Oracle Of Ages and Oracle Of Seasons are now available via the Nintendo Switch Online service, as Capcom’s classics make a welcome return.
Now that Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom has been out for a few months some people’s minds have already begun to turn to what comes next. A new mainline entry will take at least five years, and will almost certainly be on Nintendo’s new console, but what happens between now and then?
Nintendo has already implied it won’t go back to the old formula, but do they mean just the main games or are they ruling out minor releases and spin-offs as well? That’s impossible to say, but two new titles just added to Nintendo Switch Online show one of their previous solutions to the same problem.
Oracle Of Ages and Oracle Of Seasons were released in 2001 for the Game Boy Color and were not by Nintendo at all, but instead were developed by Capcom. Although you’d hardly know, as they’re almost up to the same quality as all the other games.
The two games have the same visual style as Game Boy title Link’s Awakening and were originally intended to be part of a trilogy of interlinked games. That proved a bit too ambitious for the 8-bit technology of the Game Boy and so the concept was reduced to just two titles.
Although it’d be handled very differently today, with modern technology, the idea was that what you did in one game affected the other, with a password system changing characters, items, and enemies depending on which you played first.
The games have been largely forgotten over the years, and rarely re-released, so being able to download them as part of the Nintendo Switch Online service is very welcome.
Although there’s no story connection, Capcom also made the Game Boy Advance title The Minish Cap, which is already on Nintendo Switch Online.
Nintendo Switch Online has a free seven-day trial and beyond that costs £3.49 a month, £6.99 for three months, and £17.99 for a year. It’s required to play most Switch games online and includes Virtual Consoles for the NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy, GBA, and Mega Drive.
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