“With new blood-oozing enemies comes the reemergence of pulse-elevating music which persists until the final demon heart is crushed.” By Steven Petite One of the most widely used opening sequences in video games (and other entertainment forms) seems to be the “waking up” scene. A character wakes up to find a world in need of…
By Steven Petite Sometimes I feel as if I’m living a lie. At the age of five, I fell in love with video games (blame it on that fictional Italian plumber). My parents didn’t discourage this love, but they did encourage another seemingly more beneficial pastime. Literature. My mother read books to me as a…
By Steven Petite Not just an hour, or a day, or a month. Here’s the author’s take on a full lifetime with the long-running Nintendo series. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time caused me to stay up well past my bedtime. I was seven when what’s arguably the greatest game of all time graced…
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