The BOTW of Top-Down Zelda? Echoes of Wisdom | Zeldudes Podcast #7

Let's talk about the The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – Traversing Hyrule Trailer from last week. (Originally recorded on Aug 8, 2024)

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Intro music by James King
Video/Outro artwork by: Sasa Tseng

Background music provided by: Nintendo and Zelda & Chill

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[Zeldudes]

*This episode was originally recorded last week, the day after the trailer dropped.*

[The_nerd_hinox]

This motivated me to do my algebra homework because my mom said if I get all A’s I could get echos of wisdom.

[ganonfan]

Sorry ZM, but I have to be on Team Zeltik for the LA blur. It didn’t ruin my experience at all, and I actually did enjoy it. But overall, thank you guys so much for spreading the positivity of this game. I don’t like how the series is turning in a hate community for overdramatical reasons, and it’s so refreshing to visit your channels as well as this one, and hear good things about the series.

[ShadowWizard]

It would be awesome if ZM and Zeltik sat down together and made a tier list of all the Zelda games.

[TheJosephKnight]

I really like playing BOTW and TOTK, thinking like the designers intended. It gives a real insight into the design process.

[monexpos]

It would be awesome and also wholesome if an npc mistook Zelda for Link, in reference to how many people refer to Link as Zelda.

[captainrogers]

12:56 One thing I appreciated about TotK's sidequests is that even the secondary towns had strong sequences of quests, instead of just Tarrey Town (also I love Tarrey Town's sidequest in TotK, maybe even more that BotW). But now Hateno has the election quests and Kakariko has the ruins quests, and it helps the world feel a little more whole.

[FierceDeity]

Zelda being a necromancer is not something I had on my bingo card.

[ArchAngel_M]

Thoughts: 1.) Zelda might have other abilities or items to use. The Trirod is mapped to D Right which could mean there might be other items to switch to on the D pad. 2.) It would be cool to have a female villain. 3.) I don’t mind the little blur effect.

[catdadmakesmusic]

Everyone here in the comments feels like they have no one to talk to about how rad the Zeldudes are. I know… because I feel it too 🗡️🔼🛡️

[kakarikokage]

So far, everything about Echoes looks great. I think a lot of the fears and worries are, for the most part, not that concerning to me. As with everything, I'm going into the game looking to enjoy it. (Also, as to the blur around the edges, I barely noticed unless I actually focused on it. It's no problem for me.)

[lordofuzkulak]

37:46 - worth noting, we don’t know how far into the game Zelda will get her various abilities; no reason to assume she’ll get them pretty much out of the gate like Link did in BotW and TotK rather than as the game progresses similar to dungeon items in the traditional games.

[masteraustin]

In A Link Between Worlds, if im not wrong, the dude with the goron symbol is Rosso, the guy who gives Link the power glove so he can lift rocks. But that is the only reference to the goron people in ALBW. Also, Eldin Volcano reminds me more of the Eldin province in Skyward Sword then Botw or TotK. Maybe this game has locations which are mashups of various Zelda titles than just Botw and TotK? Similar to how Botw had map locations named after characters in previous entries such as Saria forest and Mido swamp in the Lost Woods in that game.

[ethanhansen]

For dungeons, I think hiw it could work is that you get a specific echo with a certain ability that helps with the puzzles in the dungeon. For example, a graveyard dungeon where you get the redead echo from a redead miniboss that you then use the redeads scream for certain puzzles

[orlandomota]

I was hoping you guys would do a video on this! Let’s Go 🙌🏾

[Ninjaananas]

I think this artstyle fits perfectly because how whimsical and cute Echoes of Wisdom seems to be.

Also, Ganon is not only a warrior but also a cunning warlock. That would actually still fit as Zelda's enemy.
Though Vaati would also fit as an enemy to Zelda since he is a windmage and also pretty smart.

[dylanrutherford]

Babe wake up, the zeldudes dropped a new video!

[carriejohnson]

See I don’t think Zelda will need lots of healing and so on because she’s not really fighting.
I know we will be using magic, binding etc, to fight, but she wouldn’t need the same effects from meals like link would imo.
It did show her getting overheated so I guess we would use a smoothie for that, possibly?
Great discussion I’m very excited and so curious about how the puzzles are going to play out.
I want harder puzzles than what was in botw n TotK also.

[KellyAODArt]

I think you're spot on with the primary protagonist being either Hilda or some princess-looking character (or, perhaps the protagonist takes an echo of Zelda that is then used to cause chaos). It would explain the Wanted posters and Zelda getting thrown in jail/needing to be hidden. Sort of similar to Mario Sunshine's story or TOTK.

[than]

New idea for a section/segment of the podcast. Every episode, you guys both place one of the games in the timeline in a tier list and give your reasons as to why. At the end, you’ll have many episodes done and an entire tier list of every game. Just an interesting thought I had