Echoes of Knowledge will lastly allow you to play as Zelda herself
Did you assume Nintendo would merely solely launch remakes and second-tier video games till the Change’s successor lastly comes alongside? Guess once more. Throughout Tuesday’s Nintendo Direct stream, the corporate revealed a brand-new Legend of Zelda sport. Nintendo is making many followers’ long-held goals come true right here, as you will get to play as Zelda herself in a Legend of Zelda title (versus one thing like Tremendous Smash Bros. Final).
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge opens the place most Zelda video games end, with Hyperlink defeating Ganon. However simply as he frees Princess Zelda, our normal hero is sucked by a rift into an alternate dimension. That flips the script, because it’s now all the way down to Zelda to rescue Hyrule (and her tunic-wearing cohort too, I suppose).
Like the perfect Zelda video games, this one’s performed in a top-down perspective and it borrows the artwork fashion of the Hyperlink’s Awakening remake. Collection producer Eiji Aonuma mentioned his staff wished to create a brand new gameplay fashion for a Zelda sport too.
Moderately than wielding a sword, Zelda’s essential device is known as a trirod. With this, she will copy many objects and use these “echoes” to navigate the world. This brings a number of the sandbox puzzle-solving components of Tears of the Kingdom to Echoes of Knowledge. In fight, you possibly can hurl echoed objects at enemies, and even create echoes of monsters to combat for Zelda.
You will not have to attend too lengthy to get your palms on the sport and take a look at all of this out for your self. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge is coming to the Nintendo Change on September 26. A Hyrule-themed Nintendo Change Lite might be out there on the identical day.