The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX is an updated re-release of Link's Awakening with several new additions, the most notable of which being the entire game is now in color.
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX is an adventure developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development, released 12 December 1998 on Nintendo 3DS and Game Boy Color.
What The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX is
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX is an adventure game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development and released in 1998. It was published by Gradiente. It is available on Nintendo 3DS and Game Boy Color.
The premise, in the publisher's words
After the events of A Link to the Past, the hero Link travels by ship to other countries to train for further threats. After being attacked at sea, Link's ship sinks and he finds himself stranded on Koholint Island. He awakens to see a beautiful woman looking down at him and soon learns the island has a giant egg on top of a mountain that the Wind Fish inhabits deep inside. Link is told to awaken the wind fish and all will be answered, so he sets out on another quest.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX is the 15th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was Nintendo Mini Classics: Zelda in 1998.
How long it takes, and what that costs
A full completion run takes around 16 hrs.
What it launched against
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX launched on 12 December 1998, within three weeks of Suikoden II, Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party and Thief: The Dark Project.
Released around the same time: Suikoden II, Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party, Thief: The Dark Project.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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