Oh jeez I just started playing Link’s Awakening on Switch and I’m stuck before I even got to the first dungeon. This asshole raccoon won’t let me pass. I mean, what’s up, why be a jerk?

But anyway, I haven’t played any version of this game since 1998 when I played the original on a pea soup Game Boy because I couldn’t afford a Nintendo 64. It’s the first game that made me feel a sense of melancholy and I’ve been chasing that high ever since.