One of the quirks about “The Legend of Zelda” franchise is that the protagonist’s name isn’t in the title. Princess Zelda is the damsel in distress, the person who has to be rescued, but over several iterations, Nintendo has fleshed out her character and she has undergone several transformations through the years.

In Echoes of Wisdom, it is confirmed from the start that the main protagonist isn’t Link, but instead Zelda. Unfortunately, Link is whisked away into the Still World and, as such, is used by the antagonist to stop Zelda from closing the rifts that have taken over the land of Hyrule.

Echoes of Wisdom is a surprisingly substantial top-down Zelda with the slap-things together puzzle-solving spirit of Tears of the Kingdom, though its new ideas sometimes get in the way of the fun. Why you can trust Tom's Guide Our writers and editors spend hours analyzing and reviewing products,