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The Legend of Zelda series is fond of stories about the inexorable and obliviating passage of time. Somebody should make one about growing so old, stupid and exhausted that you can't distinguish original Zelda games from romhacks of those games. Romhacks like Indigo, a "full game replacement" for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, set 15 years after the events of Majora's Mask. It's got a couple of public demos, and is playable on PC via static recompilation - the mechanical translation of the console code into C code that runs on other platforms, not to be conflated with genAI porting .

Reader, the membrane between the past and the world of imagination can be thin. I squint at the below trailer and I ask myself: didn't Ocarina of Time always have some kind of festively purple mushroom kingdom? My eyes dim and my vestibular system writhes in protest - I come close to falling out of my chair.…