Zelda is Finally Getting Her Own Game

After years of playing second fiddle to Link in her own franchise, Princess Zelda is finally getting a video game of her own this fall. From a report: During today's Direct presentation, Nintendo revealed The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, the franchise's first game to follow as Princess Zelda herself embarks on an adventure to save the world from destruction. After Ganon bests Link in battle, Zelda is left to her own devices to battle hordes of monsters that descend upon the game's take on Hyrule (which seems heavily inspired by 2019's Link's Awakening remake).

According to series producer Eiji Aonuma, Zelda will navigate and fight through the world somewhat differently in Echoes of Wisdom as she wields a magical staff known as the Tri Rod with the assistance of a fairy named Tri. The trailer details how Zelda will be able to use the Tri Rod to create "echoes" of objects and monsters she's previously encountered and use them to overcome obstacles.

What about the CDi games?

[narcc]

Finally? She's has two for years: Zelda: Wand of Gamelon and Zelda's Adventure

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[systemd-anonymousd]

Those don't count because marketing

Re:What about the CDi games?

[ravenshrike]

Well, they don't count because the people working for the Verge are total fucking morons. If they actually knew their subject matter they would know that not only does the Zelda universe have multiple timelines, but the game in question is a direct alternate timeline of Link's Awakening and not merely inspired by it.

Re: What about the CDi games?

[ArmoredDragon]

Shh...The Verge is having a virtue signaling moment...just let it go quietly...

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[BoogieChile]

They should stick to stuff they know, like PC builds and benchmarking.

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[bn-7bc]

Oh no, not multiple timelines, star-trek tried this with Discovery and you can see how well the went, esp for the har cort fans of fhat came before. Ok I know scifi and fantasy only overlaps somewhat buti think the general rule applies at least somewhat "Don't change to much at once esp when the fan base has had little to no content over the past few decades"

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[GrumpySteen]

Damn those Harcourt Fenton Mudd fans!

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[ravenshrike]

... Zelda has had multiple timelines since the 3rd game. Zelda: LttP is branching point in the past to the OG timeline

Re:What about the CDi games?

[Can'tNot]

It's not because marketing, it's because they weren't made by Nintendo and aren't part of the series and don't matter. It's an amusing bit of trivia, but the fact that Phillips had the license to crank out a few crappy knock-offs doesn't really change anything.

Re: What about the CDi games?

[Joe_Dragon]

I can do the duck walk cool ha?

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[Chris Mattern]

We...don't talk about those.

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[ArchieBunker]

Every year the Philips CDi and Atari Lynx owners get together and fill up 1/3 of an entire Applebees!

Put a chick in it! Make her gay! (Cartman)

[Chas]

Seriously."palette swap"?

Re:Put a chick in it! Make her gay! (Cartman)

[quonset]

You are way behind in that thought process. The real question is, what if Zelda was a girl?

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[Powercntrl]

I say we chip in and buy Chas a "Dude, I'm not Zelda!" tee shirt.

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[AmiMoJo]

Nintendo has been making more effort to have playable female characters of late. The most recent Mario game, Wonder, lets you play as women.

A cynic might say it's an attempt to grab some of Disney's princess based market share, but it's actually a little weird that Nintendo didn't do it sooner given that since the Wii they have been pushing to get more women playing their games.

I know about the US Mario 2, but that was are re-skin of another game that had 4 playable characters, and chose to have Peach as on

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[Zak3056]

You missed Super Mario Brothers 2 (1988) where Peach (Toadstool) was a fully playable character.

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[ravenshrike]

Yeah, but that was just a reskin of Doki Doki Panic. Of course she was a reskin of another female character.

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[_merlin]

Don't forget Peach had her own game, Super Princess Peach (2005), on DS.

Re:Put a chick in it! Make her gay! (Cartman)

[dvice]

> Nintendo has been making more effort to have playable female characters of late.

What are you talking about? We have had 16 Metroid games since 1986.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w... [wikimedia.org]

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[AmiMoJo]

"More effort", as in they now have more than one.

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[ravenshrike]

And because Lina was a female in Doki Doki Panic.

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[stealth_finger]

It would just be a pink outfit instead of a green one.

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[Powercntrl]

I'm sure it's not something you've ever searched for, but Nintendo really doesn't have to make any changes at all to Link to increase his gay appeal. Heck, his character design has even confused more than a few [gamespot.com] straight guys. [reddit.com] Zelda, on the other hand... already is a girl.

Course, way back when this series started in ye ol' glorious 8-bit, it was really hard to fap to this. [rebrickable.com]

Re: Put a chick in it! Make her gay! (Cartman)

[ArmoredDragon]

This didn't do?

http://youtu.be/rvJpiCjVrw0 [youtu.be]

Zelda could use some fresh ideas, so this is good!

[Morromist]

I love Zelda games, but having basically the same plot game after game is getting old. Ganon messes up the kingdom, you have to fix it and fight Gannon. OK. I've done that 10 times now. This seems like its mostly more of the same thing, but at least a step in the right direction.

Majora's Mask shows what Zelda games could do with new plot ideas.

I've been playing Zelda games since 1987...

[Myria]

...and it hasn't bothered me much.

Capcom's Zelda games--Minish Cap and the two Oracles--did mix up the formula a bit though.

Re: Zelda could use some fresh ideas, so this is g

[LindleyF]

I rather liked The Legend of Neil (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Neil) webseries.

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[Morromist]

Ok I'm watching this.

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[Can'tNot]

I like it. Every Zelda game is a new exploration of how to do the same thing in a different way. It's not something that I would want for every series, but I appreciate what Zelda does.

Haven't played Majora's Mask though.

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[GrumpySteen]

Big Bad Evil messes up the world and the hero has to fix things and fight the BBE is one of the most common tropes in video games.

Majora's Mask shows what Zelda games could do with new plot ideas.

Majora's Mask corrupts Skull Kid and causes him to put the moon on a collision course with Termina. Link has to fix things and defeat Majora's Mask in a final boss battle.

What a completely new and novel plot idea that definitely doesn't fall into the :"BBE messes up the kingdom, you have to fix it and fight the BBE" trope.

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[mjwx]

Big Bad Evil messes up the world and the hero has to fix things and fight the BBE is one of the most common tropes in video games.

Majora's Mask shows what Zelda games could do with new plot ideas.

Majora's Mask corrupts Skull Kid and causes him to put the moon on a collision course with Termina. Link has to fix things and defeat Majora's Mask in a final boss battle.

What a completely new and novel plot idea that definitely doesn't fall into the :"BBE messes up the kingdom, you have to fix it and fight the BBE" trope.

Basically you can boil most plots down to protagonist beats antagonist.

I don't mind the well trodden tropes as long as the stories are done well and are somewhat interesting. Gameplay must be good also.

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[bussdriver]

The PLOT is not the point of the game!! Go watch a movie or play one of those millions of interactive action movie on rails like Call of Duty.

The purpose is a well curated adventure to get a feeling of discovery and LINK is named because he is a proxy for the little boys who played (and designed) the games.

Just make him more gender neutral than he already is... or teach children they don't have to be so strongly linked to gender roles; they can imagine themselves outside one. It won't make them gay anymor

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[LiquidAvatar]

What percentage of video game aren't covered by the description of Bad Guy messes up the Setting, you have to fix it and fight Bad Guy? The Zelda games are especially repetitive, but that basic formula is everywhere.

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[Surak_Prime]

Yeah! I mean, you'd think at some point Batman would just go ahead and off the Joker, right? ;)

Missed opportunity

[Calydor]

Way back in the 80s the comics focusing on Link and Zelda showed the princess as a capable badass warrior focusing on using the bow where Link was more into using the sword. A shame they don't lean into that instead of using one of the most obscure tools from A Link to the Past.

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[bussdriver]

Without LINK, the game should be just a movie; since "link" is the connection between the user and the world of the adventure.

Zelda's Ballad

[Meneth]

This model-swap mod for BOTW is fairly popular: Zelda's Ballad (Switch version) [gamebanana.com]

Cool!

[cascadingstylesheet]

Looking forward to it :)

Looks like some interesting new mechanics.

I've already seen some people kvetching that sure, Zelda finally gets to be the protagonist, but she doesn't get to be a swordsman ... er, swordsperson? Utterly missing the point that the fun in Zelda games has always been the weird abilities and puzzle solving, not so much the hack and slash.

Re: Cool!

[hey00]

If zelda was swordweilding, those dans people would have complained that it was only a colorswap for virtue signaling or that zelda isn't feminine and is full of toxic masculinity or whatever.

As a philosopher once said, the only winning move is to not engage them.

Shame Robin Williams missed it

[HalAtWork]

It's too bad Robin Williams didn't get to see this

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[apocalyptic_mystic]

It's too bad Robin Williams didn't get to see this

His daughter Zelda can see it, though, and might even appreciate it more.