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I wrote about The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening for Polygon's Zeldathon

Yes, it is a fiction craft lesson in the guise of a videogame essay

Grayson Morley

Grayson Morley

22 Feb 2023

For Polygon’s Zeldathon, I wrote about how Link’s Awakening gets away with “It was all a dream” by playing off our accumulated understanding of what is “real” in this storied series, messing with the player from screen one.

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