The short answer is that the game is well balanced, a grand clean adventure and has extremely strong ties to my family and childhood.
I grew up with 1 sibling, my brother Alex. We did not always get along as children, if ever. It was common for us to be at each others throats, yelling and screaming, picking on each other etc... But when we played Zelda together, everything was calm, we worked together, we solved the puzzles together and Alex did all of the button pushing. I loved watching him man the controls while we talked and worked together.
It was an adventure I could go on with my brother where we were happy together and learned to work as a team. (By the way, this was before the internet was popular and before you could just look up a walk through). My favorite Zelda game has been and will probably always be The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, because it was my brother and mines' bonding time.
As I look back I realize our best times together were when we had an adventure to go on, weather it be 2ft of snow in the back yard, an old refrigerator box turned into a fort, climbing a tree, or exploring the desert like Indiana Jones with our parents. Alex and I didn't get along for a long time but when we found common ground it got a lot easier. Now we goof around, we joke, I can get a hug at anytime, we can talk, geek out together and just be happy. I love my brother so very much and would not trade him for anything or anyone else in the whole world.
Now here is the update on my plant!
I'm thinking of giving it a name... Anna? Winchester? oh! Castiel? He WAS an angel after all. :)
I am up for suggestions!!
Now, for the Kumoricon speal:
Paul and I went up to Vancouver WA with my brother Alex for labor day weekend and spend 3 days geeking out! We spent the first 2 days in costumes, I was Princess Zelda, Paul was Link (on the 2nd day Paul was Spider-Link which is a cross between Black Spider Man and Link), and Alex was Alucard from the anime Helsing. We went to a lot of different panels, our favorites being Random Panel of Doom, Who's Line is it anyway and Anime Improv. This year we introduced Alex to the Anime Murder game and I'm so glad he had so much fun there. The Anime Murder game is where a number of people sit in a large circle, everyone closes their eyes and when they open them a bunch of people are lying in the middle dead. Then a microphone is passed around the circle as everyone tries to figure out who killed them, why and with what. (Everyone is in costume and so people become very creative with how people are killed).
Here we all are posing, (I don't think I look that great, I was trying to act royal and important. I think I over shot that and went right into tired and constipated... :S )
It was overall a very fun weekend, I can't call it relaxing but I can call it rejuvenating! People don't sleep much at conventions, and if they do sleep, ...oh boy... do they sleep!
Coming up next, adventures in Mental Health and my 100th Etsy customer!!
I grew up with 1 sibling, my brother Alex. We did not always get along as children, if ever. It was common for us to be at each others throats, yelling and screaming, picking on each other etc... But when we played Zelda together, everything was calm, we worked together, we solved the puzzles together and Alex did all of the button pushing. I loved watching him man the controls while we talked and worked together.
It was an adventure I could go on with my brother where we were happy together and learned to work as a team. (By the way, this was before the internet was popular and before you could just look up a walk through). My favorite Zelda game has been and will probably always be The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, because it was my brother and mines' bonding time.
Hehehehe our adventures felt like this sometimes. :D
Now here is the update on my plant!
I am up for suggestions!!
Now, for the Kumoricon speal:
Paul and I went up to Vancouver WA with my brother Alex for labor day weekend and spend 3 days geeking out! We spent the first 2 days in costumes, I was Princess Zelda, Paul was Link (on the 2nd day Paul was Spider-Link which is a cross between Black Spider Man and Link), and Alex was Alucard from the anime Helsing. We went to a lot of different panels, our favorites being Random Panel of Doom, Who's Line is it anyway and Anime Improv. This year we introduced Alex to the Anime Murder game and I'm so glad he had so much fun there. The Anime Murder game is where a number of people sit in a large circle, everyone closes their eyes and when they open them a bunch of people are lying in the middle dead. Then a microphone is passed around the circle as everyone tries to figure out who killed them, why and with what. (Everyone is in costume and so people become very creative with how people are killed).
It was overall a very fun weekend, I can't call it relaxing but I can call it rejuvenating! People don't sleep much at conventions, and if they do sleep, ...oh boy... do they sleep!
Coming up next, adventures in Mental Health and my 100th Etsy customer!!
