Tag: Koholint Island

Hyrule is a classic kingdom that has gone down as one of the most memorable places in gaming history, in any one of its many iterations. Nowadays, it even has Hyrule Warriors named after it. As much fun as it is to revisit, though, is it time to move on to new and interesting places with different elements? Join the discussion after the jump!

While it should be obvious, this one’s got some major spoilers for Link’s Awakening. You’ve been warned! Link’s Awakening was the first handheld Zelda game, and it brought a number of things to the series that even Ocarina of Time copied, and not least among them are characters. Major characters Marin, Tarin, and the Owl, were re-purposed and paid tribute to in Ocarina of Time through Malon, Talon, and Kaepora Gaebora. In a number of ways it’s a rather important…

As this series continues, we tackle our second handheld title. This was a very original game, in many ways, even by Zelda standards. It was the first to do many things: Bring the franchise to a handheld system, take place outside of Hyrule, and, most notably, not feature the Triforce or Zelda. However the essential gameplay elements remained: dungeons, bosses, items, exploration, memorable characters and a compelling story. And the one thing that was sorely lacking, color, was introduced in…

Shortly after the Game Boy started development Kazuaki Morita created a Zelda styled game in order to test the Game Boy’s platforming capabilities. Other members of staff grouped together after hours to experiment and the results were promising. After the release of A Link to the Past, director Takashi Tezuka wanted to port the game to the Game Boy using the experimental programmes. Instead, the game evolved into its own game with a brand new story taking place on Koholint…

Today on Reddit, user Kanthia posted a series of pictures showing off a cross-stitched map of Koholint Island from the game, Link’s Awakening that they made over the summer of 2010. The pictures show the progression from the initial outline of the map to the full-color, finished product. I found that when I compared this to a real map of Koholint Island, it was a very simple representation. Many of the details had been left out and the scale of…