The 7 Best (and Worst) Things About Echoes of Wisdom

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Here are--IMHO--the seven best and worst things about The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom for the Nintendo Switch.

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[ArloStuff]

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[Steelilbies]

Salted milk is a very good smoothie to make because it fully refills both hearts and magic.

[cheemogirl]

Conde is the sweetest thing and deserves a children's cartoon staring him and his brother

[Iffondrel]

Something i haven't heard praised enough is the mini bosses. I LOVE finding them and sometimes having the reward be getting the echo for them. Botw/totk had overworld mini bosses, but their dungeons were too small to house actual threats beyond the main bosses. This game went crazy with them! Nothing quite like getting locked in a room with no idea of what monster you're about to face and hearing the music start.

[JDLaney-zkwb]

Conde does deserve his own segment. I love him so much and want only the best for him.

[smoogieboogie]

I can't lie. Echoes of Wisdom is one of my favorite 2D Zeldas now. I enjoyed my time playing and then when I saw someone else playing I realized I hadn't even scratched the surface of ways to approach the game. And as a big fan of the Zelda games that feature the diverse races of Hyrule, I was so happy to have the Gorons, Zora, Gerudo, Deku, Hylians, Sheikah, and even Yeti (or Anouki?) all in one topdown game. I feel like I could replay it forever.

[thajocoth]

"The cutesy art style really lowered my guard" - You should know by now, the cuter the Nintendo game looks, the darker it can get.

[ridori]

One thing I'll add to the "rewards" criticism is that it would be so easy to fix by just distributing them better. There's more than enough might crystals to cover almost every chest and sidequest that are instead just hanging around or hidden under some bush in a random corner of the world.

Often times you'll complete a tricky sidequest, get rewarded with a smoothie ingredient, then walk two steps and find a might crystal under a rock. Literally just switch those around!!! It's so confusing.

That said I do think this game handles rewards a lot better than BOTW/TOTK. Might Crystals as I've mentioned are basically an improved version of Korok seeds. They can be found in chests, as a reward for sidequests, etc AND they work towards proper meaningful upgrades instead of just more inventory slots. They feel more like nice surprises instead of predictable filler.

I also REALLY hope they keep and expand on the accesory system. Such a good way of adding cool unique rewards without even needing to put that much effort into them, just little trinkets that give you minor stat buffs. AND they give a real use to rupies in the form of increasing the amount of accesories you can carry, which makes finding rupies in chests at least more tolerable. If anything I just wish there were more increasingly expensive upgrades you could work towards. Like give me a 5000 rupee upgrade just so that finding rupies remains rewarding.

[paulroche]

Ok, maybe it's just a nitpicky gripe, but Grezzo made this game, not the "Zelda Team". Even in the credits, Nintendo is only lightly mentioned.

[Cowmoo]

No way! I LOVED the soundtrack. Very atmospheric yet melodic at the same time. A standout in the Zelda series for me that feels unique in the lineage of the series. Honestly, I’m not personally a fan of the gameplay at all, so the soundtrack is what kept me playing.

[CryZe]

I liked and used the smoothies a lot, because they were actually meaningful on Hero Mode. I feel like more people should give Hero Mode a shot.

[dngerdd]

I'm one of those people who absolutely does not notice FPS issues whatsoever (I mean unless it drops painfully low - like maybe 10 or less). Like in this video it seemed like they were trying to show examples of where the frame rate was good vs where it was bad, but it all legitimately looked fine to me, and I've experienced absolutely zero issues that I've noticed playing EOW. It's hard for me, therefore, to relate to people who complain about minor or even moderate frame rate issues. They just seem like such silly unnecessary complaints.

[nin]

For the seasoned player, I'd recommend playing in hero mode. You will then have plenty of reason for smoothies even with the bed spam healing. Also, the automatons are pretty strong and don't require tri power to activate and they can help clear out areas quickly late game when used in the right combination with echoes.

[alphax-shroom]

The combat complaint feels more like you've been unintentionally limiting yourself to waiting on echos. There is always something you can do to be an active participant in combat, be it binding an enemy, so that it can't attack your echos and directly managing the spacing or resummoning your echo in a more ideal place and restting its cooldown time after its initial attack.

Many echos immediately attack when summoned making them more like an attack spell than a constant combatant .
Also sometimes holding an echo on your head helps as they dont bother getting into position, and just keep attacking, spear bokobins especialy.

[aaronolson]

So happy to see a Yeti again after not getting much new in TotK, ignoring how long its been since we saw Yeto and Yeta. Also River Zora living peacefully alongside the rest of Hyrule including Sea Zora, think I prefer the more amphibious appearance of them to the fish/shark people. Its a shame consumable buffs aren't stackable, I rarely used anything that wasn't defense up or energy refill because I could, just like in the Wild games, simply equip an item to fit the situation or the buff wasn't worth using. Was neat to figure out which combinations made potions but I wish there was a reward for finding all the recipes.

[Titin-ozjh]

About monster targeting
The best thing is to use echoes that attack right away on spawn
It basically become some sort of spell since you can just spawn them again and again if you need/want to reset their attack and they do it right away

[MrMLPfim]

Most crucial thing in the video for me was just 2 words:
plushie Conde

[DC_Prox]

I ended up using smoothies enough to make it a worthwhile thing, IMO. Specifically, I used them for heart recovery several times, but I also used them for traversing severe environments, and sometimes I'd use a Tough smoothie before starting a boss battle.

[magman]

12:30 you can go through the notebook on the pause menu to equip the echo you want. You can also sort there as well, making it a bit easier to navigate.

[Jillleigh]

I was really charmed by the writing/NPC interactions in this game! I found myself choosing not to skip cutscenes/dialogue, which is RARE for me. Even talking with the cats was entertaining! I wasn’t expecting that from a 2D Zelda, so happy they put the effort in to make the world feel full.