Zachary Small

First, with the islands, though, the idea that you could decorate Windfall Island, I was like, let me customize this.

Let me do this insane trading quest across the game just so I can put the little golden trophies around the shop and win.

Yeah, I mean, Windfall Island is kind of slept on, I feel like.

But also then, like, you can get a private cabana.

You get your own island.

I was like, what do you mean?

My own private cabana?

And there's mummies in the basement of this cabana?

There's a certain weirdness to it.

The idea you can connect it very loosely to the Ocarina of Time map.

And then when you finally go below and see the sunken version of Hyrule, in my mind, this was the first time that I ever had a strong desire to boundary break Hyrule.

and get out of the small map and explore this vast field that you see but cannot access.

So it still sort of holds that world in my memory, I guess.

Zach, another pick for you?

I'll go very quickly on a favorite item that I know nobody is going to choose, which is the spinner from Twilight Princess.

It's one of many frustrating examples where you're like, why couldn't the developers have done more with this?

What do you mean I have a version of a skateboard in Zelda?

And of course, this is before Tears of the Kingdom gave us the Industrial Revolution.

And a few times you lose it.

You're amazed by it, and then you never use it again.