The end of 2025 and the first half of January 2026 found me in the best possible gameplay company I could have hoped for, as I received this remarkable creation as a gift during the holidays, Echoes of Wisdom . What a beautiful title, and how perfectly suited it is for a Zelda game. I already knew, as expected, quite a lot about it, that you control Zelda instead of Link for the first time in the history of the franchise, and that it follows the same aesthetic as the remake of Link’s Awakening , another game I had an amazing time with. Echoes of Wisdom , however, was a superior experience in every way, in my opinion. Not that the two are entirely comparable, but I cannot help but make the comparison, and I think you understand why. Nevertheless, in this text I will focus on this particular creation without going into extensive detail about the other releases. Given that it is a game from 2024 and a fairly well-known one at that, I assume that anyone reading this will already be aware...
Every time I encounter a spiritual offspring of another creation, I mean when I actually recognize it, because everything is influenced by something, I am deeply moved. I see the passing of knowledge from one work to another and the universal human need for communication. A team from Estonia delivered such a work in 2019, creating the masterpiece Disco Elysium , itself inspired by earlier eras, and in 2025 another team released a new title that built on the foundations of that predecessor while shaping its own story according to its own vision. If this is not the essence of creation, then what is? There is another influence I noticed, a primary one, but I cannot mention it because it would be a major spoiler. I can only point to two words, or three if we count the conjunction. Space and Time. Rue Valley is an isometric narrative RPG, and I will try to discuss it without revealing anything about its plot. I would even suggest that you avoid watching the trailer; perhaps look ...