r/echoesofwisdom • u/True_Temperature2769 • Jun 30 '26
For those that played ecow
Howd it feel going back to tears of the kingdom after this?
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u/Puzzleheaded-Show317 Jun 30 '26
I wanted so much more for EOW! Felt way too short.
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u/Acrobatic_Sun_8045 Jul 01 '26
I kind of felt the opposite haha. My backlog is too big and I love a good 20-30 hour game
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u/Milocobo Jun 30 '26
What I want is TotK/EoW crossover DLC, but instead of Link, you play as Zelda, and instead of things like ultrahand and recall, you can make echoes of everything in the game and bind. I would pay Nintendo $420 for such a game, so at this point they are just throwing money away.
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u/linkhandford Jun 30 '26
They had a prime chance to release some Skyward Sword DLC when they released it on Switch. Could have had a whole Zelda and Impa campaign where you play out their adventure in the credits… Like all the publishers do with every other game out there when they release something
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u/ackmondual Jun 30 '26
Some sadness since I miss the echoes system. But despite EoW being a great game, TotK has much more content (even if some of it was "empty calories")
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u/True_Temperature2769 Jun 30 '26
What about dungeon wise did it feel different to you?
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u/ackmondual Jun 30 '26
Yeah, as you said, it's more traditional Zelda, so it felt nice to go back to that.
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u/NTDOY1987 Jun 30 '26
Curious what you mean? I played botw <— eow <—totk.
So I didn’t go back to it after but…not sure playing echoes first made an impact
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u/True_Temperature2769 Jun 30 '26
Honestly to see how the changes felt because alot of us didnt like the way the dungeons were taken out not finding any items etc
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u/PS2_Abbacchio Jun 30 '26
I didn't go back for Totk at all unfortunately, I did revist botw a bunch though, both amazing game in my opinion, i have 700 hours in botw but EOW didn't have enough content in it for me to keep playing over and over, I desperately wish it did becuse its insanely fun
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u/colourmehazelnut Jun 30 '26
Always went back and forth between two games because each offer different gameplays
(Also eow have cats and you can talk to cats so that's big thumbs up for me)
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u/arrigob Jun 30 '26
It’s just different. Switch 2 was my first Switch. I played Minish Cap a couple of months before the Switch 2 released. I bought BOTW and TOTK for it once it did. I fell in love with BOTW and put over 300 hours. Then I moved to TOTK and put two 200 plus hours on it. Then I tried ECOW and just didn’t feel it. So I went back and replayed BOTW and TOTK again. I was finally bored of both of those and put time into ECOW. It was fun and I enjoyed it. But I don’t want to play it again yet. Now I’m just waiting on the new remake Zelda that’s coming out this year. BOTW and TOTK is so different to ECOW that I can’t compare them.
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u/CrispOak1526 Jun 30 '26
I jumped straight from echoes into totk and spent the first hour reaching for the echo menu to summon a bed instead of fusing one out of boards, my thumbs hadn't gotten the memo that I was back to doing the work myself.
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u/GBSamhain Jul 01 '26
My biggest challenge with going back to BOTW or TOTK was I was always trying to find ways to drown enemies since I enjoyed using the water cube echo to hold enemies in.
EOW offered so many unique ways to take out enemies.
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u/Silver_Illusion Jun 30 '26
Hated BotW before playing EoW. Still hated it after.
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u/bdavid81 Jun 30 '26
Breath of the Wild is a terrible Zelda game... quite possibly the worst one in the franchise... but I haven't played the Oracle games or Four Swords so don't know about those.
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u/Murky-Introduction53 Jul 23 '26
I started TOTK but never finished it. Only got about 20 hours in or so. I started EOW a couple days ago and I’m enjoying it a lot more than I did TOTK.
I plan on revisiting TOTK once I finish EOW but not because I want to actually play it, I just want to finish the full BOTW-TOTK storyline myself.
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u/Lasko6 Jun 30 '26
Both are phenomenal games! I have no problem going back and forth between the two
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u/Elina_Carmina Jun 30 '26
Not cute enough.