The Zelda games on the Game Boy and Colour are unique within the Zelda series as a whole. Strange plots, enemies, music, mystery and even gameplay plague the three games. Hell, in Link's Awakening half the enemies are straight up from Super Mario Bros. And the oracle games come with novels and feature interconnected password systems, animal companions (who vary depending on your own actions) and areas unique in any other Zelda games (Subrosia). It's almost as if these 3 games exist in a void unto itself.
I recently watched a playthrough of the Unreal remake of Link's Awakening. Those plus the Oracle games are imo, some of my favourite Zelda games. Anyone know any games similar? I alreayd know of and love Lenna's Inception and Anodyne but I want more. I wrote an article about Link's Awakening and what I call Lozgbc games with a few more listed. Anyone know any other ones I could add?
Substack: https://charinus.substack.com/p/a-retrospect-on-links-awakening
Medium: https://medium.com/@charinusraps/a-retrospect-on-links-awakening-0af2035f183e
Website: https://charinusraps.neocities.org/pages/games/gamenotes/zelda
If you happen to find any more, please let me know! I have a special place in my heart for the Oracle games, and I would love to play more games like them.
If you haven't played Anodyne or Lenna's Inception you 100% need to do so. Lenna's Inception also has a 'meta-game' aspect that is by far the best in it's genre (beating out Evoland).
There's also Kudzu (https://megacatstudios.com/products/kudzu) which came out a few weeks ago for the Gameboy and Castaway (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2564860/Castaway/) which the first screenshot on the page should indicate what kind of game it's striving to be lol.