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- The whole beginning after the very first scene is nothing but Description Porn of a pre-apocalypse Hyrule. The description of all the structures, the people and their skills, and even the coliseum allow for intense imagery that aligns very well with the depiction in the game.
- The entire training sequence. Link fights off four of his fellow elite knights simultaneously. There are a few paragraphs describing Link's anticipation of what his four foes will likely plan and do. And he nails what they're plan was. He easily defeats them all without a struggle. He's the hero of Hyrule for a reason.
2 - Battle of Hyrule Field
- King Rhoam's introductory Rousing Speech from Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is perfectly recaptured here, and captures the determination of he and his people to combat the forces of darkness. And the King personally leads the army alongside Link and Impa, and he's one of the best fighters on the field.
- Villainous example crossing with Nightmare Fuel. Moblins make their appearance, and they finally get to display just what happens when people who aren't Link, Impa, or the King run into them. They completely overpower their foes and wipe them out. These guys are the muscle for monsters, and there's a good reason that people are afraid of them.
- King Rhoam, Impa, Link, and even the elite knights all get some immensely awesome moments where they get to show off just how skilled and powerful and competent they are. Rank Scales with Asskicking indeed.
- Link:
- first move is to behead three Bokoblins simultaneously. And right after, he jumps into the air and creates a huge shockwave across the ground that instantly annihilates the Bokoblins around him. He also makes an awesome shot with a bomb arrow that kills/wounds every single member of a monster battalion about to attack civilians.
- Impa:
- She immediately conjures her symbols that allow her to clone herself. The breaks them by summoning a giant kunai from the sky. When she does this act with her clones, they come raining down with their blades pointed down, which she then follows up with a blast of light (taken right from her attack combos from the game). This move wipes out the monsters all around her.
- She fearlessly puts herself and her clones between a group of civilians and a battalion of Moblins. What does she do against a battalion of monsters that can mow down groups of Hylian soldiers? She uses her clones to conjure her iconic barrel explosion attack, and either kills or fatally injures every last Moblin.
- King Rhoam:
- He charges right into the fray alongside his two best fighters. With just one swing, he was able to shatter the skulls of Moblins and Bokoblins. His sword even is explicitly magical, allowing him to fire beams just like in the game. And when the field is cleared, he uses himself as bait to lure the other monsters into range of the cannons and catapults. He's even defiant enough to challenge them to come at him. Finally, he saves many of his soldiers from Moblins by throwing his claymore at one.
- The elite knights, including Ulo and Tyria, are mostly off-page for this, but they still get a moment of awesome where they show off their synchronicity as warriors, with them all working together to wipe out every Bokoblin in their wake and save civilians from them.
- Link:
3 - Road to the Ancient Tech Lab
- Link, Hestu, and Bani work together to defeat the White-Maned Lynel in the Tabantha Snowfield using an ambush plan that which is so strong that it gets an equally awesome moment in that it survives the assault that would have killed any other creature. It retreats to heal itself. Teamwork is amazing!
- Sooga establishes his presence and prowess by downing the very same freshly healed Lynel without a struggle, using moves he has in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. First, he uses his counter, then he creates a blast of sharp light (Special Attack), and finally by using Yiga emblems summoned by kunai blades to kill it (Weak Point Smash).
- Impa lives up to her self-made Action Girl credentials by willingly holding the line against the possessed Guardian. Tyria and Ulo get some credit too for being willing to fight alongside her.
- The Guardian itself shows that It Can Think by realizing that Impa is on top of it...and it spins to get her off it.
- Cheria, Uava, and Grépe become a small Amazon Brigade and fight off a horde of Bokoblins.
- Zelda shows just how skilled she is with Guardian technology, and how when allowed to pursue that passion, she is very much not The Load. She personally gets inside of a Guardian and fixes it up, activating it, where it then destroys the rogue Guardian, and saves the day.
4 - Eccentric Geniuses
- Astor the Dark Prophet fights Link. The latter swiftly wins by impaling Astor with extreme prejudice, and forces him to retreat. It was quite a catharsis for him after seeing what he had done to the Sheikah research team.
- It is said that the Lomei Labyrinths were originally unsolvable. However, Link and his group were able to solve it easily, and more than that, they were able to access the hidden chamber within. Even better is that it is Naydra's Scale.
5 - Cult of Demise
- Impa's nighttime empowered Sheikah outfit makes it easy for her to run all the way from Hyrule Castle Town to the site of Astor's massacre faster than a horse would.
- Impa has absolutely none of Astor's villainous gloating and outright calls him a hypocrite for calling Impa smug, while he himself is a highly arrogant man with a God complex. Despite the danger she was facing, she didn't falter for one second.
- The Gerudo being present with the Sheikah in South Lomei Labyrinth made the Yiga and Astor think twice about attacking them.
6 - Zora Wellspring
- Villainous example, but Astor kills a Lynel, one of the most extremely dangerous monsters in Hyrule, like it was nothing, and is able to overtake the mind of the Yiga Leader. It's so evil and monstrous, but this guy isn't to be underestimate.
- Impa is such a good and confident fighter that she's fine with being point man on the trip. Link even agrees with her, and lets her do so. Not that she ended up needing to.
- Mipha cleared out the monsters between her home and Goponga Village, implicitly all by herself.
- Purah's research team manages to cut down several trees and thick foliage to get to the Shrine of Resurrection within the day, which is certainly an impressive feat considering how difficult cutting down a single living tree by hand can be.
7 - Gerudo Tempest
- Impa's a strong girl. She was able to carry her own weight along with Tyria's weight while paragliding to the Gerudo spring above the town.
- Master Kohga proves himself as a Bunny-Ears Lawyer among his ninjas. He's lazy, overweight, and eccentric to the extreme, but he's still Master Kohga. He manages to fight the mind control, heartwarmingly because of his love for his underlings, enough that he briefly is able to break free from it. It unnerves Astor enough that he decides that he needs to strengthen the spell.
- This is represented in a Battle in the Center of the Mind as Master Kohga breaking free from a tornado of Malice that is imprisoning him in his own body, and already his sheer will to fulfill the unmentioned purpose of the Yiga keeps him from being killed in here. When his lackeys are threated by Astor's actions, Kohga breaks out of the Malice and attacks the construct resembling Astor, using some of his moves from Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, most notably his face laser. Even though he falls back under control, the Malice Astor is visibly damaged from the attack, meaning the spell is weakening.
