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Subsequent week, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge launches on Nintendo Swap. It’s the primary mainline entry within the franchise to allow you to play as Princess Zelda. And as soon as once more, Nintendo is being secretive about who developed it, although followers have seemingly figured it out.
Introduced in June 2024, Echoes of Knowledge is the sport many Zelda followers have been wanting for many years: A brand new foremost journey starring Zelda as an alternative of Hyperlink. The sport shall be extra puzzle-focused than your common Legend of Zelda title, one thing the web had enjoyable reacting to shortly after its announcement. However who’s making this new Zelda-focused sport? Formally, we don’t know, one thing that’s develop into a development for the corporate. Nonetheless, copyright information factors to Grezzo and if that’s the case then that’s fairly cool.
As noticed by Eurogamer, individuals who pre-ordered Echoes of Knowledge have noticed Grezzo’s identify within the sport’s logos part on Swap. This seemingly confirms what many gamers suspected when Echoes of Knowledge was first revealed in June.
The sport’s artwork type seemed so much like Grezzo’s great Hyperlink’s Awakening remake from 2019. The studio has beforehand labored on different Zelda remasters and ports, like 4 Swords to DSI and Ocarina of Time 3D, in addition to Majora’s Masks 3D, to 3DS. The Japanese studio additionally ported Luigi’s Mansion to 3DS, too. So the studio has a stable observe document of constructing great things!
Kotaku has reached out to Nintendo for affirmation. Nonetheless, final time this occurred with Princess Peach Showtime, the Mario writer instructed shops to attend and verify the credit as an alternative of confirming who made the sport. The same factor occurred with Mario’s new voice actor final yr. It’s very odd, particularly in an already overly secretive sport trade.
It’s very nice to see the staff being given an opportunity to make one thing new like The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge. Nintendo administration will need to have a variety of confidence within the studio. Hopefully, which means Echoes of Knowledge finally ends up being a incredible new entry within the sequence.
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