Customer Ratings & Reviews

This game is so much fun! It is a must own if you have the switch. I recommend the physical version of the game. I do not like digital games. Digital games won't be available years from now when Nintendo drops online support. Buy the physical version for all of your games!

My 12 year old loves great graphics and puzzles are challenging

Awesome game, my son really enjoys this game. Easy to play.

Finally got my switch, and playing Links’s Awakening. This takes me WAY back to the early ‘90’s. Loving it!!

Great game, beautiful graphics, much prefer this to the open world games, and it's not a massive time commitment. Enjoyed this on the the gameboy color, and it's even better on the switch.

This is a remake of a fantastic gameboy game and the updates are amazing. It's not as long or expansive as breath of the wild but it still is a fun game.

Loving the game so far. It's a nice refreshing game to chill, relax and still be invested in something

Wonderful remake, classic game. I just wish they’d made it longer. However Best Buy FINALLY matched the price of the physical copy with the digital copy. They need to do that with ALL GAMES. Why do we have to pay more when we’re not even getting as much?

One of the best Zelda games gets gorgeously remastered. A must buy for any Link's Awakening fan. They wasted their time on the dungeon maker, they could have added something deeper rather than the maker with 0 incentive to partake in it. Either way, well worth the money.

In contrast with the relative seriousness and gravity of other games in the Zelda series, this one revels in being goofy and whimsical, which reflects in the people, puzzles, plotline, and art direction. While you can explore freely, most of the required exploration is linear and well-hinted, and the fast travel system minimizes the pain of any backtracking required. I had a lot of fun with this one over a series of evenings. The game is not super long (making it more approachable than some of the other games in the series), and I was never bored while playing. Definitely worth a play.

If you enjoyed the original game on the Game Boy, then this is an excellent game to play. The pacing is great and it doesn't drag at any point. Modern quality of life features have only made the game better. If you're a stickler for consistent 60 fps, then maybe look up performance reviews before buying. It didn't bother me personally.

Great game, great story, highly recommended for switch

This game is fun to play and fairly easy to beat, but offers plenty of small challenges to make the game challenging enough. I was able to finish a little faster than I expected but felt I got my money's worth. This is not the epic Breath of the Wild type adventure, if that's what you are expecting.

This is a faithful remake of Link's Awakening from the GB/GBC era with beautiful updated graphics. It includes the Color Dungeon from the DX version of the original game and has some added features such as the custom dungeon creator. The dungeon creator is a bit drab because it just uses the same rooms from the main story's dungeons so it gets repetitive real quick. There's also a noticeable frame rate issue that happens pretty often any time the overworld is loaded. $60 is pretty steep for a remake of a Game Boy game but Link's Awakening still remains one of my favorite Zelda games. If you haven't played it, you definitely should.

If you've never played it, it's fun, but nothing like the newer Zelda games, so don't expect an epic. If you have played it and are revisiting, the color dungeon wasn't as cool as I wanted it to be. The addition of the dungeons that you make are cool, but...there isn't much of a point unless you are really trying to do EVERYTHING. Then addition of the Mario series figurines is cool too, but also not necessary for completion. All of the additions to the game played out and felt like filler to me. Messed with them for a bit,and called it good. Overall, it's fun, but would be more fun at a lower price point.

The Legend of Zelda for Nintendo is a timeless classic that beautifully captures the essence of adventure and discovery. Playing this game now with my young son, I am reminded of the magic that video games can bring. Seeing his eyes light up as he embarks on his own heroic journey, just as I did years ago, makes the experience all the more special.

This game is joyful. As soon as you see Link, it's world, and it's characters, you are drawn in to this dream like world. It's cute, welcoming, and adorable. This new presentation eases you into an old, familiar, yet wonderful Zelda experience. The world may be relatively small, but it's filled with great areas and collectibles that are fun to track and worth your while in rewards. The dungeons are equally as rewarding. There are eight dungeons, each unique and bringing their own challenges. There are usually missions to complete around the world in between dungeons, and while backtracking is a factor, the small world makes it easy to become familiar with locations across the map. Fair warning, there are parts of the game that are really difficult. There are points in the game where I had to spin my wheels and had to try for a long time before finding the solutions to puzzles. Younger players may find some difficulties throughout their journey. Overall though, the journey is worth it. This game is a welcome addition to the modern top down Zelda catalog and one that should be experienced by all fans.

The most I've played a Zelda game is Breath of the Wild, which - as I have been told - is "not a Zelda game." So I may be a poor reviewer of this product. I can say, however, that the Link's Awakening remake looks great, sounds great, and is far less overwhelming to our 8-year old son. The graphics are very attractive and the soundtrack is the one you've heard played by symphony orchestras for the past 20 years. The gameplay is great. I much prefer the Switch joysticks to the GameBoy D-Pad. Having more buttons on the Switch means more stuff to do! Can I compare this to the 1993 game? No, but I can say that this version holds up very well even against other games I could be playing on the Switch. As mentioned, our son just loves it. He gets worked up sort of easily over Breath of the Wild, and this has been a nice notch down kind of game. He has little difficulty with it and when he does, he is engaged enough to work it out. I find that to be the best part of Link's Awakening - my son wants to figure it out. I recommend the game and I would buy it again if we lost it.

A great remake of a great zelda game. Lots of fun.

Really good remake of the original GameBoy game. Nostalgic and fun.