After decades of serving as inspiration for the beloved franchise Legend of Zeldathe series’ titular princess finally gets her own toy. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdomwill be released on September 26 for Nintendo Switch, gives Zelda its own hero’s journey after Link disappears. But, unfortunately, it does not give her her own sword.
Players have been clamoring for Hyrule’s favorite princess to take the lead in a game Zelda Game for years now, or at least to be playable in games like Kingdom tears. The excitement was about Zelda’s victory Immediately clear On X after Nintendo announced the game on Tuesday during one of its live shows. (Share a sample: “I make no excuses for the person I will become once I play Princess Zelda.”)
in Echoes of wisdom, she is tasked with saving the people of Hyrule, including Link, who have been swallowed up by mysterious rifts. To save them, Zelda teams up with a fairy named Tri; Armed with the Tri Rod, Zelda can create imitations of environmental objects and enemies called echoes to solve puzzles and fight monsters.
In the game’s trailer, for example, Zelda learns how to copy a table. It can then produce echoes of that table anywhere it wants, allowing the player to create stairs and bridges made of the tables. is similar to Kingdom tears‘s Ultrahand capabilities and valvesThe echo possibilities seem very open; The trailer shows her learning how to make boxes, beds, rocks, and water blocks to get around potential obstacles. Echoes of monsters become allies who fight alongside them.
Echoes of wisdom It has a similar visual style to the new version of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening From 2019 But it seems more in line with the experimental nature of the latest installment in the series, Kingdom tears. During the presentation, longtime producer Eiji Aonuma said that the team “wanted to create a new style of gameplay that breaks the traditions seen in the past” with other top-down games. As for how many echoes there are, Aonuma says he hasn’t counted them all yet.
Nintendo is also launching a “Hyrule Edition” Nintendo Switch Lite Gold Edition with the game.