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Release Date: September 26, 2024
Official description: After Princess Zelda was captured by Ganon, the swordsman Link stormed in to rescue her. After a fierce battle, Link appeared to defeat the villain, but was suddenly dragged down into a mysterious rift in the ground and disappeared. These strange rifts began to appear all over Hyrule, swallowing up others, including the King and his advisors. Left alone, it’s now up to Princess Zelda to save her kingdom in a brand-new adventure in the Legend of Zelda series!
Team up with the ethereal creature, Tri, and use the powerful Tri Rod to create “echoes”—imitations of things you will find in the world—to solve puzzles and defeat enemies.
Use echoes like water blocks to reach new heights, make bridges out of old beds, throw rocks at foes—or find your own creative combination of echoes to do things your way. Just press [ZR] to learn an echo, then press [Y] to make one. You can then press [ZR] again to erase it or hold down [ZR] to erase all echoes you’ve made on the field. Easy!
You can even make echoes of monsters to fight at your side and give those baddies a taste of their own medicine!
In Zelda’s first outing as the protagonist in her own game series, more brain than brawn is needed to save Hyrule – but it stays accessible to the bed-heads among us.
Check out our gameplay video before you dive in.
Princess Zelda will be able to temporarily transform into a swordfighter to take on baddies.
A new trailer showed off some of the locations players will visit and a selection of abilities they'll be able to play around with on their adventure.