ZD writes: I wanted to briefly talk about the first visit (or first couple) to the Dark World in A Link to the Past. I played Ocarina of Time before I played A Link to the Past, but I ended up beating the older game first, so I had very few — if any — expectations of the series at that time. It was a very fun game to me, and I had also yet to become jaded as far as fantasy cliches go, but I was still aware of how straightforward and normal the world was. And then I was on Death Mountain and got whisked away to another place.