A pair of former Nintendo of America employees have revealed that the company originally didn't have much confidence in Hyrule Warriors, with worries about it damaging The Legend of Zelda brand. Hyrule Warriors is a spin-off of the series that was produced by Nintendo in collaboration with Koei Tecmo and Omega Force, moving the franchise away from the traditional dungeon crawling and puzzle solving to a more straight-forward hack-and-slash game in the vein of Dynasty Warriors. Hyrule Warriors was also a crossover between different Zelda games, starring a set of Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf incarnations.