The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom reviewed by Tom Marks on Nintendo Switch.
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is far greater than a gimmicky spinoff led by Zelda instead of Link. Its echo summoning is used to cleverly combine the expertly crafted dungeons, puzzle rooms, and item progression you’d expect from a classic-style 2D Zelda with the borderline unhinged freedom provided by Tears of the Kingdom. This experiment doesn’t produce an entirely perfect result, with a little bit of clunky menu management and combat that simply isn’t quite as compelling, but it’s an impressively successful one all the same. Echoes of Wisdom is also a glowing proof of concept for how a modern 3D Zelda could recapture some of what fans like me miss about the series before Breath of the Wild without sacrificing the intoxicating creativity it introduced. Creating echoes aside, if this is the future of Zelda, I can’t wait to see more.
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Fun game. Too much talking in the game however, the storyline is exhaustive.
6:23 oh right! I forgot to revisit his shack after rescuing him. Fortunately I'm not too much further in the game.
Hold why this video exactly let me still see the video when I exut youtube, isn't that yt premium exclusive?
This review feels like a mobile game ad where they intentionally play poorly.
Dragging enemies and summons is a core mechanic. It's ridiculous to complain about standing still while your summons do the work when the whole point is strategic positioning and timing their abilities.
This game completely sucked. Of the 30-hour game, 29 hours are spent clicking through the dialogue. Dialogue that isn't remotely interesting. The final boss is so easy, all you need are about 8 hearts, a couple smoothies, and a high-end moblin. There's zero challenge, and the load times are beyond aggravating. If you loved this game, you're a dumbass.
Does it have new game + mode?
I don’t wanna play as Zelda. Why not make both characters available? They want us playing as a girl because everything is being inverted
I have never played a Zelda game. I Know I know. But Zelda being the protagonist and the gameplay looks so good! And I have been getting games this holiday week.
Will I be lost if I get this one or is it a good standing alone game? ❤
this game is a 3/10
very bad review
this game is hot trash
i felt it was a bit sluggish. the music could have been better. overall a good game
My 6 year old daughter started crying playing this, and my wife left me for buying this for her.. GG
I’d rather have Link
10/10, you can be a furry
They should do modern game based off the cartoon. I understand that the nes zeldas inspired it, but its been awhile.
Love the concept and the gameplay….despise the toy look. No matter how good they may be, I won't be playing any lego games.
I love the art style and story. The game however is way way too easy to where an 8 year old might find it challenging. That would be my only criticism of the game.
Boys complaining about playing a girl in the comments under some reviews.
How come… Botw & totk was huge and this game was way too short????
Idk yo
Looks like an amazing game. Thank you for the review
6:42 you have to pay to repair echoes… no thanks, imma pass this game. Looks trash
I ironically am fully behind with the twist of being a summancer its like so much more streamlined to change how pokemon might eventually become
I love how I totally thought a deku nut was a piranha plant which gives it some continuity even though some lazy effort its cool that they pull from multiple franchises or even different time lines throughout the Zelda franchise which makes it feel more grounded as these monsters are evolutions of an arbitrary timeline
I wish Nintendo would just make a Zelda game already and quit trying to innovate. Nintendo has lost their way to decades ago and struggles to make anything decent these days. Only 20 minutes into this game and I'm already done playing but for those of you who like scrolling through endless rows of useless items just to figure out how to build either stairs or a bridge out of tables and beds this game might be for you. It's extremely boring very repetitive and a waste of developer's time and consumers money. Since Nintendo can't seem to build anything new worth playing can we please get a remake using this engine and graphics but with the very first legend of Zelda one for one quit trying to recreate stuff that uses useless items or built around not using a sword this is not Zelda this is yet another terrible expression of Nintendo's current mind.
just beat it, game was fire
Anyone saying THIS is better than TOTK ( with the sheer amount of innovation awards it received and its sales ) is what an Eminem fan is to rap music.
Finally they made zelda a girl
Just finished it.
Amazing game. So much fun to solve puzzles. Some echoes are so broken it makes it so satisfying to defeat enemies.
For the last boss fight, I just sent a big ass Darknut into battle and got the hell out of the way 😂
I had fun playing this game and uploading it 😉
I can wait to get it in market place for $20. Complain all you want.😂😂😂
6:08 FACEPALM, So you can pull it. I see……. I totally did not just send out Bats to damage his core or wait for the golem to do his heavy double pound attack to throw rocks at his core for a couple of minutes to defeat him.
Yep, I am smarter than that yep.
we got legend of zelda with zelda before GTAVI
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