#also MAN I want to replay ww but I’m not sure if my laptop can handle a gamecube emulator

[athetos]

I think ocarina of time will always be my favorite zelda game and I know a lot of it is due to sentimental reasons, it was my first Zelda game after all, even if I wasn’t able to fully appreciate it until a few years later when I was older, but genuinely I find it very hard to find things to criticize in it. Yes I know the water temple is the bane of everyone’s existence but I’m one of the few people who never had any problems with it. I loved the townsfolk, I loved the side quests (yes, even the very long trading sequence), I loved the bosses, I loved the plot twists, I absolutely adore the dungeons I think they’re the best in the series, the music is perfect, I’m just still in love with this game even more than 2 decades later. Even now I love theorizing about the Poe Collector’s origins, and watching speedruns or glitch compilations, and listening to remixes of the soundtrack. I think it’s aged incredibly well, graphics and all, and while it’s not the highest stakes in a video game by far, it still feels like an epic. I’ve beaten the game 4 times over 3 consoles (twice original, twice master quest; one 100% run and one 3 heart run each) and it’s never gotten old to me. I still feel like I’m 6 years old renting the game and trying to figure out how to leave kokiri forest or fight off redeads, or a teen jumping the ranch fence with Epona, while my brother and cousin watched and cheered. That game just truly feels like home to me.