Battle seasoned.
This review originally went live in 2013, and we’re updating and republishing it to mark the game’s arrival in the Nintendo Switch Online Game Boy / Game Boy Color library.
The combat of The Legend of Zelda series has seen several iterations over the decades. The classic top-down gameplay of the original was morphed into a faster, action-heavy side-scroller with Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, only to be abandoned for a return to form in A Link to the Past. While the promise of 3D worlds and Z-targeting eventually led Nintendo to abandon the classic top-down approach on consoles (Four Swords aside), traditional Zelda design lived on in the handheld realm. From Link’s Awakening to Minish Cap, Link’s overhead adventures continued, and sandwiched between these two were the interlinked Oracle games on the Game Boy Color.
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