Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

I don't really think either of the bosses were all that hard between those two temples.

I've died few times and spent all heart resources while fighting the boss lol. Maybe it's just me that don't handle the echoes well yet.

Btw, where is boss Lanmola? I read somewhere that this boss is before those two temples, is it secret boss? When I was done with Jabul I finally met General Wright and he took me to Hyrule but still didn't tell where to find the secret bosses...

@zlobnicazelda lanmolas appear around the desert. I wouldn’t call them secret bosses, but they’re definitely optional.

Wright will tell you about them later on when you move onto the second half of the game.

I haven't come close to dying in any dungeons (done 7 so far) but there was one of the late dungeons I took multiple naps in during the boss fight 😆

I'd have to say that I got through all the boss fights by repeatedly summing echoes, running away and dodging.

You can speed things up a bit if you're inclined to use Swordfighter mode and there are occasions where you can pin enemies down with bind, but it's not like you have to play a particularly active part in any of them.

But yes, just stay out of harm's way and let your crows/moblins/wizrzobe/lynel cook.

Boss fights in Echoes of Wisdom boil down to spam summoning your strongest echo and sitting back.

ehh, not necessarily strongest. Some of the bosses are super fast to kill if you use the exact right combination of echoes.

I guess. I just kept spamming one Echo I got towards end-game and barely had to think about what I was doing.

@VoidofLight the lanayru dungeon at least required some level of thought and strategy. For both the final boss, and even the mini boss. At least for me. Just finished that dungeon about 15 minutes ago so it's fresh in my mind.

@NintendoByNature I didn't really have much of a strategy. Just spammed wizzrobes and beat it pretty easily. The only dungeon I'd say is actually complex and pretty challenging is the Faron dungeon. Mainly because it's the most similarly designed to dungeons in Link's Awakening instead of following the weird linear structure that EoW introduced with it's dungeons.

@VoidofLight I'm guessing you needed to use specific elements in that fight which I enjoyed. Felt like twinrova a bit.

On a side note, just rolled credits

@NintendoByNature Effectively, yeah.

I've done almost 50 side quests now and maxed almost all of the 9-ish categories of collectibles 😆 Perhaps I should beat the game.

One detail I really like about this game is bringing back Farore, Din, and Nayru. Ocarina of Time made them such a strong and compelling part of the lore, and I never like how later games put the emphasis on Hylia instead

To be fair, even if they don’t name them individually, the games have been consistent with the backstory of the golden goddesses: they created the world, and then left the triforce behind.

Hylia is kind of like their enforcer, a lesser deity left on earth to watch over things. Made to (out of universe) explain Zelda’s powers.

I feel it makes good sense for the common people to remember the deity that actually stayed behind with them more, and for wiser and important individuals to have better knowledge about the golden goddesses themselves.

(Kind of like how you can see them represented at the throne room in both Twilight Princess and BotW/TotK; the game doesn’t bring them up, but the royal family clearly know them and their relationship to the triforce)

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Also anyone else kind of cringes whenever the game uses the name “Prime Energy”?

@Eel You don't like Nintendo advertising Logan Paul's energy drink?

@VoidofLight the royal family of hyrule are a bunch of sellouts.

@Eel They had to do it. If they didn't, they wouldn't be rich anymore. The rebuilding from constant attacks took a toll on the royal treasury.

This Game just entered my collection today. I haven’t actually sat down to start playing it yet.

I managed to break the game's economy by making and selling vast quantities of mango smoothies.

Once you've got five equipment slots unlocked, there's precious little to spend your Rupees on though.