Who needs another Nintendo Direct when the company is ready to randomly reveal its next Zelda game with an unexpected five-minute trailer. The latest info dump for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom offers a tour of Hyrule, which players can explore in the series’ latest top-down sequel to Switch, and it seems like there are plenty of cool details to discover and secrets to uncover.
The new Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom The trailer shows the titular princess meeting Zora, Goron, and even Gerudo, and unlike Link, she doesn’t even have to sneak into the women’s village this time. Zelda will also be able to ride a horse that can jump over ledges and fast travel between waypoints she discovers along her journey. This version of Hyrule could It is supposed to be in a retro chibi style, but is anything but reminiscent of the overworld maps of the older games.
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The new footage takes players through Hyrule Castle and the surrounding town, the desert and its Gerudo village, the aquatic homes of the River Zora and Sea Zora respectively, and the fiery mountains where the Gorons eat rocks all day long. Zelda will also encounter plenty of side quests on her journey that will ask her to their wand duplication magic (called Echoes) to clone objects and help residents and fellow immigrants in need.
In addition to her trusty steed, which can trample enemies and be summoned by creating carrot echoes, there are also smoothie shops where Zelda can mix and match the ingredients she has collected on her travels to obtain various status buffs, just like Link does in the cooking mini-games for Breath of the Wild And Tears of the Kingdom. Zelda can also change her outfit to improve not only her appearance but also her abilities.
The final mechanic described in the trailer is Zelda’s bonding ability. Not only can she summon echoes of objects from the world, but she can also bond objects to herself that follow her as she moves. With the reverse bond, she can follow the objects, hang from moving platforms, or ride on fast creatures in the world around her.
Coming out September 26th. Echoes of Wisdom really seems as if it is evolving to learn the lessons from Breath of the Wild And Tears of the Kingdom when it comes to open-world experimentation and free-roaming puzzle solving. Many fans have been hoping that Zelda’s first playable entry in the series wouldn’t be a sideshow, and so far, thankfully, that doesn’t seem to be the case at all.
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