I wasn't criticizing Hyrule Warriors from a technical perspective, although they are more akin to a 2009 PS3 game than most full-priced 2014 games. I'm against the graphics because they plain aren't artful. It's like the barren greens and browns of Twilight Princess but with even less...
I don't like the game itself. It's just mindless hack and slash, there's little depth, no story, ugly-ish graphics, no online multiplayer, not much competitiveness, and the offline multiplayer is as fun as watching paint dry.