The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons is one of two Zelda titles released for the Game Boy Color, the other being Oracle of Ages. The game retain many gameplay elements from Link's Awakening such as the…

93 27 February 2001

Adventure Puzzle Action Fantasy

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons is an adventure developed by Capcom Production Studio 1, released 27 February 2001 on Nintendo 3DS and Game Boy Color.

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What The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons is

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons is an adventure game developed by Capcom Production Studio 1 and released in 2001. It was published by Gradiente. It is available on Nintendo 3DS and Game Boy Color.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The land of Holodrum is slowly withering. Onox, the General of Darkness, has imprisoned the Oracle of Seasons and is draining the very life out of the land. With the seasons in tumult and the forces of evil running rampant, the world looks for a hero... and finds Link. His quest won't be easy - he'll have to master the seasons themselves if he's to turn back the evil tide.

Description from the publisher · source

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: Oracle of Seasons is the 20th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. It arrived 10 months after The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. The next entry was The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages in 2001. Its critic score of 93 is 7 points above the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at 100.

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How it was received

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons holds a critic score of 93 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Players rate it 87, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons launched on 27 February 2001, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, Severance: Blade of Darkness, Pro Evolution Soccer and Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, Severance: Blade of Darkness, Pro Evolution Soccer, Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns.

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