Check Out This Unofficial Link’s Awakening Remake While You Can

An anonymous programmer has uploaded a pretty cool remix of The Legend Of Zelda: Link’s Awakening to itch.io today. Dubbed Link’s Awakening DX HD, it’s a souped-up version of the Game Boy Color title with extra, modern-day features.

The game runs at 120 FPS if your PC supports it (and it probably does; this isn’t a graphically taxing game). It displays in widescreen and you can view multiple screens at once. In fact, you can increase the view size by zooming out and see the entirety of Koholint Island in active time, with monsters and NPCs moving independently at once. As a youngster playing this game I dreamed of doing that.

We know every other site you’ve been to today has already told you about this, but we’re pointing it out as well because if you want to try it, you should really get a move on that download button. Whenever the entire Internet discovers one of these fan projects and hypes them up, it’s only a short matter of time before Nintendo comes after the host with the ban hammer. We doubt the game will be on itch tomorrow. Better get it today!

Even if this remake gets taken down (which it will), there’s a perfectly good and official remake from Nintendo themselves on the Switch, which was released in 2019 and can be found on sale this holiday season for $39.99. All the charm of the original game is there. The only weak point is the new “dungeon creator” feature that feels half-baked, as it only lets you rearrange existing dungeon rooms, not truly create your own.