I was never a huge fan of the Legend of Zelda games, mainly because I was terrible at them. I couldn’t get past the 8th castle in the first quest of the original NES game (never mind the second), try though I might as a child, in college, and another attempt in my early 30s. Then I tried Zelda II and got my ass kicked even harder. I tried Ocarina of Time when I was older and couldn’t even get past the first Skulltula nest. So I basically resigned myself to never being a Zelda player regardless of how much I otherwise liked them.
I gave up gaming for a while when my daughter was born, to spend my time with her, but eventually she got old enough to try out some video games, herself. So I got a Nintendo Switch, with some games for her and games for me. I got a bunch of games for Christmas that year and decided to try my hand at the remaster of Link’s Awakening.