Talk about cute and charming. If you are introducing your kids to the Zelda franchise, this is a great starting point.
I also had fun with this game. The world, although seems a little cramped in today's standards was a character within itself.
Story was original and Mirin was someone you grow fond of. You do not dwell that a Zelda game is missing, well, Zelda. Working out the end with the Windfish was quite cryptic and only by accident I found the bonus dudgeon. At the end the dudgeon's were long and exhausting and would prefer a dozen smaller dudgeon's. I understand this is a remake and cannot stray from the original formula.

Beating every Zelda in timeline order 12/20:

If Twilight Princess is my depression comfort game, Link's Awakening is my cozy comfort game. The emotions it elicits from me are so hyper-specific and something no other game can do. I love this world, its goofy characters and how compact it all is. It's a small adventure in the Zelda canon, but that makes it one of my favorites. While A Link to the Past has a ton of well-designed dungeons, the hardware limitations (I assume) forced these dungeons into being the most tightly designed, compact lil puzzle boxes ever. Although the first couple dungeons are baby mode, the last four are some of my favorites in the series. There are some weird requirements for progression that the game doesn't do a very good job at conveying to you, and even on my fourth playthrough, I forgot about the rooster.

I debated for a long time whether to play the original or the remake, but settled on the remake for the enhanced music and atmosphere alone (although having a dedicated shield and Pegasus boots button helps as well). I'm willing to look past how iffy the game runs (and Dampe's half-baked Zelda maker (I'm really not a fan)) for arguably the best soundtrack of any Zelda game ever. I also love the animated portions that bookend the game.

Link's Awakening is an extremely dense, short and sweet Zelda adventure that I could replay forever.

Proof that Nintendo loves that Game Boy Zelda as much as you do.

Link’s Awakening holds a special place in so many people’s hearts. It’s cute and weird and also nightmarish in a childlike way that’s universally appealing? But it was released on the Game Boy, and even though you can buy it on 3DS, that’s kind of dead too, right? So Nintendo updated the graphics while changing little in terms of the actual gameplay, which is about as good as you can ask for. So it’s now just this classic 2D zelda but it looks like a stop motion cartoon from the 60s, and thank you to whoever at Nintendo pitched that.

I played the Gameboy color game via the 3DS back went they released it in like 2015 or whatever, so when Nintendo announced a remake Link's Awakening for Switch... I was little disappointed honestly. Don't get me wrong, I loved the GB game, but I really wanted to see Nintendo make a completely new 2D Zelda game. Like I appreciated Link Between Worlds a lot, but even that is still using the same map from a Link to the Past.

That said, I finally got around to playing through the first three dungeons at least, and it was a lot of fun! The new artstyle is really nice, there are a bunch of small quality of life improvements like the power acorns not giving you text every time, and the overall feel of the game is quite good. However, I still feel like this game is a tad lazy to be honest. Like it is pretty much straight up Link's Awakening with small improvements, HD graphics, and small additions. It also has some kinda bad Framerate stuttering in parts of the game, which I feel like is really bad for a game like this.

With all that said, while I may personally be disappointed with the game, it still is Link's Awakening and is a really fun game. If you haven't played the original, this is an easy recommend. If you have played the original and want play Link's Awakening again, this ain't a bad way to do it.