2024-06-19

During yesterday’s Nintendo Direct, Eiji Aonuma introduced an upcoming Legend of Zelda title, Echoes of Wisdom. In this game, you play as Princess Zelda, and your job is to rescue Link using a magic staff called the Tri Rod, which can summon various objects onto the game map. This ability allows Zelda to solve navigation puzzles by means of Animal Crossing style furniture placement. Zelda can also fight enemies by tossing these objects at them, and then she can summon defeated enemies to fight alongside her.

For reference, this is a normal reaction: Echoes of Wisdom looks like a sweet little game that might be fun to play.

This is my personal reaction: I’m a big fan of 2D Zelda games, and I loved the Link’s Awakening remake for Nintendo Switch. The dungeon-building minigame in Link’s Awakening was flawed, but it had potential. I’m very excited to see this potential realized in its own dedicated game, and I think it’s marvelous that Zelda gets to be the hero of this game. Given that the Switch is nearing the end of its lifecycle, Echoes of Wisdom seems like an interesting experiment with the series formula that might lead to even more intriguing experiments in the next mainline 3D game.

This is my after-dark reaction: So Zelda fights Ganon herself, you say. So Zelda can apparate an infinite number of beds, you say. I wonder how many beds Zelda has to go through before Ganon is defeated, if you catch my meaning.

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TLDR: I would also like monster friends and a wizard staff that magically assembles Ikea furniture.

2024-06-19

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Echoes of Wisdom