"You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?"

Haunting. I experienced Majora's Mask as a teenager, grasping at every first party Nintendo title that came out as a reason that my N64 was every bit as good a gaming machine as the PlayStation. (It wasn't, on the whole, but with Nintendo and Rare milking every shred of performance, story, and gameplay out of the system... I could make that argument until I had the time and money to access and experience more of the PSX's much larger library.)

This is still arguably in my top 3 Zelda games. Gabe Durham dives into the making of the game and succeeds at most of what he is trying to communicate here. I learned some about the making of, and particularly enjoyed the new interview with the localization lead Jason Leung. Gabe's time spent discussing and disproving various fan theories took up too much of the book for my tastes, and didn't add much. They did provide a good lead in to discussing authorial intent, and that was a fascinating discussion. I think the book would have been better if Gabe had spent more time diving into authorial intent by gathering more insights from the creative minds behind the game. The last chapter felt tacked-on and did not add anything to the discussion, for me.