The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is about to launch completely for Nintendo Switch on September 26. In the perfect sort of shock, Nintendo introduced this brand-new mainline Zelda sport in the course of the June 2024 Nintendo Direct. Better but, it’s coming quickly. And it stars Princess Zelda. And it contains a distinctive and intelligent gameplay hook. Preorders are at present rolling out on the ordinary retailers. Read on for the small print.
Preorder The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
There are not any particular editions of the sport, so the usual one is the one to get. And for those who’re ready on it to go up for preorder at Amazon, you could be ready some time. Recent Switch video games have solely turn into out there at launch – not for preorder.
What Is The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom?
Echoes of Wisdom is the primary mainline Zelda sport to star Princess Zelda, which is fairly cool. Fans have been asking for that actually for many years, so it’s good to see Nintendo lastly hear. It additionally makes use of the identical nearly claymation-looking artwork type because the remake of Link’s Awakening. It seems to be nice.
As the sport kicks off, purple rifts begin opening in Hyrule and swallowing individuals up. Link will get sucked in, however Zelda escapes. So it’s as much as her to save lots of the dominion (as a result of apparently her army can’t do it for her whereas she runs the realm? I don’t actually perceive how the small print hash out).
The standout gameplay characteristic is using echoes. Zelda has one thing referred to as a Tri wand, which lets her summon objects and enemies she’s encountered beforehand. She can use these summoned echoes to fend off different enemies and to resolve puzzles and to entry beforehand out-of-reach areas. It seems to be like it can require gamers to be artistic, which was additionally an enormous a part of Tears of the Kingdom. It’s cool to see that sort of artistic puzzle fixing come to a 2D-style Zelda sport.
Nintendo Switch Lite Hyrule Edition
In addition to the brand new Zelda sport, Nintendo is releasing a classy new version of the portable-only Nintendo Switch Lite console. It’s not out there to preorder but within the US, although it’s within the UK (and it ships to the US). The casing is gold, with black buttons and sticks. It has a tiny Triforce image underneath the correct stick. The again of the machine sports activities an enormous model of the winged Triforce Zelda image thingy. It seems to be nice.
It additionally comes with a free 12-month particular person subscription to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. That allows you to play a complete bunch of basic video games from Game Boy, NES, Sega Genesis, SNES, Nintendo 64, and Game Boy Advance. You additionally get free entry to large expansions to video games like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Animal Crossing, and Splatoon 2.
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