Willow — stories left

In the "3rd Gamest Awards" (1989), a feature of the game magazine Gamest, it placed 10th for Best Presentation and 21st among the hit games of the year by reader vote.

In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the game scored a total of 26 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine,it scored 21.05 out of 30, as shown below.

In the special supplement "Famicom ROM Cartridge All Catalog" in the 1991-5-10 issue of the same magazine, it was introduced with the words "a refined game system", "there are only 12 kinds of magic, which is on the few side, but each is clearly characterised, which actually makes them easy to use", and "1 title to recommend to RPG fans, for its story development that does not spoil the image of the original, its easy-to-understand game system, and its simple controls".

Willow is part of a series of games released in the five years after the original The Legend of Zelda, which were described as "zelda clones".

She said “I put a lot of energy into the music for Willow.

In the final issue of Nintendo Power, which was released in December 2012, Willow was ranked 254 out of 285 for best games ever to appear on Nintendo consoles. 1up.com called it a rather poor game inspired by The Legend of Zelda, and said Crystalis was a far better Zelda style game.

The game has never been re-released on any Nintendo Virtual Console, likely due to licensing issues.

In the final issue of Nintendo Power, which was released in December 2012, Willow was ranked 254 out of 285 for best games ever to appear on Nintendo consoles. 1up.com called it a rather poor game inspired by The Legend of Zelda, and said Crystalis was a far better Zelda style game.

It is loosely inspired by the 1988 film of the same name and is the second title Capcom released based on Willow that year, the first being an unrelated side scrolling arcade game.