This may come as a surprise to you, but the Switch remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening looks pretty different from the Game Boy version. Still, it recreates the original’s the world, scenery, and even opening cutscenes almost one-to-one in a shiny new art style.

To show how close it can get, we took a side-by-side look at a few (spoiler-free) scenes that are in both the remake and the DX version of the original that was on Game Boy Color (a more interesting visual comparison than the simple shades of green on the Game Boy). Watch the video above to see it in action, flip through the slideshow below to see the shots next to each other, or scroll further down the page to slide between the two versions for yourself.

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Source: IGN.com The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Remake Graphics Comparison