The Importance of Understanding Zelda's Archetypes

The idea behind archetypes is that they're metaphorical and esoteric type stuff. As soon as you put words to it, it kind of takes away the power of that archetype. But everyone's living by archetypes and that's how I work psychologically with video gamers. In every game, Link starts off as an orphan and that taps into our own personal orphan on some levelThat's one of the reasons why Nintendo does so, so well with this is because they can tap into that projection from the first chapter. And then the hero's journey of coming into your own self through the clean archival cleanse of the different temple.