Yes, you do play as Link, but only very briefly, during part of the game's tutorial. Once you've rescued Zelda, you'll soon swap to playing as her, and you control her for the rest of the game.
We gave this top-down Zelda game a 9/10 in our glowing review, concluding that this is "easily in contention with A Link to the Past and A Link Between Worlds as one of the best top-down ...
It's the first mainline entry in the series with Princess Zelda in the leading role, and it plays a lot differently than previous top-down iterations starring Link. Zelda's ability to create ...