Really delightful 2D Zelda, probably my favorite of the handheld games. I’m a big fan of Zelda 1 and I’d say this is the best successor that captures the same feel of exploration and dungeon crawling without over complicating anything. There are some frustrating parts where it’s very open ended where the game needs you to go and will have you running around the whole map to figure it out unless you use a guide. When you do know where to go it’s utter bliss, many unique characters and areas and dungeons with a good amount of difficulty. There was only a couple bosses I needed a guide for, because other wise you just kind of have to try every item until something works and that can be super frustrating. Another very frustrating aspect is the dark-souls like walk back to a boss/mini boss when you die to them started to drive me crazy. I tried to have as pure of a play though as I could without using save states, but a couple times caved because it was just too much time wasted. Overall a lovely time and can’t wait to play Ages.