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Podcast 45: Psychology of The Legend of Zelda

Psychology of Video Games Podcast

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The Importance of Projections in Video Games

Every chapter is done by a different set of author or authors and the way that we set up the book is kind of the introduction of why like the first chapter is very much based on the idea of projection. And if we look at it from the idea of projecting ourselves onto the character, Link himself is a super important character in video game history because he is mute throughout all of his games except for his eye-yah type stuff. But generally in 2016, Nintendo finally came out and said that they had purposely did that throughout all of their games because they want the video gamer to project upon the characterMuch more harder to create the immersive experience with Zelda.

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