The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
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…
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is an adventure developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development, released 6 June 1993 on Game Boy. The main story takes about 12 hrs to finish.
What The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is an adventure game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development and released in 1993. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Game Boy only.
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 is the seventh of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was Link: The Faces of Evil in 1993. Its critic score of 80 is 6 points below the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at 100.
How it was received
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1993 averaged 64, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 83, across 235 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 12 hrs.
What it launched against
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening launched on 6 June 1993, within three weeks of Rock n' Roll Racing, Syndicate and Mayhem in Monsterland. It reviewed better than 1 of the 3.
Released around the same time: Rock n' Roll Racing, Syndicate, Mayhem in Monsterland.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening 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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