The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Ultimately making the titular princess the playable star of the show. After a brief prologue as Link, players leave Hero of Time behind and embark on a new type of Zelda adventure. However, one player recently discovered there is a way to continue playing as Link, and the glitch behind it raises questions about how much of the game there is to defeat as the elf-like warrior.
Japanese speed runner Ika Bose Proof of upload This glitch may have occurred earlier this week YouTuber Sarda Master has published a handy English-language guide on how to achieve this (via IGN). This trick requires messing with the menu screen and saving the file. When it works, it breaks the game, but for speedrunners pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the latest Nintendo Switch, it’s worth it Salda.
As ZeldaMaster explains, the first part of troubleshooting is very simple. Once you take control of Link in the prologue, make a manual save. From now on, do not save until the map is open and can be explored as desired to control Zelda. Then, go get the Symbol Echo and head to the Eternal Forest. This is when things start to get tricky. The next step involves planting a sign as close as possible to where the forest will take you back to where you started. The goal is to pause and bring up the save screen at the moment Zelda reads the sign and starts teleporting.
If successful, she can still move around when the menu appears on the screen. Next, the goal is to load an existing manual save while The Legend of Zelda is dying. This involves finding some nearby enemies and having them drain her health. Bringing up the menu screen again after she’s dead and the Game Over is about to pop up will cause the game to glitch out, from there there’s the option to retry and simultaneously load the original save, swapping Zelda back to the overworld near the current Link Forest. The game state will be regressed and some game features will be locked again, but Link has his gear and is free to explore the map.
It’s a neat glitch because people love Link, but it raises the interesting possibility of whether the entire game can be defeated with him. He doesn’t have the wand that makes Zelda echo, which effectively prevents him from solving any of the game’s puzzles and progressing to the end as the developers intended. But what if he could get three sticks and start making them while retaining all other abilities? If players could swap the entire character model, I’m sure they could figure out a simple item.
after all, Salda the speed runner is Those who figured out how to save the unbreakable Master Sword from the beginning The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Whether it’s a dozen weird menu screen glitches or a hundred, I think they’ll find a way.
