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The Legend of the Nintendo Switch
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom bookends another Nintendo revolution.
Unlike Breath of the Wild or last year’s Tears of the Kingdom, which dazzled with their painterly landscapes and awe-inspiring scale, Echoes of Wisdom is bite-size and cute with a world that looks like a Playmobil set. The new Zelda is not Nintendo’s last release of the year (that would be November’s Mario & Luigi: Brothership), but it feels like a final bow in the way it underlines how much the console has brought about a tectonic shift in how the company makes games. This philosophical shift in design coincided with a period of profound isolation at a time when both of those things were in short supply, as a staggering 45 million people were lured to Animal Crossing ’s charming rhythms.
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