LCSnoogs The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Review

I'm happy with this approach to a Zelda game. I was hoping if they ever made one, that it would be based in her using magic instead of just making her female Link. The echoes make this a puzzle game with many tools to solve every problem. It gives it a Scribblenauts feel. It keeps making me feel clever with the ideas I come up with to traverse the environments and fight enemies because of the large amount of options. My solution feels like my own instead of the one solution to the problem. My go-to echoes for different situations kept changing over time as I earned more keeping the game from getting stale. Adding this new toolset to an old-school Zelda world made me feel like I was breaking the rules. I used echoes to climb on top of trees and other environmental barriers I used to have to walk around or turn back from in old games like I was using a speed-run hack. The presentation creates a Zelda game at it's most cartoon-ish. It's bright and colorful with cute little character models animated in more expressive detail than the old games could. This is all accompanied with charming, funny writing you would expect of a Nintendo game.