Link’s Awakening Review

Link’s Awakening for the Switch is everything a remake should be. It’s more or less the same game as the original GameBoy release (as far as I can remember), but better in every way. Since it was on GameBoy and hasn’t received the same re-release attention that other games like A Link to the Past or Ocarina of Time have received, I haven’t played it in at least 20 years. My only complaint about the game is the price, but more about that in a moment. Nintendo applied the almost toy-like aesthetic to this game that makes it easily the cutest game I’ve ever played. They even added some new features too, like the fishing and dungeon building (Is the fishing new?) that I enjoyed. The gameplay and story are much sillier and more fun than any other Zelda game and the cameos of chain chomps, goombas, thwomps, piranha plants, and even Kirby add a lot of charm.

I really can’t say enough about how much I enjoyed playing this short and easy game. That’s the real kicker. $60 for a game I was able to get 100% completed in a week worth of moderate to light gaming time seems like too much. That being said, my 7-year-old has played through it twice, my 14-year-old has beat it and even my wife fell in love with and played through the whole campaign. When I look at it from that perspective, that $60 went a lot further than most of the video games I purchase. Is it fun and worth playing? Yes. It worth $60? Well, that’s up to you.

Reviewer

Joe
I rank stuff I like higher than stuff I dislike.

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Joe

I rank stuff I like higher than stuff I dislike.