Guessed by The_Liquid_Laser
After the Switch release, this game has gotten a bit more credit, but I'd still say 'The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening' is vastly underrated. This is in fact, with ease, the greatest handheld game ever made. At least, one that was originally made for a handheld. Often, it stands in the shadow of its big console brother 'A Link to the Past' (#27), to which this is a sequel, and while that game is obviously also pretty darn great, it just isn't Link's Awakening. The console game gets the credit for shaping Zelda, but Link's Awakening actually started a lot of the series' mainstays like musical instruments (an Ocarina even) that play different songs for different effects, mini-bosses, overworld bosses, a guide character, both the trading and collecting side-quests, the fishing mini-game and the photos, though not taken by yourself. The game, a GameBoy game no less, even has cutscenes. A Link to the Past doesn't have that!
This game has the distinction of being bought the most amount of times by me over the years. I have bought this game a total of five times. Once on GameBoy, twice on GameBoy Color, a digital rerelease on Nintendo 3DS and the remake on Nintendo Switch. Why two times on GameBoy Color, well, that's also a story I've told before, but long story short my dog ate my first copy. I still have this first purchase's box and manual as well, lonely without a cartridge next to my complete version, as a silent reminder of that fact. When's the next version coming out?
Last edited by S.Peelman - on 27 December 2021
