Monday, September 9, 2024

Echoes of Wisdom ~ Fairy Bottles


(screenshot taken from Zeltik's preview)

The remake of Link's Awakening introduced so called "Fairy Bottles" to the series, which are your usual bottles, but they are exclusively used for fairies. Echoes of Wisdom will bring those back, but with a number of differences. This time, they are not set on the X or Y buttons, like an item, instead you will automatically put a fairy inside a bottle when you touch it.

That's actually a quality of life improvement. The following scenario has happened to every Zelda player out there at least once: you want to put a fairy in a bottle, but accidentally touch and use it up. This won't happen any longer in Echoes of Wisdom, so that's great.

Unlike the Link's Awakening remake, the fairies in your bottles now will also function automatically when you run out of hearts. They didn't do this in the previous title, because that's what the Secret Medicine was for, which probably won't return here. But maybe you will still be able to use fairies from the menu.

a screenshot of the status menu. "Tri Rod - Tri loaned you this mystical rod. With its power, you can echo things you've learned."
(screenshot taken from Zeltik's preview)

Speaking of, going by the key items menu, there will be a total of four Fairy Bottles in the game, which is one more than in the Link's Awakening remake.

There are also many other open slots in there. One will probably be for the Mysterious Sword. And the three round dots might be for the orbs from the early game bosses, like the Seismic Talus or Volvagia.

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