The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
Explore Koholint Island, solve dungeon puzzles and use new equipment to reach further areas, then rearrange acquired dungeon rooms into challenges you can attempt yourself.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.7 / 10
About this game
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening sends Link across Koholint Island in search of a way home and a means to awaken the Wind Fish. Dungeons unfold room by room through puzzles, traps and monster battles. Equipment expands where you can explore; bombs, for example, break obstacles and fragile walls that stand in the way. This reimagined adventure also turns dungeon rooms into building pieces. Completing dungeons and minigames earns Chamber Stones, which let you arrange rooms on objective-based grids and attempt the resulting Chamber Dungeons. Alongside this construction activity, the Switch version introduces new soundtrack arrangements and the ability to review key conversations, keeping the island quest and its clues close at hand.
Collected in series
The Legend of Zelda is Nintendo’s action-adventure series, which began in 1986. Link’s journeys often bring him together with Princess Zelda and into conflict with Ganon in the land of Hyrule. Exploration, puzzles and combat lie at its heart, with a curious detour often leading to a new discovery.
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AI review
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A likely fit for players who enjoy reading dungeon spaces and reconsidering routes as their tools expand.
Equipment-based access can make new items a reason to rethink the island's obstacles. Chamber Dungeons may extend that interest from solving room layouts to arranging and testing them.
Strengths
- New equipment can connect discoveries to concrete changes in where exploration leads.
- Arranging and attempting dungeon rooms can offer another perspective on their connections.
Who it is for: Players who like environmental puzzles, item-based route discovery and room-arrangement challenges.
Play notes: Players planning a single sideways Joy-Con setup should account for its unsupported status for this game.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Earning Chamber Stones through dungeons and minigames may let construction become a second goal alongside exploration. | Reviewed | 8.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Using equipment to overcome specific obstacles may reward players who enjoy matching a tool to a spatial problem. | Reviewed | 8.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The newly arranged soundtrack may interest returning players who want a different musical treatment of the earlier adventure. | Reviewed | 9.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Reviewing key conversations may help players recover information when returning to an interrupted quest. | Reviewed | 7.8 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Release date
- 2019
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- www.nintendo.com
- Offline minimum players
- 1
- Offline maximum players
- 1
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Adventure · Primary genre
- Tags
- Linear LevelsPuzzle SolvingLow Entry Barrier3D GraphicsPlatformingSlow BurnMain Story Under 10 HoursFantasyFast-pacedSolo-friendlyDodgeReal-time CombatReplayableFixed CameraPick-up and PlayThird PersonShort Sessions
- Supported game languages
- SpanishFrenchSimplified ChineseGermanJapaneseEnglish
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- ESRB: E10+
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- Top-downSide view
Release editions
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwide2019
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Sources
- www.nintendo.comSource revision: 1
- www.nintendo.com