Echoes of Wisdom ~ Multiplayer?

Before we knew about the remake of Link's Awakening, one of my ideas for a top-down Zelda game on the Nintendo Switch was to make it another cooperative title, but only for two people. One would play as Link, the other play as Zelda. It felt like the natural evolution of multiplayer Zelda, going from Four Swords to Tri Force Heroes to... the divine duo. It would have been more manageable to find someone to play with, and it would have also finally offered Zelda as a playable character in a mainline title, something that many people wanted.

Well, to my surprise and the surprise of many, with Echoes of Wisdom you can play as Zelda in a full singleplayer title. No Link needed. While it's safe to assume that Link will play a role later in the game in some form that will aid the player, even if it's only as an echo, the focus is clearly on playing as Zelda. And I do prefer this outcome, because I do prefer playing a new Zelda game for myself.

Still, I can't shake the feeling that a playable Link will be somehow part of this, because it looks like you will play as him in the beginning to fight Ganon. And they even made him special new gear, instead of simply giving him the familiar Master Sword, which is suspicious... Why go through all these efforts if they are just for show?

One idea was that you will be able to switch to Link inside the rifts, but we can already see in the footage that Zelda is able to go into the rifts herself. It's where she learns the water block, for example. So, that's probably not it.

And the idea of a coop game, where one plays as Zelda and the other as Link, still stands, where maybe Echoes of Wisdom will offer this as well. This could be a separate mode that unlocks after beating the game or so. It could even involve procedurally generated dungeons, like the original Four Swords did, just to offer some replay value beyond beating each level once.

You go on missions with Link and Zelda together, where Link gets to use traditional items, while Zelda will provide echoes. It would be a new take on the Zelda multiplayer format and an interesting addition to the game, maybe with some connectivity between the main campaign and the multiplayer mode, similar to A Link to the Past & Four Swords on the GBA.