Echoes of Wisdom ~ Smoothies

You want to have potions in your Zelda game, but make them cuter? Well, turn them into smoothies! Now, this is the equivalent to the food items from Breath of the Wild, with a couple of differences. Instead of making them yourself in a cooking pot, you will have to go to a Smoothie Shop, run by a Business Scrub. He will then let you combine two materials that you've gathered into a smoothie.

One of the examples given by the Traversing Hyrule Trailer is a Mixed Milky Smoothie for 10 Rupees, made from an Electro Apple and Fresh Milk. There is the number 8 next to it, where there might be a recipe book for smoothies and this is it's entry number.

The Electro Apple gives you resistance to electricity, while the Fresh Milk boost the healing effect, meaning that it grants you more hearts. Only the latter seems to apply here with the Mixed Milk Smoothie. It doesn't show any icon for electricity or whatever, only the 13 hearts.

They then proceed to combine an Electro Apple with a Floral Nectar, where that one is stated to boost the effect of other ingredients. And this turns into a "Mixed Apple Smoothie". Whether any of this actually gives you the electricity resistance, we don't know yet... But this already creates the worry that the system will be as higgledy-piggledy as the recipes in Tears of the Kingdom. At least you can always only combine two ingredients with each other, so this should make figuring out all recipes much simpler.

Ingredients also don't seem to be as easy to come by this time. There are no visible fruits in the environments and monsters don't seem to drop any materials. Shops do sell them and maybe this is your main way of acquiring them. But they could also be found in treasure chests or won in mini-games.

The biggest concern is, however, that this could break the game once more, because the food system in Breath of the Wild is wildly overpowered. You can eat to heal at any time and you can carry way too much food around with you. If used right, it will remove any challenge from the game. And that's something that they should get away from, instead of doing it again in a different form.

It's actually one of the few things that Skyward Sword did better with its Adventure Pouch. You had limited space and had to chose what to bring with you, which included potions. It was too restrictive and threw too many things into one pot, but at least you couldn't just mindlessly overheal yourself countless times. And you had to drink your potions in real time, while dodging enemies.