Echoes of Wisdom will finally let you play as Zelda herself

Did you assume Nintendo would merely solely launch remakes and second-tier video video games until the Swap’s successor lastly comes alongside? Guess as soon as extra. During Tuesday’s Nintendo Direct stream, the company revealed a brand-new Legend of Zelda sport. Nintendo is making many followers’ long-held objectives come true proper right here, as you could get to play as Zelda herself in a Legend of Zelda title (versus one factor like Great Smash Bros. Ultimate).

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Data opens the place most Zelda video video games finish, with Hyperlink defeating Ganon. Nonetheless merely as he frees Princess Zelda, our conventional hero is sucked by a rift into an alternate dimension. That flips the script, as a result of it’s now all the way in which right down to Zelda to rescue Hyrule (and her tunic-wearing cohort too, I suppose).

Like the best Zelda video video games, this one’s carried out in a top-down perspective and it borrows the paintings mannequin of the Link’s Awakening remake. Sequence producer Eiji Aonuma talked about his workforce wished to create a model new gameplay mannequin for a Zelda sport too.

Comparatively than wielding a sword, Zelda’s major system is called a trirod. With this, she is going to copy many objects and use these “echoes” to navigate the world. This brings among the many sandbox puzzle-solving elements of Tears of the Kingdom to Echoes of Data. In battle, you presumably can hurl echoed objects at enemies, and even create echoes of monsters to fight for Zelda.

You’ll not should attend too prolonged to get your arms on the game and take a look at all of this out to your self. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Data is coming to the Nintendo Swap on September 26. A Hyrule-themed Nintendo Swap Lite will most likely be on the market on the similar day.