The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
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The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – Launch Trailer – Nintendo Switch
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom — Overview Trailer — Nintendo Switch
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom — Into the Still World, a Journey Continued — Nintendo Switch
Critic Reviews for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is far more than some second-tier spinoff, combining the expertly crafted dungeons and item progression you’d expect from a 2D Zelda with the wild creativity provided by Tears of the Kingdom.
Thanks to playful puzzles and an imaginative reinvention of Hyrule's historic iconography, Echoes of Wisdom emerges as a bold and creative new chapter in Zelda's legend.
Despite how much joy I mined conquering its temples and delving into its many rifts, at times it doesn’t push its ambition far enough. That never stops Echoes from being a warm hug of a video game that enraptured me from start to finish, but it does leave me infinitely more curious about what the future holds. Now Zelda has helmed her first epic outing, it’s only a matter of time until she goes onto bigger and better things.
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is a refreshing, albeit brief, series experimentation that blends modern and classic series elements. Using brand-new magic to battle and solve puzzles fits neatly into the top-down Zelda formula, despite some missteps.
Echoes of Wisdom mixes Tears of the Kingdom with the classic top-down Zelda formula to create a charming adventure that is both forward-thinking and nostalgic.
Echoes of Wisdom brings the spark of the latest games, but also dives deeper into the ethos of the old games with its use of dungeons. While the regions are the same, there's a new life that's presented in this that nails the aspect of refreshing the franchise in a way that isn’t a total reset. The game delivers on bringing those two elements together and valuing the series. While it isn’t perfect, it goes without saying that the game is impressive and reels you in right at the start and will make you want more after the credits begin to roll. Echoes of Wisdom should be seen as an addition to the mainline of The Legend of Zelda series. I mean, Zelda is in the name, so why not?
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is a surprisingly substantial top-down Zelda with the slap-things together puzzle-solving spirit of Tears of the Kingdom, though its new ideas sometimes get in the way of the fun.
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom should be the new standard for top-down Zelda going forward. Rather than abandoning the classic formula, Zelda has shown that the old and the new can come together and produce wonderful results that reward experimentation and reinforce the joy of play. This is easily in contention with A Link to the Past and A Link Between Worlds as one of the best top-down adventures in the series, and we hope we don't need to wait another 35 years for Zelda to take a starring role again.
Industry Coverage
Echoes Of Wisdom Lead Says There's "Lot Of Possibility" For More 2D Zelda Games
We're going to get more top-down views of Hyrule in the future.
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Nintendo Confirms Surprising Cut Feature from Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
The director and producer of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom reveal a surprising feature that was ultimately cut from the game.
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Link Was Originally Going To Speak For The First Time In Echoes Of Wisdom
The plan was so far along that the silent protagonist actually had lines in early development.
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Echoes Of Wisdom's Arrival On Amazon Ends Unexplained Absence Of Switch Releases
We may never know what was going on between Nintendo and Amazon for most of 2024.
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