After years of playing 2nd fiddle to Link successful her ain franchise, Princess Zelda is yet getting a video crippled of her ain this fall.
During today’s Direct presentation, Nintendo revealed The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, the franchise’s archetypal crippled to travel arsenic Princess Zelda herself embarks connected an escapade to prevention the satellite from destruction. After Ganon bests Link successful battle, Zelda is near to her ain devices to conflict hordes of monsters that descend upon the game’s instrumentality connected Hyrule (which seems heavy inspired by 2019’s Link’s Awakening remake).
According to series shaper Eiji Aonuma, Zelda volition navigate and combat done the satellite somewhat otherwise successful Echoes of Wisdom as she wields a magical unit known arsenic the Tri Rod with the assistance of a fairy named Tri. The trailer details however Zelda volition beryllium capable to usage the Tri Rod to make “echoes” of objects and monsters she’s antecedently encountered and usage them to flooded obstacles.
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News of the crippled comes astatine a alternatively booming clip for the Zelda franchise. Last twelvemonth yet saw the merchandise of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the expansive sequel to Breath of the Wild. (If you privation to larn much astir Tears of the Kingdom’s mind-blowing physics, cheque retired our overview of Nintendo’s Game Developers Conference 2024 talk.) And pursuing the smashing popularity of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Nintendo is processing a live-action Legend of Zelda movie successful concern with Sony.
It’s not yet wide however Echoes of Wisdom will acceptable into the franchise’s larger timeline oregon conscionable however antithetic the game’s combat volition beryllium from erstwhile top-down Zelda installments. But fixed however agelong we’ve been waiting to spot the princess beforehand and halfway arsenic the protagonist successful the communicative she’s named after, it’s going to beryllium fantastic to yet spot it hap erstwhile The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom hits the Switch systems connected September 26th.