Over the years, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about Link’s Awakening. The narrative hook of a character struggling to distinguish between a dream and reality has always been interesting to me. (As you might have guessed, Christopher Nolan’s Inception is also a personal favorite.) I also spent a lot of time in graduate…
It’s been a long-standing dream of mine to serve on a jury. At one time, I aspired to a career in law, and though I ultimately chose a different path, I’ve always found real-life courtroom drama to be oddly alluring. For most of my adult life, though, the judicial stars have never seemed to align…
Earlier this spring, I completed my first playthrough of Phantom Hourglass. While I have several fond memories of the game, there is a single character whose story has stuck with me longer than any of the others, though not for the reasons the game’s developers may have had in mind. I’m talking about the Old…
When you’ve spent untold hours obsessing over something, you start to see it everywhere you look. For fans of The Legend of Zelda, every triangle can start to look like a Triforce, every ruddy canoe the majestic King of Red Lions. Most of the time, this is just your brain on Zelda overdrive; simply a…
We say something is “stranger than fiction” when real-world happenings careen into the seemingly fantastic, into the bizarre. Sometimes, they stray so far as to be unthinkable, and it’s these events we might find ourselves wishing were merely a literary trifle instead of a literal tragedy. For many of us, the games of The Legend…
As part of the E3 2021 Nintendo Direct, a commemorative 35th-anniversary, Zelda-themed Game & Watch unit was introduced by none other than the series’ Producer Eiji Aonuma. The handheld will contain four games: The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, the original monochrome Game Boy version of Link’s Awakening, and a new…
