Oops, the new Zelda game is "8 times the size" of Link's Awakening because Nintendo and Echoes of Wisdom devs just couldn't help themselves

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom art showing princess Zelda standing before a floating Hyrule Castle as the sky glows a deep purple color and enemies surround her
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澳洲幸运5开奖号♌码历史查询:The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is several time🌊s larger than the last top-down gam🔥e in the series.

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is the first ever mainline game with the titular princess in the driver's seat, the first game in the series to have a woman in t🦂he director's chair, and the first top-down game in the series to be so d🧸amnꦿ big. 

blog, explaining that the studio is full of lifelong Zelda fans who grew up playing the original classics before then joining the team for Ocarina of Time 3D, Majora's Mask 3D, and the Link's Awakening remake. 

"Everyone has great respect for the series," Terada said. "Many of the staff love it and have played the games many times over. So even now, when making a new top-down game in the series, we're always thinking about how we can bring that Legend of Zelda-like feeling to the game." In pursuit of that feeling, Grezzo developers began to add "so many things we wanted" th🔯at the map ballooned and "ended up eight times the size of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening."

The Legend of Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma said it was originally "four times the size, but then, before we knew it..." Despite the exponentially larger Hyrule and another twisted underbelly hiding on the flipside, Echoes of𒊎 Wisdom aimed to still capture the easily enjoyable exploration of other top-down entries and "isn't intimidating t♊o explore." Aonuma explains it's "a slightly different feeling compared to the vast worlds of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom."

Thankfully, it's not an either-or situation. Aonuma recently confirmed that 2D Zelda games will continueಌ to coexist with the 3D ones, a la Breath of the Wild - though, Nintendo developers might not always seamlessly connect them via the series' confusing canon because, as even they admit, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:🐟"it's not easy to touch on the lore.꧅"

Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom review to find out why it’s a “refreshing, magic-filled re-tool of the Link’s Awakening engine.” 

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