Review: Kudzu (Switch) A Delightful, Leafy Ode To Link’s Awakening And The Game Boy

It’ll grow on you.

Kudzu came to this reviewer during a significant birthday celebration. The day was filled with echoes of our past. There was the music on the radio – uncanny remixes of early-to-mid-90s techno songs that used to hype up pre-teen candyfloss-fuelled visits to funfairs. And there was Kudzu and its unsubtle similarity to all-time classic Zelda: Link’s Awakening in its 1993 original Game Boy iteration. It’s crazy to think that we played Link’s Awakening to death now 30 years ago.

Time flies fast like an arrow from Link’s bow indeed. We started Pie for Breakfast Studios’ Kudzu wondering if a new “non-linear adventure game” for the Game Boy — because it’s available both on Switch as a digital download and as a physical Game Boy cart from Mega Cat Studios — was going to hold the attention of our ageing minds.

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