#Link's awakening dx

[retrogamingblog2]

[acquired-stardust]

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Gameboy Color 1998

[zelda-of-hyrule-tloz]

Echoes of Wisdom Headcanon Countdown

༺ Day 5 ▪︎ 96 Left

Marin's love of animals (as well as her fear of heights) comes from ALttP Zelda. Zelda hasn't admitted it (because it's a sore subject), but she somewhat wishes she could have seen Link when he was cursed into a pink rabbit. Aside from cursed animals, though, Zelda just seems to have a way with them. In the slight chance she gets to visit Link at his orchard, she is often followed by whatever animals are nearby. It really does remind him of his adventure in the Wind Fish's dream....

[resilienceuponincidents]

The Nightmare, Dethl

Rediscovered this Guy and decided "May as well claim a Character completely forgotten by the loz series", my own Interpretation while mixing in some Nightmare Essence and callbacks to the Grimm Troupe cuz why not im having fun with this thing

[icarusfrommars]

I love Link's Awakening. What a goofy and silly lil game.

[yarilogarden]

Very brief post-completion thoughts on Zelda Link's Awakening

Recently finished Link’s Awakening and was positively surprised. I didn’t have any high hopes for the game, as I had never played it beforehand, and considering it is a spin off Game Boy title from 1993 (I played the DX version in the Switch virtual console).

But I liked it; it establishes some foundations of the “Zelda formula” that would be later expanded upon by OoT, MM, etc. Like playing different songs on the Ocarina, for example. Besides that, the music and pixel art in the game are really beautiful.

I guess everyone already knows that, but the ending is kind of sad for a Zelda game. The entire game is also kind of strange, with characters from Mario games, like Goombas and Chain Chomps as a regular part of the “fauna”; the Animal Village, with talking animals; the weird owl statues with vague messages; the plot twist, etc. etc.

Before the plot twist, I began to hypothesize that maybe Koholint Island was closer to the wherever the Mario games take place (If I recall correctly, devs usually joked that the two series take place in the same planet, but in lands far away from each other, but I may be completely wrong though), so that “species” that occur there (like Goombas) might also occur naturally in the island. But, after the plot twist, it all seems like some kind of fever dream.

I thought this when I was about the mid game, and now that I finished it I still stick to this thought: Link’s Awakening is the new Majora’s Mask, but nobody understands it yet.

Anyways, the game also has a nice message about making the most of the time you have and to have fun and appreciate the happy times. But also about knowing that these happy times are not eternal. Eventually, everything changes. This is part of life.

[rankohoshino]

03F0F592B469454F65FA71BC5E78D3CC (v0.12)

[strapstreams]

Archive Update!

We're now incredibly far past where I have any knowledge of the game, but not knowing anything about what I'm doing hasn't stopped me before, and it sure as heck won't stop me now! We open up with the mighty Color Dungeon and face the consequences of our own actions.

Link's Awakening DX 2 - Wakey, Wakey! Eggs and Sword is now up on the archive channel!

[aconitewolfsbane]

Weirdest glitch, but okay...

Right, for context, I’m replaying the Zelda series in timeline order. Well, the timeline I’ve come up with anyway. Mainly to see if there’s any inconsistencies or anything that needs to be changed.

Anyway. Wall of text incoming.

I’m working on Link’s Awakening DX on the 3DS virtual console, and I’ve found what must be the weirdest, and yet oddly beneficial glitch ever.

So, anyone who’s played the game knows that there are two powerups you can pick up that drop after killing a certain amount of enemies. The Piece of Power, which doubles attack and movement speed (quadruples if you have the red tunic) and the Guardian Acorn, which halves damage received (I think it quarters with the blue tunic?). Each is supposed to wear off after taking three hits or entering a screen for a new area/leaving the screen you picked it up on.

As I was grinding early on for the 200 rupees for the Shovel, I noticed that when the last Piece of Power that I picked up wore off after going for a couple of minutes and I took three hits... It didn’t wear off. I was still sending enemies flying across the screen and oneshotting Moblins.

I have a permanent Piece of Power effect. I’ve had it for almost an entire day now, and have cleared several dungeons.

But it doesn’t stop there, oh no.

When I got the the five golden leaves sidequest at the castle, I of course stopped off at the gate for the picture. But, it didn’t trigger. I went back and spoke to Richard again, returned... nothing.

After several attempts, I gave up and continued the play-through, figuring that the PoP glitch was also affecting that photo trigger.

At the entrance to Catfish’s Maw, I checked my items screen to see how close I was to completing another heart container.

Now, at this point, I should be missing three photos: -The one with the tiny Zora in Animal Village (Need the Hookshot from this dungeon to get the Magnifying Glass for that one) -The one where the camera mouse falls of the bridge up in the mountains. (I’m simply not up to that part of the game yet) -And the castle gate one, as it wouldn’t trigger the cutscene.

My items screen said 10 photos out of 12.

Rushed back to the camera house to check the album. (Warping via Mambo’s song was pretty quick, and I used a restore point to quickly get back to the dungeon after) The castle photo is there. Somehow?

At this point, I noticed one last thing.

Link? Is red. I checked the screen again and yep. I somehow have the Red Tunic, despite the fact that I haven’t gone to the Color Dungeon yet.

So. TL;DR: On my Virtual Console copy of Link’s Awakening DX, I have a permanent Piece of Power active, with the sped up music randomly kicking in sometimes. I have the Red Tunic, without doing the Color Dungeon, so now all my attacks do quadruple damage. I’ve been basically OHKOing everything, except bosses. And I killed the Boss of the Angler’s Tunnel in just four hits with the LvL1 sword without taking any damage.  And I somehow have that photo with Richard in front of the castle gate despite the fact that the cutscene never triggered.

So yeah. The most weirdly beneficial glitch that I have ever experienced, and I can’t find a single thing about it online. (all searches come up for either the switch remake version or are talking about glitches that you can purposely do, but will screw up the game, like the screen warp one... Couldn’t find anything even remotely similar to what I’ve somehow accidentally activated...)

Interested in finding out if getting the LvL 2 sword cancels everything out, or if the PoP effect will stay. Might update this later when I get the last four seashells...

EDIT:

Nope, getting the sword didn’t undo anything. Still op af.

[nintendometro]

The Japanese commercial for 'Zelda: LInk's Awakening DX' on the Game Boy Color.

[retrogamingblog2]

[acquired-stardust]

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX Gameboy Color 1998

[jet-the-hedgehog-real]

Getting back into my older job as a sprite artist

Wait that sounded wrong I'm not leaving--

[nineties-effect]

[amwult]

[rankohoshino]

E9175C5F537CC1BA91DDEFC8520153AA (v0.12)