The original plan for Hyrule Warriors was a title that was much more Zelda based with a few elements incorporated from the Dynasty Warriors series. According to Eiji Aonuma, this was until Miyamoto “up-ended the tea table.”
The Koei Tecmo development producer Yosuke Hayashi brought up the idea of a unique Zelda title that extended ideas from the Dynasty Warriors title. Aonuma explained how this came to change, “However, Mr. Miyamoto came along and up-ended the tea table, saying, ‘No, that should not be the case. What we’re doing here is grafting Zelda onto the Dynasty Warriors experience.’ It was a reversal of the original proposal from Hayashi-san, which was adding elements of Dynasty Warriors onto the Zelda franchise”
Hyrule Warriors is a Zelda themed Dynasty Warriors game filled with a ton of action and combat.
Source: Nintendo Life