7. Favorite Dungeon

Snowpeak Ruins! The Ball and Chain was a fun dungeon item, the yetis are great, putting together the soup was a really cute side objective. Even just the setting of the dungeon itself being in a huge mansion feels really different and fun to explore!

6. Favorite Weapon

I like the bow in Twilight Princess, I always found it really satisfying using motion controls and shooting down enemies from far across Hyrule Field

5. Underrated Character

I always really liked Komali in Wind Waker, he kinda gets overshadowed by Medli when people talk about the Rito.

4. Underrated game

Minish Cap Minish Cap Minish Cap I love Minish Cap

The Minish are so cute, the gameplay feels satisfying and fun to play, the world is interesting, shrinking down is a fun gimmick. Everyone should play Minish Cap!

3. Best Companion

I'm going to go with Midna, she's a really memorable and defining part of Twilight Princess as an experience in a way most of the other other followers can't match. If anyone comes close it's Spirit Tracks Zelda, but I just don't remember the story well enough to say...

2. 2D or 3D

3D, although I like the 2D games a lot too. They scratch different itches for me, but I grew up with the 3D games first and have played more of them.

1. First game I played

Genuinely don't remember if it was Twilight Princess or Ocarina of Time on the Wii virtual console. I want to say it was Ocarina of Time? But it could honestly be either.

I agree! Considering how long they reused names from FE64, I'm really curious how many story concepts and game design ideas have made it into future games that we'll never know about.

It has to have influenced the dev team in the aughts more than just giving them a bank of names to draw on, right?

Cute! I like the image you invoke of their dynamic as a couple after years of marriage, and the difference in beorc/laguz aging becoming more pronounced over time

The rest of the cast was scrapped with the sole exception of Karel, the one other Fire Emblem 64 character to appear in The Binding Blade. The names of scrapped units in Fire Emblem 64 were used for for characters years into the future, including Idunn, Raigh, Bors, Eliwood, Ephraim, and Owain.

How about Jill/Lethe?

It's such a thrill when you get out of a bad situation because of a lucky RNG roll. Good work Jade!