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Mina the Hollower is an 8-bit world of complex wonder

Eurogamer.net Latest Articles Feed·Christian Donlan·3 days ago
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Image credit: Yacht Club Games / Eurogamer My favourite moment in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening happens in a library. You're wandering between the stacks, trying to learn more about this strange island you've washed up on, when you spy a book that's hidden up high, stuck at the top of a book shelf, and well out of range of your grasping hands. There's a trick to getting that book, but really, the whole sequence is the magic of Zelda in microcosm. Here you are, there is the thing you can see and wonder about but can't seem to reach: what do you do? Mina the Hollower is a game in the Zelda tradition. It's a top-down affair like the original games, and while Mina can jump, they jump just like Link does in - hey! - Link's Awakening. They jump up into the space above the screen, as it were, and you need to use their shadow to work out where they are so you can collect things hovering about them and then stick the landing. All great.…

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