New Zelda footage options cute horseback using and uh, smoothie retailers

Nintendo simply dropped for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge. That’s the top-down Swap entry as a substitute of Hyperlink. The six-minute video focuses on “traversing Hyrule,” so there’s loads of cool stuff right here concerning the kingdom and, extra importantly, the overworld map.

This appears like a brand-new map. Many individuals had assumed this recreation would raise the map from The Legend of Zelda: A Hyperlink to the Previous, however that doesn’t appear to be the case. A few of the landmarks, nevertheless, are in the identical place. The fortress is on the heart, for example, and the mountains are up prime.

In any other case, this recreation contains all the varied cultures and cities from 3D Zelda video games. You possibly can meet Gorons, Zora and even enter the all-female Gerudo City. That is additionally the primary top-down Zelda recreation to characteristic traversal by horse. There are a couple of horses within the trailer, although none look precisely just like the world-famous Epona. It’s potential that Princess Zelda’s white stallion from Breath of the Wild is hanging round although. In any occasion, they’re all fairly darn cute.

The trailer additionally reveals off some deliciously kooky stuff, and all of us find it irresistible when Nintendo will get bizarre. There are smoothie retailers scattered all through Hyrule, candy-obsessed Deku Scrubs and extra.

Lastly, there’s a newly-featured capability for Zelda referred to as Bind. It forces objects and creatures within the recreation world to observe you round, probably for puzzle-solving functions.

All of that is excellent news. This doesn’t appear like a throwaway “finish of a console’s lifespan” recreation. It appears lovable and ingenious. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge comes out on September 26.