Link’s Awakening is an action-adventure game, as are all games in the Legend of Zelda series. Being played from a viewpoint above the playfield looking down at Link and his surroundings, it followed its closest relative from the Legend of Zelda line of games, A Link to the Past (which in itself is a further developed version of the original NES Legend of Zelda), in its sense of gameplay and the possible actions that could be performed in the game.
