Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom may have given players some exciting tools to mess around with, but because of that, the next Zelda may be in a tough spot.

As we noted in last week’s return installment of Best, Worst, Weirdest , Zelda broke with that basic tradition with 2013’s A Link Between Worlds, which dropped the whole idea of a steadily growing roster of tools,

You can see the influence of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom in Echoes of Wisdom, Nintendo’s latest top-down Zelda game for the Nintendo Switch. But for all of the new game’s openness and emphasis on playing how you want,

Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom includes a side quest for players to complete that first appeared in a Zelda installment 15 years ago and hasn't since.

Echoes of Wisdom has a UI problem, but perhaps the answer to solving it is in Breath of the Wild's most divisive feature.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

Platbooms are essentially floating mattresses with dangerously spiky bottoms. They go up and down like an elevator, and as such, you can use them to complete many of the platforming challenges in Echoes of Wisdom Summoning a platboom costs three Tri power.

Table go vroom-vroom” reads the caption—just a small taste of what an inventive player can do in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, the latest in the series from Nintendo. Echoes of Wisdom is all about finding new ways to use the world’s items.

Echoes of Wisdom may be the only Zelda game wherein Link steps aside to let Zelda take the leading role, but apparently that's one game too many for some Link aficionados who've learned how to restore his as the main character.

Legend of Zelda speedrunners have discovered a glitch in Echoes of Wisdom that allows you to play the game as Link instead of its titular princess - and it's genius. Speedrunners have been hard at work discovering exploits and glitches since Nintendo's big Echoes of Wisdom launch just eight days ago.

We try to find a place for Echoes of Wisdom in Zelda's convoluted timeline, looking for a possible link (sorry) with A Link's Awakening.