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The All-Star Japanese Game Developer Draft (with Ashley Day and Dave Scarborough)

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Shared from search: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

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unlock you know I remember the the sort of runner that goes around Hyrule in the overworld and like being told by a friend you have to be there at certain time to run into him and then you get the whole sort of exchange where you get a mask it's like it's stuff like that that really brings that world alive even when you know it's quite quaint by modern standards and arguably Majora's Mask did a lot of that stuff better but taking place first in Ocarina of Time it just made that whole world just feel completely different to anything else I played yeah I think this raised an interesting question about this draft more generally I think which is how how far back do you go to define some of these companies because obviously this is an incredibly you know important milestone for Nintendo in the progression of their games and therefore I think it's a really good pick and I think that in some ways it is good to approach this pick not not necessarily with the mindset of what is the greatest to play now but more of like what was great in its time but also what

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... you said Matilda was that this for me was the first game that was sort of something to become more common when I was like into souls games later on it's like that word of that sort of sharing unlock you know I remember the the sort of runner that goes around Hyrule in the overworld and like being told by a friend you have to be there at certain time to run into him and then you get the whole sort of exchange where you get a mask it's like it's stuff like that that really brings that world alive even when you know it's quite quaint by modern standards and arguably Majora's Mask did a lot of that stuff better but taking place first in Ocarina of Time it just made that whole world just feel completely different to anything else I played yeah I think this raised an interesting question about this draft more generally I think which is how how far back do you go to define some of these companies because obviously this is an incredibly you know important milestone for Nintendo in the progression of their games and therefore I think it's a really good pick and I think that in some ways it is good to approach this pick not not necessarily with the mindset of what is the greatest to play now but more of like what was great in its time but also what worth taking I think Parappa the Rapper ticks that box ready to obviously more modern but I think Ocarina of Time is a good pick Dave hugely significant game. I'm just looking for stuff that ...

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