2D Zelda Is FINALLY Back! | The Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom REVIEW [No Spoilers]
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- 2D Zelda is finally back after a nearly 11 year hiatus - but is it good?
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Good, informative, honest review. I appreciate that
Hard to find a review that's not shilling the game to no end or on the opposite spectrum hating the game without reasons. This was good
Dang back to back vids! Bam Bam!😮
This game is fun and a blast to play. The echo mechanic is awesome to me. Maybe I'll agree with you after playing through the game more but I find it amusing seeing monsters and enemies going at it in different ways at the swing of a rod.
Did you get all the automatons or get so bored from disliking the echo mechanic late that you didn't care to get them?
The game is unfortunately a really hard slog to play. A real miss for me.
If it was too easy for the price you paid that's what folks would be really disappointed with 😞
In contrast I feel like this game would have been criticized for being "Just another Zelda game" if it played with the same formula as the other Zelda games prior to BotW (wielding a sword as the main weapon, finding a special item in a dungeon that is used to beat the boss etc etc).
At this point in the Zelda franchise, I think the opposite of you. It’s been 11 years since the last Zelda game that used the traditional formula (Link Between Worlds) so having that formula come back after so long would’ve been nice to see
Good review! I’m glad I didn’t pick this up because it completely goes against what I look for in Zelda. This game sounds like it focuses on platforming, spamming echoes, and having mind numbingly easy dungeons. If I want platforming, I go to Mario, if I want easy dungeons, I go to Mario, if I want easy and spammy combat, I’d play Pokemon, there’s no reason to play this game for me. I was so hyped for what sounds like the most boring Zelda game I’ve ever heard of
Agreed as someone who tried it the controls are not the best either and it’s just a boring and tedious game all around
I respect everything you said about this game but the echo selection is far from tedious. Its almost perfect because people are gonna take to this game different ways and its important it stays the way it is. People just dont know how to use the Just Learned or Recently Used lists. Just get in the habit of utilizing the options menu there by pressing Y to go to which lever organized group u want. Stick to those 2 groups. The more you do this the more its a no brainer which types are most readily available. If ur doing this wrong then youre gonna constantly be scrolling and using using the system wrong and "get bored" or tired for searching all the time. Even if u have to scroll once or twice for a particular echo, it doesnt happen often cause you'll already know which echoes you like the best and for what. People need to understand this cause its the reason people needlessly scroll so much.
Having an inventory grid would still be way simpler and more efficient
@@The_MEMEphisThere is one. There are two options, the scroll and the grid. You can do either. If you watch Ryu's playthrough you'll see he's using the grid.
TBH, I don't think we're ever going back to the "locked-down" puzzle heavy/restricted Zelda games of yore. They've really latched onto the "Hyrule is a playground" style of game play where you can traverse and do whatever you want however you want, and i don't blame them BotW and TotK are the highest selling Zelda games. Having that type of "god-like" power will inherently make any puzzles easier. The same has been happening with pokemon games too. People often forget that pokemon had some fairly tricky puzzles back in its day, but kids today with their tablets and endless "freemium" games on their phones don't have the attention span to be wandering around for hours in a dungeon.
This is depressing if true. BotW and TotK are my least favorite Zelda games ever. Minish Cap is my favorite.
@@TheDreadedZero I agree. I'm patiently waiting for an HD remake of Minish Cap on Switch 2.
They will make a traditional 3D Zelda game maybe not anytime soon but they will.
I find it funny how many people review a game the day it comes out. Like I doubt most of them even finished the game let alone completed anywhere close to 100% to really justify the games merits and mishaps. I do believe you played through most of it though if not all and will consider ur feelings about the echo mechanic of conmbat as I keep playing throgh it.
People who get review codes get them early 🙄
@@vantheman4237 duh. But people are biased and I bet don't even come close to playing it fully especially if they don't like the game regardless if they play them earlier or not.
My biggest issue is the sword. Why go through the effort to not give us a sword just to give us a sword? And also why is there a gauge on how long I can use the sword? And why can't I get more energy in the overworld? They only way to fill up this gauge is in the still world. If they don't give us a sword, give us something like Din's Fire and Nayru's Love like how Zelda's move set is in Smash because most of the time when I'm not in sword mode, I feel vulnerable. I appreciate Nintendo and Grezzo for trying something new, but it felt like a swing and a miss. The story and lore is much more interesting than TotK, but combat feels like an afterthought.
you can get them in the overworld from the dark enemies.
Im almost through it and i adore it. Got a great balance of all the mechanics and has a wonderful freedom despite what work out to some very minor restrictions. Yet even still, watching through other runs from people i caughr doing BOTW and TOTK runs, theres more individuality in them. Like ive watched five totally different takes on how to take down the first major boss, for example. Im sure theyll start to get more samey as the speedrunners optimize, but it basically achieved what TOTK wanted which was that individual creative vision ... And dont get me wrong, i love totk, it is an astounding piece of work, for sure, but theres something special about EoW.
Hopefully the issues like the frame rate, echo menu selection and the combat difficulty can be addressed in a patch
The Legend of Sweet Baby Inc!! I bought it but waiting to finish Emio before starting
Nintendo must stop with this idea that every game must have a new gimmick/mechanic. That is what destroyed the whole TotK experience for me.
My shipment got delayed 😡😤😤😤
Thanks for your honesty. I appreciate it.
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Thanks for the honest take. I completely agree. The platforming is fun at first, but it becomes rather tedious and repetitive as you put more time into it.
Same with combat. It's not fun watching your echoes fight your battles for you.
It's a okay game in my book overall, but it's not what I come to zelda for. If the last 3 zeldas have taught me anything it's that breaking a game is fun for a while but eventually it's like what's the point. The rules and restrictions are what makes zelda games a joy to play.
Yeah, I wish Nintendo wasn’t so hell bent on blatantly AVOIDING formulas that work. They needed to shake things up after twilight princess and did a great job, but if they think they can never go back and make a great traditional Zelda they would be sad.
This got me thinking:
What if there’s no switch 2 announcement at October? Nintendo is pretty busy for the museum and marketing Mario party jamboree.
I haven’t play this game yet but seeing gameplay I always saw the combat was slow
Which threw me off
Appreciate the review, and being real. Unfortunately, after hearing some opinions, it sounds like a pass to me. Slapping the open-ended puzzle “design” onto a game, without really accounting for all the cool things those tools could be used for. And then not even cleaning up the UI after 2 other games. Heck, it doesn’t even have its own flare, it looks exactly like BotW/TotK rather than something that fits with this. I’m fine that they wanted to try something a bit different, but the execution still has to be there.
I can understand reusing assets in favour of being able to control so many enemies and having these other new tools. But when they don’t really take advantage of it, seeing: reused assets (both enemies/characters and the world map), art style (the models could’ve been the same to save time, but at least change the textures), mechanics from TotK, and Zelda playing pretty much like Link anyway than something else, really start to hamper on this game as being all sorts of recycled. What even is new? It doesn’t even look like there’s new NPC races like top-down games gave us. Capcom made overall more unique Zelda games than this.
I hope they learn you can have tools for open-ended solutions, while still having crafted puzzles that are satisfying to solve.
You might be overthinking it lol just play the game and find out for yourself.
@@elp3035 Nah. I’m basing it off what people are saying, and cross referencing it with my own experience from other games in this series (that are recent) with the same methodology. Perhaps I just have different expectations than you do, which is fine, but it’s not what I want. “Find out for yourself” easy to say when you’re not the one paying for it. I’m not giving them my money on the hopes it’s what I want, when there’s enough info telling me it isn’t. Especially when I already gave them that benefit of the doubt with TotK and was disappointed. Not making that same mistake twice.
Love hearing your reviews🎉❤ thanks for the great writeup
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Great game easy 8/10 🇬🇧
Have you speed up
Honestly core Zelda fans seems to like eow a lot more than totk
Even using it to bash Totk.
I haven’t played it yet but it looks incredible.
I’m more excited to play this over totk simply because the map is all new
Where did you see that lol game is mid links awaking and link to the past is better
@@MichaelMegale364
Alttp and Link’s awakening are pretty mid imo I find most other 2D Zeldas a lot better.
Eow is probably better than those
@@MichaelMegale364 LOL nah. Link’s awakening was mid af.
I thought EoW was reusing ALTTP's overworld? Granted I'm not to far into the game yet(just got passed the first dungeon).
@@painuchiha2694 The map isn’t all new, it’s basically like LBW where it may have some alterations, but more/less the same. In fact, very little about this game is new at all. Art style is reused, character models, mechanics are from TotK, the overworld map is from LttP, the Still World is basically another Dark World… all that’s missing is some kind of time travel mechanic, lol.
This guy talks a mile a minute. Hey micro m a Chinese guy,, couldn't understand what you were saying more than half the video
Hey micro machine guy, slow down your speech.
Glad I didn’t drop $60 on this