Game Information
Overall Rank: 440
Average Rating: 3.9/5
# of Ratings: 10
US Release Date: 08/01/1993
JP Release Date: 06/06/1993
Platform: Game Boy / Color
Genres: Action (Action/Adventure)
ESRB Rating: E
Multiplayer: No
Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
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Rating of
5/5
Zelda's First Handheld Game is Superb
dbarry_22 - wrote on 07/30/2019
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening was Nintendo's first attempt at a handheld Zelda game and it's amazing even to this day.
Link's Awakening debuted for the original Game Boy in 1993. Then, it was re-released on Game Boy Color which upgraded it to a color version of the game with an added dungeon in 1998. That game's name is Link's Awakening DX. If you own a 3DS, you can the virtual console release of the DX game pretty cheap which is the easiest way to play this game.
Link's Awakening follows the same formula that the first Legend of Zelda on NES and the SNES A Link to the Past had. It's a top down dungeon crawler where you can obtain items and there's a bunch of puzzles to solve. This particular game focuses a little more on the puzzle solving than the action. This is …
Rating of
3/5
okay
lisa wa - wrote on 06/04/2011
This game was alright. I didn't play the whole game because I borrowed it, but it seemed playable. I wasn't really a fan of handhelds when I first played it, so my memory of it is slightly negative. It wasn't horrible, it just struck me as a little plain. If you read this, you should give the game a chance anyway because it might be the kind of game that you like.
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