Friday, August 30, 2024

Echoes of Wisdom ~ Still World Presentation

new artwork with Zelda in the Still World

Nintendo has released a new presentation about The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom today, called Into the Still World, A Journey Continued. Again, this is an info dump, showing much more of the game than what you may want to see. At least they didn't call it a "trailer" this time.

Well, the "Traversing Hyrule Trailer" has left off with a bit of a cliffhanger about the rifts, so it was only a matter of time that Nintendo went into more details about what to find in them, now called the "Still World". In addition, Zelda can temporarily transform into Link, even though they refer to it as the "Swordfighter Form". We also learn that Dampé returns in a new role, where he creates "Automotons", which are an alternative to the echoes. This includes the mechanical Octorok that we saw in the first trailer... And we can see some first dungeon gameplay, in the Suthorn Ruins.

Anyway, I'm on vacation right now, so I'm not sure I will be able to talk about all the new reveals in a timely manner, but let's see. I didn't even get finish my posts about TUNIC, which will have to wait even longer now... 

And I'm starting to worry that this will become the next A Link Between Worlds, where Nintendo shows everything but the final dungeon before the game's launch. We most likely will get one last of these presentations in a September Nintendo Direct and hopefully that will be it.

They also haven't announced a new amiibo for the game yet, but they are offering bundles with old amiibo (like the one from Link's Awakening) in the European My Nintendo Store, so it doesn't seem like this game will get its own. Though, an amiibo of this version of Zelda would be lovely...

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