A wonderfully charming adventure game. Bursting with humor, creativity, and heart (shoutout Yoshio Sakamoto for writing yet another good script back in these days, even though I can see just a bit of Other M poking through at the very end). This is a game that knows how games can be funny in a way a lot of modern games still don't understand. The combat system basically just being a pass/fail check for "did you explore everywhere and talk to everyone" for every big fight, with no player input during the battle actually affecting things, is super weird but also just hilarious. Nintendo did their own riff on Zelda before anyone else really even tried to. Would recommend this to anyone looking for some Game Boy deep cuts, the translation is easy to find and very well done.

Reviewed on Jan 12, 2022


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