If you tuned into Nintendo's Treehouse Live Broadcast following the big E3 2019 Direct presentation, you likely saw the same segment we did highlighting upcoming September release, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.
While there was a lot revealed about this Switch title in the half-hour demo, one of the more interesting titbits of information was regarding the return of the Color Dungeon from the DX version of Link's Awakening and also the introduction of the Chamber Dungeon.
To cut to the chase, the Color Dungeon is back! Even if it doesn't have quite the same impact as it did back in 1998, it's there. What's reassuring, as the Nintendo Treehouse crew explained, is the fact all of the DX content is represented in this newer version of Link's Awakening. If you're not familiar with the original Color Dungeon, it required players to solve color-puzzles and made special use of the Game Boy Color at the time.
Interestingly, the Switch release will also include the new Chamber Dungeon. This dungeon is a building that actually replaces the original Camera Shop that was located in Tal Tal Heights (first featured in Link's Awakening DX). You could take photos throughout Koholint Island and then return to this shop to print them out or view on the Game Boy Printer accessory.
Instead of this, the building has now been replaced by the Chamber Dungeon, run by Dampé, who you might remember as the graveyard keeper from the 1998 Nintendo 64 release, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It's also worth noting Dampé was not featured in the original Link's Awakening games. The Chamber Dungeon itself will allow you to create challenging custom dungeons. For more insight, view the video below:
What are your thoughts about the color dungeon returning and the new chamber dungeon feature? Tell us down in the comments.
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I believe the politically-correct term is dungeon of color. 😉
Lame joke aside, it’s great this dungeon is back—I’d have been disappointed if it didn’t make a return.
@g_ruz Hold on, where's my black card.... Lost it after Obama became president...
The chamber dungeon makes me wish we had a Zelda Maker (like Mario Maker but for Zelda)
Being the thief was the best part though...
That Color Dungeon was super underwhelming. It's about as basic a dungeon as you can get, and the few puzzles were very simplistic "color" puzzles (like I had already seen in Lufia II a couple years earlier, at the least).
If I had actually spent $30 for the GBC version back in the day (after I had already spent $20 before that on a PC copy of the original), I'd have been disappointed.
Chamber Dungeon looks like a lot of fun, and I really want the new amiibo!
@g_ruz bahaha
While 100%ing the photos was a pain unless you wanted to be renamed as THIEF, I'll still miss those. I suppose they have no purpose in this day and age, but there was a certain charm to them.
WE WANT ORACLE OF SEASONS. WE WANT ORACLE OF AGES. Seriously pumped for this, but by doing this created a dangerous hunger for more! This is going to be great.
Beyond the dungeon building thing, do we know if they’re adding anything to the game or is it going to be 100% the same game with new graphics?
I'm surprised they're charging 60 bucks with no meaningful new content. I love the game to bits but still... That chamber thing didn't look interesting to me at all.
I'm super stoked for the chamber dungeon. It doesn't seem overwhelming or hard to create. So I'll definitely be making my own quite often.
Yay! I loved getting the red tunic and just laying waste to everything!
Still have my Purple see through Gameboy colour with Zelda DX inserted.
Did anyone actually use the blue outfit??
The Dampe thing looked just weird, unless you can share them online.
I was worried it would be a copy and paste of the DX version without anything new. Glad they added the chamber dungeon.
Creating and sharing dungeons would be magnificent.
Create custom dungeons huh? Sounds like the closest to Zelda Maker we'll get for now...
How can they say that it features all the content from DX, but not include the camera shop and the mouse guy running it? Making sure to get all those photos was a memorable part of the experience!
As long as the custom dungeons can be shared online I think it's going to be really good added content. If that's not something you can share online I think the 60 dollar price tag is a bit high.
@g_ruz
Wrong this is actually a binary dungeon that can be anything it wants.
@Zidentia
Haha but wouldn't being binary limit it to two things? Maybe the non-binary dungeon, or, better yet, the non-conforming dungeon.
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