Guess it's age showing, that and a twinge of recent regret.
For me it was and I'm uncertain either the original or the third. I remember back 30 years now when Zelda dropped in the US. I had wanted it due to sandbox school chatter, and then Nintendos old magazine teasing the hell out of it I had to have it. Did what I could for weekly chores and stuff, but never could save up enough but I was more than 1/2 there. I had to unfortunately go in halfsies with my brother who is someone (personality) you just don't do such things with (a selfish brat.) I played the hell out of the game around when I could. Being a manipulative type he'd break into manufactured tears, make up stories, or whatever to get me off the game or so I couldn't touch it in the first place then doing the classic turn and smirk type behavior. Took me a hell of a lot of months around that but finished it, no regrets as it was the adventure I always never knew I wanted as it was something totally new.
The third felt similar in scope but prettier, larger, the same Nintendo rag teasing, but no having to go in halfsies with a punk kid on it.
I couldn't wait to go in on a Zelda game and have it be like the original and no have to share it one bit (he went to the Sega dark side.) With NP mag I ended up with that lovely yearly freebie sub and had the SNES guide book for that title and I tore the thing to shreds unlocking anything and everything which I rarely did even then in a game and even more rare now. I enjoy the ride, not being OCD about every corner of a game (some things don't change.)
The regret is Breath of the Wild. After having my trust in Zelda broken back with Majora's Mistake, and then the slips and falls of boredom, bad save mechanisms, boring empty huge areas, bloated boring dungeons with TP and lesser so but taxing with the waggle play on SS, the busted tap controls on DS, and the annoying/boring halfassed open world attempt on 3DS I had all but given up on the franchise. My excitement was minimal as the Nintendo teases didn't give confidence in the Switch title. We saw how I felt about it on here in general, but wow....ate those words. Best game in as far back as I can recall and I did love Wind Waker and this squashes it.
Once being IN game though, it made me the most excited Zelda game for me to play, but it earned it, and not on reputation of past Nintendo mistakes. And these days I'm not one to get excited about games or much about anything, I just don't go crazy over stuff, but this one I lost track of the hours and have no idea how I'd even track it to get an idea.
