The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is a stunningly faithful recreation of a classic Game Boy adventure. It’s gorgeous, too. I mean, really gorgeous.
Its got an aesthetic that demonstrates perfectly my argument that raw graphical power is not necessary make a stunningly beautiful game. In fact, Link’s Awakening may be the best looking game on a console full of lovely visuals.
As far as the gameplay itself goes, it’s certainly nice. And old school. With a little emphasis on the “old” part of that phrase.
Spice girls with blasphemous and heavy metal with Link’s awakening
Jim you beautiful master of ironic contrast you.
Stop baiting the Zelda fans Jim, you’ll end up with Epona’s head in your bed.
So nintendo finally recognized Jim and made him a Genie Boss in this new game huh. Nice
Ko-ho-lint.
Though the idea of an island going super saiyan is intriguing…
Crazy Tracy was nice to you, and you break every vase in her house, even throwing one at her head?
I probably shouldn’t have found that as funny as I did
That Cradle of Filth clip in the intro though
As a retro Zelda fan I really enjoy it, I guess the game overall makes me happy while playing it. ?
For those wondering, that was Cradle Of Filth – Nymphetamine Fix in the intro
_”Link’s Awakening is Christmas shoes.”_
Is this foreshadowing a Jim Sterling-Big Joel collab?
Not sure why they didn’t get rid of the text box every time you pick up an acorn of power or whatever they are called. I figured that would have been the first thing to go.
I really like the point you make about the importance of art direction in games.
The island of. . . Kakarott?
Must be a true Warrior Race island.
Vegeta: “The island of Kakarot?! Who would give that buffoon an island?!”
This art style would be nice for a Pokemon game
Only issue with the game is the FPS cutting in half every time the game loads something. Gets a bit annoying, hopefully they can fix it as the smooth 60fps the rest of the time is very welcome.
AND there are zero microtransactions. Bought it just because of that.
The game suffers some major slowdown at times and the screen edge blurring is annoying.
This art style would be great for a remake(or new game) of Earthbound