Listen to the Rain

​Phantom Hourglass is the most recent Legend of Zelda game I've played until now, other than about five minutes' worth of Skyward Sword while visiting melishus_b in December of 2011. In preparation for moving to Japan, schoolpsychnerd and I bought a DS--we had a PSP before then, but weren't that happy with it--and several games. schoolpsychnerd picked Puzzle Quest and The World Ends with You, and I picked Final Fantasy IV DS and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. I played it almost entirely on the train, as we went to and from Hiroshima City and on the shinkansen throughout Japan, and I thought it was cute and fun. It wasn't until years later that I looked it up on the internet and discovered I was supposed to hate it.

Playing it again I still don't hate it, but the shine has worn off.

The Japanese title reads Mugen no Sunadokei, "Visionary Hourglass" or "Hourglass of Dreams."


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