Summary
- Smoothie Shops in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom offer unique attributes, adding a new element to gameplay for players to experiment with.
- The Tri Rod plays a key role in puzzles in the game, featuring various aspects similar to Tears of the Kingdom.
- Zelda's transition to a main character brings a fresh perspective, with players curious about how this game will differ from previous installments.
Smoothie Shops will be an important part of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. Nintendo has plenty of upcoming games slated for the end of 2024, and one of the titles players are most excited about is The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. What seems to be this game's defining trait is that it will deliver on making Zelda playable in a mainline title, something that players have been requesting of Nintendo for a very long time.
This game has an air of mystery surrounding it. Some fans have been concerned about how a game that stars Zelda would play, considering most iterations don't portray her as very capable in combat. Echoes of Wisdom appears to have this issue figured out, centering much of its gameplay around the Tri Rod. The Tri Rod seems to turn many aspects of the game into their own puzzles to solve, making it similar to Tears of the Kingdom in approach. Players are wondering how the game will mix things up, though, and a new addition leaves some clues.
In Echoes of Wisdom, Business Scrubs have set up Smoothie Shops that will apply various attributes to players. The rules for making smoothies appear to be quite specific, limited to the combination of two ingredients to make various different recipes. The smoothie ingredients shown here are the Electro Apple and Floral Nectar, the former granting electricity resistance, and the latter boosting the effect. These are likely to work comparably to recipes in Tears of the Kingdom, with items like Voltfruit serving the same purpose as the Electro Apple.
This sheds some light on the nature of some puzzles in Echoes of Wisdom, as Zelda will likely be obstructed by various elements like electricity, needing to find creative ways to navigate her situations with the Tri Rod and other items. It will be interesting for players to see how this game draws its similarities to other Zelda releases, since it seems like it has plenty in common with Tears of the Kingdom.
Smoothies Change Up Echoes of Wisdom's Gameplay
The inclusion of these smoothies calls the amount of freedom players will be given when solving puzzles into question. Gamers have gone back and forth on how satisfied they've felt with puzzles in Tears of the Kingdom, with some players becoming big fans of the way there can be multiple solutions. Players may not require smoothies to solve puzzles, as the Tri Rod's abilities show plenty of promise on their own. Regardless, Zelda will have plenty of items in her toolkit for this adventure.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 85 /100 Critics Rec: 93%
- Released
- September 26, 2024
- ESRB
- E10+ For Everyone 10+
- Developer(s)
- Nintendo, Grezzo
- Publisher(s)
- Nintendo
- Engine
- Havok
- Franchise
- The Legend of Zelda
WHERE TO PLAY
Save Hyrule—this time with the wisdom of Princess Zelda!
The people of Hyrule are being stolen away by strange rifts—and with a certain swordsman among the missing, it’s up to Princess Zelda to save her kingdom in the latest adventure in The Legend of Zelda™ series!
Team up with the ethereal creature Tri and use the Tri Rod to create “echoes,” which are imitations of things you find in the environment—then recreate those echoes whenever you like to solve puzzles and defeat enemies. Use echoes like water blocks to reach new heights, make bridges out of old beds, throw rocks at foes, or find your own combination of echoes to do things your way. You can even make echoes of monsters to fight at your side in combat!
- Platform(s)
- Nintendo Switch
- Genre(s)
- Adventure
