The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (NSW) - September 26, 2024

[BWYuko]

Announcement Trailer (06/18/24)

We didn't make a thread back in June, so here ya go.

Link jobs the opening cutscene. Huge dark voids all the time, idiots keep drowning in it. It's Zelda's turn to HD-2D that shit back to whence it came.

She can create "echoes" of tons of stuff (furniture, weapons, enemies, you name it) that she can summon at any time to traverse, combat, solve puzzles and quests, etc. It's clever, so like it already, geez.

Anyway...

New Info Today (08/05/24)

Seeing a lot of SNES, Ocarina/Majora, BotW/ToTK influences here.
They introduce a new gameplay mechanic called Bind/Reverse-Bond, which works sorta like an expanded BotW Magnesis.
Fun they gave an explanation for why the two canon Zora races look so different finally.

Anyway, it's out in 6 weeks. Enjoy!

[Kachiko]

What if we could add a Breath of the Wild physics to a Link to the Past?

[IsaacHampton]

Great idea for a thread! Link definitely needs a break from all that void-jumping, and it’s time for Zelda to step up with some cool new abilities. The idea of her creating "echoes" to solve puzzles and navigate challenges sounds awesome—definitely adds a fresh twist. I’m all in for some HD-2D magic bringing this concept to life. Let’s keep the ideas rolling!

[BWYuko]

This has leaked, nearly 2 weeks early. Not on the high seas yet, but give it a few days.

[KuroTsuki]

This has leaked, nearly 2 weeks early. Not on the high seas yet, but give it a few days.

I'm surprised it took this long, but it finally popped up.

[Gokulo]

It'll never stop bothering me how arbitrary it is which stuff you can echo or not :D

[Ratatapa]

So it seems like the game is great but plagued with performance issues

[Tomiko]

Not a lot of posts here since the release.

I finished the game, it's pretty short overall. I do like the puzzle solving aspect of using echoes, but some of the answers were not very clear and improvising a solution was a pain in the ass. For the amount of echoes available, it seemed like I mainly used less than half of them because I already had better options by the time I found them. The only "performance issue" I ran into was the blurring of the edges of the screen when traveling. But I think that was intentional. I played on OLED Switch if it matters.

Not so much of a spoiler, but I do like that you can continue on collecting after beating the game. I was worried I would have to start a new file.

Ending spoilers:

Spoiler: show

I liked the ending area where Zelda and Link were going through the void. A co-op game version of that could be fun.