During the Treehouse livestream we could take a first look at the inventory screen of Link's Awakening:
As expected, Sword, Shield, Power Bracelet and Pegasus Boots all now have their dedicated buttons, much like in A Link Between Worlds, where they are put together with the Zora Flippers, your current tunic and your current trading item at the left side.
What's of note here is the weird item next to the stick. It looks like some cream in a bowl, where this could be the new Secret Medicine or something else entirely. It could be part of a second trading sequence that was added to the game, for example. Those could also serve to decorate the pedestals in the various houses (kudos to lankelink on GameFAQs for pointing this out). Update: it seems the stands are used for figurines of Mario enemies, so it's probably unrelated to the cream item.
Anyway, there is a dedicated room for the Eight Instruments of the Sirens, as well as the five dungeon keys, much like in the original. There is a bar for temporary items next to them, where you have the Secret Seashells at the top. The Mushroom actually takes the fourth spot, so it's not a button item any longer, which makes sense. And this bar might also offer room for the Golden Leaves, as well as the Secret Medicine.
If the Secret Medicine is still in the game and works the same way as in the original, that is. With the new Fairy Bottles, which were shown as a reward for beating one of the Chamber Dungeons in the trailer, the Secret Medicine might simply go inside those, next to Fairies and Apples.
Yes, apples are in the game, which is a feature taken from A Link Between Worlds... And with that it could be that you can put them into bottles as well.
There should be enough room in the rest of the inventory screen for up to four Fairy Bottles. Why "up to"? Well, since there is now enough inventory space for everything, it makes sense to give the Boomerang its own slot, instead of trading it for another item like the Shovel. This was always annoying that you could never really have all items, where the remake can finally fix things.
Maybe this is even what the new trading items could be for. Maybe there really is a separate trading sequence, where in the end you get the Boomerang from the Moblin at the beach cave.
However, then there would only be space for three bottles, because we also still have the Bow, the Hookshot, the Ocarina and the Magic Rod. And having only three bottles, instead of a nice row of four bottles, seems a little odd. But it's possible, since the original didn't have any bottles at all and only one slot for the Secret Medicine.
Alternatively, they could give you four Fairy Bottles, but you can trade any of the Bottles for the Boomerang. So, in this case you could choose between keeping the Shovel or having four Bottles in total...
So, it will be interesting to learn what all the new slots are there for.
As expected, Sword, Shield, Power Bracelet and Pegasus Boots all now have their dedicated buttons, much like in A Link Between Worlds, where they are put together with the Zora Flippers, your current tunic and your current trading item at the left side.
What's of note here is the weird item next to the stick. It looks like some cream in a bowl, where this could be the new Secret Medicine or something else entirely. It could be part of a second trading sequence that was added to the game, for example. Those could also serve to decorate the pedestals in the various houses (kudos to lankelink on GameFAQs for pointing this out). Update: it seems the stands are used for figurines of Mario enemies, so it's probably unrelated to the cream item.
Anyway, there is a dedicated room for the Eight Instruments of the Sirens, as well as the five dungeon keys, much like in the original. There is a bar for temporary items next to them, where you have the Secret Seashells at the top. The Mushroom actually takes the fourth spot, so it's not a button item any longer, which makes sense. And this bar might also offer room for the Golden Leaves, as well as the Secret Medicine.
If the Secret Medicine is still in the game and works the same way as in the original, that is. With the new Fairy Bottles, which were shown as a reward for beating one of the Chamber Dungeons in the trailer, the Secret Medicine might simply go inside those, next to Fairies and Apples.
Yes, apples are in the game, which is a feature taken from A Link Between Worlds... And with that it could be that you can put them into bottles as well.
There should be enough room in the rest of the inventory screen for up to four Fairy Bottles. Why "up to"? Well, since there is now enough inventory space for everything, it makes sense to give the Boomerang its own slot, instead of trading it for another item like the Shovel. This was always annoying that you could never really have all items, where the remake can finally fix things.
Maybe this is even what the new trading items could be for. Maybe there really is a separate trading sequence, where in the end you get the Boomerang from the Moblin at the beach cave.
However, then there would only be space for three bottles, because we also still have the Bow, the Hookshot, the Ocarina and the Magic Rod. And having only three bottles, instead of a nice row of four bottles, seems a little odd. But it's possible, since the original didn't have any bottles at all and only one slot for the Secret Medicine.
Alternatively, they could give you four Fairy Bottles, but you can trade any of the Bottles for the Boomerang. So, in this case you could choose between keeping the Shovel or having four Bottles in total...
So, it will be interesting to learn what all the new slots are there for.
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