Reel by Joey Pedras
Joey Pedras@joeypedras The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time lets Link become a child again. But it never really gives him his childhood back. Mido remembers the boy Link used to be without recognizing the person standing in front of him. Navi still leaves. Link can return home carrying memories nobody around him shares. Maybe that’s why replaying Ocarina of Time feels different as an adult. The world is still there. You’re just not the same person who first entered it. #OcarinaOfTime #TheLegendOfZelda #Zelda
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@sean.lele even more nuanced when you consider the Kokiri are a society of elders
@dragonink90 This is beautifully said.
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@srcastic.soprano my sibling was 5-7 and i was 3-5 when we first played ocarina. i was the brains, they were the brawn. i would figure out the puzzles and do all the voices while they held the controller. we are adults now with a strained relationship. i will be getting the new game and they will not. i can’t help but feel like i pulled the sword myself
@kelseytro89 Ocarina of Time captures the whistful fondness of nostalgia and the bittersweet pain of growing up. Link is eventually ripped from the days of his childhood. He was forced to sleep for seven normally life changing years to become a (young) man that can literally pick up the sword to be the hero Hyrule needs. Because he was not capable of being the hero yet, Hyrule burned in his absence. Ganondorf decimated the world, plunging it into darkness. Most of the light of the world isnow extinguished. Few people survive. The happiness out of the Hyrulians who are alive barely thrive. The luscious vibrant town square is abandoned. Lon Lon Ranch was upsurped by a tyrannical evil abuser. Even Link's dearest childhood friend who tou can intrepete as a sweetheart Saria doesn't know who he is. Link both lost and left his past behind. He and the world hold no future if he can't defeat Ganondorf. And even once Zelda plucks him back to the past, Navi is gone. He is going to still eventually grow up and need to leave the Kokiri Village behind. Saria is immortal and ageless like the rest of the children. She will not follow him. Link knows the sacrifices expected of him and waiting for him. He chooses to take it. The price of growing up is the loss of innocence and sometimes happiness. And Ocarina of Time bottles that existential dread full.
@tocatl_91 Zelda’s reward always seemed more like a terrible fate..
@doc_martin88 Felt similar replaying Legend of Zelda: Windwaker on Wii U, maybe over a decade after playing it as a kid on GameCube.
@knott.zach Damn dude dont hit me so hard lol
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@ellerushing Or maybe the child I was supposed to be
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@nolamoh Why you had to make me cry😢? Dang you and your philosophy!
@brandonklemets Thanks im crying
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@anderaos.arthur I’m not crying, why is it hard to read?
@hotstreak2k3_ Zelda should’ve realized this before sending Link back in the past if only she had learned to forgive herself for her past mistakes.
@candysebastian My father who managed to get a copy of the game for me when it was sold out everywhere at Christmas 1998 is no longer with us RIP Dad I’ll be thinking of you when I play the remake
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@hectorplimmer Hoping to play the remake with my son beside me :)