Nintendo had promised that they’d be showing new gameplay footage for many of their upcoming games during Gamescom week, and they’ve been doing just that over the last few days. After showing meaty chunks from Astral Chain and Luigi’s Mansion 3, in addition to a short new gameplay video for Pokemon Sword and Shield, they’ve now released half an hour’s worth of new gameplay from the upcoming remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. 

The game continues to look amazing, and its unique art style is really popping and looking excellent in motion, especially with its blurring effect of distant background objects. The footage showcases some exploration, combat, a mini-boss fight, and shows the creation of an entire dungeon in the game’s dungeon-making Chamber Dungeon. Take a look at all of it below.

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is out on the Switch on September 20th. Stay tuned to GamingBolt for more coverage.

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is up for pre-load on the Nintendo Switch eShop, Nintendo has confirmed via its Japanese Twitter account. Usually, Nintendo only makes its games available for pre-load after they’ve gone gold, so even though this wasn’t specifically confirmed, we can assume that primary development on the game has now wrapped up, a month ahead of launch.

The game’s file size stands at 5.8 GB, which is not too large, but is still pretty big by Nintendo standards. For comparison’s sake, Super Mario Odyssey – a much larger game by every metric – came in at 5.7 GB. Meanwhile, Nintendo UK’s website also states that if you purchase the game right now (up until September 22nd), you’ll get double the gold coins in exchange than usual, which amounts to £5.00. This, of course, will not apply if you choose to redeem one of your Nintendo Switch Online Vouchers to purchase the game, since gold coins are already provided on purchase of Vouchers.

Developed by Grezzo – who also handled the 3DS remasters of Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask – The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is out exclusively for the Switch exactly one month from now, on September 20. Nintendo will be showing off new gameplay footage from the title during Gamescom week, so stay tuned to GamingBolt for all the latest updates.

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The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening on the Switch would have been a sureshot success even if it was just a straight 1:1 remake. While it is that for the most part, it’s also adding some entirely new stuff of your own- such as the Chamber Dungeon mode, which essentially lets you create your own Zelda dungeons, room by room.

A possible Zelda Maker is something that fans have been asking for for a while now, especially in the last few years, following Nintendo’s success with the excellent Super Mario Maker. So is Chamber Dungeon in Link’s Awakening a sign of things to come? Could we possibly be getting a Zelda Maker game down the line? As per series producer Eiji Aonuma, it’s certainly a possibility.

When asked in an interview with Kotaku if Nintendo would consider making Zelda Maker if Chamber Dungeon proved to be successful, Aonuma said he’d keep it in mind. “I can’t predict the future,” he said, “but if people do love this idea of arranging dungeons, I’ll keep that in mind going forward.”

Let’s hope Chamber Dungeon is really successful then, because a game dedicated entirely to letting you create your own Zelda dungeons, with a toolset as vast and impressive as Super Mario Maker, would be bloody amazing.

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is out exclusively on the Switch on September 20.