28
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom had this year's most revelatory puzzle item
(www.eurogamer.net)
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2024
28 points (96.7% liked)
Games
16959 readers
600 users here now
Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)
Posts.
- News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
- Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
- No humor/memes etc..
- No affiliate links
- No advertising.
- No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
- No self promotion.
- No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
- No politics.
Comments.
- No personal attacks.
- Obey instance rules.
- No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
- Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.
My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.
Other communities:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It's somewhat useful, but it's not my favourite way to overcome obstacles because swimming is very slow and kinda janky.
The thing is, in theory, you've got several echoes and strategies that would let you cross a ravine or climb up a cliff. For example there's several floating monsters that can carry you, one that you can grab as it climbs walls, and those flying tiles from aLttP that you can ride (that one's kinda cool. I wanted more like that).
Water cube is just the one that works in almost all situations. And a big problem in this game is that it's a pain to switch echoes all the time, so water cube is one of the few you'll have in speed dial most of the time.
Same. Pretty soon after I got it, I was able to largely skip a stupid stealth section by flying across bookcases. I also use it when I'm too lazy to go the long way and just want to cross a gap for a chest or something.
Agreed. I wish I could tag 10 or so for quick access and assign to a ring switcher thing. I ended up using about that many over and over, because it's such a pain to go find the one in the middle I want to mess with.
Or maybe they could group them or something? Like mobs, scenery, furniture, etc? Having some way to get to other echoes might encourage me to experiment a bit more.
It really really is. It's one of the things I noticed in the trailer and just hoped they would have a solution for once I got to play the game.
The game has a hundred or so echoes, and you can solve puzzles in different ways, but some require a very specific echo and some require any, so you basically just use the same half dozen echoes. When you have to switch, it sucks, and so when you don't have to switch you just spam water block or whatever.
It seems like the devs just implemented the echo switching as is and assumed they'd fix it later... But they never did.
It's a fun game but the chances of me replaying it are near zero. Skyward Sword had a similar problem with Fi, although I understand they've mostly fix that in the remaster.