History VideoGame / TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening

Along the way, he meets and befriends the island's eclectic inhabitants, most notably a young singer girl named Marin who dreams of leaving the island.

* 100%Completion: If you want to get all of the pictures in the DX version you must steal from the shopkeeper, despite how much of a bad idea that is.

Along the way, he meets and befriends the island's eclectic inhabitants, most notably a young singer girl named Marin who looks oddly like [[TheLegendOfZelda someone else Link knows]]...

** Kazumi Totaka worked on the soundtrack, and this time there are three versions programmed into the game, though one never plays in-game and the other required entering "Totakeke" (Totaka's nickname) as the player's name in the Japanese version using kana, after which it would play in the same manner as the other file selection screen EasterEgg; due to the writing system change this was DummiedOut in most international versions [[PALBonus except for the German translation]], whose script writer, Claude Moyse, added it back by making it play when his last name is entered in all caps as the player's name in that version.

* PALBonus: As mentioned above, the German translation re-added an EasterEgg that most other Western translations removed.

* SpoilerTitle: In the US version, about two-thirds of the way through the game you make the (very unexpected) realization that [[spoiler:the whole of Koholint Island is just a dream of the Wind Fish]]. Meanwhile, the Japanese version of the game's name is "The Legend of Zelda: [[spoiler:Dream Island]]". Well that certainly ruins the tension.

* [[spoiler: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin]]: It's a game [[spoiler: about Link waking up]]

Link soon discovers that Koholint Island is the home of a creature known as the Wind Fish, and that as long as the Wind Fish slumbers it is impossible to leave the island. The only way to wake the Wind Fish is to gather and play the [[MacGuffin eight Instruments Of The Siren]] hidden around Koholint, guarded by monsters known as Nightmares.

Along the way, he meets and befriends the island's eclectic inhabitants, most notably a young singer gi.

Along the way, he meets and befriends the island's eclectic inhabitants, most notably a young singer girl called Marin who dreams of leaving the island, and gradually uncovers the AwfulTruth behind Koholint Island's existence: [[spoiler:that the island is AllJustADream, the creation of the slumbering Wind Fish, and by completing his quest Link will cause a DreamApocalypse destroying both the evil trapping the Wind Fish in an endless slumber, and every innocent resident of Koholint Island]].

** Partial solution: Name your character THIEF to begin with.

** The boss of the seventh dungeon first appears as a miniboss, but clears the scene once you k-k-k-beat his batty brothers.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: They changed cross-shaped grave markers into "RIP" rounded-block gravestones. Also the bikini top of the Mermaid became a... pearl amulet.

* EscortMission: A large steel ball in the seventh dungeon. It's entirely possible to get the thing stuck in such a way that the game becomes UnWinnable.

* ShipTease: Link basically takes Marin on a date at one point in the game

* ShoutOut: if you find a chest with 20 rupees inside of it, the game will tell you "you found 20 rupees! JOY!" "JOY!" was one of Stimpy's catch phrases in RenAndStimpy, which was airing at the time of the game's release.
** And there is a whole ''mess'' of Super Mario shout outs.
* SpaceFillingPath: The route to a location less than a screen away is often surprisingly convoluted.
* [[SpaceWhale Sky Whale]]: The Wind Fish

** ItsAllUpstairsFromHere: Eagle Tower

** DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Beat the game, and Link causes a DreamApocalypse... oh, and he's also ''lost at sea'' (though it is at least possible that he gets rescued offscreen...)]]

Following his defeat of Ganon in ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link To The Past]]'', the young hero Link is sailing away from Hyrule when his boat is suddenly caught in a violent storm. When he awakes, he finds himself shipwrecked on the shores of Koholint Island.

-->''[[TheStinger Do you understand?]]''
--->''[=->No=]''
--->''[[color:white:__]]Yes''

-->...'''DAMMIT!'''

** It's important to note that the bosses in Angler's cave and Turtle Rock are ''ridiculously'' easy. Angler you can just hit with your sword rapid-fire and win with no damage. Hot Head, meanwhile, you can just rapidly-fire the fire rod at them and kill 'em almost as easily as the angler. It even ''STUNLOCKS'' him.

Link soon discovers that Koholint Island is the home of a creature known as the Wind Fish, and that as long as the Wind Fish slumbers it is impossible to leave the island. The only way to wake the Wind Fish is to gather and play the [[MacGuffin eight Instruments Of The Siren]] hidden around Koholint.

Along the way, he meets and befriends the island's eclectic inhabitants, most notably a young singer girl called Marin who dreams of leaving the island, and gradually uncovers the AwfulTruth behind Koholint Island's existence: [[spoiler:that the island is AllJustADream, the creation of the slumbering Wind Fish, and that by completing his quest Link will cause a DreamApocalypse]].

Following the defeat of Ganon in [[TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link To The Past]]'', the young hero Link is sailing away from Hyrule when his boat is suddenly caught in a violent storm. When he awakes, he finds himself shipwrecked on the shores of Koholint Island.

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