In this adventure game, players control Link, a budding train engineer who must defeat evil creatures to save a princess named Zelda. Players can explore fantasy landscapes, solve environmental puzzles, and perform a series of sub-missions—battling an assortment of small, "cartoony" creatures. Ghosts, ogres, bats, chickens, and wolves must be defeated to progress through the dungeons and other fantasy settings. Players use a sword, boomerang, whip, bow & arrows, and tiny cannonballs to clear away the enemies. The wolves whimper in pain when struck by a sword; the chickens squawk/cluck and lose their feathers; most other creatures stagger back, blink, then disappear in a puff of smoke. In one scene, two characters join hands to stab a jewel placed on an evil creature's forehead.
