#anyway whoever says twilight princess is a bad game is wrong and a fool

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so here's a story about twilight princess

when i first got this game on the wii, it was probably my first RPG and at that point i only knew the sims, barbie pc games, and wii sports resort. i started playing twilight princess at the start of the summer and i progressed VERY slowly even though i was like, sixteen, because i barely knew how games like this worked. at this point i knew NOTHING of zelda lore, i didnt know what the triforce was, i had never heard of ganon, all i knew was 1) sword and 2) green pointy hat. i took a whole day finishing the tutorial in the village and slowly found my way through the first dungeon. i was like, ight this is pretty fun, im excited to go visit the princess now :) and then this game hits me with this fucking portal made of black pixels and distorted music and crazy looking monsters and they seem to kill my friends and kidnap some kids and i have to run after them like ?!?! WHAT is going on!!!! There's a huge wall of darkness here that wasn't there before and there's funky writing on it?? oh FUCK a giant hand cane out of it and brought me in and OH IM A WOLF NOW?? Oh i'm in prison??? I was SO intrigued like you don't even know. Then there's that legendary scene where Midna just shows up and is super cryptic and keeps laughing at you from behind the bars, and I was so interested in this funky little imp girl. It took a really long time for me to get through the sewers, and every time I found one of those guard's ghosts I just had more questions. I finally climbed up to that one door and walked outside. I was on the castle roof. Midna said something like "are you starting to understand now?" and I was like, no, but holy fuck, I need to know more! 

 And then I had to leave for summer camp. I was gone for three weeks, on this really long canoe trip in the middle of nowhere, and during those long hours paddling in the rain to our next camping site all I could think about was WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT? I had the image of the castle's towers, looming in the distant yellow sky, firmly printed inside my mind. I don't remember what my hypotheses were but I came up with a lot of them. Then after three weeks travelling along some rivers and lakes and sleeping in a tent I went back home, and I turned the game back on, holding my breath. I had to make my way across the roof, which took a while, because I had to relearn all the controls. But then you get to that one tower. And you go up the stairs. And there's this woman in a dark room wearing a cloak who sees you come in and is like oh, there you are. Let me tell you how the kingdom fell. My fantasy-loving ass is just there like 😳. You see Zant for the first time in that flashback and there's that blood chilling sound when he's revealed, bro I was Terrified!! And then Zelda pulls down her hood and she's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen and I'm like OH so YOU'RE Zelda. That's YOUR name on the box. I want to be by your side forever please. And you can't talk to her any more than this because the guards are coming and you need to go now!! You need to leave her behind, and then you teleport away and AH!!!!!! I waited three weeks and it was so worth it but this was just the beginning!!! I couldn't fucking believe it!!!! I was literally inside a story like all those books I read, and I was the one figuring stuff out! 

I'll never forget that high it was truly something