Had a whole spiel written out really in-depth and about my experiences and then backloggd deleted it so dammit.

Regardless, even if I find the controls to be very aged (though not as exaggeratedly so as some may say), the story to be a simple hero's journey as compared to a lot of the later entries, and that the game doesn't truly get to be great until Shadow Temple imo (the stuff before is good, but the end game stuff is the truly spectacular), I cannot deny that this is by far one the most important games ever made. And to neglect that fact would be doing everyone a massive disservice.

And it's absolutely magical that on an emotional and cinematic level, this game holds up very very well. Everything surrounding Ganon's Tower is pitch perfect, and completely shifted my opinion on this game from being "this is overrated and slow" to "I finally get it."

It changed everything, and without this game, who knows where we'd be with the games industry? You think we'd only be at PS2/Gamecube era rn narratives, cinematics, and level progression if it wasn't for this? Idk. But honestly, I'm just thankful for finally experiencing this in full and getting to see why it DESERVED that "Best Game of All Time" label that it held for so long.

Reviewed on Mar 03, 2021


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