The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom out now on Switch

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HoloDust said:

curl-6 said:

Yeah given the Zelda team's track record, I'm more than willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. If anyone can make this kind of more indirect gameplay engaging, it's them.

We do actually see Zelda taking a big fuck-off cannon to a bunch of baddies in the trailer, so she's still definitely going to get to kick arse. She just doesn't need a sword to do so.

Not that Zelda with a sword wasn't cool in games like the two Hyrule Warriors, but in this case I feel like her playing very differently to Link makes the game a lot more interesting.

For the most part, no, I don't think she needs to do it with a sword. That said, she is a Cleric of a sort, and it would be nice to have at least some basic weapon (let's say, that staff itself), instead of completely relying on "magic" (cause that's what Echoes translate to, more or less, conjuration magic).

Perhaps she does; we still don't have the complete details of the game's mechanics yet.

Valdney said:

It looks meh to me. The art style is not impressive and the gameplay looks horrendous. Putting a bunch of beds together in the middle of the wilderness to overcome an obstacle/puzzle is laughably stupid. lol! This shit is weird. After the great BotW the LoZ series seems to be going downhill again. Sad

I mean, Zelda has always had a certain deliberate silliness to it.

In many of the series, your mighty hero could get killed by vengeful chickens. Groose in Skyward Sword was a source of much ridiculousness. In BOTW, the Korok seed questline is one long poop joke.

A certain absurdity has been part of the franchise's DNA since foever.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 21 June 2024