The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
The people of Hyrule are being stolen away by strange rifts that have appeared, and with a certain swordsman among those missing, it’s up to Princess Zelda to save her kingdom. Team up with the mysterious…
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is an adventure developed by Grezzo, released 26 September 2024 on Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch. The main story takes about 24 hrs to finish.
What The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is an adventure game developed by Grezzo and released in 2024. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the kingdom of Hyrule, mysterious rifts begin tearing open across the land, swallowing people and places into a frozen realm called the Still World. When the hero Link vanishes into one of these rifts while trying to rescue her, Princess Zelda returns to Hyrule Castle only to find imposters posing as the king and his advisors, who frame her for the disaster and imprison her. With the help of a fairy named Tri, Zelda escapes and receives the Tri Rod, a magical artifact that lets her create echoes, copies of objects and creatures she has seen. Setting out across Hyrule, she works to seal the growing rifts, free those trapped in the Still World, and uncover the true source of the calamity…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is the 128th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition in 2025. Its critic score of 85 is almost exactly the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at 100.
How it was received
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 89 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 24 hrs.
What it launched against
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom launched on 26 September 2024, within three weeks of Silent Hill 2, Astro Bot, Metaphor: ReFantazio and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 7 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Silent Hill 2, Astro Bot, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II.
Cheats and codes
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Official trailer
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