The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

• To find BowWow, go up two screens from the point just outside the forest with the Piece of Heart surrounded by holes.

• To find the golden leaves, you need to talk to the monkey, who is two screens to the right of the castle drawbridge.

Switch Version

• The first caves have some light colored rock clusters. Graphically, I read these as being destructible for bombs or some such later on, but they're actually just regular overworld blocks that can sometimes be pushed.

• Magic powder can be used to light torches though it's only really required at the start of the first dungeon.

• There's an item trading sub-quest that spans most of the game starting with a yoshi doll from the claw game. You can get it as far as the banana step early on, but that won't be required until after the second dungeon. The monkey at the beach is a red herring, you'll run into where you need the banana while progressing to the next area.

• A ways into the game there'll be an obstacle you'll be told you need Maron to help clear. Supposedly, the kid by the rooster statue should tell you to look for her at the beach, but he didn't in my game.