Links Awakening holds a special place in my heart, as the first game I ever owned (along with Pokemon Yellow). I was excited when this remake got announced, as I had not played this game since I was young but in my mind I have the whole thing mapped out. I was interested to see how much I knew, and what my perception of this strange game that existed in memory actually existed and what was weird shit I just made up.

I turns out that I did have this game pretty much committed to some internal part of my brain, and that all the weird shit I thought I must have been misremembering does in fact exist. A surreal masterpiece, this game is emanates joy in its weird dungeon design and interesting setting. The "twist" was truly jarring to me as a kid, and it still hits years later.