New Echoes Of Wisdom Glitch Lets Players Run Around Hyrule As Link

It's nearly two weeks since avid Zelda fans got to return to the kingdom of Hyrule in Princess Zelda's first-ever standalone adventure in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. Players will play as the Hylian princess who embarks on a perilous journey of rescuing her family, friends, and the entirety of Hyrule from a catastrophe; however, some wrote off the game without playing it as they can't play as Link.

As of writing, there's a glitch circulating YouTube that lets them play as the green-clad hero; however, will it be worth sacrificing their Switch's hardware capabilities to play as this character? Well, this route will be challenging for them to accomplish as one content creator arduously details how this can be achieved but at what cost.

A Japanese creator first discovered this latest Echoes of Wisdom glitch before it was translated and shown in a video by YouTube content creator ZeldaMaster. Unfortunately, this glitch is extremely difficult to achieve as it requires making specific inputs at precise moments in-game, but it will also ask for a new game save file for this to be possible.

While we do not want to detail the complete steps required to perform this glitch successfully, players can seek out the YouTuber and follow the steps outlined in their tutorial video. Nevertheless, there are massive drawbacks to glitching themselves as Link, which includes not having access to the Hyrule map and not having their collected Echoes, meaning they can't complete quests, side quests, or solve puzzles without having the Echoes.

This glitch takes plenty of time, patience, and precision to get done correctly to get Link as a playable character, but given the hero has been playable in every Zelda game, it feels unwarranted and wrong to take this monumental feat away from the Hylian princess. Given that it has taken Nintendo almost 40 years to give Zelda her own game, we advise players to rather best experience this latest entry in The Legend of Zelda series as her Royal Highness, Princess Zelda, as it was initially intended.