What people
enjoy a lot about video games, aside from the simple enjoyment of interacting
with the world inside the cartridge or disk, is the amount of speculation fans
of these different games think up based on the backstories of the characters in
the games. Many fans today upload videos going on in detail about the different
rumors and theories that have sprouted from the heads of other fans and posted
on fansites for all to read. Some are considered creepypastas, stories meant to
scare through that connection video games give.
A lot of
theories give a lot of insight on aspects of games that people would not think
about before. For instance, The Legend of
Zelda: Majora’s Mask has one theory about the main character, Link, having
died towards the beginning of the game. While it is not told straight-up, the
speculation is caused through the different characters Link meets during his
travels in this alternate universe of the usual world that The Legend of Zelda series is used to. The characters and
situations within the game represent the five stages of grief: denial, anger,
bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Although this may not be the true
intentions of the video game creators, it is a bit of participation by fans and
a different way for fans to really think about a different viewpoint on the
game.
While I
don’t believe that this theory could be true, it was an interesting game theory
to say the least and with the dozens upon dozens of game theories circling the
Internet today, fans are continuing to keep even old games such as The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
(having come out in 2000) as popular entertainment today.
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