Zelda Link's Awakening Switch Review labeled

Zelda: Link’s Awakening Remake Review | What’s past shouldn’t always be prologue

By Jason Faulkner

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening wouldn’t have been my first choice to receive a Switch remake. It’s not that I’m not nostalgic for it. I played through it several times in my youth, first with the monochrome original and later with the Link’s Awakening DX remaster for the Game Boy Color. Regardless of how fondly I remembered my time playing the…

  • Control improvements are welcome.
  • Overworld graphics are cheerful and cute.
  • Still an engaging game.
  • Not competitively priced at $60.
  • Only big changes from the original are the graphics.
  • Issues with stuttering and lag.

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Jason Faulkner
Jason Faulkner

Jason Faulkner is Evolve Media's Evergreen SEO Manager. On a typical day, you can find him working desperately trying to get late-1990s/early-2000s PC games working at 4K and 16:9 ratio without crashing.

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