It just... sucks you in... powerless to resist

A few years ago when John announced that he wanted to buy a Nintendo GameCube that came with a bunch of Zelda games, I thought he was seriously damaged. I mean, I wondered if he had been struck in the head with a blunt object. It seemed completely inane that John, who (despite blips of evidence to the contrary) is a pretty practical guy, would want to spend $100 on a game from his childhood that he wouldn't have time for anyway. When are you going to have time to play it?, was one of my big objections. But that was before. Now I understand: you make time. The game makes you make time. It sucks you in completely. When he first brought it home, I'd sit on the couch reading and occasionally mocking him. Then it happened. "I still can't believe you're wasting your time on this. It's just so... WATCH OUT FOR THE BAD GUY! Phew, that was close! Hey, can I try?" That was it. The beginning of the end. The GameCube bundle came with four games: The Legend of Zelda, The Adventure of Link, Ocarina of Time, and Majora's Mask. A few weeks ago, we finally finished playing Majora's Mask, having started it about a year ago. It takes gobs of time to play, and we really don't have that much time to devote to it, which is why it took a year. But once we'd finished it, I felt a certain... emptiness. I was really bummed that we didn't have another Zelda game to play. Fortunately, Nintendo released their latest Zelda adventure this year: The Twilight Princess. I ordered it on Amazon and it arrived in time for us to start playing it last weekend. This one is going to take us MUCH longer than just a year!