Best Game Boy Advance Game
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
Publisher: Publisher
Developer: Flagship
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We all knew an original Zelda game would eventually show up on the Game Boy Advance, but that didn't diminish (sorry) our excitement at the arrival of The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. This new game is being crafted by the very capable hands of Flagship, the internal Capcom development team who brought us the Game Boy Color Zelda games Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages. Though we didn't get to see a whole lot of the game at E3, what we did see is looking mighty fine.
At its heart, The Minish Cap is the same 2D, overhead-perspective Zelda you grew up with, but as always, this new iteration of the classic adventure will introduce some neat new mechanics to keep things interesting. Link's eponymous cap is actually sentient and will squawk at you from time to time as you progress through the game. More importantly, the minish cap will let you shrink down to pint size, which will let you access tiny dungeons and some otherwise off-limits areas. The shift between regular and small sizes will create all sorts of new puzzle opportunities for the game's designers. In the short demo dungeon we played, there were even giant mushrooms that we could use to launch ourselves across gaps.
One of our favorite things about The Minish Cap is that, unlike for the Oracle games (which simply reused graphics from the previous GBC Zelda, Link's Awakening), Flagship is crafting entirely new sprites and tilesets to bring the game's world to life. In fact, the version of Link on display here is stylistically identical to the childish one we saw in The Wind Waker last year, and the few environments we saw have a similarly vibrant, cartoonlike style. Even if it's not being developed by Nintendo, The Minish Cap looks to be Zelda done right, and it ought to be exactly what GBA-owning fans of the series have been waiting for.
The other Best Game Boy Advance Game finalists:
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
Mario Golf: Advance Tour
Mario Pinball
Payback
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