🎮 Gaming Apr 18, 2026 · Keza MacDonald

Zelda taught me the importance of play – and has helped me deal with work, parenting and grief

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Zelda taught me the importance of play – and has helped me deal with work, parenting and grief
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I initially dismissed the Wind Waker’s cartoonish visuals as juvenile. But now I try to carry the game’s sense of joy into all aspects of my lifeI had a complicated relationship with video games when I was a teenager. I had straightforwardly, wholeheartedly loved the Nintendo games that I’d grown up with, tumbling around primary-coloured dreamscapes in Super Mario 64 and having the time of my life. But as I grew into a pretentious young adult in the early 00s, I started to want more from games,

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