Growing up as a sega kid gave me a lot of resistance to ever trying this series. That resistance was also informed by my times playing Link to the Past at my orthopedist's office. Later, when I had nintendo systems, I started trying Zelda games and found myself bouncing off the modern games pretty hard. Why this series took off didn't click until I played the NES games, and they have the one thing that most of the modern games do not: they feel dangerous. Riskless adventures make for boring stories. Tiptoeing through dungeons with a heart and a half can leave a scar in your nervous system big enough that anyone could develop the pathology that'd lead them to buying Skyward Sword.