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The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages (2001)

Capcom Production Studio 1

Game Boy Color · Nintendo 3DS

3.99 from 1075 ratings

3028 members have it in their collection · 113 playing now · 1105 backlogged · 681 wish listed

How long? Main story 16h · with extras 20h · 100% 46h (from 17 logged playthroughs)

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages is one of two Zelda titles released for the Game Boy Color, the other being Oracle of Seasons. The game retain many gameplay elements from Link's Awakening such as the graphics, audio and top-view perspective. It also features eight dungeons and a large overworld to explore like in the previous games. Oracle of … Read more
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages is one of two Zelda titles released for the Game Boy Color, the other being Oracle of Seasons. The game retain many gameplay elements from Link's Awakening such as the graphics, audio and top-view perspective. It also features eight dungeons and a large overworld to explore like in the previous games. Oracle of Ages is said to be more puzzle-oriented than its counterpart being more action-oriented. After completing one of the two games, both can be linked to form a single linear plot with an alternate ending. Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons were often credited as being two of the top games for the Game Boy Color. Read less

Details

Developers
Capcom Production Studio 1
Publishers
Gradiente, Nintendo
Genres
Adventure, Puzzle
Themes
Action
Franchises
The Legend of Zelda
Series
The Legend of Zelda

Release dates

  • Feb 27, 2001 (Full Release) (Japan) Game Boy Color
  • May 14, 2001 (Full Release) (North_America) Game Boy Color
  • Jun 2001 (Full Release) (Brazil) Game Boy Color
  • Oct 05, 2001 (Full Release) (Europe) Game Boy Color
  • Feb 27, 2013 (Full Release) (Japan) Nintendo 3DS
  • May 30, 2013 (Full Release) (Europe) Nintendo 3DS
  • May 30, 2013 (Full Release) (Australia) Nintendo 3DS
  • May 30, 2013 (Full Release) (North_America) Nintendo 3DS
  • Apr 20, 2016 (Full Release) (Korea) Nintendo 3DS

Featured in lists

The Legend of Zelda - Ranked by lingsdook · 33 games · 3
NSO Collection - GB + GBC by Roach · 43 games · 2
çöp by Rerogshi · 298 games · 0
4 in February (2015) by tylerisrandom · 5 games · 0
My Zelda Ranking by tylerisrandom · 12 games · 0

Rating distribution

5 stars
319
4 stars
486
3 stars
218
2 stars
44
1 star
7

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Twilit_Fox

Status Twilit_Fox May 7, 2025

Linked Game Hero's Cave was GRUELING! Actually took me 3 hours which is waaay more than any of the other dungeons in the game. While it was nice to see uses of items that weren't in their main dungeons, a couple of these puzzles were just bullshit - a good chunk of those 3 hours were spent in a single …

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Linked Game Hero's Cave was GRUELING! Actually took me 3 hours which is waaay more than any of the other dungeons in the game. While it was nice to see uses of items that weren't in their main dungeons, a couple of these puzzles were just bullshit - a good chunk of those 3 hours were spent in a single room with a Hamiltonian path puzzle (just looked up that's what they're called) where I would consistently miss a single square, only to find it's not solvable and you have to use an item as a gimmick solution. Come on!!!

The other puzzles were mostly clever and enjoyable, but the difficulty was toned a bit too much towards annoyance for me.

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gedrickdelfuego

Status gedrickdelfuego Jan 3, 2025

Another playthrough of this wonderful game, complete. Day I say, I think the Oracle games are on par if not better than A Link to the Past. The world feels far more.. alive? And the dungeons are monumentally better, in this fella's opinion, anyway. Looking forward to jumping straight into Oracle of Seasons!

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Balmora

Status Balmora Nov 26, 2023

All I can say is 'WOW', this game is incredible so far. I've always been a GBC and GBA fan, but this game missed my radar back when it released. I've been playing it on the switch now and having a blast.

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TitusCrowe

Status TitusCrowe Aug 24, 2023

The puzzles were awesome. The story was a 1 out of 5. I get the tie in to oracle of seasons, but I doubt I'll ever do it. This was my least favorite Zelda game.

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internpepper

Status internpepper Sep 17, 2021

I enjoyed this way more than Oracle of Seasons. Switching time periods was way less tedious than switching seasons, and the difficulty felt more balanced. While some bosses were still messy, the quality was much improved and the feature to link games and get the true ending with extra bosses was a neat feature.

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GigaDeathNullGolem

Status GigaDeathNullGolem Apr 12, 2020

i am playing this/these for the first time, and i like. it has a minimal aesthetic with slightly more details than nes, and builds and expands off LTTP style puzzle/environment interaction. It's also much more lovely to look at than link's awakening (using the expanded GCB pallette.) on an emulator this is a pretty good experience. I have very high …

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i am playing this/these for the first time, and i like. it has a minimal aesthetic with slightly more details than nes, and builds and expands off LTTP style puzzle/environment interaction. It's also much more lovely to look at than link's awakening (using the expanded GCB pallette.) on an emulator this is a pretty good experience. I have very high resolution and sharp image on a large screen. (and the music in this sounds great on headphones) but there is one problem

I have this weird desire to like to play BOTH Ages/Seasons at the same time for some reason, and i feel like it's a flaw that they werent designed to be played simultaneously that way. It would of course, be technically obnoxious and a pain to enter passwords or whatever to exchange state, but this would have been an interesting opportunity, for cartridge based games in that era.. especially for handheld platform.

If that route were taken, it would have been epic, too epic perhaps but I can only imagine what later games would have been like down the road (how's that for a time travel mechanic!?!) :D

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herukkapahkina

Status herukkapahkina Aug 29, 2019

I've finished the main game, Veran was a much easier boss than Onox in my opinion. Now I only have the linked game final bosses to beat. Twinrova and Ganon are tough! I think I'll do the trading sequence to get the level 3 sword, so that I have a better chance against them...

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Dallen

Status Dallen Aug 29, 2018

I have grown to despise this game.... I hate almost everything about it. It's in a real running to be a 1 star game and I never thought I would say that about a Zelda title. It's still probably at a 2 star now but just barely.

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Dallen

Status Dallen Aug 12, 2018

I wish I liked this game more than I did. Even the more meh zelda titles never feel like a slog but this one does to me. Maybe it's because i've played so many zelda titles but this one just seems rather generic. Still I promised myself I would finish it.

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tylerisrandom

Status tylerisrandom Feb 16, 2015

Finally beat my old linked game (I beat Seasons and started this a year or two ago but got stuck at the Goron Dance). What a wonderful (though challenging) duo of games.

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