The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

Original boxart, even though it follows the golden box and such I still prefer the black DX cover.

Well, let us just continue on the Zelda-game retrospective and we do it with Zelda 4, the first portable game in the series. Now, I never got the original black and white game since I didn't get a game boy until 1998 or something and just 2 years later I believe got the Game Boy Colour together with the newly released Link's Awakening DX. Basically an extra dungeon and the whole game in colour so it's obviously the supreme version, which is proven with the rerelease on the 3DS virtual console. Still, would have been nice if you could switch between B/W and Colour... that goes for all Game Boy-games. I played this game a lot as a child and it wasn't always easy. For example the 8th dungeon always make me lose my way in the labyrinth. The Eagle Tower (which is dungeon 6) is constantly annoying me. Doesn't help that the DX also gives me the choice of a blue or a red shirt which enhances defence or offence (a permanent acorn for either thing really) and I usually need the blue one for the dungeon since you already found sword-2 which doesn't add anything, but due to the nature of reaching the dungeon (resurrecting a chicken that follows you around) I can't enter the colour dungeon again to change. That really annoys me.

I really hate that boss

The story is that Link, after some adventure in foreign land gets into a storm in his ship and it sinks. He awakes on this mysterious Koholint Island in the care of Marin and starts his adventure to get out of here. It is a really interesting story since the island is overrun by creatures known as Nightmares and by defeating them they berate you for destroying this world. It turns out this is a dream world created by the Wind Fish, the creature sleeping in the egg at the highest mountain top on the island that the Nightmares keep in his sleep and only with the 8 instruments can you awaken him. The price for this is that the island will be destroyed. Including all it's inhabitants which you get to know during the course of the game. Now if you are good at the game and never actually get killed you will save one person, Marin. And of course I usually dies just once playing through this game, but I managed once to do the feat. And it felt rewarding.

She really deserved to appear again in Hyrule Warriors

Due to its portability its one of the more easier Zelda-games to play and bring with you (well, until Virtual console on the 3DS together with rereleases on the very same system). DX version had of course the extra dungeon with the two tunics that add defence or offence. Then we have the picture book that you could use with the Game Boy-camera, if it's unique for the DX version I don't know. Pity that one of the pictures is of Link stealing from the Item Shop meaning your name on the file gets changed to THIEF. It's a good game although the music have some noteworthy songs I actually think later Zelda portabel games have more memorable songs.