Some Zelda Things
1st October 2025, 1:50 PM
Echoes of Wisdom was absolutely amazing. Sure, it would have been nice to give Zelda a sword, but frankly I appreciate the creative direction they went in, giving you basically anything you can see. She can even command an army, essentially, which fits with her being a royal and all. Turning her leadership role into a gameplay mechanic was a good choice.
Echoes was a great return to a smaller scale Zelda game. I think it's pretty clear with how delayed Tears for Fears turned out to be that even reusing assets as they did when they cranked out Majora's Mask in such a short time frame wasn't enough to speed up development of a vast game with that level of graphical fidelity. They clearly had to step things back a bit. Even so, three whole Zelda games in a single console cycle (as well as a couple remasters) was something a lot of us wouldn't have expected. We're more used to getting one or two, though admittedly I'm stretching things a bit considering that a "single cycle" used to include both handhelds AND home consoles at the same time, so each generation did get more Zelda games with that in mind.
I absolutely love how they're embracing freedom, and while they did once again toss in a tiny little helper spirit in Echoes, at least it wasn't solving puzzles for you to the same extent as the games we'd mentioned earlier.
Echoes was a great return to a smaller scale Zelda game. I think it's pretty clear with how delayed Tears for Fears turned out to be that even reusing assets as they did when they cranked out Majora's Mask in such a short time frame wasn't enough to speed up development of a vast game with that level of graphical fidelity. They clearly had to step things back a bit. Even so, three whole Zelda games in a single console cycle (as well as a couple remasters) was something a lot of us wouldn't have expected. We're more used to getting one or two, though admittedly I'm stretching things a bit considering that a "single cycle" used to include both handhelds AND home consoles at the same time, so each generation did get more Zelda games with that in mind.
I absolutely love how they're embracing freedom, and while they did once again toss in a tiny little helper spirit in Echoes, at least it wasn't solving puzzles for you to the same extent as the games we'd mentioned earlier.
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