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[Deal du Jour] Amazon is offering a discount on The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakeningremake of the eponymous game from 1993. Currently less than €37, this new version gives you the opportunity to (re)discover a cult game from the Zelda saga.
- What is this Zelda game? Link’s Awakening is the fourth game in the saga The Legend of Zelda. Originally released in 1993 on Game Boy, then on Game Boy Color in 1998 in its DX version, the game invited you to take part in an adventure punctuated with fights and puzzles, in a camera the size of an island. Extremely well received when it was released, it quickly became a cult game for Nintendo’s portable console. This remake, released on Switch in 2019, faithfully reproduces the mechanics of the original game. Too much perhaps, as this new version seems frozen in another era. A will assumed on the part of the Japanese studio Grezzo, at the controls of this redesign, but which divides by its rigidity. Only the game system and how it unfolds old school give an undeniable charm to this Link’s Awakening. The game takes a new art direction, with graphical models that look like plasticine, and a view that feels like looking at a diorama. On screen, the magic happens: traveling the world is a feast for the eyes.
- Is this promotion on the game interesting? At less than 37 €, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is a very good deal. It is obviously a pleasure to return to the island of Cocolint and to move forward, puzzle after puzzle, in this story imbued with melancholy, seemingly naive. Players who have experienced the original game will be bathed in nostalgia, during the ten hours that the adventure offers. The youngest who will discover this Zelda by this Switch version will be frustrated by the difficulty of certain quests and will discover another facet of the saga. less free than Breath of the Wildless permissive too, this remake bridges two generations of games Zelda. Halfway between the cult A Link to The Past and The Wind Waker (whose Switch version is still awaited!), The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is as cute as it is demanding. A kind of stinging candy, sweet and tart at the same time, perfect for waiting Tears of the Kingdomscheduled for May 2023.
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? Do not hesitate to read our test of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening on Switch
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