Feature: The Seven-Year Silence: How Ocarina Of Time Held My Grief At Seven

A safe space to process the unthinkable.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is frequently crowned the greatest game ever made, celebrated for its dungeons, its music, and a critical legacy that stands as the highest-reviewed title in gaming history. For those of us who were there at the time, it was for gaming what the sequence in The Wizard of Oz is when the world around Dorothy turns to colour: pure magic and wonder.

But for those of us who look to art to make sense of the unthinkable, it was something much more fragile and vital. In the summer of my seventh year my world collapsed, and that same winter a Nintendo 64 cartridge became the only safe space I had left to process the loss of my father.

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