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As profound as the player's own intellect. Not a game, but an immense visuo-textual portrait of the human mind, and a landmark work of (videogame) art.

This came when Nintendo had started not to be really serious with their major releases for domestic consoles (as opposed to only for the handhelds). The GameCube age, an age where Nintendo tried to be very serious as they had with the N64 before that, taught Nintendo a stern lesson about the dangers in, let me repeat myself, being serious versus lowering their target and aiming at the mass of players. The Wii generation is where they enacted what they had been taught by "the market". They did it with Super Mario Galaxy, with the Mario Kart series' instalment, and they did it with Zelda. Firmly lowered the... requirements to play, and I am not talking of hardware requirements. After the misunderstood masterwork Twilight Princess, Zelda has luckily gone back to its identity and spirit with its Switch instalment. Those two games are where I suggest to you to begin if you want to approach the series. Then would come the two very good ones for the Nintendo 64. Then the 2D ones. Skyward Sword being the single one to studiously stand clear of, ever.