The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom looks like a cute and cuddly game, but you're going to have to go down a dark path if you'd like to play it in the most optimal way possible.

Vocavor is the main boss of the Jabul Ruins in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and it looks like a giant shrimp blended with a seahorse. This boss fight involves a lot of chasing as it will glide in between water pillars with ease while players will struggle to keep up.

As we noted in last week’s return installment of Best, Worst, Weirdest , Zelda broke with that basic tradition with 2013’s A Link Between Worlds, which dropped the whole idea of a steadily growing roster of tools,

IGN (9/10) – “The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is far more than some second-tier spinoff, combining the expertly crafted dungeons and item progression you’d expect from a 2D Zelda with the wild creativity provided by Tears of the Kingdom.”

The Suthorn Ruins will be the first full dungeon players will tackle in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. After a brief visit to a rift, they will come to a fairly standard design revolving around old stonework and cave systems. It’s the perfect dungeon to make players more acquainted with the Echo system.

Echoes of Wisdom. Travel through the Stilled Eldin Volcano Rift and enter the Eldin Temple to face the dragon.

Even if it wasn’t those things, it would still be rad just to finally play as Zelda for a full game. Mysterious purple rifts have begun opening up around Hyrule, sucking any nearby terrain, buildings,

There are 28 different status-altering accessories to be found in Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. Like Clothing, Accessories are accessible via the Equipment

Echoes Of Wisdom is great, but it doesn't answer all the questions it creates with its setting, timeline, and future.

Echoes of Wisdom dungeons have some classic tropes thrown in from the best top-down entries.