Cadence of Hyrule Will See Link and Zelda Dance to an Independent Developer’s Tune

Here’s something we’d like to see more of: Nintendo is letting an independent developer do something cool and weird with two of its most iconic characters.
Cadence of Hyrule, which is coming to the Switch this spring, is a mash-up of Brace Yourself Games’ independent hit Crypt of the NecroDancer and a little game series known as The Legend of Zelda. Like the original NecroDancer, it’s an action game that combines the randomization of a roguelike with the beat-centric interaction of a rhythm game, only with characters, items and music from the long history of Zelda games. You’ll be able to play as Cadence, the original hero of NecroDancer, or as her new friends, Link and Zelda. If it plays just like NecroDancer, you can’t just go blasting through Hyrule, though, slicing up Moblins and Dodongos at will. You’ll have to move and attack to the beat of the music, both to actually inflict any damage, and also to keep your score multiplier going. As an officially sanctioned Zelda spin-off, that music will be pretty familiar to anybody who’s played Nintendo’s adventure series over the last, oh, 33 years, with new chiptune remixes of 25 pieces of Zelda music.