Guide Zelda: Link's Awakening: How To Defeat Façade - Face Shrine Boss (Level 6)
You're allowed to hit him right in the face
Concluding part seven of our Zelda: Link's Awakening walkthrough we'll need to learn how to defeat the Face Shrine Boss: Facade. How To Defeat Façade - Face Shrine Boss (Level 6): Leaving the long hall via its lower exit, you will enter the room in which you fought the four Wizzrobes. Take the lower...
Guide Zelda: Link's Awakening: Angler's Tunnel, Map, Compass and Getting The Flippers
Time to see if you sink or swim
Continuing part five of our Zelda: Link's Awakening walkthrough we will explore the Angler's Tunnel dungeon finding the Map and Compass along with the Flippers before defeating the Level 4 boss. Angler’s Tunnel Walkthrough: Locate Compass, Stone Beak and Angler’s Tunnel Dungeon Map Well, your travels on the...
Guide Zelda: Link's Awakening: How To Defeat Angler Fish - Angler's Tunnel Boss (Level 4)
A unique boss for a Zelda game
Concluding part five of our Zelda: Link's Awakening walkthrough we'll need Link to use his Flippers and learn how to defeat the Angler Fish, the fourth dungeon Angler's Tunnel Boss. How To Defeat Angler Fish - Angler's Tunnel Boss (Level 4): Unusually, the next room doesn’t contain the boss – instead you will...
Animal Village! Dream Shrine! Wake Up a Walrus! Goo Goo G'joob!
In part five of our Zelda: Link's Awakening walkthrough Link will be seeking out Yarna Desert, serenading a sleeping Walrus, and entering the Angler’s Tunnel to deliver cold steel straight to a fish’s illicium (oof!). Additionally covered: getting the ocarina from the dream shrine,...
Guide Zelda: Link's Awakening: Rescue BowWow and Goponga Swamp
Rescue a razor-toothed, oddly spherical dog
In part three of our Zelda: Link's Awakening walkthrough his continuing adventures, we deal with a dastardly dognapping, step into a suspicious swamp and delve into the game’s second dungeon. BowWow And Goponga Swamp Walkthrough: Returning to Mabe Village Start heading back towards Mabe Village and...
Guide Zelda: Link's Awakening: Bottle Grotto and Finding The Power Bracelet
Dungeon number two of Link's quest
Continuing part three of our Zelda: Link's Awakening walkthrough we head inside the second dungeon: the Bottle Grotto as we locate the Map, Compass and new item: Power Bracelet. Bottle Grotto Walkthrough: Locate the Bottle Grotto Compass Welcome to the Bottle Grotto – a dungeon which, as the name suggests,...
Guide Zelda: Link's Awakening: How To Defeat Genie - Bottle Grotto Boss (Level 2)
Tactics and methods await inside
Concluding part three of our Zelda: Link's Awakening walkthrough it's time to learn how to defeat the Bottle Grotto Boss - Genie. How To Defeat Genie - The Bottle Grotto (Level 2) Boss: You’ve finally arrived at the Nightmare’s antechamber – jump the gap, insert the key, and ready yourself for battle...
Guide Zelda: Link's Awakening: Tail Cave Dungeon and Roc Feather Location
Darkness awaits in the Tail Cave
Continuing Part Two of our Zelda Link's Awakening walkthrough, we explore the game’s first dungeon, the Tail Cave, and find our first game item: Roc's Feather. Level 1: Tail Cave Walkthrough: Locate the Tail Cave Compass The first room of the Tail Cave gives you the option of heading left or directly forwards...
Guide Zelda: Link's Awakening: How To Defeat Moldorm - Tail Cave Boss (Level 1)
The first boss is easy, you got this!
To complete part two of our Zelda: Link's Awakening walkthrough we need to defeat the games first boss, Moldrom: Tail Cave Boss. How To Defeat Moldorm - Tail Cave Boss (Level 1): Head towards the boss door taking care to avoid the blade traps in the next room. The stairs here lead to the dungeon you can...
Guide Zelda: Link's Awakening: Tail Key Location, Mysterious Forest And Magic Powder
Throw Magic Powder at Forest Animals and Venture into Link’s Awakening’s first dungeon
In part two of our Zelda: Link's Awakening walkthrough we journey into the Mysterious Forest to locate the Tail Key to open the Tail Cave. Mysterious Forest Walkthrough: Finding The Tail Key Having retrieved your Sword and Shield, it’s time for Link’s...
Guide Zelda: Link's Awakening: Leaving Mabe Village, Finding The Sword
Lost on Koholint Island? Read our walkthrough to the classic Zelda game
With the release of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening on Nintendo Switch, Zelda remake powerhouse Grezzo has returned to the series’ first portable outing, allowing a new generation to experience this charming adventure for the first time. Whether you remember these...
Guide Zelda: Link's Awakening: Trading Sequence - All Trade Items and Locations
The importance of trading up seemingly useless items
Trading sequences are a recurring element in the Zelda series – you’ll pick up one item that a character is looking for, trade it and they’ll give you another item, and so on. However, the one in Link’s Awakening is unusual in that it is unavoidable if you plan on actually completing the...
Guide Zelda: Link's Awakening: Rescuing Marin, Western Tal Tal Mountain Range
Plus: Miniboss Encores, Finding a Hot Rod and Fighting a Hot Head
In part nine of our Zelda: Link's Awakening walkthrough we’ll be heading to the western section of the mountains and taking on the fire-filled Turtle Rock dungeon to complete our collection of Wind-Fish waking instruments. Western Tal Tal Mountain Range Walkthrough: Rescuing...
Guide Zelda: Link's Awakening: How To Defeat Hot Head - Turtle Rock Boss (Level 8)
Hot, Hot, Hot!
Concluding part nine of our Zelda: Link's Awakening walkthrough it's time to learn how to defeat Hot Head, the Turtle Rock Boss. How To Defeat Hot Head - Turtle Rock Boss (Level 8): You enter and the portcullis opposite crashes shut. A voice calls out to you: *CRACKLE-FWOOSH* You’re finished! I will never let you play the...
Guide Zelda: Link's Awakening: Turtle Rock - Map, Compass and Getting The Hot Rod
Step inside for Turtle Power!
Continuing part nine of our Zelda: Link's Awakening walkthrough we'll navigate through Turtle Rock finding the Map, Compass and getting the Hot Rod. Turtle Rock Walkthrough: Locating the Turtle Rock Compass You’ve made it to the last of the instrument dungeons. Expect plenty of fights and lava, and step forward...
Guide Zelda: Link's Awakening: Wind Fish’s Egg Maze, Defeat The Final Boss And The Color Dungeon
The end is in sight!
So, the time has finally come to climb Mount Tamaranch and wake the Wind Fish. In this final part of our Zelda: Link's Awakening walkthrough, we’ll cover everything you need to know to navigate to the final boss and do damage to each of its forms. Additionally covered: how to find the Color Dungeon. Mount Tamaranch: How...
Ticketed and Free events have now ended - find out about research quest changes and other options
Pokémon GO has held its first global premium event – a paid, ticketed event that could be played anywhere in the world, giving exclusive early and easy access to the legendary Pokémon Regigas and a raft of other perks. Tickets are no longer on sale...
Last Day! Yamask and Cofagrigus Released into the Wild, Darkrai Raids and Adorable Costumes
Since release, Pokémon GO has always featured a Halloween event with plenty of ghostly goings on, and 2019’s event may just be the biggest yet. From 17 October until the 1 November you will be able to catch new Gen 5 Pokémon Yamask, battle the new Gen 4...
Guide Pokémon GO Type Chart: Advantages And Weaknesses Explained For All 18 Types
Your best options for super effective attacks & maximum resistance (also applies to mainline games)
Rock, paper, scissors. The idea that certain player choices are more or less effective against others has been a cornerstone of game design for generations. But what if your hand could also turn into a dragon, or a tsunami, or a formless supernatural...
Thousand Year D'awwwww (updated with information on stage 7/7)
An eventful summer of Pokémon catching once again comes to a close and as in previous years, players are being treated to a special appearance by a mythical Pokémon. Previously available to long-time Pokémon fans only through in-store events and now obscure Gamecube releases, the...
Guide Where To Find Unown In Pokémon GO: All About Unown Events And Rare Wild Appearances
Why You Probably Don’t Have One, And Why You Probably Won’t Want All 28
Since its debut in the Johto region Gameboy Color games Pokémon Gold and Silver, Unown (#201), has injected an air of mystery into the series. A trans-dimensional traveller that comes in 28 forms based on the Latin Alphabet, Unown retains its mystique in Pokémon GO by...
Guide How To Catch Smeargle In Pokémon GO (Using GO Snapshot mode)
Ready… Say, “fuzzy Pokés”
As your collection of creatures grows in Pokémon GO, you may start to notice some conspicuous holes in your Pokédex. A select few of these missing entries won’t turn up no matter how far you walk, how many eggs you hatch or how many research tasks you complete. Smeargle is one such Pokémon, and in this guide,...
Guide Pokémon GO Tyrogue Evolution: How To Get Tyrogue, Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan and Hitmontop
How to evolve Tyrogue into Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan and Hitmontop
On your quest to catch every available Pokémon in the Pokémon GO Pokédex, you will get used to encountering monsters that behave a little differently to the rest. Tyrogue and its personal fight club of evolutions are a good example – a Pokémon that you’ll never see in the wild...
Guide Zelda: Breath Of The Wild: Shae Loya Shrine Solution
Stock up on arrows and manipulate time to solve this shrine
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s more easily located shrines tend to be used to test a skill you need to know in the main quest. So it is with Shae Loya, a shrine en route to Rito Village that tests your precision archery skills in preparation for your airborne showdown with...
