Important takeaways
- Echoes of Wisdom shares map elements with A Link to the Past.
- Fans have noticed familiar landmarks from A Link to the Past in Echoes of Wisdom.
- Grezzo's attention to detail in the mapping means potential hidden lore and easter eggs for players to discover.
Fans have overlapped The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdoms map with A link to the pastits own map, and makes some surprising discoveries about how the two games manage to “link together” for meaningful connections. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is the latest installment in Nintendo's long-running franchise, bucking the trend by making Princess Zelda the main character as opposed to Link.
Echo of wisdom plays like many previous top-down Zelda games, such as A link to the past, Minish Capand Link's Awakening. A link to the past in particular, it was the first game to establish this style of play for the franchise, which would carry over to future games, including Echo of wisdom. As fans have played the game, many have discovered that not only do the two games share the same gameplay, but they also have essentially the same map, with Echo of wisdom based on what was shown in A link to the past.
Some posts on Twitter from fans and IGN have compared the two maps. Observations were made noting a number of major landmarks from A link to the pasts map can be found in Echo of wisdomthough they have been ravaged by the passage of time or have been changed into something else. On top of that, Echo of wisdom has a number of areas that are outside A link to the pasts playable area, giving some implications about how civilizations like the Gerudo and Goron were just outside the border but have always existed in the world.
Echoes of Wisdom and A Link to the Past have parallel maps
IGN's Tom Marks agreed with fans' assessment of the parallel maps, noting that the landmarks around Echo of wisdom's Hyrule Castle should be familiar long ago Zelda fans. Some locations include the graveyard, the church, and even Link's house from A link to the pastEven if Echo of wisdom's Link lives in Suthorn Village. Another familiar area that has been switched from A link to the past to Echo of wisdom is Kakariko Village, where there are now ruins, suggesting that the village was moved sometime between the games.
Echo of wisdom is not the only game to use a variant of A link to the pasts overworld map, considering how A link between worlds on the 3DS did the same thing, although that was because it was another sequel A link to the past. While some lore-minded Zelda fans theorize where Echo of wisdom fit into the timeline, others were delighted to discover all the Easter eggs and references Grezzo included.
