The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Kid in my class when this came out copied out word for word all of the dialogue from characters and added a "Link nodded" here and there for a creative writing assignment and CRIED LIKE A BITCH when called out on it.

There are currently two eras in gaming: those before Ocarina of Time, and those after Ocarina of Time. It's like the possibilities of video games opened up just as this Link stepped onto Hyrule Field. All the better is the way the story, surprisingly lush with spiritual resonances, simply inspires - imagination, adventure, growth. Even those flaming bats can't diminish what is a landmark experience.

The foremost adventure game of our time. I can't add anything to conversation that hasn't been said dozens of times before. I don't use the word masterpiece lightly but this is more than deserving.

If it were possible to give something higher than 100, this would be it. Ocarina of Time is the one. The one game I would say keep if you could only play one more game for the rest of your life. The world is big and full. The story is satisfying enough and the game play is to the highest standard possible. If nothing else, Ocarina is one of the greatest games ever released.

There's a simple streamlined beauty to the worldbuilding and storytelling in this game - less novelistic, more mythological - mixed with deep gameplay and huge sprawling dungeons that somehow manage to enchant and intrigue more than they ever confuse. Certainly among the games I've ever been most deeply entranced by upon initial release, and I wouldn't argue with anyone who calls it the best Zelda game.

It took nineteen years for a game to be as good at this and even then it was by the same dudes

awesome

peak wtf

Played a few years ago on school chromebook with audio muted at 10 fps. So I may not have gotten the full experience, but I stand with the opinion that this game is overrated. It's good, but not all that.

This game holds so much special memories of my dad, to me. I play it every year on April to remember him by.