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Noticing an awful lot of common ideas, stories, tropes, elements, etc. in popular or older media? Even obscure, no-budget media can be full of some very interesting things...

Noticing an awful lot of common ideas, stories, tropes, elements, etc. in popular or older media? Even obscure, no-budget media can be full of some very interesting things...

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The most played game from my childhood was zelda link to the past.

  • dark world / lightworld with overlapping maps and a MagicMirror that allows link to travel between the two.

  • at first in the darkworld you turn into a weird bunny creature that cant attack. Gotta get a magic pearl to stay as link in the dark world.

  • game starts with heavy atmospheric rain, and link finds his uncle (who he lives with because no parents) dying in the castle sewers... totally child appropriate, right? Gives you your sword.

  • you save zelda right away and then drop her off in a cathedral. Shes then kidnapped and has a satanic ritual done on her.

  • gotta get 3 pendants before you get to darkworld, and you need the "master" sword.

  • strange side chatacters include a witch you gotta bring a magic mushroom, twin loggers who live together and take forever to cut down a single tree, scary water creature that sells you flippers, the fearies are actually pretty in this game besides one super fat ugly fairy that gives you the best item upgrades, some weird midget blacksmith family, weird hobos that live under a bridge and give you a bottle (pwn item of course), fueding brothers that plastered up a door in their house that you gotta blow up, probably lots more strange meme worthy side characters. Fortune tellers... sick child who gives you their bug net cuz theyre too ill to use it. Normie npcs who are afraid of link and send the palace guards after you. Strange chicken lady.

  • portals linking the two worlds hidden under rocks.

  • whirlpools that teleport you

  • a magic flute that calls a bird that can fly you places

  • special gloves that make you super stronk

  • cape that makes you invisible

  • the OG hookshot

Theres probably a lot more i could think of from this game. It really has it all.