Posts tagged Oracle of Ages

Reflection: Link’s Awakening and The End of A Dream

04/05/2012

by Charles Sharam in Consoles, Legacy Gaming, Legacy Portables, Special Features

There’s something about the imagery of scaling a mountain to its very highest peak to confront your dreams, nightmares, or to smite your enemies that has resounded with mankind for ages. The metaphor of rising from the bottom, overcoming all trials, mastering yourself, and ascending to your full [...]

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Commercial Flashback #1: The Epic Oracles

10/25/2010

by Charles Sharam in Legacy Gaming, Nintendo, Special Features

Behold the glory of 2001-era CG production: This computer generated sequence hasn’t aged all that well, but it was awesome back in the day. And I mean awesome. Epic music, epic explosions of light, epic vine-climbing, epic shattered swords re-forging themselves into even more epic not-shattered [...]