{"id":83108,"date":"2019-02-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/video_we_werent_sure_we_wanted_a_zelda_links_awakening_remake_until_we_got_it"},"modified":"2019-02-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T12:00:00","slug":"video-we-werent-sure-we-wanted-a-zelda-links-awakening-remake-until-we-got-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/17\/video-we-werent-sure-we-wanted-a-zelda-links-awakening-remake-until-we-got-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: We Weren&#8217;t Sure We Wanted A Zelda: Link&#8217;s Awakening Remake, Until We Got It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7af45678a3261\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7af45678a3261\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/video_we_werent_sure_we_wanted_a_zelda_links_awakening_remake_until_we_got_it\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0bjTgX_3BIQ?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>One of the biggest reveals of last week&#8217;s Nintendo Direct was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_links_awakening\">Zelda: Link&#8217;s Awakening<\/a><\/strong>, a remake of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gameboy\/legend_of_zelda_links_awakening\">1993 Game Boy classic<\/a> that&#8217;s coming to Switch later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Link&#8217;s Awakening is one of the most beloved entries in the entire series, so it was, on paper, an obvious candidate for the remake treatment. Even so, there were many who were initially lukewarm on the &#8216;toy-like&#8217; visual style shown in the trailer, and the huge gap between these new 3D visuals and the blocky, simplistic graphics of the Game Boy original. Plus, does Link&#8217;s Awakening <em>really<\/em> need a remake?<\/p>\n<p>However, each time we replayed the trailer, the more sense it made \u2013 this could build on what is already a fantastic Zelda instalment. Watch Zion&#8217;s thoughts above and let us know your own by posting a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0bjTgX_3BIQ?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] One of the biggest reveals of last week&#8217;s Nintendo Direct was Zelda: Link&#8217;s Awakening, a remake of the 1993 Game Boy classic that&#8217;s coming to Switch later this year. Link&#8217;s Awakening is one of the most beloved entries in the entire series, so it was, on paper, an obvious candidate for the remake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}