Within the third a part of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge Nintendo interview sequence, Eiji Aonuma and Satoshi Terada defined precisely how a lot greater the dimensions of its map is than the remake of Hyperlink’s Awakening on the Change. Whereas it began out as 4 instances bigger, it turned to eight instances greater.
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge map measurement got here up when discussing how Hyrule seemed, and that’s when each Nintendo’s Aonuma and Grezzo’s Terada defined how a lot greater it’s than Hyperlink’s Awakening. Aonuma first talked about the preliminary idea concerned the sport’s world being “4 instances the dimensions.” Terada defined, “Nonetheless, we packed in so many issues we wished to do to create this “Legend of Zelda-like” feeling, and the map ended up eight instances the dimensions of The Legend of Zelda: Hyperlink’s Awakening.”
Aonuma additionally elaborated on the dimensions of the map in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge in one other response. He touched on the way it could also be bigger than anticipated, it nonetheless seems like different top-down entries. He mentioned, “Nonetheless, though the map has change into a lot bigger, the sensation of a top-down The Legend of Zelda sport, the place you may simply take pleasure in gameplay in a compact world, remains to be there, so it isn’t intimidating to discover. So that you’ll be capable to play with a barely completely different feeling in comparison with the huge worlds of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild or The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.”
Tomomi Sano additionally in contrast The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge to Hyperlink’s Awakening, bearing on the vary. She famous, “…The Legend of Zelda: Hyperlink’s Awakening was set on a single island, however on this sport, you get to discover a wide range of completely different locations in Hyrule. There are Gerudo, Gorons, and Deku Scrubs, who we haven’t seen for some time. As many could know, the world of Hyrule is residence to many alternative cultural areas, and the various graphics for every of their areas that Grezzo has crafted with love are actually one thing to see.”
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge will come to the Nintendo Change on September 26, 2024.
