The first video game I felt accomplished and triumphant when I finished it. A true gem and a piece of my childhood I’ll always cherish. My mom knew how much I loved this game that she even threw me an Ocarina of Time themed birthday party. It was such a great time. The game itself feels like you’re playing through a folk tale classic of good and evil, and saving the princess. But I love the aspect of time traveling between child and man. It was a cool concept to experience and figure out with puzzles and monsters with magic weapons. Also while caring for NPCs like they were actual characters, and not just fellow pixels like I was use to at that age. At that time I just saw other characters as other characters, and not characters as companions, until this game. The music is so timeless as well.

Definitely up there as one of my favorites of all time. That final fight made me feel so epic as a kid. It was the first time I felt like I was fighting a real boss. I never got that experience YEARS later until I started playing the Soulsborne games.