creator/{{Nintendo}} and Creator/KoeiTecmo, is full of similar large-scale background battles. Numerous design and lore directions in later games such as ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' have led to a recurring joke that Nintendo leaves the mod alone to steal ideas for future Zelda titles.

** Majora from VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask is considered the most effective villain in the series by the mod's creator, and as such is the main antagonist of the setting. Its demented laugh, supposedly recorded by none other than ''Andy Serkis'' has become known and even by those unaware of the mod.

** [[spoiler:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dccv3q41SCI&t=0s Agitha's Death]], in an homage to the 1985 horror movie ''Lifeforce,'' leads to her exploding into a mass of blood as she is torn apart and reassembled by the Forest Medallion into a new body for Sulkaris. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Mido, who had betrayed the Kokiri, is horrified and disgusted.]]]]

* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: Sure, there are plenty of moments of UncannyValley, but the game can become gorgeous even if the moments are few and far between.

* UncannyValley: A common criticism of the mod's graphics, particularly early on, though over the years Undyingnephalim's skill at modelling and animation have improved to arguably professional levels.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The mod's GrayAndGreyMorality can head into this territory for some fans, with some of the heroes being actually evil or just manipulated by evil forces. This is actually toned down from how dark and depressing the mod was in earlier incarnations. For example, in the earlier builds of Hyrule Total War, Zelda was an outright religious fanatic and Hyrule was a crusader state bent on converting the world to Goddess Worship at sword-point.

** [[spoiler:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dccv3q41SCI&t=0s Agitha's Death]], in an homage to the 1985 horror movie ''Lifeforce,'' leads to her exploding into a mass of blood as she is torn apart and reassembled by the Forest Medallion into a new body for Sulkaris.[[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Mido, who had betrayed the Kokiri, is horrified and disgusted.]]]]

* HolyShitQuotient: Majora ''destroys the Triforce'' in the final mission of the game.

* HilariousInHindsight: ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', an official ''Zelda'' game by Creator/{{Nintendo}} and [[Creator/{{Koei}} Tecmo Koei]], is full of similar large-scale background battles. Numerous design and lore directions in later games such as ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' have led to a recurring joke that Nintendo leaves the mod alone to steal ideas for future Zelda titles.

* EnsembleDarkHorse: Sulkaris has become quite popular among fans of the game, mostly because she is a ManipulativeBitch that can [[OneWomanArmy smash entire armies all by herself]], and [[TheChessmaster manages to accomplish nearly all of her goal without any major setbacks]].

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The mod's GrayAndGreyMorality can head into this territory for some fans, with some of the heroes being actually evil or just manipulated. This is actually toned down from how dark and depressing the mod was in earlier incarnations. For example, in the earlier builds of Hyrule Total War, Zelda was an outright religious fanatic and Hyrule was a crusader state bent on converting the world to Goddess Worship at sword-point.

* TheWoobie: Ganon. [[spoiler:Despite the atrocities he suffered and committed, he just wanted to create a better world for everyone.]]

* LighterAndSofter: Over the development of Hyrule: Total War and later Hyrule Conquest, various factions have been presented in a less grimdark perspective than their initial presentation in Undyingnephalim's fanwork.

* GameBreaker:
** The Kokiri's excellent early game economy and ability to field swarms of cheap units has earned the mod the nickname ''Kokiri Conquest'' among more competitive players.
* GameBreakingBug: So many that the creator decided to port the game over to ''VideoGame/ZeroAD''.

* HilariousInHindsight: ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', an official ''Zelda'' game by Creator/{{Nintendo}} and [[Creator/{{Koei}} Tecmo Koei]], is full of similar large-scale background battles. Numerous design and lore directions in later games such as ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' have led to a recurring joke Nintendo leaves the mod alone to steal ideas for future Zelda titles.

* LighterAndSofter: Over the development of Hyrule Total War and later Hyrule Conquest, various factions have been presented in a less grimdark perspective than their initial presentation in Undyingnephalim's fanwork.
* NightmareFuel: Majora from VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask is considered the most effective villain in the series by the mod's creator, and as such is the main antagonist of the setting. Its demented laugh, supposedly recorded by none other than ''Andy Serkis'' has become known and even by those unaware of the mod.

** Malice is vastly more hideous than its [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild]] source, being a mass of screaming faces and body horror strongly inspired by John Carpenter's "The Thing.''

* {{Anvilicious}}: One of the common criticisms of Undyingnephalim's work. During Hyrule Conquest's Hyrule Historia missions, characters rather openly espouse his views of fandoms, the nintendo corporation, and other issues.

* HilariousInHindsight: ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', an official ''Zelda'' game by Creator/{{Nintendo}} and [[Creator/{{Koei}} Tecmo Koei]], is full of similar large-scale background battles. Numerous design and lore directions in later games such as ''Videogame/BreathOfTheWild'' have led to a recurring joke Nintendo leaves the mod alone to steal ideas for future Zelda titles.

* NightmareFuel: Majora from [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask]] is considered the most effective villain in the series by the mod's creator, and as such is the main antagonist of the setting. It's demented laugh, supposedly recorded by non other than ''Andy Serkis'' has become known and even by those unaware of the mod.
** The Shiekah Cadre and their Yiga cousins field numerous twisted undead abominations and ruthless torturers and assassins as common units. The form of magic they utilize ''boils an enemy's blood until they explode.'' Dethl, or Bongo Bongo, their Titan, reproduces by driving victims insane until they cut off their own head, upon which it's spawn unfold out of the stump like a flower and mutate the corpse into a Devoured.
** Malice is vastly more hideous than its [[VideoGame/LegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild]] source, being a mass of screaming faces and body horror strongly inspired by John Carpenter's "The Thing.''
** [[spoiler:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dccv3q41SCI&t=0s Agitha's Death]], in an homage to the 1985 horror movie ''Lifeforce,'' leads to her exploding into a mass of blood as she is torns apart and reassembled by the Forest Medallion into a new body for Sulkaris.[[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Mido, who had betrayed the Kokiri, is horrified and disgusted.]]]]
* PlayerPunch: The mod can end up like this, particularly to Zelda fans, due to its GrayAndGreyMorality and the mod's critical stance of the direction the Legend of Zelda Series has taken.

** The Shiekah Cadre oozes pure nightmare fuel. Unit types include horrific and twisted monsters, near-skeletal monks, nightmarish dark animals, and professional {{Torture Technician}}s. If you build along the dungeon line of upgrades in their settlements, you'll end up building prisons where criminals are left to rot until dark monsters twist them into weaponized abominations, as well as torture and execution chambers to train your elite warriors.

** [[spoiler:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dccv3q41SCI&t=0s Agitha's Death]], a cutscene that sees Agitha activating the Forest Medallion, which causes her face to contort in an unnatural fashion, and towards the end, much of her skull is visible, and then she ''explodes into a bloody mess'', before her biomass is re-assembled into the human form of the Fallen Sage Sulkaris. Everyone on hand is horrified. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Mido, who had betrayed the Kokiri, was highly unnerved, and tried to talk Agitha out of going through with it.]]]]
* PlayerPunch: Several missions can end up like this due to GrayAndGreyMorality, also depending on your fondness for certain characters and places. Torn Asunder, Demise of a Goddess, Royal Retreat, and Ganon's Wish particularly stand out.
* TearJerker: [[spoiler:When Ganon realizes Bongo played him for a fool and lied about the Triforce's location, he is so filled with despair that he collapses into a sobbing fit and does not bother resisting when Zelda arrives and cuts him down. But the final nail in the coffin comes when we finally learn what Ganon's wish was: to end the animosity between Hylians and Moblins and undo the damage of their war. Zelda never discovers this, as she and her companions are too preoccupied with stopping Bongo's traitorous Shiekah from stealing the Triforce from its real location at the Water Temple. Thus, the blood feud is doomed to continue.]]

* UncannyValley: Due to the limitations of the graphics and the stiff movement, some units come off this way.

* {{Anvilicious}}: Midna's speech at the start of ''Overthrowing Majora'' about the people of Hyrule being humbled comes off as a rant about how silly recent ''Zelda'' games have become. Majora's rants during the final battle are rather blunt with the author's opinions of religious zealotry.

* BrokenBase: Opinions of the mod with ''Zelda'' fans range far and wide. Just look at the tropes on this page!
* DemonicSpiders: The Kingdom of Hyrule itself can be this, if you're playing as one of its immediate neighbors. The Kingdom starts with lots of easy-to-gain territory, plenty of troops, and a strong economy; and since the NPC empires have a tendency to GangUpOnTheHuman, expect to enter a war against the Kingdom's vastly-superior numbers fairly early.

* FanPreferredCouple: Midna/Link. It helps that Undying Nephilim was a fan of the pairing in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''.

** The Gorons. Basic Goron infantry can compete with most factions' elite heavy infantry, ''and'' they have movement and charge ability equivalent to heavy cavalry! It only gets meaner as the higher-tier units come into play. Ruby Guards and Fire Warriors can kill hundreds of enemy soldiers by themselves and even shrug off heavy cavalry charges. Later versions substantially nerfed the Gorons and made them much less overwhelming, although their Bomb-Throwers can still almost single-handedly see off many sieges.
** Ordona Province combines the best cavalry corps in the game with a huge economic boost to their farms to give them high population growth, which lets them outstrip everyone in the amount of cash they can throw around, letting them field huge armies of the aforementioned badass cavalry. This was significantly nerfed in later versions of the game.
** The Zora, once they start fielding artillery and Bigocto Battle Platforms. Mage Cannons can easily kill hundreds of regular soldiers, and Bigocto Battle Platforms are essentially war elephants with ''flamethrowers'' mounted on them. A single Bigocto Battle Platform can single-handedly fight off an ''entire siege'', and if one gets close to a line of regular infantry, the resulting bombardment will often wipe out half the unit. Zora Floodmasters fire high-damage explosive projectiles that travel instantaneously, stun infantry, and have an effective range equal to most siege weapons. A line of Floodmasters can decimate entire armies before they even get close enough to return fire. As with most of the other overpowering units, these were... well, the Zora were also nerfed into something more balanced.
** Early versions of the Darknuts were essentially a one-trick pony. That trick being hilariously-powerful heavy infantry that basically ignored anything short of artillery fire and who slowly walked forward and butchered everything in their path, and were close to impossible to actually kill in melee. Version 4.5 nerfed them and rebalanced the faction to give them more variety.
** The Order of the Wizzrobe have access to a plethora of powerful ranged units, but special mention goes to the Hylian Mages, who fire fast-moving, long-range bolts of energy that incinerate most grunt troops in one hit and overpenetrate to hit multiple men at once. Best of all, these are your most basic ranged units, that can be produced in any city that you own. And ''yes'', they were nerfed as well.
** Azrily's special ability — Bloody Display — may as well be renamed the "I Win" Button. It instantly forces all enemy units on the map to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere break and rout]]. {{All of them}}. With this ability, Azrily can conquer entire empires on her own, as only [[TheDreaded the absolute bravest units in the game can resist it]]. [[RunningGag This was, of course, eventually nerfed and Azrily was removed from the campaign.]]
** Hyrule can become one of these, thanks to a strong starting economy and good initial settlements. Their units aren't overpowered, but Hyrule is able to build a monster of an economy pretty quickly if they're able to avoid being besieged on all sides early on. While other factions bring up their superweapons and elite units, Hyrule shows up with a huge army of regular soldiers. And there's another right behind it. [[ZergRush And another.]] ''[[WeHaveReserves And another....]]'' They also have the Repeating Ballista, a rapid-fire ballista unit specialized in sniping enemy artillery or giant units. Unsurprisingly... well, actually, Hyrule hasn't been nerfed as of version 4.5.
** Laranyu, surprisingly, also thanks to their economy. Much like Hyrule, they get a powerful starting economy that only gets stronger as they expand, and with cheap and plentiful units, a pretty balanced roster that's not too different from Hyrule's, as well as access to several areas that let them hire large numbers of mercenaries... well, they're not going to run out of soldiers to hurl at an enemy any time soon.
** Labrynna starts way to the east on the map, in a very secure area a safe distance from other factions, giving them plenty of time to build up... and when they build up, they bring things like gunpowder troops, {{steampunk}} {{powered armor}}, and ''tanks''. Once Labrynna gets built up, they can almost ''literally'' start steamrolling other factions.

* GoddamnedBats: The strong economy factions, such as Laranyu, Hyrule, and Ordona, can potentially end up being this way. With powerful economies, large territories, and cheap units, they can rapidly churn out endless hordes of troops, but said hordes of troops are manageable, especially if you have a faction that's good at holding chokepoints and fighting off sieges, like the Gorons, Zora, or Wizzrobe.
* HilariousInHindsight: ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', an official ''Zelda'' game by Creator/{{Nintendo}} and [[Creator/{{Koei}} Tecmo Koei]], shows off similar large-scale battles. Ironically, it caused a CreatorBreakdown.

** HarsherInHindsight: ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'' has shown what will happen because of this event by showing what [[WorldHalfEmpty the dimension of Lorule]] [[WorldOfSilence would have eventually become]].
* LighterAndSofter: Version 4.0 and on is one for the early releases. Earlier versions of the mod cut close to DarknessInducedAudienceApathy due to presenting virtually every single faction as warmongering aggressors or religious fanatics, even Princess Zelda and the Kingdom of Hyrule, which is normally presented as one of the setting's {{Big Good}}s. Later versions dialed the darkness back, with Hyrule becoming more sympathetic and led by a less warmongering Zelda and most of the other factions becoming more sympathetic as well.
* NightmareFuel: Majora, sometimes as bad as [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask the original game it comes from]], especially due to his ''chilling voice''. In this game, he destroys the Triforce and Castle Town, and, even when killed, he {{dies laughing}} [[LaughingMad like a maniac]] with his EvilLaugh.

* AwesomeArt: Sure, there are plenty of moments of UncannyValley, but the game can become gorgeous even if the moments are few and far between.

* EnsembleDarkHorse: Sulkaris has become quite popular among fans of the game, mostly because she is a MagnificentBitch that can [[OneWomanArmy smash entire armies all by herself]], and [[TheChessmaster manages to accomplish nearly all of her goal without any major setbacks]].

* {{Anvilicious}}: Midna's speech at the start of ''Overthrowing Majora'' about the people of Hyrule being humbled comes off as a rant about how silly recent Zelda games have become. Majora's rants during the final battle are rather blunt with the author's opinions of religious zealotry.

* BrokenBase: Opinions of the mod with Zelda fans range far and wide. Just look at the tropes on this page!
* DemonicSpiders: The Kingdom of Hyrule itself can be this, if you're playing as one of their immediate neighbors. The Kingdom starts with lots of easy-to-gain territory, plenty of troops and a strong economy; and since the NPC empires have a tendency to GangUpOnTheHuman, expect to enter a war against the Kingdom's vastly-superior numbers fairly early.

* FanPreferredCouple: Midna/Link. It helps Undying Nephilim was a fan of the pairing in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''

** The Gorons. Basic Goron infantry can compete with most factions' elite heavy infantry, ''and'' they have movement and charge equivalent to heavy cavalry! It only get meaner as the higher-tier units come into play. Ruby Guards and Fire Warriors can kill hundreds of enemy soldiers by themselves and even shrug off heavy cavalry charges. Later versions substantially nerfed the Gorons and made them much less overwhelming, although their Bomb-Throwers can still almost single-handedly see off many sieges.

** The Zora, once they start fielding artillery and Bigocto Battle Platforms. Mage Cannons can easily kill hundreds of regular soldiers, and Bigocto Battle Platforms are essentially war elephants with ''flamethrowers'' mounted on them. A single Bigocto Battle Platform can singlehandedly fight off an ''entire siege'', and if one gets close to a line of regular infantry, the resulting bombardment will often wipe out half the unit. Zora Floodmasters fire high-damage explosive projectiles that travel instantaneously, stun infantry and have an effective range equal to most siege weapons. A line of Floodmasters can decimate entire armies before they even get close enough to return fire. As with most of the other overpowering units, these were... well, the Zora were also nerfed into something more balanced.

** The Order of the Wizzrobe have access to a plethora of powerful ranged units, but special mention goes to the Hylian Mages; who fire fast-moving, long range bolts of energy that incinerate most grunt troops in one hit and overpenetrate to hit multiple men at once. Best of all, these are your most basic ranged units, that can be produced in any city that you own. And ''yes'', they were nerfed as well.
** Azrily's special ability - Bloody Display - may as well be renamed the "I Win" Button. It instantly forces all enemy units on the map to break and rout. [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere All of them]]. With this ability, Azrily can conquer entire empires on her own, as only [[TheDreaded the absolute bravest units in the game can resist it]]. [[RunningGag This was, of course, eventually nerfed and Azrily was removed from the campaign.]]
** Hyrule can become one of these, thanks to a strong starting economy and good initial settlements. Their units aren't overpowered, but Hyrule is able to build a monster of an economy pretty quickly if they're able to avoid being besieged on all sides early on. While other factions bring up their superweapons and elite units, Hyrule shows up with a huge army of regular soldiers. And there's another right behind it. And another. ''[[WeHaveReserves And another....]]'' They also have the Repeating Ballista, a rapid-fire ballista unit specialized in sniping enemy artillery or giant units. Unsurprisingly... well, actually, Hyrule hasn't been nerfed as of version 4.5.
** Laranyu, surprisingly, also thanks to their economy. Much like Hyrule, they get a powerful starting economy that only gets stronger as they expand, and with cheap and plentiful units, a pretty balanced roster that's not too different from Hyrule's, as well as access to several areas that let them hire large numbers of mercenaries... well, they're not going to run out of soldiery to hurl at an enemy any time soon.
** Labrynna starts way to the east on the map, in a very secure area a safe distance from other factions, giving them plenty of time build up... and when they build up, they bring things like gunpowder troops, steampunk powered armor, and ''tanks''. Once Labrynna gets built up, they can almost ''literally'' start steamrolling other factions.

* HilariousInHindsight: ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', an official ''Zelda'' game by Creator/{{Nintendo}} and [[Creator/{{Koei}} Tecmo Koei]], shows off similar large scale battles. Ironically, it caused a CreatorBreakdown.

* NightmareFuel: Majora, sometimes as bad as the original game it comes from, especially due to his ''chilling voice''. In this game, he destroys the Triforce and Castle Town, and, even when killed, he dies laughing like a maniac with his EvilLaugh.
** The Shiekah Cadre oozes pure nightmare fuel. Unit types include horrific and twisted monsters, near-skeletal monks, nightmarish dark animals, and professional {[Torture Technician}}s. If you build along the dungeon line of upgrades in their settlements, you'll end up building prisons where criminals are left to rot until dark monsters twist them into weaponized abominations, as well as torture and execution chambers to train your elite warriors.

* PlayerPunch: Several missions can end up like this due to GrayAndGreyMorality, also depending on your fondness for certain characters and places. Torn Asunder, Demise of a Goddess, Royal Retreat and Ganon's Wish particularly stand out.
* TearJerker: [[spoiler: When Ganon realizes Bongo played him for a fool and lied about the Triforce's location, he is so filled with despair that he collapses into a sobbing fit and does not bother resisting when Zelda arrives and cuts him down. But the final nail in the coffin comes when we finally learn what Ganon's wish was: to end the animosity between Hylians and Moblins and undo the damage of their war. Zelda never discovers this, as she and her companions are too preoccupied with stopping Bongo's traitorous Shiekah from stealing the Triforce from its real location at the Water Temple. Thus, the blood feud is doomed to continue.]]

* UncannyValley: Due to the limitations of the graphic and the stiff movement, some units come off this way.
* TheWoobie: Ganon. [[spoiler: Despite the atrocities he suffered and committed, he just wanted to create a better world for everyone.]]

* AwesomeArt: Sure, there are plenty of moments of UncannyValley, but the game can become gorgeous.

* HilariousInHindsight: ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', an official ''Zelda'' game by Creator/{{Nintendo}} and [[Creator/{{Koei}} Tecmo Koei]], shows off similar large scale battles.

** [[spoiler:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dccv3q41SCI&t=0s Agitha's Death]], a cutscene that involves Agitha exploding in a bloody mess (and before that, her face contorts and loses alot of skin until her skull is visible), all done to bring Sulkaris back. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Mido, who betrayed the Kokiri, tries to talk her out of it.]]]]