Growing up in the ’90s, I was one of those unfortunate kids who missed out on all the Nintendo consoles that came on the scene after the NES and the Super Nintendo. This finally changed in 2011 when I received a Wii as a gift, but by that point, the glory days of Zelda had…
I don’t know where to begin with this one. All I could do when I think about it is just feel sorrow and sadness. Rarely do I feel that way when I am watching a game’s credits. I watched them after I beat Majora’s Mask, and I saw the people I helped live their lives.…
I was doing it. After so many years of listening to people talk about what a great game A Link to the Past is, I was finally taking the time and opportunity to play it on my Switch. I couldn’t wait to reach the Dark World and hear the theme music start playing, because it…
Waiting. Ugh, waiting. The anticipation of something good to come, sometimes known as the opposite of happiness. When it comes to video games, waiting is something that happens all too frequently. Like right now, the week ending Friday, November 18th, 2022, is a week of excited waiting for many with several high profile releases. In…
On April 20, 2019, I got one of the worst phone calls of my entire life: my best friend of 36 years had fallen four stories off of his apartment balcony and was on life support at the hospital. I was shocked and in disbelief, but his sister would not have phoned me if it…
I did not know how to feel. Usually there was a sense of accomplishment when I succeeded in Majora’s Mask. A reward or a congratulations. And I usually take that and be on my way. Yet this was different. I never had the experience of what I accomplished would be simply forgotten by the characters…
I wasn’t always a Zelda completionist. As a kid, my idea of beating any of the games was to get to the final boss, beat them up, and then wonder what I was going to do with my life. But now that I’ve grown up, I feel that if I truly enjoy a Zelda game,…
The final battle. The biggest bad. The beast who embodies pure evil essence. Ganon. Ganondorf’s monstrous alter ego often serves as the final boss in Zelda games, and when I was growing up, confronting him was always a prospect that my friends and I both eagerly awaited and completely dreaded. Whenever we did face him,…
Moments come and go throughout our lives, most of them rather mundane and unmemorable, but trust me when I say that you never forget that brief, chilling moment when you glimpse the true face of evil. This is an evil unlike any other, an evil that haunts your very soul and leaves you scarred for…
The Zelda series, as a whole, isn’t known for incorporating co-op elements. A few isolated mechanics have appeared in games over the years, such as the Tingle Tuner in The Wind Waker, while two games, Four Swords and Four Swords Adventures, offered us a full-blown multiplayer experience. But in general, the games are meant to…
Before we dive into today’s memory, there is something important that you should know about me: I tend to get lost a lot. But not to the extent that you shouldn’t let me wander off or else I’ll never find my way home again. Let me put it this way: if you tell me to…
“When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.” – Salvador Dali A dream can be filled with delight or with terror. It can take you to a lovely place full of happiness and wonder, or it can be a frightening, horrific nightmare world. The possibilities are endless once we are fast…
On the Christmas of 2021, I got one of the best presents I had ever received from my wife: a wallet featuring Link and other images from The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. As soon as I unwrapped the gift, I saw the incredible details of the Japanese writing and the picture of Link, and…
There are two words etched into the brain of any long-time gamer that elicit fear and loathing on a near-primal level. No, not Game Over, as that is merely a fate one wishes to avoid. These two words are far worse, even worse than Navi’s “Hey! Listen!” mantra that plays even when you are on…
Have you ever seen something that simply took your breath away? I’m sure many of you have experienced that in a variety of different ways, whether it was seeing the love of your life for the first time, nature in all of its splendor, or a piece of artwork that made you just stop, stare,…
