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isn't the narrative the narrative is it's the thing anyone can play with a remote that looks like a TV remote so maybe like Galaxy would have suffered not of similar fate obviously Twilight Princess is loved enough but I don't know that it would have been the star of the show yeah I think it's a better comparison point to something like you may disagree with this but I think it's relative to the Wii what Ocarina's time was to the Nintendo 64 you know where it's like that it's like a year or two down the line and then it's like the paradigm shifting blow your top off kind of kind of game and that arriving a little bit after launch I think makes a huge difference I mean I know obviously Mario 64 was a very well regarded game but Ocarina of Time you know immediately went into these best game of all time narratives it was just it was discussed in that way for such a long time so I don't know I don't know how you feel about that comparison but I feel like in some

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... have muddied the waters a bit or maybe just being a little bit overlooked certainly by the audience they were pushing to like I do think Twilight Princess gets a little lost isn't the narrative the narrative is it's the thing anyone can play with a remote that looks like a TV remote so maybe like Galaxy would have suffered not of similar fate obviously Twilight Princess is loved enough but I don't know that it would have been the star of the show yeah I think it's a better comparison point to something like you may disagree with this but I think it's relative to the Wii what Ocarina's time was to the Nintendo 64 you know where it's like that it's like a year or two down the line and then it's like the paradigm shifting blow your top off kind of kind of game and that arriving a little bit after launch I think makes a huge difference I mean I know obviously Mario 64 was a very well regarded game but Ocarina of Time you know immediately went into these best game of all time narratives it was just it was discussed in that way for such a long time so I don't know I don't know how you feel about that comparison but I feel like in some own moment you know yeah it's weird the Ocarina comparison because in most Nintendo franchises this is a bit of a generalisation but I'm gonna stick with it I feel like there's there's ...

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