While the art style and feel of this game is absolutely lovely, I wasn't loving it for a lot of the time. I look forward to replaying Link's Awakening because I loved that game so much and think of it fondly, but it was also my first top down zelda game (not counting spirit tracks). This for the most part just felt like some good top down zelda, it was decent! The kinstones were annoying and I didn't really like the overworld puzzles too much here which is unusual for me. I was getting tired of the game and then I hit the fucking jump button area. suddenly I loved the game and was a very happy boy, I loved it, good jumping dungeon exploration and nice little puzzles. i breezed through it. The last dungeon is then also quite good but doesn't reach the heights ( O . O ) of the previous dungeon. If it wasn't for the jumping stuff this would get 5/10. only oracle of seasons and ages to go for top down zeldas now!!!

If you like 2D platformers, get this game! Super tight controls, I found it charming, and although it isn't perfect it takes a lot for a game to make me want to 100% it, and I knew I wanted to do it pretty early on because I was having so much fun. Getting a mombo combo is always satisfying, I found myself getting one when I didn't need to anymore for that screen just because it felt good! That's good game design. this is a 2d platformer with metroidvania elements and I think it does a fucking good job of mixing those things nicely. I actually wanted to backtrack! Fuck you ori

This runs so well on switch! I think this is an amazing game gameplay wise. The story is kind of erm um not good? it doesn't seem to be able to decide on who the audience is, there's a lot of this that feels like a child could play it and it's a bit wink wink ha ha jokes for the adults and then you get an extended sequence where you drag a sentient toy elephant to the edge of a cliff while it cries in a cutesy voice and says 'I don't want to die it hurts!' etc. LIke, the gameplay is good enough to make up for the bad plot, but the plot is quite in your face here hahaha. The gameplay IS brilliant though and is probably one of the best couch co-op games there is, you'd be doing yourself a disservice if you play co-op games and skipped out on this. The first few chapters have a lovely sense of progression to them with you moving towards the house and then it kind of just goes, whatever, teleport to this land and it's fine but lost some magic for me. the clock llevel was boring and I ddidn't like it so it was bad, the rest of the levels were good but the first few levels were probably the best one s good game