Details from The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom trailer you may have missed

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Earlier this week, Nintendo released a new trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, which is scheduled for release next month.

The game features the titular princess in the lead role for the first time and includes a new Echo mechanic, where Zelda can essentially copy and paste elements from the world to explore and solve puzzles.

The new trailer focused on a tour of Hyrule, showing off its various regions and the new Bind power that allows Zelda to bind (and move) to objects and enemies.

But there are some extra details in the trailer that you might have missed. Watch the new trailer below first.

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – Trailer Traversing Hyrule – Nintendo SwitchWatch on YouTube

Equitation

Okay, it’s not exactly a small detail that Echoes of Wisdom will include horseback riding. But it’s significant, partly because it’s usually associated with the more expansive 3D Zelda games (though it was included in Four Swords Adventures). Zelda will be able to summon a horse once she (appropriately) learns the Echo for a carrot, but in the trailer we see both a brown and a white horse, suggesting that there’s no fixed Epona equivalent but multiple horses available. The horses can run and jump across the world, and it looks like they’ll end up at what might be Lon Lon Ranch. The inclusion of horses, ultimately, hints at the scale of this world, which seems larger than any other top-down Zelda game before it.

Screenshot from The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom trailer showing Zelda jumping on a horse near what appears to be a ranch

Check the minimap: is this the Lon Lon Ranch? | Image Credit: Nintendo

Names of the regions

When Echoes of Wisdom was first revealed earlier this year, fans speculated that the map would look similar to the one in A Link to the Past . Yet now we have confirmed the region names, which are taken from more recent Zelda games. There’s the Gerudo Desert, for example, which makes the princess sweat, and the women of the Gerudo tribe look like chibi versions of their Breath of the Wild counterparts. The Faron Wetlands (Twilight Princess, Breath of the Wild) are where we meet the Deku, while the game’s mountainous region is called Eldin Volcano, which parallels Skyward Sword when Death Mountain is usually the iconic volcano. Finally, the Zora reside in Jabul Waters, perhaps a reference to Ocarina of Time’s giant fish, Jabu Jabu.

Screenshot from The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom trailer showing Zelda sweating in the desert

Adventure is hard work | Image Credit: Nintendo

Regions of water

Speaking of water, we've already seen that the game will feature both Sea and River Zoras who appear to be feuding. Jabul Waters features pillars with the design of the Water Medallion from Ocarina of Time, while the River Zora Village curiously includes musical instruments such as a lute, maracas, and a horn. Could this be a nod to Majora's Mask's band, The Indigo-Go's?

Screenshot from The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom trailer showing the Zora village in Jabul Water with musical instruments

Find the tools! | Image Credit: Nintendo

Link to Breath of the Wild

Echoes of Wisdom certainly looks to marry the lovely overhead visuals of the Link's Awakening remake with the creativity and experimental feel of more recent Zelda games. Bind, in particular, feels similar to Tears of the Kingdom's Ultrahand. More specifically, the UI and text font are the same, and this new trailer offers a look at Zelda's Adventure Log. This is where players will prioritize quests, split between side quests and main quests. Interestingly, Zelda has more main quests available, suggesting a more open-ended, player-driven structure, more akin to the Switch Zelda games.

Screenshot from The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom trailer showing its adventure log with quests

It looks very similar to Breath of the Wild | Image Credit: Nintendo

Japanese artwork

Outside of the trailer, Nintendo has released the official artwork for Echoes of Wisdom. However, the Japanese version (as seen on the game’s Japanese website) is slightly larger and includes a few extra details. The top left corner features a small man on a paraglider—could this be a new postman? There’s also a snake enemy in the bottom right, as well as what appears to be a wanted poster for Zelda. The previous trailer showed Zelda meeting new companion Tri in a prison cell before embarking on her adventure while camouflaged, so it seems like she may be spending part of her adventure on the run.

Other pieces

Other small details in the trailer include a small cat and a hat-wearing parrot in Gerudo Town; a Goron chieftain named Darston, who follows the series' usual naming convention (Darunia and Daruk, for example); and a map screen divided into sections, though it's unclear whether the map pieces will be acquired or simply revealed through exploration.

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is scheduled for release on September 26, and promises to be a particularly unique entry in Nintendo’s long-running series.

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