The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Review

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom reviewed by Tom Marks on Nintendo Switch.

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is far greater than a gimmicky spinoff led by Zelda instead of Link. Its echo summoning is used to cleverly combine the expertly crafted dungeons, puzzle rooms, and item progression you’d expect from a classic-style 2D Zelda with the borderline unhinged freedom provided by Tears of the Kingdom. This experiment doesn’t produce an entirely perfect result, with a little bit of clunky menu management and combat that simply isn’t quite as compelling, but it’s an impressively successful one all the same. Echoes of Wisdom is also a glowing proof of concept for how a modern 3D Zelda could recapture some of what fans like me miss about the series before Breath of the Wild without sacrificing the intoxicating creativity it introduced. Creating echoes aside, if this is the future of Zelda, I can’t wait to see more.

[IamKnucks]

They should have called this game The legend of Link.

[duppypixels]

People in these comments be MAD whenever Nintendo games score high 😂 they see the art style and the console its running on and immediately get so angry, these comments are so funny lol. Doesn’t have enough shooting and explosions for their taste so they cant possibly see how it could score higher than a 6 lol

[andrewhayden]

if you are a grown ass adult stuck in a console war mindset you should rethink your life choices 🙂

[ACViper]

My god these comments are so salty, why do some people want games to suck?

[ChewieLewis]

Absolutely love this same art style they used in the links awakening remake

[griffithguts]

Looking for salty comments but only see people complaining about salty comments 😆

[ZackRToler]

I'm glad Zelda finally got a GOOD game to be the protagonist of. Those CDi games were...something

[GideonCyn]

POV: Youre trying to find all the mean comments

[nidavelliir]

Gamers when the Legend of Zelda actually has Zelda

[LuigiMaster]

Just gotta wait until tomorrow and I’ll finally be able to play it.

[waywardlaser]

New Zelda is always a must buy. Been over ten years since we got an original 2D game too. Can't wait to play!

[Wulfman]

Why the fuck are people crying about Black Myth Wukong in a Zelda review?

[renemersi]

To y’all negative ppl commenting don’t forget „your are the reason season pass / microtransaction gaming exists“

[ljp]

What are people talking about? Where are all the people crying about the score in the comments?.. people are defensive and delusional.. majority praised the review.... crazy smh

[ThouzandWattz]

I'm still looking for the people "complaining" in the comments. 🧐🧐🤔🤔👀👀

[lilb]

Not thrilled about the combat but love the idea of combining the freedom of Botw with the dungeon crawling of link to the past

[Kawlee]

Ignore comments and spam full screen before the verdict is spoiled 😂

[freiteez]

I’m loving it. Been a long time since we got a good 2D original Zelda game.

[stellar]

The score is 9. Can't wait to play it this friday. It just means it's a pretty solid game

[Mr_G_s_Route_]

People wondering why the game has such high score?

Because it has moments, when things come together, it is truly amazing.

So much, it deserves a high score.

IGN cannot show this in the review, cause it's more talking, instead of showing.

Why not show a little piece of unbothered gameplay, instead of these 1.2 second clips?