The Greatest Game I've Ever Read

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GC Vazquez

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Published on July 14, 2023 4:00:08 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NagXWgBggMk

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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2000)

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Guide

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When I was a kid, my parents weren’t the most adamant about giving me new games to play. They were expensive, they were always an argument waiting to happen between my brother and I, and they were annoying to listen to in the living room. So no new releases for me. No old ones either as long as they were still above an arbitrary price point my parents would move the goalposts on in order to feel whimsy. But I was a smart kid, and I found a loophole. A weird loophole. A loophole which forever changed the course of my relationship with games. See, over at Cousin Vazquez’s house, little ol’ GC could play all the games he wanted! Hyperzone, Super Mario 64, The Ocarina of Time. My cousin’s world was my oyster! Until I had to go home, or until my cousin got sick of having me in their room. It was a seven year difference, so I get it. They probably had things to do. Weird, teenager things we don’t talk about. Because it’s weird and scary and teenagers are gremlins. Borrowing Cousin Vazquez’s games wasn’t unheard of…but it was rare and I had a pretty bad track record of losing them. But Cousin Vazquez also had…strategy guides. Strategy guides for all sorts of games. Official ones. Unofficial ones. An entire shelf on a bookcase’s worth of ones. Aha! Little GC might not be able to use the Super Nintendo or the Nintendo 64 while his cousins are using it, but he can read strategy guides. He can borrow strategy guides! And suddenly one day, scanning over a really funky Super Mario 64 strategy guide with the price tag still on the front, it hit me: Strategy Guides are cheaper than video games. And they’re books! And boy howdy do I love reading.

And this is how I grew attached to a lot of games as a kid! Before I learned to speedrun Super Mario 64, I read about how to grab all the stars in a strategy guide. Before I laughed my way through Donkey Kong 64, I was shouting “WHAT” at King K. Rool’s Island-mounted death cannon through the pages of a strategy guide! Before I chickened out of playing Siren, I was looking over my shoulder to check for ghosts reading, through, a strategy guide. And I knew those games front-to-back by the time I played them. I was a walking encyclopedia of games I never played! And I loved them.
Now I told you this story to tell you another one. Of all the strategy guides I read, there’s one game I never found the closure for. One I never found the time to play despite it being one of the most compelling, satisfying reads I’ve had. Until now. And it’s the Greatest Game I’ve Ever Read.

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