My friends, put the tomatoes down. I haven’t even gotten to speak yet. I, like most people who own a Nintendo Switch 2 and are killing time until Grand Theft Auto 6 launches next week, am playing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time , and I’m having a pretty good time going back to a game that was once an elementary school obsession for me, especially because it’s been a long time since I really felt a constant sense of progression in a Zelda game after a decade of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom .

Yeah, the game is incredibly simple by modern standards, and Nintendo has done a lot to ensure that by making the game demonstrably easier in dozens of small ways that add up , but I think that relative simplicity is what draws me to it.…