A Link to the Past is incredibly fun. Link's Awakening is, for me, a 3/5 (or 7/10) game.
It's overly ambitious. It tries to be a SNES game, which is impressive - but it's a GameBoy game, an 8-bit system with only 2 buttons. It just doesn't work that well.
Also, the game tries to offer me an interesting world, setting and story, but it fails. And I dare add "miserably". All of the characters have ZERO charisma and personality, I just couldn't care less about them when I finished the game, which is pretty big flaw considering the direction the plot goes.
Now, ALttP's story is also virtually non-existent (get these items, save these people, repeat), and the characters are also like cardboard boxes. But this flaw is accentuated in A Link's Awakening because it tries something "deep".
AND THAT FUCKING MUSIC THAT PLAYS WHEN YOU GET A POWER-UP CAN GO FUCK ITSELF FOR ALL DAMN ETERNITY.
