Image: Gavin Lane / Nintendo Life The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is often hailed as the best game ever created, praised for its dungeons, its soundtrack, and a critical heritage that remains the most acclaimed title in gaming history. For those of us who experienced it at that moment, it was to gaming what the transformation scene in The Wizard of Oz is when Dorothy’s world shifts to color: sheer enchantment and awe. However, for those who seek art to navigate the unfathomable, it represented something much more delicate and essential. In the summer of my seventh year, my universe crumbled, and that same winter, a Nintendo 64 cartridge became the only refuge I had left to come to terms with the loss of my father. In the summer preceding the European launch of Ocarina of Time on the N64, my father took his own life. My paternal figure, along with my...
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