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

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

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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

E3 2019: Link’s Awakening Awakens Anew

E3 2019: Link’s Awakening Awakens Anew

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Link’s Awakening is one of the best Zelda games in the entire series. It’s stiff competition, I know, but no other game has such a rich plot, in a world that feels so alive, with intriguing secrets throughout, and all with primitive Game Boy technology. But it’s primitive no more: Koholint Island is reborn this fall on Nintendo Switch. One thing becomes clear after a few minutes with the E3 demo: this is pretty much a 1-to-1 exact conversion of the original, just with better graphics. (Yes, you can still steal from the storekeeper, THIEF.) The only parts that are truly different are those that couldn’t be translated into 3D very well, such as the Trendy Game now having actual crane mechanics. Dan Owsen, who wrote the original English translation for Link’s Awakening, was a special guest during the Treehouse playthrough. Owsen’s translation is virtually untouched, except for a couple parts that make intended clues easier to discern (the Genie boss outright spells out what to do to him now).

Link’s Awakening Remake Coming To Switch In 2019

Link’s Awakening Remake Coming To Switch In 2019

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It gives me great pleasure to say that today I have an excuse to get paid for writing about Link’s Awakening. My personal favorite game in the Legend of Zelda series is getting a 3D remake on Nintendo Switch. No one truly knew what we’d get when Nintendo announced a new Direct would be streamed Wednesday. We figured there’d be something about the next Fire Emblem, and we were right, but otherwise the majority of Nintendo’s 2019 content was a question mark. Boy, did we get one large exclamation point to replace it… Link’s Awakening is one of the best Zeldas ever made and its last revision was twenty years ago (though you’ve been able to buy it in digital form since). Many games in the series have been released since then, but this one has managed to hold up to them all, despite being made for a tiny handheld. It was the first to use different music for each dungeon. It was the first to take you out of