Sunday, September 29, 2019

Link's Awakening Remake Artbook - First Look


Now that I've fully completed the remake, I could finally allow myself to study the artbook that came with the European Limited Edition. I suppose, the only real "spoiler" inside the book would have ben the design of the Koholint Sword, but Nintendo had posted that part of the artbook already.

But it's lovely how much dedication went into the design of the houses. In the original game the houses all mostly looked the same, but here a lot of effort went into individualizing every single house, where the artbook has about as many interior and exterior designs as it has character arts.


Sadly, the printing of the artbook somehow went faulty. There are two parts of four pages each which have swapped places, between sections 3 and 5. When the book goes into the Catfish's Maw, you'll suddenly find artworks for Richard, Kiki and Kanalet Castle, while the Catfish's Maw arts are found in the respective part of the book (see above). That's a shame, but otherwise the artbook really is a nice item, which accompanies this beautiful game.

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