#Destructoid’s award for Greatest Change Recreation of 2024 goes to… – Destructoid

I mentioned this when presenting the nominees, but it surely’s been a fairly low-key 12 months for the Change. Personally, I spent loads of it enjoying arcade video games and compilations. Although, I did deal with a number of the extra high-profile opinions on Dtoid this 12 months. Of these, the employees at Destructoid has chosen The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge as 2024’s Greatest Change Recreation.

Quite a lot of of us have been asking for a Zelda recreation the place you play because the titular princess for years. I imply, an official Zelda recreation. One which we’d reasonably not simply overlook about. With the assistance of Grezzo, Nintendo lastly supplied. Nevertheless, so much was performed to make her really feel distinct from sequence’ mainstay hero, Hyperlink. As an alternative of simply slapping a sword into Zelda’s hand, she’s given the ability to repeat and paste many gadgets and monsters from the world to be able to help her in fight, traversal, and taking a nap.

It possibly doesn’t have the grandeur of a manufacturing like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, however for some, that’s for the higher. Not everybody was down with the sequence diverging from the overworld/dungeon framework of the sooner video games, so getting again to that’s one thing of a aid.

There’s no telling the place the sequence will go from right here. We’re presently able the place we’re ready for Nintendo to lastly announce the Change’s successor, and it might occur any day now (most likely not till the brand new 12 months). How lengthy will we now have to attend for a Zelda title to land there? What’s going to it seem like? Will or not it’s extra like Breath of the Wild or Echoes of Knowledge?

Both manner, it’s most likely why it’s been a quiet 12 months. Rather a lot might be being held off for the launch of the brand new platform. 2025 might be a 12 months that completely blows us away. We received’t know till Nintendo really tells us. Within the meantime, a minimum of we now have video games like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom preserving us heat.

Nominees for Greatest Change Recreation of 2024

• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge [WINNER]
• Star Wars: Hunters
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-12 months Door
• Tremendous Mario Occasion Jamboree
• Athenian Rhapsody
• Nintendo World Championship: NES Version
• Steamworld Heist II