Nintendo simply dropped a quite prolonged new overview trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge. That’s the top-down Change entry that stars the titular princess as a substitute of Hyperlink. The six-minute video focuses on “traversing Hyrule,” so there’s loads of cool stuff right here in regards to the kingdom and, extra importantly, the overworld map.
This appears to be like like a brand-new map. Many individuals had assumed this sport would elevate the map from The Legend of Zelda: A Hyperlink to the Previous, however that doesn’t appear to be the case. A few of the landmarks, nevertheless, are in the identical place. The citadel is on the middle, as an example, and the mountains are up high.
In any other case, this sport consists of all the varied cultures and cities from 3D Zelda video games. You may meet Gorons, Zora and even enter the all-female Gerudo City. That is additionally the primary top-down Zelda sport to characteristic traversal by horse. There are a number of horses within the trailer, although none look precisely just like the world-famous Epona. It’s attainable that Princess Zelda’s white stallion from Breath of the Wild is hanging round although. In any occasion, they’re all fairly darn cute.
The trailer additionally exhibits off some deliciously kooky stuff, and all of us find it irresistible when Nintendo will get bizarre. There are smoothie outlets scattered all through Hyrule, candy-obsessed Deku Scrubs and extra.
Lastly, there’s a newly-featured capability for Zelda known as Bind. It forces objects and creatures within the sport world to observe you round, seemingly for puzzle-solving functions.
All of that is excellent news. This doesn’t appear to be a throwaway “end of a console’s lifespan” sport. It appears to be like lovely and ingenious. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge comes out on September 26.