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The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom hands-on: the experimental era continues

Princess Zelda’s first mainline game is filled with echoes of the franchise’s recent experimental era.

Every Legend of Zelda game has had its quirky innovations, but Breath of the Wild revolutionized the franchise in ways that felt monumental and reflective of Nintendo being ready to try something — a number of things, really — new with Link. Breath of the Wild ’s openness made its take on Hyrule feel unlike anything we’d ever seen from the series, and its story brought Link to life by building a big, rich world around him that you were meant to spend hours exploring. I had a ball summoning a swarm of Keese to sic on Moblins once I was able to get out into the open world, but it wasn’t long before I realized that brute force isn’t the easiest way to play when you start out.

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