Total The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening without one death recorded on your save file and you’ll unlock a secret end following the game’s credits.

This was true for both variations of Link’s Awakening released back in the day, about the Game Boy and Game Boy Color, and it is something the newest Nintendo Switch version of this game incorporates also.

After waking the Windfish and watching Koholint Island disappear, Connect wakes up floating in the sea holding to some driftwood. Had the entire adventure been a dream? No – because your hulking Windfish itself unexpectedly appears, flying overhead.

It’s here the end credits roll, and following those you’ll get a final”The End” message.

But if you’ve defeated the whole of Link’s Awakening without dying, you will then get a heartwarming Easter egg featuring Marin, Link’s crush and closest in-game ally.

During your adventure, Marin tells you she needs nothing more than to depart Koholint herself, and also will wish into this Windfish to make it happen.

“When I had been a seagull, I’d fly up to as I could! I would fly to far away places and sing for a lot of individuals! … When I want to the Wind Fish, then I always wonder whether my dream will come true”

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And it’s this you’ll get to find out whether you’ve got that no-death save – the implication being Marin obtained her wish and was saved, even though Koholint Island being not any more.

She simply flew across the”The End” screen.

The implication here is less that Marin has sprouted wings, and more that her desire has literally come true.

Finally, from the Nintendo Switch variant, which will be an immediate remaster of this DX ending. Again, we see a fantasy of Marin, until the seagull flies off. Is Link just recalling her if he sees that the seagull? Or has never been reincarnated as a soul? The game lets you pick.

It’s among many ways Link’s Awakening on Switch remains authentic to the original game – that in turn was a significant reason I found so much to love about this remake. “Koholint warrants nothing less, and while Connect must journey to leave its shores, this model will always be a place which preserves the island to other people to follow,” I wrote in Eurogamer’s Link’s Awakening Shift review.