The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
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The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

1993
Action, Adventure
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is the first title in the series to be released on a handheld system and the only Zelda title on the original Game Boy. The gameplay is mostly similar to its predecessor with a top-down perspective, however there are short sections in dungeons where the game switches to a side-scrolling view with platforming elements. For this new adventure, Link must go onto each of the 7 temples to retrieve a musical instrument that will help awaken the Wind Fish. (igdb)

Franchise:

The Legend of Zelda

Genres:

Action, Adventure

Developers:

Nintendo, Nintendo EAD

AKAs:

ゼルダの伝説 夢をみる島DX, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX, Zelda no Densetsu: Yume wo Miru Shima, ゼルダの伝説 夢をみる島, 薩爾達傳說 織夢島

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

1993
Action, Adventure
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Rated 14 Jan 2018
65
11th
Link's acid trip
Rated 10 Dec 2020
89
92nd
The followup on Link to Past manages to conjure plenty of atmosphere from the pea-soup fog of the original Game Boy (though the various updates and remakes do so even better), while throwing a sizeable dose of the ever-more-puzzly exploration the series would keep revisiting your way.
Rated 17 May 2020
80
45th
Sword Search is S-tier Zelda music
Rated 12 Feb 2020
90
50th
Link's Awakening is a massive adventure and non-stop fun to play. There is a distinct sense of humor to the dialogue and cameos throughout. Though it can be a tad too difficult at times, this Zelda game is one of the best in the handheld side of the franchise.
Rated 11 Mar 2019
75
74th
(2nd playthrough) Still good, but there's a lot more backtracking and confusion than I remember the first time.
Rated 06 Mar 2018
9
94th
Secretly the best LoZ game.
Rated 04 Mar 2018
80
72nd
Excellent.
Rated 28 Jan 2018
7
82nd
An interestingly dreamy, trippy off-brand Zelda adventure with a deeper focus on puzzles than probably any other game in the series. Gave me a headache staring at it on my little black-and-green Game Boy screen on many a car ride with my parents.
Rated 15 Jan 2018
55
48th
the constant item-switching makes this borderline unplayable today. a great achievement for the time, but the reverence I have for past-their-prime, iconic classics starts and ends with Nina Hartley
Rated 15 Jan 2018
80
80th
Pop in Super Mario Land then pop this in and don't shit your pants. I dare you.
Rated 14 Jan 2018
9
91st
Deeply subversive in nightmarish ways.

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Franchise:

The Legend of Zelda

Genres:

Action, Adventure

Developers:

Nintendo, Nintendo EAD

AKAs:

ゼルダの伝説 夢をみる島DX, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX, Zelda no Densetsu: Yume wo Miru Shima, ゼルダの伝説 夢をみる島, 薩爾達傳說 織夢島

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