The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages 2001

Is it still worth playing?

Flagship's 2001 overhead action adventure for the Game Boy Color, released alongside Oracle of Seasons, resembling Link's Awakening. Ages focuses on puzzles rather than action. The Harp of Ages lets Link travel between past and present Labrynna through Time Holes, and eight Essences of Time are guarded by bosses in dungeons. The Past and Present maps differ, so a path blocked in one age may be open in the other. The games link by password or Game Link Cable, and finishing one unlocks an alternate version of the other with an extended ending. With the same map in two ages, puzzles are solved by changing something in the past and walking through the present, and that still gives each area two layers to work out today.