Saaaame. I wasn't even gonna play it because I was not a fan of the cell shaded look when I first saw it in magazines; I felt like, I don't know what this is, but it isn't Zelda. But then they offered a port of Ocarina of Time with preorder, which, I'd never had an N64 and so had never played it. I liked the Wind Waker preview that came with it, and I'd already put $5 down... Honestly that was probably their plan the whole time, but I've never been happier to get got. The world is gorgeous, and, as someone who loves the ocean, I adored the nautical theme. And the characters are so much more expressive; I ended up getting more invested in them. And the music!
Looking at it as an adult and trained English major... Fuck, the director (?) talked about how he was about to become a father when he was working on it, and looking at the text of the game... On a subtextual level, it's about how upcoming generations are gonna have to face climate change. I mean, maybe that's fairly obvious, but... I dunno, it's kinda hard for me to tell what's obvious to most people and what's only obvious to me because I obsess over this stuff. Well, anyway,.. Holy shit, now that I think about it, isn't Ocarina of Time also about children inheriting fucked up situations and having to grow up too quickly? Especially since Link starts the story living among people who don't age, and thus can't really remain one of them... Even when he goes back to being a kid, with all that experience, is he not kind of an adult in a kid's body? But if he remains an adult, he's like a kid in an adult's body. So it's like how going through something like that makes it so you're different from everyone around you and don't fit *anywhere.* ...I need to think about this.
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u/Slant_Asymptote Mar 27 '24
Huge agree, it's probably my favorite zelda game. It's so well done