Growing up in the 1980s, I was exposed to a lot of Nintendo games, and Zelda was one of the franchises that I fell in love with right away. Part of the charm of starting up a new game of The Legend of Zelda was listening to the introductory theme music. Sometimes the first sounds and/or…
While I am a huge Zelda fan, an ardent admirer even, I unfortunately cannot call myself a long-time fan. My parents did not really like video games much, and my library was limited to mostly just Mario and Sonic games. It was not until I was older and was capable of buying my own games…
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…
