I was a big fan of the old 2D Legend of Zelda games like Link's Awakening, and Anodyne effectively recaptures their spirit with some...very strange new twists.

Um...minor spoilers, I guess.

So it's like...a broom instead of a sword? What? Like, one minute you're floating down a river on a pile of dust, the next you're falling down a whirlpool into a weird land with walking trees, and then you climb a windmill and get to outer space, which is ruled by cubes wih faces, but it's actually a hotel filled with evil ghostly cleaning ladies, and there's a town where everything's in black and white and shadows are chasing you and...well, don't get me started on the ending. It's ridiculously surreal.

Therein lies Anodyne's brilliance--unlike Link's Awakening, which had some weirdness but was always internally consistent, Anodyne perfectly recreates the fuzziness and weirdness of an ACTUAL dream. And it does it well! A work of art, really.

The gameplay is great too, of course, standing on the shoulders of giants and whatnot. If you've played the top-down Zeldas, you should feel right at home. Frankly, it's a better Zelda game than some of the actual Zelda games we've seen recently.

Anyway, thumbs up.