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

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.