As I sit here at my computer and I gaze over the lovely vision of all my games within about 10 feet of where I’m sitting, I can’t help but see my GameCube copy of Ocarina of Time. I suddenly remember that, yes, Virginia, there is another version of Ocarina. It’s the version that hardly gets any talk about it because, let’s face it, it wasn’t a new game for all intents and purposes. It was a remix in the classic sense of the term, a copy of an existing game with everything changed, throwing you for a loop in the process because nothing is the way you remember it. The experience feels like a warm blanket in its similaries, yet at the same time you feel as if the game has tossed you out of your house without your key on a cold winter night when you encounter one of those glaring differences.

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 A fan of both The Grand Adventures and ZeldaBlog wrote me the other day asking me if I could talk a little bit about sites hosting some really nice Zelda music for you to enjoy. It really was a good article idea because it’s a branch of Zelda that is usually rarely seen within the Zelda community, even more so because I draw uncountable amounts of inspiration from video game music. This may sound rather nerdy or geeky of me, but I hardly listen to any of music on the radio these days; rather, almost exclusively I listen to about 45 hours’ worth of video game soundtracks and remixes ranging from Super Mario Bros. to Halo, spanning The Legend of Zelda in all its forms.

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 The following article is not for the light of heart. I’m warning you in this little blurb right now, so you don’t accidentally click the link and succumb to the horrors within. What I am about to reveal to you will be so shocking it will cause you to lie awake for hours questioning the very essence of Zelda itself. All because of this:

Those that are smart shouldn’t be reading this sentence right now. The rest of you have been warned.

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Goddess Rinoa already had an article about a similar topic, but I want to revisit this topic in a bit more depth. One of the fans of The Grand Adventures mailed me the other day with a question:

I know we’ve known about the delay for a long time and I know that there is nothing we can do about it[,] but won’t the delay of Twilight Princess hurt Nintendo rather than help them[?] I mean with the Xbox 360 coming out in November and the PS3 coming out next spring[,] won’t that draw the attention away from the previous generation games and consoles?

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The Legend of Zelda series has delighted children, entertained adults, and intrigued fans for years. For many people, the series not only provides a place to get away, but also acts as a source of debate and mystery for fans everywhere. Articles can be found trying to explain some of the most perplexing timeline questions the game has to offer. Theories of how the games connect, to Link and Zelda’s relationship have spawned innumerable articles and questions that fans have been quite willing to go in-depth into, order to explain.

For me however, only one pressing question remains at the foremost of my thoughts.

At what point does mild irritation become raving insanity?

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