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The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom reinvents age-old gameplay, as the series finally changes its star


More than 35 years after the first Legend of Zelda, one of video gaming's most recognisable names will finally front an…

The answer, I think, lies in something I find even more remarkable than simply controlling the series' princess, and something which guarantees this isn't just another Zelda with an alternate silent hero - the game-changing Echo ability. For a veteran Zelda fan, the ability to spawn in-game assets and create a small troop of enemies to do your bidding felt like I was playing a version of the game with cheat codes. Ignoring the series' labyrinthine timeline, this is quite clearly a sequel to the Nintendo Switch remake of Link's Awakening in technical terms, with many familiar enemies and elements, the same visual design and the same underlying game engine (with the associated frame-rate slowdown sadly still present, too).

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