Nintendo has launched a brief animation based mostly on The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge, highlighting the sport’s core ‘echo’ mechanic during which you conjure up copies of objects to succeed in areas that will in any other case be inaccessible.
It definitely does the job in showcasing the gameplay, however goodness, it is simply so boring. Zelda spots a chest on prime of a tree, so utilises Tri to create echoes of a close-by desk and crate to succeed in it. She succeeds, opens the chest, and grabs a pink rupee.
That is it, people. We had been sort of hoping one thing humorous or sudden may occur. Possibly Stamp Man pops out of the chest, or maybe the chest gobbles Zelda up just like the Mimic enemies from Darkish Souls. Simply… one thing.
Alas, whereas the animation is cute and charming, the video is in any other case extremely underwhelming. Fortunately, nonetheless, the sport itself is significantly better. Launched on twenty sixth September 2024, Echoes of Knowledge carries on the visible aesthetic from Hyperlink’s Awakening on Change, however boasts a a lot bigger overworld, new mechanics, and the primary occasion that Zelda herself is the primary protagonist in a mainline entry.
We awarded the sport a rating of 9/10 and known as it “the brand new normal for top-down Zelda going ahead”.