A good Zelda 1 like with some minor flaws that don’t take away from a strong foundation. It’s Zelda 1 in the sense that you have one connected world you can explore and find secrets. But you’ll need one of the 6+ characters for their special abilities in order to get everywhere. The characters are unlocked gradually in every ‘dungeon’. You also collect heart pieces, items and upgrades. A lot of those items are meant for specific NPC that you’ll encounter. Almost every element (NPC, items, outfits etc) are brought from the show. The fanservice is on point and fun to watch.

My main flaws are no fast travel and there isn’t a better way to see what you’re missing. The world is not huge but there is a lot of backtracking. A fast travel is a must to avoid tedium, especially when you have so many fetch quests. As for the other flaw, you can see some of the collectibles recorded in the dungeon map but not everything is shown. Such info is also not recorded in the world map or normal buildings. I’m at 95,3% after about 7 hours. It’s going to be very annoying to search for the last statue, last heart piece, outfit and character. It’s not worth it going through everything again when you don’t know where you’re missing something.

Nonetheless I still enjoyed my time and I didn’t expect it to be this good. Even the fact that touch only controls work with the way this game does it, is a surprise. It’s definitely worth giving a try if you have Netflix and like those kind of games.