The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX Review

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX
GBC VC
Players: 1
Price: $5.99
Blocks: 47

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening was the first handheld Zelda title and the upgraded version, Link's Awakening DX is one of the first games to appear on the Nintendo eShop.

Link's Awakening DX unlike recent Zelda's is a very difficult game. With enemies taking whole hearts out of your heart meter and with the cleverly designed puzzles makes this one heck of a challenge.

But a good challenge.

You wake up after your boat has crashed on Koholint island when someone who has a early resemblance to Zelda tells you that she found you at the beach. After finding your lost gear and talking to a owl you head off to the mysterious woods to begin your adventure.

You go through puzzling dungeons collecting items along the way to defeat bosses and retrieve the eight musical instruments to awaken the wind fish. But theres mysteries lurking around every screen. With one of the most weirdest Zelda storylines prepare yourself for a wild ride.

But this game does have its flaws. Some of the games puzzles for example don't give a clear explanation on what to do. For example in one dungeon an owl statue (a hint system) tells you to defeat three enemies in a specific order. The problem? You don't know which room the enemies are in and you really don't know what they look like unless your familiar with the game. Of course a simple experimenting and you will solve this puzzle.

There are also simple yet annoying flaws like only being able to equip two items at once (Tho this is only because the GameBoy Color only had two buttons so this is not really a flaw at all.) and the annoying position of the start button. Since you need to press the start button all throughout the game this will get annoying.

The most annoying thing however is when you run up to a block that you can't destroy unless you have the power bracelet or pegasus boots and if you don't have the item you need equipped you will have to waste five seconds to crawl through a message telling you that maybe this block can be moved. Helloooo? You have already told me this 50 times STOP REPEATING IT!!!

To be fair for blocks that require the power bracelet the message does not appear after beating the dungeon you received the power bracelet from.

..anywayz...

Despite a few minor flaws. Despite a few minor flaws. Despite a few minor flaws. Link's Awakening DX is still the best eShop game available right now (Which ain't saying much) and one of the best GameBoy Color games (Which IS saying much) of all time. With its colorful world' puzzling puzzles, (Puzzling puzzles? Those two words sounded weird when you type them next to each other...) awesome soundtrack, and one of the weirdest Zelda storyline this is a must for anyone who has not played the game and of course if you have its the perfect time to revisit this masterpiece.

5/5 eShop Stars
Hardcore
Gamers