From one writer to another, I know this feeling very well!
I figure it's a good thing though - it means you have progressed as a writer between then and now.
Playing through OoT slowly with my little girl. It's so, so cool to watch her wrestling with the same puzzles and sense of role play that I did so many years ago.
Thinking of playing AoL and LA on emulator to patch up my Zelda holes.
Mine are the N64 ones for purely nostalgic, biased reasons. Still! The three day cycle I agree adds so much weight to the game, and a sense of melancholy. The transformation masks are cool but they were really mind blowing in their original context. As a child I was fascinated with the different...
Mentally, emotionally and physically wasted. I feel like that most of the time anyway but had to take my wife to the emergency ward in an ambulance last night (it's not my place to share details) and I've just come out of a Kung Fu grading this evening. I need it to stop now, please.
Pretty quiet one here. Spent Xmas Eve and Xmas day with different sets of in-laws, as my actual family are scattered to the wind. Xmas day itself was just me, daughter, wife and her dad and way way too much chocolate, to the point where we're just trying to get through it because we don't eat it...
... Ahhh. Well, ok then.
This was vaguely my interpretation as well, that he didn't die in MM in the fall or anything like that, just that he at some point gets lost in the Lost Woods. In fact, it's not even strictly necessary that he has kids, because the Hero works on a reincarnation thing...
Or, the entire Gerudo population were imprisoned in the Arbiter's Grounds after OoT in a frenzy of racism following Ganondorf's capture. They were already reported as thieves and in TP, there are no surviving Gerudo anywhere and their buildings are replaced by a giant prison haunted by it's...
The problem is that the hero of time turning into the hero's shade doesn't prove that he escaped the Lost Woods. The shade looks a bit like a stalfos, actually, and I remember reading a theory once that he turns into a skull kid or similar and then an undead stalfos, but because of being the...