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The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom had this year's most revelatory puzzle item
Eurogamer revisits some of its favourite games from 2024, and what makes them great. Here, we look the transformative water block in Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom.
Suspended in mid-air, the water holding its shape fast and firm and defying all laws of gravity, its elegant simplicity washes away all those hours spent constructing awkward bed concoctions to get across similar-sized gaps. It makes the world feel more alive with secrets and hitherto unseen nooks and crannies to explore that are now ripe for cracking open and pushing your nose into, letting you inhale everything this toylike playbox has to offer and then some. That it comes in such an unusual and delightful form, too, is precisely what makes the water block feel so special - more so than the myriad abilities you gain in some of this year's other exploratory highlights, such as the Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, or harnessing the power of the seeds you plant in Ultros' strange, organic spaceship.
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